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 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.


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 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.


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 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her neighbour lamentation.


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 For death has come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.


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 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather them.


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 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;


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 but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows Me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.


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 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised along with the uncircumcised:


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 Egypt, Judah, Edom and the children of Ammon, Moab and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.


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 Thus says Yahweh, Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.


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 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.


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 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.


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 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't walk. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good. Jeremiah's Praise of God 


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 Who should not fear You, King of the nations? For it is appropriate for You; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like You.


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 There is silver beaten into plates which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men.


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 But Yahweh is the true God; He is the living God and an everlasting King: at His wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand His indignation.


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 You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.


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 He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding has He stretched out the heavens:


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 when He utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of His treasuries.


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 Every man has become primitive and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.


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 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for He is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is His name. 


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 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.


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 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.


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 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.


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 For the shepherds are become primitive, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.


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 The voice of proclamation, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.


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 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.


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 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that don't know You, and on the families that don't call on Your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.


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 Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;


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 and say to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed is the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,


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 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace saying, Obey My voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so you shall be My people, and I will be your God;


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 that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I and said, Amen, Yahweh.


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 Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.


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 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting saying, Obey My voice.


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 Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked each one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them.


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 Yahweh said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to Me, but I will not listen to them.


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 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.


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 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.


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 Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to Me because of their trouble.


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 What has My beloved to do in My house, since she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.


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 Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.


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 For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking Me to anger by offering incense to Baal.


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 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.


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 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see Your vengeance on them; for to You have I opened up my cause.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand;


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 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;


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 and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.


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 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with You; yet I would reason the cause with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?


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 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.


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 But You, Yahweh, know me; You see me, and try my heart towards You: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.


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 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.


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 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the swelling of the Jordan?


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 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you. 


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 I have forsaken My house, I have cast off My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.


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 My heritage has become to Me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against Me; therefore I have hated her.


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 Is My heritage to Me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.


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 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.


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 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to Me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.


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 Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.


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 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh. God's Promise to Other Nations 


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 Thus says Yahweh against all My evil neighbours, who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.


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 It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his inheritance, and every man to his land.


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 It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught My people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of My people.


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 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.


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 Jeremiah's Linen Belt Thus said Yahweh to me, Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don't put it in water.


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 Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.


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 It happened after many days that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.


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 Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined, it was unfit for use.


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 This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.


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 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to Me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to Me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. 


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 Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?


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 Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.


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 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them. 


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 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.


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 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.


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 Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.


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 The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.


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 Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?


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 What will you say, when He shall punish you? You have provoked them to be captains and rulers over you. Shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?


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 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? For the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts lifted up, and your private parts suffer violence.


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 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.


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 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from Me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten Me, and trusted in falsehood.


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 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?


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 Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.


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 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.


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 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the ploughmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.


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 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no greenery to eat.


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 Though our iniquities testify against us, work for Your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.


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 You hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why should You be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?


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 Why should You be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? Yet You, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by Your name; don't leave us.


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 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 


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 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by the famine and by the plague.


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 Then I said, Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.


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 Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision and divination, a thing of nothing and the deceit of their own heart.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name and I didn't send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.


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 The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them--them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.


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 You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.


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 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.


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 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!


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 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.


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 Do not abhor us, for Your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of Your glory: remember, don't break Your covenant with us.


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 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't You He, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for You; for You have made all these things.


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 Then Yahweh said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind would not be towards this people: cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.


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 It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.


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 I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky and the animals of the land, to devour and to destroy.


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 I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the land because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.


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 For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?


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 You have rejected Me, says Yahweh, you have gone backward: therefore have I stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am weary with relenting.


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 I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed My people; they didn't return from their ways.


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 Their widows are increased to Me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.


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 She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and their residue will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh.


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 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me.


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 Yahweh said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.


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 Your substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.


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 I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in My anger, which shall burn on you.


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 Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in Your long suffering: know that for Your sake I have suffered reproach.


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 Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your words were to me the joy and the delight of my heart: for I am called by Your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.


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 I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation.


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 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will You indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail? 


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then I will restore you, and you shall stand before Me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is base, you shall be as My mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.


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 I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh.


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 I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.


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 For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:


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 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.


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 For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies.


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 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;


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 neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.


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 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.


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 It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?


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 Then you shall tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law;


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 and you have done evil more than your fathers; for behold, you walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to Me:


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 therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, where I will not show you favour; and there you shall serve other gods day and night.


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 Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be said, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where He had driven them. I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.


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 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they shall fish them up; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.


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 For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, neither is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.


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 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted My land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.


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 Yahweh, my strength, my stronghold and my refuge in the day of affliction, to You shall the nations come from the ends of the land and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.


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 Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.


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 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;


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 My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.


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 You, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your inheritance that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don't know: for you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever.


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 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.


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 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.


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 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.


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 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his works, according to the fruit of his doings.


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 As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. 


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 Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be disappointed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.


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 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before Your face.


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 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. 


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 Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;


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 and tell them, Hear the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:


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 Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;


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 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.


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 But they didn't listen neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff that they might not hear and might not receive instruction.


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 It shall happen, if you diligently listen to Me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;


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 then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever.


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 They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the house of Yahweh.


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 But if you will not listen to Me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.


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 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made of it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.


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 House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.


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 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation or kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;


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 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.


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 if they do that which is evil in My sight, that they not obey My voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.


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 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now each one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.


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 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.


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 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?


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 For My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;


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 to make their land an astonishment and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and shake his head.


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 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back and not the face in the day of their calamity.


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 Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. 


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 Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before You to speak good for them, to turn away Your wrath from them.


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 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck of the sword in battle.


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 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when You shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.


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 Yet, Yahweh, You know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from Your sight; but let them be overthrown before You; may You deal with them in the time of Your anger.


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 Thus said Yahweh, Go and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;


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 and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;


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 and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.


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 Because they have forsaken Me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,


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 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into My mind:


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 therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.


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 I will nullify the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.


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 I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.


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 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat each one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.


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 and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.


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 Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:


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 and the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods. 


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 Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house and said to all the people:


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear My words.


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 Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.


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 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.


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 It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.


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 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.


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 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.


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 You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.


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 Yahweh, you have seduced me, and I was seduced; You are stronger than me, and I am overcome: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.


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 For whenever I speak, I cry out Your word; I cry, Violence and destruction! But the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me and a derision all the day.


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 If I say, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name; then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't.


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 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.


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 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonour which shall never be forgotten.


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 But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see Your vengeance on them; for to You have I revealed my cause.


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 Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for He has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.


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 Cursed is the man who brought news to my father saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad.


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 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't relent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;


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 because God didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.


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 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?


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 Jeremiah's Message for Zedekiah The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest saying,


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 Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us: perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all His wondrous works, that He may go up from us.


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 Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who besiege you without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.


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 I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, wrath and great indignation.


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 Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even such as are left in this city from the plague, from the sword and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.


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 To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.


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 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.


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 For I have set My face against this city for evil and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. 


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 House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.


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 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley and of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say, who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter into our habitations?


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 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.


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 Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.


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 Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.


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 For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.


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 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.


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 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to Me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.


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 I will prepare destroyers against you, each one with his weapons; they shall cut down your choice cedars and cast them into the fire.


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 Many nations shall pass by this city and shall say every man to his neighbour, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?


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 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. 


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 Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away into exile; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.


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 For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more.


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 But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.


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 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbour's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;


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 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and makes a ceiling with cedar, painted with vermilion.


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 Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.


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 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him saying Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!


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 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.


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 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.


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 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn't obey My voice.


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 The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.


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 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!


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 As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on My right hand, yet would I pluck you from there;


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 and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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 I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you will die.


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 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which none delights? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?


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 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh the God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.


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 I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.


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 I will set up shepherds over them who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.


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 Behold, the days come says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.


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 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.


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 Therefore behold, the days come says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land. 


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 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of His holy words.


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 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their way is evil, and their might is not right;


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 for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in My house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.


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 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.


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 I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused My people Israel to err.


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 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to Me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.


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 They say continually to those who despise Me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to each one who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.


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 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear His word? Who has noted My word, and heard it?


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 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, His wrath, has gone forth. Yes, a whirling storm. It shall burst on the head of the wicked.


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 The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until He has executed, and until He has performed the intents of His heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.


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 But if they had stood in My council, then had they caused My people to hear My words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.


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 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.


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 I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in My name saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.


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 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?


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 Who think to cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.


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 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.


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 Therefore behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal My words each one from his neighbour.


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 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh. 


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 When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? Then you shall tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.


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 As for the prophet, the priest and the people who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.


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 You shall say each one to his neighbour and each one to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?


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 You shall mention the burden of Yahweh no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies our God.


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 But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;


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 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from My presence:


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 and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.


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 Yahweh showed me and behold, two baskets of figs set before Yahweh's temple, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.


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 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.


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 Then Yahweh said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.


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 Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.


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 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.


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 I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be My people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.


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 As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,


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 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.


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 I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.


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 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, King of Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon).


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 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying:


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 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.


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 Yahweh has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear)


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 saying, Return now each one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore;


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 and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don't provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.


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 Yet you have not listened to Me, says Yahweh; so that you provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.


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 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.


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 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.


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 This whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


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 It shall happen that when seventy years are accomplished, then I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.


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 I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.


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 For many nations and great kings shall make bond servants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands. 


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 For thus says Yahweh the God of Israel to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.


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 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.


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 Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:


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 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;


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 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;


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 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;


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 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.


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 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.


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 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: You shall surely drink.


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 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by My name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.


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 Therefore you must prophesy against them all these words and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will mightily roar against His fold; He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.


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 A noise shall come even to the end of the land; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; He will enter into judgement with all flesh: as for the wicked, He will give them to the sword, says Yahweh.


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.


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 The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.


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 Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in dust, you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.


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 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! For Yahweh lays waste their pasture.


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 He has left His den, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of His fierce anger.


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 Jeremiah Speaks God's Words at the Temple In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from Yahweh saying,


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 Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; don't diminish a word.


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 Perhaps they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; so that I may repent Me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.


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 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,


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 to listen to the words of My servants the prophets whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, to which you have not listened;


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 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. 


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 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Yahweh.


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 It happened that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him saying, You shall surely die.


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 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.


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 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's house.


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 Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.


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 Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.


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 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent Him of the evil that He has pronounced against you.


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 Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.


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 Jeremiah's Life Is Spared Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.


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 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.


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 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favour of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which He had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.


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 There was also a man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:


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 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:


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 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;


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 and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.


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 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.


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 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh saying,


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 and send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;


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 and give them a command to their masters saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies the God of Israel, You shall tell your masters:


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 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to Me.


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 Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.


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 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bond servant.


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 It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the plague, until I have consumed them by his hand.


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 But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:


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 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.


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 But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, that nation will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. 


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 I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.


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 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?


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 Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.


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 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in My name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you. 


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 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.


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 Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?


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 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.


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 For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,


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 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;


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 yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem:


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 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.


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 It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the people saying,


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 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.


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 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:


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 and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. 


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 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of Yahweh,


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 even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.


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 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of plague.


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 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.


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 Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people saying, Thus says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way.


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 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah saying,


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 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place bars of iron.


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 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the animals of the field also.


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 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the land: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.


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 Jeremiah's Letter to the People in Babylon Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,


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 (after that Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem),


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 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:


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 Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don't be diminished.


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 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.


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 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.


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 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh. The People's Return Promised 


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 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform My word of grace towards you, in causing you to return to this place.


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 For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.


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 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.


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 thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity;


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 thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.


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 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;


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 because they have not listened to My words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.


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 Hear therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. 


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes;


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 and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;


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 because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I didn't command them; and I am He who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.


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 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests saying,


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 Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.


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 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long: build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit?


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 Send to all them of the captivity saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;


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 therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to My people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.


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 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel saying, Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.


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 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.


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 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?


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 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.


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 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bond servant;


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 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.


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 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.


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 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.


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 Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.


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 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, each one of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.


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 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeks after. Restored to Be God's People 


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 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built again on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited in its own former way.


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 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.


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 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before Me; and I will punish all who oppress them.


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 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from their midst; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to Me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to Me? says Yahweh.


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 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, His wrath, has gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.


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 The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return, until He has executed, and until He has performed the intentions of His heart. In the latter days you will understand it.


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 At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.


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 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.


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 Yahweh appeared of old to me saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.


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 Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.


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 Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy its fruit.


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 For there shall be a day when the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.


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 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish, praise, and say, Yahweh, save Your people, the remnant of Israel.


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 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.


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 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first born.


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 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.


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 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.


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 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.


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 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says Yahweh. 


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 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.


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 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.


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 There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and your children shall come again to their own border.


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 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for You are Yahweh my God.


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 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.


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 Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.


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 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart towards the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.


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 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall follow after a man.


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.


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 Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.


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 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.


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 It shall happen that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.


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 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.


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 But each one shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. 


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 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:


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 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.


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 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put My law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people:


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 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know Me, from their least to their greatest, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.


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 If these ordinances depart from before Me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.


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 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.


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 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.


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 The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.


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 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate towards the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.


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 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.


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 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.


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 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up saying, Why do you prophesy and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;


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 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes;


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 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he shall be there until I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper?


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 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.


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 So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh.


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 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.


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 I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.


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 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;


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 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.


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 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.


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 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying, 


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 Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for You,


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 Who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is His name;


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 great in counsel, and mighty in working; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give each one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:


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 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made Yourself a name, as it is at this day;


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 and brought forth Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, wonders, a strong hand, an outstretched arm and with great terror;


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 and gave them this land, which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;


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 and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey Your voice, neither walked in Your law; they have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do: therefore You have caused all this evil to come on them.


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 Behold, the siege mounds, they have come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what You have spoken has happened; and behold, You see it.


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 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:


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 and the Chaldeans who now fight against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger.


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 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in My sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked Me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.


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 For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and of My wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before My face,


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 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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 They have turned to Me the back and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.


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 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I didn't command them, neither did it come into My mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.


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 Now therefore thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: 


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 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in My anger, and in My wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:


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 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:


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 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put My fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from Me.


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 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with My whole heart and with My whole soul.


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 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised them.


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 Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh.


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 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard, saying,


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 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.


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 For thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defence against the mounds and against the sword;


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 while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in My anger and in My wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden My face from this city:


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 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.


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 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.


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 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against Me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against Me, and by which they have transgressed against Me.


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 This city shall be to Me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.


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 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,


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 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for His loving kindness endures forever; who bring thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.


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 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh. 


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 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that word of grace which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.


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 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.


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 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name by which it shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.


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 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.


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 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break My covenant of the day, and My covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;


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 then may also My covenant be broken with David My servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, My ministers.


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 As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David My servant, and the Levites who minister to Me.


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 Don't consider what this people has spoken saying, The two families which Yahweh chose, has He not cast them off? Thus do they despise My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.


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 Thus says Yahweh: If My covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;


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 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David My servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.


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 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army and all the kingdoms of the land that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of it, saying:


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 Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, Go speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:


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 and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.


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 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword;


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 you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you saying, Ah Lord! Because I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.


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 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities.


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 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;


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 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bond servants of them, of a Jew his brother.


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 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make bond servants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:


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 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.


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 Thus says Yahweh, God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,


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 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to Me, neither inclined their ear.


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 You had now turned, and had done that which is right in My eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and you had made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name:


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 but you turned and profaned My name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to Me, to proclaim liberty each man to his brother and each man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the plague and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.


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 I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts;


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 the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;


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 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth.


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 Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army who have for now gone away from you.


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 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.


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 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,


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 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.


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 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, all his sons and the whole family of the Rechabites;


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 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.


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 I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine and cups; and I said to them, Drink wine!


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 But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever:


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 neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant a vineyard nor own one; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you live.


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 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;


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 but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.


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 But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to listen to My words? says Yahweh.


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 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to Me.


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 I have sent also to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to Me.


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 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to Me;


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 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.


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 Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;


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 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever.


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 It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh saying,


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 Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.


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 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.


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 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, which He had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.


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 therefore you go, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.


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 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return each one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people. 


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 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of Yahweh in Yahweh's house.


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 Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.


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 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's house, in the ears of all the people.


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 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of Yahweh,


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 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's room: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.


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 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.


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 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.


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 Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one towards another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.


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 Then Baruch answered them, he pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.


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 They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.


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 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king. 


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 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.


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 It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.


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 They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.


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 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them.


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 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.


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 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,


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 Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.


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 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll saying, Why have you written therein saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and beast?


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.


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 I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, because they didn't listen.


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 Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many like words.


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 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.


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 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to the words of Yahweh, which He spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.


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 Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.


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 Pharaoh's army had come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem.


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 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come forth to help you shall return to Egypt into their own land.


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 The Chaldeans shall return and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.


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 Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves by saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.


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 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.


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 It happened that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,


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 then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.


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 When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.


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 Then Jeremiah said, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. 


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 The princes were angry with Jeremiah and struck him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.


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 When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;


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 then Zedekiah the king sent and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house saying, Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.


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 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?


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 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?


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 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, unless I die there.


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 Then Zedekiah the king commanded and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.


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 Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people saying,


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 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine and by the plague; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.


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 Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.


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 Then the princes said to the king, Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but their hurt.


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 Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you.


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 Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mud; and Jeremiah sank in the mud.


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 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),


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 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.


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 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian saying, Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies. 


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 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there rags and worn-out clothes and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.


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 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out clothes under your armpits under the cords. Jeremiah did so.


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 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. Jeremiah's Last Conversation with Zedekiah 


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 Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third entry that is in the house of Yahweh: and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.


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 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.


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 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.


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 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your family.


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 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire and you shall not escape out of their hand.


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 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand and they mock me.


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 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.


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 behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have deceived you and have prevailed over you. Your feet are now sunk in the mud, and they now turn away from you.


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 They shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.


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 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don't hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you:


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 then you shall tell them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house to die there.


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 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.


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 It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;


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 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),


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 that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.


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 It happened that when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out towards the Arabah.


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 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgement on him.


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 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah.


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 The Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.


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 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.


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 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. 


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 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah saying,


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 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;


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 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he lived among the people.


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 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring My words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.


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 But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.


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 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in me, says Yahweh.


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 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.


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 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;


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 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as He spoke: because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed His voice, therefore this thing has come on you.


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 Now, behold, I release you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.


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 If you remain, then return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people. Or go wherever you think it right to go. So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present, and let him go.


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 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.


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 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon;


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 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.


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 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men saying, Don't be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 


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 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you, gather grapes and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.


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 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;


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 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered grapes and summer fruits very much.


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 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,


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 and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them.


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 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?


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 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.


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 Now it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.


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 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.


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 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.


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 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.


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 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it happened, as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. 


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 It was so that when they came into the midst of the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.


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 But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, barley, oil and honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill them among their brothers.


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 Now the cistern in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed along with Gedaliah was the same which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.


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 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the remainder of the people who were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.


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 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,


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 then they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.


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 Now it happened that when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad.


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 So all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and returned and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.


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 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.


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 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon:


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 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.


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 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us:


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 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.


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 Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.


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 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God. 


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 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,


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 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel to whom you sent me to present your supplication before Him:


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 If you will still live in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.


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 Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don't be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.


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 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,


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 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:


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 now therefore hear the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there;


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 then it shall happen, that the sword which you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow close behind you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.


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 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine and by the plague; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.


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 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As My anger and My wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall My wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror and an astonishment, a curse and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more. 


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 Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to you this day.


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 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it:


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 and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which He has sent me to you.


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 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there.


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 It happened that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,


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 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to live there;


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 but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.


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 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Judah.


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 But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of Judah, who were returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah;


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 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;


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 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes. 


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 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;


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 and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.


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 He shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death shall be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.


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 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.


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 He shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.


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 God's Message for the Jews in Egypt The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis and in the country of Pathros, saying,


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein,


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 because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke Me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn't know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.


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 However I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate!


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 But they didn't listen nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.


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 Therefore My wrath and My anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.


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 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining;


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 in that you provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?


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 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?


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 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in My law, nor in My statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set My face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.


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 I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach.


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 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague;


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 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they will have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape. The People Refuse to Heed God's Message 


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 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah saying,


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 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.


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 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.


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 When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?


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 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,


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 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn't Yahweh remember it, and didn't it come into His mind?


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 So that Yahweh could no longer endure you, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.


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 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in His law, nor in His statutes, nor in His testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is this day.


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 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt:


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows. 


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 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says Yahweh, that My name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt saying, As the Lord Yahweh lives.


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 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.


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 Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall know whose word shall stand, Mine, or theirs.


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 This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that My words shall surely stand against you for evil:


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 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.


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 God Will Spare Baruch's Life The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,


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 You said, Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and I find no rest.


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 You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this will be so in the whole land.


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 Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.


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 God's Message for Egypt The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.


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 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.


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 Harness the horses, rise up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.


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 Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.


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 Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.


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 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the land; I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.


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 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty ones go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.


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 For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself of His adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.


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 Go up into Gilead and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.


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 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together. 


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 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.


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 Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand forth, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.


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 He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.


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 As I live, says the King whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.


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 You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation and shall be burnt up without inhabitant.


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 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.


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 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.


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 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.


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 The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.


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 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:


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 and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited like in the days of old, says Yahweh.


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 But don't you be afraid, Jacob My servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.


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 Don't you be afraid, O Jacob My servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you: for although I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you, I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.


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 God's Message about the Philistines The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza.


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 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.


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 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don't look back to their children for feebleness of hands;


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 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.


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 Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?


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 You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.


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 How can you be quiet, since Yahweh has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has He appointed it.


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 God's Message for Moab Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.


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 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.


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 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.


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 For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.


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 The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.


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 May wings be given to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.


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 Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.


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 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.


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 Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.


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 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.


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 All you who are around him, bemoan him; all you who know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!


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 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.


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 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?


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 Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.


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 Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.


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 For wasn't Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.


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 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.


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 We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the highness of his heart.


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 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.


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 With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.


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 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.


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 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.


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 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.


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 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.


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 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.


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 On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh.


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 How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.


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 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.


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 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.


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 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.


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 Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.


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 Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.


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 Yet will I revive the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgement of Moab.


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 God's Message for Ammon Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?


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 Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who possessed him, says Yahweh.


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 Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.


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 Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? Who trusted in her treasures, saying, who shall come to me?


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 Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, from all who are around you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives.


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 But afterwards I will revive the fortunes of the children of Ammon, says Yahweh. God's Message for Edom 


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 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Is counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?


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 Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.


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 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, wouldn't they steal until they had enough?


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 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbours; and he is no more.


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 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.


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 For I have sworn by Myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.


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 I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations saying, Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.


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 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.


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 Edom shall become an astonishment: each one who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.


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 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring cities, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.


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 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like Me? And who will appoint Me a time? And who is the shepherd who will stand before Me?


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 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh that He has taken against Edom; and His purposes, that He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.


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 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.


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 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. God's Message for Damascus 


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 Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.


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 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.


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 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Armies.


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 I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. God's Message for Kedar, Hazor and Elam 


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 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.


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 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!


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 Flee, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.


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 Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone.


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 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off; and I will bring their calamity on them from every side, says Yahweh.


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 Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.


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 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,


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 On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them towards all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.


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 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even My fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;


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 The Fall of Babylon and Israel's Return The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.


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 Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.


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 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal.


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 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.


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 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned towards it saying, Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.


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 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.


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 All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.


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 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.


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 For behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.


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 Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder My inheritance, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;


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 your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.


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 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.


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 Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.


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 Shout against her all around: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.


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 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn each one to his people, and they shall flee each one to his own land.


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 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at the last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.


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 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.


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 In those days and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.


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 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.


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 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!


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 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also caught, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have struggled against Yahweh.


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 Yahweh has opened His armoury and has brought forth the weapons of His indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.


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 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.


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 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.


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 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of His temple.


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 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.


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 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.


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 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.


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 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are around him.


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.


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 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is His name: He will thoroughly plead their cause, that He may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.


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 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes and on her wise men.


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 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.


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 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.


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 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.


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 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.


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 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbouring cities, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.


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 Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.


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 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, each one set in array as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.


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 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labour.


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 Behold, the enemy shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like Me? And who will appoint Me a time? And who is the shepherd who can stand before Me?


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 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh that He has taken against Babylon; and His purposes, that He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.


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 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up a destroying wind against Babylon and against those who dwell in Lebkamai.


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 I will send to Babylon strangers who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her around.


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 Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail: don't spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.


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 For neither Israel nor Judah is forsaken, of his God, of Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.


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 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; He will render to her a recompense.


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 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.


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 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take her balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.


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 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go each one into his own country; for her judgement reaches to the sky, and is lifted up even to heaven.


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 Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.


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 Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it: for it is the revenge of Yahweh, the revenge for His temple.


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 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.


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 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.


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 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by Himself saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as a swarm of locusts; and they shall lift up a shout against you. 


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 when He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of His treasuries.


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 Every man has become a brute, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.


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 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for He is the former of all things; and Jacob is the tribe of His inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is His name.


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 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;


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 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;


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 and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies. 


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 I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.


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 Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroys all the land; and I will stretch out My hand on you and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.


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 They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.


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 Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.


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 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.


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 The land trembles and is in pain; for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.


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 The mighty men of Babylon have declined to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.


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 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:


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 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.


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 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.


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 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.


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 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.


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 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant.


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 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says Yahweh.


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 How is Sheshach taken and the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!


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 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.


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 I will execute judgement on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. Hope for God's People 


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 My people, go away from the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.


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 Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year shall come news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.


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 Therefore behold the days come, that I will execute judgement on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.


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 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh.


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 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.


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 You who have escaped the sword, go, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.


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 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house.


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 Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgement on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.


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 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.


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 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:


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 for the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, He will surely requite.


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 I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King whose name is Yahweh of Armies.


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 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labour for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary. 


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 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.


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 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.


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 and say, Yahweh, You have spoken concerning this place to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.


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 It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:


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 and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.


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 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


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 For through the anger of Yahweh it happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He had cast them out from His presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


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 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.


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 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.


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 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around;) and they went towards the Arabah.


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 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.


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 Then they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgement on him.


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 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.


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 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and imprisoned him until the day of his death.


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 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:


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 and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.


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 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.


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 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.


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 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers. Desecration of God's Temple 


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 The Chaldeans broke the pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh they broke in pieces and carried all of their brass to Babylon.


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 They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.


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 The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.


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 They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.


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 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.


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 A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.


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 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around. 


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 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:


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 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.


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 This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three Jews;


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 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;


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 in the twenty third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand six hundred.


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 It happened in the thirty seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty fifth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;


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 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,


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 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:


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 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.


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 The Prologue: Yahweh, Job and the Satan There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and turned away from the evil.


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 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.


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 His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.


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 It was so, when the days of their feasting had come to an end, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Job did so continually.


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 Now it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.


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 Yahweh said to Satan, Where have you come from? Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


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 Yahweh said to Satan, Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the land, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.


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 Haven't You made a hedge around him and around his family, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.


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 Yahweh said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh. 


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 It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,


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 that there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing and the donkeys feeding beside them,


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 and the Sabeans attacked and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.


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 While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The fire of God has fallen from the sky and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.


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 While he was still speaking, there came also another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.


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 While he was still speaking, there came also another and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,


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 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.


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 He said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh.


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 Job's Health is Taken Away Again it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.


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 Yahweh said to Satan, Where have you come from? Satan answered Yahweh and said, From going back and forth in the land, and from walking up and down in it.


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 Yahweh said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Job? For there is none like him in the land, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to ruin him without cause.


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 But put forth Your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce You to Your face.


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 So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.


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 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job didn't sin with his lips. 


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 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.


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 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.


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 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.


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 Let the day perish in which I was born, the night in which it was said, "There is a boy conceived'.


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 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.


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 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not counted in the number of the months.


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 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,


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 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,


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 If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?


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 The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.


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 It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence; then I heard a voice saying,


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 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!


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 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,


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 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. They snare gapes for their substance.


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 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects! Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.


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 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.


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 At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.


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 For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.


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 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.


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 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult throughout my unending pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.


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 To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.


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 When I lie down, I say, "When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.


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 Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.


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 If I have sinned, what do I do to You, You watcher of men? Why have You set me as an archer's target for You, so that I am a burden to myself?


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 Why do You not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.


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 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.


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 If you were pure and upright, surely now He would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.


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 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against Him, and prospered?


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 If it is a matter of strength, behold, He is mighty! If of justice, "Who', says He, "will summon me?'.


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 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.


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 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it be not He, then who is it?


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 My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.


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 Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?


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 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.


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 You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are within me.


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 "Why, then, have You brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.


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 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.


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 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight'.


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 that He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.


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 Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:


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 You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety.


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 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.


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 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?


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 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbour, because I called on God, and He answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.


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 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.


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 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.


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 Behold, He breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.


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 Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.


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 He increases the nations, and He destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and He leads them captive.


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 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.


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 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with You, and You have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;


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 For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.


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 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.


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 Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!


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 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.


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 the waters wear away the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So You destroy the hope of man.


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 His sons come to honour, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it about them.


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 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?


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 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.


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 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, "Where is it?'. He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.


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 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;


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 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.


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 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.


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 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.


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 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,


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 You have shrivelled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.


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 He has torn me in His wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with His teeth. My adversary sharpens His eyes on me.


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 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.


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 I was at ease, and He broke me apart. Yes, He has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for His target.


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 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.


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 Yet shall the righteous hold on to his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.


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 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?


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 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulphur shall be scattered on his habitation.


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 Behold, I cry out because of injustice, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.


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 whom I, even I, shall see for myself. My eyes shall see it, and not a stranger's. My heart is consumed within me.


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 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.


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 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.


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 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.


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 That for which he laboured he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.


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 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.


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 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of each one who is in misery shall come on him.


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 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him. It will rain on him while he is eating.


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 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are upon him.


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 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.


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 How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows to them in His anger?


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 You say, "God lays up his iniquity for his children'. Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.


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 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.


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 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit Him, that you make your ways perfect?


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 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.


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 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.


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 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.


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 I haven't gone back from the commandment of His lips. I have treasured up the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.


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 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did He cover my face with the thick darkness.


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 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.


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 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.


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 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, "No eye shall see me'. He disguises his face.


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 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.


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 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.


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 They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.


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 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.


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 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.


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 Behold, these are but the outskirts of His ways. How small a whisper do we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?


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 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.


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 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.


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 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.


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 Job's Parable about Wisdom Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.


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 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound of thick darkness, in order to find the stones of obscurity.


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 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot walking above. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.


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 To man He said, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding'.


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 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.


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 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.


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 But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.


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 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.


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 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, they cast up against me their ways of destruction.


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 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honour as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.


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 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,


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 If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;


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 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.


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 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;


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 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--


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 oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me; let the accuser write my indictment!


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 Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.


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 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.


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 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.


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 Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.


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 Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.


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 My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.


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 If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;


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 then God is gracious to him, and says, "Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom'.


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 He prays to God, and He is gracious to him, so that he sees His face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.


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 He sings before men, and says, "I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.


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 notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience'.


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 Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that He should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that He should commit iniquity.


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 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of His hands.


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 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.


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 Therefore He takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.


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 When He gives quietness, who then can condemn? When He hides His face, who then can see Him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,


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 Shall His recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.


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 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.


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 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against Him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?


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 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.


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 He doesn't withdraw His eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, He sets them forever, and they are exalted.


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 then He shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.


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 If they listen and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.


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 Yes, He would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.


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 After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of His majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when His voice is heard.


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 For He says to the snow, "Fall on the earth'; likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of His mighty rain.


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 It is turned around by His guidance, that they may do whatever He commands them on the surface of the habitable world,


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 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, He will not oppress.


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 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.


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 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?


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 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labour is in vain, she is without fear,


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 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.


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 As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, "Aha!'. He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.


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 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.


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 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.


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 You asked, "Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.


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 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job has.


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 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as My servant Job has.


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 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.


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 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.


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 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Each one also gave him a piece of money, and each one a ring of gold.


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 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.


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 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.


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 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.


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 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.


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 Hear this, you elders, and listen, all of you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?


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 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children tell another generation.


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 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.


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 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.


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 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.


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 He has laid My vine waste, and stripped My fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.


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 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth! The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house; the priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.


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 The field is laid waste, the land mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine has dried up and the oil wastes away.


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 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley and the harvest of the field has perished.


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 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered away; for joy is withered away from the sons of men. Repent! 


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 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.


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 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh your God, and cry to Yahweh.


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 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as a destruction from the Almighty.


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 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.


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 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are confused because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.


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 Yahweh, I cry to you because the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.


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 Yes, the animals of the field pant to You, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.


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 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is near at hand:


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 a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the dawn spreading on the mountains. A great and strong people! There has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.


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 A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and after them- like a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.


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 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.


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 They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.


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 Neither does one jostle another; they march each one in his path, and they burst through the defences, and don't break ranks.


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 They rush on the city, they run on the wall, they climb up into the houses, they enter in at the windows like thieves.


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 The earth quakes before them, the skies tremble, the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.


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 Yahweh thunders His voice before His army; for His forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys His command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it? 


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 Yet even now, says Yahweh, turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.


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 Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.


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 Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.


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 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.


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 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare Your people, Yahweh, and don't give Your heritage to reproach, that the pagan nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, "Where is their God?'. 


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 Yahweh answered His people, Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.


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 But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise. Surely He has done great things!


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 Don't be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.


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 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh your God; for He gives you the former rains in just measure, and He causes the rain to come down for you, the former rains and the latter rains, as before.


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 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, My great army, which I sent among you.


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 You will have plenty to eat and will be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh your God who has dealt wondrously with you; and My people will never again be ashamed.


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 You will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yahweh your God, and there is no one else; and My people will never again be ashamed. 


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 It will happen in the last days, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.


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 The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.


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 It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.


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 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided My land,


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 and have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.


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 Yes, and what are you to Me, Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay Me? And if you repay Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.


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 Because you have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried My finest treasures into your temples,


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 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.


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 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;


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 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a distant nation; for Yahweh has spoken it.


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 Proclaim this among the nations: Sanctify war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.


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 Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, "I am strong!'.


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 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together. Cause Your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.


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 Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.


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 Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.


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 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.


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 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; the heavens and the earth will shake, but Yahweh will be a refuge for His people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. God's People to Be Blessed 


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 So you will know that I am Yahweh your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.


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 It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh and will water the valley of Shittim.


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 Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the children of Judah; because they have shed innocent blood in their land.


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 Prologue: The Word Becomes Flesh In the beginning was the word, and the word was towards God, and the word was Divine.


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 All things created came into existence on account of it; and without it nothing created came into existence.


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 He was in the world, and though the world had originated on account of him, the world recognised him not.


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 But whoever accepts him, those who believe in his name, to them he gave the right to become children of God.


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 For this, the word became flesh, and indwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.


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 John testifies of him and cries out, saying: This was he of whom I said: He that comes after me is ranked above me! For he was senior to me.


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 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made Him known. 


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 And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him: Who are you?


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 And they asked him: What then? Are you Elijah? And he said: I am not. Are you the prophet? And he answered: No.


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 They replied to him: Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. How do you describe yourself?


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 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord.


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 Again they asked him: Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?


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 The next day he saw Jesus coming towards him, and he said: Behold! The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!


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 I did not perceive him, but so he should be made manifest to Israel, for this reason I come baptizing in water.


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 And John testified, saying: I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and it remained upon him.


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 I would not have perceived him except He that sent me to baptize in water, He had said to me: Upon whomsoever you shall see the Spirit descend and remain upon him, the same is he that baptizes in the Holy Spirit.


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 Jesus turned around, and observing they were following him, said to them: What do you seek? And they replied: Rabbi (we would say Teacher). Where are you staying?


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 He said to them: Come, and you shall see. They went therefore, and saw where he stayed; and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. 


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 The first thing he did was to find his brother Simon; and he said to him: We have found the Messiah (we would say Christ).


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 He took him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said: You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas (we call him Peter).


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 Philip found Nathanael and said to him: We have found him, of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote! Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.


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 And Nathanael said to him: Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him: Come and see.


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 Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, and said of him: Behold, a true Israelite in whom is no deceit!


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 Nathanael said to him: How is it you know me? Jesus answered: Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.


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 Jesus replied: Because I said to you: I saw you underneath the fig tree- do you believe? You shall see greater things than these!


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 And he said to him: Truly, truly, I say to you. You shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.


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 Nearby there were six stone waterpots, placed there for the Jewish custom of purifications, each holding 75 to 115 litres


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 When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now become wine, and not knowing where it came from (but the servants that had drawn the water knew), he called to the bridegroom,


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 and said to him: Everyone serves good wine first, and when all have drunk freely, serves something inferior. But you have kept the good wine until now!


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 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, thereby revealing his glory; and his disciples believed in him. 


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 After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and brothers and disciples; and there they stayed for a few days.


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 And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at their tables.


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 He made a whip out of cords and drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.


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 To them that sold the doves he said: Take these things away! Do not make my Father's house a market.


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 The Jews therefore answered and said to him: What sign will you show us, seeing you do these things?


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 The Jews replied: Forty six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?


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 When he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spoke this, and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.


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 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs which he did.


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 and because he did not need any testimony concerning himself from any human being. For he understood what was in man.


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 The same came to him by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God. For no one can do the signs you do, except God be with him.


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 Jesus answered and said to him: Truly, truly, I say to you: Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.


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 Nicodemus said to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?


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 Jesus answered: Truly, truly, I say to you: Except one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!


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 The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but do not know from where it comes and where it goes. So is every one that is born of the Spirit.


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 Jesus answered and said to him: Are you the teacher of Israel and yet do not understand these things?


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: We speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen; and you do not welcome our witness.


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 If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things?


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 No one has ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.


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 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.


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 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.


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 He that believes in him is not condemned. He that does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.


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 And this is the ground of condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light- for their works were evil.


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 For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, in case his works should be reproved.


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 But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God. 


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 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he stayed with them and baptized.


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 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there; and people came to be baptized.


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 And they came to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him.


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 He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, that stands by and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. In this my joy is made full.


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 He that comes from above is above all. He that is of the earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaks. He that comes from heaven is above all.


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 He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.


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 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John


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 So he came to the city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground which Jacob gave his son Joseph.


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 Jacob's well was also there. Jesus, being tired from his journey, sat tired by the well. It was about the sixth hour.


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 The Samaritan woman replied to him: How is it that you, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans).


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 Jesus answered and said to her: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you: Give me a drink, you would have asked of him and he would have given you living water.


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 The woman said to him: Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?


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 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his cattle?


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 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst. The water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to eternal life.


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 The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I do not thirst ever again, nor come all the way here to get water.


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 The woman answered and said to him: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: You said well that you have no husband,


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 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truthfully.


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 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.


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 Jesus said to her: Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father.


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 But the hour comes and now is, when true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such worshipers are who the Father seeks.


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 The woman said to him: I know that the Messiah is coming (he that is called Christ). When he comes, he will declare to us all things.


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 And upon this scene came his disciples, and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said: What are you seeking? Or, Why do you speak with her?


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 Do you not say: There are yet four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white, ready to harvest.


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 He that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to everlasting life; that he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.


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 I sent you to harvest that upon which you have not laboured; others have laboured, and you are taking over their labour.


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 And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified: He told me all things that I have ever done.


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 So when the Samaritans came to him, they pleaded with him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days.


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 And they said to the woman: Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world. 


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 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all the things that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they also had gone up to the feast.


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 He came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.


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 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded that he would come to Capernaum and heal his son. For his son was at the point of death.


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 Jesus said to him: Go your way. Your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.


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 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They replied to him: Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.


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 The father knew that that was the hour when Jesus had said to him: Your son lives. And so he and his household believed.


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 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.


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 In these lay a crowd of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralysed, waiting for the moving of the water.


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 For an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and disturbed the water. Whoever was first to step into the pool, after the waters were disturbed, was healed of whatever disease he had.


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 When Jesus saw him lying there, knowing he had been there a long time, he said to him: Would you be made whole?


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 The sick man answered him: Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed. As I approach someone else steps in front of me.


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 And straightway the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.


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 So the Jews said to him who had been cured: It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.


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 But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place


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 Afterwards, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: Look, you are made whole. Sin no more, lest a worse thing befall you.


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 For this cause the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath law, but he called God his own Father, making himself seem like God.


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 Jesus therefore answered and said to them: Truly, truly, I say to you: The Son can do nothing of himself but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever works He does, these the Son does in like manner.


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 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that Himself does; and greater works than these will He show him, that you may marvel.


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 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he will.


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 that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that does not honour the Son does not honour the Father that sent him.


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: He that hears my word and believes Him that sent me has eternal life, and comes not into condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: The hour comes and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.


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 and shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.


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 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of Him that sent me.


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 Not that the testimony that I receive is from man; but I say these things so that you may be saved.


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 But the witness which I have is greater than that of John. For the works which the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify that the Father has sent me.


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 And the Father that sent me, He has testified of me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape.


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 You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of me;


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 I come in my Father's Name, and you do not accept me. If another shall come in his own name, you will accept him.


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 How can you believe, you who accept praise from each other, but do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?


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 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuses you, Moses, on whom you have set your hope.


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 After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.


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 And a great crowd followed him, because they saw the signs which he performed on those that were sick.


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 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great crowd came to him, said to Philip: Where are we to buy bread that these may eat?


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 Philip answered him: Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.


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 Jesus said: Make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.


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 Jesus therefore took the loaves and having given thanks, he distributed them to those that were sitting down. Likewise also the fishes, as much as they could eat.


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 And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, so nothing goes to waste.


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 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.


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 When the people saw the sign which he did, they said: This is of a truth the prophet that comes into the world!


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 So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.


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 And they entered into a boat and were going over by sea to Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.


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 When therefore they had rowed about five or six kilometres, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.


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 Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.


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 On the next day the people who remained on the other side of the sea noticed that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.


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 (Some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks).


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 When the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.


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 And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when did you come here?


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 Jesus answered them and said: Truly, truly, I say to you: You seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 


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 Do not labour for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set His seal of approval.


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 Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God- that you believe in him whom He has sent.


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 They replied to him: What then will you do for a sign, so that we may see and believe you? What work will you do?


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 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.


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 Jesus replied to them: Truly, truly, I say to you: It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father; who now gives you the true bread out of heaven.


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 Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that comes to me shall not hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst.


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 And this is the will of Him that sent me, that of all which He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.


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 For this is the will of my Father: That every one that sees the Son and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.


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 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said: I am the bread which came down out of Heaven.


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 And they said: Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, I came down out of Heaven?


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 No one can come to me, except the Father that sent me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day.


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 It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught by God. Everyone therefore who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.


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 I am the living bread which came down out of Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. Yes! The bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world.


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 Jesus replied to them: Truly, truly, I say to you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.


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 He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.


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 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he that eats me, he also shall live because of me.


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 This is the bread which came down out of Heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died; he that eats this bread shall live forever.


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 Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said: This is a hard saying; who can hear it?


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 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Does this cause you to stumble?


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 It is the spirit that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.


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 But there are some of you that do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray him.


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 And he said: For this cause have I said to you, that no one can came to me, except it be given to him of the Father.


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 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for he was the one of those twelve who would betray him.


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 And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.


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 His brothers said to him: Depart from here and go into Judea, so your disciples may also see the works you do.


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 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, manifest yourself to the world.


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 You go up to the feast. I will not be going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.


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 But when his brothers had gone to the feast, then he also went to it, not publicly but as it were in secret.


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 And there was much murmuring among the crowds concerning him. Some said: He is a good man. Others said: Not so. He deceives the people.


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 The Jews marvelled, saying: How is it that this man has learning, when he has never had an education?


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 If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know of this teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak from myself.


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 He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of Him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.


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 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses but of the fathers) and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.


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 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely whole on the Sabbath?


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 And lo, he speaks openly and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?


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 Therefore Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and know from where I am, and that I have not come of myself. But He that sent me is true, whom you do not know.


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 Therefore they sought to take him, but no one laid his hand on him- because his hour had not yet come.


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 But of the crowd many believed in him; and they said: When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than those which this man has done?


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 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.


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 The Jews queried among themselves: Where will this man go that we shall not find him? Will he go to the diaspora among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?


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 What is his meaning when he said: You shall seek me and shall not find me; and, Where I am, you cannot come?


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 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If anyone thirsts, let him came to me and drink.


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 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said: From within him shall flow rivers of living water.


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 He spoke of the Spirit, which they that believed in him were to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been received, as Jesus had not yet been glorified.


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 Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was born?


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 said to them: Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and knowing what he is doing?


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 They answered and said to him: Are you also of Galilee? Search the scrolls and you will see, that no prophet is to rise from Galilee.


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 And early in the morning he again went into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them.


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 And the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of adultery; and having placed her before him,


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 And this they said to test him, so they might have some reason to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.


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 But when they continued asking him, he stood up and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.


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 And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest, to the last; and Jesus was left alone with the woman, with her still standing in the middle.


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 And she said: No one, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From this time forward, sin no more. 


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 Again Jesus spoke to the crowd, saying: I am the light of the world. He that follows me shall not walk in the darkness but shall have the light of life.


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 Jesus answered and said to them: Even if I testify of myself, my witness is true. For I know from where I came and where I go; but you do not know where I come from, nor where I go to.


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 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone that judge, but I and He who sent me


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 They replied to him: Where is your Father? Jesus answered: You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.


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 These words spoke he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; and no one took him- because his hour had not yet come.


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 He replied again to them: I go away, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come.


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 And he said to them: You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.


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 I replied to you, that you shall die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you shall die in your sins.


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 They replied to him: Who are you? Jesus said to them: Even that which I have spoken to you from the beginning.


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 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However, He that sent me is true, and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.


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 Jesus continued: When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.


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 And He that sent me is with me. He has not left me alone. For I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.


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 Jesus replied to those Jews that had believed him: If you abide in my word, then are you truly my disciples.


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 They answered him: We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to anyone. What do you mean, you shall be made free?


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 I know that you are Abraham's seed. Yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.


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 I speak the things which I have seen with my Father, and you also do the things which you heard from your father.


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 They answered and said to him: Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them: If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.


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 But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.


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 You do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of fornication. We have one Father, even God.


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 Jesus said to them: If God were your Father, you would love me. For I came forth and am come from God. For neither have I come of myself, but He sent me.


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 You are of your father the Devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.


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 He that is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you do not hear them, because you are not of God.


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 The Jews said to him: Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, but you say: If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of death.


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 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died, and the prophets who died? Whom do you make yourself?


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 Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, whom you say is your God.


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 You have not known Him, but I know Him; and if I should say I know Him not, I shall be like you, a liar; but I know Him and keep His word.


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 And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?


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 Jesus answered: Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be revealed in him.


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 We must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day. The night comes, when no one can work.


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 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,


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 and said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which means Sent). He went away therefore and washed, and went home seeing.


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 His neighbours and those that had seen him previously, as a beggar, said: Is this not he that sat and begged?


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 He answered: The man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me: Go to Siloam and wash. So I went away and washed, and I received sight.


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 So the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight. And he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed and I could see.


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 Therefore, some of the Pharisees said: This man is not from God, because he keeps not the Sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among them.


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 Therefore they said to the man born blind: What do you say concerning him, in that he opened your eyes? And he said: He is a prophet!


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 The Jews did not believe him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called his parents,


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 But how he now sees, we do not know. Or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him! He is of age. He shall speak for himself.


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 These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had agreed already, that if anyone should confess him to be Christ, he should be thrown out of the synagogue.


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 So they questioned the man that was born blind a second time, and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.


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 He answered: Whether he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I know, whereas I was blind, now I see.


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 He answered them: I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Would you also become his disciples?


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 The man answered and said to them: This is the marvel! You do not know from where he came, even though he opened my eyes.


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 We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone be a worshiper of God and does His will, him He hears!


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 They answered and said to him: You were altogether born in sins, and you teach us! And they excommunicated him.


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 Jesus heard that they had excommunicated him; and on finding him, he said: Do you believe on the Son of God?


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 And Jesus said: For judgment I came into this world, that they that cannot see may see, and that they that see may become blind.


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 Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say: We see, therefore your sin remains.


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: He that enters not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.


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 To him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his sheep by name and leads them out.


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 When he brings out all his sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.


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 A stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him. For they do not know the voice of strangers.


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 I am the door. By me if anyone enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture.


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 The thief only comes so that he may steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly.


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 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.


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 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and they shall become one flock with one shepherd.


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 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. This command I received from my Father.


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 Others said: These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon possessed person open the eyes of the blind?


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 The Jews surrounded him and said to him: How long do you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.


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 Jesus answered them: I told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify of me.


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 And I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.


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 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.


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 Jesus said to them: Many good works have I shown you from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?


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 The Jews answered him: For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself as God!


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 do you say of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world: You blaspheme, because I said: I am the Son of God?


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 But if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works; that you may know and understand, that the Father is in me and I in the Father.


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 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.


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 Many came to him. And they said: John did no miracle, but everything that John said about this man was true.


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 And it was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.


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 But when Jesus heard it, he said: This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that thereby the Son of God may be glorified.


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 When he heard that Lazarus was sick, he therefore stayed two days longer in the place where he was.


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 The disciples said to him: Rabbi, only a few days ago the Jews wanted to stone you; and you want to go there again?


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 Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.


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 These things he spoke, and after this he said to them: Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep, but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.


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 Now Jesus had spoken of Lazarus' death; but they thought that he spoke of Lazarus taking rest in sleep.


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 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.


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 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.


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 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes on me, though he die, yet shall he live.


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 She said to him: Yes, Lord. I have believed you are the Christ, the Son of God, he that is to come into the world.


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 And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here and calls you.


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 The Jews then who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.


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 Therefore, when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him: Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.


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 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who had come with her, he groaned in the spirit and was disturbed,


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 But some of them said: Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him that was blind, have also caused that this man should not have died?


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 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay across it.


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 Jesus said: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said to him: Lord, by this time the body stinks. For he has been dead four days.


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 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said: Father, I thank you that you have heard me.


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 And I know you hear me always, but because of the crowd that stands around I said it, that they may believe you did send me.


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 He that was dead came out, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him go away.


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 The chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What will we do? For this man does many miracles.


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 If we leave him alone, all men will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.


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 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing at all,


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 nor do you take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, so that the whole nation does not perish.


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 Now this he said not of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.


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 And not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.


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 Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he stayed with the disciples.


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 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand; and many from the countryside went to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.


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 They looked for Jesus, and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple: What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?


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 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they were to inform them, so that they might arrest him.


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 Therefore, six days before the Passover, Jesus went to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.


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 Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.


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 Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.


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 The common people of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.


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 The next day, a great crowd that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,


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 took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out: Hosanna! Blessed is he that comes in the Name of the Lord, the King of Israel!


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 These things his disciples did not understand at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.


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 The crowd that was with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, made testimony.


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 The Pharisees complained to one another: You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has gone after him. 


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: Except a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.


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 He that loves his life loses it, and he that hates his life in this world, shall keep it to everlasting life.


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 If anyone desires to serve me, he must follow me. Where I am, there shall also my servant be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him.


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 Now is my soul disturbed; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this cause came I to this hour.


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 Father, glorify your name. Therefore, there came a voice out of Heaven: I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.


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 The crowd that stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said an angel had spoken to him.


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 The crowd asked him: We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides forever; and how do you say: The Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?


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 Jesus replied to them: Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. He that walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.


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 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light. Jesus spoke these things, then he departed and hid himself from them. 


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 So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, when he spoke: Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?


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 He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, lest they should understand with their hearts, and turn, so that I should heal them.


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 Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue.


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 I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.


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 And if anyone hear my sayings and keep them not, I judge him not. For I came not to judge the world but to save the world.


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 He that rejects me and receives not my sayings has one that judges him. The word that I spoke, the same shall judge him in the last day.


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 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father that sent me, He has given me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.


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 And I know that His commandment is everlasting life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me: So I speak.


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 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour had come, that he should depart out of this world to his Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them to the end.


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 And during supper, when the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,


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 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,


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 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.


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 Jesus answered and said to him: What I am doing you do not comprehend now, but later you shall understand.


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 Peter said to him: You shall never wash my feet! Jesus answered him: If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.


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 Jesus said to him: He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you.


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 So when he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and sat down again, he said to them: Do you comprehend what I have done to you?


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 If I then, your lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: A servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one sent greater than he that sent him.


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 I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen; but the scripture must be fulfilled: He that eats my bread lifted up his heel against me.


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 From this time forward I will tell you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: He that receives whoever I send receives me, and he that receives me, receives Him that sent me.


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 When Jesus had said this, he was disturbed in his spirit, and testified: Truly, truly, I say to you: One of you shall betray me.


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 Jesus answered: It is he to whom I gave the morsel of bread after I dipped it. When he had dipped the morsel, he had given it to Judas the son of Simon Iscariot.


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 Then after Judas had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him: What you are about to do, do quickly.


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 Some thought because Judas had the money bag, that Jesus said to him: Buy what things we have need of for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.


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 He then having received the morsel went out immediately into the night. Jesus Predicts Peter's Denials 


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 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me, but as I said to the Jews, where I go, you cannot come. So now I say to you.


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 A new commandment I give to you: Love one another. Even as I have loved you, you also love one another.


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 Simon Peter said to him: Lord, where do you go? Jesus answered: Where I go, you cannot follow now, but you shall follow afterwards.


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 Jesus answered: Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you: The cock shall not crow, till you have denied me three times.


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 In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.


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 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also.


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 Jesus said to him: I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.


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 If you had truly known me, you would have truly known my Father also. From this time forward you will truly know Him and will have seen Him.


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 Jesus said to him: Philip, have I been with you such a long time, and still you do not truly know me? He that has seen me has seen the Father. How do you ask: Show us the Father?


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 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not from myself; but the Father abiding in me does His works.


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 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: He that believes in me, the works that I do, shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the Father.


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 And whatever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.


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 And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another comforter, that he may be with you for ever-


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 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive. For it neither sees him nor knows him. You truly know him, for he abides with you and shall be in you.


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 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you shall live also.


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 He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me, shall be loved of my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.


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 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him: Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?


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 Jesus answered and said to him: If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him; and we will come to him and make our home with him.


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 He that does not love me, does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.


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 But the comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and cause you to remember all that I said to you.


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 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives, do I give it to you. Let not your heart be disturbed, neither let it be fearful.


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 You heard how I said to you: I go away and I come to you. If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father. For the Father is greater than I.


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 And he comes so that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, thus I shall now do. Arise, let us leave here.


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 Every branch in me that carries no fruit, he prunes away; and every branch that carries fruit, he cleanses it, that it may bear more fruit.


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 Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, so neither can you, except you abide in me.


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 I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, the same carries much fruit. For severed from me you can do nothing.


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 If a man does not abide in me, he is thrown out as a branch and withers, and these are gathered and thrown into the fire, and they are burned.


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 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will and it shall be done to you.


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 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.


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 No longer do I call you servants. For the servant does not know what his lord does; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.


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 You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain. So that whatever you shall ask of the Father in my name, He may give it to you.


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 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.


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 Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.


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 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they do not truly know Him that sent me.


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 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.


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 If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.


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 All this happens so that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law: They hated me without a cause.


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 And when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me.


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 They shall put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming, when whoever kills you shall think that he offers service to God.


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 But these things have I spoken to you, so that when the time comes, you may remember what I told you. And these things I did not say to you from the beginning, because I was with you.


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 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. I will send him to you.


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 And he, when he comes, will convict the world in respect of sin and of righteousness and of judgment.


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 However, when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he shall guide you into all the truth. For he shall not speak from himself; but whatever he shall hear, these shall he speak; and he shall declare to you the things that are to come.


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 All things, whatever the Father has, are mine. Therefore I said: that he shall take of mine and declare it to you. 


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 A little while, and you will see me no more; and then a little while, and you shall see me, because I go to the Father.


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 Some of his disciples questioned each other: What is this that he said to us? A little while and you will see me no more; and then a little while and you shall see me, because I go to the Father?


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 Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them: Do you inquire among yourselves what I said? A little while and you will see me no more, and then a little while and you shall see me?


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: You shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. You shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy!


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 A woman when she is in labour has sorrow, because her hour comes; but when she has delivered the child, she does not remember her anguish, because of her joy that a child is born into the world.


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 You now have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one will take away from you.


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 And in that day, you shall ask me no questions. Truly, truly, I say to you: If you shall ask anything of the Father, He will give it you in my name.


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 So far you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be made full.


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 These things have I spoken to you in figurative language. The hour comes, when I shall no longer speak to you in figurative language, but shall show you plainly about the Father.


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 In that day you shall ask in my name; and I do not say to you that I will pray to the Father for you.


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 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from the Father.


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 Now we are sure that you know all things, and do not need anyone to question you. By this we believe you came from God.


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 Behold, the hour comes, yes, has come, when you shall be scattered, every man to his own home, and you shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.


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 These things have I spoken to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.


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 Jesus' Prayer to God These things spoke Jesus, and lifting up his eyes to Heaven, he said: Father, the hour comes. Glorify Your son, that the son may glorify you,


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 even as You gave him authority over all flesh, so that he should give eternal life to all whom You have given him.


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 And this is everlasting life, that they should know You, the only true God, and him whom You sent, Jesus Christ.


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 And now Father, glorify me with Your own self with the glory which I had with You before the world was.


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 I manifested Your Name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were and You gave them to me, and they have kept Your word.


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 For the words which You gave me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew as a truth that I came forth from You; and they believed that You did send me.


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 I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for those whom You have given me; for they are Yours.


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 I am no more in the world; but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them whom You have given me in Your Name, that they may be one, even as we are one.


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 While I was with them, I kept them in Your Name which You have given me, and I guarded them; and not one of them perished except the son of perdition, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.


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 Now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.


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 I have given them Your word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.


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 I do not pray that You should take them out from the world, but that You should keep them from the evil.


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 that they may all be one, even as You, Father, are in me and I in You, that they may also be one in us; that the world may believe You did send me.


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 And the glory which You have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one.


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 I in them and You in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know You did send me and that You have loved them just as You loved me.


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 Father, I desire that they also whom You have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which You have given me. For You loved me from before the foundation of the world.


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 And I declared to them Your Name, and will declare it, so that the love with which You loved me may be in them, and I in them.


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 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples entered.


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 Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, also knew the place. For Jesus often met there with his disciples.


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 Judas along with a detachment of temple guards whom he had been given, and the servants of the chief priests, and the Pharisees, arrived there with lanterns and torches and weapons.


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 Jesus knowing all the things that must come upon him, went forward and said to them: Whom do you seek?


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 They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said to them: I am he (Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing with them).


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 Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus.


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 Jesus said to Peter: Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?


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 So the detachment of temple guards and their chief captain and the magistrates' attendants of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,


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 It was Caiaphas that had counselled the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.


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 Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest; and he entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest.


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 But Peter was standing outside the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the maid who kept watch at the door.


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 The maid keeping watch at the door said to Peter: Are you also one of this man's disciples? He said: I am not!


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 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals. For it was cold, and they were warming themselves; and Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.


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 Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I often taught in the synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and have never spoken in secret.


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 Why do you ask me? Ask those that have heard me what I spoke to them. Behold, these know the things which I said.


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 And when he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying: Do you answer the high priest so?


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 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him: Are you also one of his disciples? He denied and said: I am not!


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 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter cut off, said: Did I not see you in the garden with him?


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 They lead Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium; but it was early, and so they did not enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled and might eat the Passover.


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 They answered and said to him: If this man were not an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up to you.


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 Pilate replied to them: Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law. The Jews said to him: It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.


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 That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what manner of death he should die.


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 Pilate therefore went into the Praetorium and called Jesus, and said to him: Are you the King of the Jews?


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 Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?


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 Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews, but my kingdom is not from here.


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 Pilate replied to him: Are you a king then? Jesus answered: You say that I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end I came into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone that is of the truth hears my voice.


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 Pilate said to him: What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them: I find no crime in him!


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 But you have a custom, that I should release to you one prisoner at the Passover. Will you have me release to you the King of the Jews?


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 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple garment.


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 Pilate went out again to the Jews, and said: Look, I bring him out to you, so you may know that I find no crime in him.


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 Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And Pilate said to them: Behold the man!


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 When the chief priests and the servants saw him, they cried out: Crucify him! Crucify him! Pilate said to them: Take him yourselves and crucify him. For I find no crime in him.


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 The Jews answered him: We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.


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 And he went back into the Praetorium, and said to Jesus: Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer.


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 Pilate said to him: Why do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have the power to release you and have the power to crucify you?


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 Jesus answered him: You would have no power against me unless it was given to you from above. So the man that delivered me to you has the greater sin.


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 Upon this, Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying: If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone that makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!


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 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.


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 Now it was the preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour, and he said to the Jews: Behold, your King!


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 They cried out: Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him! Pilate said to them: Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar!


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 So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.


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 Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And there was written: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.


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 This title many of the Jews read, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin and in Greek.


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 The chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Do not write, The King of the Jews; but that: He claimed, I am King of the Jews.


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 The soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.


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 They said to each other, Let us not tear it but cast lots for it, to determine whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, which said: They divided my garments among them, and for my robe they cast lots.


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 These things the soldiers did. There was standing by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.


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 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother: Woman, behold your son!


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 Then he said to the disciple: Behold, your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.


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 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, so that the scripture might be accomplished, said: I thirst.


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 Nearby was a vessel full of vinegar. So they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon a hyssop stick, and held it to his mouth.


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 When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said: It is finished! And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.


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 The Jews, because it was the preparation day, and so that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the Sabbath (for the day of that Sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs be broken so that they might be taken away.


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 Therefore the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other that was crucified with him.


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 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out of his side.


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 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe.


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 For these things happened so that the scripture might be fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken.


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 And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. Therefore he came and took his body away.


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 And there came also Nicodemus, he who came to him at the first by night; but now he brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.


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 So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as it is the custom of the Jews to bury.


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 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb wherein no one had lain.


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 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.


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 She ran to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them: They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him!


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 and the napkin that had been upon his head, not lying with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself.


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 Then the other disciple also entered, he who had arrived first to the tomb; and he saw and believed.


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 But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb.


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 And she saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.


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 And they said to her: Woman, why do you weep? She said to them: Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.


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 When she had said this, she turned herself around and saw Jesus standing there; but did not know that it was Jesus.


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 Jesus said to her: Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek? She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him: Sir, if you have taken him from here, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.


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 Jesus said to her: Don't keep touching me; for I am not right now going to ascend to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them: I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.


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 Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples: I have seen the Lord! And she told them that he had said these things to her. 


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 When it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and for fear of the Jews, the doors were locked where the disciples were; and Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them: Peace to you.


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 And when he had said this, he showed to them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord.


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 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.


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 The other disciples told him: We have seen the Lord! But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.


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 Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them, and said: Peace to you.


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 Then he said to Thomas: Reach here your finger and see my hands, and reach here your hand and put it into my side; and be not faithless but believing.


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 Jesus said to him: Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are they that have not seen and have believed.


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 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in his name.


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 After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself in this way:


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 There was together Simon Peter and Thomas called Didymus and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee and the sons of Zebedee and another two of his disciples.


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 Simon Peter said to them: I am going fishing. They said to him: We will go with you. They went out and entered into the boat, and that night they caught nothing.


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 And he said to them: Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you shall find. There they cast their net; and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fish.


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 That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter: It is the Lord! So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat about him (for he was naked) and threw himself into the sea.


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 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, only about meters from shore), dragging the net full of fishes.


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 So when they reached the shore, they got out of the boat; and saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon and bread.


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 Simon Peter went up and dragged the net to land, full of large fish, one hundred and fifty three; and although there were so many, the net was not broken.


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 Jesus said to them: Come. Break your fast. And none of the disciples did inquire of him: Who are you? Knowing that it was the Lord.


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 This was the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, after he had risen from the dead. 


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 So when they had broken their fast, Jesus said to Simon: Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said to him: Yes, Lord. You know that I love you. He said to him: Feed my lambs.


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 He said to him, a second time: Simon, son of John, do you love me? He said to him: Yes, Lord. You know that I love you. He said to him: Tend my sheep.


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 He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he asked him a third time: Do you love me? And he said to him: Lord, you know all things. You know that I love you. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep.


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 Truly, truly, I say to you: When you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you shall be old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird you, and carry you where you do not wish to go.


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 Now this he spoke, signifying by what manner of death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he said to him: Follow me.


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 Peter, turning about, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following- he who had leaned back on his breast at the supper and asked: Lord, who is he that betrays you?


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 This saying therefore went forth among the brothers, that that disciple should not die. Yet Jesus did not say to himthat he should not die, but: If I will that he remains till I come, what is that to you?


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 This is the disciple that testifies of these things and wrote these things; and we know that his witness is true.


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 And there are many other things which Jesus did, which if each one of them should be written down, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written.


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 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.


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 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going down to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, in order to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.


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 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.


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 Then the sailors were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship and he was laying down, deeply asleep.


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 So the captain came to him and said to him, What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will look to us so that we won't perish.


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 They all said to each other, Come, let's cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.


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 Then they asked him, Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?


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 He said to them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.


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 Then were the men extremely afraid and said to him, What is this that you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.


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 Then they said to him, What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? For the sea grew more and more stormy.


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 He said to them, Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.


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 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.


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 Therefore they cried to Yahweh and said, We beg you Yahweh, we beg you, don't let us die for the sake of this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased You.


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 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


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 He said, I called because of my affliction to Yahweh and He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice,


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 for You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas. The water was all around me. All Your waves and Your breakers passed over me.


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 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me, the weeds were wrapped around my head.


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 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth barred me in forever: yet have You brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.


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 When my soul ebbed away within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to You, into Your holy temple.


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 But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving, I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.


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 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.


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 Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out and said, In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!


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 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.


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 The news reached the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.


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 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;


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 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.


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 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we might not perish?


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 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which He said He would do to them, and He didn't do it.


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 Jonah Angry Because of God's Compassion on Nineveh But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.


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 He prayed to Yahweh and said, Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee away to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and You relent of doing harm.


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 Therefore now Yahweh, take, I beg You, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.


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 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a shelter, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.


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 Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was very glad because of the vine.


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 It happened that when the sun arose, God prepared a hot east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


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 God said to Jonah, Is it right for you to be angry about the vine? He said, I am right to be angry, even to death.


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 Yahweh said, You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.


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 Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?


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 After the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' servant, saying,


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 Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I give to them, even to the children of Israel.


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 From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.


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 No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.


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 Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.


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 Only be strong and very courageous to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don't turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.


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 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein. Thus you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.


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 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go. 


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 Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, "Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess'.


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 Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you saying, "Yahweh your God will give you rest, and will give you this land.


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 Your wives, your little ones and your livestock shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but all your mighty men of valour shall pass over before your brothers, armed, and shall help them


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 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as He has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and settle it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise'.


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 They answered Joshua saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.


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 Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you as He was with Moses.


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 Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn't listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.


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 Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, Go, view the land, including Jericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.


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 The king of Jericho was told, Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land!


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 The king of Jericho sent to Rahab saying, Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.


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 The woman took the two men and concealed them. Then she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I don't know where they came from.


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 It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I don't know. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.


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 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them under the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.


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 The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.


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 and she said to the men, I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.


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 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.


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 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man because of you; for Yahweh your God, He is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.


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 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token.


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 Please save alive my father, my mother, my brothers and my sisters and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.


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 The men said to her, Our life for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.


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 Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.


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 She said to them, Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go on your way.


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 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers and all your father's household.


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 It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.


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 But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.


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 She said, According to your words, so be it. She sent them away, and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window.


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 They left and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.


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 Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them.


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 They said to Joshua, Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the land. Furthermore, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us!


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 Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over.


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 and they commanded the people saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.


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 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don't come near to it, that you may know the path to follow; for you have not passed this way before.


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 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and walk in front of the people. They took up the ark of the covenant, and walked ahead of the people.


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 Yahweh said to Joshua, Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.


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 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant saying, "When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan'.


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 Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite from before you.


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 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.


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 It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in a heap.


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 It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, that the priests who bore the ark of the covenant walked in front of the people.


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 When those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest)


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 that the waters which came down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.


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 The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. Then, all the people of Israel passed over the Jordan on dry ground.


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 and command them saying, "Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the resting place where you will rest tonight'.


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 Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man.


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 Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel.


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 This will be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come saying, "What do you mean by these stones?'


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 then you shall tell them, "Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off'. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.


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 The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.


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 Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood. They are there to this day.


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 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.


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 It happened, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh passed over with the priests, while the people watched.


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 The children of Reuben, the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken to them.


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 About forty thousand men prepared and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.


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 On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.


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 When the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks as before.


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 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.


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 He spoke to the children of Israel saying, When your children ask their fathers in time to come saying, "What do these stones mean?'


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 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you had passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea which He dried up from before us, until we had passed over;


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 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever'.


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 It happened that when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more because of the children of Israel.


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 At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.


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 Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.


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 This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who were males who came out of Egypt, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness in the way after they came out of Egypt.


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 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.


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 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed; because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that He wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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 Their children whom He raised up in their place were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.


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 It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation, that they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.


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 Yahweh said to Joshua, Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day.


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 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.


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 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in that day.


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 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any more; but they ate the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. 


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 It happened that when Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?


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 He said, No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's army. Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshipped and said to him, What does my lord say to his servant?


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 The prince of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, Take your shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy. Joshua did so.


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 Now Jericho was closely shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.


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 Yahweh said to Joshua, Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valour.


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 All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.


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 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.


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 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout. The wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.


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 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh.


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 They said to the people, Go, march around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark. 


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 It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.


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 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.


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 Joshua commanded the people saying, You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you "Shout!' Then you shall shout.


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 So he caused the ark of Yahweh to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp and lodged in the camp.


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 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh. The trumpets sounded as they went.


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 The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.


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 It happened on the seventh day that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.


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 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people, Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!


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 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.


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 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing. That would make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.


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 But all the silver and gold, and the vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's treasury.


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 So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It happened that when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him; and they took the city.


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 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.


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 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her.


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 The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them outside the camp of Israel.


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 They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh's house.


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 But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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 Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed before Yahweh is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.


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 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi the son of Zabdi the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh's anger burned against the children of Israel.


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 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai.


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 They returned to Joshua and said to him, Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don't make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.


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 The men of Ai struck about thirty-six of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted and became like water.


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 Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.


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 Joshua said, Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have You brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!


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 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will You do for Your great name?


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 Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.


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 Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.


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 Get up! Sanctify the people and say, "Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because Yahweh the God of Israel says, There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.


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 "In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.


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 It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel'.


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 So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.


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 He brought near the family of Judah; and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.


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 He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.


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 Joshua said to Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh the God of Israel, and make confession to Him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!


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 Achan answered Joshua and said, I have truly sinned against Yahweh the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.


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 When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.


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 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.


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 They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.


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 Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.


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 Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.


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 They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Achor to this day.


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 Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.


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 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.


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 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valour, and sent them out by night.


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 He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don't go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.


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 I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, we will flee before them.


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 They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, "They flee before us, like the first time'. So we will flee before them,


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 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.


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 It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the word of Yahweh. Behold, I have commanded you.


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 Joshua sent them out; and they went to prepare the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.


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 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, at the head of the people to Ai.


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 All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and drew near to the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.


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 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and the ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.


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 It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.


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 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.


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 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.


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 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.


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 Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.


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 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.


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 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.


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 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.


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 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, some on that side. They struck them so that they let none of them remain or escape.


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 It happened that when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.


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 For Joshua didn't draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.


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 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which He commanded Joshua.


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 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day. 


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 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings.


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 He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.


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 All Israel, their elders and officers and their judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the priests the Levites who carried the ark of Yahweh's covenant, the foreigner as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, for the blessing of the people of Israel.


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 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.


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 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.


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 When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it,


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 they in their turn resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,


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 and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.


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 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.


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 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?


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 They said to Joshua, We are your servants. Joshua said to them, Who are you? Where do you come from?


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 They said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of His fame, all that He did in Egypt,


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 and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan who was at Ashtaroth.


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 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us saying, "Take provision in your hand for the journey and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us'.


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 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become mouldy.


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 These wineskins which we filled were new; and behold, now they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.


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 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore an oath to them.


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 It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they lived among them.


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 The children of Israel travelled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.


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 The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.


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 But all the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.


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 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.


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 The princes said to them, Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.


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 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them saying, Why did you deceive us by saying, "We are very far from you', when you live among us?


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 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.


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 They answered Joshua and said, Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.


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 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.


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 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which He should choose.


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 Adoni-Zedek Organizes Opposition to the Israelites Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; and that as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them.


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 The people of Jerusalem were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.


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 Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish and to Debir king of Eglon saying,


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 Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.


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 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon and made war against it.


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 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal saying, Don't abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.


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 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.


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 Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.


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 Yahweh confused them before Israel, and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.


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 It happened that as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword. 


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 Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!


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 The sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day.


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 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.


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 but don't stay. Pursue your enemies, and attack their rearguard. Don't allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.


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 It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,


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 that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.


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 They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.


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 It happened that when they brought those kings out to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings. They came near, and put their feet on their necks.


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 Joshua said to them, Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.


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 Afterward Joshua put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They hung on the trees until the evening.


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 It happened at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day. Joshua's Lightning Campaign 


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 Joshua took Makkedah on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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 Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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 Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.


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 Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.


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 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.


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 Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and fought against it.


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 They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.


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 They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.


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 He took it, with its king and all its towns. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah and to its king.


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 So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh the God of Israel commanded.


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 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.


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 It happened that when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph


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 and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,


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 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.


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 They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.


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 All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.


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 Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.


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 So Joshua and all the people of war with him suddenly came against them by the waters of Merom, and fell on them.


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 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and chased them to great Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they left them none remaining.


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 Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burnt their chariots with fire.


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 Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.


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 They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burnt Hazor with fire.


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 Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.


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 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only; Joshua burned that one.


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 The children of Israel took all the spoil of these cities, with the livestock, as spoils for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn't leave any who breathed.


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 Summary of Joshua's Victories As Yahweh had commanded Moses His servant, so Moses had commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.


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 So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;


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 from Mount Halak that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them and put them to death.


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 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.


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 For Yahweh hardened their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that He might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favour, but that He might destroy them, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.


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 Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.


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 There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did some remain.


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 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.


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 Now these are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward.


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 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;


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 and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:


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 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,


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 and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.


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 Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 


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 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;


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 in the mountains, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite:


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 Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.


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 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,


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 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;


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 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;


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 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.


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 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.


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 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance which Moses had given them beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:


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 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;


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 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;


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 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;


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 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.


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 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the Geshurites nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.


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 Only He gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The sacrifices of Yahweh the God of Israel made by fire are his inheritance, as He spoke to him.


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 Their border was from Aroer that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;


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 all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.


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 The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor the soothsayer with the sword, among the rest of their slain.


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 The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.


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 Their border was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;


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 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan's bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.


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 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and villages.


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 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.


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 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities.


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 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.


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 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.


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 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. Yahweh, the God of Israel, was their inheritance, as He had told them.


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 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,


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 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.


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 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.


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 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except towns to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and for their property.


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 Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.


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 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.


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 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.


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 Moses swore on that day saying, "Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God'.


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 Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive as He spoke these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old today.


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 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.


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 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It will surely be that Yahweh will be with me and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke.


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 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because he wholly followed Yahweh the God of Israel.


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 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.


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 The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.


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 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;


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 and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.


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 The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.


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 The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.


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 The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.


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 The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of the Rephaim northward.


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 The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim);


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 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;


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 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.


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 The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families. 


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 To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).


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 Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.


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 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.


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 It happened that she came to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey, and Caleb said, What do you want?


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 She said, Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. 


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 The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,


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 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.


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 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn't drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.


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 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.


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 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower as far as Gezer; and ended at the sea.


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 This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was from Ataroth Addar to Beth Horon the upper.


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 The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.


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 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;


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 together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.


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 They didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and became servants to do forced labour.


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 This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.


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 So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.


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 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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 They came near before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun and before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers. Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.


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 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.


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 The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.


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 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.


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 The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.


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 Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.


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 Within the territories of Issachar and Asher, Manasseh possessed Beth Shan and Ibleam, along with their surrounding towns, as well as Dor (the one on the coast), Endor, Taanach, Megiddo, and their surrounding towns.


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 Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites continued to dwell in that land. 


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 It happened that when the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labour, and didn't utterly drive them out.


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 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua saying, Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I am a great people, because Yahweh has blessed me so far?


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 Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.


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 The children of Joseph said, The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.


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 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh saying, You are a great people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;


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 but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it shall be yours from one end to the other; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.


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 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.


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 Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet been assigned their inheritance.


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 Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long will you delay possession of the land, which Yahweh the God of your fathers has given you?


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 Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall go through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.


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 They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north.


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 You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.


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 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.


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 The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land saying, Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.


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 The men passed through the land, and recorded it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.


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 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions. 


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 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.


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 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward and ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.


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 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel) southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.


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 The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.


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 The southern side began at the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.


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 The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of the Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.


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 It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.


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 The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.


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 The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, boundary by boundary all around, according to their families.


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 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,


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 Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.


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 The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.


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 and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.


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 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.


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 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.


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 Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.


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 It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.


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 From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and going on to Rimmon it bent toward Neah.


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 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages. 


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 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.


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 The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.


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 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages. 


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 It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand,


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 The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib;


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 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.


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 Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan.


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 The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.


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 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages. 


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 The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword and possessed it and lived therein, and called it Leshem Dan after the name of Dan their father.


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 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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 So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in their midst.


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 According to the commandment of Yahweh, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.


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 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land.


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 Speak to the children of Israel saying, "Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,


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 that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.


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 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them and give him a place, that he may live among them.


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 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbour unintentionally, and didn't hate him beforehand.


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 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from'.


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 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.


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 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.


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 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.


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 Then the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.


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 They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for our livestock.


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 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.


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 The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin.


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 The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.


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 The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.


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 The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.


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 The children of Israel gave these cities with their suburbs by lot to the Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.


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 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name.


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 They were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.


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 They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its suburbs around it.


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 But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.


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 To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah with its suburbs,


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 Ain with its suburbs, Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.


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 The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.


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 They gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,


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 Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.


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 They gave to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah with its suburbs; two cities.


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 Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.


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 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.


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 To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, Kartah with its suburbs,


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 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,


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 All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.


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 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.


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 So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which He swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.


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 Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that He swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.


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 and said to them, You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.


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 You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty commanded by Yahweh your God.


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 Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.


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 Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but to the other half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents he blessed them


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 and spoke to them saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, gold, brass, iron and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.


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 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.


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 When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.


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 The children of Israel heard a report that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh had built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel.


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 When the children of Israel confirmed this, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.


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 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead. They sent Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,


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 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.


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 They came to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them saying,


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 Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, "What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?


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 Is the iniquity of Peor of little consequence for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,


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 that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.


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 However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God.


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 Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, causing wrath to fall on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn't perish alone in his iniquity'.


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 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,


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 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, He knows; and Israel shall know if it was in rebellion, or in trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day).


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 He knows whether we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or sacrifices of peace offerings. Let Yahweh Himself decide


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 if we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, "In time to come your children might speak to our children saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?


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 For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh'. So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.


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 Therefore we said, "Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;


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 but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings;' that your children may not tell our children in time to come, "You have no portion in Yahweh'.


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 Therefore we said, "It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you'.


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 Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, thus turning away this day from following Yahweh to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, in competition with the altar of Yahweh our God that is before His tabernacle!


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 When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.


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 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, Today we know that Yahweh is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh.


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 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.


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 The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up to destroy in warfare the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.


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 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar "A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God'.


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 Joshua's Parting Speech to Israel It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,


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 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, their heads, their judges and for their officers and said to them, I am old and well advanced in years.


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 You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.


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 Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.


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 Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.


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 Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;


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 that you not mingle with these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;


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 For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.


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 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as He spoke to you.


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 But if you do at all mix with and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you;


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 know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.


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 Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you, not one thing has failed of it.


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 It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things until He has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,


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 if you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down yourselves to them. Then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which He has given to you.


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 A Summary of Israel's History Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.


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 Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, "Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.


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 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.


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 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau. I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.


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 I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt according to that which I did in its midst: and afterward I brought you out.


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 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.


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 When they cried out to Yahweh, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt; and you lived in the wilderness many days.


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 I brought you into the land of the Amorites that lived beyond the Jordan; and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.


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 Then Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;


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 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.


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 You went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.


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 I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.


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 I gave you a land whereon you had not laboured, and cities which you didn't build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant. 


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 Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh.


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 If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. As for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.


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 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.


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 Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for He is our God.


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 Joshua said to the people, You can't serve Yahweh; for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.


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 If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you evil and consume you, after He has done you good.


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 Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you yourselves have chosen Yahweh, to serve Him. They said, We are witnesses.


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 Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.


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 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.


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 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.


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 Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which He spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.


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 It happened that, after these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred and ten years old.


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 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.


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 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work of Yahweh that He had worked for Israel.


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 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.


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 Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.


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 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those that are called; beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ.


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 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you, urging you to contend earnestly for the faith which was delivered once and for all to his saints.


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 For there are certain people who have crept in secretly, who long ago were designated for condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 


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 Now I desire to have you remember (as you know all things already) that the Lord having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that did not believe.


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 And the angels which did not keep to their own domain, who left their proper abode, He has kept in everlasting bonds, under darkness, to the judgment of the great day.


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 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, these gave themselves over to fornication and went after strange flesh. Such are given as an example. All of them suffered the punishment of eternal fire.


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 But Michael the archangel, when contending with the Devil in dispute about the body of Moses, does not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said: The Lord rebuke you.


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 But these revile whatever things they do not see with their eyes or cannot examine naturally. They are like the beasts without reason. In these things are they destroyed.


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 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. 


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 These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves. Clouds without water, carried along by winds, autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;


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 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.


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 And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of His holy ones,


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 to execute judgment upon all and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.


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 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks great swelling words), showing respect of persons for the sake of personal advantage.


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 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken previously by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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 how they said to you: In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.


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 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.


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 And others save, snatching them out of the fire; and on some, have mercy with fear, hating even the underclothing stained by the flesh.


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 Now to him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of His glory without blemish in exceeding joy,


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 to the only God, our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now and for always in the future. Amen.


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 After the death of Joshua the children of Israel asked Yahweh, Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?


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 Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my designated portion so that we can fight against the Canaanites, and I likewise will go with you into yours. So Simeon went with him.


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 Judah went up and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hand. They killed ten thousand men in Bezek.


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 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they killed the Canaanites and the Perizzites.


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 Adoni-Bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. They brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.


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 The men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and took it, putting it to the sword, and set the city on fire.


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 Afterwards the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the South and in the lowland.


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 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba), and they struck Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.


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 Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.


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 When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field, and she alighted from off her donkey and Caleb said to her, What would you like?


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 She said to him, Give me a blessing, for that you have set me in the land of the South; give me also springs of water. Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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 The descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the men of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad, and they went and lived with those people.


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 Judah went with Simeon his brother and they attacked the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed the town. The name of the town was Hormah.


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 Yahweh was with Judah and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country, for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron.


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 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had promised, and he drove out from there the three sons of Anak.


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 The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.


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 The spies saw a man come out of the city and they said to him, Please show us the entrance into the city and we will deal kindly with you.


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 He showed them the entrance into the city and they put the city to the sword, but they let the man go and all his family.


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 The man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.


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 Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements; the Canaanites continued to dwell in that land.


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 When Israel had grown strong they put the Canaanites to forced labour and did not utterly drive them out.


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 Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.


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 Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or Nahalol, but the Canaanites lived among them and became subject to forced labour.


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 but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.


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 Naphtali didn't drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath, but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land who became subject to forced labour.


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 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley,


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 but the Amorites continued to dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labour.


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 An Angel Warns the People The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, I brought you up out of Egypt and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers, and I said, "I will never break My covenant with you,


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 and you must make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; break down their altars'. But you have not listened to My voice; why have you done this?


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 Therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you.


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 When the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.


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 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.


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 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that He had worked for Israel.


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 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnah Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.


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 Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel. 


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 They forsook Yahweh the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods of the peoples who were around them and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.


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 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel and He delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them, and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.


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 Wherever they went the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.


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 Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, who had obeyed the commandments of Yahweh. They didn't do so.


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 When Yahweh raised up judges for them, Yahweh was with the judge and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for it grieved Yahweh because of their distress because of the oppression.


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 But when the judge was dead they turned back and behaved more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn't cease from their evil practices or from their stubborn ways.


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 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel and He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to Me,


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 So by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein as their fathers did, or not.


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 So Yahweh left those nations without driving them out quickly and didn't deliver them into the hand of Joshua.


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 Now these are the nations which Yahweh left to test Israel, those who had not known all the wars of Canaan,


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 so that the later generations of the children of Israel might learn battle experience, those who before knew nothing of it:


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 the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites, the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.


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 They were left to test Israel, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of Yahweh which He commanded their fathers by Moses.


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 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites,


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 and they took their daughters to be their wives and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.


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 The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asherahs.


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 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel and He sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. The Israelites served Cushan Rishathaim for eight years. 


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 When the Israelites cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a saviour for them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.


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 The Spirit of Yahweh came on him and he judged Israel. He went out to war and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.


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 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of Yahweh.


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 He gathered to him the Ammonites and Amalek and he went and struck Israel; and they took possession of the city of palm trees.


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 But when the Israelites cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a saviour for them, Ehud the son of Gera the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.


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 Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.


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 but he himself turned back from the idols that were by Gilgal and said, I have a secret errand to you, king. The king said, Keep silence! All his attendants left him.


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 Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. He arose out of his seat.


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 The handle also went in after the blade and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn't draw the sword out of his body, and it came out behind.


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 Now when he had gone out, the servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked, and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room.


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 They waited until they were ashamed; but still he didn't open the doors of the upper room, therefore they took the key and opened them and behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.


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 When he had arrived, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hill country, and he went before them.


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 He said to them Follow me, for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. They followed him and took the fords of the Jordan opposite the Moabites and didn't allow any man to pass over.


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 They struck down about ten thousand Moabite men at that time, every strong man and every man of valour, and none escaped.


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 After him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred Philistine men with an ox goad, and he also saved Israel.


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 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan who reigned in Hazor, the captain of whose army was Sisera who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.


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 The Israelites cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred iron chariots, and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.


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 She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came up to her for judgment.


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 She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali and said to him, Hasn't Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded "Go to Mount Tabor and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and Zebulun?


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 I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera the captain of Jabin's army with his chariots and his multitude, and I will deliver him into your hand'.


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 Barak said to her, If you will go with me then I will go, but if you will not go with me I will not go.


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 She said, I will surely go with you; nevertheless the journey that you take will not be for your honour, for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.


text:
 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh and he went with ten thousand men following him; and Deborah went with him.


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 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the oak in Zaanannim which is by Kedesh.


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 Sisera gathered together all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles to the river Kishon.


text:
 Deborah said to Barak, Go, for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn't Yahweh gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him.


text:
 Yahweh routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the sword before Barak, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.


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 But Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles, and all the army of Sisera fell by the sword; there was not a man left. 


text:
 However Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.


text:
 Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don't be afraid. He came in to her into the tent and she covered him with a rug.


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 He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty. She opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.


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 He said to her, Stand at the door of the tent and when any man comes and asks you "Is there any man here?' say "No'.


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 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand and went quietly to him and hammered the peg into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he died.


text:
 As Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him and said to him, Come and I will show you the man whom you seek. He came to her and there lay Sisera, dead; and the tent peg was in his temples.


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 The hand of the Israelites prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan until they had destroyed him.


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 Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, blessed be Yahweh!


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 Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh the God of Israel.


text:
 Yahweh, when You went forth out of Seir, when You marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured. Yes, the clouds poured down water.


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 The mountains melted at the presence of Yahweh, even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh the God of Israel.


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 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted, the travellers walked through byways.


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 The rulers ceased to rule in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; until I arose, a mother in Israel.


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 They chose new gods, therefore war came to the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?


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 My heart is with the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!


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 Far from the noise of archers, in the watering places, there they will recite the righteous acts of Yahweh, the righteous acts of His rule in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.


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 "Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam'.


