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The earth shall be utterly broken down; the earth is clean dissolved; the earth is moved exceedingly.


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The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage; and its transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and never rise again.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the LORD shall visit [punishment] upon the host of the high ones [that are] on high and upon the kings of the earth upon the earth.


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And they shall be gathered together [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they shall be visited.


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Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of the hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and in the presence of his ancients he shall be glorious.:


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O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee; I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonders, the counsels of old, the truth unchanging.


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That thou hast turned the city into a heap; the defenced city into [a] ruin: the palace of strangers to not be [a] city; it shall never be rebuilt.


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For thou hast been strength to the poor, strength to the needy in his distress, refuge from the storm, shadow from the heat, for the force of the violent [is] as a storm [against] the wall.


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As the heat in a dry place, thou shalt bring down the pride of the strangers; [even as] with heat [that burns] beneath [a] cloud, thou shalt cause the offshoot of the stout ones to wither.


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And in this mountain the LORD of the hosts shall make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of purified wines, of fat things full of marrow, of purified liquids.


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And he will undo in this mountain the mask of the covering with which all the peoples are covered and the veil that is extended over all the Gentiles.


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He will destroy death forever; and the Lord GOD shall wipe away every tear from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people he shall take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has determined [it].


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And it shall be said in that day, Behold, this [is] our God, whom we have waited for, and he has saved us: this [is] the LORD, whom we have waited for, we will be glad and rejoice in his saving health.


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For in this mountain the hand of the LORD shall rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.


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And he shall extend his hand in the midst of him as he that swims spreads forth [his hand] to swim: and he shall bring down his pride with the members of his hands


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and lay siege to the fortress of thy high walls; he shall humble it and bring it down to the ground, [even] to the dust.:


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In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; [God] has appointed saving health [for] walls and bulwarks.


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Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusts in thee.


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For he has brought down those that dwelt on high; he has humbled the lofty city; he humbled her, [even] to the ground; he brought her down [even] to the dust.


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Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, we wait for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name and to the remembrance of thee.


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With my soul I desire thee in the night; [yea], even as long as the spirit is within me I will seek thee early: for as long as thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.


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Let favour be showed to the wicked, [yet] will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.


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LORD, [when] thy hand is withdrawn, they will not see: [but] they shall see in the end and be ashamed with the zeal of the people. And fire shall consume thine enemies.


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O LORD our God, [other] lords have had dominion over us without thee: [but] in thee only will we remember thy name.


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[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise because thou hast visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish.


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Thou hast added the Gentiles, O LORD, thou hast added the Gentiles: thou hast made thyself glorious: thou hast extended thyself [unto] all the ends of the earth.


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LORD, in the tribulation they have sought thee, they poured out prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.


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Like as a woman with child, [that] draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] cries out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.


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We have conceived, we have had birth pangs; we have, as it were, brought forth wind; we have not wrought any health in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.


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Thy dead shall live, and [together with] my body they shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the covering of light, and the earth shall cast out the dead.


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Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment until the indignation is overpast.


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For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against himself: the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no longer cover her slain.:


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In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall visit [punishment] upon leviathan the fleeing serpent, and upon leviathan that serpent of double vision; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.


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I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [the enemy] visit it, I will keep it night and day.


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Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would tread them down, I would burn them together.


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[Days] shall come when Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and the face of the world shall be filled with fruit.


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In measure, she shall be chastised in her stalks: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.


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Therefore, in this manner shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [shall be] all the fruit, the removal of his sin; when [he] shall return all the stones of the altar, as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder that they may not raise up the groves, or the images of the sun.


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Otherwise the defenced city [shall be] made desolate, [and] the habitation shall be forsaken and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and consume the branches thereof.


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When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: women shall come [and] set them on fire: for this [is] not a people of understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the LORD shall smite from the channel of the river [Euphrates] unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye sons of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the great shofar shall be blown, and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt shall come and worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.:


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Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim and to the open flower of the beauty of their glory which [is] upon the head of the fertile valley of those that are overcome with wine!


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Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one [who] as a tempest of hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing shall cast down to the earth with the hand.


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And the fading flower of the beauty of their glory, which [is] upon the head of the fertile valley, shall be as the early fig, which [comes] first [before the other fruits] of the summer; which [when] he that looks upon it sees it; [as soon as he] has it in his hand, he eats it up.


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In that day the LORD of the hosts shall be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people,


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And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits upon [the throne of] judgment, and for strength to those that turn the battle to the gate.


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But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.


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Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [Those that are] weaned from the milk [and] drawn from the breasts.


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For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:


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To whom he said, This [is] the rest [with which] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.


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But the word of the LORD shall be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken.


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Therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that have taken rule over this people which [is] in Jerusalem.


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Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood we have hid ourselves:


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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.


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Judgment also will I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.


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And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.


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From the time that it goes forth, it shall take you: for it shall come suddenly, by day and by night: and it shall be that the terror only causes [one to] understand the report.


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For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it]: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it].


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For the LORD shall rise up as [in] Mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.


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Now therefore do not be mockers lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of the hosts that consumption and destruction [are determined] upon the whole earth.


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When he has levelled the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches and scatter the cummin and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?


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For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod.


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Grain is thrashed [to make bread]; but he will not ever be threshing it, nor shall he grind [it] with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with the teeth [of his thrashing instrument].


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This also comes forth from the LORD of the hosts to make [his] counsel wonderful, and to increase wisdom.:


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Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye one year to another; the lambs shall cease.


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Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.


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And I will camp against thee round about and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.


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And thou shalt be brought down [and] shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be as that of a spiritist, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.


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Moreover the multitude of thy enemies [that shall come from afar] shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the strong ones [shall be] as chaff that passes away: [yea], it shall be at an instant suddenly.


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Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of the hosts with thunders, with earthquakes, and with great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.


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And the multitude of all the Gentiles that shall fight against Ariel, even all that shall fight against her and their siege weapons, and those that shall distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.


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It shall even be as he who dreams that he is hungry, and in his dream, he eats; but when he awakes, his soul [is] empty; and [as] he who dreams that he is thirsty, and, in his dream, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul [is still] thirsty: so shall the multitude of all the Gentiles be, that shall fight against Mount Zion.


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Become ye dumb, and make others dumb; become ye blind, and blind others: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.


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For the LORD has extended upon you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, he has covered the seers with sleep.


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And every vision is unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which if it were delivered to one that knows how to read, saying, Read this, I pray thee: he shall say, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:


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And if the book were delivered to him that does not know how to read, saying, Read this, I pray thee: he shall say, I do not know how to read.


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Therefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people sacrifice unto me and honour me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, and their worship with which they honour me was taught by the commandment of men:


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Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvellous [work among] this people with [a] fearful miracle: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the prudence of their prudent [men] shall fade away.


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Woe unto those that hide themselves from the LORD, covering the counsel; and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?


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Surely your subversion shall be as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He did not make me? or shall the vessel say of him that made it, He did not understand?


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[Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into Carmel [a fruitful field], and shall not Carmel be esteemed as a forest?


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And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see in the midst of darkness, and of gross darkness.


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Then the humble shall grow in joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.


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For the violent one shall be done away with, and the scorner shall be consumed, and all those that rose early unto iniquity shall be cut off:


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Those that made men to sin in word; those that laid a snare for him that reproved in the gate, and turned that which is just into vanity.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD, who ransomed Abraham, unto the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale;


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for he shall see his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel;


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and those that erred in spirit shall learn understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.:


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Woe to the sons that leave, saith the LORD, to make counsel, but not of me; to cover themselves with a covering, and not by my spirit, adding sin unto sin!


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They leave to descend into Egypt and have not [asked for a word from] my mouth, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and to place their hope in the shadow of Egypt.


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But the strength of Pharaoh shall become your shame, and the hope in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion.


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all shall be ashamed of the people [that] shall not profit them, nor be a help, nor bring them increase, but a shame, and also a reproach.


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The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent; they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit [them].


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For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose; therefore I have cried [out] concerning this that your strength [should be] to sit still.


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Now go, write this [vision] before them on a tablet and note it in a book that it may remain unto the last day, for ever, unto all ages.


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That this [is] a rebellious people, lying sons, sons [that] did not desire to hear the law of the LORD:


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Who say to those that see, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy right things unto us, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:


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Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to leave our presence.


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Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in violence and perversity and build upon this:


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Therefore this sin shall be to you as an open [wall] ready to fall and as a breach in a high defence, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.


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And your destruction shall be as the breaking of [a] potter's vessel that without mercy is broken to pieces so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it even a shard to take fire from the hearth or to take water from [the] well.


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For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel has said; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.


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But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be even more swift.


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One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five ye shall [all] flee: until ye are left as a mast upon the top of a mountain and as a banner [of example] on a hill.


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And therefore will the LORD wait [for you], that he may have mercy on you, and therefore will he be exalted having mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all those that wait for him.


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For the people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he who has mercy shall show mercy unto thee; at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.


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But the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction; thy rain shall never more be taken away, but thine eyes shall see thy rain:


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Then thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, that ye not turn to the right hand and that ye not turn to the left hand.


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Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver and the protection of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Go away from here.


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Then he shall give the rain unto thy planting when thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the fruit of the earth, and it shall be fat and fertile: in that day thy cattle shall feed in large pastures.


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Thine oxen and thine asses that work the ground shall eat clean grain, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.


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And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall fall.


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Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people and heals the stroke of their wound.


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Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar; his face is blazing and difficult to gaze upon: his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire:


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And his Spirit, as an overflowing stream, shall break even unto the neck to sift the Gentiles with the sieve of vanity and [to put a] bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.


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Ye shall have a song, as in [the] night [in which] the Passover is kept and gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute to come into the mountain of the LORD to the mighty One of Israel.


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And the LORD shall cause the power of his voice to be heard and shall cause the lighting down of his arm to be seen, with the indignation of [his] countenance and [with] the flame of a devouring fire, [with] scattering and tempest and hailstones.


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And [in] every [evil] place there shall be a staff that the LORD shall cause to lay upon him with tambourines and harps: and with [the] strength of heaven he will fight against her.


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For Tophet [is] ordained of yesterday for the king [of Babylon], it is also prepared; he has deepened [and] enlarged the pile of her fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD like a stream of brimstone kindles it.:


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Woe to those that go down to Egypt for help; and trust in horses and place their hope in chariots because [they are] many and in horsemen, because they are valiant, but they did not look unto the Holy One of Israel, neither did they seek the LORD!


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Yet he also [is] wise to guide evil and will not cause his words to lie but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the help of those that work iniquity.


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Now the Egyptian is a man, and not God and his horses flesh, and not spirit, so that as the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helps shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they shall all fail together.


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For thus has the LORD spoken unto me, Like the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, even if a multitude of shepherds come forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voices, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of the hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion and for his hill.


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As birds flying, so will the LORD of the hosts defend Jerusalem; defending, delivering, passing over, and saving [it].


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For in that day [every] man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you as a sin.


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Then the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the presence of the sword, and his young men shall faint.


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And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, saith the LORD, unto whom [there is] fire in Zion, and unto whom [there is a] furnace in Jerusalem.:


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And that Man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry [place], as the shadow of a great rock in a hot land.


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The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.


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For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will invent iniquity to work unrighteousness and to speak scornfully against the LORD, leaving the soul of the hungry empty and taking away the drink of the thirsty.


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Certainly the greedy [use] evil measures: he devises wicked devices to ensnare the simple with lying words and to speak in judgment [against] the poor.


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Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, and the harvest shall not come in.


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Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make yourselves bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins.


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Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; even upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:


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Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the noise of the city shall cease; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;


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until the spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness is turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is counted for a forest.


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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness rest and security for ever.


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And my people shall dwell in a habitation of peace and in secure dwellings and in the refreshing of rest.


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And the hail, when it shall come down, [shall be] in the forest; and the city shall be completely laid low.


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Woe to thee that dost spoil, and thou [wast] not spoiled; and dost deal treacherously, and they did not deal treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; [and] when thou shalt make an end to dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.


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O LORD, have mercy on us; we wait for thee: [thou] wert the strength of thy people in the beginning, be also our saving health in the time of tribulation.


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At the noise of the tumult the peoples fled; at the lifting up of thyself the Gentiles were scattered.


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And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.


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The LORD shall be exalted; he who dwells on the heights: [for] he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.


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And in thy times wisdom and knowledge, and the strength of salvation shall reign: the fear of the LORD [shall be] his treasure.


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The highways shall be broken down; the travellers shall cease; he has broken the covenant; he has despised the cities; he does not regard man.


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The earth mourns [and] languishes: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel were shaken.


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And the peoples shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.


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The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with eternal flames?


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He that walks in righteousness, he that speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of violence, he that shakes his hands from receiving bribes; he that stops his ears to not hear of blood; he who shuts his eyes to not see evil;


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he shall dwell upon the high places: fortresses of rocks shall be his place of refuge: bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.


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Thine heart shall imagine the terror. Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the receiver [of tribute]? Where [is] he that counted the towers?


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Thou shalt not see that fierce people, a people of a darker speech than thou can perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou can] not understand.


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Thou shalt see Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken.


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For the LORD shall surely be strong unto us there, a place of broad rivers [and] wide streams in which no galley with oars shall go, neither shall [any] great ship pass thereby.


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For the LORD [shall be] our judge, the LORD [shall be] our lawgiver, the LORD shall be our king; he himself will save us.


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Thy tacklings are loosed; they did not strengthen well their mast, nor could they spread the sail: then the prey of a great spoil shall be divided; [even] the lame shall take prey.


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And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] absolved from sin.:


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Come near, ye Gentiles, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples; let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world and all things that come forth of it.


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For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all the Gentiles, and [his] fury upon the entire army of them; he shall destroy them and deliver them to the slaughter.


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Their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.


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And all the host of heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falls off from the vine and as the [leaf] falls from the fig tree.


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For in the heavens my sword shall become drunk; behold, it shall come down in judgment upon Idumea [or Edom] and upon the people of my anathema.


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The sword of the LORD is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness [and] with the blood of lambs and goats with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.


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And the unicorns shall fall with them, and the bulls with the calves; and their land shall become drunk with blood, and their dust shall be greased with fatness.


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For [it shall be] the day of the LORD'S vengeance [and] the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.


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And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into sulphur, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.


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It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it for ever and ever.


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But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the level of desolation.


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They shall call the princes thereof, princes without a kingdom; and all her great ones shall be nothing.


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And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of dragons [and] a court for young owls.


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The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl shall have his seat there and find for himself a place of rest.


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There shall the great owl make his nest and conserve [his eggs] and hatch his young and gather them under his wings; there shall the vultures also be gathered, each one with his mate.


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Seek ye out [that which is written in] the book of the LORD and read; if one of these is lacking, none is missing with his mate, for his mouth has commanded it, and his same Spirit has gathered them.


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And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it unto them by line; therefore they shall have it as an inheritance for ever; from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.:


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The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the lily.


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It shall blossom abundantly and shall also praise and sing for joy; the honour of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the beauty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD [and] the beauty of our God.


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Say to those [that are] of a fearful heart, Be comforted, fear not; behold, your God comes with vengeance, with recompense; God himself will come and save you.


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Then the lame [one] shall leap as [a] hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall praise; for waters shall be dug in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.


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The parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes.


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And a highway shall be there and a way, and it shall be called The Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; and for those in it there [shall be] someone to go with them, in such a manner that the foolish shall not err [therein].


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No lion shall be there, nor [any] ravenous beast shall go up thereon, nor shall any be found there so that the redeemed can walk [there]:


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And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with songs; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their heads: they shall retain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.:


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Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah and took them.


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And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he camped by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the washer's field.


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Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the writer of chronicles.


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And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this in which thou dost trust?


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I say, [sayest thou], (but [they are but] vain words) [I have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust that thou dost rebel against me?


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Behold, thou dost trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt upon which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it, so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.


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But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God; [is it] not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?


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Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou art able on thy part to set riders upon them.


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How, therefore, wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants even if thou art trusting in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?


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And peradventure am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said unto me, Go up against this land and destroy it.


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Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language, for we understand [it], and do not speak to us in the Jewish language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.


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But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? [Has he] not [sent me] to the men that sit upon the wall that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you?


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Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.


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Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make peace with me and come out to me and eat each one of his vine and each one of his fig tree and drink each one the waters of his own cistern


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until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.


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[Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the Gentiles delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?


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Where [is] the god of Hamath and Arphad? Where [is] the god of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?


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What god is there among all the gods of these lands that have delivered their land out of my hand that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


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But they held their peace and did not answer him a word, for the king had commanded thus, saying, Answer him not.


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[Then] came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph, the writer of chronicles, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent and told him the words of Rabshakeh.:


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And it came to pass when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD.


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And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.


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And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy, for the sons are come to the breaking [of the water], and [there is] no strength in her who is to bring [them] forth.


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It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to blaspheme the living God and to reprove with the words which the LORD thy God has heard; therefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is still left.


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And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Do not be afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.


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Behold, that I am sending [a] spirit in him, and he shall hear [a] rumour and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.


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So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.


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And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard [it], he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let not thy God, in whom thou dost trust, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly, and shalt thou be delivered?


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Have the gods of the Gentiles delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden which [were] in Telassar?


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Where [is] the king of Hamath and the king of Arphad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim Hena, and Ivah?


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And Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD and spread them before the LORD.


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O LORD of the hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest [between] the cherubim, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made the heavens and earth.


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Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent [his messengers] to blaspheme the living God.


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and have cast their gods into the fire, for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.


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Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD, [even] thou only.


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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:


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This [is] the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him, Has he despised thee? Has he laughed thee to scorn O virgin daughter of Zion? Has he shaken his head behind thy back O daughter of Jerusalem?


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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.


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By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots I shall come up to the height of the mountains to the sides of Lebanon, and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof [and] the choice fir trees thereof; and I will enter into the height of his border [and] the forest of his Carmel.


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I have dug and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet shall I dry up all the rivers of sustenance.


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Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? Now I have brought it to pass, that thou should be to lay waste defenced cities [into] ruinous heaps.


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And their inhabitants, of little strength, dismayed and confounded shall be [as] the grass of the field and [as] the green shrub [as] the grass on the housetops, that before it comes to maturity it is dried up.


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Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou didst come.


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And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat [this] year such as grows of itself; and the second year that which springs of the same: and in the third year ye shall sow and shall reap and shall plant vineyards and shall eat the fruit thereof.


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And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward:


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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and from Mount Zion shall come an escape; the zeal of the LORD of the hosts shall do this.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.


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By the way that he came, by the same shall he return and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.


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Then the angel of the LORD went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.


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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.:


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In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz came unto him and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live.


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And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.


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Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.


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And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.


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And this [shall be] a sign unto thee from the LORD that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken:


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Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.


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I said in the cutting off of my days; I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.


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I said, I shall not see JAH, [even] JAH, in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.


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My dwelling place has been moved and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent; he has cut off my life like a weaver: he has cut me off with sickness: between the day and the night thou shalt consume me.


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I reckoned that I had until morning. As a lion, he broke all my bones: from the morning [even] unto the night thou shalt make an end of me.


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Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I complain; I mourned as a dove; I raised my eyes upward, O LORD, I am suffering violence; comfort me.


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What shall I say? He has both spoken unto me, and [he] himself has done [it]; I shall walk softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.


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O Lord, even unto all those that shall live, [in these fifteen years I shall proclaim] the life of my spirit in them and how thou caused me to sleep, and [afterwards] hast given me life.


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Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but it has pleased thee to [deliver] my life from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.


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For the grave shall not confess thee, nor shall death praise thee; nor shall those that go down into the pit wait for thy truth.


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He who lives, he who lives, even he shall confess thee, as I [do] this day; the father to the sons shall make known thy truth.


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The LORD [is ready] to save me: therefore we will sing our psalms in the house of the LORD all the days of our life.


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Isaiah then said, Let them take a lump of figs and lay [it] for a plaster upon the boil and he shall be healed.


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At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and presents to Hezekiah, for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered.


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And Hezekiah rejoiced with them and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious ointments and all the house of his weapons and all that was found in his treasures; there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.


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Then Isaiah the prophet came unto king Hezekiah and said unto him, What did these men say? and from where did they come unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, [even] from Babylon.


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Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.


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Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine house and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.


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And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.


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Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, At least there shall be peace and truth in my days.:


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Speak ye according to the heart of Jerusalem and cry unto her that her time is now fulfilled that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.


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The voice [of him] that cries in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.


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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places made plain:


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And the glory of the LORD shall be manifested, and all flesh shall see [it] together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken [it].


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[The] voice that said, Cry. And [I] said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the mercy thereof [is] as the open flower of the field:


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The grass withers, the flower fades because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people [is] grass.


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O Zion, that brings good tidings, go up into the high mountain; lift up thy voice with strength O bearer of good tidings of Jerusalem; lift [it] up, do not be afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!


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Behold, the Lord GOD will come with [a] strong [hand], and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.


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He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry [them] in his bosom [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.


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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and prepared the heavens with his palm and with three fingers measured the dust of the earth and weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills with weights?


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With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him? Who taught him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledge and showed unto him the way of intelligence?


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Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he causes the isles to disappear as dust.


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And all Lebanon [is] not sufficient for the fire, nor all the beasts thereof sufficient for the sacrifice.


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All the Gentiles [are] as nothing before him, and they are counted to him as vanity and [as] less than nothing.


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The workman prepares the graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold and [casts] silver chains.


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He that [is] so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree [that] will not rot; he seeks unto himself a cunning workman to prepare a graven image [that] shall not be moved.


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Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not been taught since the land was founded?


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He is seated upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; he stretches out the heavens as [a] curtain and spreads them out as [a] tent to dwell in:


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As if they had never been planted, as if they had never been sown, as if their stock had never taken root in the earth; even blowing upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.


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Lift up your eyes on high and behold who has created these [things]; he brings out his host by number; he calls them all by their names; none shall be lacking by the greatness of his might and by the strength of [his] power.


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Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest [thou], O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?


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Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard [that] the God of the age is the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth? He does not faint, nor is [he] weary; and there is no one that can attain to his intelligence.


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but those that wait for the LORD shall have new strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.:


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Listen unto me, O islands; and let the peoples strengthen themselves; let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.


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Who raised up righteousness from the east, called him that he might follow him, gave the Gentiles before him, and made [him] rule over kings? He gave [them] as the dust to his sword [and] as driven stubble to his bow.


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Who has wrought and done [it]? Who calls the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and I, myself am with those who are last.


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So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that smooths [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] well joined and he strengthened it with nails, [that] it should not be moved.


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For I have taken thee from the ends of the earth and called thee from the boundaries thereof and said unto thee Thou [shalt be] my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.


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Do not fear for I [am] with thee; do not be dismayed, for I [am] thy God, who strengthens thee; I will help thee always; I will always uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.


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Behold, all those that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing; and those that strive with thee shall perish.


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Thou shalt seek them and shalt not find them, [even] those that contended with thee; those that war against thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of nought.


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Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye dead of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.


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Behold, I have placed thee as a threshing instrument, as a new [sharp] threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat [them] small and shalt make the hills as chaff.


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Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; but thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.


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The poor and needy seek the waters that are not; their tongue fails for thirst; I the LORD will hear them; [I] the God of Israel will not forsake them.


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I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the plains; I will turn the wilderness into pools of water and the dry land into springs of water.


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I will bring forth in the wilderness cedars, thorns, myrtles, and olive trees; I will set in the desert the fir tree [and] the pine and the box tree together:


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That they may see and know and take warning and understand together that the hand of the LORD does this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.


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Let them bring forth and declare unto us what shall happen; tell us what has happened from the beginning, and we shall consider it in our hearts; and we shall know what his end shall be, and cause us to understand that which is to come.


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Give us news of that which is to come hereafter that we may know that ye [are] gods; or at least do good or do evil that we may have something to tell, and together we shall marvel.


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I have raised up [one] from the north, and he came from the rising of the sun; he called in my name and came unto princes as [upon] clay and as the potter treads clay.


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Who has declared from the beginning, that we shall know? and beforetime that we shall say, [He is] righteous? yea, [there is] no one that declares this, yea, [there is] no one that teaches, yea, [there is] no one that hears your words.


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For I beheld, and [there was] no one; and [I asked] regarding these things, and [there was] no counsellor; I asked them, and they did not answer a word.


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Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.:


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Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, [in whom] my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall give judgment unto the Gentiles.


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He shall not break a bruised reed, nor shall he quench the smoking flax; he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.


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He shall not tire nor faint until he has set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.


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Thus saith God the LORD, the Creator of the heavens and he that stretches them out; he that spreads forth the earth and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath unto the people upon it and spirit to those that walk therein:


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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness and will hold thee by thine hand; I will keep thee and place thee as [my] covenant unto the people as light unto [the] Gentiles


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that thou might open [the] eyes of [the] blind, that thou might bring out the prisoners from the prison [and] those that sit in darkness out of the prison house.


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I [am] the LORD. This [is] my name, and my glory I will not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.


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Behold, the former things are come to pass, and I declare new things: before they spring forth I tell you of them.


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Sing unto the LORD a new song [and] his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.


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Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages [that] Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.


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The LORD shall go forth as a giant; he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war; he shall cry [out] a battle cry; he shall prevail against his enemies.


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I have long time held my peace; I have been still [and] refrained myself; [now] will I cry [out] like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.


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I will make waste mountains and hills and dry up all their grass, and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.


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And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will cause them to walk in paths [that] they have not known; I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them and not forsake them.


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They shall be turned back; they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods.


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Who [is] blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger [that] I sent? Who [is] blind as [he that is] perfect, and blind as the servant of the LORD,


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Therefore this people [is] robbed and spoiled; all of them shall be snared in holes and hid in prison houses; they shall be for a prey, and no one delivers; for a spoil, and no one saith, Restore.


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Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD? Because we sinned against him, and they did not desire to walk in his ways, neither did they hearken unto his law.


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Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger and the strength of battle; he put fire round about him, yet he was careless; and it set him on fire, yet he did not lay [it] to heart.:


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But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Do not fear, for I have redeemed thee, I have named thee; Thou [art] mine.


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When thou dost pass through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou dost walk through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.


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For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Keeper; I gave Egypt [for] thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.


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Do not fear; for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy generation from the east and gather thee from the west;


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I will say to the north [wind], Give up, and to the south, Do not keep back; bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth


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[even] every one that is called by my name, for I have created them for my glory; I have formed them; [yea], I have made them.


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Let all the Gentiles be gathered together as one, and let the peoples be joined; who among them can declare this and show us former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses that they may be justified or let them hear and say, [It is] truth.


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Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen that ye may know and believe me and understand that I [am] he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.


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I have declared and have saved, and I have showed when [there was] no strange [god] among you; therefore ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God.


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Even before the day [was] I existed; and [there is] no one that can deliver out of my hand; [if] I work, who shall hinder it?


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Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon and caused fugitives to descend unto all of them and [the] clamour of Chaldeans in the ships.


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[when] he brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall fall together, and never rise; they are extinct; they are quenched as wick.


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Behold, I will do a new thing; it shall come to light quickly; shall ye not know it? I will again make a way in the wilderness [and] rivers in the desert.


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The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls because I give waters in the wilderness [and] rivers in the desert to give drink to my people, my chosen.


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Thou hast not brought me the animals of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.


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Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices, but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins; thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.


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Cause me to remember; let us enter into judgment together; declare, thou, that it may be put to thy account.


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Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary and have set up Jacob as anathema, and Israel as a reproach.:


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Thus saith the LORD that made thee and formed thee from the womb, [who] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant, and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.


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For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring:


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One shall say, I [am] the LORD'S; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe [with] his hand unto the LORD and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.


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Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel and his redeemer, the LORD of the hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside me [there is] no God.


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And who shall call as I [do] and declare this [in advance] and set it in order for me, since I made the people of the world? Let them declare unto them the things that are near and the things that shall come.


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Do not fear, neither be afraid; have I not caused thee to hear from of old and declared unto thee beforehand [that which was to come]? Then ye [are] my witnesses that there is no God but me, and [there is] no Strong One that [I] do not know.


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Those that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and that which is most precious to them is useful for nothing; and they [are] their own witnesses that they do not see, nor understand; therefore, they shall be ashamed.


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Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; for the workmen, they [are] of men; even if all of them are gathered together and stand, they shall fear and shall be ashamed together.


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The smith [shall take] the tongs; he shall work among the coals; he shall give it form with the hammers and bring forth in it the arm of his strength; though [he is] hungry and his strength fails: he shall not drink water, even if he faints.


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The carpenter stretches out [his] rule; he measures it with a line; he fits it with planes; he marks it out with the compass; he makes it after the form of a [noble] man, in the likeness of [the] beauty [of a] man; that it may remain in the house.


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He shall hew down cedars and take the cypress and the oak, and he shall strengthen himself with the trees of the forest; he shall plant a fir tree, which shall be nourished with the rain.


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The man shall then use of it for firewood; for he will take thereof and warm himself; he will kindle [it] and bake bread; he will also make a god and worship [it]; he will fabricate an idol and shall kneel down before it.


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He shall burn part of it in the fire; with [another] part thereof he shall eat flesh; he shall roast meat and shall satisfy himself. Afterwards he shall warm [himself] and say, Aha, I have warmed myself, I have seen fire;


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the residue of it he turns into god, into his graven image; he humbles himself before it and worships [it] and prays unto it and says, Deliver me; for thou [art] my god.


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They did not know nor understand; for [he] has anointed their eyes that they not see [and] their hearts that they not understand.


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He does not return to his right mind; he does not have knowledge nor intelligence to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; I have also baked bread upon the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten [it] and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Do I have to humble myself before the trunk of a tree?


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The ashes feed [him]; his deceived heart inclines him, that he not deliver his soul and say, [Is] not the lie at my right hand?


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Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel: that thou [art] my servant: I have formed thee; thou [art] my servant, O Israel, do not forget me.


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I have undone, as a cloud, thy rebellions, and thy sins, as a mist, return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.


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Sing praises, O [ye] heavens; for the LORD has done [it]; shout with joy, [ye] lower parts of the earth; break forth into praise, [ye] mountains, O forest, and every tree therein, for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and in Israel he shall be glorified.


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Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I [am] the LORD that makes all [things], that stretches forth the heavens alone, that spreads abroad the earth by myself;


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that undoes the signs of the fortune tellers and makes the diviners mad; that turns the wise [men] backward and makes their wisdom fade away;


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that awakes the word of his servant and fulfills the counsel of his messengers, that says unto Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be rebuilt, and I will raise up thy ruins


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that calls Cyrus, my shepherd, and all that I desire, he shall fulfil, by saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.:


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Thus saith the LORD to his Messiah, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by his right hand to subdue Gentiles before him and to loose the loins of kings. To open before him the [two-leaved] gates; and the gates shall not be shut:


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I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut in sunder the bars of iron:


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And I will give thee the hidden treasures and the well guarded secrets that thou may know that I [am] the LORD, the God of Israel, who gives [thee] thy name.


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For Jacob my servant's sake and Israel my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.


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I am the LORD, and [there is] no one else; [there is] no God beside me; I shall gird thee, though thou hast not known me


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that it may be known from the rising of the sun and from where it goes down that [there is] no one beside me. I [am] the LORD, and [there is] no one else.


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I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil: I [am] the LORD that does all this.


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Release, ye heavens, from above, and the clouds shall pour down righteousness; let the earth open [up], and let salvation and righteousness bear their fruit; let them produce [fruit] together; I the LORD have created it.


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Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What doth thou make; thy work [has] no form?


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Woe unto him that says unto [his] father, Why dost thou beget? or to the woman, Why hast thou brought forth?


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Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come; inquire of me concerning my sons and concerning the work of my hands.


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I have made the earth, and created man upon it, I, [even] my hands, have stretched out the heavens and I have commanded all their host.


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I have awakened him in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways; he shall build my city, and he shall loose my captives, not for price nor for bribes, saith the LORD of the hosts.


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Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee; they shall make supplication unto thee, [saying], Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] no one else; [there is] none [other] beside God.


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They shall be ashamed and also confounded, all of them; all the makers of idols shall go forth ashamed.


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Israel is saved in the LORD, eternal salvation; ye shall never be ashamed nor confounded through all ages.


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For thus has the LORD said that creates the heavens; God himself that forms the earth, he who made it and established it. He did not create it in vain; he created it to be inhabited; I [am] the LORD; and [there] is no one else.


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I have not spoken in secret in [a] dark place of the earth. Not without substance did I say unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me; I [am] the LORD who speaks righteousness, who declares things that are right.


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Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, all ye [that are] escaped of the Gentiles. They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and pray unto the god [that] does not save.


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Tell ye, and bring [them] near; [yea], let them take counsel together; who caused this to be heard from the beginning and has declared it from that time, except me, the LORD? and [there is] no God beside me; a just God and a Saviour; [there is] no one besides me.


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Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I [am] God, and [there is] no one else.


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I have sworn by myself; the word is gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow; every tongue shall swear.


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And unto me he shall say, Surely in the LORD [is] the righteousness and the strength; until he shall come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.


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Bel bowed down; Nebo is fallen; their images were placed [upon] animals and upon beasts [of burden] that will carry you, laden with yourselves, burden of weariness.


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They stoop, they are fallen together; they could not escape from the burden, and their soul had to go into captivity.


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Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb:


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And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he, and [even] to grey hairs I will carry [you]; I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will deliver [you].


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They lavish gold out of the bag and weigh silver in the balance [and] hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they fall down and worship.


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They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him and set him in his place. There he is; he does not move from his place; they cry unto him, and neither does he answer, nor save from the tribulation.


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Remember the former things of old, for I [am] God, and [there is] no one else; [I am] God, and [there is] no one like me,


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declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:


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Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country; I have spoken [it]; I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it]; I will also do it.


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I cause my righteousness to come near; it shall not go away; and my salvation shall not be stayed: and I will place salvation in Zion; and my glory in Israel.:


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Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground, without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no longer be called tender and delicate.


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Take the millstones and grind meal; uncover thy locks, remove the shoes from thy feet, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.


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Thy nakedness shall be uncovered and thy shame shall be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not help [any] man.


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Sit, be silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no longer be called, The lady of kingdoms.


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I was wroth with my people; I have profaned my inheritance and given them into thine hand; thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient thou hast very heavily laid thy yoke.


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And thou didst say, I shall be a lady for ever. Until now thou hast not laid these [things] to heart, neither didst thou remember thy latter end.


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Therefore now hear this, [thou] delicate one, that dost sit in confidence and say in thine heart, I [am], and no one else beside me; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I be fatherless.


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But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment in one day; the loss of thy fathers and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries [and] for the great abundance of thine enchantments.


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For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, No one sees me. Thy wisdom and thine [own] knowledge; it has deceived thee; for thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and no one else beside me.


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Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from where it rises; and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and destruction shall come upon thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know.


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Stand now with thine enchantments and with the multitude of thy sorceries in which thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to better thyself, if so be thou may prevail.


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Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now those that contemplate the heavens, those that speculate regarding the stars, those that teach the courses of the moon, stand up and defend thee from [these things] that shall come upon thee.


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Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver their lives from the hand of the flame; [there shall] not be a coal left to warm at, [nor] light to sit before it.


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Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander each one to his own way; there [shall be] no one to save thee.:


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Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who call yourselves by the name of Israel, those that are come forth out of the waters of Judah, those who swear by the name of the LORD and make mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness.


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For they call themselves of the holy city and stay themselves upon the God of Israel. The LORD of the hosts [is] his name.


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That which happened, I have already declared many days ago; and it went forth out of my mouth, and I published it; I did [it] suddenly, and it came to pass.


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I have already declared it many days ago; before it came to pass I showed [it to] thee: lest thou should say, My idol has done it, my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded these things.


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Thou hast heard it, thou hast seen it all; and will ye not declare [it]? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.


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They are created now, and not in days past; nor before this day hast thou heard them lest thou should say, Behold, I knew them.


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Certainly thou hast never heard this; certainly thou hast never known this; certainly thine ear was never before opened: for I knew that being unfaithful thou would disobey; therefore, I called thee a rebel from the womb.


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For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will wait patiently for thee that I not cut thee off.


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For mine own sake, [even] for mine own sake, I will do [it], for how should [my name] be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.


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Certainly my hand founded the earth, and my right hand measured the heavens with the palm; as I named them, they appeared together.


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All ye, assemble yourselves and hear; who is there among them that declares these [things]? The LORD has loved him, the one who will execute his will on Babylon and his arm [upon] the Chaldeans.


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I, [even] I, have spoken; I have called him: I have brought him, and therefore his way shall be prospered.


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Come near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was done, I was there: and now the LORD God has sent me and his Spirit.


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Thus has the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel said: I [am] the LORD thy God who teaches thee to profit, who causes thee to walk by the way [in which] thou dost walk.


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O that thou would look unto my commandments! Then thy peace would be as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:


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Thy seed would be as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name would never be cut off nor destroyed from before me.


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Come out of Babylon, flee from among the Chaldeans. Give news of this with a voice of joy; publish this; take this [news] to the end of the earth; say, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.


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And they did not thirst [when] he led them through the deserts; he caused water to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock, and the waters gushed out.


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Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye peoples, from far, The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother he has remembered my name.


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And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; with the shadow of his hand he has covered me, and made me a clean arrow; in his quiver he has kept me.


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But I said, I have laboured in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing, and in vain; [yet] surely my judgment [is] before the LORD and my recompense with my God.


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And now, saith the LORD, he that formed me from the womb [to be] his servant, so that Jacob might be converted unto him. But [if] Israel will not be gathered, even so, yet I shall be esteemed in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.


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And he said, It is a light thing that thou should be my servant to wake up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the desolations of Israel; I have also given thee for a light to the Gentiles that thou may be my saving health unto the end of the earth.


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Thus has the LORD said, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the Gentiles abhor, to the servant of the tyrants, Kings shall see and be raised up as princes and shall worship because of the LORD, for faithful is the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen thee.


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Thus has the LORD said, In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the day of saving health I have helped thee; and I will preserve thee and give thee for a covenant of people, that thou might awaken the earth, that thou might inherit [the] desolate heritages;


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that thou may say to the prisoners, Go forth; and unto those that [are] in darkness, Show yourselves. Upon the ways shall they be fed, and upon all the high places [shall be] their pastures.


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They shall never hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water he shall feed them.


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Behold, these shall come from far; and, behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.


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Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people and will have mercy upon his afflicted.


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Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even though they may forget, I will not forget thee.


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Thy builders shall come in haste; thy destroyers and those that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.


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Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, [and] come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thyself with them all, as with a garment of honour and shalt be girded by them as a bride.


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For thy waste and thy desolate places and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those that destroyed thee shall be separated far away.


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Even thy sons which were fatherless, shall say in thine ears, The place [is] too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.


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Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I had lost my children and [was] desolate, a stranger removed from my land? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where [had] they [been]?


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Thus has the Lord GOD said, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and raise up my banner [as an example] to the peoples: and they shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon [their] shoulders.


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And kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their princesses thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with [their] face toward the earth and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for those that wait for me shall not be ashamed.


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But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contends with thee, and I will save thy sons.


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And I will feed those that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.:


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Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye are sold, and for your rebellions was your mother put away,


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for I came, and no one showed himself; I called, and no one answered. Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink because [there is] no water and die for thirst.


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The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the wise that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary; he wakes up early, early shall he awaken [my] ear, that I might hear, as the wise.


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I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.


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For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore, I was not ashamed; therefore, I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.


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He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? let us stand together; who [is] my adversary? let him come near to me.


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Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who [is] he [that] shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.


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Who [is] among you that fears the LORD? Hearken unto the voice of his servant. He who walked [in]darkness and had no light; let him trust in the name of the LORD and stay upon his God.


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Behold, that all of you kindle fire and are compassed about with sparks; walk in the light of your fire and of the sparks [that] ye have kindled. From my hand has come this; ye shall be buried in sorrow.:


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Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD; look unto the rock [from which] ye are hewn and to the hole of the pit [from which] ye are dug.


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Look unto Abraham your father and unto Sarah [that] bore you; for I called him alone and blessed him and multiplied him.


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For the LORD shall surely comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of singing.


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Hearken unto me, my people, and give ear unto me, O my nation: for the law shall proceed from me, and I will uncover my judgment for a light of the peoples.


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My righteousness [is] near; my saving health is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me; and on my arm shall they place their hope.


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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and those that dwell therein shall perish in like manner; but my saving health shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall never perish.


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Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; do not fear the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings.


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For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my saving health from age to age.


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Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in ages past. [Art] thou not he who cut off the proud [one], and he who smote the dragon?


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[Art] thou not he who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; he who turned the depths of the sea into a way, that the redeemed might pass over?


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Therefore the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head; they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away.


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I, [even] I, [am] he that comforts you. Who [art] thou that thou should be afraid of man that is mortal and of the son of man [which] shall be counted as stubble?


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And thou hast already forgotten the LORD thy maker that has stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually every day the fury of the oppressor when he was ready to destroy. But, where [is] the fury of the oppressor?


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The prisoner is anxious that he may be loosed and that he should not die in the pit nor that his bread should fail.


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And I [am] the LORD thy God that divides the sea and the waves roar; I am thy God; the LORD of the hosts [is] his name.


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That has placed my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee with the shadow of my hand, that thou may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth and say unto Zion, Thou [art] my people.


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Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling [and] wrung [them] out.


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[There is] no one to guide her among all the sons [whom] she has brought forth; neither [is there any] that takes her by the hand of all the sons [that] she has brought up.


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These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword. Who shall comfort thee?


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Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.


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Thus has thy Lord said, I AM thy God who pleads the cause of his people; Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:


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But I will put it into the hand of those that afflict thee, which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to those that went over.:


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Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come into thee.


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Shake thyself from the dust; arise [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.


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For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nothing; and ye shall be redeemed without money.


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For thus has the Lord GOD said, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian captured them without cause.


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Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nothing? And those among my people that take rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name [is] continually blasphemed every day.


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Therefore my people shall know my name for this reason in that day: for even I that speak, behold, I shall be present.


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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace, that brings good tidings of good, that publishes saving health, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigns!


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The voice of thy watchmen! They shall lift up the voice; together they shall rejoice: for they shall see eye to eye, how the LORD shall return to bring again Zion.


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Sing praises, rejoice together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.


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The LORD has made bare the arm of his holiness before the eyes of all the Gentiles; and all the ends of the earth shall see the saving health of our God.


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Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from there, touch no unclean [thing]; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.


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For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will gather you together.


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As many rejected thee, in such manner was his likeness and his beauty, disfigured from the sons of men:


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But he shall sprinkle many Gentiles; the kings shall shut their mouths over him: for [that] which had not been told them they shall see; and [that] which they had not heard they shall they understand.:


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With all this he shall grow up before him as a tender sprout and as a root out of a dry ground. There is no outward appearance in him, nor beauty. We shall see him, yet nothing attractive about him that we should desire him.


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He is despised and rejected among men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with weakness; and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.


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Surely he has borne our sicknesses and suffered our pain: and we considered him stricken, smitten of God, and cast down.


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But he [was] wounded for our rebellions; [he was] bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and by his stripes healing was provided for us.


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All we like sheep have become lost; we have turned each one to his own way; and the LORD transposed in him the iniquity of us all.


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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he did not open his mouth.


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He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall count his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the rebellion of my people he was smitten.


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And he made his grave with the wicked, and his death with the rich; even though he had never done evil, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.


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With all this the LORD chose to bruise him; subjecting him to grief. When he shall have offered his soul for atonement, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the will of the LORD shall be prospered in his hand.


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He shall see of the travail of his soul [and] shall be satisfied. And by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.


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Therefore I will divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil unto the strong because he has poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the rebellious, having born the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.:


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Rejoice, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud with joy, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [shall be] the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married wife, said the LORD.


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Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;


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for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.


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Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.


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For thy Maker [shall be] thine husband; the LORD of the hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.


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For as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit has the LORD called thee, and [as] a young woman who is put away, said thy God.


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In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with eternal mercy I will have compassion on thee, said the LORD thy Redeemer.


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For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so I have sworn that I would not be wroth [again] with thee, nor reprehend thee.


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For the mountains shall be removed, and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be changed, said the LORD that has mercy on thee.


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O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, behold, I will cement thy stones upon carbuncle and lay thy foundations upon sapphires.


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And I will make thy windows of precious stones, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of stones of great price.


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With righteousness shalt thou be adorned: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear [it]; and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.


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If anyone should conspire against thee, it [shall be] without me, [but] not by me: whosoever would conspire against thee shall fall before thee.


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Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth the instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.


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No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their justice from me, said the LORD.:


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Ho, every one that thirsts, come ye to the waters, and he that has no money; come ye, buy, and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.


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Why do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] does not satisfy? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.


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Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an eternal covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David.


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Behold, thou shalt call a people [that] thou knowest not, and Gentiles [that] did not know thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God and for the Holy One of Israel, for he has honoured thee.


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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.


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For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts more than your thoughts.


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For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and does not return there, but waters the earth and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater:


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So shall my Word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall be prospered in that for which I sent it.


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For ye shall go out with joy, and be returned with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.


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Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an eternal sign [that] shall not be cut off.:


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Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness: for my saving health [is] near to come, and my righteousness to be manifested.


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Blessed [is] the man [that] does this, and the son of man [that] lays hold on it; that keeps from polluting the sabbath, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.


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Neither let the son of the stranger that has joined himself to the LORD speak, saying, The LORD shall utterly separate me from his people: nor let the eunuch say, Behold, I [am] a dry tree.


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For thus has the LORD said unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose [the things] that please me, and take hold of my covenant;


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even unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall never be cut off.


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Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and that love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keeps from polluting the sabbath, and takes hold of my covenant;


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even them will I bring to the mountain of my holiness, and refresh them in the house of my prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called, House of prayer for all peoples.


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The Lord GOD who gathers the outcasts of Israel says, I will still gather upon him his gathered ones.


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His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant; they [are] all dumb dogs; they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, they love to slumber.


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And these anxious dogs are insatiable, and even the shepherds did not know enough to understand: they all look to their own ways, each one for his gain, from his quarter.


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Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [or] much more excellent.:


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The righteous perishes, and no man lays [it] to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].


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Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom do ye make a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [Are] ye not rebellious sons, a lying seed of transgression,


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inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?


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Among the smooth [stones] of the valley [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even unto them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a present. Should I not avenge these things?


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Upon the lofty and high mountain thou hast set thy bed: even there thou didst go up to offer sacrifice.


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Behind the doors also and the posts thou hast set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou didst loved their bed wherever thou didst see [it].


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And thou didst go to the king with ointment and didst multiply thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] unto Sheol.


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Thou became wearied in the multitude of thy ways; [yet] thou didst not say, There is no remedy: thou hast found that which thou wast searching for; therefore thou repented not.


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And of whom hast thou reverenced or feared? Why dost thou lie; that thou hast not remembered me, nor have I come to thy thought? Have I not held my peace even of old, and thou hast never feared me?


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When thou criest, let thy companions deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]: but he that waits in me shall have the land by inheritance and shall possess the mountain of my holiness.


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And shall say, Clear away, clear away, level the way, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.


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For thus has said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name [is] The Holy [One]; I dwell in the high place and in holiness and with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit to cause the spirit of the humble to live and to cause the heart of the contrite ones to live.


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For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for by me is the spirit covered by the body, and I have made the souls.


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For the iniquity of his covetousness I was wroth and smote him: I hid [my face] and was wroth, and he went on rebelliously in the way of his heart.


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I have seen his ways and will heal him: I will lead him also and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.


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I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] far off and to [him that is] near, said the LORD; and healed him.


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Cry aloud, do not hold back; lift up thy voice like a shofar and preach to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sin.


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That they seek me daily and want to know my ways, as people that do righteousness and have not forsaken the rights of their God: they ask me of the rights of righteousness and desire to approach God.


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Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou dost not see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and thou dost take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find [your own] pleasure and exact your own estates.


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Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day to make your voice to be heard on high.


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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the LORD?


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[Is] not rather the fast that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the ties of oppression, to release [into freedom] those who are broken, and that ye break every yoke?


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[Is it] not to share thy bread with the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou not hide thyself from thy brother?


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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.


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Then shalt thou call, and thou shalt hear the LORD; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;


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and [if] thou pour out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:


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And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.


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And [they] shall build up out of thee the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the [fallen] foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.


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If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy will on my holy day; and call the sabbath [the] delightful, holy, glorious [day] of the LORD; and shalt honour him by not doing thine own ways, nor seeking thine own will, nor speaking [thine own] words:


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Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and cause thee to eat of the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken [it].:


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Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:


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But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.


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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips pronounce lies; your tongue speaks evil.


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No one calls for righteousness, nor [do any] judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity.


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They hatch cockatrice' eggs and weave the spider's web; whosoever shall eat of their eggs shall die, and if they should squeeze them, a viper shall come out.


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Their cloth is unfit to be a garment, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works [are] works of violence, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.


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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are their paths.


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The way of peace they did not know; nor is there anything straight about their ways; they have wilfully made themselves crooked paths; whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.


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Therefore judgment has withdrawn from us, and righteousness has never overtaken us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.


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We grope for the wall like the blind, and as if [we had] no eyes we walk by touch; we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in graves as dead [men].


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We all roar like bears and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for saving health, [but] it has withdrawn from us.


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For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins have testified against us; for our iniquities [are] with us; and we know our sins:


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To rebel and to lie against the LORD, and to depart away from our God; the speaking of libel and rebellion, to conceive, and to speak from the heart words of falsehood,


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and that which is right has departed, and righteousness withdrew afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity could not enter.


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And the truth was taken captive; and he [that] departed from evil [was] imprisoned: and the LORD saw [it], and it was displeasing in his eyes because that which is right was lost.


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And he saw that [there was] no man and wondered that [there was] no intercessor; therefore his arm brought salvation unto him, and his righteousness, it sustained him.


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For he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of saving health upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak,


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so as to give payment, so as to repay the vengeance of his enemies, and repay his adversaries; to the islands he will give recompense.


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So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he shall come like a violent river impelled by the breath of the LORD.


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And the Redeemer shall come to Zion and unto those that turn from the rebellion in Jacob, said the LORD.


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And this shall be my covenant with them, said the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words, which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from now one and for ever.:


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For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.


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Lift up thine eyes round about and see: they all gather themselves together; they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.


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Then thou shalt see, and thou shall shine, and thine heart shall marvel, and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the strength of the Gentiles shall have come unto thee.


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The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.


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All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, rams of Nebaioth shall be served unto thee: they shall be offered up with grace upon my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.


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For the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish from the first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, who has glorified thee.


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And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall serve thee; for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my good favour I shall have mercy on thee.


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Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought unto thee, and their kings guided.


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The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will honour the place of my feet.


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The sons also of those that afflicted thee shall come humbled unto thee; and at the steps of thy feet all those that despised thee shall bow themselves down; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.


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Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through [thee], I will place thee in eternal glory, in joy from generation to generation.


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Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of the kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.


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For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for the stones iron; I will also put peace [in the place of] thy government, and righteousness [in the place of] thine oppressors.


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Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Saving Health and thy gates Praise.


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The sun shall no longer be thy light by day; nor shall the moon give light unto thee for brightness; but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory.


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Thy sun shall set no more; neither shall thy moon wane: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.


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And thy people [shall] all [be] righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever; they shall be shoots of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.


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The small one [shall be] as a thousand; the youngest as a strong nation; I the LORD will hasten it in its time.:


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The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to preach good tidings unto those who are cast down; to bind up [the wounds] of the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [those that are] bound;


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to proclaim the year of the LORD's favour, and [the] day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;


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to order in Zion those that mourn, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.


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And they shall build the old wastes; they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall restore the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.


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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers.


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But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD; [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God; ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and with their glory ye shall be lifted up.


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Instead of your double shame, and your dishonour, they shall praise you in your inheritance; therefore in your land ye shall possess double, and ye shall have everlasting joy.


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For I the LORD love [that which is] right, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will confirm your work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.


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And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles and their offspring among the peoples; all that saw them shall acknowledge them that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD has blessed.


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I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of saving health; he has surrounded me with the robe of righteousness; as a bridegroom he has arrayed me, and as a bride made up of his jewels.


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For as the earth brings forth her shoot and as the garden causes her seed to spring forth so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the Gentiles.:


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For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace; and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her saving health is lit as a flaming torch.


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And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness and all the kings thy glory; and thou shalt be given [a] new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.


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Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.


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Thou shalt no longer be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any longer be termed Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzibah and thy land Beulah; for the will of the LORD [shall be] in thee, and thy land shall be married.


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For [as] a young man marries a virgin, [so] shall thy sons marry thee; and [as] the bridegroom rejoices with the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice with thee.


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I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night; ye that make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent


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The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no longer give thy wheat [to be] food for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured:


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But those that have gathered it shall eat it and praise the LORD; and those that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.


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Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; clear up, clear up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner [as an example] for the people.


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Behold, the LORD has caused it to be heard unto the end of the earth; Say unto the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy Saviour comes; behold that his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.


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And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD; and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.:


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Who [is] this that comes from Edom, with red garments from Bozrah? This glorious [one] in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.


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I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples [there was] no one with me; for I have trodden them with my anger and have trampled them with my fury; and their blood sprinkled my garments and stained all my raiment.


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And I looked, and [there was] no one to help; and I wondered that [there was] no one to uphold [me]; therefore my own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.


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And I have trampled down the people with my anger and made them drunk in my fury, and I brought down their strength to the earth.


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I will mention the mercies of the LORD [and] the praises of the LORD according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us and the greatness of his goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his mercies.


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In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his face saved them: with his love and with his clemency he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of the age.


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But they were rebels and angered his holy Spirit; therefore, he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he himself fought against them.


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Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses, [and] his people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where [is] he that put his Holy Spirit within him?


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He that led [them] by the right hand of Moses with the arm of his glory, he who divided the water before them, thus making himself an everlasting name?


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The Spirit of the LORD pastored them as a beast that goes down into the valley; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.


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Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory; where [is] thy zeal and thy strength, the feeling of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?


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Doubtless thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel not acknowledge us; thou, O LORD, [art] our father; our everlasting Redeemer is thy name.


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O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? Hast thou hardened our heart to thy fear? Return for thy servants, for the tribes of thine inheritance.


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The people of thy holiness have possessed [the promised land] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.


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Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,


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as [when] the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the Gentiles may tremble at thy presence!


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[As] thou didst come down when thou didst terrible things [which] we did not look for, [that] the mountains flowed down at thy presence.


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Nor have [men] heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God beside thee, that thou might do [it again] for the one who waits in him.


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Thou didst come out to meet him that with rejoicing had worked righteousness. In thy ways they remembered thee. Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: thy ways are eternal, and [we] shall be saved.


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But we were all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fell as the leaves [of a tree]; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.


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And [there is] none that calls upon thy name, that wakes himself up to take hold [of thee]; therefore, thou hast hid thy face from us and hast allowed us to wither in the power of our iniquities.


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But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; such that we all [are] the work of thy hands.


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Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.


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Our house of our Sanctuary and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, was burned up with fire; and all our precious things were destroyed.


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Wilt thou refrain thyself regarding these [things], O LORD? Wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict us very sore?:


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I was sought of [those that] did not ask [for me]; I was found of [those that] did not seek me; I said, Here I am, Here I am, unto a people [that] did not invoke my name.


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I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way [that was] not good, after their own thoughts;


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a people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense upon altars of brick;


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who remain [asleep] among the graves, and lodge in the deserts, who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable [things is in] their vessels;


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who say, Stand by thyself, do not come near to me; for I am holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.


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Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,


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For your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, who have burned incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore, I will measure their former work into their bosom.


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Thus has the LORD said, As when [one] has found new wine in a cluster and says, Do not destroy it; for a blessing [is] in it; so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.


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And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my elect shall possess the land for an inheritance, and my servants shall dwell there.


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And Sharon shall be for a fold of flocks and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.


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But ye that forsake the LORD, that forget the mountain of my holiness, that prepare a table unto fortune, and that furnish the drink offering for destiny;


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I also will destine you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter because when I called, ye did not respond; I spoke, and ye did not hear, but did evil before my eyes and did choose that which displeased [me].


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Therefore thus has the Lord GOD said, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:


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Behold, my servants shall rejoice by the joy of [their] heart, but ye shall cry for the sorrow of [your] heart and shall howl for the destruction of spirit.


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And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; for the Lord GOD shall slay thee and call his servants by another name.


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He who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth because the former troubles shall be forgotten and shall be covered from my eyes.


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For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.


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But ye shall be glad and rejoice from age to age in the things which I shall create; for, behold, I create joy unto Jerusalem and unto her people joy.


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And I will be glad with Jerusalem and rejoice with my people: and the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.


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There shall no longer be there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days for the child shall die one hundred years old; and he who sins at one hundred years of age shall be accursed.


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And they shall build houses and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.


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They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of the trees shall be the days of my people, and my elect shall perpetuate the work of their hands.


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They shall not labour in vain, nor give birth with fear; for their [births] are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring shall be with them.


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And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.


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The wolf and the lamb shall be fed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust [shall be] the serpent's food. They shall not afflict nor do evil in all my holy mountain, said the LORD.:


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Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [shall remain] this house that ye built unto me? and where [shall remain] this place of my rest?


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For all these [things] my hand has made, [by my hand] has these [things] been, said the LORD; but to this [man] will I look, [even to him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit and trembles at my word.


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He that kills an ox [is as if] he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb [as if] he cut off a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation [as if he offered] swine's blood; he that burns incense [as if] he blessed iniquity. They have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.


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I also will choose their delusions and will bring their fears upon them because I called, and no one answered; I spoke, and they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes and chose that which displeased [me].


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Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hate you, that deny you for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified; but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.


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A voice of noise from the city, [a] voice of the temple, [a] voice of the LORD that renders recompense to his enemies.


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Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth bring forth in one day? Shall an [entire] nation be born at once? that Zion travailed, and shall bring forth her sons together?


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I, who make births [to happen], shall I not be with child? saith the LORD; I, who cause conception, shall I be stopped? saith thy God.


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Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: be filled with joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:


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That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the splendour of her glory.


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For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream; then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon [her] sides, and be dandled upon [her] knees.


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As a manchild whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.


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And ye shall see, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like grass; and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants and [his] indignation toward his enemies.


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For, behold, the LORD will come with fire and with his chariots like a whirlwind to render his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire.


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For by fire and by his sword will the LORD judge all flesh; and the slain of the LORD shall be multiplied.


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Those that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, one behind another; those that eat swine's flesh and abomination, and the mouse shall be cut off together, saith the LORD.


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For I [understand] their works and their thoughts. [The time] shall come to gather all the Gentiles and tongues; and they shall come and see my glory.


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And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the Gentiles, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have never heard my name, nor seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.


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And they shall bring all your brethren [for] an offering unto the LORD from among all the Gentiles, upon horses and in chariots and in litters and upon mules and upon camels to my holy mountain of Jerusalem, saith the LORD, so that the sons of Israel bring the offering in clean vessels to the house of the LORD.


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For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.


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And it shall come to pass [that] from one new moon to another and from one sabbath to another all flesh shall come to worship before me, said the LORD.


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And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that rebelled against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.:


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The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:


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To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.


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It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.


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Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the Gentiles.


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But the LORD said unto me, Do not say, I [am] a child; for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.


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Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.


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See, I have placed thee in this day over Gentiles and over kingdoms, to root out, and to destroy, and to throw out, and to cast down, to build, and to plant.


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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.


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And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and its face [is] toward the north.


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Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.


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For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and each one shall set his seat at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem and near all its walls round about and near all the cities of Judah.


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And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods and worshipped the works of their own hands.


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Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and thou shalt arise and speak unto them all that I shall command thee; do not fear them lest I confound thee before them.


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For, behold, I have made thee this day as a defenced city and as an iron pillar and as [a] wall of brass upon all the earth against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.


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And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.:


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Go and cry [out] in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD: I remember thee, the mercy of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou didst go after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.


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Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD [and] the firstfruits of his increase; all that devour him shall [be found] guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.


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thus hath the LORD said, What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?


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Neither did they say, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through and where no man dwelt?


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And I brought you into a plentiful country to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.


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The priests did not say, Where [is] the LORD? and those that handled the law did not know me; the pastors also rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after [things that] do not profit.


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Therefore I will yet enter into judgment with you, saith the LORD, and I will plead with your children's children.


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For pass over the isles of Chittim and see; and send unto Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing.


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Has a nation changed [their] gods? Even though they are not gods. But my people have changed their glory for [that which] does not profit.


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For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.


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The young lions roared upon him [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are deserted without inhabitant.


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Could this not have come upon you peradventure because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?


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And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt? to drink the waters of the Nile? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria? to drink the waters of the river [Eufrates]?


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Thine own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know therefore and see how evil and bitter it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God and that my fear [is] lacking in thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.


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For of old time I have broken thy yoke [and] burst thy bands; and thou didst say, I will not serve [sin]. With all this, upon every high hill and under every green tree thou dost wander, playing the harlot.


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Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, a seed of Truth, all of her; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?


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For though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is sealed before me, saith the Lord GOD.


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How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? See thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;


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a wild ass used to the wilderness that breaths according to the desire of her soul; from her lust, who shall stop her? All those that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.


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Withhold thy foot from being unshod and thy throat from thirst; but thou didst say, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.


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As the thief is ashamed when he is taken, so shall the house of Israel be ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,


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saying to a [piece of] firewood, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they say, Arise and deliver us.


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But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? Let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble, for [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah.


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I have smitten your children in vain; they have received no correction; your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.


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O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? Why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?


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Shall the virgin, perchance, forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.


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Even in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; thou didst not find them in any trespass, but by all these things.


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Yet thou didst say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou hast said, I did not sin.


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Why dost thou talk so much, changing thy ways? Thou shalt also be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.


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Thou shalt also go forth from him with thine hands upon thine head; for the LORD has rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.:


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They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, shall he return unto her again? Is she not a land that is now completely polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, said the LORD.


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Lift up thine eyes unto the high places and see if there is anywhere thou hast not been ravished. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.


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Therefore the rain has been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and thou dost have a whore's forehead, thou dost refuse to be ashamed.


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Will he reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it] to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done as many evil things as thou could.


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The LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which rebellious Israel has done? She is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.


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And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto me. But she did not return. And her rebellious sister Judah saw [it].


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And I saw when for all the causes by which rebellious Israel committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her rebellious sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.


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And it came to pass through [her judging] her whoredom to be a light [thing] that the land became defiled and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.


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And yet for all this her rebellious sister Judah has never turned unto me with her whole heart, but untruthfully, said the LORD.


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And the LORD said unto me, The rebellious Israel has justified her soul in comparison to the treacherous Judah.


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Go and proclaim these words toward the north [wind] and say, Return, thou rebellious Israel, said the LORD [and] I will not cause my anger to fall upon you; for I [am] merciful, said the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.


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Only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast rebelled against the LORD thy God and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not heard my voice, said the LORD.


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Turn, O rebellious sons, said the LORD; for I am your Lord, and I will take you one of a city and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:


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And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.


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And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land; in those days, said the LORD, they shall no longer say, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.


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At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the Gentiles shall congregate unto it in the name of the LORD in Jerusalem; neither shall they walk any more after the hardness of their evil heart.


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In those times they shall go out from the house of Judah unto the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north [wind] to the land which I caused your fathers to inherit.


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But I said, How shall I place thee as sons and give thee the desirable land, the heritage that the hosts of Gentiles desire? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father and shalt not turn away from following me.


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Surely [as] the woman breaks the faith of her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, said the LORD.


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A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping of the supplications of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their God.


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Return, ye rebellious sons, [and] I will heal your rebellion. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.


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Truly the hills are vanity, the multitude of mountains; truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel.


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For shame has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth: their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.


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We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the LORD our God.:


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If thou wilt return unto me, O Israel, said the LORD, thou shalt have rest; and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then thou shalt not go [into captivity].


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And thou shalt swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the Gentiles shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.


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For thus has the LORD said to every man of Judah and of Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.


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Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem lest my fury come forth like fire and burn [so] that no one can quench [it] because of the evil of your doings.


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Declare ye in Judah and publish in Jerusalem and say, Blow ye the shofar in the land; cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.


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Set up the banner in Zion: come together, do not delay: for I bring evil from the north [wind], and a great destruction.


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The lion is come up from his den, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.


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For this, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament and howl; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.


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And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.


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(Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; when the sword reaches unto the soul).


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At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places of the wilderness came toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.


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A wind much more violent than these shall come unto me; for now I will also speak judgments against them.


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Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us, for we are given over to be spoiled!


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O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness that thou may be saved. How long shalt thou entertain the thoughts of thy iniquity within thee?


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For the voice [is heard] from him who brings the news from Dan and from him who causes to hear the affliction from mount Ephraim.


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Say ye of the Gentiles; behold, cause it to be heard upon Jerusalem, Watchmen come from a far country and shall give out their voice upon the cities of Judah.


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As the watchmen of the heritages, they were upon her round about because she has been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.


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Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto thee; this [is] thy wickedness because it is bitter, because it reaches unto thine heart.


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My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.


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Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is destroyed; suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.


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For my people [are] foolish; the ignorant sons with no understanding have not known me; they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.


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I beheld the earth, and, behold, [it was] without order, and empty; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.


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I beheld, and, behold, Carmel was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD [and] by his fierce anger.


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For this shall the earth be made desolate, and the heavens above be darkened because I spoke; I purposed and did not repent, neither will I turn back from it.


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The whole city fled from the thunder of the horsemen and bowmen; they went into the thickets of the forests and climbed up upon the rocks; every city was forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.


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And thou who art destroyed, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with crimson, though thou deck thee with ornaments of gold, though thou paint thy eyes with antimony, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee; they will seek thy life.


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For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewails herself, [that] spreads her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is faint because of the murderers.:


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Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and find out and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that execute judgment, that seek the truth; and [I] will pardon the city.


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O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they did not feel it; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive chastisement; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.


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Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they have become foolish; for they do not know the way of the LORD [nor] the judgment of their God.


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I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke [and] burst the bonds.


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Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the desert shall destroy them and a tiger shall lie in wait over their cities; anyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces because their rebellions have been multiplied, [and] their backslidings are increased.


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How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy sons have forsaken me and sworn by [them that are] not gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.


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Shall I not visit for these [things]? said the LORD; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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Go ye up upon her walls and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements for they [are] not the LORD'S.


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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have made a firm decision to rebel against me, saith the LORD.


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They have denied the LORD and said, He [is] not; and evil shall not come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine;


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but the prophets shall become like wind, and there is no word in them: thus shall it be done unto them.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD God of the hosts said: Because ye have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire and this people wood, and it shall devour them.


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Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from afar, O house of Israel, saith the LORD; it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou dost not know, neither dost [thou] understand what they say.


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And they shall eat up thine harvest and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees; and thy fenced cities, in which thou dost trust, they shall bring to nothing with the sword.


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And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why does the LORD our God do all these [things] unto us? Then thou shalt answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours.


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Hear now this, O foolish people and without heart, who have eyes and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:


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Do ye not fear me? saith the LORD; will ye not tremble at my presence, who placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by an eternal order, which cannot be broken? Storms shall raise themselves up, yet they shall not prevail; their waves shall roar, yet they shall not pass over it.


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Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; he shall keep us [with] the appointed weeks of the harvest.


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Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withheld good [things] from you.


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For among my people were found wicked [men]: they lay in wait as he that sets snares; they set a trap of perdition to catch men.


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They are become fat; they shine; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they did not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless; with all this they made themselves prosperous; and they did not judge the cause of the poor.


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Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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The prophets prophesied falsely, and the priests bore rule by their hands; and my people love [to have it] so. What will ye do in the end thereof?:


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O ye sons of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem and blow the shofar in Tekoa and set up as a sign smoke in Bethhaccerem; for evil appears out of the north [wind] and great destruction.


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The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed each one his portion.


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Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up towards the south. Woe unto us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Hew ye down trees and cast a mount against Jerusalem; this [is] the city that all of her is to be visited; [there is] violence in the midst of her.


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As the waters never cease to flow from a fountain, so her wickedness never ceases to flow; injustice and robbery is heard in her; in my presence continually, sickness and wounds.


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Chastise Jerusalem lest peradventure my soul be disjointed from thee, lest peradventure I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine; turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.


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To whom shall I speak, and give warning that they may hear? behold, their ears [are] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken, behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.


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Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I have worked hard to hold myself in from pouring it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for the husband with the wife shall also be taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.


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And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.


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For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them each one [is] given to greed; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.


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They treat also the destruction [of the daughter] of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.


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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore, they shall fall among those that shall fall: at the time [that] I visit them they shall fall, saith the LORD.


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Thus hath the LORD said, Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where the good way [is] and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].


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Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the shofar. But they said, We will not hearken.


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Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even] the fruit of their thoughts because they have not hearkened unto my words, and they hated my law.


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To what purpose does this incense come to me from Sheba and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings [are] not according to my will, nor [are] your sacrifices sweet unto me.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.


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Thus hath the LORD said, Behold, a people come from the land of the north [wind], and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.


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They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and they shall have no mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea; and they shall ride upon horses set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.


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We have heard the fame thereof; our hands wax feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pain as of a woman in travail.


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Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.


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O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.


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I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people; thou shalt know and examine their way.


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They [are] all rebellious princes; they walk with deception: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.


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The bellows are burned; the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.


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Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house and proclaim there this word and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of] Judah that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.


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Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD [are] these.


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For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly do right between a man and his neighbour,


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[if] ye do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt,


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then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers for ever and ever.


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Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not,


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and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are free to do all these abominations?


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Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], said the LORD.


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But go now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.


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And now because ye have done all these works, said the LORD and I spoke well unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye did not hear; and I called you, but ye did not answer;


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therefore I will do unto [this] house, which is called by my name, in which ye trust, and unto this place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.


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And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.


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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.


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The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me to anger.


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Shall they provoke me to anger? said the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, my anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beast and upon the trees of the field and upon the fruit of the ground, and it shall burn and shall not be quenched.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Add your burnt offerings upon your sacrifices and eat flesh.


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For I did not speak unto your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:


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But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hear my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the way that I have commanded you that it may be well unto you.


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But they did not hearken, nor incline their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels in the imagination of their evil heart and went backward, and not forward


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since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day. I have [even] sent unto you all my servants, the prophets, daily rising up early and sending [them];


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yet they did not hearken unto me, nor incline their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.


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Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt even call unto them; but they will not answer thee.


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Therefore thou shalt say unto them, This [is] the nation that did not hear the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive chastisement; the faith is lost and was cut off from their mouth.


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Cut off thine hair, O [Jerusalem], and cast [it] away and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has cast off and forsaken the nation of his wrath.


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For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, said the LORD; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name to pollute it.


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And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command [them], neither did it come into my heart.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no longer be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Tophet, for there shall be no [other] place.


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And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to chase [them] away.


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Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.:


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At that time, said the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of his princes and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;


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and they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served and after whom they have walked and whom they have sought and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.


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And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those that remain of this evil generation, in all the places where I have driven those that remain, said the LORD of the hosts.


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Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said: The one who falls, does he never arise? he who turns away, does he never return?


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Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem rebellious with a perpetual rebellion? They hold fast deceit; they refuse to return.


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I hearkened and heard, [but] they did not speak aright: there was no man that repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? each one returned to his course as the horse rushes into the battle.


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Even the stork in the heaven knows her appointed time; and the turtle [dove] and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people did not know the judgment of the LORD.


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How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Behold, certainly in vain did he make the pen; the scribes [were] in vain.


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The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?


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Therefore I will give their wives unto others [and] their fields unto those that shall inherit [them]: for each one from the least even unto the greatest is given to greed; from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.


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For they have treated the destruction of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace, when [there is] no peace.


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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those that should fall: when I visit them, they shall fall, saith the LORD.


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I will surely cut them off completely, said the LORD: [there are] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fall; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.


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Upon what shall we secure ourselves? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence and given us water of gall to drink because we have sinned against the LORD.


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The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan; the whole earth trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those that dwell therein.


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For, behold, I send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, said the LORD.


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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people that comes from a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [Is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images [and] with vanities of a strange [god]?


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For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am devastated; I am in darkness; astonishment has taken hold on me.


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[Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? Why then was there no medicine for the daughter of my people?:


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Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!


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Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them! for they [are] all adulterers, a congregation of rebels.


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And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.


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Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.


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And they will deceive each one his neighbour and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.


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Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Behold, I will melt them and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?


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Their tongue [is as] a sharp arrow; it speaks deceit: [one] speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but in heart he lays in wait.


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Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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Upon the mountains I will lift up weeping and wailing and lamentation upon the habitations of the wilderness because they are burned up, so that no one can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and even the beasts of the earth are fled; they are gone.


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And I will make Jerusalem heaps [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.


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Who [is] the wise man that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken that he may declare for what cause the land perishes [and] is burned up like a wilderness that no one passes through?


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And the LORD said, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not heard my voice, neither walked therein,


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but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them,


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Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink.


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I will scatter them also among Gentiles whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning [women] that they may come,


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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 destroyed! We are greatly confounded. Why have we forsaken the land? Why have our dwellings cast [us] out?


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Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye 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 is come up into our windows [and] is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without [and] the young men from the streets.


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Speak, Thus hath the LORD said, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field and as the handful after the harvestman, and there shall be none to gather [them].


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Thus hath the LORD said, Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches;


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but let him that glories glory in this, that he understands me and knows me, that I [am] the LORD who does mercy, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, said the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will visit all [those who are] circumcised with the uncircumcised:


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Egypt and Judah and Edom and the sons of Ammon and Moab and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the Gentiles [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart.:


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Thus hath the LORD said, Do not learn the way of the Gentiles, and do not fear the signs of heaven, even though the Gentiles fear 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 compare them to the palm tree, and they do not speak: they must be carried, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither do they have power to do good.


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Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.


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Who would not fear thee, O King of the Gentiles? for unto thee does it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the Gentiles and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.


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Silver spread into plates shall be brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, shall the workman work and the hands of the founder: they shall dress them in blue and purple: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].


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But the LORD God [is] the Truth, he himself [is] Living God and Everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the Gentiles shall not be able to abide his indignation.


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Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens or the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.


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He that makes the earth by his power, he that orders the world with his wisdom and extends the heavens with his intelligence:


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at his voice, [there is] given a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes the lightnings with the rain and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.


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Every man is carnal in [his] knowledge: let every founder be ashamed of his graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no spirit in them.


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The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the Former of all [things], and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of the hosts [is] his name.


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For thus hath the LORD said, Behold, that this time I will throw out the inhabitants of the land with a sling and will afflict them, that they may find [it].


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Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous, but I said, Truly this [is] my sickness, and I must bear it.


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My tent is destroyed, and all my cords [are] broken: my sons were taken from me, and they [are] lost; [there is] no one to stretch forth my tent any more and to set up my curtains.


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For the pastors are become carnal and have not sought the LORD; therefore they did not understand, and all their flocks scattered.


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Behold, the voice of the rumour is come, and a great commotion out of the land of the north [wind] to make the cities of Judah desolate [and] a den of dragons.


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O LORD, I know that man is not the lord of his [own] way: [it is] not in man that walks to order his steps.


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Pour out thy fury upon the Gentiles that do not know thee and upon the nations that do not call on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob and devoured him and consumed him and have destroyed his habitation.:


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Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto every man of Judah and to every inhabitant of Jerusalem;


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and thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said: Cursed [be] the man that does not hear the words of this covenant,


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which I commanded your fathers the day [that] I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying unto them, hear my voice and comply with my words according to all which I command you; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God


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that I may confirm the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, that I would give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then I answered, and said, Amen, O LORD.


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And the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant and do them.


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For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Hear my voice.


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Yet they did not hear, nor did they incline their ear, but walked each one in the imagination of their evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.


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And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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They have returned to the iniquities of their first fathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went 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 hath the LORD said, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.


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Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense, who shall not be able to save them in the time of their trouble.


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For [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and [according to] the number of thy streets, O Jerusalem, have ye set up altars of confusion, [even] altars to burn incense unto Baal.


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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them for I will not hear [them] in the time that they cry unto me in their trouble.


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What [part] has my beloved in my house, [seeing] she has wrought lewdness with many? The holy flesh shall pass from upon thee, for in thy evil thou didst glory.


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The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and in appearance. At the voice of a great word he caused fire to be kindled upon it, and they broke her branches.


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For the LORD of the hosts, that planted thee, has pronounced evil against thee for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.


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And the LORD gave me knowledge [of it], and I experienced [it]: then thou didst show me their doings.


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But I [was] like a ram [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; for I did not understand 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 no longer be remembered.


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But, O LORD of the hosts, that judges righteously, that tries the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them, for unto thee I have uncovered my cause.


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Therefore, thus hath the LORD said regarding the men of Anathoth that seek thy life, saying, Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD that thou not die by our hand;


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therefore, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Behold, I visit: 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 of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, [even] the year of their visitation.:


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Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, even though I dispute with thee: even so, I will speak judgments with thee; Why does the way of the wicked prosper? All those that completely rebel against thee have peace.


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Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they grow, and they bring forth fruit; thou [art] near in their mouth and far from their kidneys.


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But thou, O LORD, dost know me; thou hast seen me and tried my heart toward thee; pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and mark them for the day of slaughter.


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How long shall the land be desolate, and the grass of all the field wither, for the wickedness of those that dwell therein? The cattle are lacking, and the birds because they said, He shall not see our latter end.


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If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [in which] thou didst trust, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?


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For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have raised their voice after thee, O congregation; do not believe them, when they speak fair words unto thee.


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I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.


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My heritage was unto me as a lion in the forest; it cried out against me, therefore I have hated it.


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My heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird; the birds round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour her.


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Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard; they have trodden my heritage under foot; they have made my precious heritage a desolate wilderness.


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They have made it desolate; it cries against me, desolate; the whole land was made desolate because there was no man that would see.


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The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land; there is no peace for any flesh.


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They have sown bread, but shall reap thorns; they had the heritage, but they did not profit; and they shall be ashamed because of your fruits, by the [fierce] anger of the LORD.


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Thus hath the LORD said against all my evil neighbours that touch the heritage which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.


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And it shall come to pass that after I have plucked them out, I will return and have mercy on them, and will cause them to return, each one to his heritage, and each one to his land.


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And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear in my name, [saying], [The] LORD lives; as they taught my people to swear by Baal then they shall be prospered in the midst of my people.


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Thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go and buy thee a linen girdle and put it upon thy loins, and thou shalt not put it in water.


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Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which [is] upon thy loins, and arise; go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the rock.


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And it came to pass after many days that the LORD said unto me, Arise; go to the Euphrates and take from there the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.


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Then I went to the Euphrates and dug and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was rotted, it was good for nothing.


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Thus hath the LORD said, After this manner I will cause the pride of Judah to rot and the great pride of Jerusalem.


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This evil people that refuses to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart and went after other gods to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.


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For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, so I have caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people and for fame, and for a praise, and for honour; but they did not hear.


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Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said, Every bottle shall be filled with wine; and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?


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Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said, Behold, I fill all the inhabitants of this land with drunkenness, [even] the kings that sit upon David's throne and the priests and the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And I will break them one against another, even the fathers with the sons together, saith the LORD; I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy to not destroy them.


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Give glory to the LORD your God before he causes darkness and before your feet stumble in mountains of darkness, and while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death [and] makes [it] gross darkness.


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But if ye will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret because of [your] pride; and weeping bitterly, my eyes shall be undone in tears because the LORD'S flock was carried away captive.


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Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down [in the dust] because the crown of your glory has come down off your heads.


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The cities of the south were shut up, and no one could open [them]: Judah was carried away captive; all of it, it was completely carried away captive.


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Lift up your eyes, and behold those that come from the north [wind]: where [is] the flock [that] was given thee, the cattle of thy beauty?


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What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? For thou hast taught them [to be] princes [and as] head over thee; shall not sorrows take thee as a woman in travail?


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When thou shalt say in thine heart, Why do these things come upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered [and] thy heels made bare.


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Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Likewise ye also cannot do good, being taught to do evil.


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This [shall be] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me said the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.


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I have seen thine adulteries and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom upon the hills; in the same field I saw thine abominations. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean at last? How long then [shall it be]?:


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Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.


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And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded and covered their heads.


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Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.


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And the wild asses stood in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes failed because [there was] no grass.


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O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for thy name's sake; for our rebellions have multiplied; we have sinned against thee.


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O the hope of Israel, the Keeper thereof in time of trouble, why should thou be as a stranger in the land and as a wayfaring man [that] turns aside to tarry for a night?


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Why should thou be as a speechless man as a mighty man [that] cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; do not leave us.


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Thus hath the LORD said unto this people, Thus have they loved to move, nor have they refrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not have them in [his] will; he will now 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 an oblation, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by sword and by famine and by pestilence.


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Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you true peace in this place.


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Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I did not send them, neither have I commanded them, neither did I speak unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision, divination, vanity, and the deceit of their heart.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name which I did not send and that say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.


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And 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 no one to bury them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters; for I will pour their wickedness upon them.


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Therefore thou shalt say this word unto 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 blow.


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If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold those that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest walked around in circles in the land, and they did not know [it].


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Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Hath thy soul loathed Zion? Why didst thou cause us to be smitten when no healing remains for us? We waited for peace, and [there was] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!


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We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.


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Do not cast [us] away; for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory; remember, do not break thy covenant with us.


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Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause it to rain? or can the heavens give rain? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hast made all these [things].:


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Then the LORD said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my will [would] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.


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And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Where shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus hath the LORD said: 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 the captivity, to the captivity.


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And I will visit over them four kinds [of evil], saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.


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And I will give them over to be sifted by all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem.


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For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who is to come to ask regarding thy peace?


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Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD; thou art gone backward: therefore, I stretched out my hand over thee and cast thee away; I am tired of repenting.


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And I fanned them with a fan unto the gates of the land; I bereaved [them] of children, I wasted my people; they did not turn from their ways.


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Their widows are multiplied unto me more than the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them a destroyer at noonday against the young; I have caused [him] to fall upon her suddenly, and terrors upon the city.


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She that has borne seven languishes; her soul is filled with sorrow; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day; she has been ashamed and confounded; and the residue of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.


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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them curses me.


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The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.


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Thy riches and thy treasures I will give to the spoil without price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.


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And I will make [thee] to serve thine enemies in a land [which] thou dost not know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, [which] shall burn upon you.


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O LORD, thou knowest: remember me and visit me and revenge me of my enemies; do not take me away in the prolongation of thy anger, know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.


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Thy words were found, and I ate them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, O LORD God of the hosts.


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I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor did I become puffed up by reason of thy prophecy; I sat alone because thou hast filled me with indignation.


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Why was my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, [which] refuses to be healed? Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar [and as] waters [that] fail?


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said, If thou wilt return, then I will bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me; and if thou wilt take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth; let them return unto thee, but return not thou unto them.


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And I will give thee unto this people as a fenced brazen wall, and they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee: for I [am] with thee to keep thee and to defend thee, said the LORD.


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And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will ransom thee out of the hand of the strong.:


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For thus hath the LORD said concerning the sons and [concerning] the daughters that would be born in this place and [concerning] their mothers that would bare them and [concerning] their fathers that would beget them in this land


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They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth; and they shall be consumed by the sword and by famine; and their carcasses shall be food for the fowls of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.


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For thus hath the LORD said, Do not enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor comfort them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, said the LORD, [even] mercy and compassion.


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Both the great and the 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 they break [the bread] of mourning for them, to comfort themselves for [their] death; neither shall [men] give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.


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In the same manner thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Behold, I will cause to cease in this place before your eyes and in your days, every voice of mirth and every voice of gladness, every voice of the bridegroom, and every voice of the bride.


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And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these things, they shall say unto thee, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin which we have committed against the LORD our God?


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Then thou shalt say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, 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 ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk each one after the imagination of his evil heart, not hearkening unto me:


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Therefore I will cause you to be cast out of this land into a land that ye do not know, [neither] ye nor your fathers; and there ye shall serve other gods day and night; for I will not grant you mercy.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that it shall no longer be said, The LORD lives, that caused the sons of Israel to come up out of the land of Egypt;


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but, The LORD lives, that caused the sons of Israel to come up out of the land of the north [wind], and from all the lands where he had driven them; and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.


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Behold, I send many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after, will I send many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.


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For my eyes [are] upon all their ways, which they have not hid from me, neither does their iniquity hide from the presence of my eyes.


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But first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double because they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their abominations, and they have filled my inheritance with abominable things.


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O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the time of the affliction; Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] in which [there is] no profit.


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Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know this time; I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD.:


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The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron [and] with the point of a diamond; [it is] graven upon the table of their heart and upon the horns of your altars


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that their sons might remember their altars and their groves, by the green trees and upon the high hills.


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My mountain dweller! In the field are thy riches; all thy treasures I will give to the spoil, because of the sin of thy high places throughout all thy borders.


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And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou dost not know: for ye have kindled a fire in my anger, [which] shall burn for ever.


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Thus hath the LORD said; Cursed [be] the man that trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from the LORD.


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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, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.


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For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, [that] spreads out her roots by the river and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green and shall not be fatigued in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.


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I the LORD search the heart; [I] try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways [and] according to the fruit of his doings.


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As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, [is] he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.


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O hope of Israel! LORD, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; [and] those that depart from me shall be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.


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For I did not take it upon myself to be a pastor following thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou dost know: that which came out of my lips has come forth in thy presence.


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Let them be confounded that persecute me, but do not let me be confounded; let them be dismayed; but do not let me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil and destroy them with double destruction.


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Thus said the LORD unto me: Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people by which the kings of Judah come in and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;


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and say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:


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Thus hath the LORD said: Take heed for your lives, and bring no burden on the sabbath day to 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 sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers,


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who did not hear, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive correction.


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And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day but sanctify the sabbath day to do no work therein,


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[then] shall there enter in by the gates of this city, the kings and the princes, who sit upon 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 be inhabited for ever.


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And they shall come from the cities of Judah and from the places about Jerusalem and from the land of Benjamin and from the fields and from the mountain and from the south, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices and presents and incense, and bringing [the] sacrifice of praise unto the house of the LORD.


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But if ye will not hearken unto me to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to bring burdens nor bring it in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.:


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And the vessel that he made of clay was broken in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it].


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O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye in my hand, O house of Israel.


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In an instant I shall speak against Gentiles and against kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy.


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But if these Gentiles shall turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.


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And in an instant I shall speak concerning the nation and concerning the kingdom, to build and to plant [it];


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but if it should do evil in my sight, not hearing my voice, then I will repent of the good that I had determined to do unto them.


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Now therefore, speak to every man of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I ordain evil against you and devise plans against you; return ye now each one from his evil way, and better your ways and your doings.


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And they said, This is useless, for we must walk after our own devices, and we must each one do the imagination of his evil heart.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Ask now among the Gentiles, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.


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Will anyone leave the snow of the rock of the field that flows from Lebanon? [or] shall they forsake the singular, cold, flowing waters?


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Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not trodden;


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to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and wag 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 perdition.


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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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not consider any of his words.


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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.


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Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.


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


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Yet, LORD, thou dost know all their counsel against me to slay [me]; do not forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.:


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Thus hath the LORD said, Go and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;


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and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry by the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee.


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Therefore thou shalt say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus saith the LORD of the hosts, God of Israel: Behold, I bring evil upon this place, such that whoever hears [of it], his ears shall tingle.


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Because they have forsaken me and have estranged this place; and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;


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and have built high places unto Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto this same Baal, which I did not commanded, nor speak, neither did [it] come into my mind.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that this place shall no longer be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of the slaughter.


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And I will make void 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 hands of those that seek their souls and I will give their carcasses to be food for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.


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And I will make this city desolate and a hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.


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And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each one shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, with which their enemies and those that seek their souls shall straiten them.


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and shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Even so will I break this people and this city as [one] breaks a potter's vessel that cannot be restored again; and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, for there shall be no [other] place to bury.


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Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to its inhabitants and [even] make this city as Tophet:


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And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be as the place of Tophet, defiled, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of the heaven and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.


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Then Jeremiah returned from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house and said to all the people,


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, God of Israel said: Behold, [I] bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have spoken against her because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words.:


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And Pashur [the] priest, the son of Immer, who presided as prince in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah who prophesied these things.


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Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that [were] at the gate of Benjamin on the high [place], which [is] in the house of the LORD.


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And it came to pass on the morrow that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said unto him: The LORD has not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.


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For thus hath the LORD said, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all those that love thee well; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold [it]; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall smite them with the sword.


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Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city and all its labours and all its precious things and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon.


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And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die and shalt be buried there, thou and all those who love thee well, unto whom thou hast prophesied with lies.


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O LORD, thou hast seduced me, and I was seduced; thou wert stronger than I and hast overcome me; I am in derision daily; every one mocks me.


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For since I spoke [out], I raised my voice crying, Violence and destruction; because the word of the LORD has been a reproach unto me and a derision, daily.


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And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But he was in my heart as a burning fire [and] within my bones; I tried to forbear, and I could not.


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For I heard the murmuring of many, fear on every side, Report, and we will report it. All my friends watched to see if I would stumble. Peradventure he will deceive himself, they said, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.


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But the LORD [is] with me as a powerful giant; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper; they shall have everlasting confusion which shall never be forgotten.


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O LORD of the hosts, who examines that which is just, who seest the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee I have opened my cause.


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Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD; for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.


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Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.


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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew and did not repent; and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontide


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because he did not slay me in the womb, and my mother would have been my grave, and her womb perpetual conception.


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Why did I come forth out of the womb? To see labour and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame?:


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The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah [the] priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,


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Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes war against us; peradventure the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, and [he] will go up from upon us.


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Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said: Behold, I turn back the weapons of war that [are] in your hands with which ye fight against the king of Babylon and [against] the Chaldeans, which besiege you outside the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.


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


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And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.


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And afterward, thus hath the LORD said, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants and the people and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their souls; and [he] shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not forgive them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.


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And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.


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He that abides in this city shall die by the sword or by the famine or by the pestilence, but he that goes out and falls to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his soul shall be unto him for a spoil.


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For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD; it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.


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O house of David, thus hath the LORD said: Execute judgment early and deliver [him that is] oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor lest my fury go forth like fire, and burn [so] that no one can quench [it] because of the evil of your doings.


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Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the valley of the rock of the plain (saith the LORD), which say, Who shall come up against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?


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I will visit you according to the fruit of your doings, said the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in your forest, and it shall devour all things round about it.:


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and say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that doth sit upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants and thy people that enter in by these gates:


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Thus hath the LORD said: Execute judgment and righteousness and deliver the oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor and do not deceive neither steal from the stranger nor from the fatherless nor from the widow neither shed innocent blood in this place.


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For if ye effectively obey this word, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house the kings seated by David upon his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, he and his servants and his people.


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But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, said the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.


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For thus hath the LORD said regarding the house of the king of Judah: Thou [art] Gilead unto me [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness [and] cities [which] are not inhabited.


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And I will appoint destroyers against thee, each one with his weapons, and they shall cut down thy choice cedars and cast [them] into the fire.


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And many Gentiles shall pass by this city, and each man shall say to his neighbour, Why has the LORD done thus unto this great city?


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Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshipped other gods and served them.


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Do not weep for the dead nor bemoan him, [but] weep sore for him that goes away, for he shall return no more nor see his native country.


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For thus hath the LORD said of Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, He who went forth out of this place shall not return there any more;


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Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him [the wages of] his work!


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That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts out windows [in] it and covers it with cedar and anoints it with vermilion.


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Shalt thou reign, because thou dost enclose [thyself] in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and righteousness, [and] then [it was] well with him?


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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him]. Is this not to know me? said the LORD.


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But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence, to do [it].


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! and Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!


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Go up to Lebanon and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan and cry unto all parts: for all thy lovers are destroyed.


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I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity, [but] thou didst say, I will not hear. This [has been] thy way from thy youth, that thou hast never heard my voice.


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The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity; surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confound thyself because of all thy malice.


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Thou didst inhabit Lebanon, thou didst make thy nest in the cedars. How shalt thou cry out when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!


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[As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet I would pluck thee from there;


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and I will give thee into the hand of those that seek thy soul and into the hand [of those] whose face thou dost fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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And I will cast thee out and thy mother that bore thee into another country, where ye were not born, and there ye shall die.


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[Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [Is he] a vessel in which [there is] no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his generation, and are cast into a land which they know not?


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Thus hath the LORD said, Write [what shall be] of this man deprived of [a] generation, a man unto whom nothing shall prosper in all the days of his life, for no man of his seed who sits upon the throne of David and rules over Judah shall prosper.:


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Therefore thus hath the LORD God of Israel said unto the pastors that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not visited them; behold, [I]visit upon you the evil of your doings, said the LORD.


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And I will gather the remnant of my sheep out of all the lands where I have driven them and will cause them to return to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.


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And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them; and they shall fear no more nor be dismayed neither shall they be lacking, said the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.


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In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [shall be] his name by which they shall call him, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, and they shall no more say, The LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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but, The LORD lives, who caused the seed of the house of Israel to come up and out of the land of the north [wind], and from all the lands where I had driven them, and they shall dwell in their [own] land.


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My heart is broken within me because of the prophets, all my bones shake; I was like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, before the LORD, and before the words of his holiness.


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For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the oath the land is deserted; the booths of the wilderness are dried up, and their course was evil, and their force [was] not right.


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For both prophet and priest are feigned; even in my house I have found their wickedness, said the LORD.


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Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the darkness; they shall be driven on and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.


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


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I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: they committed adultery and walked by lies; they strengthened also the hands of evildoers, that none is converted from his malice; they are all of them unto me as Sodom and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.


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Therefore, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said against those prophets: Behold, I will cause them to eat wormwood and make them drink the waters of gall, for from the prophets of Jerusalem is hypocrisy gone forth upon all the land.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.


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They say boldly unto those that stir me to anger, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto anyone that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.


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For who has stood in the secret of the LORD and has seen and heard his word? Who has payed attention to his word and heard [it]?


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Behold, that the whirlwind of the LORD shall go forth with fury, and the whirlwind which is ready shall fall [grievously] upon the head of the wicked.


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The anger of the LORD shall not return until he has executed and until he has performed the thoughts of his heart: in the last of the days ye shall understand it with understanding.


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But if they had stood in my secret, they would also have caused my people to hear my words, and they would have caused them to return from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.


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Can any hide himself in hiding places that I shall not see him? said the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? said the LORD.


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I have heard what those prophets said, that 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 that prophesy lies and that prophesy the deceit of their own heart?


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Do they not think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which each one tells his neighbour, so much that their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal?


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The prophet with whom [the] dream came, let him tell [the] dream; and he with whom my word came, let him speak my true word. What [is] the chaff to the wheat? said the LORD.


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[Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaks the rock in pieces?


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Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words each one from his neighbour.


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Behold, I [am] against those that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and did tell them, and caused my people to err by their lies, and by their flattery; yet I did not send them, nor command them; and they did not profit this people at all, said the LORD.


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And when this people or the prophet or the priest shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will forsake you, said the LORD.


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And [as for] the prophet and the priest and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will visit upon that man and upon his house.


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Thus shall ye say each one to his neighbour and each one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?


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And never again shall it come to [your] memory to say, The burden of the LORD; for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of the hosts, our God.


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But if ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus hath the LORD said: Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;


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therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will uproot you from my presence and the city that I gave you and your fathers:


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and I will place an everlasting reproach upon you, and eternal shame, which shall never be forgotten.:


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The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs [were] set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the princes of Judah with the carpenters and smiths from Jerusalem, and had taken them to Babylon.


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One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very evil figs, which could not be eaten, they were so evil.


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Then the LORD said unto me, What dost thou see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, so evil that they cannot be eaten.


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Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said: Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.


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For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will return them 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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And I will give them a heart that they might know me, that I [am] the LORD; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.


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And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil, surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes and the residue of Jerusalem that remained in this land and that dwell in the land of Egypt:


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And I give them to be removed, for evil unto all the kingdoms of the earth, for infamy, and for reproach and for a proverb, and for a curse unto all the places where I shall drive them.


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And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence upon them until they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto 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, which [is] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;


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this spoke Jeremiah the prophet unto 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 unto this day, which are twenty-three years, the word of the LORD has come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and giving notice; but ye have not hearkened.


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And the LORD has sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,


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when they said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:


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and do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.


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Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD, that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.


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behold, I will send and take all the families of the north [wind], saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about and will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.


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And I will cause them to lose 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 candle.


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And this whole land shall be a desolation [and] an astonishment; and these Gentiles shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


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And it shall come to pass when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that people their [own] evil, said the LORD and upon the land of the Chaldeans and will make it perpetual desolations.


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And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have spoken against it, with all that is written in this book, prophesied by Jeremiah against all the Gentiles.


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For many Gentiles and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.


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For thus hath the LORD God of Israel said unto me: Take the wine cup of this fury from my hand and cause all the Gentiles, to whom I send thee, to drink of it.


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Then took I the cup from the LORD'S hand and made all the Gentiles to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me,


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unto Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah and to its kings and to its princes, that I might place them into desolation, into astonishment, and into hissing, and into [a] curse, as this day,


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and to all the mingled people and to all the kings of the land of Uz and to all the kings of [the] land of the Philistines and to Ashkelon and [to] Gaza and [to] Ekron and to the remnant of Ashdod,


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and to all the kings of Tyre and to all the kings of Zidon and to all the kings of the isles which are of that side of the sea,


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and to all the kings of Arabia and to all the kings of the [mingled] peoples, the Arabia that dwells in the desert,


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and to all the kings of the north [wind], those of far and those of near, one with another and to all the kingdoms of the earth, which [are] upon the face of the earth and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.


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Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Drink and be drunken, and vomit and fall, and ye shall not rise in the presence of the sword which I send among you.


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And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from thine hand to drink, then thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Ye must certainly drink.


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For, Behold, I begin to bring evil upon the city which is called by my name, and should ye only be absolved? Ye shall not be absolved, for I bring [the] sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, said the LORD of the hosts.


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Therefore, thou shalt prophesy against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high and from the habitation of his holiness he shall utter his voice; in fury he shall roar upon his habitation; he shall sing the song of those that tread [grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.


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The noise came [even] to the ends of the earth; for it is judgment of the LORD with the Gentiles; he is the Judge of all flesh; he will give those [that are] wicked to the sword, said the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD of the hosts, Behold, the evil goes forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.


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And the slain of the LORD shall be in that day from [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth; they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be as dung upon the ground.


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Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the dust], ye principals of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like an enticing vessel.


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[The] voice of the cry of the shepherds and a howling of the principals of the flock [shall be heard]! For the LORD has spoiled their pasture.


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He has forsaken his habitation, as the [young] lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor and because of his fierce anger.:


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


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Thus hath the LORD said: Stand in the court of the LORD'S house and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I commanded thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:


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peradventure they will hearken and turn each man from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.


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And thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,


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to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, rising up early and sending [them], unto whom ye have not hearkened,


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then I will make this house like Shiloh and will give this city as [a] curse to all the Gentiles of the earth.


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And the priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.


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Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.


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Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.


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When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S [house].


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Then the priests and the prophets spoke unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man [is] worthy to die; for he has prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears.


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Then Jeremiah spoke unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.


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Therefore now amend your ways and your doings and hear the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD himself will repent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.


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But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon its inhabitants; for of a truth the LORD has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.


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Then the princes and all the people said unto the priests and to the prophets: This man [is] not worthy to die, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.


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Then certain of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the congregation of the people, saying,


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Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the temple mount as the high places of a forest.


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Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear the LORD and besought the LORD, and the LORD himself repented of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Shall we commit such great evil against our souls?


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There was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:


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And Jehoiakim the king heard his words and all his mighty men and all the princes, and the king sought to put him to death, but when Urijah understood it, he was afraid and fled and went into Egypt.


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


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and they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.


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Nevertheless 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 unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,


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and thou shalt send them to the king of Edom and to the king of Moab and to the king of the Ammonites and to the king of Tyre and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the ambassadors which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;


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and thou shalt command them to say unto their masters, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Thus shall ye say unto your masters:


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I have made the earth, the man and the beast that [are] upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom was upright in my eyes.


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And now have [I] given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and even the beasts of the field I have given him that they might serve him.


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And all the Gentiles shall serve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his own land shall come also; and many nations and great kings shall serve him.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] the people and the kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that people I will visit, saith the LORD, with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence, until I have finished placing [all of them] under his hand.


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Therefore do not hearken unto your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your sorcerers, nor to your enchanters, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:


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For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that [I] should drive you out, and ye should perish.


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But the people that submit their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, said the LORD; and they shall till it and dwell therein.


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


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Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken unto the people that will not serve the king of Babylon?


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Therefore do not hearken unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.


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For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.


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Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus hath the LORD said: Hearken not unto the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.


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But if they [are] prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them pray now unto the LORD of the hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD and [in] the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, not go to Babylon.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,


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which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not 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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yea, thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said concerning the vessels that remained in the house of the LORD and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem;


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they shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them, said the LORD; and afterwards I will bring them up and restore them to this place.:


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And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which [was] of Gibeon, spoke unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel spoken, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.


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Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried them 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, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.


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Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,


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therefore the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD confirm thy words with which thou hast prophesied that the vessels of the LORD'S house and all those that are carried away captive are to be returned from Babylon unto this place.


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The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.


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The prophet which prophesied of peace, when the word of the prophet should come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.


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And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus hath the LORD said: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the Gentiles within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.


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And after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,


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Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus hath the LORD said: Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make yokes of iron instead.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these Gentiles, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him; and I have even given him the beasts of the field.


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Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent thee; and thou hast made this people to trust in a lie.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I will send thee away from upon the face of the earth; this year thou shalt die because thou hast spoken rebellion against the LORD.


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Now these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests and to the prophets and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;


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(after Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were 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 unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon,


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take wives and beget sons and daughters; give wives unto your sons and give husbands unto your daughters, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be multiplied there and not diminished.


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And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: Let not your prophets and your diviners that [are] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye dream.


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For thus hath the LORD said, That after seventy years are accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and quicken my good word upon you to cause you to return to this place.


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For I know the thoughts that I think concerning you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you the end that you wait for.


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Then ye shall call upon me, and ye shall walk [in my ways] and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.


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And I will be found of you, said the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the Gentiles and from all the places where I have driven you, said the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.


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[know] that thus hath the LORD said of the king that sits upon the throne of David and of all the people that dwell in this city [and] of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;


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thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence and will make them like the evil figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.


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And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will give them over as a reproach to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a curse, and as an astonishment, and a hissing, and an affront, unto all the Gentiles where I have driven them:


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because they did not hearken unto my words, said the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them]; but ye did not hear, said the LORD.


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Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have cast out of Jerusalem unto Babylon:


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said [regarding] Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and [regarding] Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy falsely unto you in my name; Behold, [I] deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;


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and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah who [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;


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because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken a word falsely in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel spoken, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that [are] at Jerusalem and to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah and to all the priests, saying,


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The LORD has made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should preside in the house of the LORD over every man [that is] furious and prophesies, putting him in the prison and in the stocks.


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Now therefore why hast thou not reprehended Jeremiah of Anathoth, for prophesying [falsely] unto you?


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For therefore he sent unto us [in] Babylon, saying, This [captivity is] long: build houses and dwell [in them] and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


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Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus hath the LORD said [concerning] Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah has prophesied unto you, and I did not send him, and he caused you to trust upon [a] lie;


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therefore thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I visit upon Shemaiah the Nehelamite and upon his generation: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold that good which I do unto my people, said the LORD, because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.:


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Thus hath the LORD God of Israel spoken, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.


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For, Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will turn the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, said the LORD, 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 the man doth travail with child? for I have seen that every man has his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail; and all faces have turned pale.


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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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For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of the hosts, [that] I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no longer place him in servitude,


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Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I am he that saves thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall turn, and shall rest, and be quiet, and there shall be no one [left] to scatter [him].


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For I [shall be] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee; and I shall make a full end in all Gentiles among whom I scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will chastise thee with judgment and will not cut thee off altogether.


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[There is] no one to judge thy cause unto health; there is no cure, nor [are there] any medicines for thee.


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All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they do not seek thee; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the whip of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased.


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Why dost thou cry [out] for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the greatness of thine iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.


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Therefore all those that devour thee shall be devoured; and all those that afflict thee, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and those that trampled upon thee shall be trodden down, and all that prey upon thee I will give for a prey.


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For I will cause healing to come for thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, said the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeks after.


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Thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob's tents and have mercy on his dwelling places and the city shall be built upon her own hill, and the temple according to her judgment shall stand.


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And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of people that [live] in joy: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be decreased; I will multiply them, and they shall not be cut down.


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Their sons shall also be as at first, and their congregation shall be confirmed before me, and I will visit all their oppressors.


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And of him shall be their Rock, and from the midst of him shall their Governor come forth; and I will cause him to come near, and he shall draw near unto me: for who [is] this that softened his heart to approach unto me? said the LORD.


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Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forth with fury, the whirlwind which is preparing itself; it shall remain upon the head of the wicked.


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The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return until he has done [it] and until he has performed the intents of his heart; in the end of the days ye shall understand this.:


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In that time, said the LORD, [I] will be the God unto all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.


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Thus hath the LORD said, The people [which were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness as [I] went to cause Israel to find rest.


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The LORD has appeared of old unto me, [saying], I have loved thee with an eternal love: therefore, I have put up with thee with mercy.


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Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambourines and shalt go forth in the chorus of dancers.


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Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant and shall eat [them] as common things.


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For there shall be a day in which the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up into Zion unto the LORD our God.


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For thus hath the LORD said; Rejoice in Jacob with joy, and [give shouts of] joy at the head of the Gentiles; cause [this] to be heard, [give] praise, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.


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Behold, I turn them from the land of the north [wind] and gather them from the coasts of the earth; there shall be blind and lame among them, and women with child and those that travail with child together; a great company shall return there.


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They shall come with weeping, but with mercies I will cause them to return; I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble; for I shall be a father to Israel, and Ephraim [shall be] my firstborn.


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Hear the word of the LORD, O ye Gentiles, and cause it to be known in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd [does] his flock.


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Therefore they shall come and do praises in the height of Zion and shall run unto the goodness of the LORD, unto the bread, and unto the wine, and unto the oil, and unto the gain 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, both young men and 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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And I will satiate the soul of the priest with fatness, and my people shall be filled with my goodness, said the LORD.


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Thus hath the LORD said; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her sons, she refused to be comforted regarding her sons, because they perished.


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Thus hath the LORD said; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.


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There is also hope for thine end, saith the LORD, and the sons shall come again to their own border.


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I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast afflicted me, and I was chastised as an indomitable bullock: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.


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Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh; I was ashamed, and even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.


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Peradventure is Ephraim a precious son unto me? Peradventure [is he unto me] a delightful child? With all this since I spoke of him, I have remembered him constantly. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him; in tenderness I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.


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Establish signs, make thee high markers; consider the highway with great care, [even] the way [which] thou didst come; return, O virgin of Israel, return unto these thy cities.


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How long wilt thou wander, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD will bring forth a new thing upon the earth, A woman shall compass the man.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said; Even yet shall they speak this word in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof when I shall turn their captivity: The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice [and] mountain of holiness.


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And Judah shall dwell in her, and also in all her cities, husbandmen, and those [that] go forth with flocks.


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Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, said the LORD.


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In those days they shall no longer say, The fathers have eaten the 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 that eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.


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Behold, the days come, said the LORD, in which I will make a new covenant with the house of Jacob 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 because they invalidated my covenant although I was a husband unto them, said the LORD;


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But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, said the LORD, I will give my law in their souls and write it in their hearts and will be their God, and they shall be my people.


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And they shall no longer teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD, for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, said the LORD, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.


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Thus hath the LORD said, who gives the sun for light by day, [and] the laws of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who divides the sea and the waves thereof roar; The LORD of the hosts [is] his name;


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If these laws depart from before me, said the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.


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Thus hath the LORD said: If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, said the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, said the LORD, and the city shall be built unto the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.


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And the measuring line shall extend before him upon the hill Gareb and shall compass about to Goath.


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And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of [the ashes with] the [burnt] fat, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east [shall be] holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.:


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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar;


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for then the king of Babylon's army besieged 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 dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus hath the LORD said, Behold, I 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 behold his eyes;


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and he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, said the LORD; if ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?


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Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle comes unto thee, saying, Buy my field that [is] in Anathoth, for the right of redemption [is] thine to buy [it].


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So Hanameel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the LORD and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance [is] thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.


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


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And I subscribed the evidence and sealed [it] and took witnesses and weighed [him] the money in the balances.


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So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that which was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that which was open.


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And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel my uncle's [son] and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase before all the Jews that were in the court of the guard.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel, said: Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both [that] which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel that they may continue many days.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: Houses and fields and vineyards shall be bought [and sold] again in this land.


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Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,


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Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is nothing hidden from thee;


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that thou dost show mercy in thousands and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them, the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of the hosts, [is] his name,


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great in counsel and magnificent in works: for thine eyes [are] open upon all the ways of the sons of men to give unto each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings;


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who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, and in Israel, and in the man, and hast made thee a name, as at this day;


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and hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm and with great terror;


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and hast given them this land, which thou didst swear 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 did not hear thy voice, neither did they walk in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou didst command them to do, therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them.


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Behold the siege engines are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it because of the sword and of the famine and of the pestilence, and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou dost see [it].


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And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy the field for money and take witnesses; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I give this city into the hand of [the] Chaldeans, and into [the] hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:


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and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.


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For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done only evil before me from their youth: for the sons of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, said the LORD.


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For this city has been unto me [as] a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face


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because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and of the sons 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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And they have turned unto me the back and not the face: when I taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet they did not hearken to receive chastisement;


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And they built altars unto Baal, which [are] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] unto Molech; which I did not command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.


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And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto this city, of which ye say, It shall be delivered 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 countries where I have driven them in my anger, in my fury and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto 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 for ever for the good of them and of their sons after them:


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and I will make an eternal covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good, and I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me.


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And, I will rejoice with them doing them good, and I will plant them in this land with truth, with my whole heart and with my whole soul.


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For thus hath the LORD said; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I speak regarding them.


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And they shall possess inheritance in this land, of which ye say, [It is] desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.


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Men shall buy fields for money and subscribe evidences and seal [them] and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin and in the places about Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah and in the cities of the mountains and in the cities of the valley and in the cities of the south; for I will cause their captivity to turn, saith the LORD.:


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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,


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Thus hath said the LORD that makes it, the LORD that forms it to establish it; the LORD [is] his name;


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Call unto me, and I will answer thee and show thee great and difficult things, which thou dost not know.


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For thus hath the LORD the God of Israel said concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the siege engines and by the sword


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(because they came to fight with the Chaldeans, to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury and because I hid my face from this city due to all her wickedness):


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behold, I will bring her healing and medicine, and I will cure them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.


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


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And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, with which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their sins, with which they have sinned against me and with which they rebelled against me.


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And it shall be unto me a name of joy, of praise and of glory among all the Gentiles of the earth, who shall have heard all the good that I do unto them and they shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I shall do unto them.


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Thus hath the LORD said: Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say is desolate without man and without beast, [even] in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,


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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 that shall say, Praise the LORD of the hosts; for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endures] for ever: [and] of those that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to turn as at the first, said the LORD.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, there shall be booths of shepherds who shall cause [the] flocks to lie down.


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In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, 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 pass again under the hands of him that counts [them], said the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will confirm the good Word which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.


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In those days and at that time, I will cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment 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] with which she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.


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For thus hath the LORD said: David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;


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neither shall the priests the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle grain offerings and to do sacrifice continually.


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Thus hath the LORD said; If ye can break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, such that there should not be day nor night in their season,


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[then] may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites and priests, my ministers.


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As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant and the Levites that minister unto me.


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Dost thou not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should no longer be a nation before them.


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Thus hath the LORD said: If my covenant [remains] not with the day and the night, [and if] I have not appointed the laws of the heaven and the earth,


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then I will cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to turn, and I will have mercy on them.:


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The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, (when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the peoples, fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof,)saying,


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


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and thou shalt not escape out of his hand but shalt surely be taken and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.


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Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus hath the LORD said of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:


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[but] thou shalt die in peace: and according to the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn [odours] for thee; and they will lament thee, [saying], Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, said the LORD.


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when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah, for of the strong cities of Judah these had remained.


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[This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;


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that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, [being] a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should use of his brethren, the Jews, as a slave.


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Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that each one should let his manservant and each one his maidservant go free, that no one should use them any more as servants, then they listened and let [them] go.


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But afterward they repented 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 saith the LORD 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 slavery, saying,


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At the end of seven years each one shall let his Hebrew brother go, who has been sold unto thee; therefore he shall serve thee six years, and thou shalt send him forth free from thee: but your fathers did not hearken unto me, nor incline their ear.


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And ye were now converted and had done right in my sight in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:


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but ye turned and polluted my name and caused each man his servant and each man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said: Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, each one to his brother and each man to his neighbour; behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, said the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts thereof,


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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, which 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 that seek their soul; and their dead bodies shall be for food unto the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth.


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And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those that seek their soul and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.


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Behold, I command, said the LORD and will cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against her and take her and burn her with fire; and I will give the cities of Judah unto desolation until they are without an inhabitant.:


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


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Go unto the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them into the house of the LORD into one of the chambers and give them wine to drink.


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Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;


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and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was] above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the vessels:


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and I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine and cups, and I said unto 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, Ye shall drink no wine, [neither ye], nor your sons for ever:


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neither shall ye build [a] house, nor sow seed, nor plant [a] vineyard, nor have [any]: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye [are] strangers.


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Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab our father, the son of Rechab, in all that he has charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;


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


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But it came to pass, nevertheless, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem [from] before the army of the Chaldeans and [from] before of the army of the Syrians: and so we remain in Jerusalem.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye never receive chastisement hearkening to my words? said the LORD.


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The word of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, was not moved; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye did not hearken unto me.


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I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them], saying, Turn ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and ye shall live in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.


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Certainly the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have not moved the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people has not hearkened unto me:


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therefore thus hath the LORD God of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Behold, I bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I spoke unto them, but they did not hear; and I called unto them, but they did not answer.


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And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, God of Israel said; Because ye listened to the commandment of Jonadab your father and kept all his commandments and have done according unto all that he has commanded you:


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therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts, God of Israel said; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before me for ever.:


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,


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Take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the Gentiles, from the day I [began] to speak unto thee, from the days of Josiah, unto today.


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If peradventure the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may turn each one from his evil way; and I will 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 the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.


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therefore go thou, and read from the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the day of fasting: and also in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. Thou shalt read them


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if peradventure their prayer will fall into the presence of the LORD, and they shall turn each one from his evil way; for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.


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


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And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people of Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.


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Then Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.


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When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,


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then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and, behold, all the princes sat there, [even] 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 Michaiah declared unto 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, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand and came unto them.


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Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words, each one turned to his companion in fear, and they said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.


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Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book.


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Then the princes said unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.


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And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe and told all the words in the ears of the king.


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So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read in it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.


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Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month, and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.


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And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth.


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Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.


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Nevertheless [when] Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah made intercession to the king that he not burn the roll; he would not hear them.


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But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them.


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Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after the king burned the roll, the words which Baruch had written at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying:


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


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And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus hath the LORD said: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou 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 hath the LORD said unto Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit upon the throne of David; and his body shall be cast out in the day to the heat and in the night to the frost.


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And I will visit upon him and upon his seed and upon his servants, their iniquity; and I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the men of Judah all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they did not hearken.


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Then Jeremiah took another roll 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 upon them many like words.:


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And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar 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 hearkened unto the words of the LORD, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.


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


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And as Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.)


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Thus hath the LORD, the God of Israel said; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which had come forth to help you, has returned to Egypt into their own land.


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Thus hath the LORD said; Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans have surely departed from us; for they shall not depart.


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For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you and there remained [but] wounded men among them, [yet] should they rise up each man from his tent and burn this city with fire.


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And it came to pass, 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 separate himself there in the midst of the people.


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And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.


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Then said Jeremiah [It is] false; I do not fall away to the Chaldeans. But he did not hearken to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.


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Therefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.


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When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;


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then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.


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Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, In what have I sinned against thee or against thy servants or against this people that ye have put me in prison?


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Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor against this land?


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Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.


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Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the guard and that they should give him daily a piece 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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Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,


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Thus hath the LORD said, He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he that goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey and shall live.


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Thus hath the LORD said, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.


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Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them; for this man does not seek the peace of this people, but the hurt.


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Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand, for the king can not do [any] thing against you.


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Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire; so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.


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Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king [was] 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 like to die for hunger in the place where he is, 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 thee 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 old cast clouts and old rotten rags and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.


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And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now [these] old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.


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So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.


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Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that [is] in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a word; hide nothing from me.


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Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.


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So Zedekiah the king swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD lives, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.


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Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus hath the LORD, the God of the hosts, the God of Israel said: If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:


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


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And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen 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 [thee]. Hear now the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.


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and, behold, all the women that 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, Thy friends have deceived thee and have prevailed against thee; thy feet are sunk in the mire, [and] they are turned away back.


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So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon; and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.


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But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:


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then thou shalt say unto 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 all the princes came unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all those words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.


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So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken; and he was [there] when Jerusalem was taken.:


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In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.


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[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.


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And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate [even] Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.


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And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them and all the men of war, then they fled and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls; and [the king] went out by the way of the desert.


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But the Chaldeans' army 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, where he sentenced him.


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


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And 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 that remained in the city, and those that had come over to him, with the rest of the people that remained.


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


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Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,


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So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;


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


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Now the word of the LORD had come unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,


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Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be [accomplished] in that day before thee.


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But I will deliver thee in that day, said the LORD, and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou [art] afraid.


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For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee, because thou hast put thy trust in me, said the LORD.:


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


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And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God has pronounced this evil upon this place.


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Now the LORD has brought [it] and done according as he had said; because ye have sinned against the LORD, and did not listen to his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.


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And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which [were] upon thine hand. If it seems good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seems ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land [is] before thee; where it seems good and convenient for thee to go, go there.


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Now while he had [not yet replied] that he would go back, [the captain said], Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah and dwell with him among the people, or go wherever it seems convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward and sent him forth.


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Then Jeremiah came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.


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And all the princes of the army which [were] in the field, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor over the land and had committed unto him the men and the women and the children and the poor of the land, those that were not carried away captive to Babylon;


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


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And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not 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 dwell in Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us; but ye, gather ye the wine and the bread and the oil and put [them] in your vessels and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.


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Likewise when all the Jews that [were] in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and that [were] in all the lands heard how the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan,


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all these Jews returned out of all places where they were driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedalias in Mizpah, and gathered wine and much fruit.


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Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah and all the princes of the armies that [were] in the fields came to Gedaliah to Mizpah


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and said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.


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Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, I will go now, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know [it]; why should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered and the remnant in Judah perish?


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But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing, for thou dost speak falsely of Ishmael.:


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Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and [some] princes of the king, and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.


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


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Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [even] with Gedaliah at Mizpah and the Chaldean soldiers that were found there.


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that there came certain men of Shechem, of Shiloh, and of Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.


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


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And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them [and cast them] into the midst of a pit, he, and the men that [were] with him.


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But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley and of oil and of honey. So he forbare, and did not slay them among their brethren.


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Now the pit in which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] the same which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [those that were] slain.


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Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive and departed to go over to the Ammonites.


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But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies that [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 came to pass, [that] when all the people which [were] with Ishmael heard Johanan the son of Kareah and all the princes of the armies that [were] with him, then they were glad.


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So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.


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Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies that [were] with him, took all the remnant of the people which had turned from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom Johanan had caused to turn from Gibeon:


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and they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, that they might go and enter into Egypt


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


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Then all the princes of the armies, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,


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and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, [even] for all this remnant (for we are left [but] a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us)


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


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Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.


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Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will hear the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that, obeying the voice of the LORD our God, it may be well with us.


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Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies which [were] with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,


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and said unto them, Thus hath the LORD, the God of Israel said, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him,


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If ye will still abide in this land, then I will build you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up; for I repent of the evil that I have done unto you.


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Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; do not be afraid of him, said the LORD: for I [am] with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand.


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And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you and cause you to dwell in your [own] land.


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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 shofar, nor have hunger of bread; and there we will dwell:


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and now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: If ye altogether set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;


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then it shall come to pass [that] the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.


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


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: As my anger and my fury have been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my fury be poured forth upon you when ye shall enter into Egypt, and ye shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.


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The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah. Do not go into Egypt; know certainly that I have admonished you this day.


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Why did ye cause your souls to err? For ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do [it].


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And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you, but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any [thing] for which he has sent me unto you.


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Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.:


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And it came to pass, [that] when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD 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 unto Jeremiah, Thou dost speak falsely; the LORD our God has not sent thee to say, Do not go into Egypt to sojourn there:


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


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So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the princes of the armies and all the people, did not hear the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.


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But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies, took all the remnant of Judah, that had returned from [among] all the Gentiles, where they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;


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men and women and children and the king's daughters, and every soul that 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 left for the land of Egypt; because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD: thus they came [even] to Tahpanhes.


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Take great stones in thine hand and cover them with clay in a brickkiln, which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;


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and say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.


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And he shall come and smite the land of Egypt [and deliver] such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are] for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to the sword.


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And I will put fire to the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them and carry them away captives: 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 images of Bethshemesh, that [is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.:


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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwelt in the land of Egypt, which dwelt at Migdol and at Tahpanhes and at Noph and in the country of Pathros, saying,


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem and upon 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 [and] to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye, nor your fathers.


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Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.


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But they did not hearken, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.


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Therefore my fury 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 at this day.


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Therefore now thus hath the LORD, the God of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Why do ye commit [this] great evil against your souls, that ye be cut off, man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah. Why do ye not desire to have a remnant?


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In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, where ye are gone to dwell. Why do ye cut yourselves off that ye might be a curse and a reproach to all the Gentiles of the earth?


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


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They are not broken [even] unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my rights, that I set before you and before your fathers.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil and to cut off all Judah.


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


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For I will visit those that dwell in the land of Egypt as I visited Jerusalem with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence:


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so that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall escape or remain alive to return into the land of Judah, unto which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for none shall return but some fugitives.


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


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[As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.


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But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goes forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto 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 victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.


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But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have lacked all [things] and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.


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And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?


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Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people who had given him [that] answer, saying,


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The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them and did it [not] come into his mind?


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So that the LORD could no longer bear because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation and an astonishment and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.


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Because ye have burned incense and because ye have sinned against the LORD and have not listened to the voice of the LORD nor walked in his law nor in his rights, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has come upon you, as at this day.


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Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt:


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Thus hath spoken the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel, saying: Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her; ye will surely accomplish your vows and surely perform your vows.


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Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, said the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD lives.


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Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine until there is an end of them.


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Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, so that all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.


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And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will visit you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:


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thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those that seek his soul; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his soul.:


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The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written 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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Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD has added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I have found no rest.


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Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD said thus: Behold, I destroy those whom I have built up and those whom I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land.


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And dost thou seek great things for thyself? seek [them] not; for, behold, I bring evil upon all flesh, said the LORD: but I will give thee thy life as a spoil [of battle] in all places where thou goest.:


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To Egypt: against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.


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Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the brigandines.


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Why have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down and are fled in haste, and do not look back: [for] fear [was] round about, said the LORD.


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Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they stumbled and fell toward the north by the river Euphrates.


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Egypt rises up like a flood, and [his] waters move like rivers; and he said, I will go up [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.


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Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.


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But this day [shall be] unto the Lord GOD of the hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries; and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood; for it [shall be a] slaughter unto the Lord GOD of the hosts in the north country [by] the river Euphrates.


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Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] there is no cure for thee.


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The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry has filled the land; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are both fallen together.


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The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt.


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Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.


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He multiplied the fallen; yea, one fell upon another; and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our nativity, away from the overcoming sword.


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They cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he allowed the appointed time to pass [by].


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[As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of the hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come.


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O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall be a pasture and shall be made desolate without an inhabitant.


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Also her soldiers [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also turned back, [and] all fled away without stopping: because the day of their calamity was come upon them [and] the time of their visitation.


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Her voice shall go forth like a serpent; for they shall march with an army and come against her with axes as hewers of wood.


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They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, for they cannot be counted because they are more than the locusts; they [are] innumerable.


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


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The LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel, said: Behold, I will visit the multitude of Alexandria, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] those that trust in him.


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And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their soul and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterward it shall be inhabited, [as] in the days of old, saith the LORD.


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But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return and be in rest and be prospered, and no one shall make [him] afraid.


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Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the Gentiles where I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but I will chastise thee with judgment; and I will not completely cut thee off.:


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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Palestinians, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.


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Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, waters rise up out of the north and shall be an overflowing flood and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the cities and those that dwell therein; then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.


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At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands;


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because of the day that comes to destroy all the Palestinians, [and] to cut off from Tyre and Zidon every helper that remains: for the LORD will destroy the Palestinians, the remnant of the island of Caphtor.


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Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?


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O thou sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.


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How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD has given it a charge against Ashkelon and against the sea shore? there has he appointed it.:


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Against Moab thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Woe unto Nebo! for it is destroyed; it is confounded; Kiriathaim is taken; Misgab is confounded and dismayed.


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Moab shall no longer be praised; they have devised evil against Heshbon, saying, Come, and let us cut it off from [being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.


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For in the ascending [road] of Luhith he that weeps shall go up weeping; for in the descending [road] of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.


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For because thou hast trusted in thy works; in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.


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And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed as the LORD has spoken.


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Give wings unto Moab that he may flee and get away, for his cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.


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Cursed [be] he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that 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 remained in him, and his scent is not changed.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will send unto him captors that shall take him captive and shall empty his vessels and break his wineskins.


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Moab is spoiled, and his cities destroyed, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, said the King whose name [is] the LORD of the hosts.


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All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken: the beautiful rod!


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Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab has come against thee [and] has dissipated thy strong holds.


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O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch; ask her that flees and her that escapes [and] say, What has happened?


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and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, those that are far and those that are near.


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Make him drunken, for he magnified [himself] against the LORD; Moab shall also wallow in his vomit, and be in derision.


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For was not Israel a derision unto thee, as if he were found among thieves? for since thou hast spoken of him, thou hast slipped.


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O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities and dwell in the rock and be like the dove [that] makes her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.


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We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness and his arrogancy and his pride and the haughtiness of his heart.


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I know his wrath, saith the LORD, but it shall have no effect; his lies shall not be to his advantage.


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Therefore I will weep over Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; [my heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.


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O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer; thy shoots are gone over the sea; they reach [even] to the sea of Jazer; the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.


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And joy and gladness shall be taken from the plentiful field and from the land of Moab; and I shall cause wine to cease from the winepresses; no one shall tread with song; [their song shall be] no song.


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The cry, from Heshbon [even] unto Elealeh, [and even] unto Jahaz, they have uttered their voice; from Zoar [even] unto Horonaim, [as] a heifer of three years old; for the waters of Nimrim shall also be destroyed.


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Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offers upon [an] altar and him that burns incense to his gods.


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Therefore my heart shall sound like flutes for Moab, and my heart shall sound like flutes for the men of Kirheres because the riches [that] he has gotten are perished.


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For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard shaved: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon all the loins sackcloth.


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[There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which there [is] no pleasure, said the LORD.


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They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all those about him.


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The cities are taken, and the strong holds are taken, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.


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And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people because he has magnified [himself] against the LORD.


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He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for I will bring upon him, [even] upon Moab, the year of their visitation, said the LORD.


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Those that fled from the force stood under the shadow of Heshbon; because fire came forth out of Heshbon and a flame from the midst of Sihon and burned the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the rebellious sons.


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Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh have perished; for thy sons are taken prisoners into captivity, and thy daughters [are] captives.


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Yet I will turn again the captivity of Moab in the last of the times, said the LORD. Thus far [is] the judgment of Moab.:


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Concerning the Ammonites, thus hath the LORD said: Does Israel have no sons? does he have no heir? why [then] does their king inherit Gad and his people dwell in his cities?


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Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be [made] a desolate heap, and her cities shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel be heir unto those that were his heirs, said the LORD.


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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament and run to and fro by the hedges, for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together.


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Why gloriest thou in the valleys? Thy valley has slipped, O backsliding daughter that trusted in her treasures, she that saith, Who shall come against me?


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Behold, I bring fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts, from all sides; and ye shall be driven out each man right forth in the direction he is facing; and no one shall gather up him that wanders.


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Concerning Edom, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? Has the counsel of the wise perished? Is their wisdom corrupted?


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Flee, turn back, hide in the deeps to remain, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, at the time [that] I have to visit him.


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If grapegatherers came against thee, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, they will take what they have need of.


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But I will make Esau bare, I will uncover his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself; his seed shall be destroyed, and his brethren and his neighbours and he shall no longer be.


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For thus hath the LORD said: Behold, those who were not condemned to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and shalt thou be absolved of everything? Thou shalt not be absolved, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].


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For I have sworn by myself, said the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.


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I have heard the news, that from the LORD a messenger had been sent unto the Gentiles, [saying], Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.


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Thy arrogance has deceived thee, [and] the pride of thine heart, O thou that dost dwell in the clefts of the rock, that dost hold the height of the mountain: though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from there, said the LORD.


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Also Edom shall be a desolation; every one that goes 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 the neighbour [cities] thereof, said the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.


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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the strong habitation: for I will make rest and make him run from upon her, and he who [is] chosen I shall appoint over her; for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?


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Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that he has taken against Edom; and his thoughts, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely he shall destroy their habitations with them.


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The earth is moved at the noise of their fall; at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.


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Behold, he shall rise up and fly as the eagle and spread his wings over Bozrah; and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.


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Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad, for they have heard bad news; they have melted in waters of feebleness; they cannot be reassured.


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Damascus is waxed feeble [and] turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on [her]; anguish and sorrows have taken her as 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 cut off in that day, said the LORD of the hosts.


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Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote, thus hath the LORD said; Arise ye, go up to Kedar and destroy the men of the east.


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Their tents and their flocks shall they take away; they shall take to themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels; and they shall invoke fear on every side against them.


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Flee, get you far off, dwell in the deeps that [ye] may stand, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, said the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you and has conceived a purpose against you.


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Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation that dwells without care, saith the LORD, which has neither gates nor bars, [which] dwells alone.


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And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter them into all [the] winds, throwing them out unto the utmost corner; and from all their sides I will bring their ruin, said the LORD.


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And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons [and] a desolation for ever: no man shall abide there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it.


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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet regarding Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Behold, I break the bow of Elam, the foundation of their might.


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And upon Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.


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For I will cause Elam to fear before their enemies and before those that seek their soul; and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, said the LORD; and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.


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And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from there the king and the princes, said the LORD.


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But it shall come to pass in the last of the days [that] I will turn again the captivity of Elam, said the LORD.:


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The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet.


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Declare ye among the Gentiles, and publish, and set up a banner; publish, [and] do not conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.


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For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and no one shall dwell therein: they shall leave, they shall depart, both man and beast.


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In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping they shall go and seek the LORD their God.


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They shall ask the way to Zion, unto where they shall turn their faces, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in an eternal covenant [that] shall never 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 restingplace.


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All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, 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 meek in front of the flocks.


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For, behold, I awake and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country, and from there they shall set themselves in array against her; she shall be taken; their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert [one], who shall not return in vain.


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And the land of the Chaldeans shall be for a spoil; all that spoil her shall come forth full, saith the LORD.


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Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced destroying my heritage, because ye filled yourselves as a heifer on grass and neighed like horses;


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your mother was sore confounded; she that bore you was ashamed: see here the latter end of the Gentiles: wilderness, dry land, and desert.


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Because of the wrath of the LORD, [she] shall not be inhabited, but she shall be completely desolate; every one that goes by Babylon shall be astonished and hiss at all her plagues.


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Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about; all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows; for she has sinned against the LORD.


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Shout against her round about; she has given her hand; her foundations are fallen; her walls are thrown down: for it [is] the vengeance of the LORD; take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.


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Cut off the sower from Babylon and him that 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 [has been like] scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away; first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Behold, I visit the king of Babylon and his land as I have visited the king of Assyria.


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And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.


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In those days, and in that time, said the LORD, 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 those whom I shall have left.


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Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it and against the inhabitants of Pekod; waste and utterly destroy after them, said the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.


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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the Gentiles!


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I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught because thou hast provoked the LORD.


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The LORD has opened his treasury and has brought forth the vessels of his indignation; for this [is] the work of the Lord GOD of the hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.


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Come against her from the ends [of the earth], open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.


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Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.


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The voice of those that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.


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Call together the archers against Babylon; all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her; for she has become proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.


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Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, said the LORD.


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Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] proud one, said the Lord GOD of the hosts; for thy day is come, the time [that] I will visit thee.


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And the proud one shall stumble and fall and have no one to raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah [were] oppressed together; and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.


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Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of the hosts [is] his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.


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A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, said the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise [men].


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A sword [is] upon the fortune-tellers; and they shall be fools: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be broken.


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A sword [is] upon their horses and upon their chariots and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they shall become as women; a sword [is] upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.


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A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up; for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are become mad upon [their] idols.


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Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall no longer be inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.


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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.


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Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.


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They shall hold the bow and the lance; they [shall be] cruel and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, [every one] put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.


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The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble; anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.


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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the strong habitation; but I will rest and will make him run from upon her; and he who shall be chosen I will appoint over her. For who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?


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Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD that he has taken against Babylon and his thoughts that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them out, and they shall destroy their habitations with them.


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At the noise of the taking of Babylon, the earth was moved, and the cry was heard among the Gentiles.:


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Thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I raise up against Babylon and against her inhabitants that rise up against me from the heart, a destroying wind.


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And I will send unto Babylon fanners that shall fan her and shall empty her land; for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.


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[I shall say] to the archer that bends his bow and unto him that lifts himself up in his brigandine, Spare ye not her young men; utterly destroy all her host.


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Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans and [those that are] thrust through in her streets.


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For Israel and Judah have not been made widows of their God, of the LORD of the hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.


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Flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver each one his soul that ye not perish because of her iniquity, for this [is] the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.


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Babylon [has been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand that made all the earth drunken: the Gentiles have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.


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Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.


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We applied [the medicine to] Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go each one into his own land; for her judgment is come unto heaven and is lifted up [even] to the clouds.


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The LORD has brought our righteousness to light; come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.


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Make bright the arrows; gather the shields; the LORD has awakened the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his thought [is] against Babylon to destroy her; for it [is] vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.


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Set up the banner upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has deliberated and shall put into effect that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.


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O thou that dwellest among many waters, rich in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.


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The LORD of the hosts has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they shall sing the song [of the winepress] against thee.


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He is the one who makes the earth by his power; he upholds the world by his wisdom and extends the heavens by his intelligence;


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he who gives with [his] voice a multitude of waters from heaven, then he causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings with the rain and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.


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Every man has become carnal and is without knowledge; let every founder be ashamed of the graven 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 them; for he [is] the Former of all things; and [Israel is] the rod of his inheritance; the LORD of the hosts [is] his name.


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Thou [art] my hammer, O weapons of war: for with thee I will break in pieces the Gentiles, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms;


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and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee I will break in pieces the chariots and their riders;


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with thee also I will break in pieces men and women; and with thee I will break in pieces old and young; and with thee I will break in pieces young men and virgins;


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I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee I will break in pieces dukes and princes.


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And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, said the LORD.


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Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, said the LORD, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee and roll thee down from the rocks and will make thee a burnt mountain.


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And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, said the LORD.


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Set ye up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the Gentiles, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause [the] horses to come up as raised up locusts.


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Prepare the nations against her: the kings of Media, the captains thereof, and all the princes thereof, and all the land of their dominion.


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And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every thought of the LORD is confirmed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.


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The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight; they have remained in [their] holds; their might has failed; they became as women: the [enemies] have burned her dwellingplaces; they have broken her bars.


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One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken in all places,


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And the fords were taken, and they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war were astounded.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor; [it is] now time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.


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Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicates; he has cast me out.


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The violence against me and my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I judge thy cause and shall take thy vengeance; and I will dry up her sea and make her flowing [waters] dry.


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And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.


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In their heat I will place their feasts [before them], and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.


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How is Sheshach a prey! and how is she who was the praise of the whole earth taken! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the Gentiles!


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Her cities were devastated, the land dry and desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither shall [any] son of man pass thereby.


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And I will visit Bel himself in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the Gentiles shall not flow together any more unto him; and the wall of Babylon shall fall.


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Come out of the midst of her, my people, and save each one his life from the fierce anger of the LORD.


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And lest your heart faint, and ye fear because of the news that shall be heard in the land; in one year shall the news come, and after that in the [next] year [shall come] the rumour, and [then shall come] the violence in the land, and the ruler over him who rules.


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Therefore, behold, the days come that I will visit the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be ashamed, and all her dead shall fall in the midst of her.


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Then the heavens and the earth and all that [is] therein shall sing praises over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, said the LORD.


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As Babylon [has caused the] dead of Israel to fall, so because of Babylon [the] dead of all the earth fell.


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Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, do not tarry: remember the LORD for many days, and remember Jerusalem.


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We are ashamed, because we have heard the reproach; confusion has covered our faces; for strangers are come against the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will visit her graven images; and through all her [land the wounded] unto death shall groan.


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Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strength upon high, [yet] from me shall destroyers come unto her, said the LORD.


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Because the LORD destroys Babylon and takes out of her the many thunders, her waves shall roar; like many waters shall be the sound of their voice:


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because the destroyer is come against her, [even] upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bow is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite.


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And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep an eternal sleep and shall not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of the hosts.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly cast down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and peoples and nations shall labour in vain in the fire [to save her], and they shall become weary.


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The word which Jeremiah the prophet sent to Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And [this] Seraiah [was] the chief steward of the bedchambers.


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So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon.


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And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon and shalt see and shalt read all these things;


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then thou shalt say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that no one shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.


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And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates;


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and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be overcome. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.:


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Zedekiah [was] twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


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For because of the anger of the LORD against Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out of his presence, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


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Therefore it came to pass after nine years of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day of] the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem and pitched camp against it and built forts against it round about.


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And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.


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Then the city was breached, 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, and they went by the way of the desert, even though the Chaldeans [were] by the city round about.


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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and took Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.


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So they took the king and caused him to come up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath where he pronounced the sentence upon him.


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And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.


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But he put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains; and the king of Babylon caused him to be taken to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.


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And in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, [who] served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem


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and burned the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burned with fire:


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And all the army of the Chaldeans, that [were] with the captain of the guard, destroyed all the walls of Jerusalem round about.


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Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive [certain] of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and the fugitives that had fled to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.


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But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left [certain] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.


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Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.


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The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, they took away.


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And the basins, and the censers, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; [that] which [was] of gold [in] gold, and [that] which [was] of silver [in] silver, the captain of the guard took away.


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The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels could not be weighed.


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And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof [was] four fingers: [it was] hollow.


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And a chapiter of brass [was] upon it; and the height of one chapiter [was] five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all [of] brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates [were] like unto these.


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And there were ninety-six pomegranates on a side; [and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] one hundred round about.


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And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door.


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He also took out of the city a eunuch, who had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of those that were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land for war; and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.


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So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.


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And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.


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This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three Jews:


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In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons:


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In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons [were] four thousand six hundred.


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And it came to pass 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 spoke kindly unto him and set his seat above the seat of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon


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And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every thing in its day for all the [days] of his life, until the day of his death.:


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[Aleph] How does the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! The great one among the nations is become as a widow; the princess of provinces is become tributary.


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[Beth] She weeps sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort [her]; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.


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[Gimel] Judah is gone into captivity because of the affliction and because of the greatness of the servitude; she dwells among the Gentiles; she finds no rest; all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.


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[Daleth] The streets of Zion mourn because there are none to come to the solemnities; all her gates [are] destroyed; her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.


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[He] Her enemies have been made the head; those who hated her have been prospered; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her rebellions; her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.


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[Vau] And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed; her princes are become like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.


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[Zain] Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction and of her rebellions and of all her desirable things that she had in the times of old when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and no one helped her; the enemies saw her [and] mocked at her days of rest.


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[Cheth] Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed; all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness; yea, she sighs and is turned backward.


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[Teth] Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she did not remember her latter end; therefore she came down surprisingly; she has no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified [himself].


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[Jod] The enemy has spread out his hand upon all her precious things, and [she] saw the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.


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[Caph] All her people sought their bread with sadness; they have given all their precious things for food to maintain life; see, O LORD, and consider, for I am [become] vile.


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[Lamed] [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is come unto me because the LORD has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.


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[Mem] From upon high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; he has spread a net for my feet; he has turned me back; he has made me desolate [and] always with pain.


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[Nun] The yoke of my rebellions is bound in his hand; they are wreathed [and] come up upon my neck; he has made my strength to fall; the Lord has delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up.


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[Samech] The Lord has trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me; he has called a company against me to crush my young men; the Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah [as] in a winepress.


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[Ain] For these [things] I weep; my eyes, my eyes stream with water because the comforter that gives rest unto my soul has left me; my sons are desolate because the enemy prevailed.


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[Pe] Zion spread forth her hands and has no comforter; the LORD gave a commandment against Jacob that his enemies [should] besiege him; Jerusalem was an abomination in the midst of them.


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[Tzaddi] The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his mouth; hear now, all the peoples and see my sorrow; my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.


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[Koph] I called unto my lovers, [but] they have deceived me; my priests and my elders in the city perished seeking food to maintain their lives.


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[Resh] Look, O LORD; for I [am] in distress; my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled; abroad the sword bereaves; at home [there is] as death.


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[Schin] They have heard that I sigh; and there is no comforter for me; all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it]. Thou hast brought the day [that] thou hast spoken of, but they shall be like unto me.


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[Tau] Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my rebellions; for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] filled with pain.:


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[Aleph] How has the Lord darkened the daughter of Zion in his anger! He has cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel and not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger!


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[Beth] The Lord has destroyed and has not forgiven; he has destroyed in his wrath all the habitations of Jacob; he has thrown down to the ground the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.


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[Gimel] He has cut off in [his] fierce anger all the horn of Israel; he has caused his right hand to draw back in the presence of the enemy, and he burned in Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devours round about.


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[Daleth] He has bent his bow like an enemy; he strengthened his right hand as an adversary and slew everything of beauty that could be seen in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he poured out his fury like fire.


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[He] The Lord was as an enemy, he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all her palaces; he has dissipated his strong holds and has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.


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[Vau] And he has violently taken away his tabernacle as [if it were of] a garden; he has destroyed his congregation; the LORD has caused the solemnities and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and has rejected in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.


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[Zain] The Lord has cast off his altar; he has abhorred his sanctuary; he has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have shouted in the house of the LORD as in the day of a feast.


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[Cheth] The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he has stretched out the line; he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they were destroyed together.


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[Teth] Her gates were thrown to the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes [are carried off] among the Gentiles; there is no law; nor have her prophets found vision from the LORD.


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[Jod] The elders of the daughter of Zion sat upon the ground [and] are silent: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; the daughters of Jerusalem hung their heads down to the ground.


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[Caph] My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.


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[Lamed] They said to their mothers, Where [is] the wheat and the wine? fainting as the dead in the streets of the city, pouring out their souls into their mothers' bosom.


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[Mem] What witness shall I take to thee? Or unto whom shall I liken thee O daughter of Jerusalem? Unto whom shall I compare thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach [is] as great as the sea: who shall heal thee?


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[Nun] Thy prophets have preached vanity and foolishness unto thee; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity but have preached unto thee vain prophecies and digressions.


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[Samech] All that passed by clapped [their] hands over thee and whistled and wagged their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], [Is] this the city that [men] called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?


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[Pe] All thine enemies opened their mouth regarding thee; they whistled and gnashed their teeth; they said, Swallow [her] up; certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found it, we have seen [it].


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[Ain] The LORD has done [that] which he had determined; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded from [the] time of old; he has destroyed and has not forgiven; and he has caused [thine] enemy to rejoice over thee; he has raised up the horn of thine adversaries.


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[Tsade] Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion; let tears run down like a river day and night; give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.


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[Koph] Arise, cry out in the night; in the beginning of the watches; pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord; lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street.


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[Resh] Look, O LORD, and consider unto whom thou hast shaken thus. Shall the women eat their fruit, the little ones that they are bringing up? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?


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[Schin] The young and the old lay on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men fell by the sword; thou hast slain [them] in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed [and] hast not forgiven.


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[Tau] Thou hast called as to a day of solemnity my terrors from everywhere, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger no one escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up my enemy has consumed.:


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[Caph] But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.


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[Aleph] How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are scattered through the crossings of every street.


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[Beth] The sons of Zion, precious and esteemed more than pure gold, how are they taken for earthen vessels, the work of the hands of the potter!


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[Gimel] Even the sea monsters draw out the breast; they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people [is] cruel like the ostriches in the wilderness.


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[Daleth] The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and there was no one to break it unto them.


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[He] Those that did feed delicately are made desolate in the streets; those that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.


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[Vau] For the iniquity of the daughter of my people has increased more than the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and companies did not camp upon her.


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[Zain] Her Nazarites were whiter than snow; they were more radiant than milk; their composure had more fire than the precious stones cut from sapphire:


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[Cheth] Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered; it is dry like a stick.


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[Teth] [Those] slain with the sword are better than [those] slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the earth.


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[Jod] The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.


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[Caph] The LORD has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured the foundations thereof.


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[Lamed] The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world never believed that the adversary and the enemy would enter in through the gates of Jerusalem.


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[Mem] For the sins of her prophets [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,


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[Nun] They have wandered blindly in the streets; they were polluted in blood, so that no one could touch their garments.


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[Samech] They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not because they were contaminated; and [when they were] thrust through, they said among the Gentiles, They shall never dwell here again.


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[Pe] The anger of the LORD has separated them; he will never look upon them again. They did not respect the countenance of the priests, nor did they have compassion on the elders.


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[Ain] As for us, our eyes have failed in seeking our vain help; in our watching we have watched for people [that] cannot save [us].


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[Tzaddi] They hunt our steps that we cannot walk in our streets; our end came near; our days were fulfilled; for our end is come.


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[Koph] Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the heaven; they pursued us upon the mountains; they laid wait for us in the wilderness.


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[Resh] The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we had said, Under his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.


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[Schin] Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup shall also pass even unto thee; thou shalt be drunken and shalt vomit.


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[Tau] The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will never cause thee to be carried away again; he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover thy sins.:


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Now it came to pass at thirty years, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I [was] among the captives by the river of Chebar, [that] the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.


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the word of the LORD came [expressly] unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.


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And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, and [a] great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness [was] about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.


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Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance: they had the likeness of man.


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And their feet [were] straight feet; and the sole of their feet [was] like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like the colour of highly burnished brass.


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And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and their faces and their wings on [all] four sides.


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With their wings they joined one to another; they did not return when they went; they went each one straight in the direction they were facing.


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And the likeness of their faces was human faces; and lion faces, on the right side; and they four had ox faces on the left side; likewise they four had eagle faces.


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Thus [were] their faces; and their wings [were] stretched upward; two [wings] of each one [were] joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.


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And they went each one straight forward in the direction they were facing: wherever the Spirit directed them to go, they went; [and] they did not return when they went.


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As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of fire [and] like the appearance of [lit] torches; the [fire] went up and down among the living creatures and the brightness of the fire; and out of the fire went forth lightning.


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Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold a wheel upon the earth with its four rims by the living creatures.


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The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like unto the colour of a [stone of] Tarsis [or beryl]; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their workmanship [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.


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And when the living creatures went, the wheels went with them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.


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Wherever the spirit wished to go, they went; wherever the spirit directed them, the wheels also rose up after them: for the spirit of the living creatures [was] in the wheels.


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When those went, [these] went; and when those stood, [these] stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up after them: for the spirit of the living creatures [was] in the wheels.


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And over the heads of each living creature there appeared a heaven like a marvellous crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.


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And under the heaven their wings [were] straight one toward the other: each one had two, and another two which covered their bodies.


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And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, as the voice of the Almighty, when they went; the voice of the word, as the voice of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.


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And there was heard a voice from the heaven that [was] over their heads, when they stood, [and] had let down their wings.


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And above the heaven that [was] over their heads [was] the figure of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the figure of the throne [was] a likeness as the appearance of a man seated upon it.


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And I saw something that looked like the colour of amber, that appeared to have fire round about within it, which could be seen from his loins upward; and from his loins downward, I saw what looked like fire, and it had brightness round about


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that looked like the bow of heaven that is in the clouds in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round about. This [was] the vision of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And I saw it and fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.:


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And spirit entered into me when he spoke unto me and set me upon my feet, and I heard him that spoke unto me.


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And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the sons of Israel, to rebellious Gentiles that have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have rebelled against me, [even] unto this very day.


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And to sons [that have] hard faces and strong hearts do I send thee; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said.


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And they will not hear nor forbear (for they [are] a rebellious house), but they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.


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And thou, son of man, do not be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, for they are rebels; though thou find thyself among thorns and thy dwelling be with briers, do not be afraid of their words, nor fear before them, for they are a rebellious house.


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But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Do not be rebellious like the rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.


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and he spread it before me; and it [was] written within and without; and [there was] written therein lamentations and mourning and woes.:


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And he said unto me, Son of man, eat what thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.


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And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. I ate it and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.


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Then he said unto me, Son of man, go and enter into the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.


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For thou [art] not sent to a people of a profound speech nor of a hard language, [but] to the house of Israel;


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not to many peoples of profound speech nor of hard language, whose words thou can not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.


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But the house of Israel will not desire to hear; for they do not desire to hear me: for all the house of Israel [are] impudent and hardhearted.


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Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.


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As diamond harder than flint I have made thy forehead: do not fear them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they [are] a rebellious house.


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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.


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And go, and enter in among the captives, unto the sons of thy people, and thou shalt speak unto them, and tell them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said, They will not hear, nor forbear.


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And the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of great thunder of the blessed glory of the LORD [leaving] his place,


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and the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of great thunder.


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And the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.


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And I came unto the captives at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there disheartened among them seven days.


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Son of man, I have placed thee as a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me.


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When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die and thou dost not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, that he might live, the same wicked [man] shall die for his iniquity; but his blood I will require at thine hand.


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Yet if thou warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.


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Again, When the righteous [man] turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die because thou hast not given him warning; he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at thy hand.


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Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous [man] that the righteous not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.


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And the hand of the LORD came upon me there; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will talk with thee there.


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Then I arose and went forth into the plain, and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar; and I fell on my face.


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Then spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet, and [he] spoke with me and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.


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And thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them;


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and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth that thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they [are] a rebellious house.


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But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: He that hears, let him hear, and he that forbears; let him forbear: for they [are] a rebellious house.:


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and lay siege against it and build a fort against it and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set [battering] rams against it round about.


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And take an iron pan and set it [for] a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it and it shall be for an encompassment, and thou shalt lay siege against the [city]. This [shall be] a sign to the house of Israel.


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Thou shalt sleep upon thy left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.


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For I have summed up [for] thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.


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And when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt sleep on thy right side [this] second time, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: [a] day for [a] year; I have appointed thee [each] day for [a] year.


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Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm [shall be] uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against her.


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And, behold, I laced bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn from one side to another until thou hast ended the days [appointed thee] upon thy sides.


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Take also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and fitches and put them in one vessel and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.


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And thy food which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time shalt thou eat it.


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Thou shalt also drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.


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And thou shalt eat barley cakes baked under the ashes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight.


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And the LORD said, Even thus shall the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.


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Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul is not defiled: for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth.


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Then he said unto me, Behold, I give thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with it.


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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the sustenance of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anguish; and they shall drink water by measure, and with terror.


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For they shall lack bread and water, and terrorize one another, and faint because of their iniquity.:


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And thou, son of man, take a sharp knife, take a barber's razor, and cause [it] to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard; then take balances to weigh, and divide the [hair].


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Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part [and] smite about it with a knife; and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.


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Then take of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire; [for] thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: This [is] Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the Gentiles and of the lands [that are] round about her.


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And she has changed my judgments and my statutes into wickedness more than the Gentiles and more than the lands that [are] round about her; for they have disregarded my judgments and my commandments and have not walked in them.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because [I] multiplied you more than the Gentiles that [are] round about you, ye have not walked in my commandments, neither have ye kept my judgments. Ye have not even acted according to the judgments of the Gentiles that [are] round about you.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I, even I, [am] against thee and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the Gentiles.


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And I will do in thee that which I have not done and whereunto I will not do any more the like because of all thine abominations.


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For the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee I will scatter into all the winds.


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Therefore, [as] I live, said the Lord GOD, surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy contaminations and with all thine abominations, therefore I will also destroy [thee]; neither shall my eye forgive, neither will I have mercy.


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A third part of thee shall die of pestilence, and shall be consumed with famine in the midst of thee, and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee, and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.


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Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to cease in them, and I will be comforted; and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it] in my zeal when I have accomplished my fury in them.


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And I will make thee a desert and a reproach among the Gentiles that [are] round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.


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And thou shalt be a reproach and a dishonour, and a chastisement and a terror unto the Gentiles that [are] round about thee when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction [and] which I will send to destroy you, then I will increase the famine upon you and will destroy your sustenance of bread.


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So I will send upon you famine and evil beasts that will destroy thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I, the LORD, have spoken.:


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and thou shalt say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus hath the Lord GOD said to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys: Behold, I, [even] I, bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.


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And your altars shall be desolate, and your images of the sun shall be destroyed, and I will cause your dead to fall before your idols.


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And I will lay the dead carcasses of the sons of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.


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In all your provinces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate that your altars may be laid waste and condemned, and your idols shall be destroyed and shall cease, and your images of the sun shall be cut down, and your works shall be abolished.


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Yet I will leave a remnant that ye may have [some] that shall escape the sword among the Gentiles when ye shall be scattered through the countries.


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And those that escape of you shall remember me among the Gentiles where they shall be carried captives because I am broken because of your whorish heart, which has departed from me and because of your eyes, which went a whoring after your idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD [and that] I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Smite with thine hand and stamp with thy foot and say, Alas for all the abominations of the evils of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.


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He that is far off shall die of the pestilence, and he that is near shall fall by the sword, and he that remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury in them.


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Then shall ye know that I [am] the LORD when their slain [men] shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they offered sweet savour to all their idols.


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So will I stretch out my hand upon them and make the land desolate, [even] more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.:


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and thou son of man, thus hath the Lord GOD said unto the land of Israel: The end, the end comes upon the four corners of the land.


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Now [shall be] the end upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee and will judge thee according to thy ways and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.


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And my eye shall not forgive thee, neither will I have mercy; but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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The morning comes for thee, O thou that dwellest in the land; the time comes, the day of is near, the day of trouble, and it shall not be the echo of the mountains.


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Now I will shortly pour out my fury upon thee and accomplish my anger in thee; and I will judge thee according to thy ways and place all thine abominations upon thee.


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And my eye shall not forgive, neither will I have mercy; I will recompense thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD that smites.


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Behold the day, behold, it comes; the morning is gone forth; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.


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Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; nothing [shall remain] of them, nor of their riches, nor of anything of theirs; neither [shall there be] lamentation for them.


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The time is come, the day draws near; do not let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.


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For the seller shall not return to that which is sold although they remain alive, for the vision [is] touching the whole multitude thereof and shall not be cancelled; neither shall any in the iniquity of his life strengthen himself.


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They shall blow the trumpet and make everything ready, but there [shall be] no one to go forth to the battle, for my wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.


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The sword [is] without, and the pestilence and the famine within; he that [is] in the field shall die with the sword, and he that [is] in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.


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And those that escape of them shall be upon the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each one for his iniquity.


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They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and trembling shall cover them; and shame [shall be] upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.


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They shall cast their silver in the streets and their gold far from [them] their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels because it shall be the stumblingblock of their iniquity.


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Because they turned the glory of his ornament into pride and made in her the images of their abominations of their statues; therefore I have set it far from them.


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And I gave it into the hands of the strangers for a prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.


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I will also turn my face from them, and they shall pollute my secret [place], for the destroyers shall enter into it and defile it.


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Therefore I will bring the worst of all the Gentiles, and they shall possess their houses; I will also cause the arrogance of the strong to cease; and their sanctuaries shall be defiled.


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Destruction shall come upon destruction, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then they shall seek an answer from the prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.


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The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their judgments I will judge them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.:


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And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.


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And I saw, and behold a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins downward was fire; and from his loins upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.


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And that likeness put forth his hand and took me by the locks of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the heaven and the earth and brought me in [the] visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north where the habitation of the image of jealousy [was], which provokes to jealousy.


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Then he said unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.


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He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? [even] the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here to cause me to go far away from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations.


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Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had dug in the wall, behold a door.


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So I went in and saw; and behold every form of serpent and beasts; the abomination and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed upon the wall round about.


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And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, each man with his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.


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Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the earth.


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Then he brought me to the entrance of the door of the LORD'S house which [is] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.


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Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations than these.


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And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.


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Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For after they have filled the land with evil and have returned to provoke me to anger; behold, they put the stench to my nose.


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Therefore I will also deal in fury: my eye shall not forgive, neither will I have mercy: and they shall cry in my ears with a loud voice; [yet] I will not hear them.:


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And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, The visitors of the city have come, even each one [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.


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And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lies toward the north, and each man [had] a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen with a writer's inkhorn by his side; and they went in and stood beside the brazen altar.


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And the glory of the God of Israel went up from over the cherubim, upon which he had been, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, who [had] the writer's inkhorn by his side;


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and the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry out because of all the abominations that are done in the midst of her.


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And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city and smite; do not let your eye forgive, neither have mercy.


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Slay [the] old, [the] young men, and [the] virgins, [the] children and [the] women, but do not come near anyone upon whom [is] the mark; and ye must begin from my sanctuary. Then they began with [the] men, the elders, which [were] in front of the temple.


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And he said unto them, Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain; go forth. And they went forth and slew in the city.


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And it came to pass, after they had slain them, I was left, and I fell upon my face and cried out and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the remnant of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?


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Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness, for they have said, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.


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And as for me also, my eye shall not forgive, neither will I have mercy, [but] I will recompense their way upon their head.


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And, behold, the man clothed with linen, who [had] the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done according to all thou hast commanded me.:


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Then I looked, and, behold, above the heaven that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.


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And he spoke to the man clothed with linen and said, Go in between the wheels under the cherubim and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter [them] over the city. And he went in, in my sight.


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Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house when this man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.


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And the glory of the LORD had gone up from the cherubim to the threshold of the door, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.


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And the thunder of the cherubim's wings was heard [even] to the outer court as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaks.


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And it came to pass [that] when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim; then he went in and stood among the wheels.


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And [one] cherubim stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the fire that [was] between the cherubim and took [thereof] and put [it] into the hands of [him that was] clothed with linen, who took [it] and went out.


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And when I looked, behold, four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by each cherubim; and the colour of the wheels [was] as a stone of Tarsis [or beryl].


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When they went, they went upon their four sides; they did not turn as they went, but to the place where the first one went, they followed it; they did not turn as they went.


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And all their flesh and their ribs and their hands and their wings and the wheels: they were full of eyes round about in their four wheels.


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And each one had four faces: the first face [was the face] of a cherubim; the second face [was the face] of a man; the third the face of a lion; the fourth the face of an eagle.


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And when the cherubim went, the wheels went with them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also did not turn from beside them.


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When they stood still, [these] stood still; and when they lifted up themselves, [these] lifted up themselves [also]; for the spirit of the living creatures [was] in them.


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And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight; when they went out, the wheels also [were] in front of them, and they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.


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These [were] the living creatures that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] cherubim.


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Each one had four faces, and each one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man [was] under their wings.


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And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearance and their being; each one went straight in the direction they were facing.:


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And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me through the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looks eastward; and behold at the entrance of the gate twenty-five men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.


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Then said he unto me, Son of man, these [are] the men that devise mischief and give wicked counsel in this city:


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And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and said unto me, Say: Thus hath the LORD said, Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I have understood the things that come up into your spirit.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they [are] the flesh, and it [is] the caldron; but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.


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And I will bring you out of the midst thereof and deliver you into the hands of strangers and will execute judgments in you.


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Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I must judge you in the border of Israel:


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And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD; for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither have ye acted [according to] my judgments, but according to the judgments of the Gentiles that [are] round about you.


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And it came to pass, as I was prophesying that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down upon my face and cried with a loud voice and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?


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Son of man, thy brethren, [even] thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel together, [are] they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD; unto us is this land given in possession.


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Therefore say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.


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Therefore say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will even gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.


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And they shall come there, and they shall remove all her contaminations and all her abominations from her.


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And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh:


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that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.


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But [as for those] whose heart walks after the desire of their contaminations and of their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, said the Lord GOD.


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Then the cherubim lifted up their wings and the wheels after them; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.


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And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which [is] on the east side of the city.


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Afterwards the Spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into the land of the Chaldeans to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.


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Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see and do not see; they have ears to hear and do not hear; for they [are] a rebellious house.


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Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for moving and move by day in their sight and thou shalt move from thy place to another place in their sight: they will not see for they are a rebellious house.


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And thou shalt bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving; and thou shalt go forth in the evening in their sight, as those that go forth to not return.


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In their sight thou shalt bear [it] upon [thy] shoulders [and] carry [it] forth in the night; thou shalt cover thy face, and thou shalt not look at the land; for I have set thee [for] a sign unto the house of Israel.


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And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for a journey, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought [it] forth in the night, [and] I bore [it] upon [my] shoulder in their sight.


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Say thou unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: This burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel that [are] among them.


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Say, I [am] your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: when they go to another country they shall go in captivity.


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And the prince that [is] among them shall be born upon [their] shoulders in the night, and they shall go forth; they shall dig through the wall to carry him out thereby; he shall cover his face that he not see the land with [his] eyes.


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But I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will cause him to be taken to Babylon [to] the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it though he shall die there.


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And I will scatter toward every wind all that [were] about him to help him and all his companies; and I will draw out the sword after them.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD when I shall scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them in the countries.


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But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the Gentiles where they go; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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and say unto the people of the land, Thus hath the Lord GOD said regarding the inhabitants of Jerusalem [and] the land of Israel. They shall eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with terror that her land may be desolate from all that is in it because of the violence of all those that dwell therein.


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And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Son of man, what [is] that saying [that] ye have in the land of Israel that saith, The days shall be prolonged, and every vision shall fail?


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Tell them therefore, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will make this saying to cease, and they shall not repeat this as a saying in Israel but say unto them, Those days have drawn nigh, and the fulfillment of every vision.


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Because I, the LORD, will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall no longer be prolonged, for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and will perform it, said the Lord GOD.


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Son of man, behold, [those of] the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many days [to come], and he prophesies of the times [that are] far off.


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Therefore say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: All of my words shall not be prolonged any longer, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, said the Lord GOD.:


