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And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land; and the stranger shall be added to them; yes, they shall be added to the house of Jacob.


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And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place; and they shall inherit them, and they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens; and they that took them captives shall become captives [to them]; and they that had lordship over them shall be under [their] rule.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall give you rest from your sorrow and vexation, [and from] your hard servitude in which you served them.


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And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!


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Having smitten a nation in wrath with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared [them] not, he rested in quiet.


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the trees of Lebanon also rejoice against you, and the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], From the time that you have been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.


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Hell from beneath is provoked to meet you; all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.


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All shall answer and say to you, You also have been taken, even as we; and you are numbered amongst us.


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Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth; under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering.


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How has Lucifer, that rose of the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent [orders] to all the nations is crushed to the earth.


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But you have said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven; I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north;


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They that see you shall marvel at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;


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that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.


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But you shall be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathsome carcass, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.


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As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shall you be pure; because you have destroyed My land, and have slain My people; you shall not endure forever; [you] [are] an evil seed.


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Prepare your children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.


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And I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed; thus says the Lord.


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And I will make the region of Babylon a desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell [there], and it shall come to nothing; and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be; and as I have purposed, so [the matter] shall remain;


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[even] to destroy the Assyrians upon My land, and upon My mountains; and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders.


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This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth; and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.


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Rejoice not, all you Philistines, because the yoke of him that struck you is broken; for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young asps, and their young shall come forth [as] flying serpents,


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and the poor shall be fed by him, and poor men shall rest in peace; but he shall destroy your seed with hunger, and shall destroy your remnant.


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Howl, you gates of cities; let the cities be troubled and cry, [even] all the Philistines; for smoke is coming from the north, and there is no [possibility] of living.


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And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded Zion, and by Him the poor of the people shall be saved.


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The word against the land of Moab. By night the land of Moab shall be destroyed; for by night the wall of the land of Moab shall be destroyed.


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Grieve for yourselves; for even Dibon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed; there shall you go up to weep, over Nebo of the land of Moab; howl; baldness shall be on every head, [and] all arms [shall be] wounded.


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Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets; and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl, all of you, with weeping.


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For Heshbon and Elealeh have cried; their voice was heard to Jahaz; therefore the loins of the region of Moab cry aloud; her soul shall know.


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The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is [as] a heifer of three years old; and on the Ascent of Luith they shall go up to you weeping by the way of Aroniim; she cries, Destruction, and trembling.


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Shall [Moab] even thus be delivered? For I [will] bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.


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For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moab, [even] of Eglaim; and her howling [has gone] as far as the Well of Elim.


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And the water of Dimon shall be filled with blood; for I will bring Arabians upon Dimon, and I will take away the seed of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adamah.


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I will send as it were reptiles on the land; is [not] the mount of the daughter of Zion a desolate rock?


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For you shall be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown; [even] you shall be [so], O daughter of Moab; and then do you, O Arnon,


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take farther counsel, and continually make a shelter from grief; they flee in darkness at midday; they are amazed; do not be led captive.


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The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with you; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer; for your alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth.


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And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hastening righteousness.


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We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride; your prophecy shall not be thus, [no] not thus.


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Moab shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moab; but you shall care for them that dwell in Hareseth, and you shall not be ashamed.


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The plains of Heshbon shall mourn, the vine of Sibmah; swallowing up the nations, trample her vines, even to Jazer; you shall not come together; wander in the desert; they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.


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Therefore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; Heshbon and Elealeh have cast down your trees; for I will trample on your harvest and on your vintages, and all [your plants] shall fall.


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And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they shall not at all tread wine into the vats; for [the vintage] has ceased.


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And it shall be to your shame (for Moab is wearied at the altars), that he shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, but they shall by no means be able to deliver him.


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And now I say, in three years, of the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be dishonored [with] all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honored.


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The word against Damascus. Behold, Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;


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abandoned forever, to [be] a fold and resting place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.


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And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for you are no better than the children of Israel, [even] than their glory; thus says the Lord of hosts.


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There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.


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And it shall be as if one should gather standing grain, and reap the grain off the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather heads of grain in a rich valley;


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and [as if] there should be left stubble therein, or the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or [as if] four or five should be left on their branches; thus says the Lord, the God of Israel.


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In that day a man shall trust in Him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.


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And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.


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In that day your cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaens deserted [theirs], because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.


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Because you have forsaken God your Savior, and have not been mindful of the Lord your Helper; therefore shall you plant a false plant, and a false seed.


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In the day in which you shall plant you shall be deceived; but if you sow in the morning, [the seed] shall spring up for a crop in the day in which you shall obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, you shall obtain an inheritance for your sons.


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Woe [to] the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall you be confounded; and the force of many nations shall sound like water;


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many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently; and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.


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Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.


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He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water; for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? A nation not looked for, and trodden down.


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Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.


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For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in My city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.


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Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall He take away the little clusters with pruning hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;


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And He shall leave [them] together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon them.


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In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and forever; a nation hoping and [yet] trodden down, which is in a part of a river of His land, to the place where is the name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion.


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The vision of Egypt. Behold, the Lord sits on a swift cloud, and shall come to Egypt. And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence, and their hearts shall faint within them.


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And the Egyptians shall be stirred up against the Egyptians; and a man shall fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbor, city against city, and law against law.


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And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel; and they shall inquire of their gods and their images, and them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.


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And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men, of cruel masters; and cruel kings shall rule over them; thus says the Lord of hosts.


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And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.


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And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.


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And all the green herbs round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.


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And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers shall mourn.


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And they that work at them shall be in pain, and all that make beer shall be grieved, and be pained in their souls.


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And the princes of Tanis shall be fools; [as for] the king's wise counselors, their counsel shall be turned into folly; how will you say to the king, we are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?


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Where are your wise men now? And let them declare to you, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt?


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The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up [with pride], and they shall cause Egypt to wander by tribes.


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For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.


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But in that day the Egyptians shall be as women, in fear and in trembling because of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He shall bring upon them.


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And the land of the Jews shall be for a terror to the Egyptians; whosoever shall name it to them, they shall fear, because of the counsel which the Lord of hosts has purposed concerning it.


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In that day there shall be five cities in Egypt speaking the language of Canaan, and swearing by the name of the Lord of hosts; one city shall be called the City of Asedek.


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In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the land of the Egyptians, and a pillar to the Lord by its border.


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And it shall be for a sign to the Lord forever in the land of Egypt; for they shall presently cry to the Lord by reason of them that afflict them, and He shall send them a man who shall save them; He shall judge and save them.


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And the Lord shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day; and they shall offer sacrifices, and shall vow vows to the Lord, and pay [them].


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And the Lord shall smite the Egyptians with a stroke, and shall completely heal them; and they shall return to the Lord, and He shall hear them, and thoroughly heal them.


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In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptians shall go to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians.


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In that day shall Israel be third with the Egyptians and the Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of hosts has blessed,


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saying, Blessed be My people that are in Egypt, and that are among the Assyrians, and Israel My inheritance.


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In the year that Tartan came to Azotus, when he was sent by Sargon king of the Assyrians, and warred against Azotus, and took it;


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then the Lord spoke to Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off your loins, and loose your sandals from off your feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.


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And the Lord said, As My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders to the Egyptians and Ethiopians;


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for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.


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And the Egyptians, being defeated, shall be ashamed of the Ethiopians, in whom they had trusted; for they were their glory.


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And they that dwell in this island shall say in that day, Behold, we trusted to flee to them for help, who could not save themselves from the king of the Assyrians; and how shall we be saved?


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The vision of the desert. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, [even] from such a land,


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[so] a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me; he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me; now will I groan and comfort myself.


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Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman; I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.


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For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for yourself, and declare whatever you shall see.


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Hearken with great attention, and call Uriah to the watchtower; the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night;


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and behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair; and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.


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Hear, you that are left, and you that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts, [which] the God of Israel has declared to us.


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meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.


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For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of a hireling, [and] the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail;


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and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken [it].


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The word of the valley of Zion. What has happened to you, that you now are all going up to the housetops, which help you not?


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The city is filled with shouting; your slain are not slain with swords, nor are your dead those who have died in battle.


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All your princes have fled, and [your] captives are tightly bound, and the mighty [men] in you have fled far away.


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Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.


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For [it is] a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and [there is] perplexity [sent] from the Lord of hosts; they wander in the valley of Zion; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.


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And the Elamites took [their] quivers, and [there were] men mounted on horses, and [there was] a gathering for battle.


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And it shall be [that] your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up your gates.


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And they shall uncover the gates of Judah, and they shall look in that day on the choice houses of the city.


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And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David; and they saw that they were many, and that one [had] turned the water of the old pool into the city;


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And you procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool; but you looked not to Him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not Him that created it.


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And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth;


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but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.


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And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts; for this sin shall not be forgiven you, until you die.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts, Go into the chamber, to Shebna the treasurer, and say to him, Why are you here?


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And what have you to do here, that you have hewn yourself a tomb, and made yourself a tomb on high, and have graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock?


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Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy [such] a man, and will take away your robe and your glorious crown,


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and will cast you into a great and unmeasured land, and there you shall die; and He will bring your fair chariot to shame, and the house of your prince to be trodden down.


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and I will put on him your robe, and I will grant him your crown with power, and I will give your stewardship into his hands; and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Judah.


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And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him; and I will give him the key of the house of David [upon] his shoulder. And he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.


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And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne in his father's house.


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And everyone that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed; for the Lord has spoken it.


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The word concerning Tyre. Howl, you ships of Carthage; for she has perished, and [men] no longer arrive from the land of the Citians; she is led captive.


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To whom have the inhabitants of the island become like, the merchants of Phoenice, passing over the sea


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in great waters, a generation of merchants? As when the harvest is gathered in, [so are] these traders with the nations.


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Be ashamed, O Sidon; the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.


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Who has devised this counsel against Tyre. Is she inferior? Or has she no strength? Her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.


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The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.


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And your hand prevails no more by sea, which troubled kings; the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Canaan, to destroy the strength thereof.


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And [men] shall say, You shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon; and if you depart to the Citians, neither there shall you have rest.


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And [if you depart] to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man; and it shall come to pass after seventy years, [that] Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.


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Take a harp, go about, O city, you harlot that have been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many [songs], that you may be remembered.


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And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, [that] God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.


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And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord; it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, [even] all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant [and] a memorial before the Lord.


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Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare its surface, and scatter them that dwell therein.


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And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.


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The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.


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And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, [even] the everlasting covenant.


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Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because its inhabitants have sinned; therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.


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There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.


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All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,


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these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the land shall rejoice together in the glory of the Lord; the water of the sea shall be troubled.


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Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name of the Lord shall be glorious.


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O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, [and there is] hope for the godly; but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that abhor the law.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare; for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,


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It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.


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And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a stronghold; after many generations they shall be visited.


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And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign from out of Zion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before [His] elders.


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O Lord God, I will glorify You, I will sing to Your name; for You have done wonderful things, [even] an ancient [and] faithful counsel. Amen.


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For You have made cities a heap, [even] cities [made] strong that their foundations should not fall; the city of ungodly men shall not be built forever.


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For You have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty; You shall deliver them from wicked men; [You have been] a shelter for them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.


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[We were] as faint-hearted men thirsting in Zion, by reason of ungodly men to whom You delivered us.


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And the Lord of hosts shall make [a feast] for all the nations; on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine;


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they shall anoint themselves with ointment in this mountain. Impart all these things to the nations; for this is [God's] counsel upon all the nations.


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Death has prevailed and swallowed [men] up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of [His] people from all the earth; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.


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And in that day they shall say, behold our God in whom we have trusted, and He shall save us; this [is] the Lord; we have waited for Him, and we have exalted, and will rejoice in our salvation.


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God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with wagons.


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And He shall spread forth His hands, even as He also brings down [man] to destroy [him]; and He shall bring low his pride [regarding that] in which he has laid his hands.


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And He shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down, even to the ground.


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In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judah; Behold a strong city; and He shall make salvation [its] wall and bulwark.


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who has humbled and brought down them that dwell on high; You shall cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground.


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which our soul longs for; my spirit seeks You very early in the morning, O God, for Your commandments are a light on the earth; learn righteousness, you that dwell upon the earth.


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For the ungodly one is put down; no one who will not learn righteousness on the earth, shall be able to do the truth; let the ungodly be taken away, that he may not see the glory of the Lord.


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O Lord, Your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not; but when they know they shall be ashamed; jealously shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.


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O Lord our God, take possession of us; O Lord, we know not [any] other beside You; we name Your name.


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But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise [them] up; therefore You have brought [wrath] upon [them], and slain [them], and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;


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And as a woman in labor draws near to be delivered, [and] cries out in her pain; so have we been to Your beloved.


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We have conceived, O Lord, because of Your fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of Your salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth; we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.


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The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice; for the dew from You is healing to them; but the land of the ungodly shall perish.


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Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord has passed away.


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For behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from [His] holy place on those that dwell upon the earth; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.


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In that day God shall bring [His] holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent; He shall destroy the dragon.


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I am a strong city, a city in a siege; in vain shall I water it; for it shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.


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There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? Because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that He appointed.


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they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.


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Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; did you not meditate with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?


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Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I have taken away his sin; when they have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.


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The flock that dwelt [there] shall be left, as a deserted flock; and [the ground] shall be for a long time for pasture, and there shall flocks lie down to rest.


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And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of [the grass] being parched. Come here, you woman that comes from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore He that made them shall have no pity upon them, and He that formed them shall have no mercy [upon them].


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] God shall fence [men] off from the channel of the river as far as the Brook of Egypt; but gather one by one the children of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] they shall blow the great trumpet, and the lost ones in the land of the Assyrians shall come, and the lost ones in Egypt, and shall worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.


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Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.


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Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, He shall make rest for the land.


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The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.


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And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.


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In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven [crown] of glory, to the remnant of the people.


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They shall be left in the spirit of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.


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For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink; the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred; this is [their] vision.


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To whom have we reported evils? And to whom have we reported a message? [Even to those] that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.


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by reason of the contemptuous [words] of the lips, by means of another language; for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,


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Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, [and] yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.


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Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you afflicted men, and you princes of this people that is in Jerusalem.


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Because you have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us; we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lay for the foundations of Zion a costly stone, a choice cornerstone [and] precious, for its foundations; and he that believes [on Him] shall by no means be ashamed.


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And I will cause judgment [to be] for hope, and My compassion shall be for [just] measures, and you that trust vainly in falsehood [shall fall]; for the storm shall by no means pass by you,


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except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand; if the rushing storm should come upon you, you shall be beaten down by it.


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Whenever it shall pass by, it shall overtake you; morning by morning it shall pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope.


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Learn to hear, you that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.


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The Lord shall rise up as [against] a mountain of ungodly [men], and shall be in the valley of Gibeon; He shall perform His works with wrath, [even] a work of bitterness, and His wrath shall deal strangely, and His destruction shall be strange.


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Therefore do not rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which He will execute upon all the earth.


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Will the plowman plow all the day? Or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?


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Does he not, when he has leveled the surface, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, barley, millet, and grain in your borders?


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For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;


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Alas for the city of Ariel, which David besieged. Gather your fruits year by year; eat, for you shall eat with Moab.


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And I will compass you round about like David, and will raise a mound about you, and set up towers around you.


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And your words shall be brought down to the earth, and your words shall sink down to the earth, and your voice shall be as they that speak out of the earth, and your voice shall be lowered to the ground.


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But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress you as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,


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from the Lord of Hosts; for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake, and a loud noise, a rushing tempest, and a devouring flame of fire.


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And the wealth of all the nations together, as many as have fought against Ariel, and all they that war against Jerusalem, and all who are gathered against her, and they that distress her, shall be as one that dreams in sleep by night.


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And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain. And as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain, so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against Mount Zion.


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For the Lord has made you to drink a spirit of deep sleep; and He shall close their eyes, and [the eyes] of their prophets and of their rulers, who see secret things.


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And all these things shall be to you as the words of this sealed book, which if they shall give to a learned man, saying, Read this, he shall then say, I cannot read [it], for it is sealed.


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And this book shall be given into the hands of a man that is unlearned, and [one] shall say to him, Read this; and he shall say, I am not learned.


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And the Lord has said, This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; and in vain do they worship Me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.


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Therefore behold, I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them; and I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent.


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Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? And who shall know us, or what we do?


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Shall you not be counted as clay of the potter? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, You did not form me? Or the work to the maker, You have not made me wisely?


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[Is it] not yet a little while, and Lebanon shall be changed as the mountains of Carmel, and Carmel shall be reckoned as a forest?


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And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and they that are in darkness, and they that are in mist; the eyes of the blind shall see,


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and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.


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The lawless man has been brought down, and the proud man has perished, and they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed;


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and they that cause men to sin by a word; and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offense, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the house of Jacob, whom He set apart from Abraham, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall he now change his countenance.


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But when their children shall have seen My works, they shall sanctify My name for My sake, and they sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.


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And they that erred in spirit shall know understanding, and the murmurers shall learn obedience, and the stammering tongues shall learn to speak peace.


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Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord; you have framed counsel, not by Me, and covenants not by My Spirit, to add sins to sins;


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[even] they that proceed to go down into Egypt, for they have not inquired of Me, that they might be helped by Pharaoh, and protected by the Egyptians.


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For the protection of Pharaoh shall be to you a disgrace, and [there shall be] a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.


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In vain shall they labor [in seeking] for a people which shall not profit them for help, but [shall be] for a shame and reproach.


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The vision of the quadrupeds in the desert. In affliction and distress, [where are] the lion and lion's whelp, from there also [come] asps, and the young of flying asps,[there shall they be] who bore their wealth on donkeys and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.


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Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these things shall be for [many long] days, even forever.


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who say to the prophets, Report not to us; and to them that see visions, Speak [them] not to us, but speak and report to us another error;


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Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have refused to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because you have murmured, and been confident in this respect;


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therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very close at hand.


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And its fall shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, [as] small fragments of a pitcher, so that you should not find among them a sherd, with which you might take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water.


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Thus says the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When you shall turn and mourn, then you shall be saved; and you shall know where you were, when you trusted in vanities; [then] your strength became vain, yet you would not hearken;


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but you said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee; and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.


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A thousand shall flee because of the voice of one, and many shall flee on account of the voice of five; until you are left as a signal-post upon a mountain, and as one bearing an ensign upon a hill.


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And the Lord will again wait, that He may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that He may have mercy upon you; because the Lord your God is a Judge; blessed are they that wait on Him.


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For the holy people shall dwell in Zion; and [whereas] Jerusalem has wept bitterly, [saying], Pity me; He shall pity you; when He heard the voice of your cry, He hearkened to you.


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And [though] the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction and scant water, yet they that cause you to err shall no more at all draw near to you; for your eyes shall see those that cause you to err,


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and your ears shall hear the words of them that went after you to lead you astray, who say, This [is] the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right or to the left.


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And you shall pollute the plated idols, and you shall grind to powder the gilt ones, and shall scatter them as the water of a removed [woman], and you shall thrust them forth as dung.


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Then shall there be rain to the seed of your land; and the bread of the fruit of your land shall be plenteous and rich; and your cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious place.


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And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall.


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And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of His people, and shall heal the pain of your wound.


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Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a [long] time, burning wrath; the word of His lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of His wrath shall devour like fire.


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And His breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for [their] vain error; error also shall pursue them, and overtake them.


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Must you always rejoice, and go into My holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? And must you go with a flute, as those that rejoice, into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel?


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And the Lord shall make His glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of His outstretched arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame; He shall lighten terribly, and [His wrath shall be] as water and violent hail.


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For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, [even] by the stroke in which He shall smite them.


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And it shall happen to him from every side, [that] they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against Him in turn with drums and with harps.


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For you shall be required before [your] time; has it been prepared for you also to reign? No, God has [prepared for you] a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood; the wrath of the Lord [shall be] as a trench kindled with sulphur.


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Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, [which are] a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord.


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Therefore He has wisely brought evils upon them, and His word shall not be frustrated; and He shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,


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[even] an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there is no help [in them]; but the Lord shall bring His hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.


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For thus said the Lord unto me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and [the animals] are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath; so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon Mount Zion, [even] upon her mountains.


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As birds flying, so shall the Lord of hosts defend; He shall defend Jerusalem, and He shall rescue, and save and deliver.


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For in that day men shall renounce their silver idols and [their] golden idols, which their hands have made.


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And the Assyrian shall fall; not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword; but the young men shall be overthrown;


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for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be overcome; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus says the Lord, Blessed is he that has a seed in Zion, and household friends in Jerusalem.


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And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Zion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.


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And the heart of the weak ones shall attend to hear, and the stammering tongues shall soon learn to speak peace.


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For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and He will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.


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For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.


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Remember for a full year in pain, yet with hope; the vintage has been cut off; it has ceased, it shall by no means come again.


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[As for] the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon [it], and joy shall be removed from every house.


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[As for] the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, [and] the pleasant houses; and the villages shall be caves forever, the joy of wild donkeys, shepherds' pastures;


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until the Spirit shall come upon you from on high, and Carmel shall be desert, and Carmel shall be counted for a forest.


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And the works of righteousness shall be peace; and righteousness shall ensure rest, and [the righteous] shall be confident forever.


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And His people shall inhabit a city of peace, and dwell in [it] in confidence, and they shall rest with wealth.


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And if the hail should come down, it shall not come upon you; and they that dwell in the forests shall be in confidence, as those in the plain country.


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Woe to those that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable; and he that deals treacherously with you does not deal treacherously; those that deal treacherously shall be taken and given up, and like a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.


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Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in You; the seed of the rebellious has gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.


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By reason of the terrible sound, the nations were dismayed for fear of You, and the heathen were scattered.


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And now shall the spoils of Your small and great be gathered, as if one should gather locusts, so shall they mock You.


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They shall be delivered up to the law; our salvation is our treasure; there is wisdom and knowledge and godliness toward the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.


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Behold now, these shall be terrified with fear of you; those whom you feared shall cry out because of you; messengers shall be sent, bitterly weeping, entreating for peace.


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For the ways of these shall be made desolate; the terror of the nations has been made to cease, and the covenant with these is taken away, and you shall by no means deem them men.


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The land mourns; Lebanon is ashamed; Sharon has become a marsh; Galilee shall be laid bare, and Carmel.


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Now shall you see, now shall you perceive; the strength of your breath shall be vain; fire shall devour you.


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The sinners in Zion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?


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He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.


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He shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock; bread shall be given to him, and his water shall be sure.


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Your soul shall meditate terror. Where are the scribes? Where are the counselors? Where is he that numbers them that are growing up,


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[both] the small and great people? With whom he took not counsel, neither did he understand [a people] of deep speech, so that a despised people should not hear, and there is no understanding to him that hears.


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Behold the city of Zion, our refuge; your eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved forever, neither shall her cords be at all broken;


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for the name of the Lord is great to you; you shall have a place, [even] rivers and wide and spacious channels; you shall not go this way, neither shall a vessel with oars go [thereby.]


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For my God is great; the Lord our judge shall not pass me by; the Lord is our prince, the Lord is our king; the Lord, He shall save us.


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Your cords are broken, for they had no strength; your food has given way, it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it is given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame men take spoil.


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And the people dwelling among them shall by no means say, I am in pain; for their sin shall be forgiven them.


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Draw near, you nations; and hearken, you princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people therein.


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For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and [His] anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.


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And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their stench shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.


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And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll; and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree.


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My sword has been made drunk in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.


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The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams; for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Edom.


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And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.


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And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;


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and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up; it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,


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and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it; and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.


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And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strongholds; and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.


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And demons shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other; there shall the satyrs rest, having found for themselves [a place of] rest.


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There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young; there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.


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They passed by in [full] number, and not one of them perished; they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and His Spirit gathered them.


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And He shall cast lots for them, and His hand has portioned out [their] pasture, [saying], You shall inherit [the land] forever; they shall rest on it [throughout] all generations.


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And the desert places of the Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Lebanon has been given to it, and the honor of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of God.


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Comfort one another, you fainthearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God renders judgment, and He will render [it]; He will come and save us.


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Then shall the lame man leap as a deer, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel [of water] in a thirsty land.


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And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall [be poured] into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.


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There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray.


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And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it, nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on the Lord's behalf shall walk in it,


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and shall return, and come to Zion with joy, and everlasting joy [shall be] over their head; for on their head [shall be] praise and exaltation, and joy shall take possession of them; sorrow and pain, and groaning have fled away.


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Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the strong cities of Judah, and took them.


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And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabshakeh out of Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah with a large force; and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field.


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And there went forth to him Eliakim the steward, the [son] of Hilkiah, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the [son] of Asaph, the recorder.


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And Rabshakeh said to them, Say to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians, Why are you secure?


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Is war carried on with counsel and [mere] words of the lips? And now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?


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Behold, you trust on this bruised staff of reed, on Egypt; [as soon] as a man leans upon it, it shall go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt and all that trust in him.


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yet now make an agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you shall be able to set riders upon them.


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And how can you [then] turn to the face of the satraps? They that trust on the Egyptians for horse and rider are [our] servants.


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And now, Have we come up against this land to fight against it without the Lord? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.


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Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to him, Speak to your servants in the Syrian tongue; for we understand [it]; and speak not to us in the Jewish tongue; and why do you speak in the ears of the men on the wall?


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And Rabshakeh said to them, Has my lord sent me to your master or to you, to speak these words? [Has he] not [sent] me to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat dung, and drink [their] water together with you?


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And Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians:


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And let not Hezekiah say to you, That God will deliver you, and this city will not at all be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.


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Hearken not to Hezekiah; thus says the king of the Assyrians: If you wish to be blessed, come out to me; and you shall all eat [of] his own vine and his [own] fig trees, and you shall drink water out of your own cisterns;


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


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Let not Hezekiah deceive you, saying, God will deliver you. Have the gods of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?


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Where is the god of Hamath, and Arpad? And where is the god of Sepharvaim? Have they been able to deliver Samaria out of my hand?


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Which is the god of all these nations that has delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


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And they were silent, and none answered him a word; because the king had commanded that none should answer.


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And Eliakim the [son] of Hilkiah, the steward, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the [son] of Asaph the recorder, came in to Hezekiah, having torn their clothes, and they reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.


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And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard [it, that] he tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went up to the house of the Lord.


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And he sent Eliakim the steward, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet. And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah,


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Today is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger; for the pangs have come upon the travailing [woman], but she has not the strength to bring forth.


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May the Lord your God hear the words of Rabshakeh, which the king of the Assyrians has sent, to reproach the living God, even to reproach with the words which the Lord your God has heard; therefore you shall pray to your Lord for these that are left.


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And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not afraid at the words which you have heard, in which the ambassadors of the king of the Assyrians have reproached Me,


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Behold, I [will] send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and return to his own country, and he shall fall by the sword in his own land.


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So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.


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And Tirhakah king of the Ethiopians went forth to attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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Thus shall you say to Hezekiah king of Judah, Let not your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.


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Have you not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have destroyed the whole earth? And shall you be delivered?


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Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, [be it] Gozan, Haran, or Rezeph, which are in the land of Telassar?


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Where are the kings of Hamath? And where [is the king of] Arpad? And where [is the king] of the city of Sepharvaim, [and of] Ivah?


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And Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and opened it before the Lord.


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O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sits upon the cherubim, You alone are the God of every kingdom of the world; You have made heaven and earth.


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Incline Your ear, O Lord, hearken, O Lord; open Your eyes, O Lord, look, O Lord; and behold the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.


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For truly, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,


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and have cast their idols into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.


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But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the earth may know that You alone are God.


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And Isaiah the son of Amoz was sent to Hezekiah, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I have heard your prayer to Me concerning Sennacherib king of the Assyrians.


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This is the word which God has spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.


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Whom have you reproached and provoked? And against whom have you lifted up your voice? And have you not lifted up your eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?


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For you have reproached the Lord by messengers; for you have said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Lebanon, and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses, and I entered into the height of the forest region;


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Have you not heard of these things which I did of old? I appointed [them] from ancient times; but now have I manifested [My purpose] of desolating nations in [their] strongholds, and them that dwell in strong cities.


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I weakened [their] hands, and they withered; and they became as dry grass on the housetops, and as grass.


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And your wrath in which you have been enraged, and your rage has come up before Me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came.


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And this shall be a sign to you, Eat this year what you have sown; and the second year that which is left; and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.


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for out of Jerusalem there shall be a remnant, and the saved ones out of Mount Zion; the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not enter into this city, nor cast a weapon against it, nor bring a shield against it, nor make a rampart around it.


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But by the way in which he came, by it shall he return, and shall not enter into this city; thus says the Lord.


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And the angel of the Lord went forth, and killed out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and they arose in the morning and found all [these] bodies dead.


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And while he was worshipping Nisroch his country's god in the house, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia; and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.


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And it came to pass at that time, [that] Hezekiah was sick, even to death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give orders concerning your house; for you shall die, and not live.


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Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before You in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.


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Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, and have seen your tears; behold, I [will] add to your days fifteen years.


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And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians; and I will defend this city.


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Behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees [of the sundial] by ten degrees on the house of your father. I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.


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I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I shall part with the remainder of my years.


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I said, I shall no more see the salvation of God in the land of the living; I shall no more see the salvation of Israel on the earth; I shall no more see man.


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[My life] has failed from among my kindred; I have parted with the remainder of my life; it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that has pitched a tent takes it down [again]; my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws near to cut off [the] thread.


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In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning; so has He broken all my bones; for I was so given up from day [even] to night.


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As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn; for my eyes have failed from looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me,


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[Yea], O Lord, for it was told You concerning this; and You have revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.


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For they that are in the grave shall not praise You, neither shall the dead bless You, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for Your mercy.


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The living shall bless You, as I also [do]; for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare Your righteousness,


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O God of my salvation; and I will not cease [from] blessing You with the psaltery all the days of my life before the house of God.


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Now Isaiah had said to Hezekiah; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaster, and you shall be well.


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At that time Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, the king of Babylon, sent letters and ambassadors and gifts to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick, [even] unto death, and had recovered.


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And Hezekiah was pleased that they came, and he showed them the house of [his] spices, and of silver, gold, myrrh, incense, ointment, and all the houses of his treasures, and all that he had in his stores. And there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, which Hezekiah did not show [them].


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And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and from where did they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come to me from a land afar off, from Babylon.


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And Isaiah said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said, They have seen everything in my house; and there is nothing in my house which they have not seen, even all the [possessions] in my treasuries.


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Behold, the days are coming when they shall take all the [things that are] in your house, and all that your fathers have gathered until this day, [and they] shall go to Babylon, and they shall not leave one thing. And God said,


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They shall also take of your children whom you shall beget; and they shall make them eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians.


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And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of the Lord is good, which He has spoken; let there be peace and righteousness in my days.


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Speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away; for she has received of the Lord's hand double [for] her sins.


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The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.


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Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and all the crooked [ways] shall become straight, and the rough [places] smooth.


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And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God; for the Lord has spoken [it].


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The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.


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O you that brings glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up your voice with strength, you that brings glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!


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Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and [His] arm is with power; behold, His reward is with Him, and [His] work before Him.


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He shall tend His flock as a shepherd, and He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and He shall soothe them that are with young.


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Who has measured the water in His hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?


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Or with whom has He taken counsel, and he has instructed Him? Or who has taught Him judgment, or who has taught Him the way of understanding;


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since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, [and] shall be counted as spittle?


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Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, guilded it over, [and] made it a similitude?


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For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely inquire how he shall set up his image, and [that so] that it should not be moved.


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Will you not know? Will you not hear? Has it not been told to you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the earth?


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[It is] He that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; He that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in;


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For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground; He has blown upon them, and they have withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.


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Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [Even] He that brings forth His host by number; He shall call them all by name by [means of His] great glory, and by the power of His might; nothing has escaped you.


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For do not say, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, O Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgment, and has departed?


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And now, have you not known? Have you not heard? The eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of His understanding.


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For the young [men] shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice [men] shall be powerless;


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but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.


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Hold a feast to Me, you islands; for the princes shall renew [their] strength; let them draw near and speak together; then let them declare judgment.


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Who raised up righteousness from the east, [and] called it to His feet, so that it should go? [Who] shall appoint [it] as an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?


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Who has performed and done these things? He has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to [all] futurity, I AM.


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The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, [and] forges also; sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined; they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.


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But you, O Israel, are My servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, whom I have loved;


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whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called you, and said to you, You are My servant; I have chosen you, and I have not forsaken you.


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Fear not; for I am with you; wander not; for I am your God, who has strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with My righteous right hand.


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Behold, all your adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not; and all your opponents shall perish.


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You shall seek them, and you shall not find the men who shall insolently rage against you; for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against you shall not be.


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Fear not, Jacob, [and you] Israel few in number; I have helped you, says your God, He that redeems you, O Israel.


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Behold, I have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a wagon; and you shall thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make [them] as chaff;


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and you shall winnow [them], and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them; but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.


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And the poor and the needy shall rejoice; for [when] they shall seek water, and there shall be none, [and] their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them;


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but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains; I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses.


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that they may see, and know, and perceive, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done these [works], and the Holy One of Israel has displayed [them].


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Let them draw near, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell [us] what things were of old, and we will apply [our] understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things;


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tell us, declare to us the things that are coming on at the last [time], and we shall know that you are gods; do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time


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But I have raised up him that [comes] from the north, and him that [comes] from the rising of the sun; they shall be called by My name; let the princes come, and as potter's clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall you be trodden down.


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For who will declare the things from the beginning, that we may know also the former things, and we will say that they are true? There is no one that speaks beforehand, nor anyone that hears your words.


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For from among the nations, behold, [there was] no one; and of their idols there was none to declare [anything]; and if I should ask them, Where are you from? They could not answer Me.


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Jacob is My servant, I will help him; Israel is My elect, My soul has accepted him; I have put My Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.


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A bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench; but he shall bring forth judgment to truth.


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He shall shine out, and shall not be discouraged, until he has set judgment on the earth; and in his name shall the Gentiles trust.


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Thus says the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people in it, and spirit to them that tread on it;


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I, the Lord God, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will strengthen you; and I have given you for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles;


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to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison house.


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I am the Lord God; that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, nor My praises to graven images.


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Behold, the ancient things have come to pass, and [so will] the new things which I tell you; yes, before I declare [them] they are made known to you.


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Sing a new hymn to the Lord; you [who are] His dominion, glorify His name from the ends of the earth; you that go down to the sea, and sail upon it; the islands, and they that dwell in them.


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Rejoice, you wilderness, and the villages thereof, the hamlets, and the dwellers in Kedar; the inhabitants of the rock shall rejoice, they shall shout from the top of the mountains.


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The Lord God of hosts shall go forth, and crush the war; He shall stir up jealousy, and shall shout mightily against His enemies.


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I have been silent; shall I also always be silent and forbear; I have endured like a travailing [woman]; I will [now] amaze and wither at once.


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


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And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known; I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.


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But they are turned back; be utterly ashamed, you that trust in graven [images], who say to the molten [images], You are our gods.


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And who is blind, but My servants? And [who is] deaf, but those that rule over them? Yes, the servants of God have been made blind.


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And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered; for [there is] a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them; they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.


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Who [is there] among you that will give ear to these things? Hearken to the things which are coming to pass.


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For what did He give Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God [do it] against whom they sinned? [And] they would not walk in His ways, nor hearken to His law.


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So He brought upon them the fury of His wrath; and the war, and those that burned round about them, prevailed against them; yet none of them knew [it], neither did they take [it] to heart.


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And now thus says the Lord God that made you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed you, I have called you [by] your name; you are Mine.


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And if you pass through water, I am with you; and the rivers shall not overflow you; and if you go through the fire, you shall not be burned; the flame shall not burn you.


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For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves you; I have made Egypt and Ethiopia your ransom, and [have given] Seba for you.


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Since you became precious in My sight, you have become glorious, and I have loved you; and I will give men for you, and princes for your life.


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Fear not; for I am with you; I will bring your seed from the east, and will gather you from the west.


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I will say to the north, Bring; and to the south, Keep not back; bring My sons from the [land] afar off, and My daughters from the ends of the earth;


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[even] all who are called by My name; for I have prepared him for My glory, and I have formed him, and have made him;


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and I have brought forth the blind people; for [their] eyes are alike blind, and those that have ears are deaf.


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All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them; who will declare these things? Or who will declare to you things from the beginning? Let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.


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Be My witnesses, and I [too am] a witness, says the Lord God, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know, and believe, and understand that I am [He]; before Me there was no other God, and after Me there shall be none.


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I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange [god] among you; you are My witnesses, and I am the Lord God,


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even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of My hands; I will work, and who shall turn it back?


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Thus says the Lord God that redeems you, the Holy One of Israel; for your sakes I will send to Babylon, and I will stir up all that flee, and the Chaldeans shall be bound in ships.


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who brought forth chariots and horse, and a mighty multitude; but they have laid down, and shall not rise; they are extinct, as quenched flax.


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Behold, I [will] do new things, which shall presently spring forth, and you shall know them; and I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land;


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the beasts of the field shall bless Me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to My chosen race,


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You have not brought Me the sheep of your whole burnt offering; neither have you glorified Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with sacrifices, neither have I wearied you with frankincense.


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Neither have you purchased for Me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of your sacrifices; but you stood before Me in your sins, and in your iniquities.


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I, [even] I, am He that blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and your sins; and I will remember [them] no more.


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Put Me in rememberance, and let us contend [together]; confess your transgressions first, that you may be justified.


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And the princes have defiled My sanctuaries; so I gave Jacob [to enemies] to destroy, and Israel to reproach.


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Thus says the Lord God that made you, and He that formed you from the womb; You shall yet be helped; fear not, My servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.


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For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land; I will put My Spirit upon your seed, and My blessings upon your children;


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One shall say, I am God's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, I am God's, and shall call himself by the name of Israel.


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Thus says God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him; I am the First and I am the Last; beside Me there is no God.


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Who is like Me? Let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for Me from the time that I made man forever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.


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Hide not yourselves, nor go astray; have you not heard from the beginning, and [have] I [not] told you? You are witnesses if there is a God beside Me.


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But they that framed [false gods] did not then hearken; and they that engraved [images] are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed


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and all by whom they were made have withered; yes, let all the deaf be gathered from [among] men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together;


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For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions [the idol] with an ax, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm; and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.


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The artificer, having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.


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He cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted, [even] a pine tree, and the rain made it grow,


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that it might be for men to burn; and having taken part of it he warms himself; yes, they burn part of it, and bake loaves on it; and [of] the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.


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Half of it he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied, and having warmed himself he says, I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and have seen the fire.


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They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.


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And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on its coals and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.


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Know that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul; see, you will not say, [There is a] lie in my right hand.


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Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel; for you are My servant; I have formed you [to be] My servant; and do not forget Me, O Israel.


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For behold, I have blotted your transgressions out as a cloud, and your sin as darkness; turn to Me, and I will redeem you.


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Rejoice, you heavens; for God has had mercy upon Israel; sound the trumpet, you foundations of the earth; you mountains, shout [with] joy, you hills, and all the trees therein; for God has redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.


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Thus says the Lord that redeems you, and who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord that performs all things; I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.


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Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of [man]? Turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;


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and confirming the word of His servant, and verifying the counsel of His messengers; who says to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Edom, You shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.


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Who bids Cyrus, Be wise, and he shall perform all My will; who says to Jerusalem, You shall be built, and I will lay the foundation of My holy house.


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Thus says the Lord God to My anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings; I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed.


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I will go before you, and will level mountains; I will break to pieces the bronze doors, and burst the iron bars.


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And I will give you the treasures of darkness, I will open to you hidden, unseen [treasures], that you may know that I, the Lord your God, that call you by name, am the God of Israel.


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For the sake of My servant Jacob, and Israel My elect, I will call you by your name, and accept you; but you have not known Me.


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For I am the Lord God, and there is no other God beside Me; I strengthened you, and you have not known Me.


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That they that [come] from the east and they that [come] from the west may know that there is no God but Me. I am the Lord God, and there is none beside.


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I am He that prepared light, and formed darkness; who makes peace, and creates calamity; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.


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Let the heavens rejoice from above, and let the clouds rain righteousness; let the earth bring forth, and blossom [with] mercy, and bring forth righteousness likewise; I am the Lord that created you.


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What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? Shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? Shall the thing formed answer Him that formed it?


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As though one should say to [his] father, What will you beget me? And to his mother, What are you bringing forth?


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For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who has formed the things that are to come, Inquire of Me concerning My sons, and concerning the works of My hands, ask of Me.


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I have made the earth, and man upon it; with My hand I have established the heavens; I have given commandment to all the stars.


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I have raised him up [to be] a king with righteousness, and all his ways are right; he shall build My city, and shall turn the captivity of My people, not for ransoms, nor for rewards, says the Lord of hosts.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts, Egypt has labored [for you]; and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over to you, and shall be your servants; and they shall follow after you bound in fetters, and shall pass over to you, and shall bow down to you, and make supplication to you; because God is in you; and there is no God beside You, [O Lord].


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All that are opposed to Him shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall walk in shame; you isles, keep a feast to Me.


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Israel is saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; they shall not be ashamed nor confounded forever.


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Thus says the Lord that made the heaven, this God that created the earth, and made it; He marked it out, He made it not in vain, but formed it to be inhabited; I am the Lord, and there is no other.


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I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth; I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek vanity; I, even I, am the Lord, speaking righteousness, and proclaiming truth.


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Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, you that escape from the nations. They that set up wood, [even] their graven image, have no knowledge, nor do they who pray to gods that do not save.


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If they will declare, let them draw near, that they may know together, who has caused these things to be heard from the beginning; then was it told you. I am God, and there is not another beside Me; a just [God] and a Savior; there is none besides Me.


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Turn to Me, and you shall be saved, you that [come] from the end of the earth; I am God, and there is none other.


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By Myself I swear, righteousness shall surely proceed out of My mouth; My words shall not be frustrated; that to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear by God,


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saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to Him; and all that remove them from their borders shall be ashamed.


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By the Lord shall they be justified, and in God shall all the seed of the children of Israel be glorified.


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Bel has fallen, Nebo is broken to pieces, their graven images have gone to the wild beasts and the cattle; you take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and [at the same time] helpless man;


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Hear Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by Me] from the womb, and taught [by Me] from infancy, [even] to old age;


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I am [He]; and until you have grown old, I am [He]; I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.


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They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.


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They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move; and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.


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[Therefore r]emember these things, and groan; repent, you that have gone astray, return in your heart;


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declaring beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together; and I said, all My counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned;


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calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned; I have spoken, and brought [him]; I have created and made [him]; I have brought him, and prospered his way.


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I have brought near My righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from Me; I have given salvation in Zion to Israel for glory.


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Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called tender and luxurious.


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Take a millstone, grind meal; remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.


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Your shame shall be uncovered, your reproaches shall be brought to light; I will exact of you due vengeance, I will no longer deliver you to men.


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Sit down, you that are pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; you shall no more be called the strength of a kingdom.


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I have been provoked with My people; you have defiled My inheritance; I gave them into your hand, but you did not extend mercy to them; you made the yoke of the aged man very heavy,


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and said, I shall be a princess forever; you did not perceive these things in your heart, nor did you remember the latter end.


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But now hear these words, you luxurious one, that sits [at ease], that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.


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But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,


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for your trusting in wickedness; for you said, I am, and there is not another; know therefore the understanding of these things and your harlotry shall be your shame; for you said in your heart, I am, and there is not another.


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And destruction shall come upon you, and you shall not be aware; [there shall be a] pit, and you shall fall into it; and grief shall come upon you, and you shall not be able to be clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon you, and you shall not know.


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Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited.


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You are wearied in your counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver you, let them that see the stars tell you what is about to come upon you.


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Behold, they all shall be burned up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because you have coals of fire, sit upon them;


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these shall be your help. You have wearied yourself with traffic from your youth; every man has wandered to his own home, but you shall have no deliverance.


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Hear these [words], you house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making mention [of it, but] not with truth, nor with righteousness;


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maintaining also the name of the holy city, and staying themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is His name. The former things I have already declared;


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and they that have proceeded out of My mouth, and it became well known; I wrought suddenly, and [the events] came to pass.


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And I told you of old what [would be] before it came upon you; I made it known to you, lest you should say, [My] idols have done [it] for me; and should say, [My] graven and molten images have commanded me.


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You have heard all this, but you have not known; yet I have made known to you the new things from henceforth, which are coming to pass, and you said not,


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Now they come to pass, and not formerly; and you did not hear of them in former days; do not say, Yes, I know them.


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You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears; for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.


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For My own sake will I show you My wrath, and will bring before you My glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy you.


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Behold, I have sold you, [but] not for silver; but I have rescued you from the furnace of affliction.


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For My own sake I will do [this] for you, because My name is profaned; and I will not give My glory to another.


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My hand also has founded the earth, and My right hand has fixed the sky; I will call them, and they shall stand together.


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And all shall be gathered, and shall hear; who has told them these things? Out of love to you I have fulfilled your desire on Babylon, to abolish the seed of the Chaldeans.


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Draw near to Me, and hear these words; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; when it took place, there was I, and now the Lord, [even] the Lord, and His Spirit, has sent me.


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Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the Holy One of Israel; I am your God, I have shown you how you should find the way in which you should walk.


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And if you had hearkened to My commandments, [then] would your peace have been like a river, and your righteousness as a wave of the sea.


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Your seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your belly as the dust of the ground; neither now shall you by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall your name perish from before Me.


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Go forth of Babylon, you that flee from the Chaldeans; utter aloud a voice of joy, and let this be made known, proclaim it to the end of the earth; say, The Lord has delivered His servant Jacob.


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And if they shall thirst, He shall lead them through the desert; He shall bring forth water to them out of the rock; the rock shall be split, and the water shall flow forth, and My people shall drink.


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Hearken to Me, you islands; and attend, you Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, says the Lord; from my mother's womb He has called my name;


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and He has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and He has hid me under the shadow of His hand; He has made me as a choice shaft, and He has hid me in His quiver;


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Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing; therefore is my judgment with the Lord, and my labor before my God.


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And now thus says the Lord, who formed me from the womb to be His own servant, to gather Jacob to Him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.


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And He said to me, [It is] a great thing for you to be called My servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel; behold, I have given you for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the end of the earth.


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Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes; kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord's sake; for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen you.


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Thus says the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I have formed you, and given you for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages;


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saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and [bidding] them that are in darkness, show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths [shall be] their pasture.


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They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them; but He that has mercy on them shall comfort [them], and by fountains of waters shall He lead them.


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Behold, these shall come from far; [and] these from the north and the west, and others from the land of the Persians.


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Rejoice, you heavens; and let the earth be glad; let the mountains break forth [with] joy; for the Lord has had mercy on His people, and has comforted the lowly ones of His people.


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Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? But if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget you, says the Lord.


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And you shall soon be built by those by whom you were destroyed, and they that made you desolate shall go forth from you.


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Lift up your eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and have come to you. [As] I live, says the Lord, you shall clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on, as a bride in her attire.


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For your deserted and marred and ruined [places] shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured you shall be removed far from you.


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For your sons whom you have lost shall say in your ears, The place [is too] narrow for me; make room for me that I may dwell.


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And you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these? Whereas I [was] childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? And I was left alone; but from where did these come to me?


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Thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lift up My hand to the nations, and I will lift up My signal to the islands; and they shall bring your sons in [their] bosom, and shall bear your daughters on [their] shoulders.


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And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their princesses your nurses, they shall bow down to you on the face of the earth, and shall lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on Me shall not be ashamed.


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Will anyone take spoils from a giant? And if one should take [a man] captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?


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For thus says the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes [them] from a mighty [man] shall be delivered; for I will plead your cause, and I will deliver your children.


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And they that afflicted you shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunk; and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers you, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.


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Thus says the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? Or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, you are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.


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Why did I come, and there was no man? [Why] did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not My hand strong to redeem? Or can I not deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die of thirst.


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The Lord, [even] God, gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word; He has appointed for me early, He has given me an ear to hear;


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I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting;


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but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never be ashamed,


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for He that has justified me draws near. Who is he that pleads with me? Let him stand up against me at the same time; yea, who is he that pleads with me? Let him draw near to me.


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Behold, the Lord, the Lord will help me; who will hurt me? Behold, all you shall grow as old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.


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Who is among you that fears the Lord? Let him hearken to the voice of His servant; you that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon God.


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Behold, you all kindle a fire, and feed a flame; walk in the light of your fire, and in the flame which you have kindled. This has happened to you for my sake; you shall lie down in sorrow.


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Hearken to Me, you that follow after righteousness, and seek the Lord; look to the solid rock, which you have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which you have dug.


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Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.


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And now I will comfort you, O Zion; and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exaltation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.


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Hear Me, hear Me, My people; and you kings, hearken to Me; for a law shall proceed from Me, and My judgment [shall be] for a light of the nations.


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My righteousness speedily draws near, and My salvation shall go forth as light, and on My arm shall the Gentiles trust; the isles shall wait for Me, and on My arm shall they trust.


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Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath; for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner; but My righteousness shall not fail.


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Hear Me, you that know judgment, the people in whose heart is My law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.


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For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by a moth, [so shall they be consumed]; but My righteousness shall be forever, and My salvation for all generations.


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Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of your arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.


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Are you not [the One] that dried the sea, the water, [even] the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?


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For by [the help of] the Lord they shall return, and come to Zion with joy and everlasting exaltation, for praise and joy shall come upon their head; pain, grief, and groaning have fled away.


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I, [even] I, am He that comforts you; consider who you are, that you were afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who have withered as grass.


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And you have forgotten God who made you, who made the sky and founded the earth; and you were continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted you; for [whereas] he counseled to take you away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted you?


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for I am your God, that troubles the sea, and causes its waves to roar; the Lord of hosts is My name.


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I will put My words into your mouth, and I will shelter you under the shadow of My hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth; and [the Lord] shall say to Zion, You are My people.


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Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of His fury; for you have drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath;


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and there was none to comfort you of all the children whom you bore; and there was none to take hold of your hand, not even of all the children whom you have reared.


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Wherefore these things are against you; who shall sympathize with you in your grief? Downfall and destruction, famine and sword; who shall comfort you?


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Your sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.


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thus says the Lord God that judges His people: Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of calamity, the cup of My wrath; and you shall not drink it anymore.


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And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over; and you laid your body to the ground to them passing by outside.


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Awake, awake, Zion; put on your strength, O Zion; and put on your glory, O Jerusalem the holy city; for the uncircumcised and unclean shall pass through you no more.


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Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, O Jerusalem; put off the band of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.


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Thus says the Lord, My people went down before to Egypt to sojourn there; and were carried away forcibly to the Assyrians.


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And now why are you here? Thus says the Lord: Because My people were taken for nothing, wonder and howl. Thus says the Lord: On account of you My name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.


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as a season of beauty upon the mountains, as the feet of one preaching glad tidings of peace, as one preaching good news; for I will proclaim your salvation, saying, O Zion, your God shall reign.


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For the voice of them that guard you is exalted, and with the voice together they shall rejoice; for eyes shall look to eyes, when the Lord shall have mercy upon Zion.


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Let the waste places of Jerusalem break forth [in] joy together, because the Lord has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Jerusalem.


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And the Lord shall reveal His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation that [comes] from our God.


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Depart! Depart, go out from there, and touch not the unclean thing! Go you out from the midst of her; separate yourselves, you that bear the vessels of the Lord.


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For you shall not go forth with haste, neither go by flight; for the Lord shall go first in advance of you; and the God of Israel shall be [the] [One] that brings up your rear.


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As many shall be amazed at You, so shall Your face be without glory from men, and Your glory [shall not be honored] by the sons of men.


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Thus shall many nations wonder at Him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut; for they to whom no report was brought concerning Him shall see; and they who have not heard, shall consider.


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We brought a report as [of] a child before Him; [He is] as a root in a thirsty land; He has no form, nor comeliness; and we saw Him, but He had no form nor beauty.


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But His form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; [He was] a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for His face has turned from [us]; He was dishonored, and not esteemed.


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He bears our sins, and is pained for us; yet we accounted Him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction.


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But He was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; [and] by His stripes we are healed.


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All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave Him up for our sins.


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And He, because of His affliction, opened not His mouth; He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He opened not His mouth.


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In [His] humiliation His judgment was taken away; who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken away from the earth; because of the iniquities of My people He was led to death.


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And I will give the wicked for His burial, and the rich for His death; for He practiced no iniquity, nor craft with His mouth.


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The Lord also is pleased to purge Him from His stroke. If you give an offering for sin, Your soul shall see a long-lived seed;


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the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of His soul, to show Him light, and to form [Him] with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and He shall bear their sins.


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Therefore He shall inherit many, and He shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because His soul was delivered to death; and He was numbered among the transgressors; and He bore the sins of many, and was delivered up because of their transgressions.


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Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that does not travail; for more are the children of the desolate than of her that has a husband; for the Lord has said,


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Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your curtains; fix [the pins], spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pins;


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spread forth [your tent] yet to the right and the left; for your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and you shall make the desolate cities to be inhabited.


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Fear not, because you have been put to shame, neither be confounded, because you were reproached; for you shall forget your former shame, and shall no more at all remember the reproach of your widowhood.


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For [it is] the Lord that made you; the Lord of hosts is His name; and He that delivered you, He is the God of Israel, [and] shall be called [so] by the whole earth.


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The Lord has not called you as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from [her] youth, says your God.


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In a little wrath I turned away My face from you; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon you, says the Lord that delivers you.


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From the time of the water of Noah this is My [purpose]; as I swore to him at that time, [saying] of the earth, I will no more be angry with you, neither when you are threatened,


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shall the mountains depart, nor shall your hills be removed; so neither shall My mercy fail you, nor shall the covenant of your peace be at all removed; for the Lord [who is] gracious to you has spoken [it].


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Afflicted and outcast, you have not been comforted; behold, I [will] prepare carbuncle [for] your stones, and sapphire for your foundations;


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And you shall be built in righteousness; abstain from injustice, and you shall not fear; and trembling shall not come near to you.


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Behold, strangers shall come to you by Me, and shall sojourn with you, and shall run to you for refuge.


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Behold, I have created you, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing out a vessel [fit] for work; but I have created you, not for ruin, that [I] should destroy [you].


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I will not allow any weapon formed against you to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against you for judgment, you shall vanquish them all; and your adversaries shall be [condemned] thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and you shall be righteous before Me, says the Lord.


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You that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go [and] buy; and eat [and drink] wine and milk without money or price.


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Why do you value at the price of money, and [give] your labor for that which will not satisfy? Hearken to Me, and you shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.


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Give heed with your ears, and follow My ways; hearken to Me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the sure mercies of David.


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Nations which know you not shall call upon you, and peoples which are not acquainted with you shall flee to you for refuge, for the sake of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel; for He has glorified you.


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let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.


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But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is My way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from My mind.


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For as the rain shall come down, or snow from heaven, and shall not return until it has saturated the earth, and it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower, and bread for food;


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so shall My word be, whatever shall proceed out of My mouth, it shall by no means return to Me void, until all the things which I willed have been accomplished; and I will make your ways prosperous, and [will effect] My commands.


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For you shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness; for the mountains and the hills shall exalt to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.


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And instead of the bramble shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle; and the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and shall not fail.


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Thus says the Lord: Keep justice, and do righteousness; for My salvation is about to come, and My mercy shall be revealed.


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Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the Sabbaths, from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.


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Let not the stranger who attaches himself to the Lord, say, Surely the Lord will separate me from His people; and let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree.


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Thus says the Lord to the eunuchs: as many as shall keep My Sabbaths, and choose the things which I take pleasure in, and take hold of My covenant;


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I will give to them in My house and within My walls an honorable place, better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail.


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And [I will give it] to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be to Him servants and handmaids; and [as for] all that keep My Sabbaths, from profaning [them], and that take hold of My covenant,


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I will bring them to My holy mountain, and gladden them in My house of prayer; their whole burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon My altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations,


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See how they are all blinded; they have not known; [they are] dumb dogs [that] will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.


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Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding; all have followed their own ways, each according to his [will].


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See how the just man has perished, and no one lays [it] to heart; and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers; for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.


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Against whom have you been rioting? And against whom have you opened your mouth, and against whom have you loosed your tongue? Are you not children of perdition? A lawless seed?


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That is your portion, this is your lot; and to them have you poured forth drink offerings, and to these have you offered meat offerings. Shall I not therefore be angry for these things?


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and behind the posts of your door did you placed your memorials. Did you think that if you should depart from Me, you would gain? You have loved those that lay with you;


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and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased, even to hell.


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You have wearied yourself with your many ways; yet you said not, I will cease to strengthen myself; for you have done these things; therefore you have not supplicated Me.


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Through dread of whom have you feared, and lied against Me, and have not remembered, nor considered Me, nor regarded Me; yea, though when I see you I pass them by, yet you have not feared Me.


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When you cry out, let them deliver you in your affliction; for all these the wind shall take, and the tempest shall carry [them] away; but they that cleave to Me shall possess the land, and shall inherit My holy mountain.


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And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of My people.


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Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;


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I will not take vengeance on you forever, neither will I be always angry with you; for My Spirit shall go forth from Me, and I have created all breath.


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On account of sin for a little while I grieved him and struck him, and turned away My face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.


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peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are close by; and the Lord has said, I will heal them.


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Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up your voice as with a trumpet, and declare to My people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.


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They seek Me day by day, and desire to know My ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God; they now ask of Me righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God,


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saying, Why have we fasted, and You did not see? [Why] have we afflicted our souls, and You did not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts you find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power you wound.


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If you fast for quarrels and strife, and strike the lowly with [your] fists, why do you fast to Me as [you do] this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?


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I have not chosen this fast, nor [such] a day for a man to afflict his soul; although you should bend down your neck as a ring, and spread under you sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall you call a fast acceptable.


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I have not chosen such a fast, says the Lord; but do you loose every burden of iniquity, do you untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account?


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Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house; if you see one naked, clothe [him], and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.


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Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth; and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall surround you.


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Then shall you cry, and God shall hearken to you; while you are yet speaking He will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;


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and [if] you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness [shall be] as noon day;


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and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain [from] which the water has not failed.


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And your old waste desert [places] shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace.


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If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, so as not to do your pleasure on the holy days, and shall call the Sabbaths delightful, holy to God; [if] you shall not lift up your foot to work, nor speak a word in anger out of your mouth,


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then shall you trust on the Lord; and He shall bring you up to the good places of the land, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.


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Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? Or has He made His ear heavy, so that He should not hear?


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But rather, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has He turned away [His] face from you, so as not to have mercy [upon you].


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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.


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None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment; they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.


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They have hatched vipers' eggs, and weave a spider's web; and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.


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Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.


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And their feet run to wickedness, [and are] swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;


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and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.


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Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them; while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.


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They shall feel for the wall as blind [men], and shall feel [for it] as if they had no eyes; and they shall feel at noonday as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.


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They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove; we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.


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For our iniquity is great before You, and our sins have risen up against us; for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.


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We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God; we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.


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And we have turned back judgment, and righteousness has departed afar off; for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight [path].


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And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside [their] mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased Him not that there was no judgment.


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And He looked, and there was no man, and He observed, and there was none to help; so He defended them with His arm, and established [them] with [His] mercy.


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And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and placed the helmet of salvation on His head; and He clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with His cloak,


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So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they [that come] from the rising of the sun [shall fear] His glorious name; for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.


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And this shall be My covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and forever!


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Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you!


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Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and [there shall be] deep darkness on the nations; but the Lord shall appear upon you, and His glory shall be seen upon you.


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Lift up your eyes round about, and behold your children gathered; all your sons have come from far, and your daughters shall be borne on [men's] shoulders.


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Then shall you see, and fear, and be amazed in your heart; for the wealth of the sea shall come round to you, and of nations and peoples; and herds of camels shall come to you,


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and the camels of Midian and Ephah shall cover you; all from Saba shall come bearing gold, and shall bring frankincense, and they shall proclaim the salvation of the Lord.


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And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nebaioth shall come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on My altar, and My house of prayer shall be glorified.


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The isles have waited for Me, and the ships of Tarshish among the first, to bring your children from afar, and their silver and their gold with them, and [that] for the sake of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorified.


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And strangers shall build your walls, and their kings shall wait upon you; for by reason of My wrath I have struck you, and by reason of mercy I have loved you.


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And your gates shall be opened continually; they shall not be shut, day or night; to bring in to you the power of the Gentiles, and their kings as captives.


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For the nations and the kings which will not serve you shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.


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And the glory of Lebanon shall come to you, with the cypress, and pine, and cedar together, to glorify My holy place.


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And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you in fear; and you shall be called Zion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.


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Because you have become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make you a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.


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And you shall drink the milk of the Gentiles, and shall eat the wealth of kings; and shall know that I am the Lord that saves you and delivers you, the Holy One of Israel.


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And for brass I will bring you gold, and for iron I will bring you silver, and instead of wood I will bring you brass, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make your princes peaceable, and your overseers righteous.


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And injustice shall no more be heard in your land, nor destruction nor misery in your coasts; but your walls shall be called Salvation, and your gates Sculptured Work.


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And you shall no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten your night; but the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and God your glory.


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For the sun shall no more set, nor shall the moon be eclipsed; for the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be completed.


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Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, preserving that which they have planted, [even] the works of their hands, for glory.


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The little one shall become thousands, and the least a great nation; I the Lord will gather them in [due] time.


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The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me; He has sent Me to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;


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that there should be given to them that mourn in Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.


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And they shall build the old waste places, they shall raise up those that were before made desolate, and shall renew the desert cities, [even] those that had been desolate for [many] generations.


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But you shall be called priests of the Lord, the ministers of God; you shall eat the strength of nations, and shall be admired because of their wealth.


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For I am the Lord who loves righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labor to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.


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And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples; everyone that sees them shall take notice of them, that they are a seed blessed of God;


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and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for He has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy; He has put a turban on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.


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And as the earth putting forth her flowers, and as a garden its seed; so shall the Lord, [even] the Lord, cause righteousness to spring forth, and exaltation before all nations.


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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 go forth as light, and My salvation burn as a torch.


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And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and kings your glory; and one shall call you [by] a new name, which the Lord shall name.


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And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.


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And you shall no more be called Forsaken; and your land shall no more be called Desert; for you shall be called My Pleasure, and your land Inhabited; for the Lord has taken pleasure in you, and your land shall be inhabited.


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And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall your sons dwell in [you]; and it shall come to pass [that] as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over you.


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And on your walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of the Lord.


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For there is none like You, when He shall have established, and made Jerusalem a praise on the earth.


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For the Lord has sworn by His glory, and by the might of His arm, I will no more give your grain and your provisions to your enemies; nor shall strangers anymore drink your wine, for which you have labored.


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But they that have gathered them shall eat them, and they shall praise the Lord; and they that have gathered [the grapes] shall drink thereof in My holy courts.


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Go through My gates, and make a way for My people; and cast the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the Gentiles.


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For behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your Savior has come to you, having His reward and His work before His face.


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And one shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called a city sought out, and not forsaken.


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Who is this that has come from Edom, [with] red garments from Bosor? Thus fair in his apparel, with mighty strength? I speak of righteousness and saving judgment.


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I am full of trodden [grapes], and of the nations there is not a man with Me; and I trampled them in My fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.


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And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld; therefore My arm delivered them, and My anger drew near.


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I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the praises of the Lord in all things in which He recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; He deals with us according to His mercy, and according to the abundance of His righteousness.


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And He said, Is it not My people? The children surely will not be rebellious; and He became to them deliverance


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out of all their affliction; not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but [He H]imself saved them, because He loved them and spared them; He Himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.


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But they disobeyed, and provoked His Holy Spirit; so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them.


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Then he remembered the days of old, [saying], Where is He that brought up from the sea the shepherd of the sheep? Where is He that put His Holy Spirit in them?


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Who led Moses with His right hand, the arm of His glory? He forced the water [to separate] from before him, to make Himself an everlasting name.


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and as cattle through a plain; the Spirit came down from the Lord, and guided them; thus You led Your people, to make Yourself a glorious name.


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Turn from heaven, and look from Your holy habitation and [from] Your glory; where is Your zeal and Your strength? Where is the abundance of Your mercy and of Your compassions, that You have withheld Yourself from us?


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For You are our Father; for [though] Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do You, O Lord, our Father, deliver us; Your name has been upon us from the beginning.


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Why have You caused us to err, O Lord, from Your way? [And] have hardened our hearts, that we should not fear You? Return for Your servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of Your inheritance,


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We have become as at the beginning, when You did not rule over us, and Your name was not called upon us.


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If you would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from You, and they shall melt,


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as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and Your name shall be manifest among the adversaries; at Your presence the nations shall be troubled,


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From of old we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God besides You, and Your works which You will perform to them that wait for mercy.


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For [these blessings] shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember Your ways; behold, You were angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,


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and we have all become as unclean, and all our righteousness is as a filthy rag; and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us [away].


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And there is none that calls upon Your name, or that remembers to take hold of You; for You have turned Your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.


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Be not very angry with us, and remember not our sins forever; but now look on [us], for we are all Your people.


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The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire; and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.


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And for all these things You, O Lord, have withheld Yourself, and have been silent, and have brought us very low.


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I became manifest to them that asked not for Me; I was found by them that sought Me not; I said, Behold, I am [here], to a nation who called not on My name.


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I have stretched forth My hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.


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This is the people that provokes Me continually in My presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to demons, which exist not.


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They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, [even] they that eat swine's flesh, and the broth of [their] sacrifices; all their vessels are defiled;


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who say, Depart from me, draw not near to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of My wrath, a fire burns with it continually.


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their sins and [the sins] of their fathers, says the Lord, who have burned incense on the mountains, and reproached Me on the hills; I will recompense their works into their bosom.


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Thus says the Lord: As the new wine shall be found in the cluster, and they shall say, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it; so will I do for the sake of him that serves Me, for his sake I will not destroy [them] all.


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And I will lead forth the seed [that came] of Jacob and of Judah, and they shall inherit My holy mountain; and My elect and My servants shall inherit it, and shall dwell there.


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And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor [shall] be for a resting place of herds for My people, who have sought Me.


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But you are they that have left Me, and forget My holy mountain, and prepare a table for the devil, and fill up the drink offering to Fortune.


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I will deliver you up to the sword, you shall all fall by slaughter; for I called you, and you hearkened not; I spoke, and you refused to hear; and you did evil in My sight, and chose the things in which I do not delight.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall hunger; behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall thirst; behold, My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed;


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behold, My servants shall exalt with joy, but you shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.


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For you shall leave your name for a loathing to My chosen, and the Lord shall destroy you; but My servants shall be called by a new name,


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which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God; and they that swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God; for they shall forget the former affliction, it shall not come into their mind.


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For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth; and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.


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But they shall find in her joy and exaltation; for behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and My people a joy.


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And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and will be glad in My people; and there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying.


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Neither shall there be there anymore a [child that dies] untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time; for the youth shall be a hundred years [old], and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed;


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and they shall build houses, and they shall dwell in [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and shall eat its fruit.


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They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat; for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of My people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labors.


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My elect shall not toil in vain; neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] before they call, I will hearken to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What is it?


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Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and earth [shall be] the serpent's bread. They shall not injure nor destroy on My holy mountain, says the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord: Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool; what kind of a house will you build for Me? And of what kind [is to be] the place of My rest?


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For all these things are Mine, says the Lord; and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] My words?


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But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to Me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as [one that offers] swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.


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I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not hearken to Me; I spoke, and they heard not; and they did evil before Me, and chose the things in which I did not delight.


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Hear the words of the Lord, you that tremble at His word; speak, our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may appear their joy; but they shall be ashamed.


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A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompense to [His] adversaries.


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Before she that travailed has brought forth, before the birth pains came on, she escaped [it] and brought forth a male.


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Who has heard such a thing? And who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? Or has even a nation been born at once, that Zion has travailed, and brought forth her children?


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But I have raised this expectation, yet you have not remembered Me, says the Lord; behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? Says your God.


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Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all you that love her hold in her a general assembly; rejoice greatly with her, all that [now] mourn over her;


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that you may feed and be satisfied with the consolation of her bosom; that you may drink deeply, and delight yourselves with the abundance of her glory.


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For thus says the Lord: Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles; their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.


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As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.


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And you shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall thrive like grass; and the hand of the Lord shall be known to them that fear Him, and He shall threaten the disobedient.


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For behold, the Lord will come as fire, and His chariots as a storm, to render His vengeance with wrath, and His rebuke with a flame of fire.


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For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with His sword; many shall be slain by the Lord.


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They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine's flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says the Lord.


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And I [know] their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see My glory.


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And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, Lud, Mosoch, and to Tubal, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off, to those who have not heard of My name, nor seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.


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And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord with horses, and chariots, in litters [drawn by] mules with awnings, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord, as though the children of Israel should bring their sacrifices to Me with psalms into the house of the Lord.


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For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before Me, says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name continue.


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And it shall come to pass from month to month, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, [that] all flesh shall come to worship before Me in Jerusalem, says the Lord.


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And they shall go forth, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against Me; for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.


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The word of God which came to Jeremiah the [son] of Hilkiah, of the priests who dwelt in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:


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[accordingly] as the word of God came to him in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.


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And it was in the days of Joakim, son of Josiah king of Judah, until the eleventh year of Zedekiah king of Judah, [even] until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.


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Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you came forth from the womb, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.


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And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child; for you shall go to all to whomsoever I shall send you, and according to all [the words] that I shall command you, you shall speak.


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And the Lord stretched forth His hand to me, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put My words into your mouth.


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Behold, I have appointed you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.


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And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, A caldron on the fire; and the face of it is toward the north.


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And the Lord said to me, From the north shall flame forth evils upon all the inhabitants of the land.


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For behold, I call together all the kingdoms of the earth from the north, says the Lord. And they shall come, and shall set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls round about her, and against all the cities of Judah.


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And I will speak to them in judgment concerning all their iniquity, [forasmuch] as they have forsaken Me, and sacrificed to strange gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.


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Gird up your loins, and stand up, and speak all [the words] that I shall command you. Be not afraid of their face, neither be alarmed before them; for I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.


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Behold, I have made you this day as a strong city, and as a bronze wall, strong [against] all the kings of Judah and its princes, and the people of the land.


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And they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you; because I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.


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in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was holiness unto the Lord, [and] the firstfruits of His increase. All that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in Me, that they have revolted far from Me, and gone after vanities, and have become vain?


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And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land in which no man has entered, and no man has dwelt in?


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And I brought you to Carmel, that you should eat the fruits thereof, and the goods thereof; and you went in, and defiled My land, and made My heritage an abomination.


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The priest said not, Where is the Lord? And they that held by the law knew Me not: the shepherds also sinned against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.


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For go to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;


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if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but My people have changed their glory, [for that] from which they shall not be profited.


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For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.


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The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness; and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.


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And now what have you to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Gihon? And what have you to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers?


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Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you. Know then, and see, that your forsaking Me [has been] bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.


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For of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you have said, I will not serve You, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.


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Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort- how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!


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Though you should wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, [still] you are stained by your iniquities before Me, says the Lord.


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How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? Behold your ways in the burial ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening;


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she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will turn her back? None that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find her.


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Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself- for she loved strangers, and went after them.


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As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.


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They said to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have begotten me; and they have turned [their] backs to Me, and not their faces. Yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.


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And where are your gods which you have made for yourself? Will they arise and save [you] in the time of your affliction? For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.


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Why do you speak unto Me? You all have been ungodly, and you all have transgressed against Me, says the Lord.


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In vain have I smitten your children; you have not received correction. A sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you feared not.


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Therefore hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? Why have My people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to You anymore?


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Will a bride forget her attire, or a virgin her ornaments? But My people have forgotten Me days without number!


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What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? [It shall] not [be] so; moreover you have done wickedly in corrupting your ways;


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and in your hands have been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.


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Yet you said, I am innocent: only let His wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I [will] plead with you, in that you say, I have not sinned.


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For you have been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat your ways; but you shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.


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For you shall go forth from here also with your hands upon your head; for the Lord has rejected your hope, and you shall not prosper in it.


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If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall she return to him anymore? Shall not that woman be utterly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many shepherds, and have returned to Me, says the Lord.


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Lift up your eyes [and look] straight ahead, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications and your wickedness.


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And you retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself. You had a whore's face; you became shameless toward all.


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Will [God's anger] continue forever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done these bad things, as you were able.


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And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what things the house of Israel has done to Me? They have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.


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And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again to Me. Yet she returned not. And faithless Judah saw her faithlessness.


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And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a certificate of divorce) yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and also committed fornication herself.


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Go and read these words toward the north, and you shall say, Return to Me, O house of Israel, says the Lord; and I will not set My face against you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not be angry with you forever.


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Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not hearken to My voice, says the Lord.


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Turn, you children that have revolted, says the Lord; for I will rule over you. And I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Zion.


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And it shall come to pass that when you are multiplied and increased upon the land, says the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The ark of the Covenant of the Holy One of Israel. It shall not come to mind; it shall not be named; neither shall it be visited; nor shall [this] be done anymore.


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In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk anymore after the imaginations of their evil heart.


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In those days the house of Judah shall come together to the house of Israel, and they shall come, together, from the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I caused their fathers to inherit.


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And I said, So be it, Lord, for [You said] I will set you among children, and will give you a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles. And I said, You shall call me Father; and you shall not turn away from Me.


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But as a wife acts treacherously against her husband, so has the house of Israel dealt treacherously against Me, says the Lord.


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A voice from the lips was heard, [even] of weeping and supplication of the children of Israel; for they have dealt unrighteously in their ways, they have forgotten God, their Holy One.


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Turn, you children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be Your servants; for You are the Lord our God.


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Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge; but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.


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But shame has consumed the labors of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.


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We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us. Because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.


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If Israel will return to Me, says the Lord, he shall return: and if he will remove his abominations out of his mouth, and fear before Me, and swear,


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The Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and righteousness, then shall nations bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.


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For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for yourselves, and sow not among thorns.


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Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, you men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest My wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.


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Declare in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem. Say, Sound the trumpet in the land; cry aloud: say, Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.


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Gather up [your wares] and flee to Zion. Hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, and great destruction.


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The lion has gone up from his lair, he has roused [himself] to the destruction of the nations, and has gone forth out of his place, to make the land desolate; and the cities shall be destroyed, so as to be without inhabitant.


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For these things gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, and howl; for the anger of the Lord has not turned away from you.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be amazed, and the prophets shall wonder.


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And I said, O sovereign Lord, verily You have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, There shall be peace; whereas behold, the sword has reached even to their soul.


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At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, [There is] a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of My people is not to purity, nor to holiness.


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Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us, for we are in misery!


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Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved; how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?


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For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of Mount Ephraim shall be heard of.


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Remind the nations; behold, they have come. Proclaim [it] in Jerusalem, that bands are approaching from a land afar off, and have uttered their voice against the cities of Judah.


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Your ways and your devices have brought these things upon you; this is your wickedness, for [it is] bitter, for it has reached to your heart.


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I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart. My soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn. I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction.


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For all the land is distressed. Suddenly [my] tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been torn in two.


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For the princes of My people have not known Me, they are foolish and unwise children. They are wise to do evil, but [how] to do good they have not known.


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I saw, and behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of His fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.


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For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above. For I have spoken, and I will not relent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back from it.


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The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no man dwelt in them.


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And what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, and adorn yourself with golden ornaments; though you adorn your eyes with paint, your beauty [shall be] in vain. Your lovers have rejected you, they seek your life.


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For I have heard your groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, [saying], Woe is me, for my soul faints because of the slain!


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Run about in the streets of Jerusalem and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you can find [one], if there is anyone that executes judgment, and seeks faithfulness, and I will pardon them, says the Lord.


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O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.


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Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.


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I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God. But, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.


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Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them, even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities. All that go forth from them shall be hunted, for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their backslidings.


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In what [way] shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken Me, and sworn by them that are not gods. And I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses.


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Shall I not punish them for these things? Says the Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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Go up upon her battlements, and break [them] down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses; for they are the Lord's.


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For the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against Me, says the Lord: the house of Judah also


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have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty: Because you have spoken this word, behold, I have made My words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.


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Behold, I [will] bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language you shall not understand.


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and they shall devour your harvest and your bread, and shall devour your sons, and your daughters. And they shall devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive yards. And they shall utterly destroy your strong cities, in which you trusted, with the sword.


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And it shall come to pass in those days, says the Lord your God, that I will not utterly destroy you.


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And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? That you shall say to them, Because you served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.


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Hear now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:


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Will you not fear Me? Says the Lord; and will you not fear before Me, who has set the sand as a boundary for the sea, [as] a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it. Yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.


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And they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved [it] for us.


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For among My people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught [them].


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As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich.


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They have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.


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Shall I not punish for these things? Says the Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands, and My people have loved it! And what will you do for the future?


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Strengthen yourselves, you children of Benjamin, [to flee] out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a signal over Beth Haccerem; for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming.


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The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about, and shall feed [their flocks,] each with his hand.


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Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us, for the day has gone down, and the shadows of the day fail.


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For thus says the Lord, Cut down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city, she is full of oppression.


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As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, [as] continually before her.


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You shall be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.


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For thus says the Lord, Glean, glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back [your hands] as a grape-gatherer to his basket.


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To whom shall I speak and testify, that he may hear? Behold, your ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear. Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them, they will not at all desire it.


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And I allowed My wrath to come to full, yet I kept [it] in, and did not utterly destroy them. I will pour it out on the children outside, and on the assembly of young men together; for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.


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And their houses shall be turned to others, [with] their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out My hand upon the inhabitants of this land, says the Lord.


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For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all dealt falsely.


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And they healed the breach of My people [imperfectly], making light [of it], and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?


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They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who were [truly] ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace; therefore shall they [utterly] fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, says the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way and walk in it, and you shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in them].


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I have set watchmen over you, [saying], Hear the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear.


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Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evils upon this people, [even] the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded My words, and they have rejected My law.


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Why do you bring Me frankincense from Sheba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? Your whole burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasing to Me.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I [will] bring weakness upon this people, and the fathers and sons shall be weak together; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.


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Thus says the Lord, Behold, a people come from the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.


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They shall lay hold of bow and spear; [the people] are fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against you as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Zion.


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We have heard the report of them; our hands are weakened. Anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.


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Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways, for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.


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O daughter of My people, gird yourself with sackcloth; sprinkle [yourself] with ashes; make for yourself pitiable lamentation, [as] the mourning for a beloved [son]; for misery will come suddenly upon you.


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I have caused you to be tried among tried nations, and you shall know Me when I have tested their way.


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The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed. The silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.


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Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.


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Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.


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For if you thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;


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and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt;


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then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old, and forever.


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and you murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and have gone after strange gods whom you know not,


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so that it is evil with you; yet have you come, and stood before Me in the house which is called by My name, and you have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.


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Is My house, which is called by My name, a den of robbers in your eyes? And behold, I have seen [it], says the Lord.


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For go to My place which is in Shiloh, where I caused My name to dwell before, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.


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And now, because you have done all these deeds, and I spoke to you, but you hearkened not to Me; and I called you, but you answered not.


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Therefore I also will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.


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Therefore do not pray for this people, and do not intercede for them to be pitied. Yes, do not pray, and do not approach Me for them, for I will not hearken [unto you].


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Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke Me to anger.


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Do they provoke Me to anger? Says the Lord. Do they not [provoke] themselves, that their faces may be ashamed?


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, My anger and wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon every tree of their field, and upon the fruits of the land; and it shall burn, and not be quenched.


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For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt offerings and sacrifice;


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but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all My ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.


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But they hearkened not to Me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.


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From the day that their fathers went forth out of the land of Egypt, even until this day, and I sent to you all My servants the prophets, by day and early in the morning. Yes, I have sent [them],


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but they hearkened not to Me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.


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This is the nation that has not heeded the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.


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Cut off your hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on your lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.


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For the children of Judah have done evil before Me, says the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.


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And they have built the altar of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them [to do], neither did I design it in My heart.


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Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The altar of Tophet, and the valley of the son of Hinnom, but The Valley of Slaughter; and they shall bury in Tophet, for need of room.


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And the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to drive [them] away.


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And I will destroy out of the cities of Judah, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.


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At that time, says 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 out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped. They shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,


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because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place where I shall drive them out.


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For thus says the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? Or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?


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Why have My people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?


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Hearken, I pray, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? The runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.


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Even the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtledove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this My people knows not the judgments of the Lord.


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How will you say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.


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The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?


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Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to [new] inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, says the Lord.


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There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig trees, and the leaves have fallen off.


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Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before Him.


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We shall hear the neighing of His swift horses out of Dan. The whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of His horses; and He shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.


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For behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you


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Behold, [there is] a sound of the cry of the daughter of My people from a land afar off. Is not the Lord in Zion? Is there not a king there? Because they have provoked Me with their graven [images], and with strange vanities.


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For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.


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And is there no balm in Gilead, or is there no physician there? Why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?


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Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? Then would I weep for this my people day and night, [even] for the slain of the daughter of my people.


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Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? For they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.


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And they have bent their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known Me, says the Lord.


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Beware, each of his neighbor, and trust not in your brother, for everyone will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.


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Everyone will mock his friend; they will not speak truth; their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do [thus] because of the wickedness of the daughter of My people.


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Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful. [One] speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.


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Shall I not punish them for these things? Says the Lord. And shall not My soul be avenged on such a people as this?


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Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate from a lack of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle. They were amazed, they are gone.


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And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Judah, so that they shall not be inhabited.


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Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? And he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord [addressed] to him, let him tell you why the land has been destroyed, [and] has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.


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And the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them, and have not hearkened to My voice;


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but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them [to worship.]


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Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:


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and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.


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Thus says the Lord, Call the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;


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and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.


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For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Zion, How we have become wretched! We are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!


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Hear the word of God, you women, and let your ears receive the words of His mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and [every] woman her neighbor a dirge.


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For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants outside, and the young men from the streets.


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And the carcasses of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather [them].


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Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;


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but let him that boasts boast in this: the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercises mercy, and judgment, and righteousness upon the earth; for in these things is My pleasure, says the Lord.


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Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their uncircumcision:


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on Egypt, Edom, Edom, on the children of Ammon, on the children of Moab, and everyone that shaves his face round about, [even] them that dwell in the wilderness; for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised [in] their hearts.


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Thus says the Lord: Learn not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, [falling] on their faces.


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For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.


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[brought] from Tarshish, gold will come from Uphaz, and the work of goldsmiths. [They are] all the works of craftsmen, they will clothe themselves with blue and scarlet.


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They must certainly be borne, for they cannot ride [of themselves]. Fear them not, for they cannot do any evil, and there is no good in them.


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Thus shall you say to them: Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.


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It is the Lord that made the earth by His strength, who set up the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out the sky,


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and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth. He made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of His treasures.


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Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.


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Such is not the portion of Jacob; for He that formed all things, He is his inheritance; the Lord is His name.


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For thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that your plague may be discovered.


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Alas for your ruin! Your plague is grievous. And I said, Surely this is your wound, and it has overtaken you.


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Your tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all your curtains have been torn asunder. My children and my cattle are no more; there is no longer any place for my tent, [nor] place for my curtains.


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For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and [the sheep] have been scattered.


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Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, and a resting place for ostriches.


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Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that have not known You, and upon the families that have not called upon Your name; for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.


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Hear the words of this covenant, and you shall speak to the men of Judah, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem.


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And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Cursed is the man who shall not heed the words of this covenant


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


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that I may confirm My oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing [with] milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.


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And the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.


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And the Lord said to me, A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah, and among the dwellers in Jerusalem.


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They have turned [aside] to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My words, and behold, they have gone after strange gods, to serve them. And the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I bring evils upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall presently cry to Me, but I will not listen to them.


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And the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense; which shall not deliver them in the time of their troubles.


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


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So do not pray for this people, and do not intercede for them with supplication and prayer; for I will not hear in the day in which they call upon Me, in the day of their affliction.


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Why has [My] beloved done abominable [things] in My house? Will prayers and holy offerings take away your wickedness from you, or shall you escape by these things?


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The Lord has called your name a fair olive tree, of a pleasant shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against it; great is the affliction [coming] upon you. Her branches have become good for nothing.


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And the Lord that planted you has pronounced evils against you, because of the iniquity of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, whatsoever they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.


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But I, as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, did not know. Against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more.


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O Lord, [You] that judges righteously, and who tests the heart and the most secret parts, let me see Your vengeance [taken] upon them, for to You I have declared my cause.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek my life, that say, You shall not prophesy at all in the name of the Lord, but if you do, you shall die by our hands.


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Behold, I will visit them. Their young men shall die by the sword, and their sons and their daughters shall die of famine.


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And there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring evil upon the dwellers in Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.


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Righteous are You, O Lord, that I may make my defense to You: yet I will speak to You [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of the ungodly prospers? [And] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?


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You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; You are near to their mouth, but far from their mind.


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But You, O Lord, know me; You have tested my heart before You; purify them for the day of their slaughter.


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How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of the field wither, because the wickedness of them that dwell in it? The beasts and birds are utterly destroyed, because [the people] said, God shall not see our ways.


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Your feet run, and they cause you to faint; how will you prepare [to ride] upon horses? And you have been confident in the land of your peace? How will you do in the roaring of the Jordan?


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For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of you. Do not trust in them, though they shall speak fair [words] to you.


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I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given My beloved one into the hands of her enemies.


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


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Is not My inheritance to Me [like] a hyena's cave, or a cave round about her? Go, gather together all the wild beasts of the field, and let them come to devour her.


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Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have defiled My portion, they have made My desirable portion a trackless wilderness.


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It is made a complete ruin: for My sake the whole land has been utterly ruined, because there is none that takes [the matter] to heart.


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The ravagers have come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other- 8no flesh has any peace.


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Sow wheat, and reap thorns; their portions shall not profit them. Be ashamed of your boasting, because of [your] reproach before the Lord.


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For thus says the Lord concerning all the evil neighbors that touch My inheritance, which I have divided to My people Israel: Behold, I [will] draw them away from their land, and I will cast out Judah from the midst of them.


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And it shall come to pass, after I have cast them out, [that] I will return and have mercy upon them, and will cause them to dwell everyone in his inheritance, and everyone in his land.


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And it shall be, if they will indeed learn the way of My people, to swear by My name, [saying], The Lord lives; as they taught My people to swear by Baal; then shall [that nation] be built in the midst of My people.


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Thus says the Lord: Go and procure for yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.


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Take the sash that is around your waist, and get up, and 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 to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the sash from there, which I commanded you to hide there.


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So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the sash out of the place where I had buried it. And behold, it was ruined, utterly good for nothing.


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[even] this great pride [of the men] that will not listen to My words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them. And they shall be as this sash, which is profitable for nothing.


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For as a sash clings about the waist of a man, so have I caused the house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me; that they might be to Me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory. But they did not hearken to Me.


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And you shall say to this people, Every bottle shall be filled with wine. And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to you, Shall we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? That you shall say to them,


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Thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] fill the inhabitants of this land, and their kings, the sons of David that sit upon their throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and Judah and all the dwellers in Jerusalem, with strong drink.


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And I will scatter them, a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together. I will not have compassion, says the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity [to save them] from destruction.


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Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and you shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.


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But if you will not hear it, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.


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Say to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.


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The cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open [them.] Judah is removed [into captivity;] they have suffered a complete removal.


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Lift up your eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given you, the sheep of your glory?


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What will you say when they shall visit you, for you have taught them lessons to rule over you; shall not pangs seize you as a woman in travail?


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And if you should say in your heart, Why have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of your iniquity have your skirts been discovered, that your heels might be exposed.


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If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall you be able to do good, having learned [to do] evil.


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Thus is your lot, and the reward of your disobedience to Me, says the Lord. As you have forgotten Me, and trusted in lies,


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your adultery also, and your neighing, and the looseness of your fornication. On the hills and in the fields I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem, for you have not been purified so as to follow Me; how long yet [shall it be]?


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Judah has mourned, and her gates are emptied, and are darkened upon the earth; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.


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And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.


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And the labors of the land failed, because there was no rain: the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.


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The wild donkeys stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.


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Our sins have risen up against us. O Lord, do for us for Your name's sake; for our sins are many before You; for we have sinned against You.


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O Lord, [You are] the hope of Israel, and deliver [us] in times of trouble; why have You become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting place?


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Will You be as a man asleep, or as a [strong] man that cannot save? Yet You are among us, O Lord, and we are called by Your name; forget us not.


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Thus says the Lord to this people: They have loved to wander, and they have not spared, therefore God has not prospered them; now will He remember their iniquity.


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for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.


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And I said, Ah, Lord [God]! Behold, their prophets prophesy, and say, You shall not see a sword, nor shall famine be among you; for I will give truth and peace on the land, and in this place.


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Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, divinations, and worthless things, and devices of their own heart.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy lies in My name, and I sent them not, who say, Sword and famine shall not be upon this land; they shall die by a grievous death, and the prophets shall be consumed by famine.


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And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall be none to bury them. Their wives also, and their sons, and their daughters [shall die thus]; and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.


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And you shall speak this word to them: Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease; for the daughter of My people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.


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If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! And if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! For priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.


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Have You utterly rejected Judah? And has Your soul departed from Zion? Why have You stricken us, and there is no healing for us? We waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!


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Refrain for Your name's sake, destroy not the throne of Your glory. Remember, break not Your covenant with us.


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Is there anyone among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? And will the sky yield His fullness [at their bidding]? Are not You He? We will even wait on You, O Lord, for You have made all these things.


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And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before My face, My soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth.


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And it shall be, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.


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And I will punish them with four kinds [of death], says the Lord, the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.


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And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for all that he did in Jerusalem.


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Who will spare you, O Jerusalem? And who will fear for you? Or who will turn back [to ask] about your welfare?


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You have turned away from Me, says the Lord, you will go back. Therefore I will stretch out My hand, and I will destroy you, and will spare them no more.


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And I will completely scatter them; in the gates of My people they are bereaved of children. They have destroyed My people because of their iniquities.


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Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea. I have brought young men against the mother, [and] distress at noonday. I have suddenly cast trembling and anxiety upon her.


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She that bore seven is spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced. I will give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies.


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Woe is me, [my] mother! You have born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth. I have not helped [others], nor has anyone helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.


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Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before You in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for [their] good against the enemy.


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Yes, I will give your treasures for a spoil as a recompense, because of all your sins, and [that] in all your borders.


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And I will enslave you to your enemies round about, in a land which you have not known; for a fire has been kindled out of My wrath; it shall burn upon you.


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O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me. Do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for Your sake, from those who nullify Your words.


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Consume them, and Your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart. For Your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.


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I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of Your power. I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.


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Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? My wound is severe; when shall I be healed? It has indeed become to me as deceitful water that has no faithfulness.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: If you will return, then will I restore you, and you shall stand before My face. And if you will bring forth the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth; and they shall return to you; but you shall not return to them.


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And I will make you to this people as a strong bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you.


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For I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you out of the hand of wicked [men]; and I will ransom you out of the hand of pestilent [men].


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For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that have born them, and their fathers that have begotten them in this land:


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They shall die a grievous death. They shall not be lamented [over], nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky. They shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.


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Thus says the Lord: Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them, for I have removed My peace from this people.


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They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselves [for them.]


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And there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them in consolation over the dead; they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.


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For thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I [will] make the voice of joy to cease out of this place before your eyes, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.


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And it shall come to pass, when you report to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Why has the Lord pronounced all these evils against us? What is our unrighteousness? And what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?


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Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers forsook Me, says the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshipped them, and forsook Me, and kept not My law.


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(And you sinned worse than your fathers- for behold, you walk everyone after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to listen to Me).


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Therefore I will cast you off from this good land into a land which neither you nor your fathers have known. And you shall serve their other gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.


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Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north, and from all countries in which they were thrust out. And I will restore them to their own land, which I gave to their fathers.


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Behold, I [will] send many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.


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And I will recompense double for their iniquity and their sins, whereby they have profaned My land with the carcasses of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against My inheritance.


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O Lord, You are my strength and my help, and my refuge in days of evil. To You the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, How worthless [were the] idols [which] our fathers procured for themselves, and there is no help in them.


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Therefore behold, I will at this time manifest My hand to them, and will make known to them My power; and they shall know that My name is the Lord.


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Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord.


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And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert. he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren [places], and in the wilderness, in a salty land which is not inhabited.


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And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place. He shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be shady branches upon him; he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.


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I, the Lord, search the hearts, and test the mind, to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his doings.


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The partridge utters her voice; she gathers [eggs] which she did not lay. [So is a man] gaining his wealth unjustly: in the midst of his days [his riches] shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.


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O Lord, the hope of Israel, let all that have left You be ashamed, let them that have revolted be written on the earth, because they have forsaken the fountain of life, the Lord.


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But I have not been weary of following You, nor have I desired the day of man. You know the [words] that proceed out of my lips; [they] are before Your face.


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Let them that persecute me be ashamed, but let me not be ashamed. Let them be alarmed, but let me not be alarmed. Bring upon them the evil day, crush them with double destruction.


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Thus says the Lord; Go and stand in the gates of the children of your people, by which the kings of Judah enter, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.


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And you shall say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judea, and all Jerusalem, [all] who go in at these gates:


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thus says the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and take up no burdens on the Sabbath day, and go not forth [through] the gates of Jerusalem;


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and carry forth no burdens out of your houses on the Sabbath day, and you shall do no work. Sanctify the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.


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But they hearkened not, and inclined not their ear, but stiffened their neck more than their fathers [did], so as not to hear Me, and not to receive correction.


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And it shall come to pass, if you will hearken to Me, says the Lord, to carry in no burdens through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and to sanctify the Sabbath day, so as to do no work [upon it],


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that there shall enter through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, and riding on their chariots and horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the dwellers in Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever.


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And [men] shall come out of the cities of Judah, and from round about Jerusalem, and out of the land of Benjamin, and out of the plain country, and from the hill country, and from the south, bringing whole burnt offerings, sacrifices, incense, manna, and frankincense, and bringing praise to the house of the Lord.


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But it shall come to pass, that if you will not listen to Me and sanctify the Sabbath day, to bear no burdens, nor go in [with them by] the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then will I kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the streets of Jerusalem, and shall not be quenched.


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And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell [apart.] So he made it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him.


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O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? Behold, as the clay [is in] the potter's[hand], so are you in My hands.


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[If] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy [them];


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and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I relent of the disasters which I purposed to do to them.


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and they do evil before Me, so as not to heed My voice, then will I relent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.


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And now, say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare disasters against you, and devise a plan against you: let everyone turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.


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And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Inquire now among the nations, who has heard such horrible things as [what] the virgin of Israel has done?


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Will fertilizing streams fail [to flow] from a rock, or snow [fail] from Lebanon? Will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?


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For My people have forgotten Me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, [leaving] the ancient tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;


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to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing. All that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.


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I will scatter them before their enemies like an east wind. I will show them the day of their destruction.


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Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan 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 attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.


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Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they [meant] for me. Remember that I stood before Your face, to speak good concerning them, to turn away Your wrath from them.


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Therefore deliver up their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword. Let their women be childless and widows, and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.


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Let there be a cry in their houses: You shall bring upon them robbers suddenly- for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me.


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And You, O Lord, know all their deadly counsel against me: provide no atonement for their iniquities, and do not blot out their sins from before You. Let their weakness come before You; deal with them in the time of Your wrath.


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Then the Lord said to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and you shall bring [some] of the elders of the people, and of the priests.


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And you shall go forth to the burial place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there all these words which I shall speak to you.


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And you shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and men of Judah, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates. Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I [will] bring such a catastrophe upon this place, that the ears of everyone that hears it shall tingle.


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Because they forsook Me, and profaned this place, and burned incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,


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and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design [them] in My heart.


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Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Tophet, or the fall and burial place of the son of Hinnom, but the burial place of slaughter.


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And I will destroy the counsel of Judah and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives. And I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth.


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And I will bring this city to desolation and [make it] a hissing: everyone that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plagues.


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And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat, everyone the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege with which their enemies shall besiege them.


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and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.


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Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.


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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleanness in all the houses, in which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured [out] drink offerings to strange gods.


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And Jeremiah came 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, Thus says the Lord:


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Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the doom which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, [that they might not] hearken to My commands.


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Now Pashur the son of Immer, the priest, who also had been appointed chief of the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words.


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And he struck him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.


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And Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the dungeon. And Jeremiah said to him, [the Lord] has not called your name Pashur, but Exile.


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For thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] give you up to captivity with all your friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see [it]. And I will give you and all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall carry them captives, and cut them to pieces with swords.


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And I will give all the strength of this city, and all the labors of it, and all the treasures of the king of Judah, into the hands of his enemies, and they shall bring them to Babylon.


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And you and all who live in your house shall go into captivity, and you shall die in Babylon, and there you and all your friends shall be buried, to whom you have prophesied lies.


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You have deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived. You have been strong, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing stock, I am continually mocked every day.


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For I will laugh with my bitter speech, I will call upon rebellion and misery; for the word of the Lord has become a reproach to me and a mockery all my days.


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Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no longer speak in His name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear [up].


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For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, [saying], Conspire, and let us conspire together against him, [even] all his friends. Watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.


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But the Lord was with me as a mighty man of war; therefore they persecuted [me], but could not perceive [anything against me.] They were greatly confounded, for they perceived not their disgrace, which shall never be forgotten.


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O Lord, [You] who tests the righteous, [and] who understands the mind and heart, let me see Your vengeance upon them: for to You I have revealed my cause.


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Sing to the Lord, sing praises to Him: for He has rescued the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.


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Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child has been born to you.


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Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;


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because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always enlarged with me.


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Why is it that I came forth from the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?


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The word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashur, the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah, son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,


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Inquire of the Lord for us, for the king of Babylon has risen up against us. Perhaps the Lord will do according to all His wonderful works, and [the king] shall depart from us.


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Thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] turn back the weapons of war with which you fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.


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And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.


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And I will strike all the inhabitants of this city, [both] men and cattle, with grievous pestilence, and they shall die.


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And after this, thus says the Lord; I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people that are left in this city from the pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies that seek their lives, and they shall cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword. I will not spare them, and I will not have compassion upon them.


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And you shall say to this people, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of death.


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He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine; but he that goes forth to defect to the Chaldeans that have besieged you shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him, and he shall live.


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For I have set My face against this city for evil, and not for good: it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall consume it with fire.


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O house of David, thus says the Lord: Judge judgment in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that wrongs him, lest My anger be kindled like fire, and it burn, and there be none to quench [it].


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Behold, I am against you that dwell in the valley of Sor; in the plain country, [even against] them that say, Who shall alarm us? Or who shall enter into our dwellings?


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and you shall say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sit on the throne of David; you, your house, your people, and those that go in at these gates.


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Thus says the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him; and oppress not the stranger, the orphan, or widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.


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For if you will indeed perform this word, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, and riding on chariots and horses; they, their servants, and their people.


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But if you will not perform these words, by Myself have I sworn, says the Lord, that this house shall be [brought] to desolation.


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For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to Me, [and] the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a desert, [even] cities that shall not be inhabited;


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and I will bring upon you a destroying man, and his axe; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.


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And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbor, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?


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And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped strange gods, and served them.


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Weep not for the dead, nor lament for him: weep bitterly for him that goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.


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For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, who reigns in the place of Josiah his father, who has gone forth out of this place; He shall not return here anymore.


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But in that place where I have carried him captive, there shall he die, and shall see this land no more.


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[Woe to] him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work.


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You have built for yourself a well-proportioned house, [with] airy chambers, fitted with windows, and paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.


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Shall you reign because you are provoked with your father Ahaz? They shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute justice and righteousness.


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They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor- is not this your not knowing Me? Says the Lord.


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Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, even concerning this man: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah brother! Neither shall they weep for him, [saying], Alas Lord.


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He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.


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Go up to Lebanon and cry; and utter your voice to Bashan, and cry aloud to the extremity of the sea: for all your lovers are destroyed.


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I spoke to you on [occasion of] your trespass, but you said, I will not hearken. This [has been] your way from your youth, you have not hearkened to My voice.


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The wind shall tend all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; for then shall you be ashamed and disgraced because of all your lovers.


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O inhabitant of Lebanon, making your nest in the cedars, you shall groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman have come upon you.


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[As] I live, says the Lord, though Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet ring upon My right hand, yet would I pluck you off;


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and I will deliver you into the hands of them that seek you life, before whom you are afraid, into the hands of the Chaldeans.


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And I will cast you out, and your mother that bore you, into a land where you were not born; and there you shall die.


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Jeconiah is dishonored as a good for nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.


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Write this man down as childless; for by no means shall his seed ever grow up to sit on the throne of David, [or be as] a prince yet in Judah.


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Therefore thus says the Lord against them that tend My people: You have scattered My sheep, and driven them out, and you have not visited them: behold, I [will] take vengeance upon you according to your evil practices.


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And I will gather in the remnant of My people in every land, where I have driven them out, and will set them in their pasture; and they shall increase and be multiplied.


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And I will raise up shepherds to them, who shall feed them, and they shall fear no more, nor be alarmed, says the Lord.


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Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth.


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In his days both Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely. And this is his name, which the Lord shall call Him, Josedek among the prophets.


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Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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but The Lord lives, who has gathered the whole seed of Israel from the north land, and from all the countries where He had driven them out, and has restored them into their own land.


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My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken. I have become as a broken down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of His glory.


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For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course has become evil, and so [also] their strength.


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Therefore let their way be slippery and dark to them, and they shall be tripped up and fall in it; for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.


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And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led My people Israel astray.


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Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way. They have all become to Me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth [into] all the land.


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Thus says the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the words of the prophets, for they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.


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They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to everyone that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon you.


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Behold, [there is] an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come violently upon the ungodly.


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And the Lord's wrath shall return no more, until He has accomplished it, and until He has established it, according to the purpose of His heart. At the end of the days they shall understand it.


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But if they had stood in My counsel, and if they had hearkened to My words, then would they have turned My people from their evil practices.


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Shall anyone hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord.


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I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in My name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.


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How long shall [these things] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?


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Who devise that [men] may forget My law by their dreams, which they have told everyone to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name in [the worship of] Baal.


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The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and [he] in whom is My word [spoken] to him, let him tell My word truly. What is the chaff to the wheat? So are My words, says the Lord.


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Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, says the Lord God, that steal My words everyone from his neighbor.


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Therefore behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them [truly], and have caused My people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not. Therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.


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And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? Then you shall say to them, You are the burden, and I will dash you down, says the Lord.


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[As for] the prophet and the priests and the people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his house.


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Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has the Lord answered? And, what has the Lord said?


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Therefore thus says the Lord our God: Because you have spoken this word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you, saying, you shall not say, The burden of the Lord;


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therefore behold, I [will] seize and dash you down and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.


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And I will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, and everlasting disgrace, which shall not be forgotten.


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The Lord showed me two baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried Jeconiah son of Joakim king of Judah captive, [along] with the princes, the craftsmen, the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.


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The one basket was [full] of very good figs, as the early figs; and the other basket was [full] of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for they were so bad.


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And the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for they are so bad.


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Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.


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And I will fix My eyes upon them for good, and I will restore them into this land for good; and I will build them up, 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 to know Me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to Me with all their heart.


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And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; thus says the Lord: So will I deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and those that dwell in the land of Egypt.


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And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an [object of] hatred, and a curse, in every place where I have driven them out.


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And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until they are consumed from off the land which I have given them.


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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah;


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In the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, even until this day for twenty-three years, I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking,


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and I sent to you My servants the prophets, sending them early; (but you would not listen, nor incline your ear to hear) saying,


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Turn, everyone of you, from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, forever and ever.


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Do not go after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, lest you provoke Me by the works of your hands, to do you harm.


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behold I [will] send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it. And I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.


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And I will destroy from [among] them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.


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And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.


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And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have spoken against it, [even] all things that are written in this book.


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Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Take the cup of this unmixed wine from My hand, and you shall cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send you.


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Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of Judah, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing.


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and all the mixed multitude, and all the kings of the Philistines, [namely] Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Azotus,


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and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth.


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And you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty: Drink, and be drunk; and you shall vomit and fall, and shall by no means rise, because of the sword which I send among you.


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And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of your hand, to drink it, that you shall say, Thus said the Lord; You shall surely drink.


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For I am beginning to afflict the city which is called by My name, and you shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.


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And you shall prophesy against them these words, and shall say: The Lord shall speak from on high, from His sanctuary He will utter His voice. He will pronounce a declaration on His place; and these shall answer like men gathering grapes. And destruction is coming on them that dwell on the earth,


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[even] upon [the extreme] part of the earth; for the Lord [has] a controversy with the nations, He is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, says the Lord.


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Thus said the Lord: Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth.


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And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth. They shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.


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Howl, O you shepherds, and cry; lament, you rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and you shall fall as the choice rams.


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A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.


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Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and you shall declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded you to speak to them; do not leave out one word.


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Perhaps they will listen, and turn from their evil ways; then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.


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And you shall say, Thus said the Lord: If you will not hearken to Me, to walk in My statutes which I set before you,


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to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I sent to you early in the morning; yes, I sent them, but you hearkened not to Me;


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


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And the priests, and the false prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.


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And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had ceased speaking all that the Lord had ordered him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false prophets and all the people took him, saying,


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You shall surely die, because you have prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Shiloh, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.


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And the princes of Judah heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate.


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Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgment of death [is due] to this man, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.


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


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And now amend your ways and your works, and hearken to the voice of the Lord, and the Lord shall relent from the doom which He has pronounced against you.


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But be certain of this, that if you kill me, you shall bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.


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Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the false prophets; Judgment of death is not [due] to this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.


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Micah the Moreshite lived in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah, Thus says the Lord; Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.


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Did Hezekiah and all Judah in any way kill him? Was it not that they feared the Lord, and they made supplication before the Lord, and the Lord relented from the doom which He [had] pronounced against them? But we have wrought great evil against our own souls.


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And there was [another] man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath Jearim; and he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.


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And King Jehoiakim and all the princes heard all his words, and sought to kill him; and Urijah heard [it] and went to Egypt.


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and they brought him out, and brought him into the king; and he struck him with the sword, and cast him into the sepulcher of the children of his people.


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Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, to prevent his being delivered into the hands of the people, or being killed.


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and you shall send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.


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And you shall commission them to say to their masters, Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your masters:


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I have made the earth by My great power, and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it shall seem [good] in My eyes.


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I have given the earth to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labor for him.


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And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, says the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.


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And do not listen to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your soothsayers, nor your sorcerers, that say, You shall by no means work for the king of Babylon:


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But the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it shall serve him, and dwell in it.


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I spoke also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Put your neck into [the yoke], and serve the king of Babylon.


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for I sent them not, says the Lord; and they prophesy [in] My name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and you should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.


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I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord: Do not listen to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house shall return from Babylon- for they prophesy unrighteous [words] to you.


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If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet Me, for thus has the Lord said.


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the false prophet, the son of Azur, from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying,


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Then Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah in the sight of all the people, and in the sight of the priests that stood in the house of the Lord,


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and Jeremiah said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may He confirm your word which you prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place.


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Nevertheless hear the word of the Lord which I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:


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The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war.


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[As for] the prophet that has prophesied for peace, when the word has come [to pass], they shall know the prophet whom the Lord has truly sent.


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Then Hananiah took the yokes from the neck of Jeremiah in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces.


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And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus said the Lord: Thus will I break the yoke of the king of Babylon from the necks of all the nations. And Jeremiah went his way.


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And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah had broken the yokes off his neck, saying,


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Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, Thus says the Lord: You have broken the yokes of wood, but I will make yokes of iron in their place.


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For thus said the Lord: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all the nations, that they may serve the king of Babylon.


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And Jeremiah said to Hananiah, The Lord has not sent you; and you have caused this people to trust in unrighteousness.


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Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I [will] cast you off from the face of the earth- this year you shall die!


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And these are the words of the book which Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, even an epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the people:


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(after the departure of Jeconiah the king, [with] the queen, the eunuchs, every freeman and bondsman, and craftsman, out of Jerusalem)


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


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Thus said the Lord God of Israel concerning the captivity which I caused to be carried away from Jerusalem:


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and take for yourselves wives, and bear sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be not diminished.


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And seek the peace of the land into which I have carried you captive, and you shall pray to the Lord for the people: for in its peace you shall [have] peace.


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For thus says the Lord: Let not the false prophets that are among you persuade you, and let not your diviners persuade you, and hearken not to your dreams which you dream.


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For thus said the Lord: When seventy years shall be on the verge of being accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will confirm My words to you, to bring back your people to this place.


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Thus says the Lord concerning Ahab [the son of Kolaiah], and concerning Zedekiah: Behold, I [will] deliver them into the hands of the king of Babylon; and he shall slay them in your sight.


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And they shall make of them a curse in all the captivity of Judah in Babylon, saying, The Lord do to you as He did to Zedekiah, and as He did to Ahab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire;


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because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and [because] they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow citizens, and spoke a word in My name, which I did not command them [to speak], and I am witness, says the Lord.


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The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jehoida the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and you shall put them in prison, and into the dungeon.


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Did he not send for this purpose? For in the course of this month he sent to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off: build houses, and inhabit [them]; plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


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Send to the captivity, saying, Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Since Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he has made you to trust in iniquity,


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therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will visit Shemaiah and his family; and there shall not be a man of them in the midst of you to see the good which I will do for [My] people; they shall not see [it].


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For behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of My people Israel and Judah; and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be masters over it, says the Lord.


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Ask, and see if a male has ever born a child? And [ask] concerning the fear, why they shall hold their loins, and [look for] safety; for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; [their] faces are turned to paleness.


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For that day is great, and there is none like it; and it is a time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.


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In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers.


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There is none to judge your cause; you have been painfully treated for healing, there is no help for you.


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All your friends have forgotten you; they shall not ask [about you] at all, for I have smitten you with the stroke of the enemy, [even] severe correction. Your sins have abounded above all your iniquity.


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Your sins have abounded beyond the multitude of your iniquities, [therefore] they have done these things to you.


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Therefore all that devour you shall be eaten, and all your enemies shall eat all their [own] flesh. And they that spoil you shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered you.


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For I will bring about your healing, I will heal you of your grievous wound, says the Lord; for you are called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.


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Thus said the Lord: Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob, and will have pity upon his prisoners; and the city shall be built upon her hill, and the people shall settle after their manner.


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And there shall go forth from them singers, [even] the sound of men making merry, and I will multiply them, and they shall by no means be diminished.


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And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before Me, and I will visit those that afflict them.


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And their mighty ones shall be over them, and their prince shall proceed of themselves; and I will gather them, and they shall return to Me; for who is this that has set his heart to return to Me? Says the Lord.


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For the wrathful anger of the Lord has gone forth, [even] a whirlwind of anger has gone forth: it shall come upon the ungodly.


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The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until He shall execute [it], and until He shall establish the purpose of His heart. In the latter days you shall know these things.


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At that time, says the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to Me a people.


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Thus says the Lord: I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: therefore go and do not destroy Israel.


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The Lord appeared to him from afar, [saying], I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.


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For I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel. You shall yet take your timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.


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For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, [saying], Arise, and go up to Zion to the Lord your God.


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For thus says the Lord to Jacob: Rejoice, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise. Say, The Lord has delivered His people, the remnant of Israel.


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Behold, I bring them from the north, and I will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the Passover: and [the people] shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return there.


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They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.


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Hear the words of the Lord, you nations, and proclaim [them] to the islands afar off. Say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.


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For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, He has rescued him out of the hand of them [that were] stronger than he.


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And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Zion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, to a land of wheat, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep. And their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more.


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Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.


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I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests, the sons of Levi, and My people shall be satisfied with My good things. Thus says the Lord.


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A voice was heard in Ramah, [that] of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing- Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.


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Thus says the Lord: Let your voice cease from weeping, and your eyes from your tears; for your work shall be rewarded, and they shall return from the land of [your] enemies.


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I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught: turn me, and I shall turn; for You [are] the Lord my God.


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For after my captivity I repented, and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed You that I bore reproach from my youth.


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Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to Me: for because My words are in him, I will surely remember him. Therefore I made haste [to help] him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.


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Prepare yourself, O Zion; execute vengeance. Look to your ways; return, O virgin of Israel, by the way in which you went, return mourning to your cities.


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How long, O disgraced daughter, will you turn away? For the Lord has created safety for a new plantation. Men shall go about in safety.


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For thus says the Lord: They shall yet speak this word in the land of Judah, and in its cities, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be the Lord on His righteous holy mountain!


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And there shall be inhabitants in the cities of Judah, and in all his land, together with the farmers, and [the shepherd] shall go forth with the flock.


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Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and the seed of beast.


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And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the Lord.


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In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge.


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But everyone shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.


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Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.


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Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.


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For this is My covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put My laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts. And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.


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And no more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.


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Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and [makes] a roaring in the sea, so that its waves roar: the Lord Almighty is His name:


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if these ordinances cease from before Me, says the Lord, then shall the family of Israel cease to be a nation before Me forever.


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Though the sky should be raised to a [greater] height, says the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk [lower] beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, says the Lord, for all that they have done.


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Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.


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And the measurement of it shall proceed in front of them as far as the hills of Gareb, and it shall be compassed with a circular wall of choice stones.


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And all the Asaremoth, even to the Brook Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate eastward, shall be holiness to the Lord; and it shall not fail anymore, and shall not be destroyed forever.


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The word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah in the tenth year of King Zedekiah, this is the eighteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.


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And the army of the king of Babylon had made a rampart against Jerusalem; and Jeremiah was kept in the court of the prison, which is in the king's house.


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For King Zedekiah[had] shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, saying, Thus says the Lord, Behold, I [will] give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;


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and Zedekiah shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;


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Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallom your father's brother is coming to you, saying, Buy my field that is in Anathoth: for you [have] the right of redemption, to buy [it].


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So Hanamel the son of Shallom my father's brother came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy my field that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for you [have] a right to buy it, and you are the elder. So I knew that it was the word of the Lord.


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And I bought the field of Hanamel the son of my father's brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.


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And I wrote [it] in a book, and sealed [it], and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.


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and I gave it to Baruch son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my father's brother's son, and in the sight of the men that stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court of the prison.


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Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and you shall put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.


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And I prayed to the Lord after I had given the book of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, saying,


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O great Lord! You have made the heaven and the earth by Your great power, and with Your high and lofty arm; nothing can be hidden from You.


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Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God;


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the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the Great Almighty God, and Lord of great name. Your eyes are upon the ways of the children of men, to give to everyone according to his way;


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who has wrought signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even to this day, and in Israel, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and You made for Yourself a name, as it is this day;


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and You brought out Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great sights;


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and they went in, and took it; but they hearkened not to Your voice, and walked not in Your ordinances. They did none of the things which You commanded them, and they caused all these calamities to come upon them.


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Behold, a multitude has come against the city, to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight against it, by the power of the sword, and the famine. As You have spoken, so has it happened.


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And You have said to me, Buy the field for money; and I wrote a book, and sealed [it], and took the testimony of witnesses: and the city was given into the hands of the Chaldeans.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it:


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and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses where they burnt incense on its roofs to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me.


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For this city was [obnoxious] to My anger and My wrath, from the day that they built it, even to this day; that I should remove it from My presence,


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


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And they turned their backs to Me, and not their faces; though I taught them early in the morning, but they listened no more to receive instructions,


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And they built to Baal the altars that are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer their sons and their daughters to King Moloch; which things I commanded them not, neither came it into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.


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And now thus has the Lord God of Israel said concerning this city, of which you say, it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and banishment:


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Behold, I [will] gather them out of every land, where I have scattered them in My anger, and My wrath, and great fury; and I will bring them back into this place, and will cause them to dwell safely:


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And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear Me continually, and [that] for good to them and their children after them.


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And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.


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And I will visit [them] to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, and with all My heart, and with all [My] soul.


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For thus says the Lord: As I have brought upon this people all these great evils, so will I bring upon them all the good things which I pronounced upon them.


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And there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of which you say, it shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.


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And they shall buy fields for money, and you shall write a book, and seal [it], and shall take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.


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And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, when he was yet bound in the court of the prison, saying,


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Cry out to Me, and I will answer you, and I will declare to you great and mighty things, which you know not.


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For thus says the Lord concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the king of Judah, which have been pulled down for mounds and fortifications,


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to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I struck down in My anger and My wrath, and turned away My face from them, for all their wickedness.


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Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show [Myself] to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.


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And I will turn the captivity of Judah, and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, even as before.


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And I will cleanse them from all their iniquities by which they have sinned against Me, and I will not remember their sins by which they have sinned against Me, and revolted from Me.


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And it shall be for joy and praise, and for glory to all the people of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I will do. And they shall fear and be provoked for all the good things and for all the peace which I will bring upon them.


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Thus says the Lord: There shall yet be heard in this place, of which you say, it is destitute of men and cattle, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, [the places] that have been made desolate for lack of men and cattle,


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the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of men saying, Give thanks to the Lord Almighty; for the Lord is good; for His mercy [endures] forever. And they shall bring gifts into the house of the Lord, for I will turn all the captivity of that land as before, said the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts: There shall yet be in this place, that is desolate of man and beast, and in all its cities, resting places for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.


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In the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the [cities] round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks shall yet pass under the hand of him that numbers [them], says the Lord.


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The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord (now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the country of his dominion, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah), saying,


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Thus says the Lord: Go to Zedekiah king of Judah, and you shall say to him, Thus says the Lord: This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it, and shall burn it with fire.


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And you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall certainly be taken, and shall be given into his hands; and your eyes shall see his eyes, and you shall enter into Babylon.


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You shall die in peace; and as they wept for your fathers that reigned before you, so shall they weep for you, [saying], Alas, lord! And they shall lament for you down to the grave; for I have spoken the word, says the Lord.


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And the army of the king of Babylon fought against Jerusalem, and against the cities of Judah, and against Lachish, and against Azekah; for these fortified cities were left among the cities of Judah.


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[This is] the word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with the people, to proclaim a release:


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That every man should set his servant free, and every man his maidservant, the Hebrew man and Hebrew woman, that no one from Judah should be in bondage.


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Then all the nobles, and all the people who had entered into the covenant, [engaging] to set free everyone of his male and female slaves, [changed their minds],


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


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When six years are accomplished, you shall set free your brother the Hebrew, who shall be sold to you; for he shall serve you six years, and [then] you shall let him go free. But they hearkened not to Me, and inclined not their ear.


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And this day they turned to do that which was right in My sight, to proclaim everyone the release of his neighbor; and they had made a covenant before Me, in the house which is called by My name.


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But you turned and profaned My name, to bring back everyone his servant, and everyone his handmaid, whom you had set free [and] at their own disposal, to be to you male and female slaves.


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Therefore thus said the Lord: You have not hearkened to Me, to proclaim a release everyone to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim a release to you, to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will give you up to dispersion [among] all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And I will give the men that have transgressed My covenant, who have not kept My covenant, which they made before Me, the calf which they prepared to sacrifice with it,


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I will even give them to their enemies, and their carcasses shall be food for the birds of the sky and for the wild beasts of the earth.


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And I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and their princes, into the hands of their enemies, and the host of the king of Babylon [shall come upon] them that run away from them.


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Behold, I [will] give command, says the Lord, and will bring them back to this land; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire, and the cities of Judah; and I will make them desolate without inhabitants.


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Go to the house of the Rechabites, and you shall bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink.


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So I brought forth Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and his sons, and all the family 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 Ananias, the son of Godolias, a man of God, who dwells near the house of the princes that are over the house of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, who kept the court.


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


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Neither shall you build houses, nor sow any seed, nor shall you have a vineyard; for you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may live many days upon the land in which you sojourn.


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And we hearkened to the voice of Jonadab our father, so as to drink no wine all our days, we, and our wives, and our sons, and our daughters;


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But we have dwelt in tents, and have hearkened, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.


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And it came to pass, when Nebuchadnezzar came up against the land, that we said we would come in; and we entered into Jerusalem, for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Assyrians; and we dwelt there.


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Thus says the Lord: Go, and say to the men of Judah, and to them that dwell in Jerusalem, Will you not receive correction to hearken to My words?


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The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the word which he commanded his children, that they should drink no wine; and they have not drunk; but I spoke to you early, and you would not listen.


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And I sent to you My servants the prophets, saying, Turn, everyone from his evil way, and amend your practices, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell upon the land which I gave to you and to your fathers. But you have not inclined your ears, and you would not listen.


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But the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command of their father; but this people have not obeyed Me.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] bring upon Judah and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evils which I pronounced against them.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Since the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have hearkened to the command of their father, to do as their father commanded them;


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there shall never lack a man of the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab to stand before My face while the earth remains.


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In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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Take a scroll of a book, and write upon it all the words which I spoke to you against Jerusalem, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day when I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah king of Judah, even to this day.


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Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and [so] I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.


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So Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah. And he wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which He had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.


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So you shall read this scroll in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord, on the day of fasting; and in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities, you shall read to them.


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Perhaps their supplication will come before the Lord, and they will turn from their evil way; for great is the wrath and the anger of the Lord, which He has pronounced against this people.


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And Baruch did according to all that Jeremiah 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 eighth year of King Jehoiakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and the house of Judah, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.


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And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the house of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entrance of the new gate of the house of the Lord, and in the ears of all the people.


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And Michaiah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan heard all the words of the Lord, out of the book.


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


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And Michaiah reported to them all the words which he had heard Baruch reading in the ears of the people.


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And all the princes sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch took the scroll, and went down to them.


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And it came to pass, when they heard all the words, [that] they took counsel each with his neighbor, and said, Let us by all means tell the king all these words.


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And they went in to the king into the court, and gave the scroll [to one] to keep in the house of Elishama; and they told the king all these words.


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And the king sent Jehudi to fetch the scroll. And he took it out of the house of Elishama, and Jehudi read [the scroll] in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood round the king.


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And it came to pass when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut them off with a penknife, and cast [them] into the fire that was on the hearth, until the whole scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.


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And the king and his servants that heard all these words did not seek [the Lord], and did not tear their clothes.


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And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch and Jeremiah, but they were hidden.


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Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after the king had burnt the scroll, [and] all the words which Baruch had written by the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,


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Again take another scroll, and write all the words that were on the scroll which King Jehoiakim has burned.


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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in here, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come in, and destroy this land, and man and beast shall fail from off it?


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall not have [a man] to sit on the throne of David, and his carcass shall be cast out in the heat by day, and in the frost by night.


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And I will visit him, and his family, and his servants; and I will bring upon him, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the land of Judah, all the evils which I spoke of to them; and they did not heed.


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And Baruch took another scroll, and wrote upon it by the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim had burned. And there were yet more words added to it like the former.


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And Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar appointed to reign over Judah.


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And he and his servants and the people of the land hearkened not to the words of the Lord, which He spoke by Jeremiah.


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And King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah, saying, Pray now for us to the Lord.


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Now Jeremiah came and went through the midst of the city, for they [had] not put him into the house of the prison.


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And Pharaoh's army had come forth out of Egypt; and the Chaldeans heard the report of them, and they went up from Jerusalem.


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Thus said the Lord; Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent to you, to seek Me; Behold, the army of Pharaoh which has come forth to help you shall return to the land of Egypt.


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And the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.


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For thus says the Lord: Suppose not in your hearts, saying, The Chaldeans will certainly depart from us: for they shall not depart.


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And though you should smite the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left a few wounded [men], these should rise up each in his place, and burn this city with fire.


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And it came to pass, when the army of the Chaldeans had gone up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,


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that Jeremiah went forth from Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to buy [some property] from there among the people.


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And he was in the gate of Benjamin, and [there was] a man there with whom he lodged, Irajah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he caught Jeremiah, saying, You are fleeing to the Chaldeans.


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And he said, [that's a] lie! I do not flee to the Chaldeans! But he would not listen to him. So Irajah caught Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.


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And the princes were very angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and sent him into the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had turned [his house] into a prison.


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Then Zedekiah sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? And he said, There is. You shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.


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And Jeremiah said to the king, How have I wronged you, or your servants, or this people, that you have put me in prison?


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And where are your prophets who prophesied to you saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against this land?


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Now therefore, my lord the king, let my supplication come before your face; and why do you send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe? And by no means let me die there.


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Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremiah continued in the court of the prison.


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And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, heard the words which Jeremiah spoke to the people, saying,


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Thus says the Lord: He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine. But he that goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; and his life shall be to him as a found treasure, and he shall live.


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For thus says the Lord: This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.


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And they said to the king, Let that man be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words; for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil.


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And they cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire. And he was in the mire.


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And Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian heard (now he was in the king's household) that they [had] put Jeremiah into the dungeon; and the king was in the Gate of Benjamin.


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You have done evil in what you have done to slay this man with hunger, for there is no more bread in the city.


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And the king commanded Ebed-Melech, saying, Take with you thirty men from here, and bring him up out of the dungeon, that he die not.


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So Ebed-Melech took the men and went into the underground [part of the] king's house, and took from there old rags and old ropes, and threw them down to Jeremiah into the dungeon.


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And they pulled him up with the ropes, and lifted him out of the dungeon. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.


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Then the king sent, and called [Jeremiah] to himself into the house of Aselisel, which was in the house of the Lord. And the king said to him, I will ask you a question, and I pray you hide nothing from me.


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And Jeremiah said to the king, If I tell you, will you not certainly put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will by no means listen to me.


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And the king swore to him, saying, [As] the Lord lives who gave us this soul, I will not slay you, neither will I give you into the hands of these men.


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And Jeremiah said to him, Thus says the Lord: If you will indeed go forth to the captains of the king of Babylon, your soul shall live, and this city shall certainly not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house.


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But if you will not go forth, [then] this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall by no means escape.


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And the king said to Jeremiah, I consider the Jews that have gone over to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hands, and they mock me.


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And Jeremiah said, They shall in no wise deliver you up. Hear the word of the Lord which I speak to you; and it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.


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And behold, all the women that are left in the house of the king of Judah were brought forth to the princes of the king of Babylon. And they said, The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and will prevail against you; and they shall cause your foot to slide and fail, they have turned back from you.


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And they shall bring forth your wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall by no means escape, for you shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned.


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And if the princes shall hear that I have spoken to you, and they come to you, and say to you, Tell us, what did the king say to you? Do not hide [it] from us, and we will by no means kill you, and what did the king say to you?


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Then you shall say to them, I brought my supplication before the presence of the king, that he would not send me back into the house of Jonathan, that I should die there.


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And all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him. And he told them according to all these words which the king had commanded him. And they were silent, because the word of the Lord was not heard.


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And it came to pass in the ninth month of Zedekiah king of Judah, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.


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And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated.


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And all the leaders of the king of Babylon went in, and sat in the middle gate, Marganasar, Samagoth, Nabusachar, Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the leaders of the king of Babylon,


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and they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan. And they brought him out, and he sat in the midst of the people.


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Go and say to Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I [will] bring My words upon this city for evil, and not for good.


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But I will save you in that day, and I will by no means deliver you into the hands of the men before whom you are afraid.


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For I will surely save you, and you shall by no means fall by the sword; and you shall find your life, because you trusted in Me, says the Lord.


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The word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah, after that Nabuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go out of Ramah, when he had taken him in chains in the midst of the captivity of Judah, [even] those who were carried to Babylon.


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And the chief captain of the guard took him, and said to him, The Lord your God has pronounced all these evils upon this place;


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Behold, I have loosed you from the chains that were upon your hands. If it seems good to you to go with me to Babylon, then will I set my eyes upon you.


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But if not, depart. Return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed governor in the land of Judah, and dwell with him in the midst of the people in the land of Judah. Or go to wherever places seems good in your eyes to go. And the captain of the guard made him presents, and let him go.


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And all the leaders of the army that were in the country, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah [governor] in the land, and they committed to him the men and their wives whom [Nebuchadnezzar had] not taken to Babylon.


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And there came to Gedaliah at Mizpah- Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of a Maachathite, they and their men.


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And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, saying, Be not afraid before the children of the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.


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And behold, I dwell in your presence at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come against you. And gather grapes, and fruits, and oil, and put [them] into your vessels, and dwell in the cities which you have obtained possession of.


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And all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and those [that were] in Edom, and those [that were] in all [the rest of] the country, heard that the king of Babylon [had] granted a remnant to Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.


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And they came to Gedaliah into the land of Judah, to Mizpah, and gathered grapes, and very much summer fruit, and oil.


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And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the army, who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah at Mizpah,


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and said to him, Do you indeed know that King Baalis son of Ammon has sent Ismael to you, to kill you? But Gedaliah did not believe them.


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And Johanan said to Gedaliah secretly in Mizpah, I will go now and kill Ishmael, and let no man know [it]; lest he kill you, and all the Jews that are gathered to you be dispersed, and the remnant of Judah perish.


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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 family came, and ten men with him, to Gedaliah to Mizpah. And they ate bread there together.


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And Ishmael rose up, and the ten men that were with him, and killed Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed [governor] over the land,


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that there came men from Shechem, and from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes torn, and beating their breasts, and [they had] manna and frankincense in their hands, to bring into the house of the Lord.


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And Ishmael went out to meet them; [and] they went on and wept. And he said to them, Come in to Gedaliah.


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And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, [that] he killed them [and cast them] into a pit.


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But ten men were found there, and they said to Ishmael, Do not kill us, for we have treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he passed by, and did not kill them in the midst of their brothers.


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Now the pit into which Ishmael cast all whom he killed is the great pit, which King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ismael filled this with the slain.


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And Ishmael brought back all the people that were left in Mizpah, and the king's daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And he went away beyond the children of Ammon.


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And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the army that were with him, heard of all the evil deeds which Ishmael had done.


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And they brought all their army, and went to fight against him, and found him near much water in Gibeon.


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And it came to pass, that when all the people that were with Ishmael saw Johanan, and the leaders of the army that were with him,


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And Johanan, and all the leaders of the army that were with him, took all the remnant of the people, whom he had brought back from Ishmael, mighty men in war, and the women, and the other [property], and the eunuchs, whom they had brought back from Gibeon;


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and they departed, and dwelt in Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go into Egypt, for fear of the Chaldeans;


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for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed in the land.


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Then all the leaders of the army came, and Johanan, and Azarias the son of Maasaiah, and all the people great and small,


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to Jeremiah the prophet, and said to him, Let now our supplication come before your face, and pray to the Lord your God for this remnant; for we are left [but a] few out of many, as your eyes see.


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And let the Lord your God declare to us the way in which we should walk, and the thing which we should do.


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And Jeremiah said to them, I have heard [you.] Behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God, according to your words; and it shall come to pass, [that] whatsoever word the Lord God shall answer, I will declare to you; I will not hide anything from you.


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And they said to Jeremiah, Let the Lord be between us for a just and faithful witness, if we do not according to every word which the Lord shall send to us.


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And whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will hearken to the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, because we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.


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And he called Johanan, and the leaders of the army, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,


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If you will indeed dwell in this land, I will build you, and will not pull [you] down, but I will plant you, and by no means pluck you up; for I have ceased from the calamities which I brought upon you.


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Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; be not afraid of him, says the Lord. For I am with you, to deliver you, and save you out of their hand.


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for we will go into the land of Egypt, and we shall see no war, and shall not hear the sound of a trumpet, and we shall not hunger for bread; and there we will dwell-


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If you set your face toward Egypt, and go in there to dwell; then it shall be [that] the sword in which you fear shall find you in the land of Egypt, and the famine in which you have regard, shall overtake you in Egypt; and there you shall die.


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And all the men, and all the strangers who have set their face toward the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine; and there shall not one of them escape from the evils which I bring upon them.


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For thus says the Lord: As My wrath has dropped upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall My wrath drop upon you, when you have entered into Egypt. And you shall be a desolation, and under the power of others, and a curse and a reproach; and you shall no more see this place.


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Thus says the Lord concerning you the remnant of Judah: Enter not into Egypt, and now know for a certainty,


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that you have wrought wickedness in your hearts, when you sent for me, saying, Pray for us to the Lord; and according to all that the Lord shall speak to you we will do.


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Now therefore you shall perish by the sword and by famine, in the place in which you desire to dwell.


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And it came to pass, when Jeremiah ceased speaking to the people all the words of the Lord, [for] which the Lord had sent him to them, [even] all these words,


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that Azariah son of Hoshaiah spoke, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the men who had spoken to Jeremiah, saying, [It is] false! The Lord has not sent you to us, saying, Enter not into Egypt to dwell there.


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But Baruch the son of Neriah sets you against us, that you may deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and that we should be carried away captive to Babylon.


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So Johanan, and all the leaders of the army, and all the people, refused to hearken to the voice of the Lord, to dwell in the land of Judah.


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And Johanan, and all the leaders of the army, took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned to dwell in the land;


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the mighty men, and the women, and the children that were left, and the daughters of the king, and the people which Nebuzaradan had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.


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And they came into Egypt, for they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, and they entered into Tahpanhes.


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Take for yourself large stones, and hide them in the entrance, at the gate of the house of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.


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And you shall say, Thus has the Lord said: Behold, I [will] send, and will bring Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall place his throne upon these stones which you have hidden, and he shall lift up weapons against them.


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And he shall enter in, and strike the land of Egypt, [and deliver] to death [those appointed] for death; and to captivity [those appointed] for captivity; and to the sword [those appointed] for the sword.


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And he shall kindle a fire in the houses of their gods, and shall burn them, and shall carry them away captives; and shall search the land of Egypt, as a shepherd searches his garment; and he shall go forth in peace.


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And he shall break to pieces the pillars of Heliopolis that are in On, and shall burn their houses with fire.


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The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt, and for those settled in Migdol and in Tahpanhes, and in the land of Pathura, saying,


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Thus says the Lord God of Israel: You have seen all the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Judah; and behold, they are desolate without inhabitants,


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because of their wickedness which they have done to provoke Me, [by] going to burn incense to other gods, whom you knew not.


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Yet I sent to you My servants the prophets early in the morning; and I sent, saying, Do not do this abominable thing which I hate.


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But they hearkened not to Me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.


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So My anger and My wrath fell [upon them], and was kindled in the gates of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and a waste, as it is this day.


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And now thus says the Lord Almighty: Why do you commit [these] great evils against your souls, to cut off man and woman from you, infant and suckling from the midst of Judah, to the end that not one of you should be left;


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by provoking Me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you entered to dwell there, that you might be cut off, and that you might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?


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Have you forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of Judah, and the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which they did in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?


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And have not ceased even to this day, and they have not kept to My ordinances, which I set before their fathers.


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to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed, small and great; and they shall be for a reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.


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And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, with sword and with famine.


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And there shall not one be preserved of the remnant of Judah that sojourn in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Judah, to which they hope in their hearts to return. They shall not return, but only they that escape.


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Then all the men that knew that their wives burned incense, and all the women, a great multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,


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For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. And [so] we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.


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But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.


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And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured drink offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour drink offerings to her, without our husbands?


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Then Jeremiah answered all the people, the mighty men, and the women, and all the people that returned him [these] words for an answer, saying,


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Did not the Lord remember the incense which you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem- you, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? Did it not enter into His heart?


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And the Lord could no longer bear [you], because of the wickedness of your doings, and because of your abominations which you wrought; and so your land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as it is this day.


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Because of your burning incense, and [because] of the things in which you sinned against the Lord. And you have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in His ordinances, and in His law, and in His testimonies; and so these evils have come upon you.


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Thus says the Lord God of Israel; You women have spoken with your mouth, and you have fulfilled [it] with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her. Full well did you keep to your vows, and you have indeed performed [them].


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Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all [you] Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the Lord, My name shall no longer be in the mouth of every Jew to say, The Lord lives, in all the land of Egypt.


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For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good. And all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall perish by sword and by famine, until they are utterly consumed.


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And they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Judah few in number, and the remnant of Judah, who have continued in the land [of] Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand.


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Thus said the Lord: Behold, I [will] give Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of one that seeks his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.


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The word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in the book by the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.


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Seeing that you have said, Alas! alas! For the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, [and] I find no rest.


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Thus you shall say to him, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I pull down those whom I have built up, and I pluck up those whom I have planted.


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And will you seek great things for yourself? Seek [them] not. For behold, I bring evil upon all flesh, says the Lord; but I will give [to you] your life for a prize in every place that you go.


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For Egypt, against the power of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim king of Judah:


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and harness the horses. Mount, you horsemen, and stand ready in your helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breastplates.


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Why do they fear, and turn back? Even because their mighty men shall be slain: They have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not rallied, says the Lord.


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Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north. The [forces] at Euphrates have become feeble, and they have fallen.


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The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river. And he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth, and will destroy its inhabitants.


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Mount the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, you warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, you Libyans, bend the bow.


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And that day [shall be] to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to take vengeance on His enemies. And the sword of the Lord shall devour, and be glutted, and be drunken with their blood; for the Lord [has] a sacrifice from the land of the north at the River Euphrates.


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Go up to Gilead, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain have you multiplied your medicines; there is no help for you.


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The nations have heard your voice, and the land has been filled with your cry; for the warriors have fainted fighting, one against another, [and] both have fallen together.


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The words which the Lord spoke by Jeremiah, concerning the coming of the king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt.


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Proclaim [it] at Migdol, and declare [it] at Memphis. Say, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured your yew tree.


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Why has Apis fled from you? Your choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.


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And your multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one has said to his neighbor, Let us arise, and return into our country to our people, from the Grecian sword.


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[As] I live, says the Lord God, he shall come, [surely] as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.


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O daughter of Egypt dwelling [at home], prepare for yourselves stuff for removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because there are no inhabitants in it.


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Also her hired [soldiers] in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord. They stood not, for the day of destruction had come upon them, and the time of their retribution.


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Their voice is as [that] of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the sand. They shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.


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They shall cut down her forest, says the Lord, for [their number] cannot at all be determined, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.


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But fear not, My servant Jacob, neither be alarmed, Israel; for behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be at ease, and sleep, and there shall be no one to trouble him.


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Fear not, My servant Jacob, says the Lord; for I am with you. She [that was] without fear and in luxury, has been delivered up; for I will make a full end of every nation among whom I have thrust you forth. But I will not cause you to fail. Yet will I chastise you in the way of judgment, and will not hold you entirely guiltless.


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Behold, waters come up from the north, and shall become a sweeping torrent, and it shall sweep away the land, and its fulness. The city, and them that dwell in it; and men shall cry and all that dwell in the land shall howl,


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at the sound of his rushing, at [the sound of] his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels. The fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,


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in the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines. And I will utterly destroy Tyre and Sidon and all the rest of their allies; for the Lord will destroy the remaining [inhabitants] of the islands.


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How long will you smite, O sword of the Lord? How long will it be till you are quiet? Return into your sheath, rest, and be removed.


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How shall it be quiet, seeing the Lord has given it a commission against Ashkelon, and against the regions on the sea coast, to awake against the remaining [countries]!


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Thus Says the Lord concerning Moab: Woe to Nebo! For it has perished. Kirjathaim is taken; Amath and Agath are put to shame.


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There is no longer any healing for Moab, [nor] glorying in Hesbron. He has devised evils against her. We have cut her off from [being] a nation, and she shall be completely still. After you shall go a sword;


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for Aloth is filled with weeping; one shall go up weeping by the way of Horonaim; you have heard a cry of destruction.


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Since you have trusted in your stronghold, therefore you shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.


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And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape. The valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.


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Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be hit with a plague, and all her cities shall become desolate; where [shall there be] an inhabitant for her?


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Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out [his liquor] from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.


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Therefore behold, his days are coming, says the Lord, when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut off his horns.


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And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their hope, having trusted in them.


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Shake [the head] at him, all you that are round about him; all [of you] utter his name. Say, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!


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Come down from [your] glory, and sit down in a damp place. Dibon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed. There has gone up against you one to ravage your stronghold.


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Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Aroer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?


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Moab is put to shame, because he is broken. Howl and cry, proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.


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Make him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord. And Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing stock.


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For surely Israel was to you a laughing stock, and was found among your thefts, because you fought against him.


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The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and dwelt in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.


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And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.


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Therefore howl for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men [in] a gloomy place. I will weep for you,


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O vine of Sibma, as with the weeping of Jazer. Your branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer; destruction has come upon your fruits, [and] upon your grape gatherers.


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Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab; and [though] there was wine in your presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.


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From the cry of Heshbron even to Elealeh their cities uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, and their tidings [as] a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nimrim shall be dried up.


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Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, My heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what [every] man has gained has perished from him.


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They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat [their breasts], and on all loins shall be sackcloth.


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And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets [shall be mourining]; for I have broken [him], says the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.


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How has he changed! How has Moab turned [his] back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing stock, and an object of anger to all that are round about him.


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He that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare; for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.


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Concerning the sons of Ammon, thus says the Lord: Are there no sons in Israel? Or have they no one to succeed [them]? Why has Milcom inherited Gilead, and why shall their people dwell in their cities?


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Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause a tumult of wars to be heard in Rabbah; and they shall become a waste and ruined place, and her altars shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel succeed to his dominion.


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Howl, O Heshbron, for Ai has perished; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament; for Milcom shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.


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Why do you boast in the plains of the Enakim, you haughty daughter, that trust in [your] treasures, that say, Who shall come in to me?


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Behold, I [will] bring terror upon you, says the Lord, from all the country round about you; and you shall be scattered, everyone right before him, and there is none to gather you.


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Concerning Edom, thus says the Lord: There is no longer wisdom in Teman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,


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their place has been deceived. Dig deep for a dwelling, you that inhabit Dedan, for he has wrought grievously. I have brought trouble upon him in the time at which I visited him.


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For grape gatherers have come, who shall not leave to you a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon [your possessions].


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For I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their secret places; they shall have no power to hide themselves, they have perished, [each] by the hand of his brother, My neighbor, and it is impossible


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For thus says the Lord: They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk; and you shall by no means be cleared.


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For by Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that you shall be in the midst of her an impassable [land], and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be deserted forever.


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I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent messengers to the nations, [saying,] Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise up to war.


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Your insolence has risen up against you, the fierceness of your heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high; from there will I bring you down.


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As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, and they that sojourned in her, says the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.


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Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of the Jordan to the place of Etham; for I will speedily drive them from it, and I will set the young men against her; for who is like Me? And who will withstand Me? And who [is] this shepherd, who shall confront Me?


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Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord which He has framed against Edom, and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.


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Behold, He shall look [upon her] as an eagle, and spread forth [His] wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.


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Concerning Damascus: Hamath is brought to shame, and Arpad; for they have heard an evil report. They are amazed, they are angry, they shall be utterly unable to rest.


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Therefore shall the young men fall in your streets, and all your warriors shall fall, says the Lord.


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And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the streets of the son of Ader.


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Concerning Kedar, the queen of the palace, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, thus says the Lord: Arise, and go up to Kedar, and fill the sons of Kedem.


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They shall take their tents and their sheep, they shall take for themselves their garments, and all their baggage and their camels; and summon destruction against them from every side.


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Flee, dig very deep for a dwelling place, you that dwell in the palace; for the king of Babylon has framed a counsel, and devised a device against you.


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Rise up, and go up against a nation settled [and] dwelling at ease, who have no doors, nor bolts, nor bars, [who] dwell alone.


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And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall be destroyed; and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads; I will bring on their overthrow from all sides, says the Lord.


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And the palace shall be a resting place for ostriches, and desolate forever. No man shall abide there, and no son of man shall dwell there.


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And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them toward all these winds; and there shall be no nation [to] which they shall not come, [even] the outcasts of Elam.


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And I will put them in fear before their enemies that seek their life; and I will bring evils upon them according to My great anger; and I will send forth My sword after them, until I have utterly destroyed them.


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But it shall come to pass at the end of days, that I will turn the captivity of Elam, says the Lord.


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Proclaim among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not. Say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Merodach is delivered up.


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For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.


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In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.


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They shall ask the way till [they come to] Zion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.


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My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains; they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting place.


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All that found them consumed them. Their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord. He that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.


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Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.


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For behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north, and they shall set themselves in array against her. From there shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.


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Because you rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering My heritage; because you exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.


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Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded. [She is] the last of the nations, desolate,


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by reason of the Lord's anger. It shall not be inhabited, but it all shall be a desolation; and everyone that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plagues.


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Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,


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and prevail against her. Her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down; for it is vengeance from God. Take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.


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Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest; for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return everyone to his people, and everyone shall flee to his own land.


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Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out. The king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.


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And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on Mount Ephraim and in Gilead, and his soul shall be satisfied.


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In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; for I will be merciful to them that are left


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on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it. Avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.


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How has the hammer of the whole earth been broken and crushed! How has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!


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They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, O Babylon, that you will even be taken captive. You are found and taken, because you resisted the Lord.


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The Lord has opened His treasury, and brought forth the weapons of His anger; for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.


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For her times have come. Open her storehouses; search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her; let there be no remnant of her.


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Dry up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, and the time of their retribution.


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A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Zion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.


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Summon many against Babylon, everyone that bends the bow. Camp against her round about; let none of her [people] escape. Render to her according to her works, according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.


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Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, says the Lord.


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Behold, I am against you, O haughty one, says the Lord; for your day has come, and the time of your retribution.


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And your pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again. And I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.


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Thus says the Lord: The children of Israel and the children of Judah have been oppressed. All those that have taken them captive have oppressed them together, for they would not let them go.


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But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is His name. He will enter into judgment with His adversaries, that He may destroy the earth;


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and He will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men.


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A sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened. A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots.


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A sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women. A sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,


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and they shall be ashamed; for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.


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Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young ostriches shall dwell in it. It shall not be inhabited anymore, forever.


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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities bordering upon them, says the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.


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Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth, holding bow and dagger.


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[The people] are fierce, and will have no mercy; their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against you, O daughter of Babylon.


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The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands grew feeble. Anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.


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Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her; for who is like Me? And who will resist Me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before Me?


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Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, which He has taken against Babylon; and His devices, which He has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed. Surely pasture shall be cut off from them.


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Or at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.


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Thus says the Lord: Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling there, a deadly burning wind.


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And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about [her] in the day of her affliction.


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Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armor put it on, and spare not her young men, but destroy all her host.


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And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [men] pierced through shall fall without it.


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For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken of their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy things of Israel.


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Flee from the midst of Babylon, and deliver everyone his soul; and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution from the Lord. He is rendering to her a recompense.


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Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, causing all the earth to be drunken. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore they were shaken.


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And Babylon has fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces. Lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed.


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We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed. Let us forsake her, and depart everyone to his own country; for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.


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The Lord has brought forth His judgment. Come, and let us declare in Zion the works of the Lord our God.


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Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers. The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His wrath is against Babylon, to destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord's vengeance, it is the vengeance of His people.


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Lift up a standard on the walls of Babylon, prepare the quivers, rouse the guards, prepare the weapons; for the Lord has taken [the work] in hand, and will execute what He has spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon,


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dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures. Assuredly your end has come, into your inward parts.


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For the Lord has sworn by His arm, [saying], I will fill you with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against you.


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The Lord made the earth by His power, preparing the world by His wisdom, by His understanding He stretched out the heaven.


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At [His] voice He makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth. He makes the lightning for rain, and brings light out of His treasuries.


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Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven [images]; for they have cast false [gods;] there is no breath in them.


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Not such is Jacob's portion; for He that formed all things, He is his inheritance; the Lord is His name.


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You scatter for Me the weapons of war, and I will scatter nations by you, and will destroy kings by means of you.


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And by you I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by you I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them.


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And by you I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by you I will scatter the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and by you I will scatter leaders and the captains.


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And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell [there] all the evil that they have done to Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.


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Behold, I am against you, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out My hand upon you, and will roll you down upon the rocks, and will make you as a burnt mountain.


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And they shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a foundation; for you shall be a desolation forever, says the Lord.


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Set up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations, consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings against her by Me, and for the people of Ashkenaz; set against her engines of war; bring up against her horses as a multitude of locusts.


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Bring up nations against her, [even] the king of the Medes and of the whole earth, his rulers, and all his captains.


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The earth has quaked and been troubled, because the purpose of the Lord has risen up against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, and uninhabitable.


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The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the siege. Their power is broken; they have become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.


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One shall rush, running to meet [another] runner, and one [shall go] with tidings to meet [another] with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken.


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At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burned with fire, and his warriors are going forth.


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For thus says the Lord: The houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest shall come.


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He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.


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My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Zion say; and my blood [shall be] upon the Chaldeans dwelling [there], shall Jerusalem say.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will judge your adversary, and I will execute vengeance for you; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.


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In their excitement I will give them a drink, and make them drunk, that they may be stupefied, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, says the Lord.


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How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! How has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!


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Her cities have become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one [soul] shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.


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And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to her.


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Go forth of the land, you that escape, and stay not; you that are afar off, remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.


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We are ashamed, because we have heard our reproach; disgrace has covered our face; aliens have come into our sanctuary, [even] into the house of the Lord.


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Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will take vengeance upon her graven [images;] and slain men shall fall in all her land.


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For though Babylon should go up as the heaven, and though she should strengthen her walls with her power, from Me shall come they that shall destroy her, says the Lord.


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for the Lord has utterly destroyed Babylon, and cut off from her the great voice sounding as many waters; He has consigned her voice to destruction.


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For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless; for God recompenses them.


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The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise men and her captains completely drunk, says the King, the Lord Almighty is His name.


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Thus says the Lord: The wall of Babylon was made broad, but it shall be completely broken down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall not labor in vain, nor the nations fail in [their] rule.


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The word which the Lord commanded the prophet Jeremiah to say to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went from Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was over the bounties.


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And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evils which should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon.


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And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you have come to Babylon, and shall see and read all these words;


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then you shall say, O Lord God, You have spoken against this place, to destroy it, and that there should be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast; for it shall be a desolation forever.


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And it shall come to pass, when you shall cease from reading this book, that you shall bind a stone upon it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates;


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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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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzr king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built a wall round about it with large stones.


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on the ninth day of the month, and [then] the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.


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And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went out by night by the way of the gate, between the wall and the outworks, which were by the king's garden. And the Chaldeans were by the city round about; and they went by the way [leading] to the wilderness.


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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him beyond Jericho. And all his servants were dispersed.


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And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; and he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.


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And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters. And the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.


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And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nabuzaradan the captain of the guard, who waited on the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;


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and he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burned with fire.


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And the army of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.


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And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the bronze sea that was in the house of the Lord, and they took the brass thereof, and carried it away to Babylon.


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Also the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh-hooks, and all the bronze vessels, which they ministered with;


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and the basins, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the lampstands, and the censers, and the cups, and whatever [was] solid gold, and the silver, and whatever [was] of solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.


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And the two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen under the sea, which [things] King Solomon made for the house of the Lord; the brass of which was without weight.


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And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits; and a line of twelve cubits compassed it round; and the thickness of it [all] round was four fingers.


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And [there was] a bronze chapiter upon them, and the length was five cubits, [even] the height of one chapiter; and [there was] on the chapiter round about network and pomegranates, all of brass. And correspondingly the second pillar [had] eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve cubits.


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And the pomegranates were ninety-six on a side; and all the pomegranates on the network round about were a hundred.


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And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way;


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and one eunuch, who was over the men of war, and seven men of renown, who were in the king's presence that were found in the city; and the scribe of the forces, who did the part of a scribe to the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.


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And Nabuzaradan the captain of the king's guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.


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And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Jehoiakim king of Judah had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fourth [day] of the month, [that] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,


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and changed his prison garments. And he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.


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And his appointed portion was given him continually by the king of Babylon from day to day, until the day that he died.


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And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, [that] Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said: ALEPH. How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! She has become as a widow: she that was magnified among the nations, and princess among the provinces, has become tributary.


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BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they have become her enemies.


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GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, and by reason of the abundance of her servitude; she dwells among the nations, she has not found rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.


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DALETH. The ways of Zion mourn, because there are none that come to the feast. All her gates are ruined. Her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself.


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HE. Her oppressors have become the head, and her enemies have prospered; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her sins. Her young children have gone into captivity before the face of the oppressor.


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VAU. And all her beauty has been taken away from the daughter of Zion. Her princes were as rams finding no pasture, and have gone [away] in weakness before the face of the pursuer.


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ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her rejection. [She thought on] all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her; when her enemies saw it, they laughed at her habitation.


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HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a great sin; therefore has she come into tribulation, all that used to honor her have afflicted her, for they have seen her shame: yea, she herself groaned, and turned backward.


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TETH. Her uncleanness is before her feet; she remembered not her last end; she has lowered her boasting [tone], there is none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.


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JOD. The oppressor has stretched out his hand on all her desirable things, for she has seen the Gentiles entering into her sanctuary, [concerning] whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.


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CHAPH. All her people groan, seeking bread: they have given their desirable things for meat, to restore their soul: behold, Lord, and look; for she has become dishonored.


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LAMED. All you that pass by the way, turn, and see if there is sorrow likened to my sorrow, which has happened to me. The Lord who spoke by me has afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger.


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MEM. He has sent fire from His lofty habitation, He has brought it into my bones: He has spread a net for my feet, He has turned me back: He has made me desolate and mourning all the day.


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NUN. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck. My strength has failed, for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.


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SAMECH. The Lord has cut off all my strong men from the midst of me: He has summoned against me a time for crushing my choice men: the Lord has trodden a wine press for the virgin daughter of Judah: for these things I weep.


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AIN. My eye has poured out water, because He that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me. My sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed.


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PHE. Zion has spread out her hand, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, his oppressors are round about him: Jerusalem has become among them as a removed woman.


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TSADE. The Lord is righteous, for I have provoked His mouth. Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my grief: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.


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KOPH. I called my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders failed in the city, for they sought meat that they might restore their souls, and found it not.


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RHECHS. Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted; my belly is troubled, and my heart is turned within me; for I have been grievously rebellious; abroad the sword has bereaved me, even as death at home.


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CHSEN. Hear, I pray you, for I groan: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my afflictions and rejoiced, because You have done it: You have brought on the day, You have called the time: they have become like to me.


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THAU. Let all their wickedness come before Your face, and strip them, as they have made a gleaning for all my sins: for my groans are many, and my heart is grieved.


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ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in His wrath the daughter of Zion! He has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered His footstool.


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BETH. In the day of His wrath the Lord has overwhelmed [her] as in the sea, [and] not spared. He has brought down in His fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; He has brought down to the ground the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has profaned her kings and her princes.


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GIMEL. He has broken in His fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has turned back His right hand from the face of the enemy, and has kindled a flame in Jacob as a fire, and it has devoured all things round about.


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DALETH. He has bent His bow as an opposing enemy; He has strengthened His right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion; He has poured forth His anger as fire.


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HE. The Lord has become as an enemy; He has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, He has overwhelmed her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Judah.


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VAU. And He has scattered His tabernacle as a vine, He has marred His feast; the Lord has forgotten the feast and the Sabbath which He appointed in Zion, and in the fury of His wrath has vexed the king, priest, and prince.


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ZAIN. The Lord has rejected His altar, He has cast off His sanctuary, He has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.


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HETH. And He has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the measuring line, He has not turned back His hand from afflicting her; therefore the bulwark mourned, and the wall was weakened with it.


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TETH. Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, and her king and her prince among the Gentiles. There is no law; nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.


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JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence; they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.


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CHAPH. My eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.


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LAMED. They said to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? While they fainted like wounded men in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother's bosom.


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MEM. What shall I testify to you, or what shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? Who shall save and comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For the cup of your destruction is enlarged- who shall heal you?


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NUN. Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions, and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn back your captivity; but they have seen for you vain burdens, and worthless visions.


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SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?


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AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up; surely this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.


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PHE. The Lord has done that which He purposed; He has accomplished His word, even the things which He commanded from the ancient days; He has thrown down, and has not spared, and He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, He has exalted the horn of him that afflicted you.


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TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, You walls of Zion, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eyes cease.


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KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord, lift up your hands to Him for the life of your infants, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.


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RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom You have gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? The cook has made a gathering: shall the infants nursing at the breasts be slain? Will You slay the priest and prophet in the sanctuary of the Lord?


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CHSEN. The child and old man have lain down in the street; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity; You have slain them with the sword and with famine; in the day of Your wrath You have mangled them, You have not spared.


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THAU. He has called my sojourners round about to a solemn day, and there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord any one that escaped, or was left; whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all my enemies.


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ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;


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HETH. [It is] [through] the mercies of the Lord that He has not failed me, because His compassions are not exhausted. Pity us, O Lord, early every month: for we are not brought to an end, because His compassions are not exhausted.


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ALEPH. How will the gold be tarnished, and the fine silver changed! The sacred stones have been poured forth at the top of all the streets.


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BETH. The precious sons of Zion, who were equaled in value with gold, how are they counted as earthen vessels, the works of the hands of the potter!


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GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.


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DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it for them.


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HE. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets; they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung.


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VAU. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodom, [the city] that was overthrown very suddenly, and none labored against her [with their] hands.


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ZAIN. Her Nazarites were made purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were purified as with fire, their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.


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HETH. Their countenance has become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they have become as a stick.


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TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger; they have departed, pierced through from lack of the fruits of the field.


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JOD. The hands of tender hearted women have boiled their own children; they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.


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CHAPH. The Lord has accomplished His wrath; He has poured out fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured her foundations.


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LAMED. The kings of the earth, even all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.


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MEM. For the sins of her prophets, and iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her,


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NUN. Her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their clothing with it.


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SAMECH. Depart from the unclean ones; call them: depart, depart, touch [them] not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger. Say among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [there].


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AIN. The presence of the Lord was their portion; but He will not again look upon them. They regarded not the person of the priests; they pitied not the prophets.


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PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.


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We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn near, our days are fulfilled, our time has come.


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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, they flew on the mountains, in the wilderness they laid wait for us.


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RECHS. The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, was taken in their destructive snares, of whom we said, In His shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.


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CHSEN. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land; yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to you: you shall be drunken, and pour forth.


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THAU. O daughter of Zion, your iniquity has come to an end; He shall no longer carry you captive: He has visited your iniquities, O daughter of Edom; He has discovered your sins.


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Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, that I was in the midst of the captivity by the River Chebar; and the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.


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And the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the River Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was upon me.


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And I looked, and behold, a sweeping wind came from the north, and a great cloud on it, and [there was] brightness round about it, and gleaming fire, and in the midst of it as it were the appearance of amber in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it.


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And in the midst as it were the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: the likeness of a man was upon them.


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And their legs were straight; and their feet were winged, and [there were] sparks, like gleaming brass, and their wings were light.


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And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right of the four; and the face of a calf on the left of the four; and the face of an eagle to the four.


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And the four had their wings spread out above; each one [had] two joined to one another, and two covered their bodies.


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And in the midst of the living creatures [there was] an appearance as of burning coals of fire, as an appearance of lamps turning among the living creatures; and the brightness of fire, and out of the fire came forth lightning.


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And the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of beryl: and the four had one likeness; and their work was as it were a wheel in a wheel.


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neither did their backs [turn]. And they were high. And I beheld them, and the backs of the four were full of eyes round about.


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And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves off the earth, the wheels were lifted off.


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Wherever the cloud happened to be, there was the spirit ready to go. The wheels went and were lifted up with them; because the spirit of life was in the wheels.


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When those went, [the wheels] went; and when those stood, [the wheels] stood; and when those lifted themselves off the earth, they were lifted off with them, for the spirit of life was in the wheels.


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And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above.


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And their wings were spread out under the firmament, reaching one to the other; two [wings] to each, covering their bodies.


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And I heard the sound of their wings when they went, as the sound of much water: and when they stood, their wings were let down.


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that was over their head, there was as the appearance of a sapphire stone, [and] the likeness of a throne upon it. And upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as an appearance of a man above.


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And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber from the appearance of the loins and upwards, and from the appearance of the loins and under I saw an appearance of fire, and the brightness thereof round about.


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As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the form of brightness round about.


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This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And I saw and fell upon my face, and heard the voice of One speaking. And He said to me, Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak to you.


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And the Spirit came upon me, and took me up, and raised me, and set me on my feet. And I heard Him speaking to me.


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And He said to me, Son of Man, I send you forth to the house of Israel, to them that provoke Me; who have provoked Me, they and their fathers to this day.


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Whether then indeed they shall hear or fear (for they are a provoking house,) yet they shall know that you are a prophet in the midst of them.


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And you, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face (for they will madden and will rise up against you round about, and you dwell in the midst of scorpions), be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for they are a provoking house.


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And you shall speak My words to them, whether they will hear or fear; for they are a provoking house.


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And you, son of man, hear Him that speaks to you; be not provoking, as the provoking house: open your mouth, and eat what I give you.


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And He unrolled it before me. And in it the front and the back were written [upon.] And there was written [in it] lamentations, and mournful songs, and woe.


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your mouth shall eat, and your belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to you. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.


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And He said to me, Son of man, go your way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak My words to them.


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neither to many nations of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words you would not understand; although if I [had] sent you to such, they would have hearkened to you.


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But the house of Israel will not be willing to hearken to you; for they will not hearken to Me; for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted.


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And behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen your power against their power.


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And it shall be continually stronger than a rock- be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because they are a provoking house.


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And He said to me, Son of man, receive into your heart all the words that I have spoken to you, and hear [them] with your ears.


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And go your way, go in to the captivity, to the children of your people, and you shall speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord; whether they will hear, [or] whether they will refuse.


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Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice [as] of a great earthquake, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of the Lord from His place.


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And I perceived the sound of the wings of the living creatures clapping one to the other, and the sound of the wheels was near them, and the sound of the earthquake.


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And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.


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Then I passed through the air and came into the captivity, and went round [to] those that dwelt by the River Chebar who were there; and I sat there seven days, conversant in the midst of them.


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I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel; and you shall hear a word from My mouth, and shall threaten them from Me.


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When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you have not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.


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But if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, and you shall deliver your soul.


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And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because you did not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.


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But if you warn the righteous not to sin, and he sin not, the righteous shall surely live, because you have warned him; and you shall deliver your own soul.


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And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and He said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shall you be spoken to.


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And I arose, and went forth to the plain. And behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, according to the vision, and according to the glory of the Lord, which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.


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Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut yourself up in the midst of your house.


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And you, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for you, and they shall bind you with them, and you shall not come forth of the midst of them.


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Also I will bind your tongue, and you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover; because they are a provoking house.


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But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient; for they are a provoking house.


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And you, son of man, take a brick, and set it before your face, and portray on it the city, [even] Jerusalem.


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And you shall besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about.


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And take to yourself an iron pan, and you shall set it [for] an iron wall between you and the city. And you shall set your face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and you shall besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.


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And you shall lie upon your left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days [during] which you shall lie upon it; and you shall bear their iniquities.


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For I have appointed you their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquities of the house of Israel.


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And you shall accomplish this, and [then] you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquities of the house of Judah for forty days: I have appointed you a day for a year.


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So you shall set your face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shall strengthen your arm, and shall prophesy against it.


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And behold, I have prepared bonds for you, and you may not turn from your one side to the other, until the days of your siege shall be accomplished.


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Take also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and grain; and you shall cast them into one earthen vessel, and shall make them into loaves for yourself; and you shall eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days which you sleep on your side.


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And you shall drink water by measure, even from time to time you shall drink the sixth part of a hin.


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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Thus shall the children of Israel eat unclean things among the Gentiles.


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Then I said, By no means, Lord God of Israel! Surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness, nor have I eaten that which has died of itself, or was torn by beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.


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And He said to me, Behold, I have given you dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and you shall prepare your loaves upon it.


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And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in poverty, and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin;


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that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.


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And you, son of man, take a sword sharper than a barber's razor; you shall procure it for yourself, and shall bring it upon your head, and upon your beard; and you shall take a pair of scales, and shall separate the hair.


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A fourth part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfillment of the days of the siege. And you shall take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it. And a fourth part you shall cut with a sword round about it. And a fourth part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.


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And you shall take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire. From there shall come forth fire, and you shall say to the whole house of Israel,


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Thus says the Lord: This is Jerusalem: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of the nations.


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And you shall declare My ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and My statutes [to the sinful one] of the countries round about her, because they have rejected My ordinances, and have not walked in My statutes.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Because your occasion [for sin has been taken] from the nations round about you, and you have not walked in My statutes, nor kept My ordinances, no, you have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus says the Lord:


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Behold, I am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.


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And I will do in you things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all your abominations.


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Therefore the fathers shall eat [their] children in the midst of you, and children shall eat [their] fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter all that are left of you to the four winds.


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Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord; surely, because you have defiled My holy things with all your abominations, I also will reject you; My eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.


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A fourth part of you shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of you shall be consumed in the midst of you with famine; and [as for another] fourth part of you, I will scatter them to all the winds; and a fourth part of you shall fall by the sword round about you, and I will draw out a sword after them.


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And My wrath and My anger shall be accomplished upon them: and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My jealousy, when I have accomplished My anger upon them.


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And I will make you desolate, and your daughters round about you, in the sight of everyone that passes through.


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And you shall be mourned over and miserable among the nations round about you, when I have executed judgments in you in the vengeance of My wrath. I, the Lord, have spoken.


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And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of your bread.


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So I will send forth against you famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon you; and I will bring a sword upon you round about. I, the Lord, have spoken.


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and you shall say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests: Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed.


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And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols.


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and in all your habitations; the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste, that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.


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When there are [some] of you escaping from the sword among the Gentiles, and when you are scattered in the countries,


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then those of you that escape among the nations where they were carried captive shall remember Me; (I have sworn [an oath] against their heart that goes a-whoring from Me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.


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Thus says the Lord: Clap with [your] hand, and stamp with [your] foot and say, Aha, aha! For all the abominations of the house of Israel; they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine.


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He that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is far off shall die by the pestilence; and he that is in the siege shall be consumed with famine; and I will accomplish My anger upon them.


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Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars, on every high hill, and under [every] shady tree, where they offered a sweet savor to all their idols.


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And I will stretch out My hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Diblah, in all their habitations; [and] you shall know that I am the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord: An end has come to the land of Israel, the end has come on the four corners of the land.


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Now the end [has come] upon you, and I will send [judgment] upon you: and I will take vengeance on your ways, and will recompense all your abominations upon you.


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My eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy, for I will recompense your way upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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the inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day has drawn near, not with tumult, nor with pangs.


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Now I will pour out My anger upon you near at hand, and I will accomplish My wrath on you: and I will judge you for your ways, and recompense all your abominations upon you.


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My eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord that strikes [you].


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pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and [that] not with tumult, nor with haste.


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For the buyer shall never again return to the seller, neither shall a man cleave with the eye [of hope] to his life.


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[There shall be] war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword, and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city.


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But they that escape among them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains, and I will slay all [the rest], everyone for his iniquities.


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And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, [even] upon every face, and baldness upon every head.


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Their silver shall be cast forth in the streets, and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled; for it was the punishment of their iniquities.


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[As for] their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations; therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.


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And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.


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And I will turn away My face from them, and they shall defile My secret place, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.


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And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.


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There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.


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The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be made feeble. I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgments will I punish 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 fifth month, on the fifth [day] of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me. And the hand of the Lord came upon me.


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And I looked, and behold, the likeness of a man: from his loins and downwards [there was] fire, and from his loins upwards [there was] as the appearance of amber.


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And He stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser.


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And behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.


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And He said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold[, I looked] from the north toward the eastern gate.


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And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what these [people] do? They commit great abominations here, so that I should keep away from My sanctuary; and you shall see even greater iniquities.


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So I went in and looked, and I beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about.


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And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jechoniah the son of Shaphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up.


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And He said to me, You have seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber; because they have said, The Lord does not see; the Lord has forsaken the earth.


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And He brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and behold [there were] women sitting there lamenting for Tammuz.


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And He said to me, Son of man, you have seen; but you shall yet see [evil] practices [even] greater then these.


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And He brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces [turned] the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.


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And He said to me, Son of man, you have seen this. [Is it] a trivial thing to the house of Judah to practice the iniquities which they have practiced here? For they have filled the land with iniquity; and behold, these are as scorners.


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Then He called out in my ears with a loud voice, saying, The judgment of the city has drawn near. And each had the weapons of destruction in his hand.


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And behold, six men came from the way of the high gate that looks toward the north, and each one's axe was in his hand; and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with a long robe down to his feet, and a sapphire belt was on his loins. And they came in and stood near the bronze altar.


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And the glory of the God of Israel that was upon them went up from the cherubim to the porch of the house. And He called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the belt on his loins;


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and said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.


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And He said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and strike: and let not your eyes spare, neither have mercy.


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Utterly slay old man and youth, and virgin and infants and women: but do not go near any on whom is the mark: begin at My sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.


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And it came to pass as they were striking, that I fell upon my face and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! Will You destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out Your wrath upon Jerusalem?


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Then He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah has become exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness; because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon [it].


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Therefore My eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.


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And behold, the man clothed with the long robe, and girded with the belt about his loins, answered and said, I have done as You have commanded me.


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Then I looked, and behold, over the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim [there was] a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone.


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And He said to the man clothed with the [long] robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubim, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter [them] over the city. And he went in my sight.


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And the cherubim stood on the right hand of the house, as the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.


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Then the glory of the Lord departed from the cherubim to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.


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And the sound of the wings of the Cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of Almighty God speaking.


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And it came to pass, when He gave a charge to the man clothed with the sacred robe, saying, Take fire from between the wheels from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood near the wheels.


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And he stretched forth his hand into the midst of the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [thereof,] and put [it] into the hands of the man clothed with the sacred robe: and he took [it], and went out.


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And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubim, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone.


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And [as for] their appearance, [there was] one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel.


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When they went, they went on their four sides; they turned not when they went, for whichever way the first head looked, they went; and they turned not as they went.


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And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels.


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And when the cherubim went, the wheels went, and they were close to them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not.


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When they stood, [the wheels] stood; and when they mounted up, [the wheels] mounted up with them, because the spirit of life 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 forth, the wheels were also beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above.


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This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the River Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.


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Each one [had] four faces, and each one [had] eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men's hands.


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And [as for] the likeness of their faces, these are the [same] faces which I saw under the glory of the God of Israel by the River Chebar: and they went each straight forward.


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Moreover the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the front gate of the house of the Lord, that looks eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate were about twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jechoniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the leaders of the people.


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And the Lord said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise vanities, and take evil counsel in this city;


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And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, say; Thus says the Lord: Thus have you said, O house of Israel: and I know the devices of your spirit.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Your dead whom you have smitten in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.


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And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and will deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.


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You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you on the mountains of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. And I fell upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Alas, alas, O Lord! Will you utterly destroy the remnant of Israel?


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Son of man, your brethren, and the men of your captivity, and all the house of Israel have come to the full, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Keep far away from the Lord: the land is given to us for an inheritance.


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: I will cast them off among the nations, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter.


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: I will also take them from the heathen, and gather them out of the lands in which I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Israel.


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And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations from it, and all its iniquities from it.


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And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh;


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that they may walk in My commandments, and keep My ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them a God.


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And as for the heart [set upon] their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went [after them], I have recompensed their ways on their heads, says the Lord.


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Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside 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 on the mountain which was in front of the city.


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And the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision by the Spirit of God: and I went up after the vision which I saw.


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Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the iniquities of those who have eyes to see, and see not; and have ears to hear, and hear not; because they are a provoking house.


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You therefore, son of man, prepare yourself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and you shall be led into captivity from your place into another place in their sight; that they may see that they are a provoking house.


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And you shall carry forth your baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes; and you shall go forth at evening, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.


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You shall be lifted up on [men's] shoulders, and shall go forth in secret; you shall cover your face, and shall not see the ground, because I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.


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And I did thus according to all that He commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and I went out secretly; I was taken up on [men's] shoulders before them.


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Say to them, Thus says the Lord God, the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them:


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say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him; they shall go into banishment and captivity.


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And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig, so that he may go forth thereby; he shall cover his face, so that he may not be seen by [anyone], and he himself shall not see the ground.


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And I will spread out My net upon him, and he shall be caught in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there.


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And I will scatter to every wind all his assistants round about him, and all that help him; and I will draw out a sword after them;


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And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I will disperse them into the countries.


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And I will leave among them [a few] men in number [spared] from the sword, and from famine, and pestilence; that they may declare all their iniquities among the nations where they have gone; and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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And you shall say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, on the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains, for all that dwell in it are ungodly.


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And their inhabited cities shall be laid utterly waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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Son of man, what is your parable on the land of Israel, that you say, The days are long, [and] the vision has perished?


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Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord: I will even set aside this parable, and the house of Israel shall by no means use this parable [again]; for you shall say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.


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For there shall no more be any false vision, nor anyone prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.


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For I the Lord will speak My words; I will speak and perform [them], and will delay no more, for in your days, O provoking house, I will speak the word, and will perform [it], says the Lord.


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Son of man, behold, the provoking house of Israel boldly say, The vision which this man sees is for many days, and he prophesies for times afar off.


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Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord: Henceforth none of My words shall linger, which I shall speak: I will speak and do, says the Lord.


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Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, and you shall prophesy, and shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord:


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They have not continued steadfast, and they have gathered flocks against the house of Israel, they that say,


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In the day of the Lord, have not stood, seeing false [visions,] prophesying vanities, who say, The Lord says, and the Lord has not sent them, and they began [to try] to confirm the word.


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And therefore say, Thus says the Lord: Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord.


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And I will stretch forth My hand against the prophets that see false [visions], and those that utter vanities. They shall not partake of the instruction of My people, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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Because they have caused My people to err, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and one builds a wall, and they plaster it- it shall fall.


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Say to them that plaster [it], It shall fall; and there shall be a flooding rain; and I will send great stones upon their joinings, and they shall fall; and there shall be a sweeping wind, and it shall be broken.


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And lo! The wall has fallen; and will they not say to you, Where is your plaster with which you plastered [it?]


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Therefore thus says the Lord: I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in My wrath; and in [My] fury I will bring on great hailstones for complete destruction.


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And I will break down the wall which you have plastered, and it shall fall; and I will lay it on the ground, and its foundations shall be discovered, and it shall fall; and you shall be consumed with rebukes; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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And I will accomplish My wrath upon the wall, and upon them that plaster it; it shall fall: and I said to you, The wall is not, nor they that plaster it,


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even the prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see [visions of] peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord.


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And you, son of man, set your face firmly against the daughters of your people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them.


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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord: Woe to the [women] that sew pillows under every elbow, and make handkerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of My people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.


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And they have dishonored Me before My people for a handful of barley, and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls which should not die, and to save alive the souls which should not live, while you speak to a people hearing vain speeches.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against your pillows, whereby you there confound souls, and I will tear them away from your arms, and will set at liberty their souls which you pervert, to scatter them.


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And I will tear your handkerchiefs, and will rescue My people out of your hands, and they shall no longer be in your hands to be confounded; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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Because you have perverted the heart of the righteous, whereas I perverted him not, and [that] in order to strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not at all turn from his evil way and live:


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therefore you shall not see false [visions], and you shall no more utter prophecies; but I will deliver My people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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Son of man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them?


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Therefore speak to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him [according to the things] in which his mind is entangled,


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that he should turn aside the house of Israel, according to their hearts that are estranged from Me in their thoughts.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Be converted, and turn from your [evil] practices, and from all your sins, and turn your faces back again.


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For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall separate himself from Me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me; I the Lord will answer him, [according to the things] in which he is entangled.


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And I will set My face against that man, and will make him desolate and ruined, and will cut him off from the midst of My people; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and I will stretch out My hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.


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And they shall bear their iniquity according to the trespass of him that asks; and it shall be in like manner to the prophet according to the trespass,


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that the house of Israel may not go astray from Me, and that they may no more defile themselves with any of their transgressions; so shall they be My people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.


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Son of man, if a land shall sin against Me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out My hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it.


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And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they [alone] would be delivered by their righteousness, says the Lord.


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If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance upon it, and it is ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts;


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and [if] these three men should be in the midst of it, [as] I live, says the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved, but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed.


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Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let the sword go through the land; and I cut off from them man and beast;


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though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, says the Lord, they shall not deliver sons or daughters, but they only shall be saved themselves.


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Or [if] again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out My wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off it man and beast;


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and should Noah, Daniel, and Job be in the midst of it, [as] I live, says the Lord, there shall be left [them] neither sons nor daughters; [only] they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.


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Thus says the Lord: And if I even send upon Jerusalem My four severe judgments- the sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it [both] man and beast;


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yet behold, [there shall be] men left in it, those that escaped, who [shall] lead forth of it sons and daughters- behold, they [shall] go forth to you, and you shall see their ways and their thoughts, and you shall mourn over the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, [even] all the evils which I have brought upon it.


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And they shall comfort you, because you shall see their ways and their thoughts; and you shall know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it, says the Lord.


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And you, son of man- of all the wood, of the branches that are among the trees of the forest, what shall be made of the wood of the vine?


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Will they take wood from it to make [it fit] for work? Will they take a peg from it to hang any vessel upon it?


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It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly ruined of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for [any] work?


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Not even while it is yet whole will it be [useful] for [any] work; if the fire shall have utterly consumed it, will it still be [fit] for work?


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given up to the fire to be consumed, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And I will set My face against them; they shall go forth of the fire, and [yet] fire shall devour them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set My face against them.


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and you shall say, Thus says the Lord to Jerusalem: Your root and your birth are of the land of Canaan: your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.


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And [as for] your birth in the day in which you were born, you did not bind your breasts, and you were not washed in water, neither were you salted with salt, neither were you swathed in swaddling-bands.


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Nor did My eye pity you, to do for you one of all these things, to feel at all for you; but you were cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of your person, in the day in which you were born.


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And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, [Let there be] life out of your blood;


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increase; I have made you as the springing grass of the field. So you increased and grew, and entered into great cities: your breasts were set, and your hair grew, whereas you were naked and bare.


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And I passed by you and saw you, and behold, [it was] your time and a time of resting; and I spread My wings over you, and covered your shame, and swore [an oath] to you; and I entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became Mine.


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And I clothed you with embroidered [garments], and clothed you beneath with purple, and girded you with fine linen, and clothed you with silk,


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So you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour and oil and honey, and became extremely beautiful.


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And your name went forth among the nations because of your beauty; because it was perfected with elegance, [and] in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord.


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But you trusted in your beauty, and went a-whoring because of your fame, and poured out your fornication on every passer by.


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And you took of your garments, and made for yourself idols of needlework, and went a-whoring after them; therefore you shall never come in, nor shall [the like] take place.


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And you took your fair ornaments of My gold and of My silver, of what I gave you, and you made for yourself male images, and you committed harlotry with them.


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And you took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set before them My oil and My incense.


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And [you took] My bread which I gave you, ([yea,] I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey) and set them before them for a sweet-smelling savor; yes, it was so, says the Lord.


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And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore, and sacrificed [these] to them to be destroyed. You went a-whoring as [if that were] little,


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This is beyond all your fornication, and you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, [and] lived, [though] defiled in your blood.


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that you built yourself a house of fornication, and made a public place for yourself in every street;


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and on the head of every road you set up your fornications, and defiled your beauty, and opened your feet to every passer by, and multiplied your fornication.


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And you went a-whoring after the children of Egypt your neighbors, great of flesh; and went a-whoring, often to provoke Me to anger.


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And if I stretch out My hand against you, then will I abolish your statutes, and deliver [you] up to the will of those that hate you, [even to] the daughters of the Philistines that turned you aside from the way in which you sinned.


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And you went a-whoring to the daughters of Assyria, and not even then were you satisfied; yea, you went a-whoring, and were not satisfied.


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And you multiplied your covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these were you satisfied.


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Why should I make a covenant with your daughter, says the Lord, while you do all these things, the works of a harlot? And you have gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with your daughters.


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You have built a house of harlotry at the head of every road, and have set up your high place in every street; and you became as a harlot gathering payments.


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She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and you have given rewards to all your lovers, yea, you loaded them with rewards, that they should come to you from every side for your fornication.


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And there has happened in you perverseness in your fornication beyond [other] women, and they have committed fornication with you, in that you give payments over and above, and payments were not given to you; and [thus] perverseness happened in you.


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Thus says the Lord: Because you have poured forth your money, therefore your shame shall be discovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and [with] regard to all the imaginations of your iniquities, and for the blood of your children which you have given to them.


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Therefore, behold, I [will] gather all your lovers with whom you have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you hated; and I will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to them, and they shall see all your shame.


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And I will be avenged on you with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon you blood of fury and jealousy.


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And I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall break down your house of harlotry, and destroy your high place; and they shall strip you of your garments, and shall take your proud ornaments, and leave you naked and bare.


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And they shall bring multitudes upon you, and they shall stone you with stones, and pierce you with their swords.


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And they shall burn your houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on you in the sight of many women; and I will turn you back from harlotry, and I will no more give [you] rewards.


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So will I slacken My fury against you, and My jealousy shall be removed from you, and I will rest, and be no more careful [for you].


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Because you did not remember the days of your youth, and you grieved Me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed your ways upon your head, says the Lord; for thus have you wrought ungodliness above all your [other] iniquities.


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As is the mother, so is your mother's daughter: you are she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of your sisters have rejected their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and [your] father an Amorite.


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Your elder sister who dwells on your left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, that dwells on your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.


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Yet notwithstanding you have not walked in their ways, neither have you done according to their iniquities within a little, but you have exceeded them in all your ways.


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[As] I live, says the Lord, this Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.


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Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom- pride. She and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread [and] in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy.


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Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of your sins; but you have multiplied your iniquities beyond them, and you have justified your sisters in all your iniquities which you have committed.


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You therefore bear your punishment, for that you have corrupted your sisters by your sins which you have committed beyond them; and you have made them [appear] more righteous than yourself: you therefore be ashamed, and bear your dishonor, in that you have justified your sisters.


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And I will turn their captivity, [even] the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them;


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that you may bear your punishment, and be dishonored for all that you have done in provoking Me to anger.


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And your sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and you and your daughters shall be restored as you were at the beginning.


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before your wickedness was discovered, even now you are the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, [even] of the daughters of the Philistines that compass you round about.


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Thus says the Lord: I will even do to you as you have done, as you have dealt shamefully in these things to transgress My covenant.


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And I will remember My covenant, [made] with you in the days of your infancy, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.


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Then you shall remember your way, and shall be utterly dishonored when you receive your elder sisters with your younger ones, and I will give them to you for building up, but not by your covenant.


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that you may remember, and be ashamed, and may no more be able to open your mouth for your shame, when I am reconciled to you for all that you have done, says the Lord.


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and you shall say, Thus says the Lord: A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Lebanon- and he took the choice [branches] of the cedar;


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he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Canaan; he laid them up in a walled city.


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And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place.


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And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that its branches appeared [on] it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils.


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And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws. And behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and its roots [were turned] towards him, and it sent forth its branches towards him, that [he] might water it together with the growth of its plantation.


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It thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that it might become a great vine.


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: Shall it prosper? Shall not the roots of its tender stem and its fruit be blighted? Yea, all its early shoots shall be dried up, and [that] not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear it up from its roots.


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And behold, it thrives; shall it prosper? Shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? It shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.


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Son of man, say now to the provoking house, Know you not what these things were? Say [to them], Whenever the king of Babylon shall come against Jerusalem, then he shall take her king and her princes, and shall take them home to Babylon.


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And he shall take of the royal seed, and shall make a covenant with him, and shall bind him with an oath; and he shall take the princes of the land,


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that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it.


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And [if] he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Egypt, that [they] may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? Shall he that acts as an adversary be preserved? And shall he that transgresses the covenant be preserved?


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[As] I live, says the Lord, verily in [the] place where the king is that made him king, who dishonored My oath, and who broke My covenant, shall he die with him in the midst of Babylon.


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And Pharaoh shall make war upon him not with a large force or great multitude, in throwing up a mound, and in building of forts, to cut off souls.


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Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when behold, I engage his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: [As] I live, surely My oath which he has profaned, and My covenant which he has transgressed, I will even recompense it upon his head.


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In every battle of his they shall fall by the sword, and I will scatter [his] remnant to every wind, and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.


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For thus says the Lord: I will even take of the choice [branches] of the cedar from the top [thereof], I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain;


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and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar. And every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow; its branches shall be restored.


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And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].


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Son of man, what do you mean by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?


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For all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are Mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.


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who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Israel, and shall not defile his neighbor's wife, and shall not draw near to her that is removed,


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and shall not oppress any man, [but] shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;


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and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgment between a man and his neighbor,


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and has walked in My commandments and kept My ordinances, to do them- the righteous man shall surely live, says the Lord.


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who has not walked in the way of his righteous father, but has even eaten upon the mountains, and has defiled his neighbor's wife,


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and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has worked iniquities,


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has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has done all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.


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And if he beget a son, and [the son] see all his father's sins which he has done, and fear, and not do according to them,


