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What has he to do any more with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him: I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is thy fruit found.

For they prophesy to you unrighteous words in my name; and I sent them not.

Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children.

And he said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practise here.

For mine own sake will I shew thee my wrath, and will bring before thee my glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy thee.

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 thy mouth.

For thus saith the Lord; Behold, the end is come.

For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God:

then they of you that escape among the nations whither 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.

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

Mine is the silver, and mine the gold, saith the Lord Almighty.

Thou shalt surely die, because thou hast prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Selo, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.

And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I am not your God.

And I will do in thee things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all thine abominations.

That every one should set at liberty his servant, and every one has handmaid, the Hebrew man and Hebrew woman, that no man of Juda should be a bondman.

And thy warriors from Thaeman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

And I will lead forth the seed that came of Jacob and of Juda, and they shall inherit my holy mountain: and mine elect and my servants shall inherit it, and shall dwell there.

Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence shall there be an inhabitant for her?

We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed: let us forsake her, and depart every one to his own country: for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.

In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaeans deserted theirs, because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.

Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all ye men of war.

Ye looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because my house is desolate, and ye run everyone into his own house;

Thou hast done evil in what thou hast done to slay this man with hunger: for there is no more bread in the city.

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 am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and bread-corn; and thou shalt cast them into one earthen vessel, and shalt make them into loaves for thyself; and thou shalt eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days during which thou sleepest on thy side.

Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins for ever; but now look on us, for we are all thy people.

Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness.

For then will I turn to the peoples a tongue for her generation, that all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve him under one yoke.

And it shall be continually stronger than a rock: be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because it is a provoking house.

The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.

out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself 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.

Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.

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.

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

And I looked, and behold, a hand stretched out to me, and in it a volume of a book.

for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be worsted; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord, Blesses is he that has a seed in Sion, and household friends in Jerusalem.

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

but they shall serve the Lord their God; and I will raise up to them David their king.

And the faces of them four turned not when they went; they went everyone straight forward.

And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one,

Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.

And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.

Ephraim has come to nought in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings.

The isles have waited for me, and the ships of Tharsis among the first, to bring thy 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.

TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from want of the fruits of the field.

They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.

And hearken ye not to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your auguries, nor your sorcerers, that say, Ye shall by no means work for the king of Babylon:

And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Deblatha, and he judged him.

Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice; ye confident daughters, hearken to my words.

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

there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing-floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them.

For grape-gatherers are come, who shall not leave thee a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon thy possessions.

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.

Then shalt thou cry, and God shall hearken to thee; while thou art yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If thou remove from thee the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;

Thine hand shall be lifted up against them that afflict thee, and all thine enemies shall be utterly destroyed.

Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew it not.

and remember the former things that were of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,

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

For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

and thou hast multiplied thy whoredom with them, and thou hast increased the number of them that are far from thee, and hast sent ambassadors beyond thy borders, and hast been debased even to hell.

And now, why hast thou known calamities? was there not a king to thee? or has thy counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon thee?

The land mourns; Libanus is ashamed: Saron is become marshes; Galilee shall be laid bare, and Chermel.

All ye beasts of the field, come, devour, all ye beasts of the forest.

DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

But I have raised this expectation, yet thou hast not remembered me, saith the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? saith thy God.

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

Hear now these words, ye chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness;

And I will openly take vengeance on the porches in that day, on the men that fill the house of the Lord their God with ungodliness and deceit.

THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.

The leaders of my people shall be cast forth from their luxurious houses; they are rejected because of their evil practices; draw ye near to the everlasting mountains.

And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall die.

HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a great sin; therefore has she come into tribulation, all that used to honour her have afflicted her, for they have seen her shame: yea, she herself groaned, and turned backward.

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

They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.

whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and I have not forsaken thee.

From the time of the water of Noe this is my purpose: as I sware to him at that time, saying of the earth, I will no more be wroth with thee, neither when thou art threatened,

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.

And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death; for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth.

For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.

From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned: there they stood: war waged against the children of iniquity

And now intreat the face of your God, and make supplication to him. These things have been done by your hands; shall I accept you? saith the Lord Almighty.

The Lord's voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and he shall save those that fear his name: hear, O tribe; and who shall order the city?

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

And God said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.

For thus saith the Lord; Suppose not in your hearts, saying, The Chaldeans will certainly depart from us: for they shall not depart.

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

Surely thou didst bend they bow at scepters, saith the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder.

And I bought the field of Anameel the son of my father's brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.

I will not act according to the fury of my wrath, I will not abandon Ephraim to be utterly destroyed: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One within thee: and I will not enter into the city.

The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man, and who can know him?

Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words out of the mouth of the prophets, from the day that the house of the Lord Almighty was founded, and from the time that the temple was built.

He shall cast down with his swords thy walls and thy towers.