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And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.

Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents,

And thou didst multiply thy covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these wast thou satisfied.

Wherefore do ye speak unto me? ye all have been ungodly, and ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

Yet the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not right. Is not my way right, O house of Israel? is not your way wrong?

That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

And I will raise up for them a plant of peace, and they shall no more perish with hunger upon the land, and they shall no more bear the reproach of the nations.

In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge.

And Sophonias read the book in the ears of Jeremias.

This is the land, which ye shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, saith the Lord God.

And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land.

And on my servants and on my handmaids in those days will I pour out of my Spirit.

Summon many against Babylon, even every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one 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.

Land, land, hear the word of the Lord.

and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses wherein they burnt incense on the roofs thereof to Baal, and poured drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me.

And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labours and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication

And this shall be a sign to you, that I will visit you for evil.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Cut off thine hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.

And these shall eat the meat-offerings, and the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings; and every special offering in Israel shall be theirs.

And thy wrath wherewith thou hast been enraged, and thy rancour has come up to me; therefore I will put a hook in thy nose, and a bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

There are laid the princes of Assur, who yielded their strength to a wound of the sword: these are laid with the slain, with them that go down to the pit.

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.

And this shall be a sign to thee, Eat this year what thou hast sown; and the second year that which is left: and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of his 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.

Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will give Uaphres king of Egypt into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of one that seeks his life; as I gave Sedekias king of Juda into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.

Turn, rest not in this place wherein thou wert born: in thine own land will I judge thee.

The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the siege; their power is broken; they are become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.

Why should I make a covenant with thy daughter, saith the Lord, while thou doest all these things, the works of a harlot? and thou hast gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with thy daughters.

Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

and the porches, according to these measures: and there were windows to it and to the porches round about: its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits,

I will judge you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity.

For the children of Juda have wrought evil before me, saith the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house on which my name is called, to defile it.

And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people are they that speak concerning thee by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk one to another, saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the words that proceed from the Lord.

Call ye them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.

And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found him not.

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Do ye pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do ye go a-whoring after their abominations,

Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, saith the Lord God, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

And the first-fruits of all things, and the first-born of all animals and all offerings, of all your first-fruits there shall be a share for the priests; and ye shall give your earliest produce to the priest, to bring your blessings upon your houses.

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and they my people. O house of Israel, saith the Lord God,

Write ye this man an outcast: for there shall none of his seed at all grow up to sit on the throne of David, or as a prince yet in Juda.

For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:

But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.

brought this upon thee, in that thou wentest a-whoring after the nations, and didst defile thyself with their devices.

For the children of Israel and the children of Juda alone did evil in my sight from their youth.

But I know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?

And I will shew wonders in heaven, and upon the earth, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,

JOD. He will give his cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches.

There are the princes of the north, even all the captains of Assur, who go down slain to Hades: they lie uncircumcised among the slain with the sword together with their terror and their strength, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit.

And thou shalt prophesy against them these words, and shalt 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,

And these are the goings out of the city northward, four thousand and five hundred by measure.

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

Flee ye, dig very deep for a dwelling-place, ye that dwell in the palace; for the king of Babylon has framed a counsel, and devised a device against you.

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim king of Juda; He shall not have a man to sit on the throne of David: and his carcass shall be cast forth in the heat by day, and in the frost by night.

And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.

Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;

In vain have I smitten your children; ye have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet ye feared not.

And I will multiply the fruit of the trees, and the produce of the field, that ye may not bear the reproach of famine among the nations.

And what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet, and adorn thyself with golden ornaments; though thou adorn thine eyes with stibium, thy beauty will be in vain: thy lovers have rejected thee, they seek thy life.

Lo! are not these beyond Jordan, behind, westward in the land of Chanaan, which lies westward near Golgol, by the high oak?

And thou shalt say to them, When ye shall offer the first-fruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing-floor, and as produce from the wine-press.

let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.

and destruction, was multiplied among them.

And the name of the daughter of Aser, Sara.

But if the Lord shall shew by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.

And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

He shall deliver the innocent, and do thou save thyself by thy pure hands.

All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshipped: all that go down to the earth shall fall down before him: my soul also lives to him.

And I will establish his seed for ever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do any thing with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people,

And when the cloud went up from the tabernacle, the children of Israel prepared to depart with their baggage.

And Balac did as Balaam told him, and offered a calf and a ram on every altar.

And he commands the storm, and it is calmed into a gentle breeze, and its waves are still.

take heed to thyself that thou seek not to follow them after they are destroyed before thee, saying, How do these nations act towards their gods? I will do likewise.

And he said to him, I will not go, but I will go to my land and to my kindred.

But the righteous shall inherit the earth, and dwell upon it for ever.

Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

For the sons of Joseph, the sons of Ephraim, according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,

And the ass says to Balaam, Am not I thine ass on which thou hast ridden since thy youth till this day? did I ever do thus to thee, utterly disregarding thee? and he said, No.

Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to thee.

For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?

for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; beside the perpetual whole-burnt-offering: and

And they made the tunic under the ephod, woven work, all of blue.

A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

His forces that were numbered were fifty-three thousand and four hundred.

And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, there shall be thick darkness in their perplexity.

For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,