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

And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands.

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day.

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

And thou, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord; Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all places round about to my sacrifice, which I have made for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and ye shall eat flesh, and drink blood.

And now, O lord our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine on thy desolate sanctuary, for thine own sake, O Lord.

Instruction keeps the right ways of life; but instruction unchastened goes astray.

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

Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.

And they asked Baruch, saying, Where didst thou write all these words?

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 Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.

And the word of the Lord Almighty came to me, saying,

that thou mayest know that they are good: and if thou lay them to heart, they shall also gladden thee on thy lips.

And the Lord answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied with them: and I will no longer make you a reproach among the Gentiles.

Keep thy foot, whensoever thou goest to the house of God; and when thou art near to hear, let thy sacrifice be better than the gift of fools: for they know not that they are doing evil.

Leave off first for manners' sake; and be not unsatiable, lest thou offend.

The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonours the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and lament, ye rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and ye shall fall as the choice rams.

Is it not yet a little while, and Libanus shall be changed as the mountains of Chermel, and Chermel shall be reckoned as a forest?

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.

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 Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left

But they are turned back: be ye utterly ashamed that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

Yet the children of thy people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight: whereas this their way is not straight.

Iron sharpens iron; and a man sharpens his friend's countenance.

All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture.

I love those that love me; and they that seek me shall find me.

And through the prince shall be offered the whole-burnt-offerings and the meat-offerings, and the drink-offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sin-offerings, and the meat-offering, and the whole-burnt-offerings, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity.

And there rose up men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the people,

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou hast drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:

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.

The Lord thy God is in thee; the Mighty One shall save thee: he shall bring joy upon thee, and shall refresh thee with his love; and he shall rejoice over thee with delight as in a day of feasting.

And the mercy-seat shall be fourteen cubits in length, by fourteen cubits in breadth on its four sides; and there shall be a border to it carried round about it of half a cubit; and the rim of it shall be a cubit round about; and the steps thereof looking eastward.

Turn, ye children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be thy servants; for thou art the Lord our God.

Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring upon Juda and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evils which I pronounced against them.

Better is an entertainment of herbs with friendliness and kindness, than a feast of calves, with enmity.

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

Men call the wise and understanding evil: but they that are pleasing in speech shall hear more.

I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.

Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.

Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

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.

and a transgressor is the abomination of a righteous man.

Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

When ye cast into the corn-bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only ten measures of barley: and ye went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were but twenty.

She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work.

It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.

And thou tookest thy fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of what I gave thee, and thou madest to thyself male images, and thou didst commit whoredom with them.

The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and he shall sanctify him with burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass.

And in thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen this. Is it a little thing to the house of Juda to practise the iniquities which they have practised here? for they have filled the land with iniquity: and, behold, these are as scorners.

And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

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 thee, he has exalted the horn of him that afflicted thee.

A wise king utterly crushes the ungodly, and will bring a wheel upon them.

Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing for a man to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labour in which he may labour under the sun, all the number of the days of his life which God has given to him: for it is his portion.

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

And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and shall say to thee, How art thou destroyed from out of the sea, the renowned city, that brought her terror upon all her inhabitants.

Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein ye have sinned against me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should ye die, O house of Israel?

And thou shalt joint them together for thyself, so as that they should bind themselves into one stick; and they shall be in thine hand.

And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships, and prays, saying, Deliver me; for thou art my God.

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.

and they departed, and dwelt in Gaberoch-amaa, that is by Bethleem, to go into Egypt, for fear of the Chaldeans:

then thou shalt say, O Lord God, thou hast 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 for ever.

Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.

therefore the Lord will humble the chief daughters of Sion, and the Lord will expose their form in that day;

And as a woman in travail draws nigh to be delivered, and cries out in her pain; so have we been to thy beloved.

If thine enemy should fall, rejoice not over him, neither be elated at his overthrow.

Therefore thus said the Lord; Ye have not hearkened to me, to proclaim a release every one to his neighbour: 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.

Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thine heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee.

And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out their pasture, saying, Ye shall inherit the land for ever: they shall rest on it through all generations.

These four beasts are four kingdoms that shall rise up on the earth:

Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will also take them from the heathen, and gather them out of the lands wherein I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Israel.

A sinful man will not be reproved, but findeth an excuse according to his will.

Be not very just; neither be very wise: lest thou be confounded.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith 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.

And my heart knew muchwisdom, and knowledge, parables and understanding: I perceived that this also is waywardness of spirit.

Israel is saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation: they shall not be ashamed nor confounded for evermore.

Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.

I will not suffer any weapon formed against thee to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against thee for judgment, thou shalt vanquish them all; and thine adversaries shall be condemned thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and ye shall be righteous before me, saith the Lord.

And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.

A malicious man shall be severely punished, and if he commit injury, he shall also lose his life.

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

learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.

Establish with me a token for good; and let them that hate me see it and be ashamed; because thou, O Lord, hast helped me, and comforted me.

And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her any more.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Her ways are good ways, and all her paths are peaceful.

And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer side, and upon all the wall round about within and without,

And I beheld all the works of God, that a man shall not be able to discover the work which is wrought under the sun; whatsoever things a man shall endeavour to seek, however a man may labour to seek it, yet he shall not find it; yea, how much soever a wise man may speak of knowing it, he shall not be able to find it: for I applied all this to my heart, and my heart has seen all this.

Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

who devise that men may forget my law by their dreams, which they have told every one to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name in the worship of Baal.

of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God.

For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me.

And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,

And Jeremias said to him, Thus saith the Lord; If thou wilt indeed go forth to the captains of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city shall certainly not be burnt with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house.