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and there was none to comfort thee of all the children whom thou borest; and there was none to take hold of thine hand, not even of all the children whom thou has reared.

And Baruch said, Jeremias told me from his own mouth all these words, and I wrote them in a book.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and are come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt clothe thyself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on as a bride her attire.

And Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I wronged thee, or thy servants, or this people, that thou puttest me in prison?

And if thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then would thy peace have been like a river, and thy righteousness as a wave of the sea.

But if thou wilt not go forth this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt by no means escape.

Thus saith 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 none beside.

And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations of it, and all its iniquities from it.

Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.

for they were afraid of them, because Ismael had smitten Godolias, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

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.

For thus saith the Lord; As my wrath has dropped upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath drop upon you, when ye have entered into Egypt: and ye shall be a desolation, and under the power of others, and a curse and a reproach: and ye shall no more see this place.

Remember ye not the former things, and consider not the ancient things.

Hear, ye deaf, and look up, ye blind, to see.

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.

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.

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.

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 are gone into captivity.

To whom have ye compared the Lord? and with what likeness have ye compared him?

TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, Ye walls of Sion, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eyes cease.

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

When thou sittest among many, reach not thine hand out first of all.

Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.

We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

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

Let not Ezekias 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?

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.

When I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou hast 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 thy hand.

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

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

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 stay themselves upon him.

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,

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

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.

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, ye shall be beaten down by it.

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

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,

Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.

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.

And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Woe to the women that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of my people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.

and will cast thee into a great and unmeasured land, and there thou shalt die: and he will bring thy fair chariot to shame, and the house of thy prince to be trodden down.

though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, they shall not deliver sons or daughters, but they only shall be saved themselves.

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

And thou didst take thy variegated apparel and didst clothe them, and thou didst set before them mine oil and mine incense.

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.

All the kings of the nations lie in honour, every man in his house.

For I desire not the death of him that dies, saith the Lord.

They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children.

And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them.

In that day the mountains shall be consumed, and the hills, and the forests, and fire shall devour both soul and body: and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame.

and what if even the tribe be rejected? it shall not be, saith the Lord God.

And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass: and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.

Son of man, behold, the house of Israel are all become to me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver.

Behold I and the children which God has given me: and they shall be for signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in mount Sion.

And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame: and my soul was alienated from her, even as my soul was alienated from her sister.

And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the flies, which insect shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of the Assyrians.

And I spoke to the people in the morning, as he commanded me in the evening, and I did in the morning as it was commanded me.

And the isles shall be alarmed at the day of thy fall.

Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:

The people of Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into thy market.

and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents,

Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee to be ashes upon thy land before all that see thee.

And they shall hide all idols made with hands,

Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was bald, and every shoulder peeled; yet there was no reward to him or to his army serving against Tyre, nor for the service wherewith they served against it.

And come, let us reason together, saith the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.

Son of man, lament over the strength of Egypt, for the nations shall bring down her daughters dead to the depth of the earth, to them that go down to the pit.

When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them.

By slothful neglect a building will be brought low: and by idleness of the hands the house will fall to pieces.

So my sheep fed on that which ye had trampled with your feet; and they drank the water that had been disturbed by your feet.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: and one sinner will destroy much good.

Be not very wicked; and be not stubborn: lest thou shouldest die before thy time.

And it shall come to pass, when the children of thy people shall say to thee, Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by these things?

Yea, and as for every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

Ye shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and ye shall drink the blood of princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves.

I said in my heart, concerning the speech of the sons of man, God will judge them, and that to shew that they are breasts.

And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inwards to the open space of the gate looking outwards: a hundred cubits was the distance to the place of the gate looking eastward: and he brought me to the north;

Do no secret thing before a stranger; for thou knowest not what he will bring forth.

And I hated the whole of my labour which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

were carved cherubs and palm-trees between the cherubs, and each cherub had two faces.

For in the abundance of wisdom is abundance of knowledge; and he that increases knowledge will increase sorrow.

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

And she finds by experience that working is good; and her candle goes not out all night.

And he said to me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God of Israel; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day of its being made, to offer upon it whole-burnt-offerings, and to pour blood upon it.

Thus saith the Lord God; In the first month, on the first day of the month, ye shall take a calf without blemish out of the herd, to make atonement for the holy place.

Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not:

And the prince shall by no means take of the inheritance of the people, to oppress them: he shall give an inheritance to his sons out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered, every one from his possession.

There shall be no interpreter to a sinful nation: but he that observes the law is blessed.

Thus saith the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast, shall be to the house of Juda for joy and gladness, and for good feasts; and ye shall rejoice; and love ye the truth and peace.

And the eastern coasts between Loranitis, and Damascus, and the land of Galaad, and the land of Israel, the Jordan divides to the sea that is east of the city of palm-trees. These are the eastern coasts.

And the remainder of the length that is next to the first-fruits of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and they shall be the first-fruits of the sanctuary; and the fruits thereof shall be for bread to them that labour for the city.

He that walks justly is assisted: but he that walks in crooked ways shall be entangled therein.

And Daniel continued till the first year of king Cyrus.

He that plants a fig-tree shall eat the fruits of it: so he that waits on his own master shall be honoured.

As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;

As a club, and a dagger, and a pointed arrow, so also is a man who bears false witness against his friend.

which shall be taken away; and the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it for ever and ever.

For the Lord will see it, and it will not please him, and he will turn away his wrath from him.

Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolation, and that of thy city on which thy name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before thee on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of thy manifold compassions, O Lord.

For if thou shouldest keep these things, thou shalt have posterity; and thine hope shall not be removed.