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having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

And thou shalt say to the people of the land, Thus saith 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.

As faces are not like other faces, so neither are the thoughts of men.

I am the Lord your God; walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, and thou shalt deliver thy soul.

Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

And they that dwell in the south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Galaad.

A brother helped by a brother is as a strong and high city; and is as strong as a well-founded palace.

And thou, son of man, prophesy, and clap thine hands, and take a second sword: the third sword is the sword of the slain, the great sword of the slain: and thou shalt strike them with amazement, lest the heart should faint

Thus is thy lot, and the reward of your disobedience to me, saith the Lord; as thou didst forget me, and trust in lies,

A desirable treasure will rest on the mouth of the wise; but foolish men will swallow it up.

And whereas 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?

And who is blind, but my servants? and deaf, but they that rule over them? yea, the servants of God have been made blind.

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.

Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and it shall be a reward for his army.

He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins.

And there was a brazen chapiter upon them, and the length was five cubits, even the height of one chapiter; and there were 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.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labour in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also vanity.

And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.

the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved to have it thus: and what will ye do for the future.

And the people said to me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are that thou doest?

God by wisdom founded the earth, and by prudence he prepared the heavens.

There is no healing for thy bruise; thy wound has rankled: all that hear the report of thee shall clap their hands against thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?

and the hard-hearted man comes not in for good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;

These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.

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.

Thy seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shalt thou by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall thy name perish before me.

And they that are left of them shall be a small number, and a child shall write them.

For thou has been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat thy ways; but thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assur.

And where are your prophets who prophesied to you saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against this land?

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

And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land:

For thy desert and marred and ruined places shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured thee shall be removed far from thee.

Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have become one mixture, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Rejoice not in evil-doers, neither be envious of sinners.

and behold a gate looking northwards belonging to the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth;

For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon thee,

The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother.

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.

And they that labour for the city shall labour for it out of all the tribes of Israel.

And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodoma, and Gomorrha.

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.

And they have dishonoured 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 ye speak to a people hearing vain speeches.

And thou shalt be removed from thy stewardship, and from thy place.

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:

and have cast their idols into the fire: for, they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.

who hast wrought signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even to this day, and in Israel, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and thou didst make for thyself a name, as at this day;

Behold, are not my words as fire? saith the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?

But thou shalt be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.

Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet shall many peoples come, and the inhabitants of many cities;

Also to them is the event of the sons of man, and the event of the brute; one event befalls them: as is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; and there is one breath to all: and what has the man more than the brute? nothing; for all is vanity.

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Juda, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.

ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.

A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.

And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and shall drink wine till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you.

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.

The desires of the godly gladden the soul, but the works of the ungodly are far from knowledge.

And thus shalt thou do in the seventh month; on the first day of the month thou shalt take a rate from each one; and ye shall make atonement for the house.

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

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

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

and concerning it ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up some of the former, which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was bolder than the rest.

For the evil man shall have no posterity: and the light of the wicked shall be put out.

Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.

I therefore teach thee truth, and knowledge good to hear; that thou mayest answer words of truth to them that question thee.

Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.

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.

And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and bringing my pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain;

Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh:

and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand,

But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest.

Friends will hate poor friends; but the friends of the rich are many.

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

For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made in order to worship vanities and bats;

and hallow my sabbaths, and let them be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.

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

Then Jeremias answered all the people, the mighty men, and the women, and all the people that returned him these words for answer, saying,

In return for his service wherewith he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt; thus saith the Lord God:

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.

but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

As silver, and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead, are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in my wrath, and I will gather and melt you.

But Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.

But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.

Go up to Libanus, and cry; and utter thy voice to Basan, and cry aloud to the extremity of the sea: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

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

As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shalt thou be pure; because thou hast destroyed my land, and hast slain my people: thou shalt not endure for ever, thou an evil seed.

They shall fall with him in the midst of them that are slain with the sword, and all his strength shall perish: the giants also shall say to thee,

The tongue of the just is tried silver; but the heart of the ungodly shall fail.

I will even give them to their enemies, and their carcases shall be food for the birds of the sky and for the wild beasts of the earth.

And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare.

And this is that which ye said, The way of the Lord is not straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one for his ways.

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

A wise son gladdens his father; but a foolish son sneers at his mother.

Then thou spokest in vision to thy children, and saidst, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of my people.

Even in thy conscience, curse not the king; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry thy voice, and that which has wings shall report thy speech.

consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you.