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All the rivers run into the sea; and yet the sea is not filled: to the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

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

I got servants and maidens, and servants were born to me in the house: also I had abundant possession of flocks and herds, beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem.

And the breadth of the upper side was made according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that men might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the ground-sills to the third story.

For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.

a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;

And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch five cubits.

So I returned, and saw vanity under the sun.

If thou shouldest see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter: for there is a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.

And my holy name shall be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my holy name shall no more be profaned: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

All the labour of a man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite shall not be satisfied.

As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools: this is also vanity.

So I prophesied as the Lord commanded me: and it came to pass while I was prophesying, that, behold, there was a shaking, and the bones approached each one to his joint.

Thus shall they inherit the land a second time, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head.

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; I do not this, O house of Israel, for your sakes, but because of my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, among whom ye went.

For there is no one that knows what is going to be: for who shall tell him how it shall be?

Go, eat thy bread with mirth, and drink thy wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted thy works.

And I will make mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle:

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants on the earth.

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.

Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

before the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

Tell me, thou whom my soul loves, where thou tendest thy flock, where thou causest them to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of thy companions.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.

I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye do not rouse or wake my love, until he please.

And thou, son of man, I have set thee as a watchman to the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear a word from my mouth.

Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.

Thou art all fair, my companion, and there is no spot in thee.

The watchman that go their rounds in the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

This is thy greatness in thy delights: thou wast made like a palm tree, and thy breasts to cluster.

Much water will not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not drown it; if a man would give all his substance for love, men would utterly despise it.

And I will veil the heavens when thou art extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.

And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be desolate in the midst of desolate cities:

For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of chariots.

When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou didst break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and didst crush the loins of them all.

And he shall answer in that day, and say, I will not be thy ruler; for I have no bread in my house, nor raiment: I will not be the ruler of this people.

because of this, behold, I will bring on thee strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge,

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Juda his beloved plant: I expected it to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honour upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became thy coverings.

For thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring up against thee, O Sor, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many nations.

and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched thy lips, and will take away thine iniquities, and will purge off thy sins.

thus saith the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.

For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock: I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;

therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, even the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours:

And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices.

His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: it shall be upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth and forever. The seal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.

In thee they have reviled father and mother; and in thee they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few.

Therefore prophesy, son of man, set thy face steadfastly toward Jerusalem, and look toward their holy places, and thou shalt prophesy against the land of Israel,

And I said to them, Let every one cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.

And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.

All the earth cries aloud with joy:

And if the transgressor turn away from all his iniquities which he has committed, and keep all my commandments, and do justice and mercy, he shall surely live, and shall by no means die.

Look not round about thee in the streets of the city, neither wander thou in the solitary place thereof.

And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws: and, behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and her roots were turned towards him, and she sent forth her branches towards him, that he might water her together with the growth of her plantation.

Shall Moab even thus be delivered? for I will bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.

Moab shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moab: but thou shalt care for them that dwell in Seth, and thou shalt not be ashamed.

In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; a nation hoping and yet trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Sion.

And all the green herbage round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.

increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth of the fire, and yet fire shall devour them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set my face against them.

And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.

And it shall be that thy choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up thy gates.

For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall separate himself from me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him, according to the things wherein he is entangled.

Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

Have ye not seen a false vision? and spoken vain prophecies?

The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.

And behold a talent of lead lifted up: and behold a woman sat in the midst of the measure.

And I did thus according to all that he commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and went out secretly; I was taken up on men's shoulders before them.

they shall anoint themselves with ointment in this mountain. Impart thou all these things to the nations; for this is God's counsel upon all the nations.

The way of the godly is made straight: the way of the godly is also prepared.

Therefore thus saith the Lord; Your dead whom ye have smitten in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and thiscity is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

Shall he himself be thus smitten, even as he smote? and as he slew, shall he be thus slain?

It is a stumblingblock unto them that sacrifice unto it, and every fool shall be taken therewith.

For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred: this is their vision.

And it came to pass as they were smiting, that I fell upon my face, and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! wilt thou destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out thy wrath upon Jerusalem?

And he brought me to the porch of the court.

And the wealth of all the nations together, as many as have fought against Ariel, and all they that war against Jerusalem, and all who are gathered against her, and they that distress her, shall be as one that dreams in sleep by night.

Now the end is come to thee, and I will send judgment upon thee: and I will take vengeance on thy ways, and will recompense all thine abominations upon thee.

The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation is vain.

And slain men shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because your occasion for sin has been taken from the nations round about you, and ye have not walked in my statutes, nor kept mine ordinances, nay, ye have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus saith the Lord;

For in that day men shall renounce their silver idols and their golden idols, which their hands made.

For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.

So thou shalt set thy face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shalt strengthen thine arm, and shalt prophesy against it.

Behold now, these shall be terrified with fear of you: those whom ye feared shall cry out because of you: messengers shall be sent, bitterly weeping, entreating for peace.

But the house of Israel will not be willing to hearken to thee; for they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted.

And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.

He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets.

And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.

But if ye say, We trust in the Lord our God;

And their legs were straight; and their feet were winged, and there were sparks, like gleaming brass, and their wings were light.

Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and return to his own country, and he shall fall by the sword in his own land.

Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.