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and thou shalt say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of thee the transgressor and unrighteous.

and I have brought forth the blind people; for their eyes are alike blind, and they that have ears are deaf.

Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an object of hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out.

O Lord our God, thou heardest them; O God, thou becamest propitious to them, though thou didst take vengeance on all their devices.

He that increases his wealth by usuries and unjust gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.

And Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias.

And therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord.

For even if a man should live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnas, saying,

And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?

As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out my sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not my sheep.

and the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Sor, who were in thee, these were thy pilots.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and reject not the rules of thy mother.

And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.

And the Assyrian shall fall: not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword: but the young men shall be overthrown:

As when a bird flies down from its own nest, so a man is brought into bondage whenever he estranges himself from his own place.

And, behold, I have prepared bonds for thee, land thou mayest not turn from thy one side to the other, until the days of thy siege shall be accomplished.

In all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, even Jerusalem, thou hast executed true judgment: for according to truth and judgment didst thou bring all these things upon us because of our sins.

and he shall take away from Juda every man who shall be able to lift up his head, and every one able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of thy land, O God with us.

Death has prevailed and swallowed men up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of his people from all the earth: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

And he called Joanan, and the leaders of the host, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men in a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion's whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.

Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these things shall be for many long days, and even for ever.

He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and him that breaks down a hedge a serpent shall bite.

O king, the most high God gave to thy father Nabuchodonosor a kingdom, and majesty, and honour, and glory:

Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

and I will fill thy hills and thy valleys with slain men, and in all thy plains there shall fall in thee men slain with the sword.

It is the Lord that made the earth by his strength, who set up the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the sky,

Hide not yourselves, nor go astray: have ye not heard from the beginning, and have not I told you? ye are witnesses if there is a God beside me.

There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray.

Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, and hath not gone after gold.

And I will cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul shall grieve over them, for their souls cried out against me.

He that conceals injuries seeks love; but he that hates to hide them separates friends and kindred.

And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hasting to eat.

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

A curse shall devour this counsel, for this is their counsel for the sake of covetousness.

He that binds up a stone in a sling, is like one that gives glory to a fool.

Now then, O king, establish the decree, and publish a writ, that the decree of the Persians and Medes be not changed.

The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways; but the folly of fools leads astray.

and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians,

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.

They shall lay hold on bow and spear; the people is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against thee as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Sion.

But ten men were found there, and they said to Ismael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he passed by, and slew them not in the midst of their brethren.

Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.

The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and being naked she shall make lamentation as that of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.

Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Sion has travailed, and brought forth her children?

All the bodies that give light in the sky, shall be darkened over thee, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, saith the Lord God.

Let thy garments be always white; and let not oil be wanting on thine head.

And I will give up the land to ruin, because they have utterly transgressed, saith the Lord.

I noticed his horns, and behold, another little horn came up in the midst of them, and before it three of the former horns were rooted out: and, behold, there were eyes as the eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

yet now make an agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if ye shall be able to set riders upon them.

and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in no wise be destroyed.

But they revolted from me, and would not hearken to me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.

Prepare thee a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.

And the yoke of his chain shall prosper: there is craft in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by craft shall destroy many, and he shall stand up for the destruction of many, and shall crush them as eggs in his hand.

that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him.

For I am the Lord who love righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labour to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Let the heaven rejoice from above, and let the clouds rain righteousness: let the earth bring forth, and blossom with mercy, and bring forth righteousness likewise: I am the Lord that created thee.

Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause.

Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.

And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers shall mourn.

And the inhabitants of two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet ye have not returned to me, saith the Lord.

that my wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken: I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.

Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.

For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, saith the Lord.

And there came to Godolias to Massepha Ismael the son of Nathanias, and Joanan son of Caree, and Saraeas the son of Thanaemeth, and the sons of Jophe the Netophathite, and Ezonias son of the Mochathite, they and their men.

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.

And I passed by thee and saw thee, and, behold, it was thy time and a time of resting; and I spread my wings over thee, and covered thy shame, and swear to thee: and I entered into covenant with thee, saith the Lord, and thou becamest mine.

When there are some of you escaping from the sword among the Gentiles, and when ye are scattered in the countries;

And thou, dark tower of the flock, daughter of Sion, on thee the dominion shall come and enter in, even the first kingdom from Babylon to the daughter of Jerusalem.

but deliberate in council. Death befalls uninstructed men.

the trees also of Libanus rejoice against thee, and the cedar of Libanus, saying, From the time that thou hast been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.

In thee, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us belongs confusion of faced, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned.

For I will surely save thee, and thou shalt by no means fall by the sword; and thou shalt find thy life, because thou didst trust in me, saith the Lord.

Then shall there be health to thy body, and good keeping to thy bones.

And they shall uncover the gates of Juda, and they shall look in that day on the choice houses of the city.

And the hand of a man was under their wings on their four sides.

And it came to pass, when Jeremias had ceased speaking all that the Lord had ordered him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false prophets and all the people took him, saying,

Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another's beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.

And, behold, a hand touched me, and it raised me on my knees.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing in them wrong or perverse.

Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Juda is become very exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness: because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon it.

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

Remember ye these things, and groan: repent, ye that have gone astray, return in your heart;

And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which ye profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am sanctified among you before their eyes.

I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose of apples;

Behold, I am against thee, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will roll thee down upon the rocks, and will make thee as a burnt mountain.

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

Our sister is little, and has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister, in the day wherein she shall be spoken for?

The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after king Sedekias had concluded a covenant with the people, to proclaim a release;

for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.

And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh grew upon them, and skin came upon them above: but there was not breath in them.

They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.

There is none like to thee, O Lord, among the god; and there are no works like to thy works.