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Go up to Galaad, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no help in thee.

Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.

Open thy mouth and judge justly, and plead the cause of the poor and weak.

Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, ye princes of Israel: remove injustice and misery, execute judgment and justice; take away oppression from my people, saith the Lord God.

The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and I have not forsaken thee.

and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them.

Turn, ye children that have revolted, saith the Lord; for I will rule over you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Sion:

Know, ye Gentiles, and be conquered; hearken ye, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after ye strengthened yourselves; for even if ye should again strengthen yourselves, ye shall again be conquered.

And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of earth:

Woe is me, my mother! thou hast born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped others, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.

And he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters; and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.

The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.

And whenever the people of the land shall go in before the Lord at the feasts, he that goes in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he that goes in by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the gate by which he entered, but he shall go forth opposite it.

and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother.

lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.

For thus saith the Lord; Behold, the end is come.

where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.

And it shall come to pass, that every animal of living and moving creatures, all on which the river shall come, shall live: and there shall be there very many fish; for this water shall go thither, and it shall heal them, and they shall live: everything on which the river shall come shall live.

Behold, the ancient things have come to pass, and so will the new things which I tell you: yea, before I tell them they are made known to you.

Hear now, Jesus the high priest, thou, and thy neighbours that are sitting before thee: for they are diviners, for, behold, I bring forth my servant The Branch.

Worship the Lord in his holy court: let all the earth tremble before him.

For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou has said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.

A man that hath travelled knoweth many things; and he that hath much experience will declare wisdom.

And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and will deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

Have ye forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of Juda, and the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which they wrought in the land of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon them.

A wise man shall judge nations: but a worthless man being angry laughs and fears not.

As for the first-fruits which they shall offer to the Lord, it shall be in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth twenty-five thousand.

For thou art Lord most high over all the earth; thou art greatly exalted above all gods.

In that day shall messengers go forth hasting to destroy Ethiopia utterly, and there shall be tumult among them in the day of Egypt: for, behold it comes.

And I said, I will not tend you: that which dies, let it die; and that which falls off, let it fall off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of his neighbour.

For he is come to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the nations in uprightness.

He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even he has made his prayer abominable.

And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped strange gods, and served them.

All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them: who will declare these things? or who will declare to you things from the beginning? let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.

For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.

Take thee great stones, and hide them in the entrance, at the gate of the house of Pharao in Taphnas, in the sight of the men of Juda:

Prove now thy servants ten days; and let them give us pulse, and let us eat, and let us drink water:

therefore I also will do to the house whereon my name is called, wherein ye trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Selo.

Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy.

And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been made like Gomorrha.

The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.

For thou shalt receive for thine head a crown of graces, and a chain of gold round thy neck.

and he said to them, Thus saith the Lord;

For we have sinned and committed iniquity, departing from thee. In all things have we trespassed, and not obeyed thy commandments,

O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon thy fruits, and upon thy grape-gatherers.

and by reason of the majesty which he gave to him, all nations, tribes, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he smote; and whom he would he exalted; and whom he would he abased.

For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God:

But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed

Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.

Thorns grow in the hand of a drunkard, and servitude in the hand of fools.

Then king Darius commanded the decree to be written.

And I will stretch forth my hand against the prophets that see false visions, and those that utter vanities: they shall not partake of the instruction of my people, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Now the pit into which Ismael cast all whom he smote, is the great pit, which king Asa had made for fear of Baasa king of Israel: even this Ismael filled with slain men.

Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

But I have raised this expectation, yet thou hast not remembered me, saith the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? saith thy God.

If thou be among great men, make not thyself equal with them; and when ancient men are in place, use not many words.

And they put him in chains and in a cage, and he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.

I beheld until the thrones were set, and the Ancient of days sat; and his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head, as pure wool: his throne was a flame of fire, and his wheels burning fire.

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples: every one that sees them shall take notice of them, that they are a seed blessed of God;

And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight of her enemies; and the Libyans became her helpers.

and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of his treasures.

What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the ploughman plough the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment; and shalt direct all thy course aright.

and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth.

And the vision of the evening and morning that was mentioned is true: and do thou seal the vision; for it is for many days.

And Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying, Be not afraid before the children of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be better for you.

then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me; (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices;) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.

What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.

The fools also dies in sins; and uncleanness attaches to a pestilent man.

To thee, the Lord our God, belong compassions and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed from thee;

Hell from beneath is provoked to meet thee: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against thee, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

And he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words which I speak to thee, and stand upright: for I am now sent to thee. And when he had spoken to me this word, I stood trembling.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will also make the firebrand great,

and remember the former things that were of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,

If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.

Thou shalt surely die, because thou hast prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Selo, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.

Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at thy wise words.

And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.

And I will provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I shall lead thee captive among the nations, to a land which thou hast not known.

And I will lead forth the seed that came of Jacob and of Juda, and they shall inherit my holy mountain: and mine elect and my servants shall inherit it, and shall dwell there.

then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? and have I not taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria?

But now these two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon thee, for thy sorcery, for the strength of thine enchantments,

O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

Son of man, have not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee, What doest thou?

Cast out a pestilent person from the council, and strife shall go out with him; for when he sits in the council he dishonours all.

And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.

And I will do in thee things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all thine abominations.

Honour the Lord with thy just labours, and give him the first of thy fruits of righteousness:

The soul of the ungodly shall not be pitied by any man.

O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Judge judgment in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that wrongs him, lest mine anger be kindled like fire, and it burn, and there be none to quench it.

For mine own sake will I shew thee my wrath, and will bring before thee my glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy thee.

They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink it.

Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins for ever; but now look on us, for we are all thy people.

Ephraim has come to nought in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings.

I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Thou hast done evil in what thou hast done to slay this man with hunger: for there is no more bread in the city.

And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and will stretch out my hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.