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But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to thee, the Lord of my salvation.

And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed;

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the counsel of saints is understanding: for to know the law is the character of a sound mind.

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did it not.

And strangers shall build thy walls, and their kings shall wait upon thee: for by reason of my wrath I smote thee, and by reason of mercy I loved thee.

And the Lord said, Thou hadst pity on the gourd, for which thou has not suffered, neither didst thou rear it; which came up before night, and perished before another night:

Receive instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than tried gold.

Thus saith the Lord; Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thine eyes from thy tears: for their is a reward for thy works; and they shall return from the land of thine enemies.

Ye that are in Geth, exalt not yourselves, and ye Enakim, do not rebuild from the ruins of the house in derision: sprinkle dust in the place of your laughter.

and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a mitre on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.

Arise thou, and depart; for this is not thy rest because of uncleanness: ye have been utterly destroyed;

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have defiled my portion, they have made my desirable portion a trackless wilderness;

Go through my gates, and make a way for my people; and cast the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the Gentiles.

who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Thou sleepest a little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short time, and thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little.

But they disobeyed, and provoked his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy, he himself contended against them.

Be in pain, and strengthen thyself, and draw near, O daughter of Sion, as a woman in travail: for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee, and thence shall he redeem thee out of the hand of thine enemies.

lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours come into the houses of strangers;

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will utterly destroy the horses out of the midst of thee, and destroy thy chariots;

The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Sion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.

And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

that thy storehouses may be completely filled with corn, and that thy presses may burst forth with wine.

And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor shall be for a resting-place of herds for my people, who have sought me.

And the princes of Juda heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate.

Before the thunder goeth lightning; and before a shamefaced man shall go favour.

For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.

For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul,

And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty; Drink ye, be ye drunken; and ye shall vomit, and shall fall, and shall in nowise rise, because of the sword which I send among you.

Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious possessions, and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.

Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all ye that love her hold in her a general assembly: rejoice greatly with her, all that now mourn over her:

And he shall be at his ease with kings, and princes are his toys, and he shall mock at every strong-hold, and shall cast a mound, and take possession of it.

Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what every man has gained has perished from him.

My son, let not ungodly men lead thee astray, neither consent thou to them.

Ye that love the Lord, hate evil; the Lord preserves the souls of his saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of sinners.

Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before thee in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for their good against the enemy.

Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how art thou a strange vine turned to bitterness!

Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.

And I will take my beautiful staff, and cast it away, that I may break my covenant which I made with all the people.

Say among the heathen, The Lord reigns: for he has established the world so that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people in righteousness.

Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: thy darts shall go forth at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of thine arms.

and I will give you shepherds after my heart, and they shall certainly tend you with knowledge.

He that chastises the heathen, shall not he punish, even he that teaches man knowledge?

Give unto the most High according as he hath enriched thee; and as thou hast gotten, give with a cheerful eye.

For, behold, thine enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

I looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was not; and to the sky, an there was no light in it.

No evils shall come upon thee, and no scourge shall draw nigh to thy dwelling.

As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

Go up upon her battlements, and break them down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses: for they are the Lord's.

From the boundaries of the rivers of Ethiopia will I receive my dispersed ones; they shall offer sacrifices to me.

Lift up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations, consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings against her by me, and that for the people of Achanaz; set against her engines of war; bring up against her horses as a multitude of locusts.

For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, saith the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for a possession to every one that builds, to raise up this temple.

Thou rulest the power of the sea; and thou calmest the tumult of its waves.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

And they that work at them shall be in pain, and all that make beer shall be grieved, and be pained in their souls.

And I clothed thee with embroidered garments, and clothed thee beneath with purple, and girded thee with fine linen, and clothed thee with silk,

Because thou hast forsaken God thy Saviour, and hast not been mindful of the Lord thy helper; therefore shalt thou plant a false plant, and a false seed.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon me, because they have mocked me, and they shall make lamentation for him, as for a beloved friend, and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they shall not at all tread wine into the vats; for the vintage has ceased.

Hear, ye that are left, and ye that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts which the God of Israel has declared to us. THE VISION OF IDUMEA.

And I said to the angel that spoke with me, Whither do these carry away the measure?

And they shall bear their iniquity according to the trespass of him that asks; and it shall be in like manner to the prophet according to the trespass:

And, behold, it thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? it shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.

But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has wrought, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered: in his trespass wherein he has trespassed, and in his sins wherein he has sinned, in them shall he die.

Call ye them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.

and that they had pulled down the houses of Jerusalem, to fortify the wall of the city.

All shall answer and say to thee, Thou also hast been taken, even as we; and thou art numbered amongst us.

Because they have caused my people to err, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and one builds a wall, and they plaster it, it shall fall.

Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it.

For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.

Thy mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.

Till thy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.

And I brought them into the wilderness.

All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.

and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more.

Say to them, Thus saith the Lord God, the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them:

As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, ye idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria.

Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgment under foot, for he began to go after vanities.

Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,

So Abdemelech took the men and went into the underground part of the king's house, and took thence old rags and old ropes, and threw them to Jeremias into the dungeon.

For mine own sake I will do this for thee, because my name is profaned; and I will not give my glory to another.

Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burnt with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm preserve the sons of the slain ones.

It is the day of making of brick; that day shall be thine utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish thine ordinances.

A righteous man understands the hearts of the ungodly: and despises the ungodly for their wickedness.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee,

The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

And destruction shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not be aware; there shall be a pit, and thou shalt fall into it: and grief shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not be able to be clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon thee, and thou shalt not know.

But the eyes of the Lord preserve discretion; but the transgressor despises wise words.

And I will betroth thee to myself for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in tender compassions;

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord; surely, because thou hast defiled my holy things with all thine abominations, I also will reject thee; mine eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.

But ye are they that have left me, and forget my holy mountain, and prepare a table for the devil, and fill up the drink-offering to Fortune.

for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with thee.

Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgment of death is due to this man; because he has prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.