Jeremiah 10 Cross References - ACV

¹ Hear ye the word which LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. ² Thus says LORD: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the nations are dismayed at them. ³ For the customs of the peoples are vanity. For a man cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. ⁴ They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move. ⁵ They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and do not speak. They must be carried, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor is it in them to do good. ⁶ There is none like thee, O LORD. Thou are great, and thy name is great in might. ⁷ Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? For to thee it appertains, inasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like thee. ⁸ But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood. ⁹ There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith, blue and purple for their clothing. They are all the work of skilful men. ¹⁰ But LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation. ¹¹ Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. ¹² He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens. ¹³ When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries. ¹⁴ Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish. ¹⁶ The portion of Jacob is not like these. For he is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name. ¹⁷ Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou who abides in the siege. ¹⁸ For thus says LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it. ¹⁹ Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous, but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it. ²⁰ My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My sons have gone forth from me, and they are not. There is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. ²¹ For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. ²² The voice of news. Behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals. ²³ O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps. ²⁴ O LORD, correct me, but in measure, not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. ²⁵ Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name. For they have devoured Jacob. Yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

¹⁹ And Micaiah said, Therefore hear thou the word of LORD. I saw LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

⁷ Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify to thee, I am God, even thy God.

¹⁰ Hear the word of LORD, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of LORD, ye scoffers, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem.

⁴ Hear ye the word of LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

¹⁵ Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud, for LORD has spoken. ¹⁶ Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness. ¹⁷ But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.

² and say, Hear the word of LORD, O king of Judah, who sits upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people who enter in by these gates.

¹⁵ Now therefore hear ye the word of LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If ye indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there,

¹ Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

¹⁶ Now therefore hear thou the word of LORD: Thou say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop thy word against the house of Isaac.

¹³ And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

²⁹ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations.

³ Ye shall not do after the doings of the land of Egypt, in which ye dwelt, and ye shall not do after the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you, nor shall ye walk in their statutes.

²³ And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I cast out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

³⁰ take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before thee, and that thou not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise. ³¹ Thou shall not do so to LORD thy God. For every abomination to LORD, which he hates, they have done to their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

¹² Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou have labored from thy youth, if so be thou shall be able to profit, if so be thou may prevail. ¹³ Thou are wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee. ¹⁴ Behold, they shall be as stubble. The fire shall burn them. They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

³² And that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

²⁵ And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, roaring of sea and of tossing, ²⁶ fainting of men from fear, and of anticipation of the things coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷ And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and much glory. ²⁸ And when these things begin to happen, stand upright, and lift up your heads, because your redemption approaches.

³⁰ Therefore ye shall keep my charge, that ye not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that ye not defile yourselves in it. I am LORD your God.

²⁶ And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped about the altar which was made. ²⁷ And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is meditating, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened. ²⁸ And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.

¹⁹ The image, a workman has cast it, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains. ²⁰ He who is too impoverished for such an oblation chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks for him a skilful workman to set up a graven image that shall not be moved. ²¹ Have ye not known? Have yet not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? ²² It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in, ²³ who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity. ²⁴ Yea, they have not been planted. Yea, they have not been sown. Yea, their stock has not taken root in the earth. Moreover he blows upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble. ²⁵ To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One. ²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might. And because he is strong in power, not one is lacking. ²⁷ Why do thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from LORD. And the justice due to me is passed away from my God? ²⁸ Have thou not known? Have thou not heard? The everlasting God, LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding. ²⁹ He gives power to the faint. And to him who has no might he increases strength. ³⁰ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. ³¹ But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

⁹ Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame. ¹⁰ Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing? ¹¹ Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the workmen. They are of men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They shall fear. They shall be put to shame together. ¹² The smith makes an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails. He drinks no water, and is faint. ¹³ The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. And he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. ¹⁴ He hews down cedars for him, and takes the holm tree and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. ¹⁵ Then it shall be for a man to burn. And he takes of it, and warms himself. Yea, he kindles it, and bakes bread. Yea, he makes a god, and worships it. He makes it a graven image, and falls down to it. ¹⁶ He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it he eats flesh. He roasts roast, and is satisfied. Yea, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. ¹⁷ And the residue of it he makes a god, even his graven image. He falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for thou are my god. ¹⁸ They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand. ¹⁹ And none calls to mind, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire. Yea, I have also baked bread upon the coals of it. I have roasted flesh and eaten it. And shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? ²⁰ He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

⁵ Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

⁸ But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

⁴ They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made rulers, and I knew it not. They have made themselves idols of their silver and their gold, that they may be cut off. ⁵ He has cast off thy calf, O Samaria. My anger is kindled against them. How long will it be ere they attain to innocence? ⁶ For even this is from Israel: the workman made it, and it is no God. Yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

¹⁸ What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols? ¹⁹ Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake, to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

⁷ And while praying do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard by their much speaking.

²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

¹⁸ Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

¹⁹ The image, a workman has cast it, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains. ²⁰ He who is too impoverished for such an oblation chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks for him a skilful workman to set up a graven image that shall not be moved.

⁶ They help every man his neighbor, and says to his brother, Be of good courage. ⁷ So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, he who smoothes with the hammer, him who smites the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good, and he fastens it with nails, that it should not be moved.

¹² The smith makes an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails. He drinks no water, and is faint.

⁷ They bear it upon the shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands. From its place it shall not remove. Yea, he may cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

⁵ They have mouths, but they speak not. They have eyes, but they see not. ⁶ They have ears, but they hear not. They have noses, but they smell not. ⁷ They have hands, but they handle not. They have feet, but they walk not, nor do they speak through their throat. ⁸ Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.

¹⁶ They have mouths, but they speak not. They have eyes, but they see not. ¹⁷ They have ears, but they hear not, nor is there any breath in their mouths. ¹⁸ Those who make them shall be like them, yea, everyone who trusts in them.

²³ Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods. Yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. ²⁴ Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of naught. An abomination is he who chooses you.

⁹ Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame. ¹⁰ Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing?

¹ Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle. The things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.

¹⁹ Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake, to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

⁴ Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

² Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

¹⁴ And it leads my kind astray (those dwelling on the earth) because of the signs that were given it to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast that had the sword-wound and lived. ¹⁵ And it was given it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would both speak, and would make as many as would not ever worship the image of the beast be killed.

¹⁰ And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word, that thou may know that there is none like LORD our God.

¹⁴ For this time I will send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, that thou may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

¹¹ Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

³¹ For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

²⁶ There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides upon the heavens for thy help, and in his excellency on the skies.

²² Therefore thou are great, O LORD God, for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

¹⁴ And I looked, and rose up, and said to the ranking men, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

³² Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, let not all the travail seem little before thee, that has come upon us, on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?

¹ Great is LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

⁸ There is none like thee among the gods, O Lord, nor like thy works. ⁹ All nations whom thou have made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and they shall glorify thy name. ¹⁰ For thou are great, and do wondrous things. Thou alone are God.

⁶ For who in the clouds can be compared to LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like LORD, ⁷ a God very awesome in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all those who are round about him? ⁸ O LORD God of hosts, who is a mighty one like thee, O LORD? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

⁴ For great is LORD, and greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods.

³ Great is LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

⁶ Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁸ To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to him?

²⁵ To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One.

⁵ To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?

⁹ Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. I am God, and there is none like me,

¹⁸ who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them, the great, the mighty God. LORD of hosts is his name,

³ How great are his signs, and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

³⁴ And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me. And I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever. For his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says LORD of hosts.

²³ O the Almighty, we cannot find him out. He is excellent in power. And in justice and abundant righteousness he will not afflict. ²⁴ Men therefore fear him. He does not regard any who are wise of heart.

²⁸ For the kingdom is LORD's, and he is the ruler over the nations.

¹¹ Yea, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

⁷ Thou, even thou, are to be feared. And who may stand in thy sight when once thou are angry?

⁹ All nations whom thou have made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and they shall glorify thy name.

⁶ For who in the clouds can be compared to LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like LORD,

⁴ And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

²² Do ye not fear me? says LORD. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail, though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.

⁶ There is none like thee, O LORD. Thou are great, and thy name is great in might.

¹¹ And many nations shall join themselves to LORD in that day, and shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee. And thou shall know that LORD of hosts has sent me to thee.

⁵ But I will show you whom ye should fear. Fear him, who, after killing, has power to cast into hell. Yes, I say to you, fear ye him.

¹⁹ For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding. ²⁰ Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

¹⁵ And the seventh agent sounded, and great voices occurred in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will reign into the ages of the ages.

⁴ Who will, no, not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name, because thou alone are holy? Because all the nations will come and worship before thee, because thy righteous deeds were made known.

⁸ Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.

¹⁸ Those who make them shall be like them, yea, everyone who trusts in them.

²⁹ Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

¹⁹ And none calls to mind, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire. Yea, I have also baked bread upon the coals of it. I have roasted flesh and eaten it. And shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

²⁷ who say to a block of wood, Thou are my father, and to a stone, Thou have brought me forth. For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

²² For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

¹⁴ Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁷ Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. ¹⁸ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹² My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, departing from under their God.

¹⁸ What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

² For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding. ²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

²² For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram. Once every three years the navy of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

¹⁹ The image, a workman has cast it, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains.

¹² Tarshish was thy merchant because of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead. They traded for thy wares.

⁵ I lifted up my eyes, and looked. And, behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz.

²⁶ For who is there of all flesh, who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

⁴ The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

⁴ LORD, when thou went forth out of Seir, when thou marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water.

²⁶ And David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

³⁶ Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.

³⁹ And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. And they said, LORD, he is God, LORD, he is God.

³ Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

⁶ who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble,

¹⁶ LORD is King forever and ever. The nations have perished out of his land.

⁷ Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.

⁵ Into thy hand I commend my spirit. Thou have redeemed me, O LORD, thou God of truth.

² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

¹¹ The Lord gave the word. Great was the company of those who published it.

¹⁸ The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lightened the world. The earth trembled and shook.

² My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

¹¹ Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?

² Thy throne is established of old. Thou are from everlasting.

⁴ His lightnings lightened the world. The earth saw, and trembled.

⁵ For LORD is good. His loving kindness is forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

³² who looks on the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

⁷ Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

¹³ Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion is throughout all generations.

⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps truth forever,

⁴ It may be LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which LORD thy God has heard. Therefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear. Open thine eyes, O LORD, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

³⁶ And the burden of LORD ye shall mention no more, for every man's own word shall be his burden. For ye have perverted the words of the living God, of LORD of hosts our God.

²⁶ I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. And his kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even to the end.

¹⁴ And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

¹¹ And LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is very great. For he is strong who executes his word. For the day of LORD is great and very fearful, and who can abide it?

⁴ And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

⁶ Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

⁶ He stood, and measured the earth. He beheld, and drove apart the nations. And the eternal mountains were scattered. The everlasting hills bowed. His goings were as of old.

¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep uttered its voice, and lifted up its hands on high.

² But who can abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.

¹⁶ And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. And having responded, the high priest said to him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou are the Christ, the Son of God.

⁵¹ And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks split, ⁵² and the sepulchers were opened, and many bodies of the sanctified who have been asleep arose.

³ And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent.

¹⁵ and saying, Men, why are ye doing these things? We also are men of like nature with you, proclaiming good news to you, to turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all the things in them,

⁹ For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and true God,

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹⁷ Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the eternal life.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

⁵ For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but LORD made the heavens.

¹⁸ And the idols shall utterly pass away.

¹⁵ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁸ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.

⁶⁶ Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of LORD.

¹¹ LORD will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men shall worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

² And it shall come to pass in that day, says LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered. And I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

² And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray, and bound him a thousand years.

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. ⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. ⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. ⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

⁸ who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,

⁷ He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

⁴ Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding. ⁵ Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it? ⁶ Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone of it ⁷ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

² For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

⁶ By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

⁶⁹ And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

¹ LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty. LORD is clothed with strength; he has girded himself with it. The world also is established that it cannot be moved.

² who covers thyself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

²⁴ O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom have thou made them all. The earth is full of thy riches.

⁹⁰ Thy faithfulness is to all generations. Thou have established the earth, and it abides.

⁵ to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁶ to him who spread forth the earth above the waters, for his loving kindness is forever,

⁵ Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in LORD his God, ⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps truth forever,

⁴ Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of LORD. For he commanded, and they were created.

¹⁹ LORD by wisdom founded the earth. By understanding he established the heavens.

⁴ Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou know?

²² It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,

⁵ Thus says God, LORD, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth, he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk in it,

²⁴ Thus says LORD, thy Redeemer, and he who formed thee from the womb: I am LORD, who makes all things, who stretches forth the heavens alone, who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?),

¹² I have made the earth, and created man upon it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded.

¹⁸ For thus says LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and did not create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am LORD, and there is none else.

¹³ Yea, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. When I call to them, they stand up together.

⁸ Thus says LORD, In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in a day of salvation I have helped thee. And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages,

¹³ When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

¹⁷ Ah lord LORD! Behold, thou have made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for thee,

¹⁵ He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens. ¹⁶ When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries. ¹⁷ Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. ¹⁸ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish. ¹⁹ The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.

¹ The burden of the word of LORD concerning Israel. Thus says LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:

³ All things came to be through him, and apart from him not even one thing came to be that has come to be.

¹⁶ Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created through him, and for him.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven, and LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth, and LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to LORD that he may send thunder and rain, and ye shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of LORD in asking a king for you. ¹⁸ So Samuel called to LORD, and LORD sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared LORD and Samuel.

⁴¹ And Elijah said to Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of abundance of rain.

⁴⁵ And it came to pass in a little while, that the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. ⁴⁶ And the hand of LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

²⁷ For he draws up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapor, ²⁸ which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly. ²⁹ Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? ³⁰ Behold, he spreads his light around him, and he covers the bottom of the sea. ³¹ For by these he judges the peoples. He gives food in abundance. ³² He covers his hands with the lightning, and gives it a command that it strike the mark. ³³ The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.

² Hear, O, hear the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth. ³ He sends it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth. ⁴ After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard. ⁵ God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things which we cannot comprehend.

²² Have thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or have thou seen the treasures of the hail,

²⁵ Who has cleft a channel for the water flood, or the way for the lightning of the thunder, ²⁶ to cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, in which there is no man, ²⁷ to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

³⁴ Can thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? ³⁵ Can thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?

¹³ LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

³ The voice of LORD is upon the waters. The God of glory thunders, even LORD upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of LORD is powerful. The voice of LORD is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of LORD breaks the cedars. Yea, LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox. ⁷ The voice of LORD splits the flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of LORD shakes the wilderness. LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of LORD makes the hinds to calve, and strips the forests bare. And in his temple everything says, Glory. ¹⁰ LORD sat as King at the Flood. Yea, LORD sits as King forever.

³³ to him who rides upon the heaven of heavens, which are of old. Lo, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

⁷ who causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain, who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries,

¹⁷ They have ears, but they hear not, nor is there any breath in their mouths.

⁸ who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.

¹ Ask ye of LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, even of LORD who makes lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.

² LORD looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

⁶ A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.

⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people, and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

⁷ Let all those be put to shame who serve graven images, who boast themselves of idols. Bow yourselves to him, all ye gods.

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

² Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man,

¹⁷ They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, Ye are our gods.

¹¹ Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the workmen. They are of men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They shall fear. They shall be put to shame together.

¹⁶ They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them. They shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.

⁷ They bear it upon the shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands. From its place it shall not remove. Yea, he may cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble. ⁸ Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.

²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things.

²¹ They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities, and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

²¹ And turn ye not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

¹⁸ And the idols shall utterly pass away. ¹⁹ And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. ²⁰ In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats, ²¹ to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

²⁴ Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of naught. An abomination is he who chooses you.

¹² Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says LORD.

¹⁹ Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

¹¹ Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for thee, for thou have made all these things.

⁸ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

³ I will consume man and beast. I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked. And I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, says LORD. ⁴ And I will stretch out my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarim with the priests,

⁵ Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,

⁹ For LORD's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

⁵ LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Thou maintain my lot. ⁶ The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places. Yea, I have a fine heritage.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

² Remember thy congregation, which thou have gotten of old, which thou have redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance, and mount Zion, at which thou have dwelt.

⁵⁷ LORD is my portion; I have said that I would observe thy words.

⁴ For LORD has chosen Jacob to himself, Israel for his own possession.

⁵ I cried to thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.

⁴ LORD has made everything for its own end, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

⁷ I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am LORD who does all these things.

⁴ Our Redeemer, LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

⁶ I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into thy hand. Thou showed them no mercy. Upon the aged thou have laid thy yoke very heavily.

¹⁵ For I am LORD thy God, who stirs up the sea so that the waves of it roar. LORD of hosts is his name.

⁵ For thy maker is thy husband. LORD of hosts is his name. And the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer. He shall be called the God of the whole earth.

¹² He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

³⁵ Thus says LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar. LORD of hosts is his name.

³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong. LORD of hosts is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

¹⁹ The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.

²⁴ LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.

¹ Flee for safety, ye sons of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem. And blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem. For evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.

¹³ Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain, says LORD, you who say, Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter into our habitations?

³ Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. And thou shall move from thy place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house. ⁴ And thou shall bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. And thou shall go forth thyself at evening in their sight, as when men go forth into exile. ⁵ Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out by that. ⁶ Thou shall bear it upon thy shoulder in their sight, and carry it forth in the dark. Thou shall cover thy face, that thou not see the land. For I have set thee for a sign to the house of Israel. ⁷ And I did so as I was commanded. I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it upon my shoulder in their sight. ⁸ And in the morning the word of LORD came to me, saying, ⁹ Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to thee, What are thou doing? ¹⁰ Say thou to them, Thus says the lord LORD: This burden concerns the ruler in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are. ¹¹ Say, I am your sign. Just as I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity. ¹² And the ruler who is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth. They shall dig through the wall to carry out by it. He shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.

¹⁰ Arise ye, and depart, for this is not your resting-place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

¹⁵ When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand),

⁶³ And it shall come to pass, that, as LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. And ye shall be plucked from off the land where thou go in to possess it. ⁶⁴ And LORD will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And there thou shall serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.

²⁹ And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with LORD thy God. And the souls of thine enemies, them he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

¹ Then LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. ² And it shall come to pass, when they say to thee, Where shall we go forth? Then thou shall tell them, Thus says LORD: Such as are for death, to death, and such as are for the sword, to the sword, and such as are for the famine, to the famine, and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

¹³ Therefore I will cast you forth out of this land into the land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your fathers, and there ye shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.

²⁰ The anger of LORD shall not return until he has executed, and till he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.

¹⁰ And they shall know that I am LORD. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.

⁶ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so he has dealt with us.

⁹ I was mute. I opened not my mouth, because thou did it.

¹⁰ And I said, This is my infirmity, the change of the right hand of the Most High.

¹⁷ And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will be a man who has trusted in him.

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart. My heart is disquieted in me. I cannot hold my peace, because thou have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

³¹ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.

²¹ For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold on me.

¹ Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁷ And thou shall say this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

¹³ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken LORD, the fountain of living waters.

² She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her loved ones she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all ye who pass by? Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought upon me. Therewith LORD has afflicted in the day of his fierce anger. ¹³ From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all the day. ¹⁴ The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up upon my neck. He has made my strength to fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. ¹⁵ The Lord has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a winepress. ¹⁶ For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My sons are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed. ¹⁷ Zion spreads forth her hands. There is none to comfort her. LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are round about him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing. ¹⁸ LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity. ¹⁹ I called for my loved ones, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls. ²⁰ Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart is turned within me. For I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword bereaves; at home there is as death. ²¹ They have heard that I sigh. There is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that thou have done it. Thou will bring the day that thou have proclaimed, and they shall be like me. ²² Let all their wickedness come before thee, and do to them, as thou have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

¹¹ My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city. ¹² They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom. ¹³ What shall I testify to thee? What shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee? ¹⁴ Thy prophets have seen false and foolish visions for thee. And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity, but have seen for thee false oracles and causes of banishment. ¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? ¹⁶ All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it. ¹⁷ LORD has done that which he purposed. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. And he has caused the enemy to rejoice over thee. He has exalted the horn of thine adversaries. ¹⁸ Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give thyself no respite. Let not the apple of thine eye cease. ¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street. ²⁰ See, O LORD, and behold to whom thou have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? ²¹ The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. Thou have slain them in the day of thine anger. Thou have slaughtered, and not pitied. ²² Thou have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. And there was none who escaped or remained in the day of LORD's anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD. ¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰ My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. ²¹ This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:

³⁹ Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? ⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD.

⁴⁸ My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

⁸ The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

⁷ The wicked are overthrown, and are not, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

²⁰ The sons of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me. Give a place to me that I may dwell. ²¹ Then thou shall say in thy heart, Who has begotten these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were they? ²² Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples. And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

¹⁶ And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, Thou are my people.

² Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations. Spare not. Lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.

¹⁵ Thus says LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping. Rachel weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

⁵ Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper. For LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young sons have gone into captivity before the adversary.

⁴ He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary, and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion. ⁵ The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah. ⁶ And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. LORD has caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and the priest.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. ¹² Come ye, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as this day, great beyond measure.

⁸ The priests did not say, Where is LORD? And those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me. And the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

³¹ The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will ye do in the end thereof?

⁹ The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of LORD, and what manner of wisdom is in them?

¹⁰ Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

¹ Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says LORD. ² Therefore thus says LORD, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says LORD.

⁹ Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of LORD, and because of his holy words. ¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers. For because of swearing the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right. ¹¹ For both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house I have found their wickedness, says LORD. ¹² Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They shall be driven on, and fall in it. For I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says LORD. ¹³ And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. ¹⁴ In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing. They commit adultery, and walk in lies. And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They have all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore thus says LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land. ¹⁶ Thus says LORD of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of LORD. ¹⁷ They say continually to those who despise me, LORD has said, Ye shall have peace. And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you. ¹⁸ For who has stood in the council of LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has marked my word, and heard it? ¹⁹ Behold, the tempest of LORD, wrath, has gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest. It shall burst upon the head of the wicked. ²⁰ The anger of LORD shall not return until he has executed, and till he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly. ²¹ I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. ²² But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. ²³ Am I a God at hand, says LORD, and not a God afar off? ²⁴ Can any man hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says LORD. ²⁵ I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. ²⁶ How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? ²⁷ Who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal. ²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says LORD. ²⁹ Is not my word like fire? says LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? ³⁰ Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says LORD, who steal my words each one from his neighbor. ³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, says LORD, who use their tongues, and say, He says. ³² Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says LORD, and tell them. And cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting. Yet I sent them not, nor commanded them, neither do they profit this people at all, says LORD.

³² And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil. And I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their hair cut off. And I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says LORD.

¹⁷ Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

²⁵ There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst thereof. ²⁶ Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, nor have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. ²⁷ Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. ²⁸ And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the lord LORD, when LORD has not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yea, they have vexed the poor and needy man, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully. ³⁰ And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord LORD: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep? ³ Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool. Ye kill the fatlings, but ye do not feed the sheep. ⁴ Ye have not strengthened the diseased, nor have ye healed that which was sick, nor have ye bound up that which was broken, nor have ye brought back that which was driven away, nor have ye sought that which was lost, but ye have ruled over them with force and with rigor. ⁵ And they were scattered because there was no shepherd. And they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered. ⁶ My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill. Yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth, and there was none who searched or sought. ⁷ Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of LORD: ⁸ As I live, says the lord LORD, surely inasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and did not feed my sheep, ⁹ therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of LORD. ¹⁰ Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. Neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more, and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock, in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep, and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

³ My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats. For LORD of hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his goodly horse in the battle.

⁷ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

¹² But the hired man, and not being the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep. ¹³ But the hireling flees because he is a hireling, and it is no care to him about the sheep.

¹⁵ For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says LORD. And they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

⁶ Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety, do not stay. For I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

¹⁵ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says LORD. It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou know not, nor understand what they say.

²² Thus says LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be stirred up from the outermost parts of the earth.

¹¹ And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

⁶ For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs. ⁷ They are fearful and dreadful. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. ⁸ Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from far. They fly as an eagle that hastens to devour. ⁹ They come all of them for violence. The set of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.

³ but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

⁵ My steps have held fast to thy paths. My feet have not slipped.

²³ A man's goings are established by LORD, and he delights in his way.

¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to thy word, that I may live, and let me not be ashamed of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe, and shall have respect for thy statutes continually.

¹ The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from LORD.

²⁴ A man's goings are of LORD, how then can man understand his way?

¹⁸ The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

²³ who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

¹¹ Behold, all those who are incensed against thee shall be put to shame and confounded. Those who strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish. ¹² Thou shall seek them, and shall not find them, even those who contend with thee. Those who war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.

¹¹ For I am with thee, says LORD, to save thee. For I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee. But I will correct thee in measure, and will in no way leave thee unpunished.

² O LORD, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid. O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath remember mercy.

²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.

⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?

² When evildoers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

⁶ Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that do not know thee, and upon the kingdoms that do not call upon thy name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

²² Yet thou have not called upon me, O Jacob, but thou have been weary of me, O Israel.

⁷ And there is none who calls upon thy name, who stirs himself up to take hold of thee. For thou have hid thy face from us, and have consumed us through our iniquities.

¹⁶ The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles. For they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.

⁷ All who found them have devoured them, and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even LORD, the hope of their fathers.

³⁴ Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out. ³⁵ The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, the inhabitant of Zion shall say. And, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, Jerusalem shall say.

²² Thou have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. And there was none who escaped or remained in the day of LORD's anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

⁶ For thus says the lord LORD: Because thou have clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the spite of thy soul against the land of Israel, ⁷ therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations. And I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries. I will destroy thee, and thou shall know that I am LORD. ⁸ Thus says the lord LORD: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,

⁵ Because thou have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end, ⁶ therefore, as I live, says the lord LORD, I will prepare thee to blood, and blood shall pursue thee. Since thou have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee. ⁷ Thus I will make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation, and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns. ⁸ And I will fill its mountains with its slain. In thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses they shall fall who are slain with the sword. ⁹ I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited. And ye shall know that I am LORD. ¹⁰ Because thou have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas LORD was there,

¹⁰ Shame shall cover thee for the violence done to thy brother Jacob, and thou shall be cut off forever. ¹¹ In the day that thou stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou were as one of them. ¹² But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress. ¹³ Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor lay ye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. ¹⁴ And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his who escape, and deliver not up those of his who remain in the day of distress. ¹⁵ For the day of LORD is near upon all the nations. As thou have done, it shall be done to thee. Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head. ¹⁶ For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. Yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following LORD, and those who have not sought LORD, nor inquired after him.

⁸ Therefore wait ye for me, says LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey. For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger. For all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

¹⁵ And I am very greatly displeased with the nations that are at ease. For I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

²⁵ And righteous Father, the world does not know thee, but I know thee, and these know that thou sent me.

²³ For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.

³⁴ Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.

⁵ not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

⁸ in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.