Lamentations 3 Cross References - Brenton

¹ ALEPH. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me. ² He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not into light. ³ Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day. ⁴ He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones. ⁵ BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail upon me. ⁶ He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead. ⁷ He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen chain heavy. ⁸ GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths; ¹⁰ he has troubled me, as a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me as a lion in secret places. ¹¹ He pursued me after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me. ¹² HE. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. ¹⁴ I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day. ¹⁵ VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall. ¹⁶ And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes. ¹⁷ He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity. ¹⁸ Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord. ¹⁹ ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; ²⁰ and my soul shall meditate with me. ²¹ This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure. ²² HETH. It is the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity us, O Lord, early every month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted. ²³ They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. ²⁴ The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him. ²⁵ TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him ²⁶ is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord. ²⁷ TETH. It is good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth. ²⁸ He will sit alone, and be silent, because he has borne it upon him. ²⁹ (OMITTED TEXT) ³⁰ JOD. He will give his cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches. ³¹ For the Lord will not reject for ever. ³² CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of his mercy. ³³ He has not answered in anger from his heart, though he has brought low the children of a man. ³⁴ LAMED. To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, ³⁵ to turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High, ³⁶ to condemn a man unjustly in his judgment, the Lord has not given commandment. ³⁷ Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it. ³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good. ³⁹ MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin? ⁴⁰ NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our hearts with our hand to the lofty One in heaven. ⁴² We have sinned, we have transgressed; and thou hast not pardoned. ⁴³ SAMECH. Thou has visited us in wrath, and driven us away: thou has slain, thou has not pitied. ⁴⁴ Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind, ⁴⁵ and be cast off. AIN. Thou hast set us alone in the midst of the nations. ⁴⁶ All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. ⁴⁷ Fear and wrath are come upon us, suspense and destruction. ⁴⁸ Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. ⁴⁹ PHE. Mine eye is drowned with tears, and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest, ⁵⁰ until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven. ⁵¹ Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city. ⁵² TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause, ⁵³ and laid a stone upon me. ⁵⁴ Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off. ⁵⁵ KOPH. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon. ⁵⁶ Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication. ⁵⁷ Thou drewest nigh to my help: in the day wherein I called upon thee thou saidst to me, Fear not. ⁵⁸ RECHS. O Lord, thou has pleaded the causes of my soul; thou has redeemed my life. ⁵⁹ Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou hast judged my cause. ⁶⁰ Thou hast seen all their vengeance, thou hast looked on all their devices against me. ⁶¹ CHSEN. Thou hast heard their reproach and all their devices against me; ⁶² the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day; ⁶³ their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes. ⁶⁴ Thou wilt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. ⁶⁵ THAU. Thou wilt give them as a covering, the grief of my heart. ⁶⁶ Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.

²¹ Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

^{20 (70:20)} What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.

^{7 (87:7)} Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.

^{15 (87:15)} I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair. ^{16 (87:16)} Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me.

³ But his form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; he was a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for his face is turned from us: he was dishonoured, and not esteemed.

¹⁷ I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness. ¹⁸ Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? my wound is severe; whence shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as deceitful water, that has no faithfulness.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to thee. ¹⁶ Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon; ¹⁷ because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me. ¹⁸ Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

^{6 (45:6)} And they cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire: and he was in the mire.

¹² LAMED. All ye that pass by the way, turn, and see if there is sorrow like to my sorrow, which has happened to me. The Lord who spoke by me has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. ¹³ MEM. He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, he has brought it into my bones: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and mourning all the day. ¹⁴ NUN. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck: my strength has failed; for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.

²⁹ And thou shalt grope at mid-day, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and then thou shalt be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.

¹⁸ Let one drive him from light into darkness.

²⁶ But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

⁹ Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.

²³ I looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was not; and to the sky, an there was no light in it.

¹⁶ 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.

¹ ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in his wrath the daughter of Sion! he has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered his footstool.

⁵³ and laid a stone upon me. ⁵⁴ Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off. ⁵⁵ KOPH. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon.

¹⁸ Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light. ¹⁹ As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him. ²⁰ Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this day gloom without brightness?

²⁰ God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:

²⁵ And I will bring my hand upon thee, and purge thee completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from thee all transgressors.

²⁵ Therefore the Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people, and he reached forth his hand upon them, and smote them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses were as dung in the midst of the way: yet for all this his anger has not been turned away, but his hand is yet raised.

¹⁰ But they disobeyed, and provoked his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy, he himself contended against them.

⁴ DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire. ⁵ HE. The Lord is become as an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her palaces: he has destroyed her strong-holds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Juda. ⁶ VAU. And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, he has marred his feast: the Lord has forgotten the feast and the sabbath which he appointed in Sion, and in the fury of his wrath has vexed the king, and priest, and prince. ⁷ ZAIN. The Lord has rejected his altar, he has cast off his sanctuary, he has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.

^{8 (16:9)} My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face. ^{9 (16:10)} In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

^{14 (21:14)} I am poured out like water, and all my bones are loosened: my heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax.

^{9 (30:9)} Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. ^{10 (30:10)} For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled.

^{3 (31:3)} Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

^{2 (37:2)} For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me. ^{3 (37:3)} For there is no health in my flesh because of thine anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins. ^{4 (37:4)} For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden. ^{5 (37:5)} My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ^{6 (37:6)} I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day. ^{7 (37:7)} For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh. ^{8 (37:8)} I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

^{8 (50:8)} Thou shalt cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice.

^{3 (101:3)} For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick. ^{4 (101:4)} I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread. ^{5 (101:5)} By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.

¹³ In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day even to night.

^{17 (27:17)} Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria firsts devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.

⁸ I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.

^{21 (68:21)} They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

¹⁴ Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before him.

¹⁵ therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:

¹⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth into all the land.

⁷ He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen chain heavy. ⁸ GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

¹⁹ ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

^{5 (87:5)} free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and they are rejected from thy hand. ^{6 (87:6)} They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, and in the shadow of death.

^{3 (142:3)} For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark place, as those that have been long dead.

^{7 (142:7)} Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; turn not away thy face from me, else I shall be like to them that go down to the pit.

²³ Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in.

^{8 (87:8)} Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.

^{4 (47:4)} Behold, I have loosed thee from the manacles that were upon thine hands. If it seem good to thee to go with me to Babylon, then will I set mine eyes upon thee.

¹⁴ NUN. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck: my strength has failed; for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.

⁹ DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

⁵ we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

¹² And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.

⁶ Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

⁷ Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment.

²⁰ And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me.

^{2 (21:2)} O my God, I will cry to thee by day, but thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.

^{4 (79:4)} O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?

⁴⁴ Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind,

² How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and thou wilt not hearken? how long shall I cry out to thee being injured, and thou wilt not save?

²⁸ And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error: error also shall pursue them, and overtake them.

¹⁷ Why hast thou caused us to err, O Lord, from thy way? and has hardened our hearts, that we should not fear thee? Return for thy servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance,

¹¹ He pursued me after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me.

¹⁶ For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;

⁹ He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.

^{12 (16:12)} They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret places.

¹⁴ Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

¹ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; ^(6:2) he will smite, and bind us up.

⁷ And I will be to them as a panther, and as a leopard. ⁸ I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions' whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.

^{7 (16:8)} But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and thou hast laid hold of me.

^{12 (16:13)} When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark. ^{13 (16:14)} They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground.

^{22 (49:22)} Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer.

²⁶ And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be levelled with the ground.

⁶ Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.

⁸ Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.

¹⁰ Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate for want of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone. ¹¹ And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling-place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Juda, so that they shall not be inhabited.

⁸ And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.

^{43 (39:43)} And there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of which thou sayest, it shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.

^{20 (28:20)} Thou scatterest for me the weapons of war: and I will scatter nations by thee, and will destroy kings by means of thee. ^{21 (28:21)} And by thee I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by thee I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them. ^{22 (28:22)} And by thee I will scatter youth and maid; and by thee I will scatter man and woman.

¹³ MEM. He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, he has brought it into my bones: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and mourning all the day.

⁴⁰ and a fourth kingdom, which shall be strong as iron: as iron beats to powder and subdues all things, so shall it beat to powder and subdue. ⁴¹ And whereas thou sawest the feet and the toes, part of earthenware and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet there shall be in it of the strength of iron, as thou sawest the iron mixed with earthenware. ⁴² And whereas the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of earthenware, part of the kingdom shall be strong, and part of it shall be broken. ⁴³ Whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with earthenware, they shall be mingled with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave together, as the iron does not mix itself with earthenware. ⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and his kingdom shall not be left to another people, but it shall beat to pieces and grind to powder all other kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

²³ And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and destroy it.

⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion's whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.

⁴ For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? why hast thou made me as thine accuser, and why am I a burden to thee?

¹² If ye will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. ¹³ And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones.

^{2 (37:2)} For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me.

⁴ DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire.

²³ I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them.

^{28 (41:19)} The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass.

² And he said before his brethren (that is the army of the Samaritans) Is it true that these Jews are building their city? do they indeed offer sacrifices? will they prevail? and will they this day restore the stones, after they have been burnt and made a heap of rubbish? ³ And Tobias the Ammanite came near to him, and said to them, Do they sacrifice or eat in their place? shall not a fox go up and pull down their wall of stones? ⁴ Hear, O our God, for we have become a scorn; and return thou their reproach upon their head, and make them a scorn in a land of captivity,

¹ But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy to be with my shepherd dogs. ² Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term of life was lost. ³ One is childless in want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought. ⁴ Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger. ⁵ Thieves have risen up against me, ⁶ whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs. ⁷ They will cry out among the rustling bushes. ⁸ They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth. ⁹ But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.

^{6 (21:6)} But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and scorn of the people. ^{7 (21:7)} All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with their lips, they shook the head, saying,

^{15 (34:15)} Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not: they were scattered, but repented not. ^{16 (34:16)} They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

^{13 (43:13)} Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.

^{11 (68:11)} And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them. ^{12 (68:12)} They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.

^{4 (78:4)} We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

^{3 (122:3)} Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ^{4 (122:4)} Yea, our soul has been exceedingly filled with it: let the reproach be to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.

^{3 (136:3)} For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; and they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Sion.

⁷ Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived: thou hast been strong, and has prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock, I am continually mocked every day.

^{27 (31:27)} For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.

⁶³ their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes.

²⁰ And she said to them, Nay, do not call me Noemin; call me æBitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me.

¹⁸ For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

^{3 (59:3)} Thou hast shewn thy people hard things: thou has made us drink the wine of astonishment.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou hast drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath: ¹⁸ and there was none to comfort thee of all the children whom thou borest; and there was none to take hold of thine hand, not even of all the children whom thou has reared. ¹⁹ Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee? ²⁰ Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God. ²¹ Therefore hear, thou afflicted one, and drunken, but not with wine; ²² thus saith the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and thou shalt not drink it any more.

^{15 (32:15)} Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Take the cup of this unmixed wine from mine hand, and thou shalt cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send thee. ^{16 (32:16)} And they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I send among them. ^{17 (32:17)} So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink: ^{18 (32:18)} Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing;

^{27 (32:27)} 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.

⁸ And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat upon a dung-heap outside the city.

¹⁰ The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

⁷ Arise, Lord; deliver me, my God: for thou hast smitten all who were without cause mine enemies; thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

^{6 (57:6)} God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

^{9 (101:9)} For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;

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²⁶ O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle thyself with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son: for misery will come suddenly upon you.

⁶ And the word reached the king of Nineve, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his raiment from him, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

³⁰ But there shall come seven years of famine after these, and they shall forget the plenty that shall be in all Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land.

⁷ Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shalt not yet again see good.

^{155 (118:155)} Salvation is far from sinners: for they have not searched out thine ordinances.

¹⁷ For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me.

¹⁰ shall the mountains depart, nor shall thy hills be removed: so neither shall my mercy fail thee, nor shall the covenant of thy peace be at all removed: for the Lord who is gracious to thee has spoken it.

¹¹ They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

¹⁵ We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold anxiety.

¹⁹ Hast thou utterly rejected Juda? and has thy soul departed from Sion? wherefore has thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!

⁵ Thus saith the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them: for I have removed my peace from this people.

¹⁶ AIN. Mine eye has poured out water, because he that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me: my sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed.

¹⁰ For before those days the wages of men could not be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him that came in: for I would have let loose all men, every one against his neighbour.

¹ And David said in his heart, Now shall I be one day delivered for death into the hands of Saul; and there is no good thing for me unless I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul should cease from seeking me through every coast of Israel: so I shall escape out of his hand.

¹¹ For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?

¹⁵ Where then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good?

^{22 (30:22)} But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes: therefore thou didst hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee.

^{11 (115:11)} And I said in mine amazement, Every man is a liar.

¹¹ And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones are become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.

³² And now, O our God, the powerful, the great, the mighty, and the terrible, keeping thy covenant and thy mercy, let not all the trouble seem little in thy sight which has come upon us, and our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and upon all thy people, from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day.

^{47 (88:47)} Remember what my being is: for hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?

^{50 (88:50)} Remember, O Lord, the reproach of thy servants, which I have borne in my bosom, even the reproach of many nations;

^{1 (131:1)} A Song of Degrees. Lord, remember David, and all his meekness:

⁵ BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail upon me.

¹⁵ VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.

⁶ For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.

^{5 (41:5)} Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the salvation of my countenance. ^{6 (41:6)} O my God, my soul has been troubled within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Ermonites, from the little hill.

^{11 (41:11)} Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the health of my countenance, and my God.

^{5 (42:5)} Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

^{25 (43:25)} For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.

^{8 (145:8)} the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers;

^{7 (76:7)} Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more? ^{8 (76:8)} Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever? ^{9 (76:9)} Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause. ^{10 (76:10)} And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High. ^{11 (76:11)} I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember thy wonders from the beginning.

^{81 (118:81)} My soul faints for thy salvation: I have hoped in thy words.

^{7 (129:7)} Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

²⁴ The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him. ²⁵ TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him ²⁶ is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord. ²⁷ TETH. It is good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth. ²⁸ He will sit alone, and be silent, because he has borne it upon him. ²⁹ (OMITTED TEXT)

³ For the vision is yet for a time, and it shall shoot forth at the end, and not in vain: though he should tarry, wait for him; for he will surely come, and will not tarry.

⁸ And now our God has dealt mercifully with us, so as to leave us to escape, and to give us an establishment in the place of his sanctuary, to enlighten our eyes, and to give a little quickening in our servitude. ⁹ For we are slaves, yet in our servitude the Lord our God has not deserted us; and he has extended favour to us in the sight of the kings of the Persians, to give us a quickening, that they should raise up the house of our God, and restore the desolate places of it, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.

¹³ And after all that is come upon us because of our evil deeds, and our great trespass, it is clear that there is none such as our God, for thou has lightly visited our iniquities, and given us deliverance; ¹⁴ whereas we have repeatedly broken thy commandments, and intermarried with the people of the lands: be not very angry with us to our utter destruction, so that there should be no remnant or escaping one. ¹⁵ O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we remain yet escaped, as at this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee on this account.

³¹ But thou in thy many mercies didst not appoint them to destruction, and didst not forsake them; for thou art strong, and merciful, and pitiful.

^{8 (76:8)} Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever?

^{38 (77:38)} But he is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy them: yea, he will frequently turn away his wrath, and will not kindle all his anger.

^{15 (85:15)} But thou, O Lord God, art compassionate and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and true.

^{45 (105:45)} And he remembered his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercy.

⁸ But they revolted from me, and would not hearken to me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt. ⁹ But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

¹³ And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk ye in my commandments: but they walked not in them, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned my sabbaths: and I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. ¹⁴ But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.

²¹ But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them. ²² But I wrought so that my name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.

¹⁸ Who is a God like thee, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy. ¹⁹ He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins.

⁶ For I am the Lord your God, and I am not changed:

⁶ And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, pitiful and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true,

^{5 (29:5)} For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favour: weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning.

^{5 (35:5)} O Lord, thy mercy is in the heaven; and thy truth reaches to the clouds.

^{1 (88:1)} A Psalm of instruction for Aetham the Israelite. I will sing of thy mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare thy truth with my mouth to all generations. ^{2 (88:2)} For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy truth shall be established in the heavens.

^{33 (88:33)} But my mercy I will not utterly remove from him, nor wrong my truth.

^{6 (145:6)} who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever:

² Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in thee: the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.

⁵ But the just Lord is in the midst of her, and he will never do an unjust thing: morning by morning he will bring out his judgment to the light, and it is not hidden, and he knows not injustice by extortion, nor injustice in strife.

⁶ And David was greatly distressed, because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, each for his sons and his daughters: but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

²⁰ and they prevailed against them: and the Agaraeans were given into their hands, they and all their tents: for they cried to God in the battle, and he hearkened to them, because they trusted on him.

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

^{5 (15:5)} The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou art he that restores my inheritance to me.

^{24 (30:24)} Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

^{18 (32:18)} Behold, the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him, those that hope in his mercy;

^{8 (61:8)} Hope in him, all ye congregation of the people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our helper. Pause.

^{26 (72:26)} My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever.

^{12 (83:12)} O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee.

^{57 (118:57)} Thou art my portion, O Lord: I said that I would keep thy law.

^{5 (141:5)} I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said, Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

¹⁶ Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.

^{19 (28:19)} Not such is Jacob's portion; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.

²¹ This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.

¹⁸ waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

⁹ And now, my son Solomon, know the God of thy fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and willing soul: for the Lord searches all hearts, and knows every thought: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou shouldest forsake him, he will forsake thee for ever.

² and he went out to meet Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin, and said, Hear me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him out, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

³ Nevertheless some good things have been found in thee, forasmuch as thou didst remove the groves from the land of Juda, and didst direct thine heart to seek after the Lord.

¹⁹ The good Lord be merciful with regard to every heart that sincerely seeks the Lord God of their fathers, and is not purified according to the purification of the sanctuary.

²¹ And in every work which he began in service in the house of the Lord, and in the law, and in the ordinances, he sought his God with all his soul, and wrought, and prospered.

^{26 (21:26)} The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their heart shall live for ever.

^{8 (24:8)} Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.

^{8 (26:8)} My heart said to thee, I have diligently sought thy face: thy face, O Lord, I will seek.

^{14 (26:14)} Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and let thy heart be strengthened: yea wait on the Lord.

^{7 (36:7)} Submit thyself to the Lord, and supplicate him: fret not thyself because of him that prospers in his way, at the man that does unlawful deeds.

^{34 (36:34)} Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are destroyed, thou shalt see it.

^{7 (38:7)} And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with thee. Pause.

^{1 (39:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication. ^{2 (39:2)} And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright. ^{3 (39:3)} And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord. ^{4 (39:4)} Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies. ^{5 (39:5)} O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number.

^{1 (60:1)} For the end, among the Hymns of David. O God, hearken to my petition; attend to my prayer.

^{5 (60:5)} For thou, o God, hast heard my prayers; thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.

^{32 (68:32)} Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and ye shall live.

^{3 (104:3)} Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.

^{2 (118:2)} Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart.

^{5 (129:5)} have I waited for thee, O Lord, my soul has waited for thy word. ^{6 (129:6)} My soul has hoped in the Lord; from the morning watch till night.

⁹ And in that day they shall say, behold our God in whom we have trusted, and he shall save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, and we have exulted, and will rejoice in our salvation.

⁹ which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks thee very early in the morning, O God, for thy commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, ye that dwell upon the earth.

¹⁸ And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are they that stay themselves upon him.

³¹ but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, and when ye find him, call upon him; and when he shall draw nigh to you,

⁴ From of old we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God beside thee, and thy works which thou wilt perform to them that wait for mercy.

²⁶ is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

¹² Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light ye for yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you.

⁷ But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will hearken to me. ⁸ Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen yet shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.

⁸ Therefore wait upon me, saith the Lord, until the day when I rise up for a witness: because my judgment shall be on the gatherings of the nations, to draw to me kings, to pour out upon them all my fierce anger: for the whole earth shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy.

¹³ And Moses said to the people, Be of good courage: stand and see the salvation which is from the Lord, which he will work for us this day; for as ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

¹⁷ It is not for you to fight: understand these things, and see the deliverance of the Lord with you, Juda and Jerusalem: fear not, neither be afraid to go forth to-morrow to meet them; and the Lord shall be with you.

^{9 (51:9)} I will give thanks to thee for ever, for thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before the saints.

^{6 (53:6)} I will willingly sacrifice to thee: I will give thanks to thy name, O Lord; for it is good.

^{28 (72:28)} But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

^{1 (91:1)} A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath-day. It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to thy name, O thou Most High;

^{166 (118:166)} I waited for thy salvation, O Lord, and have loved thy commandments.

^{174 (118:174)} I have longed after thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation.

^{5 (129:5)} have I waited for thee, O Lord, my soul has waited for thy word.

⁷ The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation is vain.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When thou shalt turn and mourn, then thou shalt be saved; and thou shalt know where thou wast, when thou didst trust in vanities: then your strength became vain, yet ye would not hearken:

^{12 (89:12)} and who knows how to number his days because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

^{12 (93:12)} Blessed is the man whomsoever thou shalt chasten, O Lord, and shalt teach him out of thy law;

^{71 (118:71)} It is good for me that thou hast afflicted me; that I might learn thine ordinances.

¹ And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the days of evil come, and the years overtake thee in which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.

^{9 (38:9)} I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me.

^{7 (101:7)} I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.

¹⁷ I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.

¹⁰ JOD. The elders of the daughter of Sion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloths: they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.

¹² And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;

^{4 (39:34)} Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

⁵ I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee. ⁶ Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

^{17 (38:17)} There shall be an abiding home for thy children.

⁶³ that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and mayest no more be able to open thy mouth for thy shame, when I am reconciled to thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord.

¹⁴ Who knows if he will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meat-offering and a drink-offering to the Lord your God?

⁹ Who knows if God will repent, and turn from his fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?

³ Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth; do judgment, and seek justice, and answer accordingly; that ye may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord.

^{10 (16:11)} He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp spear he has smitten me down upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.

^{9 (68:9)} For the zeal of thine house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

^{20 (68:20)} My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none.

^{3 (122:3)} Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

⁶ I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting:

¹ Now shall the daughter of Sion be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the tribes of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

²² For the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name's sake, because the Lord graciously took you to himself for a people.

^{7 (76:7)} Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more?

^{14 (93:14)} For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;

^{8 (102:8)} The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, long-suffering, and full of mercy. ^{9 (102:9)} He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever. ^{10 (102:10)} He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities.

⁷ For a little while I left thee: but with great mercy will I have compassion upon thee. ⁸ In a little wrath I turned away my face from thee; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon thee, saith the Lord that delivers thee. ⁹ From the time of the water of Noe this is my purpose: as I sware to him at that time, saying of the earth, I will no more be wroth with thee, neither when thou art threatened, ¹⁰ shall the mountains depart, nor shall thy hills be removed: so neither shall my mercy fail thee, nor shall the covenant of thy peace be at all removed: for the Lord who is gracious to thee has spoken it.

¹⁶ I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.

^{37 (38:37)} Though the sky should be raised to a greater height, saith the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk lower beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they have done.

^{40 (39:40)} And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put my fear into their heart, that they may not depart from me.

²⁴ (OMITTED TEXT)

¹⁸ Who is a God like thee, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy.

²³ And in those days after a length of time, the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel groaned because of their tasks, and cried, and their cry because of their tasks went up to God.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and I have heard their cry caused by their task-masters; for I know their affliction.

¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and his soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

²³ And the Lord had mercy and compassion upon them, and had respect to them because of his covenant with Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob; and the Lord would not destroy them, and did not cast them out from his presence.

^{11 (102:11)} For as the heaven is high above the earth, the Lord has so increased his mercy toward them that fear him.

^{43 (105:43)} Many a time he delivered them; but they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities. ^{44 (105:44)} Ye the Lord looked upon their affliction, when he heard their petition. ^{45 (105:45)} And he remembered his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercy.

^{20 (38:20)} Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste to help him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

²² HETH. It is the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity us, O Lord, early every month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted.

⁸ How shall I deal with thee, Ephraim? how shall I protect thee, Israel? what shall I do with thee? I will make thee as Adama, and as Seboim; my heart is turned at once, my repentance is powerfully excited.

²¹ The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.

³² For I desire not the death of him that dies, saith the Lord.

¹¹ Say to them, Thus saith the Lord; As I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn ye heartily from your way; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

^{33 (68:33)} For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones.

^{11 (78:11)} Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm preserve the sons of the slain ones.

^{20 (101:20)} to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

¹⁷ that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.

⁹ saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and bidding them that are in darkness shew themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths shall be their pasture.

²² thus saith the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and thou shalt not drink it any more. ²³ And I will give it into the hands of them that injured thee, and them that afflicted thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and thou didst level thy body with the ground to them passing by without.

^{33 (27:33)} Thus saith the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go. ^{34 (27:34)} But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;

^{33 (28:33)} For thus saith the Lord, The houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest shall come. ^{34 (28:34)} He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies. ^{35 (28:35)} My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood shall be upon the Chaldeans dwelling there, shall Jerusalem say. ^{36 (28:36)} Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.

¹¹ And thou by the blood of thy covenant has sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit that has no water. ¹² Ye shall dwell in strongholds, ye prisoners of the congregation: and for one day of thy captivity I will recompense thee double.

²⁷ And the time of mourning expired, and David sent and took her into his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son: but the thing which David did was evil in the eyes of the Lord.

¹⁵ And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside their mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no judgment.

³ thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

¹³ His eye is too pure to behold evil doings, and to look upon grievous afflictions: wherefore dost thou look upon despisers? wilt thou be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?

^{9 (32:9)} For he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created. ^{10 (32:10)} The Lord frustrates the counsels of the nations; he brings to nought also the reasonings of the peoples, and brings to nought the counsels of princes. ^{11 (32:11)} But the counsel of the Lord endures for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

^{9 (16:5C)} All of the works of the Lord are done with righteousness; and the ungodly man is kept for the evil day.

²¹ There are many thoughts in a man's heart; but the counsel of the Lord abides for ever.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.

¹⁰ telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

^{35 (4:32)} and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand his power, and say to him, What has thou done?

¹⁰ But he looked on her, and said to her, Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.

^{7 (74:7)} For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another.

²⁶ Many wait on the favour of rulers; but justice comes to a man from the Lord.

⁷ I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.

^{42 (39:42)} For thus saith the Lord; As I have brought upon this people all these great evils, so will I bring upon them all the good things which I pronounced upon them.

⁶ Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

⁵ but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell. ⁶ And the Lord God said to Cain, Why art thou become very sorrowful and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷ Hast thou not sinned if thou hast brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to thee shall be his submission, and thou shalt rule over him.

¹³ And Cain said to the Lord God, My crime is too great for me to be forgiven. ¹⁴ If thou castest me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from thy presence, and I shall be groaning and trembling upon the earth, then it will be that any one that finds me shall slay me.

⁴¹ and I walked with them with a perverse mind; and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies: then shall their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then shall they acquiesce in the punishment of their sins.

⁴³ And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her sabbaths, when it is deserted through them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities, because they neglected my judgments, and in their soul loathed my ordinances.

¹¹ And Moses said to the Lord, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant, and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou shouldest lay the weight of this people upon me?

⁴¹ And the children of Israel murmured the next day against Moses and Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.

¹² And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we are cut off, we are destroyed, we are consumed.

⁶ And Joshua tore his garments; and Joshua fell on the earth on his face before the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they cast dust on their heads. ⁷ And Joshua said, I pray, Lord, wherefore has thy servant brought this people over Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? would we had remained and settled ourselves beyond Jordan. ⁸ And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy? ⁹ And when the Chananite and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round and destroy us from off the land: and what wilt thou do for thy great name? ¹⁰ And the Lord said to Joshua, Rise up; why hast thou fallen upon thy face? ¹¹ The people has sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the cursed thing, and put it into their store. ¹² And the children of Israel will not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their back before their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will not any longer be with you, unless ye remove the cursed thing from yourselves. ¹³ Rise, sanctify the people and tell them to sanctify themselves for the morrow: thus says the Lord God of Israel, The accursed thing is among you; ye shall not be able to stand before your enemies, until ye shall have removed the cursed thing from among you.

⁷ And the Lord was very angry with Oza; and God smote him there: and he died there by the ark of the Lord before God. ⁸ And David was dispirited because the Lord made a breach upon Oza; and that place was called the breach of Oza until this day.

¹³ And Elisaie said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him, Has the Lord called the three kings to deliver them into the hands of Moab?

³² And Elisaie was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the king sent a man before him: before the messenger came to him, he also said to the elders, Do ye see that this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? See, as soon as the messenger shall have come, shut the door, and forcibly detain him at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

¹³ And after all that is come upon us because of our evil deeds, and our great trespass, it is clear that there is none such as our God, for thou has lightly visited our iniquities, and given us deliverance;

⁶ Then shall he declare to thee the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with thee: and then shalt thou know, that a just recompence of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord.

³ The folly of a man spoils his ways: and he blames God in his heart.

¹⁷ For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me. ¹⁸ For they that are in the grave shall not praise thee, neither shall the dead bless thee, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for thy mercy. ¹⁹ The living shall bless thee, as I also do: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare thy righteousness,

²⁰ Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

^{15 (37:15)} Thy sins have abounded beyond the multitude of thine iniquities, therefore they have done these things to thee.

^{3 (2:4)} Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me. ^{4 (2:5)} And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?

⁸ And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun smote on the head of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. ⁹ And God said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

³⁰ And all these things shall come upon thee in the last days, and thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice.

¹² and said to them, Ye are the heads of the families of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, and ye shall carry up the ark of the God of Israel, to the place which I have prepared for it. ¹³ For because ye were not ready at the first, our God made a breach upon us, because we sought him not according to the ordinance.

⁶ And the posts went with the letters from the king and the princes to all Israel and Juda, according to the command of the king, saying, Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraam, and Isaac, and Israel, and bring back them that have escaped even those that were left of the hand of the king of Assyria.

⁹ For when ye turn to the Lord, your brethren and your children shall be pitied before all that have carried them captives, and he will restore you to this land: for the Lord our God is merciful and pitiful, and will not turn away his face from you, if we return to him.

¹³ For if thou hast made thine heart pure, and liftest up thine hands towards him; ¹⁴ if there is any iniquity in thy hands, put if far from thee, and let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation. ¹⁵ For thus shall thy countenance shine again, as pure water; and thou shalt divest thyself of uncleanness, and shalt not fear.

³¹ For there is one that says to the Mighty One, I have received blessings; I will not take a pledge: ³² I will see apart from myself: do thou shew me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do so any more.

⁴ Be ye angry, and sin not; feel compunction upon your beds for what ye say in your hearts. Pause.

^{59 (118:59)} I thought on thy ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

^{23 (138:23)} Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; ^{24 (138:24)} and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.

⁷ let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.

²⁸ and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

⁶ Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.

^{1 (14:2)} Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities. ^{2 (14:3)} Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God: speak to him, that ye may not receive the reward of unrighteousness, but that ye may receive good things: and we will render in return the fruit of our lips. ^{3 (14:4)} Assur shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in thee shall pity the orphan.

¹² Now therefore, saith the Lord your God, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation: ¹³ and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and repents of evils.

⁵ And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you. ⁶ Ye have sown much, but brought in little; ye have eaten, and are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, ye have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes. ⁷ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways. ⁸ Go up to the mountain, and cut timber; build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and be glorified, saith the Lord. ⁹ Ye looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because my house is desolate, and ye run everyone into his own house;

³ And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord Almighty: Turn to me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts. ⁴ And be ye not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they hearkened not, and attended not to hearken to me, saith the Lord.

^{1 (24:1)} A Psalm of David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

^{2 (27:2)} Hearken to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.

^{4 (62:4)} Thus will I bless thee during my life: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

^{4 (85:4)} Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

^{2 (140:2)} Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.

^{6 (142:6)} I spread forth my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee, as a dry land. Pause. ^{7 (142:7)} Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; turn not away thy face from me, else I shall be like to them that go down to the pit. ^{8 (142:8)} Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for I have hoped in thee; make known to me, O Lord, the way wherein I should walk; for I have lifted up my soul to thee.

⁴ Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon it.

²⁶ But they turned, and revolted from thee, and cast thy law behind their backs; and they slew thy prophets, who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

²⁷ Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins. ²⁸ Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

¹³ Nevertheless, know thine iniquity, that thou hast sinned against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every shady tree, but thou didst not hearken to my voice, saith the Lord.

⁷ In what way shall I forgive thee for these things? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses. ⁸ They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbour's wife. ⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

¹⁸ TSADE. The Lord is righteous; for I have provoked his mouth: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my grief: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

¹³ Her scum shall become shameful, because thou didst defile thyself: and what if thou shalt be purged no more until I have accomplished my wrath?

⁵ we have done iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from thy commandments and from thy judgments: ⁶ and we have not hearkened to thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, and our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, an to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever thou has scattered them, for the sin which they committed. ⁸ In thee, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us belongs confusion of faced, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned. ⁹ To thee, the Lord our God, belong compassions and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed from thee; ¹⁰ neither have we hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by the hands of his servants the prophets. ¹¹ Moreover all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have refused to hearken to thy voice; so the curse has come upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. ¹² And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses, all these evils have come upon us: yet we have not besought the Lord our God, that we might turn away from our iniquities, and have understanding in all thy truth. ¹⁴ The Lord also has watched, and brought the evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his work which he has executed, but we have not hearkened to his voice.

⁵ Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live for ever?

¹⁶ Nevertheless they sneered at his messengers, and set at nought his words, and mocked his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against his people, till there was no remedy. ¹⁷ And he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and did not spare Sedekias, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men: he delivered all things into their hands.

^{19 (43:19)} For thou hast laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

^{15 (82:15)} so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.

¹ ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in his wrath the daughter of Sion! he has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered his footstool. ² BETH. In the day of his wrath the Lord has overwhelmed her as in the sea, and not spared: he has brought down in his fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; he has brought down to the ground the strong-holds of the daughter of Juda; he has profaned her kings and her princes.

¹⁷ PHE. The Lord has done that which he purposed; he has accomplished his word, even the things which he commanded from the ancient days: he has thrown down, and has not spared: and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, he has exalted the horn of him that afflicted thee.

²¹ CHSEN. The child and old man have lain down in the street: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity: thou hast slain them with the sword and with famine; in the day of thy wrath thou hast mangled them, thou has not spared.

⁶⁶ Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.

⁹ Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord that smite thee.

¹⁸ Therefore will I deal with them in wrath: mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy.

¹⁰ Therefore mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.

^{2 (96:2)} Cloud, and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

¹¹ And the Lord said to me, Pray not for this people for their good:

¹ And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before my face, my soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth.

⁸ GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

¹³ And it shall come to pass, that as he spoke, and they hearkened not, so they shall cry, and I will not hearken, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹³ The Lord thy God make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt then be above and thou shalt not be below, if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, in all things that I charge thee this day to observe.

³⁷ An thou shalt be there for a wonder, and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord thy God shall carry thee away.

⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

¹⁵ SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at thee; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

¹⁴ I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.

¹⁴ NUN. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment with it. ¹⁵ SAMECH. Depart ye from the unclean ones: call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger: say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.

⁷ But among all the children of Israel shall not a dog snarl with his tongue, either at man or beast; that thou mayest know how wide a distinction the Lord will make between the Egyptians and Israel.

⁹ But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word. ¹⁰ And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face. ¹¹ For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.

^{6 (21:6)} But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and scorn of the people. ^{7 (21:7)} All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with their lips, they shook the head, saying, ^{8 (21:8)} He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him, let him save him, because he takes pleasure in him.

^{13 (43:13)} Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision them that are round about us. ^{14 (43:14)} Thou hast made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

^{10 (78:10)} Lets haply they should say among the heathen, Where is their God? and let the avenging of thy servant's blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes.

¹⁶ AIN. All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

¹⁷ Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth. ¹⁸ And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,

¹⁹ Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee?

^{43 (31:43)} A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant off Moab. ^{44 (31:44)} he that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.

⁴ DALETH. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the feast: all her gates are ruined: her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself.

¹ ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in his wrath the daughter of Sion! he has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered his footstool. ² BETH. In the day of his wrath the Lord has overwhelmed her as in the sea, and not spared: he has brought down in his fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; he has brought down to the ground the strong-holds of the daughter of Juda; he has profaned her kings and her princes. ³ GIMEL. He has broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and has kindled a flame in Jacob as a fire, and it has devoured all things round about. ⁴ DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire. ⁵ HE. The Lord is become as an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her palaces: he has destroyed her strong-holds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Juda. ⁶ VAU. And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, he has marred his feast: the Lord has forgotten the feast and the sabbath which he appointed in Sion, and in the fury of his wrath has vexed the king, and priest, and prince. ⁷ ZAIN. The Lord has rejected his altar, he has cast off his sanctuary, he has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day. ⁸ HETH. And he has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he has stretched out the measuring line, he has not turned back his hand from afflicting her: therefore the bulwark mourned, and the wall was weakened with it. ⁹ TETH. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, and her king and her prince among the Gentiles: there is no law, nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.

^{136 (118:136)} Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not thy law.

¹⁹ I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart; my soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn: I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction;

¹ Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? then would I weep for this my people day and night, even for the slain of the daughter of my people.

¹⁸ and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

¹⁷ But if ye will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.

¹¹ CHAPH. Mine eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

¹⁸ TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, Ye walls of Sion, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eyes cease.

^{2 (76:2)} In the day of mine affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted.

¹⁷ And thou shalt speak this word to them; Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease: for the daughter of my people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.

^{14 (79:14)} O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine; ^{15 (79:15)} and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself. ^{16 (79:16)} It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.

^{19 (101:19)} For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven; ^{20 (101:20)} to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

⁶ And on thy walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of the Lord. ⁷ For there is none like you, when he shall have established, and made Jerusalem a praise on the earth.

¹⁵ Turn from heaven, and look from thy holy habitation and from thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us?

¹ If thou wouldest open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from thee, and they shall melt,

²⁰ RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom thou has gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? the cook has made a gathering: shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? wilt thou slay the priest and prophet in the sanctuary of the Lord?

¹ Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

¹⁶ O Lord, thy mercy is over all: let, I pray thee, thy wrath turn away, and thine anger from thy city Jerusalem, even thy holy mountain: for we have sinned, and because of our iniquities, and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach among all that are round about us. ¹⁷ And now, O lord our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine on thy desolate sanctuary, for thine own sake, O Lord. ¹⁸ Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolation, and that of thy city on which thy name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before thee on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of thy manifold compassions, O Lord. ¹⁹ Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for thine own sake: for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people.

³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, the lad not being with us? lest I behold the evils which will befall my father.

³ And David and his men came into the city, and, behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were carried captive. ⁴ And David and his men lifted up their voice, and wept till there was no longer any power within them to weep.

¹⁹ I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart; my soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn: I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction; ²⁰ for all the land is distressed: suddenly my tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been rent asunder. ²¹ How long shall I see fugitives, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

²² behold, I will visit them: their young men shall die by the sword; and their sons and their daughters shall die of famine:

¹⁶ And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall be none to bury them: their wives also, and their sons, and their daughters shall die thus; and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

¹⁸ If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

⁹ And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his neighbour in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies shall besiege them.

¹¹ They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

^{10 (24:11)} Behold, thine eyes have seen this day how that the Lord has delivered thee this day into my hands in the cave; and I would not slay thee, but spared thee, and said, I will not lift up my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed. ^{11 (24:12)} And behold, the skirt of thy mantle is in my hand, I cut off the skirt, and did not slay thee: know then and see to-day, there is no evil in my hand, nor impiety, nor rebellion; and I have not sinned against thee, yet thou layest snares for my soul to take it. ^{12 (24:13)} The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord requite thee on thyself: but my hand shall not be upon thee. ^{13 (24:14)} As the old proverb says, Transgression will proceed from the wicked ones: but my hand shall not be upon thee. ^{14 (24:15)} And now after whom dost thou come forth, O king of Israel? After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, and after a flea? ^{15 (24:16)} The Lord be judge and umpire between me and thee, the Lord look upon and judge my cause, and rescue me out of thy hand.

²⁸ Remove, I pray thee, the trespass of thy servant; for the Lord will surely make for my lord a sure house, for the Lord fights the battles of my lord, and there shall no evil be ever found in thee. ²⁹ And if a man shall rise up persecuting thee and seeking thy life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and thou shalt whirl the life of thine enemies as in the midst of a sling.

¹⁸ And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for in what have I sinned? and what unrighteousness has been found in me? ¹⁹ And now let my lord the king hear the word of his servant. If God stirs thee up against me, let thine offering be acceptable: but if the sons of men, they are cursed before the Lord, for they have cast me out this day so that I should not be established in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other Gods. ²⁰ And now let not my blood fall to the ground before the Lord, for the king of Israel has come forth to seek thy life, as the night hawk pursues its prey in the mountains.

^{1 (10:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David. In the Lord I have put my trust: how will ye say to my soul, ^(10:2) Flee to the mountains as a sparrow?

^{7 (34:7)} For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare: without a cause they have reproached my soul.

^{19 (34:19)} Let not them that are mine enemies without a cause rejoice against me; who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.

^{4 (68:4)} They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away.

^{3 (108:3)} And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

^{161 (118:161)} Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of thy words.

^{15 (44:15)} And the princes were very angry with Jeremias, and smote him, and sent him into the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made this a prison. ^{16 (44:16)} So Jeremias came into the dungeon, and into the cells, and he remained there many days.

^{18 (44:18)} And Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I wronged thee, or thy servants, or this people, that thou puttest me in prison?

^{4 (45:4)} And they said to the king. Let that man, wee pray thee, be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil. ^{5 (45:5)} Then the king said, Behold, he is in your hands. For the king could not resist them. ^{6 (45:6)} And they cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire: and he was in the mire.

^{16 (44:16)} So Jeremias came into the dungeon, and into the cells, and he remained there many days.

^{20 (44:20)} Now therefore, my lord the king, let my supplication come before thy face: and why dost thou send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe? and let me not on any account die there.

^{9 (45:9)} Thou hast done evil in what thou hast done to slay this man with hunger: for there is no more bread in the city.

¹⁷ And they brought a stone, and put it on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his ring, and with the ring of his nobles; that the case might not be altered with regard to Daniel.

¹¹ My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken. ¹² I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. ¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister. ¹⁵ Where then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good? ¹⁶ Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

^{4 (17:4)} The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

^{1 (68:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David, for alternate strains. Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. ^{2 (68:2)} I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

^{15 (68:15)} Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

^{4 (123:4)} verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent. ^{5 (123:5)} Yea, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water.

¹⁰ I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years. ¹¹ I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man. ¹² My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread. ¹³ In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day even to night.

¹⁸ Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.

^{3 (2:4)} Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me. ^{4 (2:5)} And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple? ^{5 (2:6)} Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

¹¹ And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasses in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon. ¹² And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;

^{5 (17:5)} The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me. ^{6 (17:6)} And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears.

^{1 (39:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication. ^{2 (39:2)} And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

^{13 (68:13)} But I will cry to thee, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. ^{14 (68:14)} Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters. ^{15 (68:15)} Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me. ^{16 (68:16)} Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: according to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me. ^{17 (68:17)} And turn not away thy face from thy servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily. ^{18 (68:18)} Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

^{3 (115:3)} The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow. ^{4 (115:4)} Then I called on the name of the Lord: O Lord, deliver my soul.

^{1 (129:1)} A Song of Degrees. Out of the depths have I cried to thee, O Lord. ^{2 (129:2)} O Lord, hearken to my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

^{3 (141:3)} When my spirit was fainting within me, then thou knewest my paths; in the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me. ^{4 (141:4)} I looked on my right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul. ^{5 (141:5)} I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said, Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living. ^{6 (141:6)} Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I. ^{7 (141:7)} Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to thy name, O Lord; the righteous shall wait for me, until thou recompense me.

^{2 (2:3)} and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, even to my cry out of the belly of hell: thou heardest my voice.

¹³ and he prayed to him: and he hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God.

¹⁹ behold, they are in the account of his prayer; and God hearkened to him. And all his sins, and his backslidings, and the spots on which he built the high places, and set there groves and graven images, before he repented, behold, they are written in the books of the seers.

²⁸ so as to bring before him the cry of the needy; for he will hear the cry of the poor.

⁴ I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy mountain. Pause.

⁸ Depart from me, all ye that work iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. ⁹ The Lord has hearkened to my petition; the Lord has accepted my prayer.

^{6 (33:6)} This poor man cried, and the Lord hearkened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions.

^{1 (54:1)} For the end, among Hymns of instruction by David. Hearken, O God, to my prayer; and disregard not my supplication.

^{19 (65:19)} Therefore God has hearkened to me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

^{13 (87:13)} But I cried to thee, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. ^{14 (87:14)} Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my prayer, and turn thy face away from me?

^{1 (115:1)} Alleluia. I am well pleased, because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication. ^{2 (115:2)} Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him while I live.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, and seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy time fifteen years.

^{18 (68:18)} Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

^{18 (144:18)} The Lord is near to all that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

¹⁰ Fear not; for I am with thee: wander not; for I am thy God, who have strengthened thee; and I have helped thee, and have established thee with my just right hand.

¹⁴ Fear not, Jacob, and thou Israel few in number; I have helped thee, saith thy God, he that redeems thee, O Israel.

¹ And now thus saith the Lord God that made thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. ² And if thou pass through water, I am with thee; and the rivers shall not overflow thee: and if thou go through fire, thou shalt not be burned; the flame shall not burn thee.

⁹ Then shalt thou cry, and God shall hearken to thee; while thou art yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If thou remove from thee the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;

¹⁷ And do thou gird up thy loins, and stand up, and speak all the words that I shall command thee: be not afraid of their face, neither be thou alarmed before them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

¹⁶ the angel who delivers me from all evils, bless these boys, and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraam and Isaac; and let them be increased to a great multitude on the earth.

³⁹ And David heard it and said, Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigaia, to take her to himself for a wife.

^{22 (33:22)} The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none of those that hope in him shall go wrong.

^{23 (70:23)} My lips shall rejoice when I sing to thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

^{4 (102:4)} who redeems thy life from corruption; who crowns thee with mercy and compassion;

^{34 (27:34)} But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;

^{36 (28:36)} Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.

⁴² Unless I had the God of my father Abraam, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

⁴ For thou hast maintained my cause and my right; thou satest on the throne, that judgest righteousness.

^{1 (25:1)} A Psalm of David. Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in my innocence: and hoping in the Lord I shall not be moved.

^{1 (34:1)} A Psalm of David. Judge thou, O Lord, them that injure me, fight against them that fight against me.

^{23 (34:23)} Awake, O Lord, and attend to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my Lord.

^{1 (42:1)} A Psalm of David. Judge me, o God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.

¹⁹ But I as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, knew not: against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more. ²⁰ O Lord, that judgest righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance taken upon them, for to thee I have declared my cause. ²¹ Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek my life, that say, Thou shalt not prophesy at all in the name of the Lord, but if thou dost, thou shalt die by our hands:

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother! thou hast born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped others, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device against Jeremias; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and wee will hear all his words. ¹⁹ Hear me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading. ²⁰ Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they meant for me; remember that I stood before thy face, to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them. ²¹ Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war. ²² Let there be a cry in their houses: thou shalt bring upon them robbers suddenly: for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me. ²³ And thou, Lord, knowest all their deadly counsel against me: account not their iniquities guiltless, and blot not out their sins from before thee: let their weakness come before thee; deal with them in the time of thy wrath.

⁷ Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived: thou hast been strong, and has prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock, I am continually mocked every day. ⁸ For I will laugh with my bitter speech, I will call upon rebellion and misery: for the word of the Lord is become a reproach to me and a mockery all my days. ⁹ Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear up. ¹⁰ For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, saying, Conspire ye, and let us conspire together against him, even all his friends: watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.

^{1 (44:1)} And Sedekias the son of Josias reigned instead of Joakim, whom Nabuchodonosor appointed to reign over Juda. ^{2 (44:2)} And he and his servants and the people of the land hearkened not to the words of the Lord, which he spoke by Jeremias. ^{3 (44:3)} And king Sedekias sent Joachal son of Selemias and Sophonias the priest son of Maasaeas to Jeremias, saying, Pray now for us to the Lord. ^{4 (44:4)} Now Jeremias came and went through the midst of the city: for they had not put him into the house of the prison. ^{5 (44:5)} And the host of Pharao was come forth out of Egypt; and the Chaldeans heard the report of them, and they went up from Jerusalem. ^{6 (44:6)} And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying, ^{7 (44:7)} Thus said the Lord; Thus shalt thou say to the king of Juda who sent to thee, to seek me; Behold, the army of Pharao which is come forth to help you: they shall return to the land of Egypt: ^{8 (44:8)} and the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. ^{9 (44:9)} For thus saith he Lord; Suppose not in your hearts, saying, The Chaldeans will certainly depart from us: for they shall not depart. ^{10 (44:10)} And though ye should smite the whole host of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left a few wounded men, these should rise up each in his place, and burn this city with fire. ^{11 (44:11)} And it came to pass, when the host of the Chaldeans had gone up from Jerusalem for fear of the host of Pharao, ^{12 (44:12)} that Jeremias went forth from Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to buy thence a property in the midst of the people. ^{13 (44:13)} And he was in the gate of Benjamin, and there was there a man with whom he lodged, Saruia the son of Selemias, the son of Ananias; and he caught Jeremias, saying, Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans. ^{14 (44:14)} And he said, It is false; I do not flee to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; and Saruia caught Jeremias, and brought him to the princes. ^{15 (44:15)} And the princes were very angry with Jeremias, and smote him, and sent him into the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made this a prison. ^{16 (44:16)} So Jeremias came into the dungeon, and into the cells, and he remained there many days. ^{17 (44:17)} Then Sedekias sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? and he said, There is: thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon. ^{18 (44:18)} And Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I wronged thee, or thy servants, or this people, that thou puttest me in prison? ^{19 (44:19)} And where are your prophets who prophesied to you saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against this land? ^{20 (44:20)} Now therefore, my lord the king, let my supplication come before thy face: and why dost thou send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe? and let me not on any account die there. ^{21 (44:21)} Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremias continued in the court of the prison.

¹⁴ Thou seest it; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan.

¹⁹ But I as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, knew not: against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more. ²⁰ O Lord, that judgest righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance taken upon them, for to thee I have declared my cause.

⁵⁹ Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou hast judged my cause.

^{18 (73:18)} Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.

³⁰ JOD. He will give his cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches.

⁸ I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reviled my people, and magnified themselves against my coasts.

^{7 (58:7)} Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard?

^{12 (58:12)} For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.

^{3 (139:3)} They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device against Jeremias; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and wee will hear all his words.

³ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have been dishonoured, and hated by those round about you, that ye might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and ye became a by-word, and a reproach to the nations:

⁹ But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.

^{2 (138:2)} Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before.

^{4 (27:4)} Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense unto them.

²⁰ O Lord, that judgest righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance taken upon them, for to thee I have declared my cause.

^{29 (27:29)} Summon many against Babylon, even every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her people escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.

³⁰ And Seon king of Esebon would not that we should pass by him, because the Lord our God hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as on this day.

¹⁵ Cursed is the man whosoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, So be it. ¹⁶ Cursed is the man that dishonours his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it. ¹⁷ Cursed is he that removes his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say, So be it. ¹⁸ Cursed is he that makes the blind to wander in the way: and all the people shall say, So be it. ¹⁹ Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²⁰ Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²¹ Cursed is he that lies with any beast: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²² Cursed is he that lies with his sister by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²³ Cursed is he that lies with his daughter-in-law: and all the people shall say, So be it. Cursed is he that lies with his wife's sister: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²⁴ Cursed is he that smites his neighbour secretly: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²⁵ Cursed is he whosoever shall have taken a bribe to slay an innocent man: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²⁶ Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, So be it.

^{17 (108:17)} He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him. ^{18 (108:18)} Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones.

¹⁰ For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

²⁴ And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and ye shall destroy their name from that place; none shall stand up in opposition before thee, until thou shalt have utterly destroyed them.

¹⁹ And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about thee, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalec from under heaven, and shalt not forget to do it.

²⁷ And the Lord said that he would not blot out the seed of Israel from under heaven; so he delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joas.

³ For I will regard the heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and stars, which thou hast established.

^{6 (34:6)} Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.

^{15 (72:15)} If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.

^{16 (114:16)} The heaven of heavens belongs to the Lord: but he has given the earth to the sons of men.

¹ Thus saith the Lord, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will ye build me? and of what kind is to be the place of my rest?

¹¹ Thus shall ye say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.

⁴³ SAMECH. Thou has visited us in wrath, and driven us away: thou has slain, thou has not pitied.