Zephaniah Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ The word of Jehovah which was to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah. ² Taking away, I will take away all from off the face of the earth, says Jehovah ³ I will take away man and cattle; I will take away the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with. the unjust; and I cut off man from the face of the earth, says Jehovah. ⁴ And I stretched out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, with the name of the obscurations with the priests ⁵ And those worshiping upon the roofs to the army of the heavens, and worshiping, swearing to Jehovah, and swearing to Malcham; ⁶ And those departing from after Jehovah, and who sought not Jehovah, and asked not for him. ⁷ Be silent from the face of the Lord Jehovah: for the day of Jehovah is near, for Jehovah prepared a swam he consecrated his called ones. ⁸ And it was in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah, and I reviewed upon the chiefs and upon the sons of the king, and upon all having put on strange clothing. ⁹ And I reviewed upon every one leaping upon the threshold in that day, filling their lords' houses with violence and deceit ¹⁰ And it was in that day, says Jehovah, a voice of a cry from the gate of fishes, and a wailing from the second, and a great breaking from the hills. ¹¹ Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan were destroyed; all lifting up silver were cut off. ¹² And it was in that time, I will search out Jerusalem with lights, and I reviewed upon the men curdled upon their lees, saying in their heart, Jehovah will do good and not evil. ¹³ And their wealth was for plunder, and their houses for desolation: and they built houses, and they inhabited not; and they planted vineyards, and they shall not drink their wine. ¹⁴ The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hastening greatly, the voice of the day of Jehovah: the strong one cried there bitterly. ¹⁵ A day of wrath, that day a day of straits and distress, a day of storm and desolation, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom, ¹⁶ A day of the trumpet and loud noise against the fortified cities, and against the high pinnacles. ¹⁷ And I pressed upon man, and they went as the blind, because they sinned against Jehovah: and their blood was poured out as dust and their bread as dung. ¹⁸ Also their silver also their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; and all the land shall be consumed by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make a completion even sudden of all dwelling in the land.

⁷ And Jehovah will say, I will wipe out man whom I formed from above the face of the earth; from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing and even to the birds of the heavens; and I was grieved that I made them.

¹² Thou didst stretch forth thy right hand, the earth will swallow them.

³³ And I will scatter you among the nations, and I drew out after you a sword: and your land was a desert, and your cities shall be a desolation. ³⁴ Then shall the land delight with its Sabbaths, all the days of its desolation, and ye in the land of your enemies: then shall the land rest and delight with its Sabbaths. ³⁵ All the days of its desolation shall it rest, which it did not rest in your Sabbaths, in your dwelling upon it

²⁰ Jehovah thy God shalt thou fear; him .shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and in his name shalt thou swear.

⁵ The equipment of a man shall not be upon a woman, and a man shall not put on a woman's garment, for all doing these things are an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

²⁸ Jehovah will strike thee with madness and with blindness and with astonishment of heart; ²⁹ And thou wert groping at noon as the blind shall grope in darkness, and thou shalt not succeed with thy ways: and thou wert only oppressed and stripped all the days, and none saving. ³⁰ Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house and shall not dwell in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard and thou shalt not lay it open.

³⁹ Thou shalt plant vineyards and thou shalt work; and thou shalt not drink the wine, and thou shalt not gather, for the worm shall eat it

⁵¹ And it shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land till he destroyed thee: which shall not leave to thee grain, new wine or new oil, the offspring of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep, till his destroying thee.

²⁰ Jehovah shall not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of Jehovah shall smoke, and his jealousy against that man, and every curse written in this book lay upon him, and Jehovah wiped out his name from under the heavens. ²¹ And Jehovah separated him for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the book of this law: ²² And said, Another generation of your sons who shall rise up from after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a land afar off, and they saw the blows of that land, and the sicknesses which Jehovah made sick in it; ²³ Pitch and burning salt, all its land; it shall not be sown, and it shall not sprout, and no green herb shall come up upon it, as the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath: ²⁴ And all the nations said, For what did Jehovah thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger? ²⁵ And they said, Because they left the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he made with them; in his bringing them forth from the land of Egypt ²⁶ And they will go and serve other gods, and will worship to them gods which they knew them not, and a portion not to them. ²⁷ And the anger of Jehovah will kindle against this land, to bring upon it all the curses written in this book. ²⁸ And Jehovah will tear them up from their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great anger, and will send them to another land as this day.

¹⁷ And my anger was kindled against him in that day, and I forsook them, and I hid my face from them, and he was for consuming, and many evils finding him, and afflictions, and he said in that day, Is it not because God is not in the midst of me these evils find us?

²¹ They made me jealous with not God; They irritated me with their vanities: And I will make them jealous with not a people; With a foolish nation will I irritate them. ²² For a fire was kindled in mine anger. And it shall burn to the lowest hades, And it shall consume the land and its produce, And it shall burn the foundations of the mountains. ²³ I will gather evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. ²⁴ Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust ²⁵ The sword shall bereave without, And terror from the chambers, Also the youth, also the virgin, The suckling, with the man of gray hair.

⁷ So as not to come among these nations, these being left with you; and ye shall not make mention of the name of their gods, and ye shall not swear, and ye shall not serve them, and ye shall not worship to them:

⁹ He will watch the feet of the merciful and the unjust shall be silent in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail. ¹⁰ Jehovah, they contending against him, shall be broken; in the heavens he will break them in pieces: Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth, and he will give strength to his king, and he will lift up the horn of his Messiah.

¹⁵ Also before they will burn the fat and the boy of the priest came and said to the man sacrificing, Thou shalt give flesh to roast for the priest; and he will not take from thee flesh boiled but living. ¹⁶ And the man will say to him, Burning, they shall burn the fat as the day, and take to thee as thy soul shall desire; and he said to him, But now thou shalt give, and if not I will take by force.

⁵ Therefore the priests of Dagon, and all coming into Dagon's house, will not tread upon the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod even to this day.

¹¹ I lamented that I made Saul for king, for he turned back from after me, and my words he set not up. And it will kindle to Samuel, and he will cry to Jehovah all the night

⁵ And he will say, Peace: to sacrifice to Jehovah I came: be ye consecrated and come with me to the sacrifice. And he will consecrate Jesse and his sons, and call for them to the sacrifice.

²⁶ And Saul spake not anything in that day, for he said, It is an accident; he is not clean; for he is not clean.

⁷ And David will take the fastness of Zion: this the city of David.

⁹ And David will dwell in the fastness, and he will call it the city of David. And David will build round about from Millo and its house.

⁵ And Solomon will go after Ashtaroth the god of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

³³ Because they forsook me and worshiped to Ashtaroth the god of Zidon, and to Chemosh, god of Moab, and to Milcom, god of the sons of Ammon, and they went not in my way to do the straight in mine eyes, and my laws and my judgments as David his father.

²² And Judah will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and they will provoke him to jealousy above all which their fathers did in the sins which they sinned.

²¹ And Elijah will draw near to all the people and say, How long halt ye upon two opinions? if Jehovah is God, go ye after him: and if Baal, go ye after him. And the people answered him not a word.

²⁰ And Gehazi the boy of Elisha, the man of God, will say, Behold, my lord spared Naaman this Aramite from taking from his hand what he brought: Jehovah lives, for if I ran after him land book from him something. ²¹ And Gehazi will pursue after Naaman, and Naaman will see he ran after him, and will descend from his chariot to meet him, and he will say, Is it peace? ²² And he will say, Peace. My lord sent me, saying, Behold, now there came here to me two boys from mount Ephraim from the sons of the prophets: wilt thou give to them a talent of silver and two changes of garments? ²³ And Naaman will say, Be content, take two talents And he will press upon him, and he Will bind two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of garments, and he will give to his two boys, and they will lift up before him. ²⁴ And he will come to the hill and; take from their hand and deposit in the house: and he will send away the men, said they will go. ²⁵ And he came in, and he will stand by his lord: and Elisha will say to him, From whence, Gehazi? And he will say, Thy servant wait not hence and thence. ²⁶ And he will say to him, Went not my heart when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olive trees, and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and servants and maids? ²⁷ And the leprosy of Naaman shall cleave upon thee and upon thy seed forever. And he will go forth from his face being leprous as snow.

³³ And he will say, Throw her down. And they will throw her down, and there will be sprinkled of her blood upon the wall and upon the horses: and he will tread her under foot ³⁴ And he will go in and eat and drink, and he will say, Review now this curse, and bury her, for she the daughter of a king. ³⁵ And they will go to bury her: and they found not of her but the skull and the feet, and the palms of the hands ³⁶ And they will turn back and announce to him, and he will say, This the word of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel, dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel. ³⁷ And the carcass of Jezebel was as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; that they shall not say this is Jezebel

²² And he will say to him over the vestry, Bring forth garments for all the servants of Baal. And he will bring forth to them garments.

³³ They were fearing Jehovah, and were serving their gods according to the judgment of the nations who carried them into exile from thence,

⁴¹ And these nations were fearing Jehovah and were serving their carved images, also their sons and their sons sons; as their fathers did, they are doing even to this day.

¹³ And I stretched over Jerusalem the cord of Shomeron, and the weight of the house of Ahab: and I wiped off Jerusalem as one will wipe dishes, wiping, and turning upon its face.

¹ The son of eight years was Josiah in his reigning, and thirty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. ² And he will do the straight in the eyes of Jehovah, and go in all the way of David his father, and he turned not aside to the right or the left ³ And it will be in the eighteenth year to king Josiah, the king sent Shaphen son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the scribe of the house of Jehovah, saying, ⁴ Go up to Hilkiah the great priest, and he shall complete the silver being brought to the house of Jehovah, which the watchers of the threshold gathered from the people. ⁵ And they shall give it into the hand of those appointed in the house of Jehovah: and they shall give it to those doing the work which is in the house of Jehovah to strengthen the breach of the house. ⁶ To the artificers, and to the builders and the wall builders, and to buy woods and stones hewn to strengthen the house. ⁷ But the silver given into their hand will not be reckoned with them, for they do in faith. ⁸ And Hilkiah the great priest will say to Shaphan the scribe, I found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah, and Hilkiah will give the book to Shaphan and he will read it ⁹ And Shaphan the scribe will come to the king, and he will turn the king back word, and he will say, Thy servants melted the silver found in the house, and they will give it into the hand of those doing the work being appointed in the house of Jehovah. ¹⁰ And Shaphan the scribe will announce to the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest gave to me a book, and Shapban will read it before the king. ¹¹ And it will be when the king heard the words of the book of the law, and he will rend his garments. ¹² And the king will command Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam son of Shaphan, and Achbor, son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah the king's servant, saying, ¹³ Go ye, seek Jehovah for me, and for the people, and for all Judah. concerning the words of this book being found: for great the anger of Jehovah burning upon us because that our fathers heard not to the words of this book to do according to all written concerning us. ¹⁴ And Hilkiah the priest went, and Ahikam and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, to Huldah the prophetess wife of Shallum, son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, watching the garments; (and she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second rank;) and they will speak to her.

¹⁴ And Hilkiah the priest went, and Ahikam and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, to Huldah the prophetess wife of Shallum, son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, watching the garments; (and she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second rank;) and they will speak to her. ¹⁵ And she will say to them, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel, Say ye to the man who sent you to me,. ¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah, Behold me bringing evil to this place, and upon its inhabitants all the words of the book which the king of Judah read.

¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah, Behold me bringing evil to this place, and upon its inhabitants all the words of the book which the king of Judah read. ¹⁷ Because they forsook me, and they will burn incense to other gods to irritate me in all the work of their hands; and my wrath burnt upon this place and it shall not be quenched.

¹⁷ Because they forsook me, and they will burn incense to other gods to irritate me in all the work of their hands; and my wrath burnt upon this place and it shall not be quenched. ¹⁸ To the king of Judah sending you to seek Jehovah, thus shalt thou say to him, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, The words which thou heardest; ¹⁹ Because thy heart was tender and thou wilt be humble from before Jehovah in thy hearing what I spake against this place, and against its inhabitants to be for desolation, and for a curse, and thou wilt rend thy garments and weep before me; and I also heard, says Jehovah. ²⁰ For this, behold me gathering thee to thy fathers, and thou wert gathered to thy tomb in peace; and thine eyes shall not look upon all the evil which I bring upon this place. And they will turn back the king word.

⁴ And the king will command Hilkiah the great priest and the priests of the second rank, and the watchers of the threshold to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels being made for Baal and for the image, and for all the army of the heavens: and they will burn them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and he lifted up their dust to the house of God. ⁵ And he caused the obscurations to cease which the kings of Judah gave, and he will burn incense in the heights in the cities of Judah, and those being round about Jerusalem, and those burning incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the army of the heavens.

¹² And the altars which were upon the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz which the kings of Judah made, and the altars which Manasseh made in the two enclosures of the house of Jehovah, the king broke down, and he will break in pieces from thence, and cast their dust into the torrent Kidron.

³⁰ And his servants will cause him to ride dead from Megiddo, and bring him to Jerusalem and bury him in his tomb. And the people of the land will take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and they will anoint him and make him king instead of his father. ³¹ The son of twenty and three years was Jehoahaz in his reigning; and three months he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother's name Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. ³² And he will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah according to all which his fathers did. ³³ And Pharaoh-Necho will bind him in Riblah in the land of Hamath, in reigning in Jerusalem; and he will give a fine upon the land, a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ³⁴ And Pharaoh-Necho will make Eliakim son of Josiah, king, instead of Josiah his father, and he will turn his name to Jehoiakim, and he took Jehoahaz: and he will come to Egypt and die there.

¹² And Jehoiachin king of Judah will go forth upon the king of Babel, he and his mother, and his servants, and his chiefs, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babel will take him in the eighth year to his reigning. ¹³ And he will bring forth from thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and he will cut off all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel made in the temple of Jehovah, according to the word of Jehovah.

⁶ And they will seize the king and bring him up to the king of Babel to Riblah; and they will speak judgment with him. ⁷ And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and he will bind him with fetters, and bring him to Babel.

¹⁹ And out of the city he took one eunuch, he who was appointed over the men of war, and five men seeing the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief of the army mustering the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city: ²⁰ And Nebuzaradan, chief of the cooks, will take them and bring them to the king of Babel to Riblah: ²¹ And the king of Babel will strike them and kill them in Riblah in the land of Hamath; and Judah will be carried into exile from their land.

¹ And Solomon will begin to build the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem in mount Moriah, which was seen to David his father in the place which David prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

²² And Jehovah will save Hezekiah, and those inhabiting Jerusalem, from the hand of Senherib king. of Assur, and from the hand of all, and protect them from round about

¹⁴ And after this he built a wall outside to the city of David from the west to Gihon, in the valley to the entering into the gate of fishes, and it turned round about to the hill, and he will lift it up greatly, and he will set chiefs of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

¹ The son of eight years was Josiah in his reigning, and thirty and one years he reigned in Jerusalem. ² And he did the straight in the eyes of Jehovah, and he went in the ways of David his father, and he turned not to the right and to the left ³ And in the eighth year to his reigning, and he yet a youth, he began to seek to the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the heights, and the statues, and the carved images, and the molten images. ⁴ And they will pull down the altars of the Baals before him, and the images which were above from on high to them he cut down; and the statues and the carved images, and the molten images he break in pieces and beat small, and he will strew upon the face of the graves of those sacrificing to them.

⁴ And they will pull down the altars of the Baals before him, and the images which were above from on high to them he cut down; and the statues and the carved images, and the molten images he break in pieces and beat small, and he will strew upon the face of the graves of those sacrificing to them. ⁵ And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and he will cleanse Judah and Jerusalem. ⁶ And in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim, and Simeon, and even to Naphtali he proved their houses round about ⁷ And he will pull down the altars and the statues, and the carved images he beat down to make fine, and he cut down all the images in all the land of Israel, and he will turn back to Jerusalem. ⁸ And in the eighteenth year to his reigning, to cleanse the land and the house he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah chief of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz the rememberer to strengthen the house of Jehovah his God. ⁹ And they will come to Hilkiah the great priest, and they will give the silver being brought to the house of God, which the Levites watching the threshold gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin; and they will turn back to Jerusalem. ¹⁰ And they will give to the hand of those appointed to do the work in the house of Jehovah, and they will give it to those doing the work, working in the house of Jehovah to repair and to strengthen the house. ¹¹ And they will give to the artificers and to the builders to buy stones and woods for junctions, and to frame the houses which the kings of Judah destroyed. ¹² And the men doing in the work in faithfulness: and over them being appointed Jahath and Obadiah the Levites from the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam from the sons of the Kohathites to superintend; and the Levites all understanding in instruments of song. ¹³ And over those carrying, and superintending to all doing the work for service and service: and from the Levites, scribes and leaders and gate-keepers. ¹⁴ And in their bringing forth the silver being brought to the house of Jehovah, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of Jehovah by the band of Moses. ¹⁵ And Hilkiah will answer and say to Shaphan the scribe, I found a book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkiah will give the book to Shaphan. ¹⁶ And Shaphan will bring the book to the king, and he will yet turn back word to the king, saying, All which was given into the hand of thy servants, they do. ¹⁷ And they will pour out the silver being found in the house of Jehovah, and they will give it to the hand of those reviewing, and to the hand of those doing the work. ¹⁸ And Shaphan the scribe will announce to the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest gave a book to me. And Shaphan will read in it before the king. ¹⁹ And it will be when the king heard the words of the law, and he will rend his garments. ²⁰ And the king will command Hilkiah, and Ahikam son of Shaphan, and Abdon son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah servant of the king saying, ²¹ Go seek Jehovah for me, and for those being left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book which was found: for great the wrath of Jehovah which is poured out upon us, because our fathers watched not the word of Jehovah to do according to all written upon this book. ²² And Hilkiah will go, and those of the king, to Huldah the prophetess, wife of Shallum son of Tikvath, son of Hasrah, watching the garments; (and she will dwell in Jerusalem in the second rank) and they will speak to her according to this ²³ And she will say to them, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel, Say to the man who sent you to me, ²⁴ Thus said Jehovah, Behold me bringing evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, all the curses written upon the book which they read before the king of Judah: ²⁵ Because that they forsook me, and they will burn incense to other gods, so that they irritated me with all the works of their hands; and my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched. ²⁶ And to the king of Judah sending you to seek in Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel the words which thou heardest; ²⁷ Because thy heart was tender, and thou wilt be humbled from before God in thy hearing his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and thou wilt be humbled before me, and thou wilt rend thy garments and weep before me; I also heard, says Jehovah. ²⁸ Behold me gathering thee to thy fathers, and thou wert gathered to thy graves in peace, and thine eyes shall not look upon all the evil which I bring upon this place and upon its inhabitants. And they will turn back word to the king. ²⁹ And the kind will send and gather together all the old men of Judah and Jerusalem. ³⁰ And the king will go up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites, and all the people, from great and even to small: and he will read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant being found in the house of Jehovah. ³¹ And the king will stand upon his standing, and he will cut out a covenant before Jehovah to go after Jehovah and to watch his commands and his testimonies, and his laws with all his heart and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant being written upon this book. ³² And he will cause to stand all being found in Jerusalem and Benjamin. And they inhabiting Jerusalem will do according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. ³³ And Josiah will remove all the abominations out of all the lands which were to the sons of Israel, and he will cause to serve all being found in Israel, to serve Jehovah their God. All his days they departed not from after Jehovah the God of their fathers.

²¹ To fill up the word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, till the land delighted in her Sabbaths: all the days she was laid waste she rested, to complete seventy years.

³ And the gate of fishes the sons of Hassenaah built; they framed and they will set up its doors, its bolts and its bars.

³¹ After him held fast Malchiah son of the goldsmith, even to the house of the Nethinims, and the merchants before the gate of the review, and even to the going up of the turning. ³² And between the going up of the turning to the sheep gate, held fast the goldsmiths and the merchants.

¹⁵ And the former prefects that were before me made heavy upon the people, and they will take from them in bread and wine, the last silver forty shekels; also their young men ruled over the people: and I did not thus from the face of the fear of God.

⁴ That day shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it. ⁵ Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it ⁶ That night darkness shall take it; it shall not be joined upon the days of the year; it shall not come into the number of months. ⁷ Behold, that night shall be hard; no rejoicing shall be in it ⁸ They cursing the day shall curse it, they being ready to rouse up the sea monster.

¹⁵ What the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to him?

³⁰ For the evil one will be spared for the day of destruction; they shalt be led away to the day of wraths

⁴ Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth. ⁵ Once I sake, and I will not answer: and twice, and I will not add.

⁴ The unjust according to the height of his anger, will not seek: God is not in all his thoughts.

¹¹ Saying in his heart, God forgat: he hid his face; not seeing forever. ¹² Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thine hand: thou wilt not forget the poor. ¹³ For what did the unjust one despise God, saying in his heart, Thou wilt not search?

¹ To the overseer; of David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted, they made their; works abominable, none doing good. ² Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the sons of men, to see is there he understanding, seeking God. ³ All turned away together, they were corrupted: none doing good, not even one.

³ The words of his mouth vanity and deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to do good.

¹⁰ Desist, and know that I am God: I will be exalted in the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

¹² Surround ye Zion, and go round about her: recount her towers. ¹³ Set your hearts to her fortification; divide up her palaces, so that ye shall recount to the later generation.

⁶ They trusting upon their wealth, and they will glory in the multitude of their riches. ⁷ A man redeeming shall not redeem the brother, he shall not give to God his ransom: ⁸ (And the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceased forever:) ⁹ And he shall yet live forever, he shall not see destruction.

⁵ Also God will break thee down forever; he will take thee and sweep thee away from the tent, and root thee up from the land of the living. Silence. ⁶ And the just shall see and fear, and laugh at him. ⁷ Behold, the man will not set God his strength, and he will trust in the multitude of his riches he will be strengthened in his mischief.

⁸ From the heavens thou didst cause judgment to be heard; the earth feared and rested. ⁹ In God's rising up to judgment, to save all the poor of the earth. Silence.

⁵⁸ And they will make him angry with their heights, and they will provoke him to jealousy with their carved images.

² They gave the corpses of thy servants food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy godly ones to the beasts of the earth. ³ They poured out their blood as water round about Jerusalem; and none burying.

⁵ How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry forever? shall thy jealousy burn as fire?

¹⁰ They were destroyed at the fountain of the dwelling: they were dung to the earth.

⁷ And they will say Jah will not see, and the God of Jacob will not understand.

⁵ And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.

¹ Wisdom built her house, she hewed out her seven pillars: ² She slaughtered her slaughter; she mingled her wine; also she prepared her table. ³ She sent forth her girls: she will call upon the wings of the heights of the city, ⁴ Who the simple, he shall turn aside here: he wanting heart, she said to him, ⁵ Come ye, eat of my bread, and drink ye of the wine I mingled. ⁶ Forsake ye the foolish, and live; and go straight in the way of understanding.

⁴ Wealth will not profit in the day of wrath, and justice will deliver from death.

¹¹ The rich one's wealth his strong city, and as a wall lifted up in his imagination.

¹² A ruler listening to the word of falsehood, all serving him are unjust

⁴ Wo! sinful nation, a people heavy with sin, a seed doing evil, sons acting wickedly; they forsook Jehovah; they despised the holy one of Israel; they separated themselves backward.

²⁴ For this says the lord Jehovah of armies, the mighty one of Israel, Wo! I will take vengeance of mine adversaries, and I will avenge myself of mine enemies:

¹² For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled:

¹² For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled: ¹³ And upon all the cedars of Lebanon being high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴ And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills being lifted up, ¹⁵ And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall,

²⁰ In that day man shall cast the nothings of his silver and the nothings of his gold which they made for him to worship, to the digging of moles and to bats. ²¹ To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the rocks from the face of the fear of Jehovah, and from the splendor of his majesty in his rising to terrify the earth.

¹⁸ In that day Jehovah will turn away the ornament of the ankle bands, and the inter-weavings, and the crescents, ¹⁹ The drops, and the chains, and the veils, ²⁰ The head-dresses and the step chains, and the girdles, and the houses of the soul, and the amulets. ²¹ The signet rings and the rings of the nose. ²² The costly garments and the cloaks, and the mantles, and the caskets. ²³ The mirrors and the shirts and the turbans and the veils. ²⁴ And it was instead of a sweet smell there shall be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a rope, and instead of turned work, baldness, and instead of a variegated garment, a girding of sackcloth a brand instead of beauty.

⁸ Wo to those touching house upon house, they will bring near field upon field, till no more place, and ye dwelt yourselves alone in the midst of the earth. ⁹ In the ears of Jehovah of armies, If not many houses shall be for desolation, great and good from none dwelling.

¹⁹ Saying, He shall hasten, he shall urge on his work, so that we shall see: and the counsel of the holy one of Israel shall draw near and come and we shall know.

⁵ And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies.

¹¹ And saying, How long, O Lord? And he will say, Till when the cities were laid waste from not being inhabited, and the houses from not a man, and the land shall be laid waste with desolation.

¹³ And the people turned not back even to him smiting them, and Jehovah of armies they sought not

¹² And it was when the Lord will complete all his work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will review upon the fruit of the great heart of the king of Assur and upon the glory of his eyes lifted up.

⁶ Pipe ye, for the day of Jehovah draws near; as desolation shall it come from the Almighty.

²⁶ This the counsel being counseled upon all the land: and this the hand stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷ For Jehovah of armies counseled and who shall bring to nought? and his hand was stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

⁴ And Heshbon shall cry and Elealah; even to Jahaz their voice was heard: for this the loins of Moab shall make a loud noise his soul shall be evil to him.

⁴ For this I said, Look ye away from me; I will be bitter in my weeping, ye shall not hasten to comfort me upon the desolation of the daughter of my people. ⁵ For a day of consternation, and of treading down, and perplexity by the Lord Jehovah of armies of the valley of vision, of undermining the wall, and of a cry for help to the mountains.

⁵ For a day of consternation, and of treading down, and perplexity by the Lord Jehovah of armies of the valley of vision, of undermining the wall, and of a cry for help to the mountains.

¹ Behold, Jehovah emptying the earth and making it waste, and subverting its face, and scattering its inhabitants.

¹ Behold, Jehovah emptying the earth and making it waste, and subverting its face, and scattering its inhabitants. ² And it was as the people, so the priest; as the servant, so his lord; as the maid, so the mistress; as the buyer, so he selling; as he lending, so the borrower; as be lending on interest, so he exacting interest to him.

² And it was as the people, so the priest; as the servant, so his lord; as the maid, so the mistress; as the buyer, so he selling; as he lending, so the borrower; as be lending on interest, so he exacting interest to him. ³ Being emptied, the land shall be emptied: and being plundered, it shall be plundered: for Jehovah spake this word.

³ Being emptied, the land shall be emptied: and being plundered, it shall be plundered: for Jehovah spake this word. ⁴ The earth mourning, fell away: the habitable globe languishing, fell away: the heights of the people of the land languished, ⁵ And the earth was polluted under its inhabitants, for they passed by the instructions, they changed the law, they broke the eternal covenant

⁵ And the earth was polluted under its inhabitants, for they passed by the instructions, they changed the law, they broke the eternal covenant ⁶ For this, the curse consumed the earth, and they dwelling in it, will transgress: for this, they dwelling upon the earth were burned, and those remaining, men of fewness.

⁶ For this, the curse consumed the earth, and they dwelling in it, will transgress: for this, they dwelling upon the earth were burned, and those remaining, men of fewness. ⁷ The new wine mourned, the vine languished, all they joyful of heart, sighed ⁸ The exulting of the drums ceased, the noise of those triumphing, left off, the exulting of the harp ceased. ⁹ They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those drinking it ¹⁰ The city of desolation was broken down: every house was shut up from coining in. ¹¹ An outcry for wine in the streets; all joy grew dark, the exulting of the earth was carried into exile. ¹² Desolation was left in the city, and the gate shall be struck in ruins.

²¹ And it was in that day Jehovah shall review upon the army of the height upon the height, and upon the kings of the earth upon the earth.

⁹ Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be expiated; and this all the fruit to remove his sin; in his setting all the stones of the altar as stones of lime broken in pieces, the statues and images shall not stand up.

¹⁰ For Jehovah poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and he will close your eyes: the prophets and your heads, the seeing he covered.

¹⁴ For the fortress was left, the multitude of the city was forsaken; the hill and the watch-tower for caves even forever; the rejoicing of the wild asses a pasture of the flocks;

⁷ Behold the lions of God they cried out without: the messengers of peace shall weep bitterness.

⁶ The sword of Jehovah was filled with blood, it was made fat from the fat of the blood of lambs and he goats, from the fat of kidneys of rams: for a sacrifice to Jehovah in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷ And from thy sons that shall come forth from thee which thou shalt beget, they shall take; and they were eunuchs in the temple of the king of Babel.

²² And thou calledst me not, O Jacob; and thou overt weary of me, O Israel.

⁵ This shall say, I to Jehovah; and this shall call in the name of Jacob; and this shall write his hand to Jehovah, and he shall address in the name of Israel.

²³ By myself I sware the word, justice went forth out of my mouth, and shall not turn back, That to me every knee shall bend, every tongue shall swear.

¹ Hear this, ye house of Jacob, being called by the name of Israel, and from the water of Judah they came forth swearing by the name of Jehovah, and by the God of Israel they shall bring to remembrance, not in truth and not in justice.

¹ Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away.

⁹ For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness. ¹⁰ We shall feel for the wall as the blind, and we shall feel, as no eyes: we stumbled at noon as at evening twilight; in fertile fields as the dead.

¹⁰ We shall feel for the wall as the blind, and we shall feel, as no eyes: we stumbled at noon as at evening twilight; in fertile fields as the dead. ¹¹ We shall growl as bears all of us, and murmuring we shall murmur as doves: we shall wait for judgment, and none; for salvation, it was far from us. ¹² For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them. ¹³ Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood. ¹⁴ And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in. ¹⁵ And truth shall be lacking; and he departing from evil being plundered: and Jehovah will see, and it will be evil in his eyes, for no judgment

²¹ And they built houses and they dwelt in them; and they planted vineyards, and they ate the fruit ²² They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat: for as the days of a tree the days of my people, and my chosen shall wear out the work of their hands.

⁶ A voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah requiting retribution to his enemies.

² When the word of Jehovah was to him in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year to his reigning.

¹³ For my people did two evils: they forsook me the fountain of living waters, to hew out for them wells, broken wells which will not hold water.

¹⁷ Wilt thou not do this to thyself? thou didst forsake Jehovah thy God in the time of thy being led in the way.

¹⁹ Thy wickedness shall correct thee, and thy turnings back shall convict thee: and know thou and see that evil and bitter thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, and that my fear was not to thee, says the Lord Jehovah of armies.

¹⁰ And also in all this her faithless sister Judah turned not back to me with all the heart, but in falsehood, says Jehovah.

² And thou swearest, Jehovah lives in truth, in judgment, and in justice; and the nations were blessed in him, and in him shall they praise.

⁷ The lion came up from his thicket, and destroying, he broke up the nations; he went forth from his place to set thy land for a desolation; thy cities shall be laid waste from none inhabiting. ⁸ For this, be ye girded with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the heat of the anger of Jehovah turned not back from us.

¹⁸ Thy way and thy doings did these things to thee; this thine evil, for it was bitter because it reached even to thy heart. ¹⁹ My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war.

¹⁹ My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war. ²⁰ Breaking upon breaking was called; for all the land was laid waste: suddenly were my tents laid waste, my curtains in a moment

²⁰ Breaking upon breaking was called; for all the land was laid waste: suddenly were my tents laid waste, my curtains in a moment

²⁰ Breaking upon breaking was called; for all the land was laid waste: suddenly were my tents laid waste, my curtains in a moment ²¹ How long shall I see the signal, shall I hear the voice of the trumpet?

²³ I saw the earth, and behold, emptiness and a void; and to the heavens, and no lights. ²⁴ I saw the mountains, and behold them trembling, and all the hills were shaken. ²⁵ I saw, and behold, no man, and all the birds of the heavens fled away. ²⁶ I saw, and behold, Carmel a desert, and all its cities were broken down from the face of Jehovah, from the face of the heat of his anger. ²⁷ For thus said Jehovah, All the earth shall be a desert; and I will not make a completion. ²⁸ For this, shall the earth mourn, and the heavens became dark from above: because I spake, I purposed, I lamented not, and I will not turn back from it ²⁹ From the voice of the horseman and the throwing of the bowman all the city fled; they went into thickets, and they went up upon rocks: every city was forsaken, and not a man dwelling in them.

³¹ For I heard. the voice as of her bringing forth, the anguish as of her bearing her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion, she will sigh, she will spread forth her hands, Wo now to me for my soul fainted for those slaying.

⁷ How shall I forgive to thee for this? thy sons forsook me, and they will swear by not God; and I will satisfy them, and they will commit adultery, and they will crowd themselves together to the house of the harlot

¹⁷ And it ate thy harvest and thy bread, that thy sons and thy daughters shall eat: it shall eat thy sheep and thine oxen: it shall eat thy vine and thy fig-trees: it shall break down thy fortified cities which thou trustedst in them, with the sword.

¹ Be strong, ye sons of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem, and in Tekoa strike the trumpet, and lift up a lifting up upon the house of the vineyard, for evil overhung from the north, and great breaking.

⁸ Be admonished, O Jerusalem, lest thy soul shall be alienated from thee; lest I shall set thee a desolation, a land not inhabited. ⁹ Thus said Jehovah of armies, Gleaning, they shall glean as a vine the remainder of Israel: turn back thy hand as he gathering grapes into wicker baskets.

¹² And their houses were turned to others, the fields and women together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the earth, says Jehovah.

²⁰ For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah; Behold my anger and my wrath was poured out to this place, upon man, and upon cattle, and upon the tree of the field, and upon the fruit of the land; and it burnt and it shall not be quenched.

³⁴ And I caused to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be for a desolation.

¹⁶ From Dan was heard the snorting of his horses; from the voice of the neighings of his strong ones all the land trembled: and they will come and cut up the land, and its fulness; the city and those dwelling in it

¹¹ And I gave Jerusalem for heaps and a dwelling of jackals; and the cities of Judah I will give a desolation from none inhabiting.

¹⁹ For a voice of lamentation was heard from Zion: How were we laid waste! we were greatly ashamed, for we forsook the land, and cast away our dwellings

²¹ For death came up into our windows, it came into our palaces to cut off the child from without, the young men from the streets. ²² Speak: Thus says Jehovah, The carcasses of men fell as dung upon the face of the field, as the handful after the reaper, and none gathering. ²³ Thus said Jehovah, The wise shall not boast in his wisdom, and the strong shall not boast in his strength; the rich shall not boast in his riches: ²⁴ But he boasting shall boast in this, to understand and know me, that I am Jehovah, doing mercy, judgment and justice in the earth: for in these I delighted, says Jehovah.

⁵ They are of turned work, as the palm tree, and they shall not speak; being lifted up they shall be lifted up, for they shall not mount up. Ye shall not be afraid of them, for they will not do evil, and also doing good is not with them.

¹⁸ For thus said Jehovah: Behold me slinging out those inhabiting the land at this once, and I pressed upon them so that they shall find.

⁴ How long shall the land mourn, and the herbage of every field dry up from the evil of those dwelling in it the earth perished, and the birds; for they said, He shall not see our last Part

¹⁰ Many shepherds destroyed my vineyard, they trod down my portion, they gave the portion of my desire for a desert of desolation. ¹¹ Setting her for a desolation, she mourned to me; all the land was set a desolation, for no man put upon his heart ¹² They spoiling came upon all the hills of the desert: for the sword of Jehovah consumed from the extremity of the land even to extremity of the land: no peace to all flesh. ¹³ They sowed wheat and they reaped thorns: they were wearied, they shall not profit; and they were ashamed of your gains from the burning of the anger of Jehovah.

³ And I reviewed over them four kinds, says Jehovah: the sword to kill, and dogs to tear in pieces, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to consume and destroy.

⁶ Thou didst reject me, says Jehovah; thou wilt go backward; and I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee; I was weary of lamenting.

¹³ Thy strength and thy treasures I will give for a spoil not for price, and in all thy sins and in all thy bounds.

⁴ Deaths of diseases shall they die; they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth, and by sword and by famine shall they be consumed, and their carcass was for food to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth. ⁵ For thus said Jehovah, Thou shalt not go in to the house of wailing, and thou shalt not go to lament and thou shalt not deplore for them, for I took away my peace from this people, says Jehovah; -kindness and mercies. ⁶ And the great and small died in this land: they shall not be buried, and they shall not lament for them, and none shall cut himself or make bald for them:

¹⁶ Behold me sending for many fishers, says Jehovah, and they fished them; and after this I will send for many hunters, and they hunted them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the rocks. ¹⁷ For mine eyes are upon all their ways, and they were not hid from my face, and their iniquity was not concealed from before mine eyes.

²¹ For this, give their sons to the famine, and pour them out upon the hands of the sword; and their wives shall be bereaved of offspring, and be widows; and their men shall be slain by death; their young men struck of the sword in battle.

¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah were defiled as the place of Tophet to all the houses which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the army of the heavens, and pouring out libations to other gods

¹¹ For thus said Jehovah to Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, reigning, instead of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place: He shall no more return there: ¹² For in the place where they carried him captive, there he shall die, and shall no more see this land. ¹³ Wo to him building his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment; by his neighbor he will work gratuitously, and he will give him not for his work; ¹⁴ Saying, I will build to me a house of extension, and airy upper chambers, and he rent to himself windows; and covered with cedar, and painted with red. ¹⁵ Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him? ¹⁶ He judged the judgment of the poor and the needy; then it was well: was this not knowing me? says Jehovah. ¹⁷ For thine eyes and thy heart not but for thy plunder and for guiltless blood to pour out, and for oppression and for running, to do. ¹⁸ For this, thus said Jehovah of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: They shall not lament for him: Alas, my brother! and, Alas, sister! they shall not lament for him, Alas, lord! and, Alas, the majesty! ¹⁹ He shall be buried the burial of an ass, dragged and cast from beyond the gate of Jerusalem.

²⁴ I live says Jehovah, for if Coniah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, shall be the seal upon my right hand, I will pluck thee off from thence. ²⁵ And I gave thee into the hand of those seeking thy soul, and into the hand of whom thou fearest their face, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and into the hand of the Chaldeans ²⁶ And I cast thee and thy mother who bare thee upon another land where ye were not born there, and there shall ye die. ²⁷ And upon the land where they lift up their soul to turn back there, there they shall not turn back. ²⁸ Is this man Coniah a despised broken earthen vessel? or a vessel no delight in it? wherefore they were cast out, he and his seed, and they were cast upon a land which they knew not ²⁹ O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah. ³⁰ Thus said Jehovah, Write ye this man destitute, a man shall not prosper in his days: for not a man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling yet in Judah.

⁸ And as the evil figs which shall not be eaten from being evil; for thus said Jehovah, So will I give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his chiefs, and the remainder of Jerusalem, those remaining in this land, and those dwelling in the land of Egypt: ⁹ And I gave them for maltreatment, and for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and for a parable, and for a derision, and for a curse in, all the places which I shall thrust them away there. ¹⁰ And I sent among them the sword, the famine, and the death, even to the consuming them from off the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.

³ From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, and even to this day, this the three and twentieth year, the word of Jehovah was to me, and I will speak to you, rising early and speaking, and ye heard not

³⁴ Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves, ye chiefs of the flocks; for your days for slaughter and your dispersions were filled up, and ye fell as a vessel of desire.

³⁶ A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and wailing of the chiefs of the flock, for Jehovah laid waste their pasture.

⁷ Alas! for that day is great from none being like it: and this the time of straits to Jacob and he shall be saved from it.

²⁹ And the Chaldeans warring against this city came, and they burnt this city in fire, and they burnt it and the houses which they burnt incense upon their roofs to Baal, and they poured out libations to other gods to irritate me.

²² Behold me commanding, says Jehovah; and I turned them back to this city, and they warred against it and took it, and burnt it in fire: and the cities of Judah will I give to desolation from none inhabiting.

²⁹ And to Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say, Thus said Jehovah, Thou didst burn this roll, saying, Wherefore didst thou write upon it, saying, Coining, the king of Babel shall come and destroy this land, and cause to cease from it man and cattle?

² In the eleventh year to Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth to the month, the city was broken.

⁶ And the king of Babel will slaughter the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: and all the nobles of Judah the king of Babel slaughtered. ⁷ And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and he will bind him with fetters of brass to bring him to Babel.

¹⁰ And that the day to the Lord Jehovah of armies, a day of vengeance to be avenged of his adversaries: and the sword consumed and was satiated, and drunk their blood to the full; for a sacrifice to the Lord Jehovah of armies in the land of the north by the river Phrath.

¹¹ Moab was tranquil from his youth, and he rested upon his lees, he was not poured out from vessel to vessel, and he went not into captivity: for this his taste stood in him, and his breath was not changed.

⁴¹ Kerioth was taken, and the fastnesses were seized, and the heart of the strong ones of Moab in that day was as the heart of a woman being distressed.

⁸ Jerusalem sinned a sin; for this she was for a removing: all honoring her despised her, for they saw her nakedness: also she sighed, and she will turn away behind.

¹⁴ The yoke of my transgressions was bound by his hand: they will be woven together, they came up upon my neck: he caused my strength to fail, Jehovah gave me into the hands; I shall not be able to rise up.

¹⁸ Jehovah he is just: for I embittered his mouth: hear now, all ye peoples, and see my pain: my virgins and my chosen ones went into captivity.

²¹ The youth and old man lay down upon the earth of the streets; my virgins and my young men fell by the sword; thou didst slay in the day of thine anger; thou didst slay, thou didst not pity.

¹³ From the sins of her prophets the iniquities of her priests shedding the blood of the just in her midst, ¹⁴ The blind were shaken in the streets, they were stained with blood, so that they shall not be able to touch upon their garments. ¹⁵ Remove the unclean one, call to them; remove, remove, ye shall not touch: for they were laid waste; they were shaken, say ye, among the nations: they shall not add to sojourn.

¹⁶ The crown of our head fell: wo! now to us, for we sinned. ¹⁷ For this our heart was languid; for this our eyes were darkened.

³ The word of Jehovah being, was to Jehezhel, son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldean by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah will be there upon him.

²⁰ And in the just turning back from his justice and doing evil, and I gave a stumbling-block before his face, he shall die: for thou didst not admonish him, in his sins he shall die, and his justice shall not be remembered which he did; and his blood will I seek from thy hand.

⁶ An end came, the end came: it awaked against thee; behold, it came. ⁷ The circle came to thee, thou inhabiting the land: the time came, the day of consternation drew near, and not the shout of joy of the mountains.

⁷ The circle came to thee, thou inhabiting the land: the time came, the day of consternation drew near, and not the shout of joy of the mountains.

¹⁰ Behold the day, behold, it came: the circle shall go forth; the rod blossomed, pride flourished.

¹² The time came, the day drew near: he buying shall not rejoice, and he selling, shall not mourn: for burning upon all her multitude.

¹⁹ They will cast their silver into the streets, and their gold shall be for uncleanness: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the outpouring of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, and they shall not fill their bowels: for it was the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

²¹ And I gave it into the hands of strangers for plunder, and to the unjust of the earth for a spoil; and they profaned it

³ And he sent forth the likeness of a hand, and he took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and between the heavens, and it brought me to Jerusalem in the visions of God, to the door of the gate within, looking to the north; where was there the seat of the image of jealousy possessing ⁴ And behold there the glory of the God of Israel as the vision which I saw in the valley. ⁵ And he said to me, Son of man, lift up now thine eyes the way of the north. And I lifter up mine eyes the way of the north, and behold, from the north at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entrance.

¹² And he said to me, Sawest, thou son of man, what the old men of the house of Israel are doing in darkness, a man in the chambers of his images? for they are saying, Jehovah sees us not; Jehovah forsook the earth.

⁹ And he will say to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah, great exceedingly, and the land will be filled with blood and the city being filled with wresting: for they said, Jehovah forsook the land, and Jehovah saw not

²³ For this, say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I caused this parable to cease, and they shall no more use it for a parable in Israel; but speak to them: The days drew near, and the word of every vision.

³ Son of man, these men brought up their blocks upon their heart, and they gave the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face: shall I be sought out, shall I be sought oat for them? ⁴ For this, speak to them and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: A man, a man of the house of Israel who shall bring up his blocks upon his heart, and shall set up the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and coming to the prophet, I Jehovah answered to him coming according to the multitude of his blocks; ⁵ So that taking the house of Israel in their heart, which were all of them separated from me by their blocks. ⁶ For this, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn ye back, and turn away from your blocks; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. ⁷ For a man, a man of the house of Israel, and of the stranger who shall sojourn in Israel, and he shall separate himself from after me, and shall bring up his blocks into his heart, and shall set the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and coming to the prophet to seek out to him for me; I Jehovah will answer to him for me:

¹³ Son of man, if a land shall sin against me to cover a transgression, and I stretched forth my hands upon it, and I broke to it the staff of bread, and sent famine upon it, and I cut off from it man and cattle: ¹⁴ And were these three men in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they by their justice shall deliver their souls, says the Lord Jehovah. ¹⁵ If I shall cause the evil beast to pass through upon the land, and it was bereaved, and there was desolation from not passing through from the face of the beast: ¹⁶ These three men in its midst, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if sons and if daughters they shall deliver; they alone shall be delivered, and the land shall be a desolation. ¹⁷ Or I shall bring a sword upon that land, and I said, Sword, thou shalt pass through the land; and I cut off from it man and cattle. ¹⁸ And these three men in its midst, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, they shall not deliver sons and daughters, for they alone shall be delivered. ¹⁹ Or I shall send death to that land, and I poured out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and cattle ²⁰ And Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if son if daughter they shall deliver; they by their justice shall deliver their soul. ²¹ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Also if I sent my four evil judgments, sword and famine, and the evil beast, and death to Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and cattle?

⁶ For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: As the tree of the vine upon the tree of the forest which I gave it to the fire for consuming, thus I gave the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ⁷ And I gave my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, and the fire shall consume them; and they knew that I am Jehovah in my setting my face against them. ⁸ And I gave the land a desolation, because they transgressed a transgression, says the Lord Jehovah.

³⁸ And I judged thee with judgments of those committing adultery and pouring out blood; and I gave thee blood of wrath and jealousy.

¹² Cry and wail, son of man, for it was upon my people, it was upon all the princes of Israel: terrors for the sword were upon my people: for this, strike upon thy thigh.

²⁵ A conspiracy of her prophets in her midst as a roaring lion rending the prey; they consumed the soul; they will take the wealth and the precious thing; they multiplied her widows in her midst ²⁶ Her priests did violence to my law, and they will profane my holy place: between the holy to the profane they separated not, and they did not make known between the unclean to the clean, and from my Sabbath they hid their eyes, and I shall be profaned in the midst of them. ²⁷ Her chiefs in her midst as wolves rending the prey, to pour out blood, to destroy souls, for the sake of plundering plunder. ²⁸ And her prophets plastered plaster upon them, seeing vanity, and divining to them falsehood, saying Thus said the Lord Jehovah; and Jehovah spoke not ²⁹ The people of the land oppressed with violence and stripped off robbery, and oppressed the poor and needy, and did violence to the stranger without judgment ³⁰ And I sought from them a man to wall in the wall, and to stand in the breach before my face for the land, not to destroy it: and I found not ³¹ I will pour out my wrath upon them; I consumed them in the fire of mine anger: I gave their way upon their head, says the Lord Jehovah.

³¹ I will pour out my wrath upon them; I consumed them in the fire of mine anger: I gave their way upon their head, says the Lord Jehovah.

³ For the day is near, the day of Jehovah is near, the day of a cloud; it shall be the time of the nations.

²⁷ Thus shalt thou say to them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I live if not they who are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and he who is upon the face of the field I gave him to the beast to eat him, and they who are in the fastnesses and in caves shall die by death. ²⁸ And I gave the land a desolation and an amazement, and I caused the pride of her strength to cease; and the mountains of Israel were desolate from none passing through. ²⁹ And they shall know that I am Jehovah in my giving the land a desolation and an astonishment for all their abominations which they did.

⁵ For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: If not in the fire of my jealousy I spake against the rest of the nations and against all Edom who gave my land to them for a possession with joy of all the heart, with contempt of soul for casting it out for plunder. ⁶ For this, prophesy against the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, and to the torrents and to the valleys, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me, in my jealousy and in my wrath did I speak because ye bore the shame of the nations.

¹⁷ And thou, son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Say to the bird of every wing and to all the beasts of the field, Gather yourselves together, and come; assemble yourselves from round about to my sacrifice which I sacrifice to you, a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel; and ye ate flesh and drank blood. ¹⁸ The flesh of the strong shall ye eat, and the blood of the princes of the earth shall ye drink, rams, lambs and he goats, bullocks being fattened, of Bashan all of them. ¹⁹ And ye ate fat to satiety, and ye drank blood to drunkenness, from my sacrifice which I sacrificed for you. ²⁰ And ye were satiated at my table with horse and chariot, with the strong, and every man of war, says the Lord Jehovah.

¹² Because they will serve them before their blocks, and they were to the house of Israel for a stumbling block of iniquity; for this I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Jehovah, and they bare their iniquity.

⁵ We sinned, and we did iniquity, and were evil, and rebelled, and departing from thy commands and from thy judgments. ⁶ And we heard not to thy servants the prophets who spake in thy name to our kings and our chiefs and our fathers, and to all the people of the earth. ⁷ To thee, O Jehovah, justice, and to us shame of face, as this day to the men of Judah, and to those dwelling in Jerusalem, and to all Israel being near and being far off, in all the lands where thou didst thrust them there in their transgression which they transgressed against thee. ⁸ O Jehovah, to us shame of face, to our kings, to our chiefs, and to our fathers, that we sinned against thee. ⁹ To Jehovah our God compassion and forgivenesses, for we rebelled against him. ¹⁰ We heard not to the voice of Jehovah our God to go in his laws which he gave before us in the hand of his servants the prophets ¹¹ And all Israel passed by thy Laws, and departing not to hear to thy voice; and the curse will be poured upon us, and the oath which was written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we sinned against him. ¹² And he will set up his words which he spake against us, and against our judges who judged us to bring against us a great evil: which was not done under all the heavens according to what was done in Jerusalem. ¹³ As that written in the law of Moses all this evil came upon us, and we supplicated not the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities and to understand in thy truth. ¹⁴ And Jehovah will watch for evil, and will bring it upon us: for Jehovah our God is just upon all his works which he did: and we heard not to his voice. ¹⁵ And now, O Jehovah our God, who brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and thou wilt make to thee a name as this day; we sinned, we did evil. ¹⁶ O Jehovah, according to all thy justice, now shall thine anger be turned back, and thy wrath from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people for a reproach to all those round about us. ¹⁷ And now, O our God, hear to the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy desolated holy place, for sake of Jehovah. ¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which thy name was called upon it: for not for our justice do we cause our supplications to fall before thee, but for thy many compassions. ¹⁹ O Jehovah hear; O Jehovah forgive; O Jehovah, attend and do; thou wilt not delay for thy sake, O my God: for thy name was called upon thy city and upon thy people.

¹ The word of Jehovah which was to Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel.

³ For this the land shall mourn, and every one in it languished with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heavens; and also the fish of the sea shall be taken away.

¹⁵ If thou Israel commit fornication Judah shall not transgress; and ye shall not come to Gilgal, and ye shall not go up to the house of vanity, and ye shall not swear, Jehovah lives.

¹⁵ If thou Israel commit fornication Judah shall not transgress; and ye shall not come to Gilgal, and ye shall not go up to the house of vanity, and ye shall not swear, Jehovah lives. ¹⁶ For as a stubborn heifer Israel was stubborn: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

⁸ Strike the horn upon the hill, and the trumpet upon the height: make a loud noise at the house of vanity after thee, O Benjamin.

⁷ They were all hot as a furnace, and they consumed their judges; all their kings fell: none among them calling to me.

¹ The trumpet to thy mouth: as an eagle upon the house of Jehovah, because they passed by my covenant and they transgressed against my laws.

⁶ For behold, they went from destruction: Egypt shall gather them together; Memphis shall bury them: the desire for their silver, the prickly weed shall possess them: the thorn in their tents.

⁵ For the calves of the house of vanity they shall fear dwelling in Shomeron: for his people mourned over it, and his priests will exult over it, for its glory, for it was removed from it

⁷ And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.

⁷ Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress. ⁸ And Ephraim will say, Surely I became rich, I found to me wealth: all my labors shall not be found to me iniquity which was sin.

³ Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.

⁸ Ephraim: What to me yet to images? I humbled, and I will regard him: I as the green cypress From me thy fruit was found.

⁵ Awake, ye intoxicated, and weep; and wail, all ye drinking wine, on account of the new wine, for it was cut off from your mouth.

¹³ Be ye girded and lament, ye priests: wail, ye, serving the altar: come in, pass the night in sackcloth, ye serving God: for the gift and the libation were withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁵ Alas! for the day: for the day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

¹ Clang ye the trumpet in Zion, shout in my holy mountain: all the inhabitants of the land shall be moved, for the day of Jehovah is coming, for it is near.

¹ Clang ye the trumpet in Zion, shout in my holy mountain: all the inhabitants of the land shall be moved, for the day of Jehovah is coming, for it is near. ² A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.

² A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.

¹¹ And Jehovah gave his voice before the face of his strength: for exceedingly great his camp, and strong he doing his word: for great the day of Jehovah, and exceedingly terrible; and who shall endure it?

³¹ The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and the terrible day of Jehovah.

¹⁶ And Jehovah shall cry out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he shall give his voice; and the heavens and the earth trembled: and Jehovah the refuge to his people, and the fortress to the sons of Israel.

⁶ If the trumpet shall be struck in the city and the people not be terrified? if evil shall be in the city and Jehovah did not?

¹⁰ And they knew not to do the straight, says Jehovah, storing up violence and oppression in their palaces.

¹⁰ And I sent death among you in the way of Egypt: and I slew your young men with the sword, with the captivity of your horses; and I will bring up your camps with fire and in your anger, and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.

¹¹ For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine.

¹⁸ Wo! to you longing for the day of Jehovah; for what this to you? The day of Jehovah this is darkness and not light ¹⁹ According as a man will flee from the face of the lion and the bear struck upon him, and he came into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall, and the serpent bit him. ²⁰ Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and dark and no shining to it?

²⁶ Ye lifted up the tent of your king and the statue of your images, the star of your God which he made for you.

¹ Wo! to those living at ease in Zion, and trusting in the mountain of Shomeron, being distinguished the chief of the nations, and to them the house of Israel came.

¹⁰ And his friend lifted him up, and he burning him, and bringing forth the bones out of the house, and he said to him by the sides of the house: Yet with thee? And he said, No more. And he said, Silence: for not to make mention of the name of Jehovah.

² And he will say, Amos, what seest thou? And saying, A basket of fruit. And Jehovah will say to me: The end came upon my people Israel; I will no more add to pass by to him. ³ The songs of the temple wailed in that day, says the Lord Jehovah; many a corpse in every place being cast forth: silence.

¹ I saw Jehovah standing upon the altar: and he will say, Strike the crown, and the thresholds shall tremble: and dash them in pieces upon the head of them all; and the last of them I will slay with the sword: the fleeing to them shall not flee, and he escaping to them shall not escape. ² If they shall break through into hades, from thence shall my hand take them; and if they shall go up to the heavens, from thence I will bring them down. ³ And if they shall hide in the head of Carmel, from thence will I search and take them; and if they shall be concealed from before mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, from thence I will command the serpent, and he bit them.

⁶ How were they of Esau sought out! His hidden things were sought out

⁹ Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness. ¹⁰ Building Zion with bloods and Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹ Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us. ¹² For this, on account of you Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of the forest.

¹² For this, on account of you Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of the forest.

¹¹ And I cut off the cities of thy land, and I battled down all thy fortresses: ¹² And I cut off sorceries from thy hand, and they practicing magic shall not be to thee. ¹³ And I cut off thy carved images and thy statues from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands.

¹³ And I cut off thy carved images and thy statues from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands. ¹⁴ And I tore up thine images from the midst of thee, and I destroyed thy cities.

¹⁵ Thou shalt sow and thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olive and thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and new wine, and thou shalt not drink wine.

¹³ And the land was for a desolation upon its inhabitants from the fruit of their doings.

⁶ For behold me raising up the Chaldeans, the nation bitter and hasty, going upon the wide places of the land to possess the dwelling not to him. ⁷ He terrible and dreadful: his judgment and his elevation shall come forth from himself, ⁸ And his horses were swift above panthers, and they were sharp above the wolves of the evening: and his horsemen were spread, and his horsemen shall come from far off; they shall fly as the eagle hastening to eat ⁹ Wholly for violence shall he come: the host of their faces forwards, and he shall gather a captivity as the sand. ¹⁰ And he shall scoff at kings, and princes a derision to him: at every fortress he shall deride, and he shall heap up dust and take it

²⁰ And Jehovah in his holy temple: be silent all the earth before his face.

⁶ He stood, and he will measure the earth: he saw, and he will cause the nations to tremble, and the mountains of eternity will be dispersed, the perpetual hills bowed down: the goings everlasting to him.

² Taking away, I will take away all from off the face of the earth, says Jehovah ³ I will take away man and cattle; I will take away the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with. the unjust; and I cut off man from the face of the earth, says Jehovah.

⁷ Be silent from the face of the Lord Jehovah: for the day of Jehovah is near, for Jehovah prepared a swam he consecrated his called ones.

⁹ And I reviewed upon every one leaping upon the threshold in that day, filling their lords' houses with violence and deceit ¹⁰ And it was in that day, says Jehovah, a voice of a cry from the gate of fishes, and a wailing from the second, and a great breaking from the hills. ¹¹ Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan were destroyed; all lifting up silver were cut off.

¹⁴ The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hastening greatly, the voice of the day of Jehovah: the strong one cried there bitterly. ¹⁵ A day of wrath, that day a day of straits and distress, a day of storm and desolation, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom,

¹⁸ Also their silver also their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; and all the land shall be consumed by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make a completion even sudden of all dwelling in the land.

² Before the law bring forth, as the chaff the day passing away before the burning of the anger of Jehovah shall not come upon you, before the day of the anger of Jehovah shall not come upon you.

⁸ For this, wait for me, says Jehovah, to the day of my rising up for a testimony: for my judgment is to assemble the nations for my gathering the kingdoms to pour upon them my wrath, all the burning of mine anger: for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be devoured.

¹³ Be silent, all flesh, from the face of Jehovah: for he was raised from the habitation of his holiness.

² Wail, O cypress, for the cedar fell; for the powerful ones were destroyed: wail, ye oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage went down. ³ A voice of wailing of the shepherds, for their greatness was destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of Jordan was destroyed.

² And it was in that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will cut off the names of the images from the land, and they shall be remembered no more: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

¹⁴ Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies? ¹⁵ And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.

¹ For behold, the day coming, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all doing injustice were straw: and the day coming burnt them, said Jehovah of armies, that it shall not leave to them root and branch.

⁵ Behold, I send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the day of Jehovah, great and terrible:

²⁴ None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

¹⁴ Let them go: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

²⁶ For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

⁴ And again, he sent other servants, saying, Say to the called: Behold, I have prepared my supper; my bulls and stall-fed killed, and all prepared: come to the nuptials.

³⁹ For I say to you, Ye should not see me from henceforth, till ye should say, Praised be he coming in the name of the Lord.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened. ²⁰ And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be? ²¹ So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God.

¹⁶ And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and called many; ¹⁷ And he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to the called, Come; for all things are already prepared.

²² And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried; ²³ And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

²² For these are the days of vengeance, that all things having been written, should be completed. ²³ And woe to them having in the womb, and to them giving suck, in those days! for there shall be great necessity upon the land, and anger upon this people.

¹⁶ And he said to those selling doves, Take away these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.

⁴⁰ And they being with him of the Pharisees heard these things, and said to him, ⁴¹ We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.

²⁰ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and distinguished day of the Lord come:

¹⁹ And her lords having seen that the hope of their gain went out, taking Paul and Silas, they drew to the assembly to the rulers,

⁵ And according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself anger in the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God;

¹¹ There is none understanding, there is none seeking God.

¹⁹ And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God.

²⁰ Surely, O man, who art thou replying against God? Shall the formation say to him having formed, Why hest thou made me so

⁷ What then What Israel seeks for, this be attained not; but the selection attained, and the rest were hardened.

²⁵ For I will not ye should not know, brethren, this mystery, lest ye be wise with yourselves; for hardness from part has been to Israel, till the filling up of the nations come in.

¹¹ For it has been written, I live, says the Lord, for to me shall every knee bend, and every tongue acknowledge to God.

²² Do we emulate the Lord? are we stronger than he?

⁴ In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them. ⁵ Let your fitness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

¹² Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light:

¹⁶ For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first:

¹⁶ All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice:

³ How shall we escape, having neglected such great salvation; which at the beginning taken to be spoken by the Lord, by them having heard was made firm to us;

³⁸ And the just one shall live by faith; but if he draw down, my soul is not contented in him. ³⁹ And we are not of drawing down to perdition; but of faith to the acquisition of the soul.

²⁶ Whose voice then shook the earth: and now he has proclaimed, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.

¹ Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you.

⁹ Groan not against one another, brethren, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.

⁹ For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

¹⁹ And we have the prophetic word more firm; which holding to, ye do well, as to a light shining in a dusty place, even till the day shine through, and the morning star spring up in your hearts:

³ And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

¹⁸ For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error. ¹⁹ Promising them liberty, they being servants of corruption: for by whom any is conquered, by him has he been made to serve. ²⁰ For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first. ²¹ For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd to them. ²² And that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog having turned back to his own vomit; and the sow having been washed to the rolling of the mire.

⁴ And saying, Where is the solemn promise of his presence? for from the time the fathers were set to sleep, so continue all things from the beginning of creation.

⁷ And now the heavens and the earth, by the same word are stored up, being kept for fire to the day of judgment and of the perdition of irreligious men.

¹⁰ And the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a loud noise, and the elements, suffering from excessive heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burned down. ¹¹ Therefore all these being dissolved, of what race ought ye to be in holy turning round and devotion, ¹² Expecting and seeking earnestly the presence of the day of God, during which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements going to be burned are melted away?

¹¹ And he hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and knows not where he goes forward, for darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee, for thou hast there them holding the teaching of Balsam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

²³ And her children will I kill in death; and all the churches shall know that I am he searching the reins and hearts: and I will give to you each according to our works.

¹⁷ For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the rich, and the captains of thousands, and the powerful, and every servant, and every one free, hid themselves in caves and in rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him sitting upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷ For the great day of his wrath has come; and who can stand?

¹⁷ For the great day of his wrath has come; and who can stand?

¹¹ And the wholesale merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for their cargo will none purchase more: ¹² The cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all fir wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of precious wood, and of iron, and brass, and marble, ¹³ And cinnamon, and perfumes, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and the finest wheat flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and of souls of men, ¹⁴ And the harvest fruit of the eager desire of thy soul departed from thee, and all fat and brilliant things departed from thee, and thou shouldest find them no more. ¹⁵ The wholesale merchants of these things, having been rich from her, shall stand from far off for fear of her torture, weeping and mourning, ¹⁶ And saying, Woe, woe, the great city, surrounded with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! for in one hour was so great riches laid waste. ¹⁷ And every pilot, and all the crowd upon ships, and the sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood from far off, ¹⁸ And cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What like the great city!

¹⁷ And I saw one angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds flying in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves to the supper of the great God; ¹⁸ That ye might eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains of thousands, and the flesh of the strong, and the flesh of horses, and of them sitting upon them, and the flesh of all, free and servants, and of small and great.