Jeremiah 15 Cross References - LXX2012

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. ² And it shall be, if they say to you, Whither shall we go forth? then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord; As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity. ³ And I will punish them with four kinds [of death], says the Lord, the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy. ⁴ And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem. ⁵ Who will spare you, O Jerusalem? and who will fear for you? or who will turn back [to ask] for your welfare? ⁶ You have turned away from me, says the Lord, you will go back: therefore I will stretch out my hand, and will destroy you, and will no more spare them. ⁷ And I will completely scatter them; in the gates of my people they are bereaved of children: they have destroyed my people because of their iniquities. ⁸ Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, [even] distress at noon-day: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety. ⁹ She that bore seven is spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced: I will give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies. ¹⁰ Woe is me, [my] mother! you have 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. ¹¹ Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before you in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for [their] good against the enemy. ¹² Will iron be known? whereas your strength is a brazen covering. ¹³ Yes, I will give your treasures for a spoil as a recompence, because of all your sins and [that] in all your borders. ¹⁴ And I will enslave you to your enemies round about, in a land which you have not known; for a fire has been kindled out of my wrath; it shall burn upon you. ¹⁵ O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for your sake, from those who set at nothing your words; ¹⁶ consume them; and your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty. ¹⁷ I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of your 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. ¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord, If you will return, then will I restore you, and you shall stand before my face: and if you will bring forth the precious from the worthless, you shall be as my mouth: and they shall return to you; but you shall not return to them. ²⁰ And I will make you to this people as a strong brazen wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you; ²¹ for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you out of the hand of wicked [men]; and I will ransom you out of the hand of pestilent [men].

²⁷ And Abraam rose up early to go to the place, where he had stood before the Lord.

¹¹ And Moses prayed before the Lord God, and said, Therefore, O Lord, are you very angry with your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great strength, and with your high arm? ¹² [Take heed] lest at any time the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from off the earth; cease from your wrathful anger, and be merciful to the sin of your people, ¹³ remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob your servants, to whom you have sworn by yourself, and have spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which you spoke of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever. ¹⁴ And the Lord was prevailed upon to preserve his people.

¹³ And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for you have brought up this people from them by your might. ¹⁴ Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that you are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen [by them] face to face, and your cloud rests upon them, and you go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire. ¹⁵ And [if] you shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard your name shall speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ And now, O Lord, let your strength be exalted, as you spoke, saying, ¹⁸ The Lord [is] longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁹ Forgive this people their sin according to your great mercy, as you were favourable to them from Egypt until now. ²⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to your word.

⁹ My heart [inclines] to the orders given in Israel; you⌃ that are willing among the people, bless the Lord.

⁹ And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it up as a whole burnt offering with all the people to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him.

²³ And far be it from me to sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will serve the Lord, and show you the good and the right way.

²⁰ And the Lord was angry with the whole seed of Israel, and troubled them, and gave them into the hand of them that spoiled them, until he cast them out of his presence.

²³ They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in many waters;

³⁵ An understanding servant is acceptable to a king; and by his good behavior he removes disgrace.

¹⁵ And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim. ¹⁶ Therefore pray not you for this people, and intercede not for them to be pitied, yes, pray not, and approach me not for them: for I will not listen [to you].

¹⁴ And you, pray not for this people, and intercede not for them in supplication and prayer: for I will not hear in the day in which they call upon me, in the day of their affliction.

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

¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord, If you will return, then will I restore you, and you shall stand before my face: and if you will bring forth the precious from the worthless, you shall be as my mouth: and they shall return to you; but you shall not return to them.

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 your face, to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

³⁹ therefore, behold, I [will] seize, and dash down you and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.

¹⁴ And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noe, and Daniel, and Job, they [alone] should be delivered by their righteousness, says the Lord.

²⁰ and should Noe, and Daniel, and Job, be in the midst of it, [as] I live, says the Lord, there shall be left [them] neither sons nor daughters; [only] they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls. ²¹ Thus says the Lord, And if I even send upon Jerusalem my four sore judgments, sword, and famine, and evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it man and beast;

³ The Lord rebuke you, O Devil, even the Lord that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: behold! is not this as a brand plucked from the fire?

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,

¹² for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.

⁹ And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an [object of] hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out. ¹⁰ And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until they are consumed from off the land which I gave them.

¹¹ And Michaeas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan heard all the words of the Lord, out of the book.

² A fourth part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfillment of the days of the siege: and you shall take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it: and a fourth part you shall cut with a sword round about it: and a fourth part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

¹² A fourth part of you shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of you shall be consumed in the midst of you with famine: and [as for another] fourth part of you, I will scatter them to every wind; and a fourth part of you shall fall by sword round about you, and I will draw out a sword after them.

²¹ Thus says the Lord, And if I even send upon Jerusalem my four sore judgments, sword, and famine, and evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it man and beast;

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.

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.

⁹ And I said, I will not tend you: that which dies, let it die; and that which falls off, let it fall off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of his neighbor.

¹⁶ then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and [disease] that consumes your life; and you⌃ shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.

²² And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.

²⁵ And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of [my] covenant, and you⌃ shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and you⌃ shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.

²⁶ And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.

²³ And the servants of the king of Syria, even they said, The God of Israel [is] a God of mountains, and not a God of valleys; therefore has he prevailed against us: but if we should fight against them in the plain, verily we shall prevail against them. ²⁴ And do you this thing: Send away the kings, each one to his place, and set princes in their stead.

³⁵ And they went to bury her; but they found nothing of her but the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. ³⁶ And they returned and told him. And he said, [It is] the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of Eliu the Thesbite, saying, In the portion of Jezrael shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezabel. ³⁷ And the carcass of Jezabel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezrael, so that they shall not say, [This is] Jezabel.

⁶ And he shall leave [them] together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.

⁹ All you⌃ beasts of the field, come, devour, all you⌃ beasts of the forest. ¹⁰ See how they are all blinded: they have not known; [they are] dumb dogs [that] will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.

³³ And the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to drive [them] away.

³³ And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.

²⁵ The Lord give you up for slaughter before your enemies: you shall go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and you shall be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁶⁴ And the Lord your God shall scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and you shall there serve other gods, wood and stone, which you have not known, nor your fathers.

² And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

¹¹ Forasmuch as Manasses the king of Juda has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did, who lived before [him], and has led Juda also into sin by their idols, ¹² [it shall] not [be] so. Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I bring calamities upon Jerusalem and Juda, so that both the ears of every one that hears shall tingle. ¹³ And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measure of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Achaab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a jar is wiped, and turned upside down in the wiping.

¹⁶ Moreover Manasses shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem [with it] from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Juda to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord. ¹⁷ And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

²⁶ Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great anger, wherewith he was angry in his anger against Juda, because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses provoked him. ²⁷ And the Lord said, I will also remove Juda from my presence, as I removed Israel, and will reject this city which I have chosen [even] Jerusalem, and the house [of] which I said, My name shall be there.

³ Moreover it was the purpose of the Lord concerning Juda, to remove them from his presence, because of the sins of Manasses, according to all that he did. ⁴ Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon [it].

¹⁶ and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.

⁹ And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an [object of] hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out.

¹⁸ As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha and they that sojourned in her, says the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.

¹⁷ I sent them not.

⁸ HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a [great] sin; therefore has she come into tribulation, all that used to honor her have afflicted her, for they have seen her shame: yes, she herself groaned, and turned backward.

⁴⁶ Thus says the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.

⁷ And Moses went forth to meet his father-in-law, and did him reverence, and kissed him, and they embraced each other, and he brought them into the tent.

¹⁵ And they turned aside there, and went into the house of the young man, the Levite, [even] into the house of Michaias, and asked him how he was.

⁴ And they shall ask you how you do, and shall give you two presents of bread, and you shall receive them of their hand.

²² [And David deposited his burden in the hand of a keeper, and ran to the line, and went and asked his brethren how they Were. ]

⁵ And David sent ten young men, and he said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and ask him in my name how he is.

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

¹⁹ Therefore these things are against you; who shall sympathize with you in your grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort you?

¹⁴ And I will scatter them a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together: I will not have compassion, says the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity [to save them] from destruction.

⁵ Thus says 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.

⁷ And after this, thus says the Lord; I will give Sedekias king of Juda, and his servants, and the people that is left in this city from the pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies, that seek their lives: and they shall cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword: I will not spare them, and I will not have compassion upon them.

¹² LAMED. All you⌃ 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. ¹⁵ SAMECH. The Lord has cut off all my strong men from the midst of me: he has summoned against me a time for crushing my choice men: the Lord has trodden a wine-press for the virgin daughter of Juda: for these things I weep. 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.

¹⁵ SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; 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? ¹⁶ AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: 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.

⁷ And it shall be [that] every one that sees you shall go down from you, and shall say, Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?

⁴ Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: you⌃ have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

¹³ Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, [and] yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.

¹⁶ And I will speak to them in judgment, concerning all their iniquity, [forasmuch] as they have forsaken me, and sacrificed to strange gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

¹³ For my people has committed two [faults], and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

¹⁷ Has not your forsaking me brought these things upon you? says the Lord your God.

¹⁹ Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you: know then, and see, that your forsaking me [has been] bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.

¹¹ And I allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I kept [it] in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.

¹⁹ Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon this people, [even] the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded my words, and they have rejected my law.

²⁴ But they listened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward;

⁵ Therefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?

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 can’t bear [up].

²⁶ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²⁷ Son of man, behold, the provoking house of Israel boldly say, The vision which this man sees is for many days, and he prophesies for times afar off. ²⁸ Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord; Henceforth none of my words shall linger, which I shall speak: I will speak and do, says the Lord.

⁹ And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and will stretch out my hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

⁷ therefore I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy you from among the peoples, and I will completely cut you off from out of the countries: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶ For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

⁷ and his people [shall] cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.

¹⁴ I will deliver [them] out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death: where is your penalty, O death? O Hades, where is your sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes.

³ Repent, O Lord, for this. And this shall not be, says the Lord. ⁴ Thus has the Lord showed me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord's portion. ⁵ Then I said, O Lord, cease, I pray you: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number. Repent, O Lord, for this. ⁶ This also shall not be, says the Lord. ⁷ Thus the Lord showed me; and behold, he stood upon a wall of adamant, and in his hand [was] an adamant. ⁸ And the Lord said to me, What see you, Amos? And I said, An adamant. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I appoint an adamant in the midst of my people Israel: I will not pass by them any more.

⁴ And I will stretch out mine hand upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will remove the names of Baal out of this place, and the names of the priests;

¹¹ But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

¹⁸ Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.

³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes wasting away shall look for them: your hand shall have no strength.

⁴¹ You shall beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be [your], for they shall depart into captivity.

⁵³ And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, all that he has given you, in your straitness and your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you. ⁵⁴ He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him; ⁵⁵ so as [not] to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in your straitness, and in your affliction, with which your enemies shall afflict you in all your cities. ⁵⁶ And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,

⁴ Not so the ungodly; —not so: but rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth.

¹³ But the people turned not until they were struck, and they sought not the Lord.

¹⁶ and you shall winnow [them], and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

¹¹ At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, [There is] a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of my people is not to purity, nor to holiness. ¹² [But] a spirit of full vengeance shall come upon me; and now I declare my judgments against them.

³ O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

⁴ For thus says the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again? ⁵ Therefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?

²¹ For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.

²¹ Therefore do you 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.

² Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; You⌃ have seen all the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Juda; and, behold, they are desolate without inhabitants,

²¹ Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom you⌃ have left, shall fall by the sword.

²⁵ And you, son of man, [shall it] not [be] in the day when I take their strength from them, the pride of their boasting, the desires of their eyes, and the pride of their soul, their sons and their daughters,

¹² For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: therefore also there is woe to them, [though] my flesh is of them. ¹³ Ephraim, [even] as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yes, Ephraim [was ready] to bring out his children to slaughter. ¹⁴ Give them, O Lord: what will you give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts. ¹⁵ All their wickedness is in Galgal: for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their practices, I will cast them out of my house, I will not love them any more: all their princes are disobedient. ¹⁶ Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit: therefore even if they should beget [children], I will kill the desired [fruit] of their womb. ¹⁷ God shall reject them, because they have not listened to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

¹⁰ I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and killed your young men with the sword, together with your horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did you⌃ return to me, says the Lord. ¹¹ I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and you⌃ became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did you⌃ return to me, says the Lord. ¹² Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to you, prepare to call on your God, O Israel.

⁴ And be you⌃ not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn you⌃ from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they listened not, and attended not to listen to me, says the Lord.

¹⁶ Remind you⌃ the nations; behold, they are come: proclaim [it] in Jerusalem, that bands are approaching from a land afar off, and have uttered their voice against the cities of Juda.

⁶ Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck 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.

⁴ Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail. ⁵ Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.

⁵ They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land; for the barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has waxed feeble.

⁹ But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,

² And it shall be, if they say to you, Whither shall we go forth? then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord; As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity. ³ And I will punish them with four kinds [of death], says the Lord, the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.

¹ And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, [that] Jeremias sat weeping, and lamented [with] this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said, ALEPH. How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! she is become as a widow: she that was magnified among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, has become tributary.

¹⁰ JOD. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁹ And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord God, [that] the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day: ¹⁰ and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved [friend], and those with them as a day of grief.

²⁵ And if you should lend money to your poor brother who is by you, you shall not be hard upon him you shall not exact usury of him.

³⁶ You shall not receive from him interest, nor increase: and you shall fear your God: I [am] the Lord: and your brother shall live with you.

¹⁹ You shall not lend to your brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of any thing which you may lend out. ²⁰ You may lend on usury to a stranger, but to your brother you shall not lend on usury; that the Lord your God may bless you in all your works upon the land, into which you are entering to inherit it.

¹⁷ And it came to pass when Achaab saw Eliu, that Achaab said to Eliu, Are you he that perverts Israel? ¹⁸ And Eliu said, I do not pervert Israel; but it is you and your father's house, in that you⌃ forsake the Lord your God, and you have gone after Baalim.

²⁰ struck each one the man next to him; and each one a second time struck the man next to him: and Syria fled, and Israel pursued them; and the son of Ader, [even] the king of Syria, escapes on the horse of a horseman.

⁸ And the king of Israel said to Josaphat, There is one man here [for us] to enquire of the Lord by; but I hate him, for he does not speak good of me, but only evil; Michaias son of Jemblaa. And Josaphat king of Juda said, Let not the king say so.

¹ And the cry of the people and their wives [was] great against their brethren the Jews. ² And some said, We [are] numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live. ³ And some said, [As to] our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge [them], and we will take corn, and eat. ⁴ And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes:—our fields, and our vineyards, and houses [are pledged]. ⁵ And now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children [are] as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards [belong] to the nobles. ⁶ And I was much grieved as I heard their cry and these words.

¹ After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day, ² saying, ³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a boy! ⁴ Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it. ⁵ But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it; ⁶ let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months. ⁷ But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy. ⁸ But let him that curses that day curse it, [even] he that is ready to attack the great whale. ⁹ Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain [dark], and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise: ¹⁰ because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for [so] it would have removed sorrow from my eyes. ¹¹ For why died I not in the belly? and [why] did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately? ¹² and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts? ¹³ Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest, ¹⁴ with kings [and] councillors of the earth, who gloried in [their] swords; ¹⁵ or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ or [I should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light. ¹⁷ There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest. ¹⁸ And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice. ¹⁹ The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord. ²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs? ²¹ who desire death, and obtain it not, digging [for it] as [for] treasures; ²² and would be very joyful if they should gain it? ²³ Death [is] rest to [such] a man, for God has hedged him in. ²⁴ For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror. ²⁵ For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me. ²⁶ I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

⁵ The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: you are he that restores my inheritance to me.

⁵ The Lord shall keep you: the Lord is your shelter upon your right hand. ⁶ The sun shall not burn you by day, neither the moon by night.

² As birds and sparrows fly, so a curse shall not come upon any one without a cause.

¹⁸ Behold, I have made you this day as a strong city, and as a brazen wall, strong [against] all the kings of Juda, and the princes thereof, and the people of the land. ¹⁹ And they shall fight against you; but they shall by no means prevail against you; because I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.

²⁰ And I will make you to this people as a strong brazen wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you;

⁷ You have deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived: you have 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.

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 you. 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 killed 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 And you, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face; (for they will madden and will rise up against you round about, and you dwell in the midst of scorpions): be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for it is a provoking house. ⁷ And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear or fear: for it is a provoking house.

⁷ But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted. ⁸ And, behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen your power against their power. ⁹ And it shall be continually stronger than a rock: be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because it is a provoking house.

³ For there is no health in my flesh because of your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins. ⁴ For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden. ⁵ My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ⁶ I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day. ⁷ For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh. ⁸ I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart. ⁹ But all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you. ¹⁰ My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of mine eyes is not with me. ¹¹ My friends and my neighbors drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.

¹ As a rush of water, so is the king's heart in God's hand: he turns it wherever he may desire to point out.

¹² He that has sinned has done evil from that time, and long from beforehand: nevertheless I know, that it is well with them that fear God, that they may fear before him:

² Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up against us; if the Lord will do according to all his wonderful works, and [the king] shall depart from us.

¹¹ for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in me. ¹² For thus says the Lord; They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk [it]; and you shall by no means be cleared: ¹³ for by myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that you shall be in the midst of her an impassable [land], and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be desert for ever. ¹⁴ I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent messengers to the nations, [saying, ]Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise you⌃ up to war.

³ For, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord: and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be lords of it.

¹¹ And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed; ¹² and I gave it to Baruch son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, in the sight of Anameel my father's brother's son, and in the sight of the men that stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court of the prison.

² Thus says the Lord, who made the earth and formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name; ³ Cry to me, and I will answer you, and I will declare to you great and mighty things, which you know not. ⁴ For thus says the Lord concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the king of Juda, which have been pulled down for mounds and fortifications, ⁵ to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I struck in mine anger and my wrath, and turned away my face from them, for all their wickedness: ⁶ Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show [myself] to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.

² Go to the house of the Archabin, and you shall bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink.

⁹ [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you].

⁹ What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

⁴ Thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] turn back the weapons of war wherewith you⌃ fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city. ⁵ And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.

¹⁴ For the Lord has sworn by his arm, [saying, ]I will fill you with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against you.

⁵ Behold, you⌃ despisers, and look, and wonder marvelously, and vanish: for I work a work in your days, which you⌃ will in no wise believe, though a man declare [it to you]. ⁶ Therefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own. ⁷ He is terrible and famous; his judgment shall proceed of himself, and his dignity shall come out of himself. ⁸ And his horses shall bound [more swiftly] than leopards, and [they are] fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hasting to eat. ⁹ Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand. ¹⁰ And he shall be at his ease with kings, and princes are his toys, and he shall mock at every strong-hold, and shall cast a mound, and take possession of it.

¹² And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor.

³ For thus says the Lord, You⌃ have been sold for nothing; and you⌃ shall not be ransomed with silver.

⁵ And now why are you⌃ here? Thus says the Lord, Because my people was taken for nothing, wonder you⌃ and howl. Thus says the Lord, On account of you my name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.

⁸ Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, [even] distress at noon-day: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.

⁵ And I will give all the strength of this city, and all the labors of it, and all the treasures of the king of Juda, into the hands of his enemies, and they shall bring them to Babylon.

³⁸ And you⌃ shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. ³⁹ And those who are left of you shall perish, because of their sins, and because of the sins of their fathers: in the land of their enemies shall they consume away.

³⁶ The Lord carry away you and your princes, whom you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers know; and you shall there serve other gods, wood and stone.

²³ brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:)—

²² For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

⁹ For you are he that drew me out of the womb; my hope from my mother's breasts.

²⁵ So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that burnt round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew [it], neither did they lay [it] to heart.

¹⁵ For, behold, the Lord will come as fire, and his chariots as a storm, to render his vengeance with wrath, and his rebuke with a flame of fire. ¹⁶ For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with his sword: many shall be slain by the Lord.

⁴ Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, you⌃ men of Juda, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.

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.

⁴ And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

¹³ therefore I will cast you off from this good land into a land which neither you⌃ nor your fathers have known; and you⌃ shall serve their other gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.

²⁷ And the king of Babylon struck them in Deblatha, in the land of Aemath.

²⁷ And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, says the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.

⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, [even] the world, and all that dwell in it. ⁶ Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nothing kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.

¹⁹ Remember me, O God, for good, [in] all that I have done to this people.

¹⁴ Remember, O God, Tobias and Sanaballat, according to these their deeds, and the prophetess Noadia, and the rest of the prophets who tried to alarm me.

²² and I told the Levites who were purifying themselves, and came and kept the gates, that they should sanctify the sabbath-day. Remember me, O God, for these things, and spare me according to the abundance of your mercy.

³¹ And the offering of the wood-bearers [was] at certain set times, and in the [times of the] first fruits. Remember me, O our God, for good.

⁷ For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;) ⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me [with good]; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies. ⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, an take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

³ I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.

¹³ Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw near to help me.

⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a dry land; they found no way to a city of habitation.

³ Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in your sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly.

¹⁸ O Lord, teach me, and I shall know: then I saw their practices. 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 judge righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see your vengeance [taken] upon them, for to you I have declared my cause. ²¹ Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek my life, that say, You shall not prophesy at all in the name of the Lord, but if you do, you shall die by our hands:

³ But you, Lord, know me; you have proved my heart before you; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

¹⁰ Woe is me, [my] mother! you have 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.

¹⁶ But I have not been weary of following you, nor have I desired the day of man; you know; the [words] that proceed out of my lips are before your face.

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.

¹² O Lord, that prove just [deeds], understanding the reins and hearts, let me see your vengeance upon them: for to you I have revealed my cause.

¹² neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.

⁹ Will you be as a man asleep, or as a [strong] man that can’t save? yet you are among us, O Lord, and your name is called upon us; forget us not.

¹ And he said to me, Son of Man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel. ² So he opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume. And he said to me, Son of man, ³ your mouth shall eat, and your belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to you. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.

¹ Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of evil men.

⁴ One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek: that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey his temple. ⁵ For in the day of mine afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock.

⁷ He made known his ways to Moses, his will to the children of Israel.

¹⁰ Behold, I have appointed you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.

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

⁸ You shall not enter into the banquet-house, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

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 can’t bear [up].

²⁸ He will sit alone, and be silent, because he has borne [it] upon him.

²⁴ Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut yourself up in the midst of your house. ²⁵ And you, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for you, and they shall bind you with them, and you shall not come forth of the midst of them.

²⁸ Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance was changed: but I kept the matter in my heart.

¹⁵ My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave. ¹⁶ They who used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or congealed ice. ¹⁷ When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was. ¹⁸ Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast. ¹⁹ Behold the ways of the Thaemanites, you⌃ that mark the paths of the Sabaeans. ²⁰ They too that trust in cities and riches shall come to shame.

⁶ And he has erred in my judgment: my wound is severe without unrighteousness [of mine].

³ My soul also is grievously vexed: but you, O Lord, how long?

¹ (14) For the end, Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted [themselves], and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one. ² The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after god. ³ They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

³ And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

¹⁹ Hast you utterly rejected Juda? and has your soul departed from Sion? therefore has you struck 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!

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

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 can’t come forth: he has made my brazen [chain] heavy. ⁸ GIMEL. Yes, [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.

⁹ For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

¹² And now go and I will open your mouth, and will instruct you in what you shall say.

¹⁵ And you shall speak to him; and you shall put my words into his mouth, and I will open your mouth and his mouth, and I will instruct you in what you⌃ shall do. ¹⁶ And he shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be for him in things pertaining to God.

²⁹ then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, I am the Lord: speak to Pharao king of Egypt whatever I say to you. ³⁰ And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am not able in speech, and how shall Pharao listen to me?

¹⁰ to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,

¹ And Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad, said to Achaab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.

²⁹ It is fit that an observant man and [one] diligent in his business should attend on kings, and not attend on slothful men.

⁵ And they shall no more at all tell a fool to rule, and your servants shall no more at all say, Be silent. ⁶ For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.

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.

¹⁰ Woe is me, [my] mother! you have 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. ¹¹ Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before you in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for [their] good against the enemy. ¹² Will iron be known? whereas your strength is a brazen covering. ¹³ Yes, I will give your treasures for a spoil as a recompence, because of all your sins and [that] in all your borders. ¹⁴ And I will enslave you to your enemies round about, in a land which you have not known; for a fire has been kindled out of my wrath; it shall burn upon you. ¹⁵ O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for your sake, from those who set at nothing your words; ¹⁶ consume them; and your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty. ¹⁷ I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of your 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.

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, says the Lord. ²¹ Prepare yourself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to your ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which you went, return mourning to your cities.

⁷ And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear or fear: for it is a provoking house.

¹⁰ And he said to me, Son of man, receive into your heart all the words that I have spoken to you, and hear [them] with your ears. ¹¹ And go your way, go in to the captivity, to the children of your people, and you shall speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord; whether they will hear, [or] whether they will forbear.

²⁶ Her priests also have set at nothing my law, and profaned my holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

²³ And they shall teach my people [to distinguish] between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them [the difference] between unclean and clean.

² Rise, go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to you of.

⁷ And the angel of the Lord testified to Jesus, saying,

⁷ For God is king of all the earth: sing praises with understanding.

¹ (125) A Song of Degrees. They that trust in the Lord [shall be] as mount Sion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved. ² The mountains are round about her, and [so] the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth and even for ever. ³ For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

¹ (130) A Song of Degrees. Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord. ² O Lord, listen to my voice; let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Emmanuel.

⁹ Know, you⌃ Gentiles, and be conquered; listen you⌃, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after you⌃ strengthened yourselves; for even if you⌃ should again strengthen yourselves, you⌃ shall again be conquered. ¹⁰ And whatever counsel you⌃ shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nothing; and whatever word you⌃ shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.

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

⁸ Be not afraid before them: for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.

²⁷ I have caused you to be tried among tried nations, and you shall know me when I have tried their way.

¹¹ But the Lord was with me as a mighty man of war: therefore they persecuted [me], but could not perceive [anything against me]; they were greatly confounded, for they perceived not their disgrace, which shall never be forgotten. ¹² O Lord, that prove just [deeds], understanding the reins and hearts, let me see your vengeance upon them: for to you I have revealed my cause.

⁹ And it shall be continually stronger than a rock: be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because it is a provoking house.

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.

² Listen to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple.

³ Therefore shall the poor people bless you, and cities of injured men shall bless you. ⁴ For you have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: you shall deliver them from wicked men: [you have been] a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men. ⁵ [We were] as faint-hearted men thirsting in Sion, by reason of ungodly men to whom you did deliver us.

⁵ But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress you as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,

²⁰ The lawless man has come to nothing, and the proud man has perished, and they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed:

²⁴ Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take [a man] captive unjustly, shall he be delivered? ²⁵ For thus says the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes [them] from a mighty [man] shall be delivered: for I will plead your cause, and I will deliver your children.

¹⁷ I will not suffer any weapon formed against you to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against you for judgment, you shall vanquish them all; and your adversaries shall be [condemned] thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and you⌃ shall be righteous before me, says the Lord.