Ruth Cross References - Leeser

¹ And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land: and there went a certain man of Beth-lechem-judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. ² And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Na’omi, and the name of his two sons Machlon and Kilyon, Ephrathites of Beth-lechem-judah. And they came into the fields of Moab, and remained there. ³ Thereupon died Elimelech Na’omi’s husband; and she was left, with her two sons. ⁴ And they took themselves wives of the women of Moab; the name of one was ‘Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelt there about ten years. ⁵ And then died also both of these, Machlon and Kilyon, and the woman was left deprived of her two children and her husband. ⁶ Then did she arise with her daughters-in-law, and returned homeward from the fields of Moab; for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had thought of his people in giving them bread. ⁷ Therefore she went forth out of the place where she had been, and her two daughters-in-law were with her; and they went on their way to return unto the land of Judah. ⁸ Then said Na’omi unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each one to her mother’s house: may the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. ⁹ May the Lord grant unto you that ye may find rest, each one in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept. ¹⁰ And they said unto her, No, for truly we will return with thee unto thy people. ¹¹ Then said Na’omi, Return back, my daughters; why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may become your husbands? ¹² Return back, my daughters, go; for I am too old to become the wife of any man; yea, if I were even to think, I have hope; should I even obtain this night a husband, and should also bear sons: ¹³ Would ye wait in hopes for them till they were grown? would ye debar yourselves for them so as not to become the wives of any man? not so, my daughters; for I feel much more bitter pain than you; because the hand of the Lord is gone out against me. ¹⁴ And they lifted up their voice and wept a long time; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth cleaved unto her. ¹⁵ And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is returned back unto her people, and unto her gods; return thou after thy sister-in-law. ¹⁶ But Ruth said, Urge me not to leave thee, to return from following thee; for whither thou goest, will I go; and where thou lodgest, will I lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. ¹⁷ Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; may the Lord do so to me, and may he so continue, if aught but death shall part me from thee. ¹⁸ When she thus saw that she was persisting to go with her, she left off speaking unto her. ¹⁹ So these two went until they came to Beth-lechem. And it came to pass, when they entered Beth-lechem, that all the city was in commotion about them, and people said, Is this Na’omi? ²⁰ And she said unto them, Call me not Na’omi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full, but empty hath the Lord brought me home again; why then will ye call me Na’omi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath sent me affliction? ²² So did Na’omi return, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who had returned out of the fields of Moab; and they came to Beth-lechem at the beginning of the barley-harvest.

¹⁰ And there arose a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

¹ And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be thou perfect.

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed; and he said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

¹ And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

¹ And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham; and Isaac went unto Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.

²⁷ And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is the smell of the field which the Lord hath blessed.

²⁰ And Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me on this way which I am going, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

²⁸ And why hast thou not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now thou hast acted foolishly in so doing.

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them; and Laban departed, and returned unto his own place.

¹⁹ And so Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lechem.

¹¹ Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown; for he thought, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brothers have done. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

¹ And the famine was sore in the land.

¹⁴ And may God the Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away to you your other brother, and Benjamin. And I, if I am to be bereaved, let me be bereaved.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers, and wept upon them; and after that his brothers spoke with him.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who fed me from my first being unto this day,

²⁵ And Joseph caused the children of Israel to swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and then shall ye carry up my bones from here.

¹⁶ Go, and assemble the elders of Israel, and say unto them, The Everlasting One, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely taken cognizance of you and of that which is done to you in Egypt:

³¹ And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

³ And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God, the Almighty, but by my name The Eternal was I not made known to them.

³¹ And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. ³² But the wheat and the millet were not smitten; for they are late-ripening.

⁴ Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will let rain for you bread from heaven; and the people shall go out and gather a certain portion every day, in order that I may prove it, whether it will walk in my law, or not. ⁵ And it shall come to pass, on the sixth day, when they prepare what they shall have brought in, that it shall be twice as much as they shall gather daily. ⁶ And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At evening, then shall ye know that it is the Lord who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:

²⁷ And Moses dismissed his father-in-law; and he went his way unto his own land.

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as copper:

¹⁵ And also the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp; until they were spent.

⁴ But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God, are alive, every one of you, this day.

³ Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughters shalt thou not give unto his son, and his daughter shalt thou not take unto thy son.

²⁰ The Lord thy God shalt thou fear: him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.

^{3 (23:4)} An ‘Ammonite and a Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even the tenth generation of him shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, for ever;

⁵ If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child: then shall the wife of the dead not be married abroad, unto a stranger; her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to himself for wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her.

²³ And thy heavens that are over thy head shall be copper, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

³⁸ Much seed wilt thou carry out into the field, yet but little shalt thou gather in; for the locust shall consume it.

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he, ard there is no god with me: I alone kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and no one can deliver out of my hand.

¹⁵ And if it be displeasing in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of the Emorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

¹⁵ And if it be displeasing in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of the Emorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. ¹⁶ And the people answered and said, Far be it from us to forsake the Lord, to serve other gods; ¹⁷ For the Lord our God it is that hath brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and who hath done those great signs before our eyes, and preserved us upon all the way whereon we have gone, and among all the people through the midst of whom we have passed: ¹⁸ And the Lord hath driven out all the nations, and the Emorites who dwelt in the land, from before us; therefore also will we serve the Lord; for he is our God.

¹⁸ And the Lord hath driven out all the nations, and the Emorites who dwelt in the land, from before us; therefore also will we serve the Lord; for he is our God. ¹⁹ And Joshua said unto the people, Ye will not be able to serve the Lord; for he is a holy God; he is a watchful God; he will not have any indulgence for your transgressions and for your sins;

¹⁹ And Joshua said unto the people, Ye will not be able to serve the Lord; for he is a holy God; he is a watchful God; he will not have any indulgence for your transgressions and for your sins; ²⁰ If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then will he again do ye evil, and consume ye, after that he hath done you good. ²¹ And the people said unto Joshua, No; nevertheless the Lord will we serve. ²² And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye yourselves have chosen for you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. ²³ And now put away the strange gods which are in the midst of you, and incline your heart unto the Lord the God of Israel. ²⁴ And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. ²⁵ And Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. ²⁶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. ²⁷ And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be among us as a witness; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore as a witness against you, that ye may not deny your God. ²⁸ And Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

¹⁵ Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. ¹⁶ And the Lord raised up judges, and they delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. ¹⁷ But also unto their judges they did not hearken; but they went astray after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers had walked in, to obey the commandments of the Lord; they did not so. ¹⁸ And when the Lord raised them up judges, then was the Lord with the judge, and he delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord bethought himself because of their groaning by reason of those that oppressed them and ill-treated them.

²⁴ Truly! that which Kemosh thy god may give thee to possess, even that canst thou possess; but whatsoever the Lord our God hath driven out from before us, even that will we possess.

⁸ And after him there judged Israel Ibzan of Beth-lechem.

⁸ And the man departed from the city, from Beth-lechem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place; and he came to the mountain of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he was pursuing his journey.

¹ And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the lower edge of the mountain of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine out of Beth-lechem-judah. ² And his concubine became faithless unto him, and she went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth-lechem-judah, and was there one year and four months.

⁵ And then died also both of these, Machlon and Kilyon, and the woman was left deprived of her two children and her husband.

¹⁰ And they said unto her, No, for truly we will return with thee unto thy people.

¹⁴ And they lifted up their voice and wept a long time; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth cleaved unto her.

¹¹ But Bo’az answered and said unto her, It hath fully been told me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law after the death of thy husband; and how thou hast forsaken thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy birth, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not yesterday or the day before. ¹² May the Lord recompense thy work, and may thy reward be complete from the Lord the God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to seek shelter.

²⁰ Then said Na’omi unto her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he unto the Lord, who hath not withheld his kindness from the living and from the dead. And Na’omi said unto her, The man is nearly related unto us, he is one of our next kinsmen.

²³ So she kept close company with the maidens of Bo’az in gleaning until the end of the barley-harvest and of the wheat-harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

¹ Then said Na’omi her mother-in-law unto her, My daughter, behold I will seek for thee a resting-place, where it may be well with thee.

¹ And there was a certain man of Rama-thayim-zophim, of the mountain of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah, the son of Yerocham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tochu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.

⁷ The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich: he bringeth low and also lifteth up. ⁸ He raiseth up out of the dust the poor, from the dunghill he lifteth up the needy, to set them among nobles, and he assigneth them the throne of glory; for the Lord’s are the pillars of the earth, on which he hath set the world.

²¹ And truly the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the lad Samuel grew up before the Lord.

¹⁷ And he said, What is the word which he hath spoken unto thee? do not, I pray thee, conceal it from me: may God do to thee thus, and continue to do so, if thou conceal any thing from me of all the word that he hath spoken unto thee.

¹¹ So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, that it may return to its own place, so that it may not slay us, and our people; for there was a confusion of death throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

²¹ And the Israelites and the Philistines put themselves in battle-array, army against army.

²² So may God do unto the enemies of David, and do so yet farther, if I leave of all that pertaineth to him by the morning light, as much as a dog.

⁹ May God do so to Abner, and continue to do yet more to him, that, as the Lord hath sworn to David, even so will I surely do to him;

³⁵ And all the people came to cause David to eat food while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, So do God to me, and thus may he continue, if before the sun be down I taste bread, or the least else.

¹⁹ Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore wilt thou also go with us? turn back and abide with the king; for thou art a stranger, and also an exile from thy place. ²⁰ Yesterday thou camest; and today should I move thee about with us to wander? seeing that I go whither I may: return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee, in kindness and truth. ²¹ And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my Lord the king liveth, surely in whatever place my Lord the king may be, whether for death or for life, even there will thy servant be.

^{13 (19:14)} And to ‘Amassa shall ye say, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me, and may he thus continue to do, if thou shalt not be captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.

¹ And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David besought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, On account of Saul, and on account of the house of blood, is this; because he hath slain the Gib’onites.

⁹ And he delivered them into the hand of the Gib’onites, and they hanged them on the mount before the Lord; and they fell, these seven, together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest, in the beginning of the barley-harvest.

²³ Then swore king Solomon by the Lord, saying, May God do so to me, and may he thus continue, if Adoniyah have not spoken this word against his own life.

¹ But king Solomon loved many strange women, beside the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, ‘Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites. ² From the nations concerning which the Lord had said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in among them, nor shall they come in among you; surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: unto these Solomon did cleave to love them.

¹ Then said Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gil’ad, unto Achab, As the Lord the God of Israel liveth, before whom I have stood, there shall not be in these years dew or rain, except according to my word. ² And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, ³ Go away from here, and turn thyself eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Kerith, which is to the east of the Jordan. ⁴ And it shall be, that out of the brook shalt thou drink; and the ravens have I ordained to sustain thee there. ⁵ And he went and did according to the word of the Lord; and he went and remained by the brook Kerith, that is to the east of the Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening: and out of the brook he used to drink. ⁷ And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up; because there had been no rain in the land. ⁸ And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, ⁹ Arise, go unto Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and remain there: behold, I have ordained there a widow-woman to sustain thee. ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, there was there a widow-woman gathering sticks of wood: and he called her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. ¹¹ And as she went to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. ¹² And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have nothing baked, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a cruise: and, behold, I am gathering a couple of sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son; and when we have eaten it, we shall have to die.

² And Elijah went to show himself unto Achab; and the famine was grievous in Samaria.

² Then sent Izebel a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So may the gods do to me, and may they thus continue, if about this time tomorrow I do not render thy life as the life of any one of them.

²⁰ And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss but my father and my mother, and I will then follow thee: and he said unto him, Go, return; for what have I done to thee?

¹⁰ And Ben-hadad then sent unto him, and said, May the gods do so unto me, and continue to do so, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that are in my train.

² And Elijah said unto Elisha’, Remain, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me as far as Beth-el. But Elisha’ said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el.

² And Elijah said unto Elisha’, Remain, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me as far as Beth-el. But Elisha’ said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el. ³ And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha’, and said unto him, Knowest thou that today the Lord will take away thy master from thy head? And he said, I also know it; be still. ⁴ And Elijah said unto him, Elisha’, remain, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho. ⁵ And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came near to Elisha’, and said unto him, Knowest thou that today the Lord will take away thy master from thy head? And he said, I also know it; be still. ⁶ And Elijah said unto him, Remain, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me to the Jordan. But he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So these two went on.

¹ And a certain woman, of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried unto Elisha’, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou well knowest that thy servant was one who feared the Lord: and now the creditor is come to take my two sons unto himself for servants.

³¹ Then said he, May God do so unto me and continue so yet farther, if the head of Elisha’ the son of Shaphat shall remain on him this day.

¹ And Elisha’ spoke unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn; for the Lord hath called for a famine, and it is also coming in the land for seven years. ² And the woman arose, and did after the word of the man of God; and she went, she with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. ³ And it came to pass at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines; and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

²¹ And he said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; may the name of the Lord be blessed.

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God admonisheth: despise then not the correction of the Almighty.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh it: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

¹⁷ Thou ever renewest thy witnesses against me, and causest thy indignation to grow strong against me; changes and multitudes of sufferings are around me.

⁷ Canst thou find out the experience of God? or canst thou find the way unto the utmost limit of the Almighty?

²⁶ That thou writest bitter decrees against me, and assignest unto me the iniquities of my youth;

⁸ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, they are my witnesses; and my leanness riseth up for me, giveth its testimony to my face.

⁶ Then know for certain that God hath bent me down, and hath laid his net all around me.

²¹ Spare me, spare me, O ye, my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

³ But in the saints who are on the earth, and in the excellent—in them is all my delight.

⁴ For by day and night lay thy hand heavily upon me: my life’s moisture hath been changed through the droughts of summer. Selah.

^{19 (34:20)} Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord ever delivereth him.

^{3 (36:4)} The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good.

^{2 (38:3)} For thy arrows have penetrated into me, and thy hand presseth down upon me.

^{9 (39:10)} I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou hadst done it. ^{10 (39:11)} Remove thou thy plague away from me: from the blows of thy hand am I consumed.

^{10 (45:11)} Hearken, O daughter, and look, and incline thy ear, and forget thy own people, and thy father’s house:

¹⁴ While I was afflicted all the day, and my chastisement came every morning.

^{15 (88:16)} I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted.

^{30 (89:31)} If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances; ^{31 (89:32)} If they profane my statutes, and keep not my commandments: ^{32 (89:33)} Then will I visit with the rod their transgressions, and with plagues their iniquity.

¹⁴ Thou art he who causeth grass to grow for the cattle, and herbs by the service of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earth; ¹⁵ And wine that maketh joyful the heart of man, and oil to brighten his face, and bread which strengtheneth the heart of man.

¹⁶ And he called for a famine over the land; every staff of bread he broke.

³⁴ A fruitful land into a salty waste, for the wickedness of those that dwell therein.

⁵ He hath given sustenance unto those that fear him: he will for ever be mindful of his covenant.

⁶³ An associate am I unto all that fear thee, and unto those that keep thy precepts.

⁵ But as for those who turn aside unto their crooked ways, them will the Lord drive away with the workers of wickedness; but peace shall be upon Israel.

¹⁵ Her provision will I bless abundantly: her needy ones will I satisfy with bread.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait hopefully upon thee, and thou givest them their food in its due season.

⁷ Who executeth justice for the oppressed: who giveth bread to the hungry: the Lord looseneth the prisoners;

¹⁴ He who bestoweth peace in thy borders, who satisfieth thee with the best of wheat;

¹⁷ A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is he born for the time of distress.

²⁴ A man’s many companions are hurtful to him; but there is many a friend that cleaveth closer than a brother.

⁸ Vanity and lying words do thou remove far from me: neither poverty nor riches give thou unto me; let me eat the bread appointed unto me:

¹ For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make choice of Israel, and replace them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined unto them, and they shall attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

⁷ Is this your fate, ye of the joyous city? she whose antiquity is of ancient days—her own feet shall carry her, afar off to sojourn.

¹³ I waited with patience till morning, whether as a lion, so would he break all my bones: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me.

²¹ And thou wilt say in thy heart, Who hath born me these, seeing I was bereft of my children, and was solitary, an exile, and outcast? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left entirely alone; these, where have they been?

¹⁰ For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither, but water the earth, and render it fruitful, and cause it to bring forth plants; and give seed to the sower and bread to him that eateth:

¹⁹ Thy own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall correct thee; and thou shalt know and see that evil and bitter was thy forsaking the Lord thy God, while the dread of me was not upon thee, saith the Lord Eternal of hosts.

¹ The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

¹⁰ For thus hath said the Lord, Because only after the accomplishment of seventy years for Babylon, will I visit you, and fulfill respecting you my good word, in causing you to return to this place.

¹⁵ All that pass by this way clap their hands on account of thee; they hiss and shake their head over the daughter of Jerusalem: saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty. The joy for all the earth?

¹ I am the man who hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. ² Me hath he driven out, and led into darkness, but not into light. ³ Surely against me doth he turn again and again his hand all the day. ⁴ He hath caused my flesh and my skin to wear out, he hath broken my bones. ⁵ He hath built around me, and encompassed me with poison and hardship. ⁶ In dark places hath he set me to dwell, like the dead of olden times. ⁷ He hath placed a fence round about me, that I cannot get out; he hath made heavy my chain. ⁸ Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, he shutteth out my prayer. ⁹ He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, my paths hath he made crooked. ¹⁰ A bear lying in wait is he to me, a lion in secret places. ¹¹ On my ways hath he placed thorns, and torn me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. ¹² He hath bent his bow, and placed me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He hath caused to enter into my reins the children of his quiver. ¹⁴ I am become a laughing-stock to all my people, their jeering song all the day. ¹⁵ He hath sated me with bitter things, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. ¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones, he hath covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And my soul hath given up all thoughts of peace: I forget happiness. ¹⁸ And I said, Lost is my strength, my expectation also from the Lord. ¹⁹ Remembering my affliction and the cause of my complaint, wormwood and poison. ²⁰ Remembering this continually my soul is bowed down deeply within me.

¹³ Son of man, if a land should sin against me by trespassing grievously, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break unto it the staff of bread, and send out famine against it, and cut off from it man and beast;

²¹ For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Although I send my four dreadful means of punishment over Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast:

⁴⁷ The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and the revealer of secrets; because thou hast been able to reveal this secret.

²⁹ Therefore do I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, that may speak any thing disrespectful against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be changed into a dunghill; because there is no other God that can deliver like this one.

^{37 (4:34)} Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and glorify the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and whose ways are justice; and who is able to bring low those that walk in pride.

⁴ Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and no god but me shalt thou know, and there is no saviour beside me.

¹⁰ Wasted is the field, the land mourneth; for wasted is the corn: dried up is the new wine, withered is the oil. ¹¹ Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen; wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because lost is the harvest of the field.

¹⁶ Is not before our eyes the food cut off, from the house of our God joy and gladness? ¹⁷ The grains of seed are rotten under their clods, laid desolate are the garners, pulled down are the barns; for the corn is dried up. ¹⁸ How do the beasts groan! how do the herds of cattle roam about; because there is no pasture for them: yea, the flocks of sheep are made to perish. ¹⁹ To thee O Lord, will I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath singed all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Also the beasts of the field cry unto thee panting; for the brooks of waters are dried up, and a fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

⁶ But, I also had indeed given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: and yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

^{2 (5:1)} But thou, Beth-lechem Ephratah, the least though thou be among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from olden times, from most ancient days.

⁶ And those that are turned away from following the Lord; and those that have not sought for the Lord, and have not inquired of him.

⁷ And this district shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; thereupon shall they feed their flocks: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for the Lord their God will think of them, and bring back their captivity.

²³ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, In those days it shall happen, that ten men out of all the languages of the nations shall take hold—yea, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, Let us go with you; for we have heard that God is with you.

⁵ And I will come near unto you to hold judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those that swear falsely, and against those that withhold the wages of the hired laborer, oppress the widow, and the fatherless, and that do injustice to the stranger, and fear me not, saith the Lord of hosts.