Jeremiah 12 Cross References - MLV

¹ You are righteous, O Jehovah, when I contend with you. Yet I would reason the case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously? ² You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root, they grow. Yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth and far from their heart. But you, O Jehovah, know me. You see me and try my heart toward you.
³ Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepare them for the day of slaughter. ⁴ How long will the land mourn and the herbs of whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts are consumed and the birds, because they said, He will not see our latter end.
⁵ If you have run with the footmen and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
⁶ For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they have cried aloud after you. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to you.
⁷ I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. ⁸ My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.
⁹ Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go you*, assemble all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour.
¹⁰ Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my desirable portion a desolate wilderness. ¹¹ They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. ¹² Destroyers have come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness. For the sword of Jehovah devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace. ¹³ They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns. They have put themselves to pain and profit nothing. And you* will be ashamed of your* fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
¹⁴ Jehovah says thus against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from their land and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
¹⁵ And it will happen, after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. And I will bring them again, each man to his heritage and each man to his land.
¹⁶ And it will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Jehovah lives, even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people. ¹⁷ But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Jehovah.

²⁵ Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from you. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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

¹⁵ O Jehovah, the God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness, for none can stand before you because of this.

⁶ The tents of robbers prosper and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings abundantly.

³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God.

⁷ Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, grow mighty in power? ⁸ Their seed is established with them in their sight and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ Their bull breeds and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely and does not miscarry. ¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock and their children dance. ¹² They sing to the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
¹³ They spend their days in prosperity and in a moment they go down to Sheol.
¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

¹ Do not inflame yourself because of evildoers, nor be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

³⁵ I have seen a wicked man in great power and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

⁴ Against you, you only, I have sinned and done what is evil in your sight, that you may be justified when you speak and may prevail when you are criticized.

³ Because I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. ⁴ Because there are no pains in their death, but their strength is firm.
⁵ They are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men. ⁶ Therefore pride is as a chain around their neck. Violence covers them as a garment.
⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.
⁸ They scoff and utter oppression in wickedness. They speak loftily. ⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue walks through the earth.
¹⁰ Therefore his people return here and waters of a full cup are drained by them.
¹¹ And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
¹² Behold, these are the wicked and those who prosper of old. They have possessed wealth.
¹³ Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart and washed my hands in innocence, ¹⁴ I have been plagued for all the day long and rebukes every morning.
¹⁵ If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of your sons.
¹⁶ When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me, ¹⁷ until I went into the sanctuary of God and considered their latter end.
¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You cast them down to destruction. ¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when you waken, you will despise their form.
²¹ Because my soul was grieved and I was pricked in my heart. ²² So I was stupid and ignorant. I was a beast before you.
²³ Nevertheless I am continually with you. You have held my right hand. ²⁴ You will guide me with your counsel and afterward receive me to glory.
²⁵ Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides you. ²⁶ My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my everlasting portion.
²⁷ Because behold, those who are far from you will perish. You have destroyed all those who play the prostitute from you.
²⁸ But it is good for me to draw near to God. I have made the lord Jehovah my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

⁷ When the wicked spring up like the grass and when all the workers of unrighteousness flourish, it is that they will be destroyed forever,

³ Jehovah, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? ⁴ They pour out words, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of wickedness boast of themselves.

⁷⁵ I know, O Jehovah, that your judgments are righteous and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

¹³⁷ You are righteous, O Jehovah and upright are your judgments.

¹⁷ Jehovah is righteous in all his ways and gracious in all his works.

³² Because the backsliding of the simple will kill them and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

²¹ Produce your* case, says Jehovah. Bring forth your* strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.

⁸ Yes, you heard not. Yes, you did not know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened. For I knew that you dealt very treacherously and were called a transgressor from the womb.

¹¹ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Jehovah.

²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich. ²⁸ They have grown fat. They shine. Yes, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.

²⁰ But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them, for to you I have revealed my case.

⁶ For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they have cried aloud after you. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to you.

⁷ O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us shame of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, who are near and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

⁷ But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.

⁴ Therefore the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.

¹³ You who are of purer eyes than to behold evil and who cannot look on perverseness, why do you look upon those who deal treacherously and hold your peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, ¹⁴ and makes men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
¹⁵ He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. ¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat and his food plentiful. ¹⁷ Shall he therefore empty his net and not spare to kill the nations continually?

⁵ Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous. He will not do unrighteousness. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust man knows no shame.

¹⁵ And now we call the proud fortunate. Yes, those who work wickedness are built up. Yes, they challenge God and escape.

⁵ For if our unrighteousness is establishing the righteousness of God, what will we say? The God who brings upon us wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I speak according to the manner of man.) ⁶ Let it not happen! Otherwise how will God judge the world?

¹³ And the Lord said, Inasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, but in vain they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.

¹⁰ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says Jehovah.

¹⁷ For Jehovah of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.

⁴ Thus you will say to him, Jehovah says thus: Behold, what I have built I will break down and what I have planted I will pluck up and this in the whole land.

⁵ He took also of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree. ⁶ And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him and the roots of it were under him. So it became a vine and brought out branches and shot forth sprigs.
⁷ There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. ⁸ It was planted in a good soil by many waters that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit that it might be a splendid vine.
⁹ You say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Shall it flourish? Shall he not pull up the roots of it and cut off the fruit of it, that it may wither? It will wither in all its fresh springing leaves, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots of it. ¹⁰ Yes, behold, being planted, will it flourish? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.

¹⁰ Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters. ¹¹ And it had strong twigs for the scepters of those who bore rule. And their stature was exalted among the thick branches and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
¹² But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong twigs were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.
¹³ And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

³¹ And they come to you as the people come and they sit before you as my people. And they hear your words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

⁸ ‘These people are drawing near to me with their mouth, and are honoring me with their lips, but their heart is faraway from me.

⁶ But he answered and said to them, Isaiah did prophesy well concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people are honoring me with their lips, but their heart is faraway from me.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they are denying him by their works, being detestable and disobedient and unapproved toward every good work.

³ Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart and have done what is good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

¹⁷ I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

¹⁰ But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out as gold.

⁹ O let the evil of the wicked man come to an end, but establish the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

⁵ Jehovah tries the righteous man. But his soul hates the wicked man and he who loves violence.

³ You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

¹ Judge me, O Jehovah, because I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in Jehovah without wavering.

²¹ will not God search this out? Because he knows the secrets of the heart.
²² We are killed all the day long because of belief upon you. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

¹ O Jehovah, you have searched and known me. ² You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought afar off. ³ You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
⁴ Because there is not a word in my tongue, but behold, O Jehovah, you know it altogether.

²³ Search me, O God and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts,

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered.
²⁰ But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them, for to you I have revealed my case.

¹⁸ Let them be put to shame who persecute me, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed. Bring upon them the day of evil and destroy them with double destruction.

²¹ Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine and give them over to the power of the sword and let their wives become childless and widows and let their men be slain of death and their young men struck of the sword in battle. ²² Let a cry be heard from their houses when you will bring a troop suddenly upon them, for they have dug a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet.
²³ Yet, Jehovah, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

¹² But, O Jehovah of hosts, who tries the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have revealed my cause.

¹⁵ Moab is laid waste and they have gone up into his cities. And his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

²⁷ Kill all her bullocks. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.

⁴ And they will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans and thrust through in her streets.

¹⁷ He says to him the third-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, Do you ^{F} love me?
Peter was sorrowful because he said to him the third-time, Do you ^{F} love me like a friend? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you like a friend.
Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

⁵ You have caroused upon the land and are self-indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

²⁰ because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and he knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

²¹ These things you have done and I kept silence. You thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself. But I will reprove you and set them in order before your eyes.

³⁴ a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

²⁵ I beheld, and behold, there was no man and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

²⁸ For this the earth will mourn and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it, I have purposed it and I have not relented, nor will I turn back from it.

¹³ And the prophets will become wind and the word is not in them. Thus will it be done to them.

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

²⁰ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beast and upon the trees of the field and upon the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and will not be quenched.

¹⁰ For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through, nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

² Judah mourns and the gates of it languish. They sit in black upon the ground and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers. For because of swearing the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil and their might is not right.

² And you, son of man, thus says the lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end. The end has come upon the four corners of the land. ³ Now the end is upon you and I will send my anger upon you and will judge you according to your ways. And I will bring upon you all your abominations. ⁴ And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity. But I will bring your ways upon you and your abominations will be in the midst of you.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus: An evil, an only evil, behold, it comes. ⁶ An end has come. The end has come. It awakens against you. Behold, it comes. ⁷ Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come. The day is near, tumult and not joyful shouting, upon the mountains.
⁸ Now I will shortly pour out my wrath upon you and accomplish my anger against you and will judge you according to your ways. And I will bring upon you all your abominations. ⁹ And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will bring upon you according to your ways. And your abominations will be in the midst of you.
And you* will know that I, Jehovah, do kill*.
¹⁰ Behold, the day, behold, it comes. Your doom has gone forth. The rod has blossomed; pride has budded. ¹¹ Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. Neither will there be distinction among them.
¹² The time has come; the day draws near. Do not let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all the multitude of it. ¹³ For the seller will not return to what is sold, although they are yet alive, for the vision is concerning the whole multitude of it. None will return, nor will any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

³ Therefore the land will mourn and everyone who dwells in it will languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yes, the fishes of the sea will also be taken away.

¹⁰ The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
¹¹ Be confounded, O you* farmer. Wail, O you* vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field has perished. ¹² The vine is withered and the fig tree languishes. The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered. For joy has withered away from the sons of men.
¹³ Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, you* priests. Wail, you* ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you* ministers of my God. For the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your* God. ¹⁴ Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your* God and cry to Jehovah.
¹⁵ Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. ¹⁶ Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? ¹⁷ The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered.

¹⁷ For though the fig tree will not flourish, nor will fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food; the flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls;

²² For we know that all creation groans and travails together in pain till now.

¹⁵ and when those who bore the ark came to the Jordan and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

¹⁵ These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month when it had overflowed all its banks. And they put to flight all those of the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.

⁷ Deep calls to deep at the voice of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have gone over me.

¹ Save me, O God, because the waters have come in to my soul. ² I sink in deep mud where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

¹¹ My son, do not despise the chastening of Jehovah, nor be weary of his reproof.

¹⁰ If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

⁸ And it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You will surely die.

²⁶ And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but Jehovah hid them.

⁴ Then the rulers said to the king, Please let this man be put to death, inasmuch as he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this man seeks not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
⁵ And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your* hand, for the king is not he who can do anything against you*. ⁶ Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the pit of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the pit there was no water, but mud and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

¹⁹ Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation. For I will suddenly make them run away from it. And he who is chosen, him I will appoint over it. For who is like me and who will appoint a time for me and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

⁴⁴ Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation. For I will suddenly make them run away from it and he who is chosen, him I will appoint over it.
For who is like me and who will appoint a time for me and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

³ For, study the one who has endured such dispute by sinners to himself, in order that you might not be weary, fainting in your souls. ⁴ You have not yet stood against this, as far as blood, in your struggle against sin.

¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, happening to you for a test, as though a strange thing is befalling to you.

⁴ And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. And they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him yet the more. ⁶ And he said to them, Hear, I beseech you*, this dream which I have dreamed. ⁷ For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your* sheaves came all around and bowed-down to my sheaf.
⁸ And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.
⁹ And he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again. And behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing-down to me.
¹⁰ And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow-down ourselves to you to the earth? ¹¹ And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

¹⁵ My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,

² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. They speak with a flattering lip and with a double heart.

⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers and an alien to my mother's sons.

²⁵ Because he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

⁴ For Jehovah says thus to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, even if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, he will not be dismayed at their voice, nor dismayed for the noise of them, so Jehovah of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon the hill of it.

⁴ You* take heed each one of his neighbor and trust you* not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbor will go about with gossipers.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered.

²¹ Therefore Jehovah says thus concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You will not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that you not die by our hand.

¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded and we will prevail against him and we will take our revenge on him.

³⁰ And as for you, son of man, the sons of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses and speak one to another, each one to his brother, saying, Come, I beseech you* and hear what is the word that comes forth from Jehovah.
³¹ And they come to you as the people come and they sit before you as my people. And they hear your words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

⁵ Trust you* not in a neighbor. Put you* not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom. ⁶ For the son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

²¹ Now brother will be giving up brother to death and the father his child and children will be standing up against parents and will be slaying them.

¹⁶ And they send their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth, and do not care concerning anyone’s appearance; for you do not look at the countenance of men. ¹⁷ Therefore tell us, What do you think? Is it legal to give tribute to Caesar or not?
¹⁸ But Jesus, having known their wickedness, said, Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?

¹² And they were seeking to take-hold of him, and yet they feared the crowd. They knew that he spoke the parable to them and they left him and went away.

{Mat 22:1-14.}

⁵ For even his brethren did not believe in him.

²² And the crowd stood up together against them, and the magistrates, having ripped off their garments, were commanding the sergeants to lash them with rods.

¹² Now Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews stood up united against Paul and led him in front of the judicial-seat,

²⁴ For a certain man, Demetrius by name, (a silversmith making miniature silver temples of Artemis), was providing not just a small business to the craftsmen; ²⁵ whom he accumulated together the other workers of such things and said, Men, you know our prosperity is from this business. ²⁶ And you view and hear, that not only from Ephesus, but almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and seduced a considerable crowd, saying that they are not gods, those born through man’s hands. ²⁷ But not only is this part for us in peril and it is to go into disrepute but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis is to be counted as nothing and her majesty is about to be demolished, what the whole of Asia and inhabited-earth is worshiping.
²⁸ Now having heard this, and having become full of fury, they were crying out, saying, Great is Artemis of Ephesus. ²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion and they rushed united into the theater, having seized Paul’s fellow traveling-associates, Gaius and Aristarchus, who were Macedonians.

²⁸ crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This one is the man who is teaching all people everywhere, against the Jewish people and the law and this place, and even more, he led Greeks into the temple and has desecrated this holy place. ²⁹ For they were seeing Trophimus the Ephesian together with him among the city, whom they were supposing that Paul had led into the temple.
³⁰ Now the whole city was moved and there happened to be a running of the people together, and grabbing Paul, they were dragging him outside the temple and immediately the doors were locked.

⁵⁹ When God heard, he was angry and greatly rejected Israel, ⁶⁰ so that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,

⁶ For you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with things from the east and are soothsayers like the Philistines. And they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

¹⁴ therefore I will do to the house, which is called by my name, in which you* trust and to the place which I gave to you* and to your* fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

²⁹ Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem and cast it away and take up a lamentation on the bare heights. For Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

¹⁵ What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.

⁵ For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Jehovah of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

¹ How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. ² The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob and has not pitied. In his wrath he has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and the rulers of it.
³ In fierce anger he has cut off all the horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. And he has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire which devours all around. ⁴ He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion.
⁵ The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
⁶ And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Jehovah has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and the priest.
⁷ The Lord has cast off his altar. He has spurned his sanctuary. He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
⁸ Jehovah has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. And he has made the rampart and wall to lament, they languish together. ⁹ Her gates are sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her rulers are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.
¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust upon their heads. They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
¹¹ My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the nursing-babes faint in the streets of the city. ¹² They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
¹³ What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea; who can heal you?
¹⁴ Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. And they have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.
¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? ¹⁶ All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.
¹⁷ Jehovah has done what he purposed. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of long-ago. He has thrown down and has not pitied. And he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
¹⁸ Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no respite. Do not let the apple of your eye cease. ¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
²⁰ See, O Jehovah and behold to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? ²¹ The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered and not pitied.
²² You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. And there was none who escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

²⁰ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty, but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things in it. Therefore I have made it as an unclean thing to them.
²¹ And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil and they will profane it.

²¹ Speak to the house of Israel, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your* power, the desire of your* eyes and what your* soul has compassion. And your* sons and your* daughters whom you* have left behind will fall by the sword.

¹⁵ All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their practices I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more. All their rulers are rebels.

¹⁵ Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.

² I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. And they have parted my land,

²⁴ And they will be falling by the edge of the sword and will be captured into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles should be fulfilled.

¹⁵ The young lions have roared upon him and yelled and they have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

³⁸ They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions' cubs.

⁸ The lord Jehovah has sworn by himself, Jehovah, the God of hosts says: I abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his palaces, therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

⁸ And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was weary of them and their soul also loathed me.

² And Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the sons of Ammon and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

⁹ All you* beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you* beasts in the forest.

³³ And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth and none will frighten them away.

³ And I will appoint over them four kinds, says Jehovah: the sword to kill and the dogs to tear and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

³⁶ The lord Jehovah says thus: Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitutions with your lovers and because of all the idols of your abominations and for the blood of your sons, that you gave to them, ³⁷ therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure and all those whom you have loved, with all those whom you have hated, I will even gather them against you on every side. And I will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

²² Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated and I will bring them against you on every side: ²³ the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, rulers and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses. ²⁴ And they will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet all around. And I will commit the judgment to them and they will judge you according to their judgments.
²⁵ And I will set my jealousy against you and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears and your residue will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters and your residue will be devoured by the fire.

¹⁷ And you, son of man, thus says the lord Jehovah: Speak to the birds of every sort and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves and come. Gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you*, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that you* may eat flesh and drink blood.
¹⁸ You* will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, of rams, of lambs and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatten sheep of Bashan. ¹⁹ And you* will eat fat till you* are full and drink blood till you* are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you*. ²⁰ And you* will be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men and with all men of war, says the lord Jehovah.

¹⁶ And the ten horns which you saw and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and will make her naked and will eat her flesh and will be burning her up in fire.

¹⁷ And I saw a messenger standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come-here. Be gathered together to the great supper of God; ¹⁸ in order that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit upon them and the flesh of all men, both free men and bondservants and both the little and the great.

⁸ You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations and planted it. ⁹ You prepared a place before it and it took deep root and filled the land. ¹⁰ The mountains were covered with the shadow of it and the branches of it were like cedars of God. ¹¹ It sent out its limbs to the sea and its offshoots to the River.
¹² Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? ¹³ The boar out of the wood ravages it and the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
¹⁴ Turn again, we beseech you, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and behold and visit this vine, ¹⁵ and the stock which your right hand planted and the branch that you made strong for yourself. ¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down. They perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

¹ Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. ² And he dug it and gathered out the stones of it and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also hewed out a winepress in it. And he looked that it should bring forth grapes and it brought out wild grapes.
³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I beseech you*, between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought out wild grapes?
⁵ And now I will tell you* what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it and it will be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it and it will be trodden down. ⁶ And I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned nor hoed, but there will come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression, for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

²⁸ Therefore I will profane the rulers of the sanctuary and I will make Jacob a curse and Israel a reviling.

¹⁸ Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

¹⁹ But I said, How I will put you among the sons and give you a desirable land, a pleasant heritage of the hosts of the nations! And I said, You* will call me My Father and will not turn away from following me.

³ Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed every one in his place.

¹ Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Jehovah.

⁹ behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants of it and against all these nations all around. And I will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and everlasting desolations.

³ And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate, that is, Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

¹⁰ The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things. For she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
¹¹ All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul. See, O Jehovah, and behold, for I have become vile.

⁹ Now he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and rented it to farmers, and went-abroad for a considerable time. ¹⁰ And in the harvest season, he sent a bondservant to the farmers, in order that they might give to him from the fruit of the vineyard, but the farmers whipped him and sent him away empty handed. ¹¹ And he sent yet a different bondservant, and they also whipped and dishonored him, and sent him away empty. ¹² And he sent yet a third, and they also traumatized him and cast him forth. ¹³ But the lord of the vineyard said, What should I do? I will be sending my beloved son; perchance seeing him, they will be revering him. ¹⁴ But when the farmers saw him, they were reasoning with themselves, saying, This is the heir. Come-here. We should kill him, in order that the inheritance may become ours. ¹⁵ And they cast him forth outside the vineyard, and killed him. Therefore, what will the lord of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and destroy these farmers, and will be giving the vineyard to others.
But having heard this, they said, Let it not happen!

¹⁴ Therefore place it into your hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to make a defense.

² And the courtyard outside the temple cast away outside and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations and they will be trampling on the holy city forty-two months.

² It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. For that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart.

²⁵ Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger and the strength of battle. And it set him on fire all around, yet he did not know. And it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

¹ The righteous man perishes and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil.

⁸ Be instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.

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

²² The voice of news. Behold, it comes and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.

²⁵ Pour out your wrath upon the nations that does not know you and upon the families that do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him and consumed him and have laid waste his habitation.

⁴ How long will the land mourn and the herbs of whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts are consumed and the birds, because they said, He will not see our latter end.
⁵ If you have run with the footmen and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
⁶ For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they have cried aloud after you. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to you.
⁷ I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. ⁸ My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.

⁸ And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

¹ How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become forced-labor!
² She weeps bitterly in the night and her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her loved ones she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.
³ Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction. And because of great servitude she dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her in the distress.
⁴ The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted and she herself is in bitterness.
⁵ Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper. For Jehovah has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young sons have gone into captivity before the adversary.

⁵ Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you* fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did you* at all fast to me, even to me?

² If you* will not hear and if you* will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says Jehovah of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you* and I will curse your* blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you* do not lay it to heart.

³³ And I will scatter you* among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you* and your* land will be a desolation and your* cities will be a waste.

⁶ The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood. It is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

²¹ There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.

¹⁵ For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire and his chariots will be like the whirlwind, to render his anger with fierceness and his rebuke with flames of fire. ¹⁶ For by fire Jehovah will execute judgment and by his sword, upon all flesh and the slain of Jehovah will be many.

² Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the ways you have sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness and you have polluted the land with your prostitutions and with your wickedness.

¹¹ At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse, ¹² a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them. ¹³ Behold, he will come up as clouds and his chariots as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
¹⁵ For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims evil from the hills of Ephraim:

¹⁹ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
²⁰ Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O you* women and let your* ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your* daughters wailing and each one her neighbor lamentation.
²¹ For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.

² And it will happen, when they say to you, Where will we go forth? Then you will tell them, Jehovah says thus: Such as are for death, to death and such as are for the sword, to the sword and such as are for the famine, to the famine and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

¹⁷ Therefore Jehovah says thus: You* have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you* a liberty, says Jehovah–to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine. And I will make you* to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁶ O you sword of Jehovah, how long will you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard. Rest and be still.

² The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, O madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.

² A third part you will burn in the fire in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled and you will take a third part and kill* with the sword all around it and a third part you will scatter to the wind. And I will draw out a sword after them.

¹⁷ Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and beast,

⁴ And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword and it will kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.

¹² You* Ethiopians also, you* will be slain by my sword.

²¹ For then will be great affliction, such-as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor may never happen again. ²² And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved, but because of the chosen, those days will be shortened.

⁴ And there came forth, another horse of fire, and to the one who sits upon it was given to take peace from the earth, in order that they should slaughter one another and a great sword was given to him.

¹⁶ And he has upon his garment and upon his thigh a name has been written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
¹⁷ And I saw a messenger standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come-here. Be gathered together to the great supper of God; ¹⁸ in order that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit upon them and the flesh of all men, both free men and bondservants and both the little and the great.
¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, have been gathered together to make a war with the one who sits upon the horse and with his army. ²⁰ And the beast was clutched and with him the false prophet who made the signs in his sight, in which he misled those who had received the mark of the beast and those who are worshiping his image. The two were cast while living into the lake of fire which is burning in brimstone. ²¹ And the rest were killed with the long-sword of the one who sits upon the horse, which came forth out of his mouth and all the birds were fed from their flesh.

¹⁶ I also will do this to you*: I will appoint terror over you*, even consumption and fever, that will consume the eyes and make the soul to pine away. And you* will sow your* seed in vain, for your* enemies will eat it.

³⁸ You will carry much seed out into the field and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

¹ Woe to the rebellious sons, says Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, ² who set out to go down into Egypt and have not asked at my mouth, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
³ Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your* shame and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your* confusion. ⁴ For their rulers are at Zoan and their ambassadors have come to Hanes. ⁵ They will all be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them, who are not a help nor profit, but a shame and also a reproach.
⁶ The burden of the beasts of the South.
Through the land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people who will not profit them.

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Jehovah! ² Yet he also is wise and will bring evil and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the help of those who work wickedness.
³ Now the Egyptians are men and not God and their horses flesh and not spirit. And when Jehovah will stretch out his hand, both he who helps will stumble and he who is helped will fall and they will all be consumed together.

² Why do you* spend money for what is not bread and your* labor for what does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me and eat you* what is good and let your* soul delight itself in fatness.

²³ Truly it is in vain from the heights, the multitude on the mountains. Truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.
²⁴ But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. ²⁵ Let us lie down in our shame and let our confusion cover us, for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

²⁶ I beheld, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness and all the cities of it were broken down at the presence of Jehovah and before his fierce anger.

³⁷ And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah. ³⁸ He has left his covering as the lion. For their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword and because of his fierce anger.

¹⁵ You will sow, but will not reap, you will tread the olives, but will not anoint you with oil and the vintage, but will not drink the wine.

¹³ Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

⁶ You* have sown much and bring in little. You* eat, but you* have not enough. You* drink, but you* are not filled with drink. You* clothe yourselves, but there is none warm. And he who earns wages earns wages to put into a bag with holes.

¹⁶ Through all that time, when a man came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When he came to the wine vat to draw out fifty vessels, there were but twenty. ¹⁷ I killed* you* with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your* hands, yet you* turned not to me, says Jehovah.

²¹ Therefore, what fruit were you having then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

³ that then Jehovah your God will turn your captivity and have compassion upon you and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Jehovah your God has scattered you.

¹⁵ saying, Touch not my anointed men and do my prophets no harm.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Jehovah our God and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name and to triumph in your praise.

¹¹ And it will happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who will remain, from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Cush and from Elam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. ¹² And he will set up an ensign for the nations and will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. ¹³ Also the envy of Ephraim will depart and those who besiege Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will not envy Judah and Judah will not besiege Ephraim. ¹⁴ And they will fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west. Together they will despoil the sons of the east. They will put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon will obey them.
¹⁵ And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea. And with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River and will kill* it into seven streams and cause men to march over dry shod. ¹⁶ And there will be a highway for the remnant of his people, who will remain, from Assyria, like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

³ Israel was holiness to Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come upon them, says Jehovah.

¹⁸ In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your* fathers.

³⁷ Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger and in my wrath and in great indignation. And I will bring them again to this place and I will cause them to dwell safely.

¹ Of Moab. Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste. Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is taken. The fortress is put to shame and broken down.

¹ Concerning the sons of Ammon. Jehovah says thus: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad and his people dwell in the cities of it?

⁷ Of Edom. Jehovah of hosts says thus: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

⁹ For behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country and they will set themselves in array against her. From there she will be taken. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man; none will return in vain. ¹⁰ And Chaldea will be a prey. All who prey upon her will be satisfied, says Jehovah.
¹¹ Because you* are glad, because you* rejoice, O you* who plunder my heritage, because you* are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain and neigh as strong horses, ¹² your* mother will be utterly put to shame. She who bore you* will be confounded. Behold, she will be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land and a desert. ¹³ Because of the wrath of Jehovah she will not be inhabited, but she will be entirely desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished and hiss at all her plagues.
¹⁴ Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you* who bend the bow. Shoot at her; spare no arrows. For she has sinned against Jehovah. ¹⁵ Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her ramparts are fallen. Her walls are thrown down. For it is the vengeance of Jehovah. Take vengeance upon her. As she has done, do to her. ¹⁶ Cut off the sower from Babylon and he who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword they will turn each one to his people and they will flee each one to his own land.
¹⁷ Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

³³ For Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while and the time of harvest will come for her.
³⁴ Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out. ³⁵ The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, the inhabitant of Zion will say. And, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, Jerusalem will say.

¹ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them.
³ And say to the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of the lord Jehovah. The lord Jehovah says thus: Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary when it was profaned and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity, ⁴ therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the sons of the east for a possession and they will set their encampments in you and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk. ⁵ And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and the sons of Ammon a couching-place for flocks.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
⁶ For thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced with all the spite of your soul against the land of Israel, ⁷ therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon you and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you.
And you will know that I am Jehovah.
⁸ The lord Jehovah says thus: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations, ⁹ therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country–Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim– ¹⁰ open to the sons of the east, against the sons of Ammon. And I will give them for a possession, that the sons of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations. ¹¹ And I will execute judgments upon Moab.
And they will know that I am Jehovah.
¹² The lord Jehovah says thus: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance and has greatly offended and revenged himself upon them, ¹³ therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from it and I will make it desolate. From Teman, even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
¹⁴ And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. And they will know my vengeance, says the lord Jehovah.
¹⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge and have taken vengeance with spite of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity, ¹⁶ therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. ¹⁷ And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes.
And they will know that I am Jehovah when I will lay my vengeance upon them.

²⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus: When I will have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and will be made holy in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.

¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock, in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
¹³ And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses and in all the inhabited places of the country.

¹ Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it. ³ And say to it, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir and I will stretch out my hand against you and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. ⁴ I will lay your cities waste and you will be desolate.
And you will know that I am Jehovah.
⁵ Because you have had a everlasting enmity and have given over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end, ⁶ therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will prepare you to blood and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.
⁷ Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation and I will cut off from it he who passes through and he who returns. ⁸ And I will fill its mountains with its slain. In your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses will fall who are slain with the sword. ⁹ I will make you a everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
¹⁰ Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries will be mine and we will possess it, and Jehovah was there, ¹¹ therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will do according to your anger and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them when I will judge you.
¹² And you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate. They are given us to devour. ¹³ And you* have magnified yourselves against me with your* mouth and made your* words abundant against me. I have heard it.
¹⁴ The lord Jehovah says thus: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. ¹⁵ As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir and all Edom, even all of it. And they will know that I am Jehovah.

²⁴ For I will take you* from among the nations and gather you* out of all the countries and will bring you* into your* own land.

²¹ And say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land.

²⁷ when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies' lands and am made holy in them in the sight of many nations.
²⁸ And they will know that I am Jehovah their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations and have gathered them to their own land. And I will leave none of them any more there,

¹¹ And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together and they will appoint themselves one head and will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

² And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn and the top of Carmel will wither.
³ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron. ⁴ But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. ⁵ And I will break the bar of Damascus and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven and he who holds the scepter from the house of Eden and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir, says Jehovah.
⁶ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they carried away captive the whole people, to deliver them up to Edom. ⁷ But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza and it will devour the palaces of it. ⁸ And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod and he who holds the scepter from Ashkelon. And I will turn my hand against Ekron and the remnant of the Philistines will perish, says the lord Jehovah.
⁹ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they delivered up the whole people to Edom and did not remember the brotherly covenant. ¹⁰ But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre and it will devour the palaces of it.
¹¹ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity. And his anger tore perpetually and he kept his wrath forever. ¹² But I will send a fire upon Teman and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.
¹³ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. ¹⁴ But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah and it will devour the palaces of it, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind. ¹⁵ And their king will go into captivity, he and his rulers together, says Jehovah.

¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and they will build the waste cities and inhabit them and they will plant vineyards and drink the wine of it. They will also make gardens and eat the fruit of them. ¹⁵ And I will plant them upon their land and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says Jehovah your God.

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

⁸ I have heard the reproach of Moab and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border. ⁹ Therefore as I live, says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab will be as Sodom and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits and a everlasting desolation. The residue of my people will make a prey of them and the remnant of my nation will inherit them.
¹⁰ They will have this for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁹ Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you. And I will save what is lame and gather what was driven away and I will make them a praise and a name, whose shame has been in all the earth. ²⁰ At that time I will bring you* in and at that time I will gather you*. For I will make you* a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I bring back your* captivity before your* eyes, says Jehovah.

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

⁸ For Jehovah of hosts says thus: After glory he has sent me to the nations which plundered you*. For he who touches you* touches the apple of his eye.

⁶ And I will strengthen the house of Judah and I will save the house of Joseph and I will bring them back. For I have mercy upon them and they will be as though I had not cast them off. For I am Jehovah their God and I will hear them. ⁷ And Ephraim will be like a mighty man and their heart will rejoice as through wine. Yes, their sons will see it and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Jehovah.
⁸ I will whistle for them and gather them. For I have redeemed them and they will increase as they have increased. ⁹ And I will sow them among the peoples and they will remember me in far countries. And they will live with their sons and will return.
¹⁰ I will also bring them again out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria. And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon and until space will not be found for them. ¹¹ And he will pass through the sea of affliction and will kill* the waves in the sea and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. And the pride of Assyria will be brought down and the scepter of Egypt will depart. ¹² And I will strengthen them in Jehovah and they will walk up and down in his name, says Jehovah.

² Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the peoples all around and upon Judah also it will be in the siege against Jerusalem.
³ And it will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
⁴ In that day, says Jehovah, I will kill* every horse with terror and his rider with madness. And I will open my eyes upon the house of Judah and will kill* every horse of the peoples with blindness.

¹⁸ We will not return to our houses until the sons of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

²⁰ until Jehovah gives rest to your* brothers, as to you* and they also possess the land which Jehovah your* God gives them beyond the Jordan, then you* will return every man to his possession, which I have given you*.

¹⁷ And it happened after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah examined Tyre and she has repented of her gift, that she play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. ¹⁸ And her merchandise and her pay will be holiness to Jehovah. It will not be treasured nor laid up, for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently and for durable clothing.

⁴⁷ Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Jehovah. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

⁶ But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the sons of Ammon, says Jehovah.

³⁹ But it will happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Jehovah.

¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and they will build the waste cities and inhabit them and they will plant vineyards and drink the wine of it. They will also make gardens and eat the fruit of them.

²⁰ You will fear Jehovah your God. Him you will serve and to him you will cling and by his name you will swear. ²¹ He is your praise and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.

⁷ that you* do not come among these nations, these that remain among you*, neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves down to them,

³⁵ but mingled themselves with the nations and learned their works, ³⁶ and served their idols, which became a snare to them.

⁸ If you do not know, O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents.

¹⁸ For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest and they roll upward in a column of smoke. ¹⁹ Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up and the people are as the fuel of fire; no man spares his brother.
²⁰ And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry. And he will eat on the left hand and they will not be satisfied. They will eat every man the flesh of his own arm– ²¹ Manasseh, Ephraim and Ephraim, Manasseh and together they will be against Judah.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

²³ In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria. And the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, ²⁵ in that Jehovah of hosts has blessed them, saying, Egypt my people is blessed and Assyria the work of my hands and Israel my inheritance.

²³ I have sworn by myself, the word has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness and will not return, that to me every knee will bow, every tongue will confess to God.

⁶ yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

⁵ To them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, that will not be cut off.
⁶ Also the foreigners who join themselves to Jehovah, to minister to him and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it and holds fast my covenant,

¹⁶ so that he who graces himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth. Because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hid from my eyes.

¹⁷ At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. Neither will they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

² And you will swear, As Jehovah lives, in truth, in justice and in righteousness. And the nations will bless themselves in him and in him they will glory.

² And though they say, As Jehovah lives, surely they swear falsely.

⁵ and those who worship the host of heaven upon the housetops and those who worship, who swear to Jehovah and swear by Malcam,

¹¹ And many nations will join themselves to Jehovah in that day and will be my people and I will dwell in the midst of you. And you will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me to you.

¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partner of the root and of the plumpness of the olive tree among them.

¹¹ For it has been written, ‘ As I live, says the Lord, that every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess to God.’

⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s cultivation, God’s building.

¹⁹ Therefore consequently, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the holy-ones and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone; ²¹ in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.

⁴ coming to whom is a living stone, having indeed been rejected by men, but chosen and precious with God. ⁵ You, yourselves, like living stones, are also built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ Because it is contained in the Scripture, ‘Behold, I place in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and the one who believes on him may never be ashamed.’

⁸ Ask of me and I will give you the nations as your inheritance and the outermost parts of the earth as your possession. ⁹ You will smash them with a rod of iron, you will dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
¹⁰ Now therefore be wise, O you* kings. Be instructed, you* judges of the earth. ¹¹ Serve Jehovah with fear and rejoice with trembling. ¹² Kiss the Son, lest he is angry and you* perish in the way, because his wrath will soon be kindled. All those who take refuge in him are fortunate.

¹² For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish. Yes, those nations will be utterly wasted.

¹⁴ Jehovah says thus against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from their land and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
¹⁵ And it will happen, after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. And I will bring them again, each man to his heritage and each man to his land.
¹⁶ And it will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Jehovah lives, even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people. ¹⁷ But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Jehovah.

⁷ At that instant I will speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,

²⁸ And it will happen that, just as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says Jehovah.

¹² But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong twigs were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

⁴ The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I beheld till the wings of it were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon two feet as a man and a man's heart was given to it. ⁵ And behold, another beast, a second, like a bear and it was raised up on one side and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it: Arise, devour much flesh. ⁶ After this I beheld, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had upon its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads and dominion was given to it.
⁷ After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, fearful and powerful and exceedingly strong. And it had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces and stamped the residue with its feet. And it was different from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns. ⁸ I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things.

⁴ And when he will stand up, his kingdom will be broken and will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled, for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.

¹⁶ And it will happen, that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts and to keep the feast of tabernacles. ¹⁷ And it will be, that of the families of the earth he who does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them there will be no rain.
¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, that there will be the plague with which Jehovah will kill* the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles. ¹⁹ This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

²⁷ However my enemies, those men who did not wish that I should reign over them, lead them here and slaughter them before me.

⁸ giving vengeance in a fire of flame to those who do not know God and to those who are not obeying the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁶ Because it is contained in the Scripture, ‘Behold, I place in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and the one who believes on him may never be ashamed.’ ⁷ Therefore, to those who believe is the honor, but to the disobedient, ‘ The stone which the builders rejected, this became to them the head of the corner'; ⁸ and, ‘A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense'; those who are stumbling in the word, being disobedient, toward which they were also appointed.