Jeremiah 10 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Hear the word of the Lord which he hath spoken for you house of Israel. ² Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the ways of the nations, and at the signs of heaven be not dismayed, because they are terrified at these appearances, ³ because the ordinances of the nations are vain. Timber is cut from the forest: ⁴ a carpenter's work and a molten image are adorned with silver and gold. Having fastened them with mallets and nails they will place them and they are not to be moved. ⁵ They are silver which can be turned in a lathe; they cannot walk. ⁶ They are silver which can be formed into plates. ⁷ [Omitted] ⁸ [Omitted] ⁹ From Tharsis will come the gold of Mophaz, and the hand of men skilled in casting gold. They are all the workmanship of artists. With blue and purple raiment they are to be clothed: ¹⁰ They must be taken up and carried; for they cannot walk. Fear them not for they can do you no harm, and there is no good in them. ¹¹ Thus shall you say to them. Let the gods, which have not made heaven and earth, perish from the earth and from under heaven. ¹² It is the Lord who made the earth by his power, who established the World by his wisdom: and by his understanding spread out the heaven, ¹³ and the multitude of waters in heaven: when he brought up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he made the lightning for rain, and brought light forth from his treasuries. ¹⁴ Every man on account of knowledge became foolish. Every melter of gold was put to shame for his graven images, because he cast falsities and there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ These ridiculous works are vain; in the time of their visitation they shall perish. ¹⁶ Unlike to these is the portion of Jacob: for he who formed all things is his inheritance. His name is, The Lord. ¹⁷ He hath collected from abroad the substance of thee, dwelling in chosen places. ¹⁸ For thus saith the Lord, Behold I am about to subvert with affliction the inhabitants of this land, that the stroke may reach thee. ¹⁹ Alas for thine affliction! the stroke given thee is painful. [p] Upon this I said, This is a wounding thee indeed! it hath sunk deep in thee! ²⁰ thy tent is in a miserable state. It is ruined. And all thy curtains are torn to pieces. [c] My children and my flocks are no more. There is not a trace of my tent left; no remains of my curtains. ²¹ [J] Because the shepherds were foolish and sought not the Lord, therefore the whole flock was thoughtless and they are scattered. ²² A noisy sound! Hark! it is coming. And a great commotion from the land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a desolation and a haunt of ostriches. ²³ [p] I know, Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, nor can a man who travelleth ensure to himself a prosperous journey. ²⁴ Correct us, O Lord, but with judgment and not with wrath, that thou mayst not make us few in number. ²⁵ Pour out thy wrath on the nations that knew thee not, and on the families which have not invoked thy name. Because they have devoured Jacob and consumed him, and have made his pasture a desolation.

¹ In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

⁶ Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water; and let it make a separation between water and water." And it was so. God made the firmament; and God made a separation between the water which was below the firmament

⁸ and the water which was above the firmament. And God called the firmament, heaven. And God saw that it was good. And there was an evening and there was a morning. The second day. ⁹ Then God said, "Let the water which is below the heaven be gathered into one receptacle and let the dry land appear."

¹⁰ And he said against to morrow. And Moses said, It shall be as thou hast spoken. That thou mayst know that there is no other besides the Lord;

¹⁴ For at this time I am going to send all my plagues into thy heart and the heart of thy servants and thy people, that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire streamed along the ground. And the Lord poured down a storm of hail on all the land of Egypt.

¹¹ Who among the gods is like thee, Lord? Who is like thee? Glorified among Holies; Marvellous among Glories; working miracles!

⁵ Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine:

³ you shall not do according to the customs of Egypt, in which you sojourned; nor shall you do according to the customs of the land of Chanaan, to which I am leading you; you shall not walk by their ordinances.

³⁰ Therefore you shall keep my ordinances that you may not practise any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you. You shall not pollute yourselves with them; for I the Lord am your God.

²³ You must not walk in the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you. Because they did all these things, therefore I held them in abhorrence,

²⁶ For what mortal, who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, can live.

³⁰ take heed to thyself that thou seek not to follow them after they are driven out from before thee, saying, How did these nations sacrifice to their gods? I will sacrifice in like manner. ³¹ Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they sacrificed to their gods the abominations of the Lord, which he hated; for they burned their sons, and their daughters, with fire, to their gods.

⁶³ therefore it shall come to pass, that as the Lord delighted in you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you, in rooting you out; and you shall be removed speedily from the land to which thou art going to take possession of it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord thy God will scatter thee among all the nations, from one extremity of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods; stocks and stones, which neither thou, nor thy fathers have known.

⁴ He is God, his works are perfect; All his ways are acts of judgment; A faithful God; he doth no injustice; Righteous and holy is the Lord.

⁹ And the Lord's portion was his people Jacob; Israel was his lot of inheritance.

²¹ They have provoked me by what is not God; Have exasperated me with their idols; I therefore will provoke them by what is not a nation, By a foolish nation I will vex them.

³¹ For their gods are not like our God; And our enemies are without understanding.

²⁶ There is none like the God of the Beloved. He who rideth on the heaven is thy helper, And be is mighty to give support.

⁴ Lord! in thy march out of Seir, When thou didst remove from the fields of Edom; The earth trembled, and heaven distilled dew; The clouds also distilled water.

¹⁷ Is it not now wheat harvest? I will invoke the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain, that you may know, and see that the evil is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king. ¹⁸ Then Samuel invoked the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that very day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

²¹ and do not transgress by following those imaginary beings which can effect nothing, and which cannot deliver, for they are nothing;

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³⁶ Thy servant hath slain a lion and a bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them. Shall I not 2:0 and smite him, and remove, this day, a reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised, that he should defy the army of the living God?

²⁹ Though a man may rise up to pursue thee, and seek thy life, yet will the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life by the Lord God; but the life of thy enemies thou shalt sling out with a sling.

²² with respect to the magnifying of thee, my Lord! that there is none like thee, and that there is not a god besides thee among all that we have heard of with our ears.

²² For the king had at sea a Tharsian fleet with the fleets of Chiram. One came every three years to the king from Tharsis, with gold and silver and stones wrought in a lathe or hewn with a chisel. This was an arrangement which king Solomon had made to provide for building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; and to fortify the city of David and Assur and Magdol and Gazer and upper Baithoron and Jethermath and all the chariot cities and all the cities for the cavalry, and for all the works which he purposed to construct in Jerusalem and in all the country, in order to keep in subjection all the remains of the Chettites and the Amorites and the Pherezites and the Chananites and the Evites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites, who were not of the children of Israel; The children of them who had been left with him in the land, whom the Israelites could not wholly extirpate, these Solomon subjected to a tribute which continueth to this day. But from the children of Israel he exacted nothing; because they were his warriors and his servants, his chiefs and his nobles, his charioteers and his horsemen.

²⁶ So they took the young bull, and prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning till noon, and said, Hearken to us, Baal! Hearken to us. But there was no voice. There was no answer; though they ran upon the altar which they had erected. ²⁷ And when it was noon, Elias the Thesbite mocked them, and said, Call louder; for he is a god; for he is engaged in meditation, or perhaps he is busy, or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked. ²⁸ Then they called with a loud voice, and according to their custom cut themselves with knives and lancets till there was a gush of blood upon them,

³⁹ Then all the people fell on their faces and said, Of a truth the Lord is God. He is very God.

⁴¹ Then Elias said to Achab, Go up and eat and drink, for there is a sound of coming rain.

⁴⁵ In the mean while the heaven gradually darkened with clouds and wind, and there came on a great rain, and while Achab wept and was travelling on to Jezrael ⁴⁶ the hand of the Lord was upon Elias and having girded up his loins, he ran before Achab to Jezrael.

¹⁹ Whereupon Michaias said, It is not so. It is not I. Hear a word of the Lord. Is not this the case? I saw the God of Israel seated on his throne, and all the hosts of heaven stood around him, some on the right and some on the left.

³ And though for a long time Israel may be without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

¹⁴ and having taken a view, I arose and said to the nobles, and to the officers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them. Remember our God who is great and terrible; and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives and your houses.

³² now therefore, our God, the Mighty, the Great, the Powerful and the Awful, who keepest thy covenant and thy mercy, let not all the trouble be accounted light in thy sight, which hath come upon us, and our kings, and our chiefs, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and on all thy people from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day.

¹⁸ Thus was I forsaken by all, and being undone, I became an outcast.

⁸ The eye of him who seeth me now shall not see me again. Thine eyes are upon me and I am gone.

⁶ who shaketh the earth to its foundations, so that the pillars thereof totter;

⁸ who alone hath outspread the heaven; and who walketh on the sea as on a pavement;

²¹ Such are the houses of the unrighteous, and such the place of them who know not the Lord.

⁷ He it is, who stretcheth out Boreas over empty space; who suspendeth the earth upon nothing;

²⁷ and by him the particles of rain can be counted. ²⁸ When they are collected into a cloud for rain, the heavens will pour down. But when the clouds cast a shade over the dumb creation he impressed a care on beasts, and they know the order for going to bed. ²⁹ At all these things is not thine understanding confounded? And is not thy heart starting from the body? Now though the outspread cloud be rushing together, to the whole extent of his pavilion, ³⁰ behold! with a clap of thunder he will expand it over him. He hath indeed covered the out branchings of the sea! ³¹ For with what he judgeth nations he can give food in abundance. ³² When with his hands he hath covered the light, and hath given provisional orders concerning food; ³³ the Lord will warn his friend that there is a portion also for injustice. Therefore

² Hear the report made by the fierce anger of the Lord! when a threat shall proceed from his mouth; ³ as his dominion extendeth over all under heaven, and his light over the wings of the earth; ⁴ after it he will thunder with a voice; he will thunder with the voice of his indignation. [And should it not make a change in those men when he shall cause his voice to be heard?] ⁵ With his voice the Almighty will thunder to our astonishment; for he hath done great things which we cannot comprehend;

²³ For these things great is the glory and honour of the Almighty. As we cannot find another equal to him in majesty; dost thou not think that he who judgeth righteously will hear? ²⁴ Men therefore ought to fear him. They indeed who are wise in heart, will fear him.

⁴ Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the earth? And tell me, if thou hast understanding, ⁵ who settled the measures of it? Dost thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it? ⁶ To what are the hooks of it fastened? And who laid the corner stone thereof? ⁷ When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

²² Hast thou gone to the treasuries of snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of hail?

²⁵ Who hath prepared a course for the tempest, ²⁶ and a way for impetuous storms to water the ground, where there is not a man; the desert where no man dwelleth; to saturate an untrodden, uninhabited land ²⁷ and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring?

³⁴ Canst thou summon a cloud with thy voice, and will it, with the trembling of a water spout, answer thee? ³⁵ Canst thou despatch thunders, that they may go, and will they say to thee, Here we are?

¹ For the conclusion, among Hymns for the eighth day. A Psalm by David. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath; nor chasten me in thine anger.

¹⁶ Let the Lord reign for ever and ever! Perish ye nations out of his land!

² The Lord looked down from heaven on the children of men; to see if any had understanding or were seeking God.

⁴ Will they all continue senseless? They are going on in a course of iniquity: they are eating up my people as they do bread: they have not called on the Lord.

⁵ The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou art he who restoreth me mine inheritance. ⁶ The lines have fallen to me in the best places: for this inheritance of mine is the best for me.

⁵ Establish my footsteps in thy paths; that my footsteps may not be moved.

⁷ Then was the earth shaken: it trembled; and the foundations of the hills were convulsed and shaken; because at mine enemies God was incensed.

¹³ Then the Lord thundered from heaven, the Most High uttered his voice:

²⁸ for the kingdom is the Lord's and he ruleth the nations.

² Upon the seas he laid its foundations; and established it upon the floods.

² When evil doers approached me, to devour my flesh; they, who afflicted me, even mine enemies fainted and fell.

³ The voice of the Lord on the waters! The God of the glory thundered! The Lord is over many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is with power: the voice of the Lord is with majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord rending the cedars! The Lord will rend the cedars of Lebanon, and shatter them to pieces: ⁶ as a young unicorn would a calf; so will the beloved [shatter] Lebanon itself. ⁷ The voice of the Lord bursting through a flame of fire! The voice of the Lord shaking the wilderness. ⁸ The Lord will shake the wilderness of Kades. ⁹ The voice of the Lord collecting the hinds; when he shall lay the forests bare. When in his temple every one uttereth praise; ¹⁰ the Lord will cause that which was deluged to be inhabited: and the Lord will sit enthroned king forever.

⁵ into thy hands I will commit my spirit. Thou, Lord the God of truth hast redeemed me.

⁶ By the word of the Lord the heavens were established, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.

¹⁰ Let all my bones say, Lord, who is like thee, who deliverest the afflicted from the hand of them who are stronger than he; the afflicted and needy from them who spoil him?

²³ The steps of a man will be directed by the Lord, when he taketh delight in his way.

¹ A Psalm for remembrance, respecting rest. Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath; nor chasten me in thine anger.

⁹ I was dumb and opened not my mouth: because thou art he who didst make me.

² My soul hath thirsted for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

¹ The Psalm of an Ode for the sons of Kore, on the second day of the week. The Lord is great and greatly to be praised; in the city of our God; on his holy mountain.

⁷ hear, my people and I will speak to thee; Israel and I will testify to thee! I am God, thy God I AM.

¹¹ God the Lord will issue an order to them, who publish good news to the mighty host;

³³ who rode on the eastern heaven of heaven. Behold with his voice he will utter a voice of power.

¹¹ Let all the kings pay him homage; all the nations serve as vassals.

²⁶ Hath my heart and my flesh failed? God is the strength of my heart; God is my portion forever.

² Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased of old; this portion of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed; this mount Sion on which thou hast dwelt.

⁷ Thou art terrible; who therefore can withstand thee, on the account of thine indignation.

¹⁰ Then I said, I have now made a beginning; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High.

¹⁸ The sound of thy thunder was in the round expanse: thy lightnings illumed the World; the earth shook and trembled.

⁶⁹ and built his sanctuary like that of unicorns; in this land he founded it for this age,

⁶ Pour out thy wrath on the nations that have not acknowledged thee; and on kingdoms which have not invoked thy name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste this place of his.

² my soul longeth, it panteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh exulted for the living God.

⁸ There is none among gods like thee, Lord: nor are any works to be compared to thine. ⁹ Let all the nations which thou hast made, come and worship before thee, Lord, and praise thy name;

⁹ Let all the nations which thou hast made, come and worship before thee, Lord, and praise thy name; ¹⁰ for thou art great and doest wonders; thou art the Only, the Great God.

⁶ For who in heaven can be compared to the Lord? Or who among the sons of God, likened to the Lord?

⁶ For who in heaven can be compared to the Lord? Or who among the sons of God, likened to the Lord? ⁷ God is glorified in the counsel of the holy; great and awful among all around him. ⁸ Lord, the God of hosts, who is like thee? Thou, Lord, art mighty and thy truth is around thee.

¹¹ whoever knoweth the power of thine anger, be taught, on the account of the terror of thy wrath,

⁶ A senseless man cannot know; nor can the foolish comprehend them.

¹ For the day preceding the Sabbath, when the World was stocked with inhabitants. The praise of an Ode by David. The Lord hath commenced his reign; hath robed himself with majesty. The Lord hath robed himself with power and girded it on. For he hath established the World, which cannot be shaken. ² From that time thy throne was prepared: thou thyself art from everlasting.

⁸ Consider I beseech you, ye brutish among the people. And ye fools, at length be wise.

⁴ That the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all the gods; ⁵ That all the gods of the nations are demons; But as for the Lord, he made the heavens.

⁴ His lightnings shot a glare through the World: the earth saw and trembled.

⁷ Let all the Worshippers of graven images, who boast of their idols, be confounded. worship him all ye his angels.

⁵ for the Lord is good; his mercy endureth forever; and his truth to all generations.

² clothing thyself with light as with a mantle; stretching out the heaven as a tent.

²⁴ How manifold are thy works, Lord, with wisdom thou hast done them all. The earth is filled with thy creatures;

³² When he looketh at the earth, he causeth it to tremble; when he toucheth the mountains, they smoke.

⁷ The earth was moved at the presence of the Lord; at the presence of the God of Jacob:

⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold; the workmanship of men's hands.

⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold; the workmanship of men's hands. ⁵ They have a mouth but cannot speak: though they have eyes, they cannot see. ⁶ Ears they have, but they cannot hear: having nostrils they cannot smell. ⁷ They have hands but they cannot feel: They have feet, but they cannot walk: nor can they utter a sound with their throat. ⁸ Let them who make them be like them; and all who have trusted in them.

⁸ Let them who make them be like them; and all who have trusted in them.

⁵⁷ CHETH. Thou, Lord, art my portion; I have determined to keep thy law.

⁹⁰ thy truth to all generations. Thou hast established the earth and it shall continue.

¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to thy word and keep me alive; and let me not be shamed for mine expectation. ¹¹⁷ Help me and I shall be saved; and I will meditate continually on thy statutes.

⁴ For the Lord hath made choice of Jacob for himself; of Israel for his peculiar treasure.

⁷ When he brought clouds from the end of the earth; he made lightnings for the purpose of rain. He it is who bringeth winds out of his treasuries:

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are gold and silver; the workmanship of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have a mouth, but cannot speak: eyes they have, but they cannot see; ¹⁷ they have ears, but they cannot hear; nor is there any breath in their mouth.

¹⁷ they have ears, but they cannot hear; nor is there any breath in their mouth. ¹⁸ May they who make them be like them; and all they who have trusted in them.

¹⁸ May they who make them be like them; and all they who have trusted in them.

⁵ to him who made the heavens with wisdom: for his mercy endureth forever; ⁶ to him who established the earth on the waters: for his mercy endureth forever;

⁵ To thee, O Lord, I cried and said, Thou art my hope; my portion in the land of the living.

³ The Lord is great and greatly to be praised; and of his greatness there is no end.

¹³ Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion, throughout all generations.

⁵ Happy he whose helper is the God of Jacob: his hope is in the Lord his God, ⁶ who made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all the things in them;

⁶ who made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all the things in them;

⁵ Great is our Lord and great his power; and infinite in his understanding.

⁸ to him who covereth the heaven with clouds; to him who provideth rain for the earth; to him who causeth grass to grow on mountains, and bladed corn for the use of man;

⁴ Praise him ye heavens of heavens: and thou water under the heavens! ⁵ let them praise the name of the Lord; for he spake and they were produced: he commanded and they were created.

¹⁹ By wisdom God founded the earth; and by understanding he furnished the heavens.

⁷ When the wicked is overthrown, he vanisheth: but the houses of the righteous shall remain.

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²⁴ The steps for a man are plainly set forth by the Lord: how then should a mortal consider his ways!

² For I am the most foolish of all men. And I have not the understanding of man in me.

⁴ Who hath ascended up to heaven and come down? Who hath collected the winds in his bosom? Who hath infolded the water in a mantle? Who hath a dominion over all the ends of the earth? What is his name? or what the name of his sons?

¹⁰ Hear a word of the Lord, chiefs of Sodom! Attend to the law of God, ye people of Gomorra!

⁴ And he will judge among the nations; and work conviction in many a people: and they shall beat their swords into plough shares; and their spears into pruning hooks: and nation shall not lift up a sword against nation; nor shall they learn war any more.

¹⁸ Then will they hide all these handiworks,

¹⁸ Then will they hide all these handiworks, ¹⁹ carrying them into caverns and clefts of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the lands. ²⁰ For on that day men will cast to the bats their abominations both of silver and gold, which they made to worship vanities; ²¹ that they may go into holes of the flinty rock: nay into the very clefts of the rock, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the land.

⁶ Shout for joy and be glad, inhabitants of Sion, for in the midst of it is exalted the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye afflicted men, and ye rulers of this people in Jerusalem!

⁴ That the Lord thy God may attend to the message of Rabsakes which the king of the Assyrians hath sent to reproach the Living God; and refute the words which the Lord thy God hath heard, thou shouldst pray to the Lord for these poor remains."

¹⁷ Incline, Lord, thine ear! Lord, hearken! Open, O Lord, thine eyes! Lord, look down and behold the words of Sennacherim which he hath sent to reproach the Living God.

¹⁸ to whom have you likened the Lord? and to what likeness have you compared him? ¹⁹ Hath a carpenter when he hath made an image, or the goldsmith when he hath melted gold and gilded it, prepared this as a likeness of him?

¹⁹ Hath a carpenter when he hath made an image, or the goldsmith when he hath melted gold and gilded it, prepared this as a likeness of him?

¹⁹ Hath a carpenter when he hath made an image, or the goldsmith when he hath melted gold and gilded it, prepared this as a likeness of him? ²⁰ for the carpenter chuseth a sound piece of timber and will inquire wisely, how he may place his image that it may not be moved.

²⁰ for the carpenter chuseth a sound piece of timber and will inquire wisely, how he may place his image that it may not be moved. ²¹ Will you not know? will you not hear? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not known the foundations of the earth? ²² He it is, who occupieth the circuit of the earth; and the inhabitants thereon are as grasshoppers. He it is, who established the heaven as an arch, and spread it out as a tent to be dwelt in;

²² He it is, who occupieth the circuit of the earth; and the inhabitants thereon are as grasshoppers. He it is, who established the heaven as an arch, and spread it out as a tent to be dwelt in; ²³ who giveth chiefs as a nothingness to govern: and hath made the earth as a mere nothing.

²³ who giveth chiefs as a nothingness to govern: and hath made the earth as a mere nothing. ²⁴ For they could not plant nor could they sow, nor could their root strike into the ground; he blew upon them and they withered, and a whirlwind will sweep them away like stubble. ²⁵ Now therefore to whom have you likened me; that I may be exalted? said the Holy One.

²⁵ Now therefore to whom have you likened me; that I may be exalted? said the Holy One. ²⁶ Raise your eyes upwards and take a view: who hath displayed all those? He who bringeth out his host by number can call them all by name. On the account of abundant glory, by reason of the mightiness of his power he hath in no wise escaped thy notice; ²⁷ wherefore, thou, Jacob, shouldst not say, yet what hast thou, Israel, spoken? "My way is hidden from God" and, "My God hath put off my cause and is gone." ²⁸ Hast thou then not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, the God who fitted up the ends of the earth, cannot hunger, nor can he be weary; nor can his under standing be searched out. ²⁹ He it is who giveth strength to the hungry and grief to them who have not had sorrow. ³⁰ For youths will hunger and young men be weary, and chosen warriors will become strengthless; ³¹ but they who wait upon God shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march on and shall not faint.

⁶ Every one is determining to help his neighbour and his brother, and one will say, ⁷ The carpenter had strength, so had the smith who beateth with a hammer and plateth it. Sometimes indeed one will say, "It is a beautiful composition?" These things they made strong with nails; they will fix them up that they may not be moved:

¹¹ Behold all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as nothing and all thine opponents shall be destroyed. ¹² Thou mayst seek but thou shalt not find the men, who through drunkenness will dare to insult thee. For they shall be as mere nothing: and they who war against thee shall be no more.

²³ Tell us, announce to us the things in successive train to the issue; and we will acknowledge that you are gods. Confer favours and inflict punishments, and we will pay respect and see at once, ²⁴ that wherever you are thence is your operation. They have chosen you an abomination from the earth;

²⁴ that wherever you are thence is your operation. They have chosen you an abomination from the earth;

²⁹ For are these they who made you? They are indeed those who vainly lead you astray.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the God who made the heaven and fixed it; who established the earth and the things therein and who giveth vital air to the people on it, and breath to them who tread thereon;

¹⁷ but as for them they have turned backwards! be whelmed in shame, ye who trust in graven images; who say to the molten images, ye are our gods.

²² I had not now called upon thee, Jacob, nor caused thee Israel, to weary thyself:

⁹ And have not then the fashioners and engravers heard? They are all fools making things to please their fancies; things which cannot profit them: but shame shall cover these god makers,

⁹ And have not then the fashioners and engravers heard? They are all fools making things to please their fancies; things which cannot profit them: but shame shall cover these god makers, ¹⁰ and all the engravers of these useless things.

¹⁰ and all the engravers of these useless things. ¹¹ When all by whom they were made are dried up; then let all the stupid among men be collected and stand together, and let them be confounded and ashamed together:

¹¹ When all by whom they were made are dried up; then let all the stupid among men be collected and stand together, and let them be confounded and ashamed together: ¹² for the carpenter sharpened an axe, with a hatchet he modelled it; then he put it into a lathe and with his strong arm fashioned it. Though he be hungry and faint, he must not drink water.

¹² for the carpenter sharpened an axe, with a hatchet he modelled it; then he put it into a lathe and with his strong arm fashioned it. Though he be hungry and faint, he must not drink water. ¹³ The carpenters having chosen a piece of wood framed it by rule and glued the parts together, and made it in the form of a man and with the comeliness of a man, to set it in a house. ¹⁴ He cut wood from the forest which the Lord planted; a pine tree, which the rain had nourished, ¹⁵ that it might be fuel for the use of man: and having taken some of it he warmed himself; and with other pieces they made a fire and baked cakes, and of the residue they made gods and worshipped them. ¹⁶ Did he not burn half of it in the fire, and, with the coals of that half, bake cakes; and having roasted meat with it did he not eat and was satisfied; and when warmed say, "Aha! I am warmed, I have enjoyed the fire?" ¹⁷ Yet of the residue he made a carve god, and worshippeth it, and prayeth to it, saying, "Deliver me, for thou art my God." ¹⁸ They had not sense to think; for they were so involved in darkness that they could not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts: ¹⁹ nor did any reason in his mind, nor by his understanding recollect, that he had burned half of it in the fire, and on the coals thereof baked cakes, and had roasted flesh and eaten, and of the residue had made an abomination; so they bow themselves down to it.

¹⁹ nor did any reason in his mind, nor by his understanding recollect, that he had burned half of it in the fire, and on the coals thereof baked cakes, and had roasted flesh and eaten, and of the residue had made an abomination; so they bow themselves down to it. ²⁰ Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they are led astray and none can deliver his soul. Take a view of it, will you not say, "There is indeed a lie in my right hand?"

²⁴ [J] Thus saith the Lord, who redeemed thee; even He who formed thee from the womb; I am the Lord the Maker of all things; I alone stretched out the heavens and firmly established the earth.

⁷ It was I who provided light and made darkness; who make peace and create evils: I the Lord God am he who doth all these things.

¹² It was I who made the earth and man on it: it was I who with my hand established the heaven: it was I who gave direction to all the stars.

¹⁶ let all that oppose him be ashamed and confounded and in shame let them march along. [J] Dedicate yourselves to me, ye islands!

¹⁸ Thus saith the Lord who made the heaven, the same God who displayed the earth to view, and who, having made it, parcelled it out: he did not make it to be waste, but formed it to be inhabited: I

²⁰ Assemble yourselves together and come; consult together ye who escape from among the nations. They are devoid of knowledge, who carry the wood; their carved image; and who pray to gods which cannot save them.

¹ Bel is fallen; Nabo is broken to pieces, Their graven images were a load for wild beasts and cattle, You are carrying them bound like a burden on the weary, fainty, and hungry, who are all without strength

⁵ To what have you likened me? Look! Contrive, ye wanderers!

⁷ They carry it on the shoulder and move on; but if they set it in its place, there it remaineth. It cannot move itself. And if any one cry to it, it cannot hear, nor can it save him from evils.

⁷ They carry it on the shoulder and move on; but if they set it in its place, there it remaineth. It cannot move itself. And if any one cry to it, it cannot hear, nor can it save him from evils. ⁸ Remember these things and groan; reform, ye who have been led astray: return with the heart ⁹ and remember the things of old, that I am God and there is none besides me,

⁴ Thy deliverer is the Lord of Hosts, his name is the Holy One of Israel.

⁶ I was angry with my people: thou didst pollute my heritage, I delivered them into thy hand: and thou didst shew them no mercy. The yoke of the aged thou madest very heavy,

¹² Persist now in thine incantations and in thy manifold sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth: if thou canst be benefited by them. ¹³ Thou hast wearied thyself with thy counsels: let the astrologers now stand up and save thee; let them who gaze on the stars tell thee what is instantly coming upon thee. ¹⁴ Behold like brambles on a fire they shall all be burned up; and shall not deliver their own life from the flame. Seeing thou hast coals of fire, sit upon them;

¹³ My hand hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath established the heaven. Let me summon them and let them stand together.

⁸ Thus saith the Lord, "In an acceptable time I have hearkened to thee, and in a day of salvation helped thee; and have formed thee and given thee for the covenant of nations that thou mayst reduce the earth to order and possess desolate heritages,

²⁰ therefore thy sons whom thou hast lost will say in thine ears, This place is too strait for me: make room for me, where I may dwell. ²¹ Whereupon thou wilt say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these for me? I indeed was childless and a widow, Who then hath brought up these for me? I was abandoned and alone; whence then have I these? ²² Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will lift up my hand to the nations, and I will erect my standard for the isles. And they shall bring thy sons in their bosoms and carry thy daughters on their shoulders:

¹⁵ Because I thy God am he who tempesteth the sea and causeth the billows thereof to roar; the Lord of Hosts is my name; ¹⁶ I will put my words in thy mouth, and cover thee under the shelter of my hand with which I made the heaven and founded the earth; and say to Sion, Thou art my people.

² Enlarge the place of thy tent and thy curtains; fix up; spare not; lengthen thy cords and make thy stakes strong.

⁵ thou shalt remember no more. For the Lord who is thy maker, whose name is the Lord of Hosts; even he who delivered thee, shall be called the God of Israel, in the whole earth.

¹⁰ you see that they are all blind; that they have not knowledge. They are dumb dogs, they cannot bark: they are asleep in bed, they love to slumber: ¹¹ yet these dogs are of untamed appetite; they can never have enough. They are indeed mischievous, they have no consideration. They all followed their own courses, every one according to his own purpose.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Most High, who on earth inhabiteth eternity, who is Holy among holies; whose name is THE MOST HIGH; who at rest in the holies giveth patience to the humble, and life to them who are of a contrite heart;

⁷ There is indeed none who invoketh thy name, or who remembered to lay hold on thee; because thou hast turned away thy face from us, and delivered us up for our sins.

¹⁵ For behold I am calling together all the kingdoms of the earth from the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come and set, every one his throne against the vestibules of the gates of Jerusalem and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Juda:

⁴ Hear a word of the Lord, house of Jacob and every family of the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus saith the Lord, What fault did your fathers find in me, that they have withdrawn from me; and have gone after vanities and become vain:

⁸ The priests did not say, "Where is the Lord?" and they who studied the law did not know me; the pastors also transgressed against me; and the prophets prophesied for Baal and went after an unprofitable thing.

²⁷ said to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me. And turned their backs to me and not their faces: yet in the time of their troubles they will say, Arise and save us.

⁶ Break up and flee to Sion; make all haste; tarry not: for I am bringing evils from the north and a great destruction.

¹⁹ [p] My bowels! my bowels are pained! and every sensation of my heart. My soul throbbeth! my heart is torn. I cannot keep silence; for my soul hath heard the trumpet's sound; the din of war and of distress. ²⁰ It calleth for contrition; for the whole land is in deep distress. My tent is suddenly whelmed in ruin; my curtains are rent to pieces. How long shall I see men fleeing!

²² [J] Because the rulers of my people did not know me, they are foolish children and devoid of understanding. They are wise to do evil; but to do good they have no knowledge.

³¹ For I have heard a sound as of one in labour; of thy groan, as of one who beareth her first child. [J] The voice of the daughter of Sion shall be weak: and she shall let her hands hang down. [p] Woe is me! for my soul fainteth on account of the slain.

¹⁵ Behold I am about to bring against you, house of Israel, saith the Lord, a nation from afar; a nation the sound of whose tongue thou wilt not understand.

²² Will you not fear me, saith the Lord, nor be struck with awe at the presence of me who have by an everlasting decree, made sand a boundary to the ocean, so that it shall not pass it. Though it be tossed with a tempest, it shall not prevail; though the waves thereof roar, they shall not overpass it.

³¹ land. The prophets prophesy falsehoods, and the priests clapped with their hands, and my people loved to have it so. Now what will you do in regard to the consequences?

¹ Assume courage ye sons of Benjamin who are from the midst of Jerusalem, and give a signal with the trumpet at Thekoe; and on Bethacharma erect a standard. Because evils from the north are apparent, and a great destruction is begun,

²² Thus saith the Lord, Behold a people is coming from the north; and nations shall be roused from the extremity of the earth:

⁹ Are the wise ashamed? They are indeed dismayed and taken. Because they rejected the law of the Lord; therefore be their wisdom what it may,

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¹⁶ From Dan we can hear the sound of the snorting of his horses; with the neighing of his cavalry the whole earth is shaken. [J] And on he will come and devour the land and the fulness thereof, the cities and them who dwell therein.

¹⁹ Hark! a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land!" Is not the Lord in Sion? Is he not king there?" Because they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with strange vanities.

²¹ at the destruction of the daughter of my people I was whelmed in darkness: in distress I was seized with pangs like those of a woman in travail.

¹ O that my head were water! and mine eyes a fountain of tears! That I might weep day and night for this people of mine; for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹¹ I will indeed deliver up Jerusalem to captivity and make it a den for jackals; and the cities of Juda an uninhabitable desolation.

⁶ They are silver which can be formed into plates.

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¹¹ Thus shall you say to them. Let the gods, which have not made heaven and earth, perish from the earth and from under heaven. ¹² It is the Lord who made the earth by his power, who established the World by his wisdom: and by his understanding spread out the heaven, ¹³ and the multitude of waters in heaven: when he brought up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he made the lightning for rain, and brought light forth from his treasuries. ¹⁴ Every man on account of knowledge became foolish. Every melter of gold was put to shame for his graven images, because he cast falsities and there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ These ridiculous works are vain; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁰ Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have defiled my portion, they have made my beloved portion a trackless desert:

¹⁵ [p] Hearken and give ear and be not elated; for the Lord hath spoken. ¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before the darkness cometh, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains; when you will wait for light; and the shadow of death will be there; and they shall be placed in darkness. ¹⁷ But if you will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret for your haughtiness; and tears shall gush from your eyes; because the flock of the Lord is destroyed.

¹⁷ Therefore thou shalt deliver to them this word: Collect tears for your eyes day and night and let them not fail; for with a bruise the daughter of My people is bruised, and the wound is exceedingly painful.

²² Is there any among the idols of the nations who can give rain? and if the heaven shed its abundance, art Thou not He who causeth it. Therefore we will wait on Thee, O Lord, for Thou hast done all these things

¹ Then the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul is not towards them. Send away this people and let them go. ² And if they say to thee, Whither shall we go? then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, such as are for pestilence, to pestilence, and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for famine, to famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

¹³ therefore I will hurl you out of this land, into a land which neither your nor your fathers knew; and you shall there serve strange gods which will shew you no mercy.

¹³ Thou, O Lord art the hope of Israel. Let all who forsake Thee be ashamed; let them who have apostatised be enrolled in the dust, because they have forsaken the Lord the fountain of lie.

¹³ Behold I am against thee who inhabitest the vale of Sor; that plain; Them who say who can terrify us? Or who can come into our habitation?

² and say, Hear a word of the Lord, king of Juda, who art seated on the throne of David, thou and thy household and thy people and they who enter in at these gates!

¹ HA! the shepherds are destroying and scattering the sheep of their pasture. ² Therefore thus saith the Lord to the shepherds of my people, You have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not watched them; behold I will punish you according to your malignant doings.

⁹ [p] My heart within me was broken. All my bones quivered. I was like a man sore bruised and like a man staggering with wine, at the presence of the Lord, and at the comeliness of his glory; ¹⁰ because on account of them the land mourned and the pastures of the wilderness were parched up; because their course was bad and suitably thereto their strength. ¹¹ [J] Because priest and prophet are polluted, and in my house I have seen their wickedness; ¹² let their way therefore be slippery and dark, that they may stumble and fall therein. For I will bring evils upon them in the year of their visitation. ¹³ Among the prophets of Samaria I saw indeed unlawful doings; they prophesied in the name of Baal and led my people Israel astray: ¹⁴ but among the prophets of Jerusalem I saw horrible things; some committing adultery, and some walking in lies, and some strengthening the hands of the multitude, that none might turn from his evil way. To me they are all become like Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof like Gomorra: ¹⁵ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will feed them with worm wood, and give them the water of gall to drink. Because from the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has gone forth through all the land, ¹⁶ thus saith the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the words of these prophets; for they contrive for themselves a foolish vision: they speak from their own hearts and not from the mouth of the Lord. ¹⁷ They say to them who reject the word of the Lord, "You shall have peace." Even to all who are walking by their own desires, and to every one walking in the error of his own heart they say, "Evils shall not come upon thee." ¹⁸ For which of them hath stood in the council of the Lord and seen? who hath hearkened and heard his voice?" ¹⁹ Behold a tempest from the Lord and wrath like a hurricane is issuing forth: it will come like a whirlwind upon the wicked; ²⁰ and from the purpose of his heart the wrath of the Lord will not turn away; until it hath executed it; and until he hath established it. In the last of these days they shall perceive this.

²⁰ and from the purpose of his heart the wrath of the Lord will not turn away; until it hath executed it; and until he hath established it. In the last of these days they shall perceive this. ²¹ I did not send these prophets, but they ran of themselves; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. ²² Now had they stood in the firm belief of me and heard my word, they might have turned my people from their wicked pursuits. ²³ I am God when near, saith the Lord; and am I not God when far off? ²⁴ Can any one hide himself in secret places; and I not see him? Do I not fill the heaven and the earth? saith the Lord. ²⁵ I have heard what these prophets speak; what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, "I have dreamed a dream." ²⁶ How long shall it be in the heart of these prophets, who prophesy lies, that by prophesying the desires of their own hearts; ²⁷ they may count upon causing my name to be forgotten, by their dreams which they tell, every one to his neighbour; as their fathers forgot my name by using Baal? ²⁸ Let the prophet, who hath a dream, tell his dream: and let him, to whom my word cometh, declare it with truth. Why is the chaff added to the wheat? ²⁹ Is not this the case with my words? saith the Lord. Behold are not my words like fire? saith the Lord; and like a sledge which breaketh a rock? ³⁰ Therefore behold I am against those prophets, saith the Lord, who steal my words every one from his neighbour. ³¹ Behold I am against those prophets, who belch forth prophesies of the tongue and drowse their dozy drowsings: ³² therefore behold I am against those prophets who prophesy false dreams. Have they not told them and led my people astray by their lies and their errors? As for me, I neither sent them nor commanded them; therefore they cannot in any wise benefit this people.

³⁶ So mention no more the burden of the Lord: since every man's word shall be his burden.

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¹⁵ There was heard at Rama a sound of lamentation and weeping and wailing; Rachel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted, because they are no more.

¹⁷ self-existent Lord, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and by thy high and exalted arm. From thee nothing can be hid. ¹⁸ Thou shewest mercy to thousands and retributest the sins of fathers into the bosoms of their children after them.

¹⁵ Then hear the word of the Lord, Thus said the Lord, If you set your face for Egypt, and go there to make your abode;

³² Let their camels be for a prey and the multitude of their cattle for slaughter." For I will winnow with every wind them who have their foreheads shaven and from all sides I will bring destruction on them, saith the Lord.

⁷ All that found them devoured them. Their enemies said, "Let us not spare them because they sinned against the Lord." He who gathered their fathers hath a pasture of righteousness:

¹⁷ Israel was a wandering sheep. Lions scared him away. The first who devoured him was the king of Assur, and this last, the king of Babylon gnawed his bones.

³⁴ therefore their Redeemer; the Mighty One, whose name is The Lord Almighty will plead their cause with their adversaries. In order that he may remove this land out of the way he will sharpen for the inhabitants of Babylon

¹⁵ [c] The Lord is he who made the earth by his power, who fitted up the World by his wisdom. By his understanding he stretched out the heaven. ¹⁶ At his voice there was in heaven a sound of water, and he brought up clouds from the extremity of the earth. He made the lightning for rain and brought out light from his treasuries. ¹⁷ Every man by knowledge became stupefied, every melter of gold was put to shame for his graven images; for their molten images were falsehoods, there is no breath in them.

¹⁷ Every man by knowledge became stupefied, every melter of gold was put to shame for his graven images; for their molten images were falsehoods, there is no breath in them. ¹⁸ They are works of vanity and objects of derision. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁸ They are works of vanity and objects of derision. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁸ They are works of vanity and objects of derision. In the time of their visitation they shall perish. ¹⁹ The portion of Jacob is not such as these, for he who formed all things is his inheritance: his name is the Lord.

¹⁹ The portion of Jacob is not such as these, for he who formed all things is his inheritance: his name is the Lord.

³⁵ [p] Let the inhabitants of Sion say, My troubles and my miseries be upon Babylon! and let Jerusalem say, My blood be upon the Chaldean inhabitants!

² She wept sore by night and her tears are on her cheeks: and of all her lovers there is none to comfort her. All her friends dealt treacherously with her. They became her enemies.

⁵ They who afflict her are become her head; and her enemies prosper. Because the Lord hath humbled her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children are gone into captivity before the oppressor.

¹² [s] Ho! all ye who travel the way turn and see! is there any sorrow like this of mine, which he hath denounced against me. The Lord hath humbled me in the day of his fierce indignation. ¹³ From his loftiness he hath sent a fire; he brought it in among my bones. He hath spread a net for my feet and turned me backwards. He hath made me desolate and full of sorrow, all the live long day. ¹⁴ He hath kept a watch on my transgressions. They are wreathed round my hands. They have reached up to my neck. My strength is enfeebled. For into my hands the Lord hath sent pains. I cannot stand. ¹⁵ From amidst me the Lord hath moved all my mighty men. He hath brought upon me the time for crushing my chosen bands. The Lord trod out a vat for the virgin daughter of Juda. ¹⁶ For these things I mourn. Mine eye hath flowed with water, because my comforter, he who is the supporter of my life, is far removed from me. My children are vanished because the enemy hath prevailed. ¹⁷ [p] Sion stretched forth her hand; there is none to comfort her. The Lord gave a command respecting Jacob; around him are they who afflict him. Jerusalem became among them, like one set apart as unclean. ¹⁸ [s] The Lord is righteous; for against his express commandment I rebelled. Hear I beseech you all ye peoples and behold my sorrow! my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. ¹⁹ I called on my lovers; but they with false excuses deceived me. My priests and my elders expired in the city, because they sought food to support their lives, but found none. ²⁰ Look, O Lord! because of my distress my bowels are troubled; and my heart within me is distracted, because I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword, and at home death have bereaved me of children. ²¹ Hear, I beseech thee! because I groan; there is none to comfort me. All mine enemies heard of my calamities, and rejoiced at what thou hast done. Thou hast brought on a day: thou hast proclaimed a time. They were like me, ²² let all their wickedness come before thee. Make search for them as they have made search for all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is afflicted with grief.

⁴ He bent his bow like an opposing enemy; like an adversary he strengthened his right hand and slew all the desires of mine eyes. In the tent of the daughter of Sion he poured out his wrath like fire. ⁵ The Lord became like an enemy. He overwhelmed Israel. He sunk her palaces. He destroyed his own munitions, and multiplied on the daughter of Juda humiliation on humiliation. ⁶ He laid open like a vineyard his own dwelling; he marred his own festivals. The Lord forgot the festivals and sabbaths which he had established in Sion, and by the rebuke of his anger vexed king and priest and chief.

¹¹ Mine eyes failed with tears; my heart was astounded. My glory was poured on the ground for the distress of the daughter of my people when the infant and suckling expired in the streets of the city. ¹² To their mothers they said, "Where is corn and wine, "when they were fainting like wounded men in the streets of the city; when they were pouring out their souls in their mothers' bosom. ¹³ What shall I take to witness for thee? Or to what shall I liken thee, daughter of Jerusalem? Who can save and comfort thee, virgin daughter of Sion? Because thy cup of ruin hath been large, who can heal thee? ¹⁴ Thy prophets saw vanities and follies for thee; they made no revelations against thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity, but saw for thee false burdens and expellings. ¹⁵ All that passed by clapped their hands for thee, they expressed the sound of pity and shaked their heads for the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this, say they, the city, the crown of joy of the whole earth! ¹⁶ Against thee all thine enemies opened their mouth; they hissed and gnashed their teeth and said, We have swallowed her up; but this is the day we looked for; we have found it; we have seen it. ¹⁷ The Lord hath done what he purposed. He hath executed his decree, what he enjoined in days of old. He hath destroyed and hath not spared. He hath caused an enemy to rejoice over thee. He hath exalted the horn of thine oppressor. ¹⁸ Their heart cried to the Lord.! walls of Sion cause tears to flow down like a torrent day and night. Give thyself no rest; let not the daughter of thine eyes be silent. ¹⁹ Arise, chant praise in the night at setting thy watch. Pour out thy heart like water before the Lord; lift up thy hands to him for the life of thine infants, who are perishing with hunger at the head of every street. ²⁰ Look, O Lord, and see. For whom hast thou caused such a search to be made? Shall women eat the fruit of their womb! The cook hath made search! Shall infants at the breast be butchered? Wilt thou slay in the sanctuary of the Lord, priest and prophet? ²¹ On the high way lie the youth and the elder. My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity; with sword and with famine thou hast slain; in the day of thine anger thou hast slaughtered and hast not spared. ²² He called my sojourners from all around to a solemn festival, so that in the day of the indignation of the Lord none escaped or were left. As I excelled in power so have I multiplied all mine enemies.

²² He called my sojourners from all around to a solemn festival, so that in the day of the indignation of the Lord none escaped or were left. As I excelled in power so have I multiplied all mine enemies.

¹⁸ so my strength was destroyed and the hope which I had from the Lord. ¹⁹ I recollected because of mine affliction. When by reason of persecution, my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; ²⁰ then on myself will my soul meditate. ²¹ I will lay this up in my heart.

²⁴ The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore I will wait for him.

³⁹ Why should a living man murmur; a man for his sin offering? ⁴⁰ Our way hath been searched and tried; let us then return to the Lord.

⁴⁸ Let streams of water be collected by mine eye, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁶⁶ Thou wilt give them for a shield the sorrow of my heart. Thou wilt pursue them with indignation, and destroy them utterly from under heaven.

¹⁰ and acknowledge that I the lord have spoken.

³ do thou therefore, son of man, provide thyself utensils for a day of captivity, in their sight. And thou shalt be carried captive from this place of thine to another place, in their sight, that they may see. ⁴ Because they are a rebellious house, therefore thou shalt carry out thy utensils, the utensils for a day of captivity, before their eyes. And thou shalt go out in the evening in their sight, as a captive goeth out. ⁵ Make for thyself a breach in the wall and thou shalt go out through that, in their sight. ⁶ Thou shalt be taken up upon shoulders and shalt go out in a secret manner. Thou shalt cover thy face and not see the ground, for I have made thee a sign for the house of Israel. ⁷ So when I had done according to all that he had commanded me; and had carried out utensils for a day of captivity, and made in the evening a breach for myself in the wall, and had gone out in a concealed manner, being taken up upon shoulders in their sight; ⁸ a word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying, ⁹ Son of man, Did not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, say to thee, What art thou doing? ¹⁰ Say respecting them, Thus saith the Lord, Lord; With respect to him who is the chief, and the ruler in Jerusalem, even to all the house of Israel, who are among them ¹¹ say, I am acting signs. As I have done, so shall it be with them. They shall go into banishment and captivity. ¹² And the chief in the midst of them shall be carried upon shoulders. He will go out in a secret manner through the wall; and a breach will be made for him to go out through it. He will cover his face that he may not be seen and he himself shall not see the ground.

³² And though this should come into your mind it shall not be as you say, "We will be like the nations and like the tribes of the earth in worshipping stocks and stones."

²⁵ Its princes in the midst of it were like roaring lions, ravening prey, devouring souls by oppression, yet receiving honours; and thy widows were multiplied in the midst of thee. ²⁶ Its priests also despised my law and profaned my holy things; between what was holy and what was profane they made no difference, nor did they distinguish between the unclean and the clean. And from my sabbaths they hid their eyes and I was profaned in the midst of them. ²⁷ Its chiefs in the midst of it were like wolves, ravening prey, to the shedding of innocent blood, that they may glut their greediness. ²⁸ They shall fall together with its prophets who anointed them, seeing vanities, prophesying lies, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Though the Lord did not speak, ²⁹ crushing by usurped authority the people of the land, and ravening prey, oppressing the poor and needy, and paying no regard to strangers to the administration of justice. ³⁰ Though I sought among them for a man of integrity and for one who stood uprightly before me in the time of indignation that I might utterly destroy it, yet I found none:

⁶ For thus saith the Lord, Because thou didst clap thy hands and stamp with thy feet, and exult in thy soul over the land of Israel: ⁷ therefore I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and deliver thee up for a spoil to the nations: and I will utterly destroy thee from among the peoples, and cause thee to perish out of the countries, and you shall know that I am the Lord. ⁸ Thus saith the Lord, Because Moab said, Behold! shall not the house of Israel and Juda be like all the nations?

¹² The Karchadians purchased of thee for exportation, from thy vast stock of all kinds of merchandize; and paid thee for their purchases silver and gold and iron and tin and lead.

² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel: prophesy and say to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Shepherds of Israel! Do shepherds feed themselves? Do not the shepherds feed their flocks? ³ Behold you devour the milk and clothe yourselves with the fleeces, and that which is fat you slaughter; but my flock you do not feed. ⁴ You have not strengthened the weak, nor cured the diseased. That which was bruised you have not bound up, nor brought back that which was going astray; nor have you searched for that which was lost: but you have wearied out the strong with toil, ⁵ so that my flock is dispersed for want of shepherds, and is become a prey to all the wild beasts of the field. ⁶ On every mountain and on every high hill my sheep are scattered, and dispersed over the face of the earth; and there is none who seeketh or bringeth them back. ⁷ Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of the Lord! ⁸ As I live, saith the Lord, Because my flock is become a prey, and my sheep are become meat for all the wild beasts of the field, beyond what they would be were there no shepherds; and the shepherds have not looked out for my sheep, and the shepherds have fed themselves and have not tended my sheep; ⁹ Therefore, shepherds, ¹⁰ thus saith the Lord, Lord, behold I am against the shepherds; and I will exact my sheep out of their hands, and discharge them from feeding my sheep: and these shepherds shall no longer feed them. I will rescue my sheep out of their mouth; that they may be no longer food for them.

¹² As a shepherd searcheth for his flock when mist and murky air overspread his scattered sheep: so will I diligently seek my sheep, and bring them from every place, where they have been dispersed in the day of mist and murky darkness.

⁵ Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy and didst deceitfully lie in wait for the house of Israel; hast been a sword in the hand of enemies, in the time of revolt, in their last extremities; ⁶ therefore as I live, saith the Lord, Lord, as thou hast sinned unto blood, blood shall pursue thee. ⁷ And I will make the mountain of Seir an entire desert; and I will destroy from it men and cattle, ⁸ and fill with the wounded thy hills and thy vallies: and in all thy plains, the victims of the sword shall fall in thee. ⁹ I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall no more be inhabited, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. ¹⁰ Because thou saidst, "The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I will possess them, though the Lord is there."

³ How great and mighty is his kingdom. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom; and his dominion is to endless ages.

³⁴ And at the end of the days I Nabuchodonosar lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and mine understanding was restored to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and glorified him who liveth forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion and his kingdom is to endless generations,

²⁶ From my presence this decree is established, that in every government of my kingdom men tremble and be struck with awe at the presence of the God of Daniel; for he is the living God and endureth forever, and his kingdom can never be destroyed and his dominion will be to the end.

¹⁴ And to him was given the government and the honour and the kingdom; and all the peoples, tribes and languages are to serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall never pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed.

⁵ I raised mine eyes and looked, and lo! a man clothed with a flowing robe and his loins girded with gold of Ophaz,

¹ [p] Hear a word of the Lord, children of Israel! the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of this land; because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land;

¹² They consulted by symbols and gave them answers by their staves. By a spirit of fornication they were led astray; and they went a whoring from their God.

⁴ They made kings for themselves but not by me; they set up a government and did not consult me; of their silver and gold they made idols for themselves that they might be utterly cut off. ⁵ Away with thy calf, Samaria! my wrath is kindled against them. ⁶ How long shall things which cannot be made clean be in Israel? A carpenter made it; it is no God. Because thy calf, Samaria, was an imposture;

¹¹ and the Lord will utter his voice before his army. Because the circuit of his camp is very large; because the operation of his words is irresistible; because the day of the Lord is great, extremely awful; who therefore shall be able to abide it?

¹⁶ Now therefore hear a word of the Lord, Thou sayst, "Prophesy not against Israel, " and "Thou shalt not give any disturbance to Israel."

¹⁰ On account of the impious slaughter of thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. ¹¹ From the day that thou didst become an adversary, whenever the Philistines captivated his army, or strangers entered his gates and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them. ¹² But thou shouldst not have looked on thy brother's day in the day of strangers; nor rejoiced over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction; nor shouldst thou have vaunted in the day of affliction; ¹³ nor entered people's gates in the day of their distresses. Thou especially shouldst not have beheld their congregation in the day of their destruction, nor joined to fall on their army in the day of their defeat; ¹⁴ nor beset the passes to cut off such of them as were escaping; nor shouldst thou have hemmed in his fugitives, in a calamitous day. ¹⁵ Because the day of the Lord, against all the nations is near; as thou hast done so shall it be done to thee: thy dealings shall be returned on thy head. ¹⁶ For in the same manner as thou hast drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations shall be drunk up as wine. They shall be drunk up and swallowed down, and be as if they had never been.

⁸ They who worship vanities and lies have forsaken their mercy:

⁴ and under him the mountains will tremble, and the vallies shall melt like wax before fire, and be like water rolling down a precipice.

¹⁰ Arise and depart, for this is not a rest for thee. By reason of impurity you are utterly corrupted:

⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him; until he vindicate my cause. He will do me justice and bring me out into light;

⁶ At the presence of his wrath who can stand, or who can resist his fierce indignation? His wrath dissolveth governments, and by him the rocks are rent to pieces.

⁶ For lo! I am raising up the Chaldeans that bitter and hasty nation, which marcheth over the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellings which belong not to them. ⁷ He is terrible and illustrious; his judgment will be from himself, and from himself his prophesy will proceed. ⁸ His horses can out leap leopards and are swifter than the lynxes of Arabia. When his horsemen have mounted, they will rush impetuously from afar, and will fly like an eagle, eager for prey. ⁹ Destruction will come on the wicked who set themselves against him; and he will gather captives like the sand.

¹⁸ Of what avail is a graven thing, that they have engraved it? Did one cause a molten mass, a false fantasy, to be cast, because the caster had a confidence that by casting he would make dumb idols?

¹⁸ Of what avail is a graven thing, that they have engraved it? Did one cause a molten mass, a false fantasy, to be cast, because the caster had a confidence that by casting he would make dumb idols? ¹⁹ Woe to him who saith to Wood, Awake; arise. And to stone, be thou exalted. The one is indeed a fantasy; and the other, a plating of gold and silver: there is no breath in it.

¹⁹ Woe to him who saith to Wood, Awake; arise. And to stone, be thou exalted. The one is indeed a fantasy; and the other, a plating of gold and silver: there is no breath in it.

² Lord, I have heard the report of thee and am terrified; I have considered thy works and am struck with amaze. In the midst of two living beings thou wilt be known; when the years draw nigh thou wilt be acknowledged; when the time is come thou wilt be pointed out: when my soul is troubled, in wrath remember mercy.

⁶ He stood and the earth was shaken: he looked, and nations melted away: the mountains were violently convulsed, the everlasting hills melted.

¹⁰ peoples shall see and be in pangs." Thou art scattering the rolling waters. The deep roared. It swelled high.

³ Let man and beast perish. Let the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea perish. As for the wicked, they shall be without strength; and I will remove transgressions from the face of this land, saith the Lord. ⁴ I will indeed stretch forth my hand against Juda, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will remove out of this place the names of Baal and the names of her priests;

⁶ and them who turn aside from the Lord, and them who seek not the Lord, and them who cleave not to him.

¹¹ The Lord will display himself illustriously against them, and will root out all the gods of the nations of the earth, and all the isles of the nations shall worship him, every one from his place;

⁸ [J] On that very account, wait thou for me, saith the Lord, until the day of my resurrection for a testimony. For this judgment of mine is for the assemblies of nations; to admit kings, to pour out all the fury of my wrath on them. For by the fire of my zeal all this land shall be utterly destroyed,

⁶ But receive ye my words and my statutes; all that I, by my spirit, give in charge to my servants the prophets, who reached your fathers, when they addressed them and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to deal with us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so hath he dealt with us."

¹⁵ and with great wrath I am angry with the nations who were set on. Because I was indeed a little displeased, but they were bent on mischief;

¹¹ and many nations will flee to the Lord in that day, and be his people and dwell in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty hath sent me to thee.

¹ ask ye of the Lord, rain in its season, the former and latter rain. The Lord hath made appearances, and he will give rain in plenty; to every one herbage in his field. ² Because the prophesiers spoke of labours, and the diviners told false visions and lying dreams; gave false comfort, therefore they were dried up. Like sheep they were afflicted. Because there was no healing; ³ against the shepherds my wrath is kindled; but over the lambs I will keep a strict watch. The Lord God Almighty will indeed watch over his flock, the house of Juda, and he will array them as his comely horse in battle.

¹ The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. The Lord who stretcheth out the heaven and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him,

² And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land; and there shall no more be a remembrance of them. And I will remove the false prophets and the unclean spirit out of the land.

⁷ Awake, sword, against my shepherds, and against my chief citizen, saith the Lord Almighty; I will smite the shepherds and the sheep shall be scattered and I will bring my hand on the little ones.

³ and slighted Esau and made his borders a waste, and the houses of a desert his inheritance.

¹¹ Since from the risings of the sun to its goings down my name hath been glorified among the nations; and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure sacrifice; since my name is great among the nations, saith the Lord Almighty,

² And who can abide the day of his coming? Or who can stand his appearance? Since he is coming like the fire of a refiner's furnace; and like the soap of the fullers.

⁷ And when you pray, use not a vain multiplicity of words as the heathen do. For they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.

¹⁶ Upon this Peter, in reply, said, Thou art The Christ, the son of the living God.

¹⁵ Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place, [reader attend!]

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. Then the chief priest addressing him, said, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the son of God.

⁵¹ And lo! the veil of temple was rent in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent ⁵² and the tombs were opened. And many bodies of saints, composed to rest, were awakened.

⁵ but I will point out to you whom you should fear; Fear him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. I repeat it to you, Fear him.

²⁵ There will indeed be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth, anguish of desponding nations, while the sea is roaring and the billows thereof; ²⁶ and men are fainting with fear and apprehension of the things which are coming on the world. For the powers of heaven will be shaken, ²⁷ and they shall then see the son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory. ²⁸ Now when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, for your deliverance is drawing near.

³ By him all things were made, and without him there was not made one single thing.

¹² But the hireling, who is not the shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not belong, when he seeth the wolf coming leaveth the sheep and fleeth; and the wolf seizeth some and scattereth the sheep. ¹³ The hireling fleeth because he is a hireling and careth not for the sheep.

³ Now this is the life everlasting that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

²⁵ Righteous Father, though the world did not know thee, I knew thee, and these have known that thou didst send me.

¹⁵ and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We are only frail mortals like yourselves, proclaiming to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and all the things which are therein;

²³ For as I passed along and beheld the objects and instruments of your devotion, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Him, therefore whom you worship without knowing him, I announce to you.

²¹ because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks, but became vain by their ill- grounded reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened;

²¹ because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks, but became vain by their ill- grounded reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened; ²² pretending to be wise, they became fools,

²² pretending to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for an image representing coruptible man, and birds, and four footed beasts, and reptiles;

¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and abolish the understanding of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this age? Hath not God shewn the wisdom of this world to be folly?

⁴ Therefore in respect to the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world: and that there is no other God but one.

² You know that you were Gentiles carried away to dumb idols just as you were led.

³⁴ Be righteously sober and sin not. For some have not a knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

¹⁶ Because all the things which are in the heavens and which are on the earth were created by him, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, they were all created by him, and for him;

⁹ For they themselves relate concerning us what an entrance we had among you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the living and true God,

¹³ On this account also we give thanks to God continually, because, when you received from us this message of God, you embraced it, not as a word of men, but, as it really is, a word of God, which operateth with powerful effect in you who believe.

⁵ not in lustful indulgence, like the nations which know not God;

⁸ executing, with flaming fire, vengeance on them who know not God, and on them who hearken not to the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ Now to the king of the ages; the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, be honour and glory, for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹⁷ Charge them who are rich in this present state not to be high minded; not to trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who imparteth to us richly all things for enjoyment;

³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

¹⁸ knowing that from that vain course of life, handed down to you from your fathers, you have been redeemed not with perishable things such as silver and gold,

²⁰ and we know that the son of God is come, and hath given us understanding that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, and in his son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the life eternal.

²⁹ Let him who hath an ear, hear what the spirit saith to the congregations.

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel sounded and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of the world are become [the kingdom] of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for the ages of the ages.

¹⁴ and it leadeth astray the dwellers on the earth by the signs which it had power to do in the presence of the beast; commanding the inhabitants of die earth to make an image of the beast which had the wound of a sword and lived. ¹⁵ And power was granted to it to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might speak and cause all to be slain who would not worship the image of the beast.

⁴ Who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone art perfect. For all the nations will come and worship before thee, For thy rules of rectitude are made manifest.

² and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent which is the Devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat thereon from whose presence the earth and the heaven fled away and there was no place found for them.