Psalms 79 Cross References - YLT

¹ A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps, ² They gave the dead bodies of Thy servants Food for the fowls of the heavens, The flesh of Thy saints For the wild beast of the earth. ³ They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying. ⁴ We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders. ⁵ Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.
⁶ Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name. ⁷ For one hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate. ⁸ Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak. ⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, Because of the honour of Thy name, And deliver us, and cover over our sins, For Thy name's sake. ¹⁰ Why do the nations say, `Where is their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed. ¹¹ Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before Thee, According to the greatness of Thine arm, Leave Thou the sons of death. ¹² And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord. ¹³ And we, Thy people, and the flock of Thy pasture, We give thanks to Thee to the age, To all generations we recount Thy praise!

¹⁷ Thou dost bring them in, And dost plant them In a mountain of Thine inheritance, A fixed place for Thy dwelling Thou hast made, O Jehovah; A sanctuary, O Lord, Thy hands have established;

¹² therefore thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Lo, I am bringing in evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever heareth of it, tingle do his two ears. ¹³ And I have stretched out over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and wiped Jerusalem as one wipeth the dish—he hath wiped, and hath turned it on its face. ¹⁴ `And I have left the remnant of Mine inheritance, and given them into the hand of their enemies, and they have been for a prey and for a spoil to all their enemies, ¹⁵ because that they have done the evil thing in Mine eyes, and are provoking Me to anger from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.' ¹⁶ And also, innocent blood hath Manasseh shed very much, till that he hath filled Jerusalem—mouth to mouth; apart from his sin that he hath caused Judah to sin, to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹³ and bringeth out thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, and cutteth in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of Israel made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had spoken.

⁴ then the city is broken up, and all the men of war go by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that are by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans are against the city round about, and the king goeth the way of the plain. ⁵ And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him; ⁶ and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him—judgment. ⁷ And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon.
⁸ And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month (it is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), hath Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners, servant of the king of Babylon, come to Jerusalem, ⁹ and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, yea, every great house he hath burned with fire; ¹⁰ and the walls of Jerusalem round about have all the forces of the Chaldeans, who are with the chief of the executioners, broken down.

³ and turn him aside doth the king of Egypt in Jerusalem, and fineth the land a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold; ⁴ and the king of Egypt causeth Eliakim his brother to reign over Judah and Jerusalem, and turneth his name to Jehoiakim; and Jehoahaz his brother hath Necho taken, and bringeth him in to Egypt.

⁶ against him hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon come up, and bindeth him in brazen fetters to take him away to Babylon. ⁷ And of the vessels of the house of Jehovah hath Nebuchadnezzar brought in to Babylon, and putteth them in his temple in Babylon.

¹⁷ And He causeth to go up against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slayeth their chosen ones by the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and hath had no pity on young man and virgin, old man and very aged—the whole He hath given into his hand.

¹⁹ And they burn the house of God, and break down the wall of Jerusalem, and all its palaces they have burnt with fire, and all its desirable vessels—to destruction.

¹ An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture. ² Remember Thy company. Thou didst purchase of old, Thou didst redeem the rod of Thy inheritance, This mount Zion—Thou didst dwell in it. ³ Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary. ⁴ Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns.

⁷ They have sent into fire Thy sanctuary, to the earth they polluted the tabernacle of Thy name, ⁸ They said in their hearts, `Let us oppress them together,' They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.

⁷¹ From behind suckling ones He hath brought him in, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance.

¹² Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it? ¹³ A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.

⁶ I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,

¹⁸ `Micah the Morashtite hath been prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he saith unto all the people of Judah, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Zion is a plowed field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mountain of the house is for high places of a forest.

⁸ And the house of the king, and the house of the people, have the Chaldeans burnt with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem they have broken down.

¹³ and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he hath burned with fire,

¹⁰ His hand spread out hath an adversary On all her desirable things, For she hath seen—Nations have entered her sanctuary, Concerning which Thou didst command, `They do not come into the assembly to thee.'

²⁰ As to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things—they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity, ²¹ And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have polluted it.

⁷ And they begin among the aged men who are before the house, and He saith unto them, `Defile the house, and fill the courts with the wounded, go forth.' And they have gone forth and have smitten in the city.

¹² Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house is for high places of a forest!

²⁴ and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.

² and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;

²⁶ and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling.

³³ And the carcase of this people hath been for food To a fowl of the heavens, and to a beast of the earth, And there is none troubling.

³ And I have appointed over them four kinds, an affirmation of Jehovah, The sword to slay, and the dogs to drag, And the fowl of the heavens, And the beast of the earth, to consume and to devour.

⁴ Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.

⁷ And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,

²⁰ yea, I have given them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and their carcase hath been for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth.

¹⁰ Why do the nations say, `Where is their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.

⁷ As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.

¹ At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, They bring the bones of the kings of Judah, And the bones of its princes, And the bones of the priests, And the bones of the prophets, And the bones of inhabitants of Jerusalem, Out of their graves, ² And have spread them to sun, and to moon, And to all the host of the heavens, that they have loved, And that they have served, And that they have walked after, And that they have sought, And to which they have bowed themselves, They are not gathered, nor buried, They are for dung on the face of the ground.

¹⁶ And the people to whom they are prophesying, Are cast into out-places of Jerusalem, Because of the famine, and of the sword, And they have none burying them, Them, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, And I have poured out upon them this evil.

³³ And the pierced of Jehovah have been in that day, From the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth, They are not lamented, nor gathered, nor buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are.

³⁵ that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:

³⁶ (according as it hath been written—`For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

⁹ and they shall behold—they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations—their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs,

⁶ because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'

⁶ And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder—having seen her—with great wonder;

²⁴ and in her blood of prophets and of saints was found, and of all those who have been slain on the earth.'

³⁷ and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.

⁷ then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples;

¹⁹ And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, `What is this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'

¹ And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard that we are building the wall, that it is displeasing to him, and he is very angry and mocketh at the Jews, ² and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What are the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? —and they burnt!' <sup>3</sup> And Tobiah the Ammonite is by him and saith, `Also, that which they are building—if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.' ⁴ Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;

¹³ Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders. ¹⁴ Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.

⁶ Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it.

⁴¹ Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

⁹ And I have given them for a trembling, For evil—to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.

¹⁸ Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as at this day.

¹⁸ for thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: As poured out hath been Mine anger and My fury on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so poured out is My fury upon you in your entering Egypt, and ye have been for an execration, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach, and ye do not see any more this place.

¹⁵ Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed—and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: `Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?' <sup>16</sup> Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed her up, Surely this is the day that we looked for, We have found—we have seen.'

¹ Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

¹² And thou hast known that I—Jehovah, I have heard all thy despisings that thou hast spoken Against mountains of Israel, saying: A desolation, to us they were given for food.

³ therefore, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because, of desolating, And of swallowing you up from round about, For your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, And ye are taken up on the tip of the tongue, And are an evil report of the people.

¹⁵ And I proclaim not unto thee any more the shame of the nations, And the reproach of peoples thou bearest no more, And thy nations stumble not any more, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

¹⁶ `O Lord, according to all Thy righteous acts, let turn back, I pray Thee, Thine anger and Thy fury from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mount, for by our sins, and by the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people are for a reproach to all our neighbours;

²⁰ Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,

¹⁶ They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

²² For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol—the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains.

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? —for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me? ² Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?

¹ An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.

⁹ Our ensigns we have not seen, There is no more a prophet, Nor with us is one knowing how long. ¹⁰ Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?

⁴ Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

⁵ To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

⁴⁶ Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?

⁹ Not for ever doth He strive, Nor to the age doth He watch.

⁹ Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people are we all.

⁵ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Have I not, in the fire of My jealousy, Spoken against the remnant of the nations, And against Edom—all of it, Who gave My land to themselves for a possession, With the joy of the whole heart—with despite of soul, For the sake of casting it out for a prey?

¹⁸ Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He—He delighteth in kindness.

¹⁸ Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!

⁸ Therefore, wait for Me—an affirmation of Jehovah, For the day of My rising for prey, For My judgment is to gather nations, To assemble kingdoms, To pour out on them Mine indignation, All the heat of Mine anger, For by the fire of My jealousy consumed is all the earth.

¹⁰ and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'

¹⁶ Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah. ¹⁷ The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

⁴ Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

⁴ Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.

²⁴ Pour upon them Thine indignation, And the fierceness of Thine anger doth seize them.

¹⁸ Near is Jehovah to all those calling Him, To all who call Him in truth.

¹ The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen: ² `On a high mountain lift ye up an ensign, Raise the voice to them, wave the hand, And they go in to the openings of nobles. ³ I have given charge to My sanctified ones, Also I have called My mighty ones for Mine anger, Those rejoicing at Mine excellency.' ⁴ A voice of a multitude in the mountains, A likeness of a numerous people, A voice of noise from the kingdoms of nations who are gathered, Jehovah of Hosts inspecting a host of battle! ⁵ They are coming in from a land afar off, From the end of the heavens, Jehovah and the instruments of His indignation, To destroy all the land.
⁶ Howl ye, for near is the day of Jehovah, As destruction from the Mighty it cometh. ⁷ Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt. ⁸ And they have been troubled, Pains and pangs they take, As a travailing woman they are pained, A man at his friend they marvel, The appearance of flames—their faces! ⁹ Lo, the day of Jehovah doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its sinning ones He destroyeth from it. ¹⁰ For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth. ¹¹ And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low. ¹² I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir. ¹³ Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, And the earth doth shake from its place, In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, And in a day of the heat of his anger. ¹⁴ And it hath been, as a roe driven away, And as a flock that hath no gatherer, Each unto his people—they turn, And each unto his land—they flee. ¹⁵ Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword. ¹⁶ And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with. ¹⁷ Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver esteem not, And gold—they delight not in it. ¹⁸ And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.
¹⁹ And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, The glory, the excellency of the Chaldeans, Hath been as overthrown by God, With Sodom and with Gomorrah. ²⁰ She doth not sit for ever, Nor continueth unto many generations, Nor doth Arab pitch tent there, And shepherds lie not down there. ²¹ And Ziim have lain down there, And full have been their houses of howlings, And dwelt there have daughters of an ostrich, And goats do skip there. ²² And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come is her time, And her days are not drawn out!

¹ The burden of the wilderness of the sea. `Like hurricanes in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath come, From a fearful land. <sup>2</sup> A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease. <sup>3</sup> Therefore filled have been my loins with great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing. <sup>4</sup> Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me, <sup>5</sup> Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield, <sup>6</sup> For thus said the Lord unto me: `Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.' ⁷ And he hath seen a chariot—a couple of horsemen, The rider of an ass, the rider of a camel, And he hath given attention—He hath increased attention! ⁸ And he crieth—a lion, `On a watch-tower my lord, I am standing continually by day, And on my ward I am stationed whole nights. <sup>9</sup> And lo, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of horsemen.' And he answereth and saith: `Fallen, fallen hath Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods He hath broken to the earth. ¹⁰ O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!'
¹¹ The burden of Dumah. Unto me is one calling from Seir `Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?' <sup>12</sup> The watchman hath said, `Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.'
¹³ The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O travellers of Dedanim. ¹⁴ To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive. ¹⁵ For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle. ¹⁶ For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar. ¹⁷ And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!'

¹ The Burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For it hath been destroyed, Without house, without entrance, From the land of Chittim it was revealed to them. ² Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle, Trader of Zidon, passing the sea, they filled thee. ³ And in many waters is the seed of Sihor, The harvest of the brook is her increase, And she is a mart of nations. ⁴ Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea spake, The strength of the sea, saying: `I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, Nor have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.' <sup>5</sup> As at the report of Egypt they are pained, So at the report of Tyre. <sup>6</sup> Pass over to Tarshish, howl, ye inhabitants of the isle, <sup>7</sup> Is this your exulting one? From the days of old is her antiquity, Carry her do her own feet afar off to sojourn. <sup>8</sup> Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders are princes, Her merchants the honoured of earth?' <sup>9</sup> Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth. <sup>10</sup> Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle. <sup>11</sup> His hand He hath stretched out over the sea, He hath caused kingdoms to tremble, Jehovah hath charged concerning the merchant one, To destroy her strong places. <sup>12</sup> And He saith, `Thou dost not add any more to exult, O oppressed one, virgin daughter of Zidon, To Chittim arise, pass over, Even there—there is no rest for thee.' ¹³ Lo, the land of the Chaldeans—this people was not, Asshur founded it for the Ziim, They raised its watch-towers, They lifted up her palaces, —He hath appointed her for a ruin! ¹⁴ Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your strength hath been destroyed.
¹⁵ And it hath come to pass, in that day, That forgotten is Tyre seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot. ¹⁶ Take a harp, go round the city, O forgotten harlot, play well, Multiply song that thou mayest be remembered. ¹⁷ And it hath come to pass, At the end of seventy years Jehovah inspecteth Tyre, And she hath repented of her gift, That she committed fornication With all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground. ¹⁸ And her merchandise and her gift have been holy to Jehovah, Not treasured up nor stored, For to those sitting before Jehovah is her merchandise, To eat to satiety, and for a lasting covering!

²⁵ And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to heart!

⁴ For the sake of my servant Jacob, And of Israel My chosen, I call also thee by thy name, I surname thee, And thou hast not known Me.
⁵ I am Jehovah, and there is none else, Except Me there is no God, I gird thee, and thou hast not known Me.

²⁵ Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!

²⁹ For lo, in the city over which My name is called, I am beginning to do evil, And ye—ye are entirely acquitted! Ye are not acquitted, for a sword I am proclaiming, For all inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

¹ That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations, ² For Egypt, concerning the force of Pharaoh-Necho king of Egypt, that hath been by the river Phrat, in Carchemish, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath smitten, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: ³ `Set ye in array shield and buckler, And draw nigh to battle. <sup>4</sup> Gird the horses, and go up, ye horsemen, And station yourselves with helmets, Polish the javelins, put on the coats of mail. <sup>5</sup> Wherefore have I seen them dismayed—They are turned backward, And their mighty ones are beaten down, And to a refuge they have fled, and not turned the face? Fear is round about—an affirmation of Jehovah. <sup>6</sup> The swift do not flee, nor do the mighty escape, Northward, by the side of the river Phrat, They have stumbled and fallen. <sup>7</sup> Who is this? as a flood he cometh up, As rivers do his waters shake themselves! <sup>8</sup> Egypt, as a flood cometh up, And as rivers the waters shake themselves. And he saith, I go up; I cover the land, I destroy the city and the inhabitants in it. <sup>9</sup> Go up, ye horses; and boast yourselves, ye chariots, And go forth, ye mighty, Cush and Phut handling the shield, And Lud handling—treading the bow. <sup>10</sup> And that day is to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts A day of vengeance, To be avenged of His adversaries, And the sword hath devoured, and been satisfied, And it hath been watered from their blood, For a sacrifice is to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, In the land of the north, by the river Phrat. <sup>11</sup> Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt, In vain thou hast multiplied medicines, Healing there is none for thee.
<sup>12</sup> Nations have heard of thy shame, And thy cry hath filled the land, For the mighty on the mighty did stumble, Together they have fallen—both of them!' <sup>13</sup> The word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the coming in of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to smite the land of Egypt: <sup>14</sup> `Declare ye in Egypt, and sound in Migdol, Yea, sound in Noph, and in Tahpanhes say: Station thyself, yea, prepare for thee, For a sword hath devoured around thee, ¹⁵ Wherefore hath thy bull been swept away? He hath not stood, because Jehovah thrust him away. ¹⁶ He hath multiplied the stumbling, Yea one hath fallen upon his neighbour, And they say: Rise, and we turn back to our people, And unto the land of our birth, Because of the oppressing sword. ¹⁷ They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt is a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time. ¹⁸ I live—an affirmation of the King, Jehovah of Hosts is His name, Surely as Tabor is among mountains, And as Carmel by the sea—he cometh in, ¹⁹ Goods for removal make for thee, O inhabitant, daughter of Egypt, For Noph becometh a desolation, And hath been burnt up, without inhabitant. ²⁰ A heifer very fair is Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her. ²¹ Even her hired ones in her midst are as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity hath come on them, The time of their inspection. ²² Its voice as a serpent goeth on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees. ²³ They have cut down her forest, An affirmation of Jehovah—for it is not searched, For they have been more than the grasshopper, And they have no numbering. ²⁴ Ashamed hath been the daughter of Egypt, She hath been given into the hand of the people of the north. ²⁵ Said hath Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am seeing after Amon of No, And after Pharaoh, and after Egypt, And after her gods, and after her kings, And after Pharaoh, and after those trusting in him, ²⁶ And I have given them into the hand of those seeking their life, And into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of his servants, And afterwards it is inhabited, As in days of old—an affirmation of Jehovah. ²⁷ And thou, thou dost not fear, my servant Jacob, Nor art thou dismayed, O Israel, For lo, I am saving thee from afar, And thy seed from the land of their captivity, And Jacob hath turned back, And hath been at rest, and been at ease, And there is none disturbing. ²⁸ Thou, thou dost not fear, My servant Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah—for with thee I am, For I make an end of all the nations Whither I have driven thee, And of thee I do not make an end, And I have reproved thee in judgment, And do not entirely acquit thee!'

³ and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

²⁵ `Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,

²³ for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God—unknown; whom, therefore—not knowing—ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

¹² for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all those calling upon Him, ¹³ for every one—whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.' ¹⁴ How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

² to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place—both theirs and ours:

⁸ in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹ And I heard a great voice out of the sanctuary saying to the seven messengers, `Go away, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God to the earth;' <sup>2</sup> and the first did go away, and did pour out his vial upon the land, and there came a sore—bad and grievous—to men, those having the mark of the beast, and those bowing to his image. <sup>3</sup> And the second messenger did pour out his vial to the sea, and there came blood as of one dead, and every living soul died in the sea. <sup>4</sup> And the third messenger did pour out his vial to the rivers, and to the fountains of the waters, and there came blood, <sup>5</sup> and I heard the messenger of the waters, saying, `righteous, O Lord, art Thou, who art, and who wast, and who shalt be, because these things Thou didst judge, ⁶ because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;' ⁷ and I heard another out of the altar, saying, `Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Thy judgments.'
<sup>8</sup> And the fourth messenger did pour out his vial upon the sun, and there was given to him to scorch men with fire, <sup>9</sup> and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform—to give to Him glory. <sup>10</sup> And the fifth messenger did pour out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain, <sup>11</sup> and they did speak evil of the God of the heaven, from their pains, and from their sores, and they did not reform from their works.
<sup>12</sup> And the sixth messenger did pour out his vial upon the great river, the Euphrates, and dried up was its water, that the way of the kings who are from the rising of the sun may be made ready; <sup>13</sup> and I saw come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs— <sup>14</sup> for they are spirits of demons, doing signs—which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to bring them together to the battle of that great day of God the Almighty; — <sup>15</sup> `lo, I do come as a thief; happy is he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' — ¹⁶ and they did bring them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Armageddon.
¹⁷ And the seventh messenger did pour out his vial to the air, and there came forth a great voice from the sanctuary of the heaven, from the throne, saying, `It hath come!' ¹⁸ and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and a great earthquake came, such as came not since men came upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake—so great! ¹⁹ And it came—the great city—into three parts, and the cities of the nations did fall, and Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the wrath of His anger, ²⁰ and every island did flee away, and mountains were not found, ²¹ and great hail (as of talent weight) doth come down out of the heaven upon men, and men did speak evil of God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague is very great.

²¹ to fulfil the word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, till the land hath enjoyed its sabbaths; all the days of the desolation it kept sabbath—to the fulness of seventy years.

¹³ A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.

¹² Aram from before, and Philistia from behind, And they devour Israel with the whole mouth. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

¹ Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned it on its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants. ² And it hath been—as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting it on himself. ³ Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word: ⁴ Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they—the high place of the people of the land. ⁵ And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during. ⁶ Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left. ⁷ Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart. ⁸ Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp. ⁹ With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it. ¹⁰ It was broken down—a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance. ¹¹ A cry over the wine is in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land. ¹² Left in the city is desolation, And with wasting is the gate smitten.

¹⁰ Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation. ¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste.

⁷ All finding them have devoured them, And their adversaries have said: We are not guilty, Because that they sinned against Jehovah, The habitation of righteousness, And the hope of their fathers—Jehovah.

³⁴ Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away. ³⁵ My wrong, and that of my flesh is on Babylon, Say doth the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood is on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Say doth Jerusalem.

¹⁵ And with great wrath I am wroth against the nations who are at ease, For I was a little wroth, and they assisted—for evil.

¹⁶ and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

³⁴ and now, go, lead the people whithersoever I have spoken to thee of; lo, My messenger goeth before thee, and in the day of my charging—then I have charged upon them their sin.'

⁴³ the sojourner who is in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;

¹⁸ And she saith unto Elijah, `What—to me and to thee, O man of God? thou hast come unto me to cause mine iniquity to be remembered, and to put my son to death!'

³ For Thou puttest before him blessings of goodness, Thou settest on his head a crown of fine gold.

⁷ Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

¹⁶ Answer me, O Jehovah, for good is Thy kindness, According to the abundance Of Thy mercies turn Thou unto me, ¹⁷ And hide not Thy face from Thy servant, For I am in distress—haste, answer me.

⁴³ Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

⁶ A preserver of the simple is Jehovah, I was low, and to me He giveth salvation.

³ If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

⁶ Attend Thou unto my loud cry, For I have become very low, Deliver Thou me from my pursuers, For they have been stronger than I.

³ And He saith unto Me, `Son of man, I am sending thee unto the sons of Israel, unto nations who are rebels, who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me, unto this self-same day.

¹³ The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They—to Egypt they turn back.

⁹ They have gone deep—have done corruptly, As in the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.

³² and ye—ye fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
<sup>34</sup> `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; ³⁵ that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: ³⁶ verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

⁵ because her sins did follow—unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness.

⁹ and the Canaanite and all the inhabitants of the land do hear, and have come round against us, and cut off our name out of the earth; and what dost Thou do for Thy great name?'

¹¹ And Asa calleth unto Jehovah his God, and saith, `Jehovah! it is nothing with Thee to help, between the mighty and those who have no power; help us, O Jehovah, our God, for on Thee we have leant, and in Thy name we have come against this multitude; O Jehovah, our God thou art; let him not prevail with Thee—mortal man!

¹¹ For Thy name's sake, O Jehovah, Thou hast pardoned mine iniquity, for it is great.

³ For my rock and my bulwark art Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

³ Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions—Thou dost cover them.

¹ Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, But to Thy name give honour, For Thy kindness, for Thy truth.

²⁵ I—I am He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember.

⁹ For My name's sake I defer Mine anger, And My praise I restrain for thee, So as not to cut thee off.

⁷ Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.

²¹ Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.

⁹ And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, In whose midst they are, Before whose eyes I became known to them, To bring them out from the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them forth.

⁹ `To the Lord our God are the mercies and the forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him,

¹⁹ O lord, hear, O Lord, forgive; O Lord, attend and do; do not delay, for Thine own sake, O my God, for Thy name is called on Thy city, and on Thy people.'

² If ye hearken not, and if ye lay it not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying it to heart.

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

⁷ and have taken you to Me for a people, and I have been to you for God, and ye have known that I am Jehovah your God, who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians;

⁵ and the Egyptians have known that I am Jehovah, in My stretching out My hand against Egypt; and I have brought out the sons of Israel from their midst.'

¹⁶ Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

³ My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where is thy God?'

¹⁰ With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where is thy God?'

¹¹ And man saith: `Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

¹⁷ They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost. ¹⁸ And they know that Thou—(Thy name is Jehovah—by Thyself,) Art the Most High over all the earth!

¹ God of vengeance—Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.

² Why do the nations say, `Where, pray, is their God.

³⁵ My wrong, and that of my flesh is on Babylon, Say doth the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood is on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Say doth Jerusalem.

²³ And I have sanctified My great name, That is profaned among nations, That ye have polluted in your midst, And known have the nations that I am Jehovah, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In My being sanctified in you before your eyes.

²¹ And I have given My honour among nations, And seen have all the nations My Judgment that I have done, And My hand that I have laid on them. ²² And known have the house of Israel that I am Jehovah their God, From that day and henceforth.

¹⁷ Between the porch and the altar weep let the priests, ministrants of Jehovah, And let them say: `Have pity, O Jehovah, on Thy people, And give not Thy inheritance to reproach, To the ruling over them of nations, Why do they say among peoples, Where is their God?'

¹⁰ And see doth mine enemy, And cover her doth shame, Who saith unto me, `Where is Jehovah thy God?' Mine eyes do look on her, Now she is for a treading-place, As mire of the out-places.

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance is Mine,

²⁰ `Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'

²³ And it cometh to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dieth, and the sons of Israel sigh because of the service, and cry, and their cry goeth up unto God, because of the service; ²⁴ and God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;

¹⁷ `And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying: ¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third generation, and on a fourth; — ¹⁹ forgive, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Thy kindness, and as Thou hast borne with this people from Egypt, even until now.'

⁵ Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

³³ For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.

²⁰ To hear the groan of the prisoner, To loose sons of death,

⁶ Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that is in them, Who is keeping truth to the age, ⁷ Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

² O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.

⁷ To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.

¹³ `And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory—to the ages. Amen.

²⁰ and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

¹⁵ And Jehovah saith to him, `Therefore—of any slayer of Cain sevenfold it is required;' and Jehovah setteth to Cain a token that none finding him doth slay him.

²¹ `And if ye walk with Me in opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins,

²⁸ then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

¹⁶ Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.

¹⁰ Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?

¹⁸ Remember this—an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name. ¹⁹ Give not up to a company, The soul of Thy turtle-dove, The company of Thy poor ones forget not for ever. ²⁰ Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence. ²¹ Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name, ²² Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day.

³¹ And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.

⁵ Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These are a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day. <sup>6</sup> Lo, it is written before Me: `I am not silent, but have recompensed; And I have recompensed into their bosom, ⁷ Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, Who have made perfume on the mountains, And on the heights have reproached Me, And I have measured their former work into their bosom.'

¹⁸ Doing kindness to thousands, and recompensing iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their sons after them; God, the great, the mighty, Jehovah of Hosts is His name,

³⁸ `Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

⁸ In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. Selah.

¹⁷ I make mention of Thy name in all generations, Therefore do peoples praise Thee, To the age, and for ever!

¹⁸ Remember this—an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.

²² Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day.

⁷ For He is our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,

³ Know that Jehovah He is God, He made us, and we are His, His people—and the flock of His pasture.

⁴ Generation to generation praiseth Thy works, And Thy mighty acts they declare.

²¹ This people I have formed for Myself, My praise they recount.