(23,10,3,'And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation [which] shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?'),(23,10,4,'Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.'),(23,10,5,'O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.'),(23,10,6,'I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.'),(23,10,7,'Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.'),(23,10,8,'For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?'),(23,10,9,'[Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?'),(23,10,10,'As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;'),(23,10,11,'Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?'),(23,10,12,'Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.'),(23,10,13,'For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it], and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant [man]:'),(23,10,14,'And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.'),(23,10,15,'Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.'),(23,10,16,'Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.'),(23,10,17,'And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;'),(23,10,18,'And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.'),(23,10,19,'And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.'),(23,10,20,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.'),(23,10,21,'The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.'),(23,10,22,'For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.'),(23,10,23,'For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.'),(23,10,24,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.'),(23,10,25,'For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.'),(23,10,26,'And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.'),(23,10,27,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.'),(23,10,28,'He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:'),(23,10,29,'They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.'),(23,10,30,'Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.'),(23,10,31,'Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.'),(23,10,32,'As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.'),(23,10,33,'Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.'),(23,10,34,'And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.'),(23,11,1,'And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:'),(23,11,2,'And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;'),(23,11,3,'And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:'),(23,11,4,'But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.'),(23,11,5,'And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.'),(23,11,6,'The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.'),(23,11,7,'And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.'),(23,11,8,'And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice\' den.'),(23,11,9,'They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.'),(23,11,10,'And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.'),(23,11,11,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.'),(23,11,12,'And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.'),(23,11,13,'The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.'),(23,11,14,'But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.'),(23,11,15,'And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod.'),(23,11,16,'And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.'),(23,12,1,'And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.'),(23,12,2,'Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation.'),(23,12,3,'Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.'),(23,12,4,'And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.'),(23,12,5,'Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this [is] known in all the earth.'),(23,12,6,'Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.'),(23,13,1,'The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.'),(23,13,2,'Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.'),(23,13,3,'I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in my highness.'),(23,13,4,'The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.'),(23,13,5,'They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.'),(23,13,6,'Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.'),(23,13,7,'Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man\'s heart shall melt:'),(23,13,8,'And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames.'),(23,13,9,'Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.'),(23,13,10,'For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.'),(23,13,11,'And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.'),(23,13,12,'I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.'),(23,13,13,'Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.'),(23,13,14,'And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.'),(23,13,15,'Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.'),(23,13,16,'Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.'),(23,13,17,'Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.'),(23,13,18,'[Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.'),(23,13,19,'And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees\' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.'),(23,13,20,'It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.'),(23,13,21,'But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.'),(23,13,22,'And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.'),(23,14,1,'For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.'),(23,14,2,'And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.'),(23,14,3,'And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,'),(23,14,4,'That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!'),(23,14,5,'The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the sceptre of the rulers.'),(23,14,6,'He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] none hindereth.'),(23,14,7,'The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.'),(23,14,8,'Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.'),(23,14,9,'Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.'),(23,14,10,'All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?'),(23,14,11,'Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.'),(23,14,12,'How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!'),(23,14,13,'For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:'),(23,14,14,'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.'),(23,14,15,'Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.'),(23,14,16,'They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;'),(23,14,17,'[That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?'),(23,14,18,'All the kings of the nations, [even] all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.'),(23,14,19,'But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.'),(23,14,20,'Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.'),(23,14,21,'Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.'),(23,14,22,'For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.'),(23,14,23,'I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.'),(23,14,24,'The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, [so] shall it stand:'),(23,14,25,'That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.'),(23,14,26,'This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this [is] the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.'),(23,14,27,'For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul [it]? and his hand [is] stretched out, and who shall turn it back?'),(23,14,28,'In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.'),(23,14,29,'Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent\'s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent.'),(23,14,30,'And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.'),(23,14,31,'Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, [art] dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none [shall be] alone in his appointed times.'),(23,14,32,'What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.'),(23,15,1,'The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;'),(23,15,2,'He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard cut off.'),(23,15,3,'In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.'),(23,15,4,'And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard [even] unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.'),(23,15,5,'My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.'),(23,15,6,'For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.'),(23,15,7,'Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.'),(23,15,8,'For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.'),(23,15,9,'For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.'),(23,16,1,'Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.'),(23,16,2,'For it shall be, [that], as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.'),(23,16,3,'Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.'),(23,16,4,'Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.'),(23,16,5,'And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.'),(23,16,6,'We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his lies [shall] not [be] so.'),(23,16,7,'Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they are] stricken.'),(23,16,8,'For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come [even] unto Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.'),(23,16,9,'Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.'),(23,16,10,'And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in [their] presses; I have made [their vintage] shouting to cease.'),(23,16,11,'Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.'),(23,16,12,'And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.'),(23,16,13,'This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.'),(23,16,14,'But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and] feeble.'),(23,17,1,'The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.'),(23,17,2,'The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.'),(23,17,3,'The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.'),(23,17,4,'And in that day it shall come to pass, [that] the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.'),(23,17,5,'And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.'),(23,17,6,'Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.'),(23,17,7,'At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.'),(23,17,8,'And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect [that] which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.'),(23,17,9,'In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.'),(23,17,10,'Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:'),(23,17,11,'In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.'),(23,17,12,'Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, [that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!'),(23,17,13,'The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.'),(23,17,14,'And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.'),(23,18,1,'Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:'),(23,18,2,'That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!'),(23,18,3,'All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.'),(23,18,4,'For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.'),(23,18,5,'For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches.'),(23,18,6,'They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.'),(23,18,7,'In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.'),(23,19,1,'The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.'),(23,19,2,'And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.'),(23,19,3,'And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.'),(23,19,4,'And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.'),(23,19,5,'And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.'),(23,19,6,'And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.'),(23,19,7,'The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no [more].'),(23,19,8,'The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.'),(23,19,9,'Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.'),(23,19,10,'And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices [and] ponds for fish.'),(23,19,11,'Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?'),(23,19,12,'Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.'),(23,19,13,'The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the stay of the tribes thereof.'),(23,19,14,'The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.'),(23,19,15,'Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.'),(23,19,16,'In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.'),(23,19,17,'And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.'),(23,19,18,'In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.'),(23,19,19,'In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.'),(23,19,20,'And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.'),(23,19,21,'And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform [it].'),(23,19,22,'And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal [it]: and they shall return [even] to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.'),(23,19,23,'In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.'),(23,19,24,'In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, [even] a blessing in the midst of the land:'),(23,19,25,'Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed [be] Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.'),(23,20,1,'In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;'),(23,20,2,'At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.'),(23,20,3,'And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;'),(23,20,4,'So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.'),(23,20,5,'And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.'),(23,20,6,'And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such [is] our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?'),(23,21,1,'The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.'),(23,21,2,'A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.'),(23,21,3,'Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it].'),(23,21,4,'My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.'),(23,21,5,'Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.'),(23,21,6,'For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.'),(23,21,7,'And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, [and] a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:'),(23,21,8,'And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:'),(23,21,9,'And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.'),(23,21,10,'O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.'),(23,21,11,'The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'),(23,21,12,'The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.'),(23,21,13,'The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.'),(23,21,14,'The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.'),(23,21,15,'For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.'),(23,21,16,'For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:'),(23,21,17,'And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it].'),(23,22,1,'The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?'),(23,22,2,'Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.'),(23,22,3,'All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [which] have fled from far.'),(23,22,4,'Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.'),(23,22,5,'For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.'),(23,22,6,'And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.'),(23,22,7,'And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.'),(23,22,8,'And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.'),(23,22,9,'Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.'),(23,22,10,'And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.'),(23,22,11,'Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.'),(23,22,12,'And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:'),(23,22,13,'And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.'),(23,22,14,'And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.'),(23,22,15,'Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, [even] unto Shebna, which [is] over the house, [and say],'),(23,22,16,'What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?'),(23,22,17,'Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.'),(23,22,18,'He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy lord\'s house.'),(23,22,19,'And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.'),(23,22,20,'And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:'),(23,22,21,'And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.'),(23,22,22,'And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.'),(23,22,23,'And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father\'s house.'),(23,22,24,'And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father\'s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.'),(23,22,25,'In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].'),(23,23,1,'The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.'),(23,23,2,'Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.'),(23,23,3,'And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, [is] her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.'),(23,23,4,'Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, [nor] bring up virgins.'),(23,23,5,'As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.'),(23,23,6,'Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.'),(23,23,7,'[Is] this your joyous [city], whose antiquity [is] of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.'),(23,23,8,'Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are] the honourable of the earth?'),(23,23,9,'The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, [and] to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.'),(23,23,10,'Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: [there is] no more strength.'),(23,23,11,'He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant [city], to destroy the strong holds thereof.'),(23,23,12,'And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.'),(23,23,13,'Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, [till] the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; [and] he brought it to ruin.'),(23,23,14,'Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.'),(23,23,15,'And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.'),(23,23,16,'Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.'),(23,23,17,'And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.'),(23,23,18,'And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.'),(23,24,1,'Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.'),(23,24,2,'And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.'),(23,24,3,'The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.'),(23,24,4,'The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.'),(23,24,5,'The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.'),(23,24,6,'Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.'),(23,24,7,'The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.'),(23,24,8,'The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.'),(23,24,9,'They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.'),(23,24,10,'The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.'),(23,24,11,'[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.'),(23,24,12,'In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.'),(23,24,13,'When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, [there shall be] as the shaking of an olive tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.'),(23,24,14,'They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.'),(23,24,15,'Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, [even] the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.'),(23,24,16,'From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.'),(23,24,17,'Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.'),(23,24,18,'And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.'),(23,24,19,'The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.'),(23,24,20,'The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.'),(23,24,21,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.'),(23,24,22,'And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.'),(23,24,23,'Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.'),(23,25,1,'O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.'),(23,25,2,'For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.'),(23,25,3,'Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.'),(23,25,4,'For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall.'),(23,25,5,'Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.'),(23,25,6,'And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.'),(23,25,7,'And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.'),(23,25,8,'He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].'),(23,25,9,'And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.'),(23,25,10,'For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.'),(23,25,11,'And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.'),(23,25,12,'And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the dust.'),(23,26,1,'In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will [God] appoint [for] walls and bulwarks.'),(23,26,2,'Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.'),(23,26,3,'Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.'),(23,26,4,'Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting strength:'),(23,26,5,'For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground; he bringeth it [even] to the dust.'),(23,26,6,'The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the poor, [and] the steps of the needy.'),(23,26,7,'The way of the just [is] uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.'),(23,26,8,'Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.'),(23,26,9,'With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.'),(23,26,10,'Let favour be shewed to the wicked, [yet] will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.'),(23,26,11,'LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.'),(23,26,12,'LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.'),(23,26,13,'O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.'),(23,26,14,'[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.'),(23,26,15,'Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.'),(23,26,16,'LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.'),(23,26,17,'Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.'),(23,26,18,'We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.'),(23,26,19,'Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.'),(23,26,20,'Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.'),(23,26,21,'For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.'),(23,27,1,'In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.'),(23,27,2,'In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.'),(23,27,3,'I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.'),(23,27,4,'Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.'),(23,27,5,'Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.'),(23,27,6,'He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.'),(23,27,7,'Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?'),(23,27,8,'In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.'),(23,27,9,'By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.'),(23,27,10,'Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.'),(23,27,11,'When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.'),(23,27,12,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.'),(23,27,13,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.'),(23,28,1,'Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, which [are] on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!'),(23,28,2,'Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, [which] as a tempest of hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.'),(23,28,3,'The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:'),(23,28,4,'And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit before the summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.'),(23,28,5,'In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,'),(23,28,6,'And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.'),(23,28,7,'But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.'),(23,28,8,'For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].'),(23,28,9,'Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts.'),(23,28,10,'For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:'),(23,28,11,'For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.'),(23,28,12,'To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.'),(23,28,13,'But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.'),(23,28,14,'Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which [is] in Jerusalem.'),(23,28,15,'Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:'),(23,28,16,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.'),(23,28,17,'Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.'),(23,28,18,'And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.'),(23,28,19,'From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only [to] understand the report.'),(23,28,20,'For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it]: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it].'),(23,28,21,'For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.'),(23,28,22,'Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.'),(23,28,23,'Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.'),(23,28,24,'Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?'),(23,28,25,'When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?'),(23,28,26,'For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him.'),(23,28,27,'For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.'),(23,28,28,'Bread [corn] is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it [with] his horsemen.'),(23,28,29,'This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [which] is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working.'),(23,29,1,'Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.'),(23,29,2,'Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.'),(23,29,3,'And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.'),(23,29,4,'And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.'),(23,29,5,'Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.'),(23,29,6,'Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.'),(23,29,7,'And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.'),(23,29,8,'It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.'),(23,29,9,'Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.'),(23,29,10,'For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.'),(23,29,11,'And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:'),(23,29,12,'And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.'),(23,29,13,'Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:'),(23,29,14,'Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.'),(23,29,15,'Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?'),(23,29,16,'Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter\'s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?'),(23,29,17,'[Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?'),(23,29,18,'And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.'),(23,29,19,'The meek also shall increase [their] joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.'),(23,29,20,'For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:'),(23,29,21,'That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.'),(23,29,22,'Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.'),(23,29,23,'But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.'),(23,29,24,'They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.'),(23,30,1,'Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:'),(23,30,2,'That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!'),(23,30,3,'Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion.'),(23,30,4,'For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.'),(23,30,5,'They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.'),(23,30,6,'The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit [them].'),(23,30,7,'For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.'),(23,30,8,'Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:'),(23,30,9,'That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:'),(23,30,10,'Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:'),(23,30,11,'Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.'),(23,30,12,'Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:'),(23,30,13,'Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.'),(23,30,14,'And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters\' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water [withal] out of the pit.'),(23,30,15,'For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.'),(23,30,16,'But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.'),(23,30,17,'One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.'),(23,30,18,'And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.'),(23,30,19,'For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.'),(23,30,20,'And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:'),(23,30,21,'And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.'),(23,30,22,'Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.'),(23,30,23,'Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.'),(23,30,24,'The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.'),(23,30,25,'And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.'),(23,30,26,'Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.'),(23,30,27,'Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning [with] his anger, and the burden [thereof is] heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:'),(23,30,28,'And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.'),(23,30,29,'Ye shall have a song, as in the night [when] a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.'),(23,30,30,'And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring fire, [with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.'),(23,30,31,'For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [which] smote with a rod.'),(23,30,32,'And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.'),(23,30,33,'For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.'),(23,31,1,'Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!'),(23,31,2,'Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.'),(23,31,3,'Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.'),(23,31,4,'For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.'),(23,31,5,'As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing over he will preserve [it].'),(23,31,6,'Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.'),(23,31,7,'For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you [for] a sin.'),(23,31,8,'Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.'),(23,31,9,'And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.'),(23,32,1,'Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.'),(23,32,2,'And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.'),(23,32,3,'And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.'),(23,32,4,'The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.'),(23,32,5,'The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.'),(23,32,6,'For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.'),(23,32,7,'The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.'),(23,32,8,'But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.'),(23,32,9,'Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.'),(23,32,10,'Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.'),(23,32,11,'Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins.'),(23,32,12,'They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.'),(23,32,13,'Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:'),(23,32,14,'Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;'),(23,32,15,'Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.'),(23,32,16,'Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.'),(23,32,17,'And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.'),(23,32,18,'And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;'),(23,32,19,'When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.'),(23,32,20,'Blessed [are] ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth [thither] the feet of the ox and the ass.'),(23,33,1,'Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou [wast] not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; [and] when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.'),(23,33,2,'O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.'),(23,33,3,'At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.'),(23,33,4,'And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.'),(23,33,5,'The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.'),(23,33,6,'And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure.'),(23,33,7,'Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.'),(23,33,8,'The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.'),(23,33,9,'The earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their fruits].'),(23,33,10,'Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.'),(23,33,11,'Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.'),(23,33,12,'And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.'),(23,33,13,'Hear, ye [that are] far off, what I have done; and, ye [that are] near, acknowledge my might.'),(23,33,14,'The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?'),(23,33,15,'He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;'),(23,33,16,'He shall dwell on high: his place of defence [shall be] the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.'),(23,33,17,'Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.'),(23,33,18,'Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers?'),(23,33,19,'Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not understand.'),(23,33,20,'Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.'),(23,33,21,'But there the glorious LORD [will be] unto us a place of broad rivers [and] streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.'),(23,33,22,'For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is] our king; he will save us.'),(23,33,23,'Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.'),(23,33,24,'And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity.'),(23,34,1,'Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.'),(23,34,2,'For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.'),(23,34,3,'Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.'),(23,34,4,'And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.'),(23,34,5,'For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.'),(23,34,6,'The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.'),(23,34,7,'And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.'),(23,34,8,'For [it is] the day of the LORD\'s vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.'),(23,34,9,'And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.'),(23,34,10,'It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.'),(23,34,11,'But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.'),(23,34,12,'They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.'),(23,34,13,'And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls.'),(23,34,14,'The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.'),(23,34,15,'There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.'),(23,34,16,'Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.'),(23,34,17,'And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.'),(23,35,1,'The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.'),(23,35,2,'It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellency of our God.'),(23,35,3,'Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.'),(23,35,4,'Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.'),(23,35,5,'Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.'),(23,35,6,'Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.'),(23,35,7,'And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes.'),(23,35,8,'And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err [therein].'),(23,35,9,'No lion shall be there, nor [any] ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:'),(23,35,10,'And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.'),(23,36,1,'Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.'),(23,36,2,'And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller\'s field.'),(23,36,3,'Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah\'s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph\'s son, the recorder.'),(23,36,4,'And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this wherein thou trustest?'),(23,36,5,'I say, [sayest thou], (but [they are but] vain words) [I have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?'),(23,36,6,'Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.'),(23,36,7,'But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is it] not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?'),(23,36,8,'Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.'),(23,36,9,'How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master\'s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?'),(23,36,10,'And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'),(23,36,11,'Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Jews\' language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.'),(23,36,12,'But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?'),(23,36,13,'Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews\' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.'),(23,36,14,'Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.'),(23,36,15,'Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.'),(23,36,16,'Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;'),(23,36,17,'Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.'),(23,36,18,'[Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?'),(23,36,19,'Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?'),(23,36,20,'Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'),(23,36,21,'But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king\'s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.'),(23,36,22,'Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.'),(23,37,1,'And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.'),(23,37,2,'And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.'),(23,37,3,'And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.'),(23,37,4,'It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left.'),(23,37,5,'So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.'),(23,37,6,'And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.'),(23,37,7,'Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'),(23,37,8,'So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.'),(23,37,9,'And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard [it], he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,'),(23,37,10,'Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'),(23,37,11,'Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?'),(23,37,12,'Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Telassar?'),(23,37,13,'Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?'),(23,37,14,'And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.'),(23,37,15,'And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,'),(23,37,16,'O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.'),(23,37,17,'Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.'),(23,37,18,'Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,'),(23,37,19,'And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men\'s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.'),(23,37,20,'Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD, [even] thou only.'),(23,37,21,'Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:'),(23,37,22,'This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.'),(23,37,23,'Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.'),(23,37,24,'By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, [and] the forest of his Carmel.'),(23,37,25,'I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.'),(23,37,26,'Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities [into] ruinous heaps.'),(23,37,27,'Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.'),(23,37,28,'But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.'),(23,37,29,'Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.'),(23,37,30,'And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat [this] year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.'),(23,37,31,'And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:'),(23,37,32,'For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.'),(23,37,33,'Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.'),(23,37,34,'By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.'),(23,37,35,'For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David\'s sake.'),(23,37,36,'Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.'),(23,37,37,'So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.'),(23,37,38,'And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.'),(23,38,1,'In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.'),(23,38,2,'Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,'),(23,38,3,'And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.'),(23,38,4,'Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,'),(23,38,5,'Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.'),(23,38,6,'And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.'),(23,38,7,'And this [shall be] a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;'),(23,38,8,'Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.'),(23,38,9,'The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:'),(23,38,10,'I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.'),(23,38,11,'I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.'),(23,38,12,'Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd\'s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.'),(23,38,13,'I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.'),(23,38,14,'Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.'),(23,38,15,'What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.'),(23,38,16,'O Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.'),(23,38,17,'Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.'),(23,38,18,'For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.'),(23,38,19,'The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.'),(23,38,20,'The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.'),(23,38,21,'For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay [it] for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.'),(23,38,22,'Hezekiah also had said, What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?'),(23,39,1,'At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.'),(23,39,2,'And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.'),(23,39,3,'Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, [even] from Babylon.'),(23,39,4,'Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.'),(23,39,5,'Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:'),(23,39,6,'Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine house, and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.'),(23,39,7,'And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'),(23,39,8,'Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.'),(23,40,1,'Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.'),(23,40,2,'Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD\'s hand double for all her sins.'),(23,40,3,'The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.'),(23,40,4,'Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:'),(23,40,5,'And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].'),(23,40,6,'The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field:'),(23,40,7,'The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.'),(23,40,8,'The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.'),(23,40,9,'O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!'),(23,40,10,'Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.'),(23,40,11,'He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.'),(23,40,12,'Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?'),(23,40,13,'Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his counseller hath taught him?'),(23,40,14,'With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?'),(23,40,15,'Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.'),(23,40,16,'And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.'),(23,40,17,'All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.'),(23,40,18,'To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?'),(23,40,19,'The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.'),(23,40,20,'He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.'),(23,40,21,'Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?'),(23,40,22,'[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:'),(23,40,23,'That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.'),(23,40,24,'Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.'),(23,40,25,'To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.'),(23,40,26,'Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth.'),(23,40,27,'Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?'),(23,40,28,'Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his understanding.'),(23,40,29,'He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.'),(23,40,30,'Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:'),(23,40,31,'But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.'),(23,41,1,'Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.'),(23,41,2,'Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as driven stubble to his bow.'),(23,41,3,'He pursued them, [and] passed safely; [even] by the way [that] he had not gone with his feet.'),(23,41,4,'Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I [am] he.'),(23,41,5,'The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.'),(23,41,6,'They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage.'),(23,41,7,'So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, [that] it should not be moved.'),(23,41,8,'But thou, Israel, [art] my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.'),(23,41,9,'[Thou] whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou [art] my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.'),(23,41,10,'Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.'),(23,41,11,'Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.'),(23,41,12,'Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.'),(23,41,13,'For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.'),(23,41,14,'Fear not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.'),(23,41,15,'Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.'),(23,41,16,'Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.'),(23,41,17,'[When] the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, [I] the God of Israel will not forsake them.'),(23,41,18,'I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.'),(23,41,19,'I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, [and] the pine, and the box tree together:'),(23,41,20,'That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.'),(23,41,21,'Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob.'),(23,41,22,'Let them bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they [be], that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.'),(23,41,23,'Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye [are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold [it] together.'),(23,41,24,'Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.'),(23,41,25,'I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.'),(23,41,26,'Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? yea, [there is] none that sheweth, yea, [there is] none that declareth, yea, [there is] none that heareth your words.'),(23,41,27,'The first [shall say] to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.'),(23,41,28,'For I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.'),(23,41,29,'Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.'),(23,42,1,'Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, [in whom] my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.'),(23,42,2,'He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.'),(23,42,3,'A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.'),(23,42,4,'He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.'),(23,42,5,'Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:'),(23,42,6,'I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;'),(23,42,7,'To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.'),(23,42,8,'I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.'),(23,42,9,'Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.'),(23,42,10,'Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.'),(23,42,11,'Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages [that] Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.'),(23,42,12,'Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.'),(23,42,13,'The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.'),(23,42,14,'I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, [and] refrained myself: [now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.'),(23,42,15,'I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.'),(23,42,16,'And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.'),(23,42,17,'They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods.'),(23,42,18,'Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.'),(23,42,19,'Who [is] blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger [that] I sent? who [is] blind as [he that is] perfect, and blind as the LORD\'s servant?'),(23,42,20,'Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.'),(23,42,21,'The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness\' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.'),(23,42,22,'But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.'),(23,42,23,'Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken and hear for the time to come?'),(23,42,24,'Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.'),(23,42,25,'Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid [it] not to heart.'),(23,43,1,'But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.'),(23,43,2,'When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.'),(23,43,3,'For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt [for] thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.'),(23,43,4,'Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.'),(23,43,5,'Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;'),(23,43,6,'I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;'),(23,43,7,'[Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.'),(23,43,8,'Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.'),(23,43,9,'Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, [It is] truth.'),(23,43,10,'Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.'),(23,43,11,'I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no saviour.'),(23,43,12,'I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when [there was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God.'),(23,43,13,'Yea, before the day [was] I [am] he; and [there is] none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?'),(23,43,14,'Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry [is] in the ships.'),(23,43,15,'I [am] the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.'),(23,43,16,'Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;'),(23,43,17,'Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.'),(23,43,18,'Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.'),(23,43,19,'Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.'),(23,43,20,'The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.'),(23,43,21,'This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.'),(23,43,22,'But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.'),(23,43,23,'Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.'),(23,43,24,'Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.'),(23,43,25,'I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.'),(23,43,26,'Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.'),(23,43,27,'Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.'),(23,43,28,'Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.'),(23,44,1,'Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:'),(23,44,2,'Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, [which] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.'),(23,44,3,'For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:'),(23,44,4,'And they shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows by the water courses.'),(23,44,5,'One shall say, I [am] the LORD\'s; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe [with] his hand unto the LORD, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.'),(23,44,6,'Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside me [there is] no God.'),(23,44,7,'And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.'),(23,44,8,'Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared [it]? ye [are] even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not [any].'),(23,44,9,'They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.'),(23,44,10,'Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?'),(23,44,11,'Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed together.'),(23,44,12,'The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.'),(23,44,13,'The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.'),(23,44,14,'He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish [it].'),(23,44,15,'Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth [it], and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth [it]; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.'),(23,44,16,'He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth [himself], and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:'),(23,44,17,'And the residue thereof he maketh a god, [even] his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth [it], and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou [art] my god.'),(23,44,18,'They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.'),(23,44,19,'And none considereth in his heart, neither [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten [it]: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?'),(23,44,20,'He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?'),(23,44,21,'Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou [art] my servant: I have formed thee; thou [art] my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.'),(23,44,22,'I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.'),(23,44,23,'Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done [it]: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.'),(23,44,24,'Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I [am] the LORD that maketh all [things]; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;'),(23,44,25,'That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;'),(23,44,26,'That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:'),(23,44,27,'That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:'),(23,44,28,'That saith of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.'),(23,45,1,'Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;'),(23,45,2,'I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:'),(23,45,3,'And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel.'),(23,45,4,'For Jacob my servant\'s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.'),(23,45,5,'I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:'),(23,45,6,'That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that [there is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else.'),(23,45,7,'I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].'),(23,45,8,'Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.'),(23,45,9,'Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?'),(23,45,10,'Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?'),(23,45,11,'Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.'),(23,45,12,'I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.'),(23,45,13,'I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.'),(23,45,14,'Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, [saying], Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] none else, [there is] no God.'),(23,45,15,'Verily thou [art] a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.'),(23,45,16,'They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols.'),(23,45,17,'[But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.'),(23,45,18,'For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.'),(23,45,19,'I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.'),(23,45,20,'Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye [that are] escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god [that] cannot save.'),(23,45,21,'Tell ye, and bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? [who] hath told it from that time? [have] not I the LORD? and [there is] no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; [there is] none beside me.'),(23,45,22,'Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.'),(23,45,23,'I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.'),(23,45,24,'Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.'),(23,45,25,'In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.'),(23,46,1,'Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were] heavy loaden; [they are] a burden to the weary [beast].'),(23,46,2,'They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.'),(23,46,3,'Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb:'),(23,46,4,'And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you].'),(23,46,5,'To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and compare me, that we may be like?'),(23,46,6,'They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.'),(23,46,7,'They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.'),(23,46,8,'Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring [it] again to mind, O ye transgressors.'),(23,46,9,'Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me,'),(23,46,10,'Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:'),(23,46,11,'Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also do it.'),(23,46,12,'Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far from righteousness:'),(23,46,13,'I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.'),(23,47,1,'Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.'),(23,47,2,'Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.'),(23,47,3,'Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a man.'),(23,47,4,'[As for] our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [is] his name, the Holy One of Israel.'),(23,47,5,'Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.'),(23,47,6,'I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.'),(23,47,7,'And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that thou didst not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.'),(23,47,8,'Therefore hear now this, [thou that art] given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:'),(23,47,9,'But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, [and] for the great abundance of thine enchantments.'),(23,47,10,'For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me.'),(23,47,11,'Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know.'),(23,47,12,'Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.'),(23,47,13,'Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from [these things] that shall come upon thee.'),(23,47,14,'Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there shall] not [be] a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it.'),(23,47,15,'Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.'),(23,48,1,'Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness.'),(23,48,2,'For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his name.'),(23,48,3,'I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did [them] suddenly, and they came to pass.'),(23,48,4,'Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;'),(23,48,5,'I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee; before it came to pass I shewed [it] thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.'),(23,48,6,'Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare [it]? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.'),(23,48,7,'They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.'),(23,48,8,'Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time [that] thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.'),(23,48,9,'For my name\'s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.'),(23,48,10,'Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.'),(23,48,11,'For mine own sake, [even] for mine own sake, will I do [it]: for how should [my name] be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.'),(23,48,12,'Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I [am] he; I [am] the first, I also [am] the last.'),(23,48,13,'Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: [when] I call unto them, they stand up together.'),(23,48,14,'All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these [things]? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.'),(23,48,15,'I, [even] I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.'),(23,48,16,'Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there [am] I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.'),(23,48,17,'Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldest go.'),(23,48,18,'O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:'),(23,48,19,'Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.'),(23,48,20,'Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it [even] to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.'),(23,48,21,'And they thirsted not [when] he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.'),(23,48,22,'[There is] no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.'),(23,49,1,'Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.'),(23,49,2,'And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;'),(23,49,3,'And said unto me, Thou [art] my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.'),(23,49,4,'Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: [yet] surely my judgment [is] with the LORD, and my work with my God.'),(23,49,5,'And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb [to be] his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.'),(23,49,6,'And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.'),(23,49,7,'Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.'),(23,49,8,'Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;'),(23,49,9,'That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that [are] in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures [shall be] in all high places.'),(23,49,10,'They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.'),(23,49,11,'And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.'),(23,49,12,'Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.'),(23,49,13,'Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.'),(23,49,14,'But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.'),(23,49,15,'Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.'),(23,49,16,'Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me.'),(23,49,17,'Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.'),(23,49,18,'Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, [and] come to thee. [As] I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them [on thee], as a bride [doeth].'),(23,49,19,'For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.'),(23,49,20,'The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place [is] too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.'),(23,49,21,'Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where [had] they [been]?'),(23,49,22,'Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon [their] shoulders.'),(23,49,23,'And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with [their] face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.'),(23,49,24,'Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?'),(23,49,25,'But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.'),(23,49,26,'And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.'),(23,50,1,'Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother\'s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.'),(23,50,2,'Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst.'),(23,50,3,'I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.'),(23,50,4,'The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.'),(23,50,5,'The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.'),(23,50,6,'I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.'),(23,50,7,'For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.'),(23,50,8,'[He is] near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come near to me.'),(23,50,9,'Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who [is] he [that] shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.'),(23,50,10,'Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.'),(23,50,11,'Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.'),(23,51,1,'Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.'),(23,51,2,'Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.'),(23,51,3,'For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.'),(23,51,4,'Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.'),(23,51,5,'My righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.'),(23,51,6,'Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.'),(23,51,7,'Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.'),(23,51,8,'For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.'),(23,51,9,'Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?'),(23,51,10,'[Art] thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?'),(23,51,11,'Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away.'),(23,51,12,'I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [which] shall be made [as] grass;'),(23,51,13,'And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where [is] the fury of the oppressor?'),(23,51,14,'The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.'),(23,51,15,'But I [am] the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.'),(23,51,16,'And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou [art] my people.'),(23,51,17,'Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.'),(23,51,18,'[There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up.'),(23,51,19,'These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?'),(23,51,20,'Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.'),(23,51,21,'Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:'),(23,51,22,'Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God [that] pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:'),(23,51,23,'But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.'),(23,52,1,'Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.'),(23,52,2,'Shake thyself from the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.'),(23,52,3,'For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.'),(23,52,4,'For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.'),(23,52,5,'Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] blasphemed.'),(23,52,6,'Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I [am] he that doth speak: behold, [it is] I.'),(23,52,7,'How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!'),(23,52,8,'Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.'),(23,52,9,'Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.'),(23,52,10,'The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.'),(23,52,11,'Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean [thing]; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.'),(23,52,12,'For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel [will be] your rereward.'),(23,52,13,'Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.'),(23,52,14,'As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:'),(23,52,15,'So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for [that] which had not been told them shall they see; and [that] which they had not heard shall they consider.'),(23,53,1,'Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?'),(23,53,2,'For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.'),(23,53,3,'He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.'),(23,53,4,'Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.'),(23,53,5,'But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.'),(23,53,6,'All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.'),(23,53,7,'He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.'),(23,53,8,'He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.'),(23,53,9,'And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.'),(23,53,10,'Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.'),(23,53,11,'He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.'),(23,53,12,'Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.'),(23,54,1,'Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.'),(23,54,2,'Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;'),(23,54,3,'For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.'),(23,54,4,'Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.'),(23,54,5,'For thy Maker [is] thine husband; the LORD of hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.'),(23,54,6,'For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.'),(23,54,7,'For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.'),(23,54,8,'In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.'),(23,54,9,'For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.'),(23,54,10,'For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.'),(23,54,11,'O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.'),(23,54,12,'And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.'),(23,54,13,'And all thy children [shall be] taught of the LORD; and great [shall be] the peace of thy children.'),(23,54,14,'In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.'),(23,54,15,'Behold, they shall surely gather together, [but] not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.'),(23,54,16,'Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.'),(23,54,17,'No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith the LORD.'),(23,55,1,'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.'),(23,55,2,'Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.'),(23,55,3,'Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David.'),(23,55,4,'Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.'),(23,55,5,'Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou knowest not, and nations [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.'),(23,55,6,'Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:'),(23,55,7,'Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.'),(23,55,8,'For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.'),(23,55,9,'For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.'),(23,55,10,'For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:'),(23,55,11,'So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it.'),(23,55,12,'For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.'),(23,55,13,'Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off.'),(23,56,1,'Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation [is] near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.'),(23,56,2,'Blessed [is] the man [that] doeth this, and the son of man [that] layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.'),(23,56,3,'Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I [am] a dry tree.'),(23,56,4,'For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose [the things] that please me, and take hold of my covenant;'),(23,56,5,'Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.'),(23,56,6,'Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;'),(23,56,7,'Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.'),(23,56,8,'The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather [others] to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.'),(23,56,9,'All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest.'),(23,56,10,'His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.'),(23,56,11,'Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.'),(23,56,12,'Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.'),(23,57,1,'The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].'),(23,57,2,'He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.'),(23,57,3,'But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.'),(23,57,4,'Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,'),(23,57,5,'Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?'),(23,57,6,'Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?'),(23,57,7,'Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.'),(23,57,8,'Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it].'),(23,57,9,'And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] unto hell.'),(23,57,10,'Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet] saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.'),(23,57,11,'And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?'),(23,57,12,'I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.'),(23,57,13,'When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;'),(23,57,14,'And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.'),(23,57,15,'For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.'),(23,57,16,'For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.'),(23,57,17,'For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.'),(23,57,18,'I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.'),(23,57,19,'I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.'),(23,57,20,'But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.'),(23,57,21,'[There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.'),(23,58,1,'Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.'),(23,58,2,'Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.'),(23,58,3,'Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.'),(23,58,4,'Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high.'),(23,58,5,'Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?'),(23,58,6,'[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?'),(23,58,7,'[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?'),(23,58,8,'Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.'),(23,58,9,'Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;'),(23,58,10,'And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:'),(23,58,11,'And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.'),(23,58,12,'And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.'),(23,58,13,'If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:'),(23,58,14,'Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].'),(23,59,1,'Behold, the LORD\'s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:'),(23,59,2,'But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.'),(23,59,3,'For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.'),(23,59,4,'None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.'),(23,59,5,'They hatch cockatrice\' eggs, and weave the spider\'s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.'),(23,59,6,'Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.'),(23,59,7,'Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.'),(23,59,8,'The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.'),(23,59,9,'Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.'),(23,59,10,'We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men].'),(23,59,11,'We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us.'),(23,59,12,'For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them;'),(23,59,13,'In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.'),(23,59,14,'And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.'),(23,59,15,'Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.'),(23,59,16,'And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.'),(23,59,17,'For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.'),(23,59,18,'According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.'),(23,59,19,'So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.'),(23,59,20,'And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.'),(23,59,21,'As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed\'s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.'),(23,60,1,'Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.'),(23,60,2,'For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.'),(23,60,3,'And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.'),(23,60,4,'Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.'),(23,60,5,'Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.'),(23,60,6,'The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.'),(23,60,7,'All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.'),(23,60,8,'Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?'),(23,60,9,'Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.'),(23,60,10,'And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.'),(23,60,11,'Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that [men] may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and [that] their kings [may be] brought.'),(23,60,12,'For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be utterly wasted.'),(23,60,13,'The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.'),(23,60,14,'The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'),(23,60,15,'Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through [thee], I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.'),(23,60,16,'Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.'),(23,60,17,'For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.'),(23,60,18,'Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.'),(23,60,19,'The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.'),(23,60,20,'Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.'),(23,60,21,'Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.'),(23,60,22,'A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.'),(23,61,1,'The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound;'),(23,61,2,'To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;'),(23,61,3,'To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.'),(23,61,4,'And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.'),(23,61,5,'And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers.'),(23,61,6,'But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.'),(23,61,7,'For your shame [ye shall have] double; and [for] confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.'),(23,61,8,'For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.'),(23,61,9,'And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed.'),(23,61,10,'I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh [himself] with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth [herself] with her jewels.'),(23,61,11,'For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.'),(23,62,1,'For Zion\'s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem\'s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp [that] burneth.'),(23,62,2,'And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.'),(23,62,3,'Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.'),(23,62,4,'Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.'),(23,62,5,'For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, [so] shall thy sons marry thee: and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee.'),(23,62,6,'I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,'),(23,62,7,'And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.'),(23,62,8,'The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn [to be] meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:'),(23,62,9,'But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.'),(23,62,10,'Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.'),(23,62,11,'Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.'),(23,62,12,'And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.'),(23,63,1,'Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.'),(23,63,2,'Wherefore [art thou] red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?'),(23,63,3,'I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people [there was] none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.'),(23,63,4,'For the day of vengeance [is] in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.'),(23,63,5,'And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered that [there was] none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.'),(23,63,6,'And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.'),(23,63,7,'I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, [and] the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.'),(23,63,8,'For he said, Surely they [are] my people, children [that] will not lie: so he was their Saviour.'),(23,63,9,'In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.'),(23,63,10,'But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.'),(23,63,11,'Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] his people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where [is] he that put his holy Spirit within him?'),(23,63,12,'That led [them] by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?'),(23,63,13,'That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, [that] they should not stumble?'),(23,63,14,'As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.'),(23,63,15,'Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?'),(23,63,16,'Doubtless thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.'),(23,63,17,'O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants\' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.'),(23,63,18,'The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.'),(23,63,19,'We are [thine]: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.'),(23,64,1,'Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,'),(23,64,2,'As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!'),(23,64,3,'When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.'),(23,64,4,'For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.'),(23,64,5,'Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those that] remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.'),(23,64,6,'But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.'),(23,64,7,'And [there is] none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.'),(23,64,8,'But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.'),(23,64,9,'Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.'),(23,64,10,'Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.'),(23,64,11,'Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.'),(23,64,12,'Wilt thou refrain thyself for these [things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?'),(23,65,1,'I am sought of [them that] asked not [for me]; I am found of [them that] sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation [that] was not called by my name.'),(23,65,2,'I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that was] not good, after their own thoughts;'),(23,65,3,'A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;'),(23,65,4,'Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine\'s flesh, and broth of abominable [things is in] their vessels;'),(23,65,5,'Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.'),(23,65,6,'Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,'),(23,65,7,'Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.'),(23,65,8,'Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants\' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.'),(23,65,9,'And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.'),(23,65,10,'And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.'),(23,65,11,'But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.'),(23,65,12,'Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose [that] wherein I delighted not.'),(23,65,13,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:'),(23,65,14,'Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.'),(23,65,15,'And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:'),(23,65,16,'That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.'),(23,65,17,'For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.'),(23,65,18,'But be ye glad and rejoice for ever [in that] which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.'),(23,65,19,'And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.'),(23,65,20,'There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] an hundred years old shall be accursed.'),(23,65,21,'And they shall build houses, and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.'),(23,65,22,'They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree [are] the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.'),(23,65,23,'They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they [are] the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.'),(23,65,24,'And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.'),(23,65,25,'The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust [shall be] the serpent\'s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.'),(23,66,1,'Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?'),(23,66,2,'For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.'),(23,66,3,'He that killeth an ox [is as if] he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a dog\'s neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered] swine\'s blood; he that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.'),(23,66,4,'I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose [that] in which I delighted not.'),(23,66,5,'Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name\'s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.'),(23,66,6,'A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.'),(23,66,7,'Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.'),(23,66,8,'Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.'),(23,66,9,'Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God.'),(23,66,10,'Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:'),(23,66,11,'That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.'),(23,66,12,'For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon [her] sides, and be dandled upon [her] knees.'),(23,66,13,'As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.'),(23,66,14,'And when ye see [this], your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and [his] indignation toward his enemies.'),(23,66,15,'For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.'),(23,66,16,'For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.'),(23,66,17,'They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating swine\'s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.'),(23,66,18,'For I [know] their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.'),(23,66,19,'And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.'),(23,66,20,'And they shall bring all your brethren [for] an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.'),(23,66,21,'And I will also take of them for priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD.'),(23,66,22,'For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.'),(23,66,23,'And it shall come to pass, [that] from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.'),(23,66,24,'And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.'),(24,1,1,'The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:'),(24,1,2,'To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.'),(24,1,3,'It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.'),(24,1,4,'Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(24,1,5,'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.'),(24,1,6,'Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child.'),(24,1,7,'But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.'),(24,1,8,'Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.'),(24,1,9,'Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.'),(24,1,10,'See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.'),(24,1,11,'Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.'),(24,1,12,'Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.'),(24,1,13,'And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof [is] toward the north.'),(24,1,14,'Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.'),(24,1,15,'For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.'),(24,1,16,'And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.'),(24,1,17,'Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.'),(24,1,18,'For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.'),(24,1,19,'And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.'),(24,2,1,'Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,'),(24,2,2,'Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.'),(24,2,3,'Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.'),(24,2,4,'Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:'),(24,2,5,'Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?'),(24,2,6,'Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?'),(24,2,7,'And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.'),(24,2,8,'The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.'),(24,2,9,'Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children\'s children will I plead.'),(24,2,10,'For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.'),(24,2,11,'Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit.'),(24,2,12,'Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.'),(24,2,13,'For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.'),(24,2,14,'[Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled?'),(24,2,15,'The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.'),(24,2,16,'Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.'),(24,2,17,'Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?'),(24,2,18,'And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?'),(24,2,19,'Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.'),(24,2,20,'For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.'),(24,2,21,'Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?'),(24,2,22,'For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.'),(24,2,23,'How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;'),(24,2,24,'A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.'),(24,2,25,'Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.'),(24,2,26,'As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,'),(24,2,27,'Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.'),(24,2,28,'But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for [according to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.'),(24,2,29,'Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.'),(24,2,30,'In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.'),(24,2,31,'O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?'),(24,2,32,'Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.'),(24,2,33,'Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.'),(24,2,34,'Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.'),(24,2,35,'Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.'),(24,2,36,'Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.'),(24,2,37,'Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.'),(24,3,1,'They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man\'s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.'),(24,3,2,'Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.'),(24,3,3,'Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore\'s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.'),(24,3,4,'Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth?'),(24,3,5,'Will he reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it] to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.'),(24,3,6,'The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.'),(24,3,7,'And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw [it].'),(24,3,8,'And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.'),(24,3,9,'And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.'),(24,3,10,'And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.'),(24,3,11,'And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.'),(24,3,12,'Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.'),(24,3,13,'Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.'),(24,3,14,'Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:'),(24,3,15,'And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.'),(24,3,16,'And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.'),(24,3,17,'At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.'),(24,3,18,'In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.'),(24,3,19,'But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.'),(24,3,20,'Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.'),(24,3,21,'A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their God.'),(24,3,22,'Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.'),(24,3,23,'Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel.'),(24,3,24,'For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.'),(24,3,25,'We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.'),(24,4,1,'If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.'),(24,4,2,'And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.'),(24,4,3,'For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.'),(24,4,4,'Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.'),(24,4,5,'Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.'),(24,4,6,'Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.'),(24,4,7,'The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.'),(24,4,8,'For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.'),(24,4,9,'And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.'),(24,4,10,'Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.'),(24,4,11,'At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,'),(24,4,12,'[Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.'),(24,4,13,'Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.'),(24,4,14,'O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?'),(24,4,15,'For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.'),(24,4,16,'Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.'),(24,4,17,'As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.'),(24,4,18,'Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto thee; this [is] thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.'),(24,4,19,'My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.'),(24,4,20,'Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment.'),(24,4,21,'How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the trumpet?'),(24,4,22,'For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.'),(24,4,23,'I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.'),(24,4,24,'I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.'),(24,4,25,'I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.'),(24,4,26,'I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, [and] by his fierce anger.'),(24,4,27,'For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.'),(24,4,28,'For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.'),(24,4,29,'The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city [shall be] forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.'),(24,4,30,'And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.'),(24,4,31,'For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.'),(24,5,1,'Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.'),(24,5,2,'And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.'),(24,5,3,'O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.'),(24,5,4,'Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.'),(24,5,5,'I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds.'),(24,5,6,'Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.'),(24,5,7,'How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots\' houses.'),(24,5,8,'They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour\'s wife.'),(24,5,9,'Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?'),(24,5,10,'Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD\'s.'),(24,5,11,'For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.'),(24,5,12,'They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:'),(24,5,13,'And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.'),(24,5,14,'Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.'),(24,5,15,'Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.'),(24,5,16,'Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.'),(24,5,17,'And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.'),(24,5,18,'Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.'),(24,5,19,'And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these [things] unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours.'),(24,5,20,'Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,'),(24,5,21,'Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:'),(24,5,22,'Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?'),(24,5,23,'But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.'),(24,5,24,'Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'),(24,5,25,'Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withholden good [things] from you.'),(24,5,26,'For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.'),(24,5,27,'As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.'),(24,5,28,'They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.'),(24,5,29,'Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?'),(24,5,30,'A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;'),(24,5,31,'The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?'),(24,6,1,'O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.'),(24,6,2,'I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman].'),(24,6,3,'The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.'),(24,6,4,'Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.'),(24,6,5,'Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.'),(24,6,6,'For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the city to be visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of her.'),(24,6,7,'As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.'),(24,6,8,'Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.'),(24,6,9,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.'),(24,6,10,'To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.'),(24,6,11,'Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.'),(24,6,12,'And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.'),(24,6,13,'For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.'),(24,6,14,'They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.'),(24,6,15,'Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time [that] I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.'),(24,6,16,'Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].'),(24,6,17,'Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.'),(24,6,18,'Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them.'),(24,6,19,'Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even] the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.'),(24,6,20,'To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings [are] not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.'),(24,6,21,'Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.'),(24,6,22,'Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.'),(24,6,23,'They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.'),(24,6,24,'We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.'),(24,6,25,'Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.'),(24,6,26,'O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.'),(24,6,27,'I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.'),(24,6,28,'They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.'),(24,6,29,'The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.'),(24,6,30,'Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.'),(24,7,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,'),(24,7,2,'Stand in the gate of the LORD\'s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of] Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.'),(24,7,3,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.'),(24,7,4,'Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.'),(24,7,5,'For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;'),(24,7,6,'[If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:'),(24,7,7,'Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.'),(24,7,8,'Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.'),(24,7,9,'Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;'),(24,7,10,'And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?'),(24,7,11,'Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.'),(24,7,12,'But go ye now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.'),(24,7,13,'And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;'),(24,7,14,'Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.'),(24,7,15,'And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.'),(24,7,16,'Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.'),(24,7,17,'Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?'),(24,7,18,'The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.'),(24,7,19,'Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?'),(24,7,20,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.'),(24,7,21,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.'),(24,7,22,'For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:'),(24,7,23,'But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.'),(24,7,24,'But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.'),(24,7,25,'Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending [them]:'),(24,7,26,'Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.'),(24,7,27,'Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.'),(24,7,28,'But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.'),(24,7,29,'Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'),(24,7,30,'For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.'),(24,7,31,'And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart.'),(24,7,32,'Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.'),(24,7,33,'And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray [them] away.'),(24,7,34,'Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.'),(24,8,1,'At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:'),(24,8,2,'And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.'),(24,8,3,'And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.'),(24,8,4,'Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?'),(24,8,5,'Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.'),(24,8,6,'I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.'),(24,8,7,'Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.'),(24,8,8,'How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.'),(24,8,9,'The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?'),(24,8,10,'Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and] their fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.'),(24,8,11,'For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.'),(24,8,12,'Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.'),(24,8,13,'I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: [there shall be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.'),(24,8,14,'Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.'),(24,8,15,'We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!'),(24,8,16,'The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.'),(24,8,17,'For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.'),(24,8,18,'[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.'),(24,8,19,'Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?'),(24,8,20,'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'),(24,8,21,'For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.'),(24,8,22,'[Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?'),(24,9,1,'Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!'),(24,9,2,'Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.'),(24,9,3,'And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.'),(24,9,4,'Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.'),(24,9,5,'And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.'),(24,9,6,'Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.'),(24,9,7,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?'),(24,9,8,'Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.'),(24,9,9,'Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?'),(24,9,10,'For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.'),(24,9,11,'And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.'),(24,9,12,'Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?'),(24,9,13,'And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;'),(24,9,14,'But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:'),(24,9,15,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.'),(24,9,16,'I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.'),(24,9,17,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come:'),(24,9,18,'And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.'),(24,9,19,'For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.'),(24,9,20,'Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.'),(24,9,21,'For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.'),(24,9,22,'Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather [them].'),(24,9,23,'Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches:'),(24,9,24,'But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.'),(24,9,25,'Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;'),(24,9,26,'Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart.'),(24,10,1,'Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:'),(24,10,2,'Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.'),(24,10,3,'For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.'),(24,10,4,'They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.'),(24,10,5,'They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.'),(24,10,6,'Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.'),(24,10,7,'Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.'),(24,10,8,'But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.'),(24,10,9,'Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].'),(24,10,10,'But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.'),(24,10,11,'Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.'),(24,10,12,'He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.'),(24,10,13,'When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.'),(24,10,14,'Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.'),(24,10,15,'They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.'),(24,10,16,'The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.'),(24,10,17,'Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.'),(24,10,18,'For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so].'),(24,10,19,'Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.'),(24,10,20,'My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.'),(24,10,21,'For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.'),(24,10,22,'Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons.'),(24,10,23,'O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.'),(24,10,24,'O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.'),(24,10,25,'Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.'),(24,11,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,'),(24,11,2,'Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;'),(24,11,3,'And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,'),(24,11,4,'Which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:'),(24,11,5,'That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.'),(24,11,6,'Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.'),(24,11,7,'For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.'),(24,11,8,'Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.'),(24,11,9,'And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(24,11,10,'They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.'),(24,11,11,'Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.'),(24,11,12,'Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.'),(24,11,13,'For [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and [according to] the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to [that] shameful thing, [even] altars to burn incense unto Baal.'),(24,11,14,'Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear [them] in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.'),(24,11,15,'What hath my beloved to do in mine house, [seeing] she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.'),(24,11,16,'The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.'),(24,11,17,'For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.'),(24,11,18,'And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it], and I know [it]: then thou shewedst me their doings.'),(24,11,19,'But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.'),(24,11,20,'But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.'),(24,11,21,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:'),(24,11,22,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:'),(24,11,23,'And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, [even] the year of their visitation.'),(24,12,1,'Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?'),(24,12,2,'Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their mouth, and far from their reins.'),(24,12,3,'But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.'),(24,12,4,'How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.'),(24,12,5,'If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?'),(24,12,6,'For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.'),(24,12,7,'I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.'),(24,12,8,'Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.'),(24,12,9,'Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the birds round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.'),(24,12,10,'Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.'),(24,12,11,'They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth [it] to heart.'),(24,12,12,'The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.'),(24,12,13,'They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.'),(24,12,14,'Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.'),(24,12,15,'And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.'),(24,12,16,'And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.'),(24,12,17,'But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.'),(24,13,1,'Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.'),(24,13,2,'So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put [it] on my loins.'),(24,13,3,'And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,'),(24,13,4,'Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.'),(24,13,5,'So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.'),(24,13,6,'And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.'),(24,13,7,'Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.'),(24,13,8,'Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(24,13,9,'Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.'),(24,13,10,'This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.'),(24,13,11,'For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.'),(24,13,12,'Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?'),(24,13,13,'Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David\'s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.'),(24,13,14,'And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.'),(24,13,15,'Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.'),(24,13,16,'Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.'),(24,13,17,'But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD\'s flock is carried away captive.'),(24,13,18,'Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory.'),(24,13,19,'The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open [them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.'),(24,13,20,'Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where [is] the flock [that] was given thee, thy beautiful flock?'),(24,13,21,'What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?'),(24,13,22,'And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, [and] thy heels made bare.'),(24,13,23,'Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.'),(24,13,24,'Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.'),(24,13,25,'This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.'),(24,13,26,'Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.'),(24,13,27,'I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?'),(24,14,1,'The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.'),(24,14,2,'Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.'),(24,14,3,'And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.'),(24,14,4,'Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.'),(24,14,5,'Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.'),(24,14,6,'And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because [there was] no grass.'),(24,14,7,'O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for thy name\'s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.'),(24,14,8,'O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man [that] turneth aside to tarry for a night?'),(24,14,9,'Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man [that] cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.'),(24,14,10,'Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.'),(24,14,11,'Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for [their] good.'),(24,14,12,'When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.'),(24,14,13,'Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.'),(24,14,14,'Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.'),(24,14,15,'Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.'),(24,14,16,'And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.'),(24,14,17,'Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.'),(24,14,18,'If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.'),(24,14,19,'Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!'),(24,14,20,'We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.'),(24,14,21,'Do not abhor [us], for thy name\'s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.'),(24,14,22,'Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].'),(24,15,1,'Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.'),(24,15,2,'And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as [are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the famine, to the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to the captivity.'),(24,15,3,'And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.'),(24,15,4,'And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem.'),(24,15,5,'For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?'),(24,15,6,'Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.'),(24,15,7,'And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways.'),(24,15,8,'Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.'),(24,15,9,'She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.'),(24,15,10,'Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.'),(24,15,11,'The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.'),(24,15,12,'Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?'),(24,15,13,'Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.'),(24,15,14,'And I will make [thee] to pass with thine enemies into a land [which] thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, [which] shall burn upon you.'),(24,15,15,'O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.'),(24,15,16,'Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.'),(24,15,17,'I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.'),(24,15,18,'Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?'),(24,15,19,'Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.'),(24,15,20,'And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I [am] with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.'),(24,15,21,'And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.'),(24,16,1,'The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,'),(24,16,2,'Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.'),(24,16,3,'For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;'),(24,16,4,'They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.'),(24,16,5,'For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies.'),(24,16,6,'Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:'),(24,16,7,'Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.'),(24,16,8,'Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.'),(24,16,9,'For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.'),(24,16,10,'And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'),(24,16,11,'Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;'),(24,16,12,'And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:'),(24,16,13,'Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, [neither] ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.'),(24,16,14,'Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;'),(24,16,15,'But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.'),(24,16,16,'Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.'),(24,16,17,'For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.'),(24,16,18,'And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.'),(24,16,19,'O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.'),(24,16,20,'Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods?'),(24,16,21,'Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD.'),(24,17,1,'The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;'),(24,17,2,'Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.'),(24,17,3,'O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.'),(24,17,4,'And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn for ever.'),(24,17,5,'Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.'),(24,17,6,'For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.'),(24,17,7,'Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.'),(24,17,8,'For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.'),(24,17,9,'The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?'),(24,17,10,'I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.'),(24,17,11,'[As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.'),(24,17,12,'A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary.'),(24,17,13,'O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.'),(24,17,14,'Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.'),(24,17,15,'Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD? let it come now.'),(24,17,16,'As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was [right] before thee.'),(24,17,17,'Be not a terror unto me: thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.'),(24,17,18,'Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.'),(24,17,19,'Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;'),(24,17,20,'And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:'),(24,17,21,'Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem;'),(24,17,22,'Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.'),(24,17,23,'But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.'),(24,17,24,'And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;'),(24,17,25,'Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.'),(24,17,26,'And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.'),(24,17,27,'But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.'),(24,18,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,'),(24,18,2,'Arise, and go down to the potter\'s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.'),(24,18,3,'Then I went down to the potter\'s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.'),(24,18,4,'And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it].'),(24,18,5,'Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,'),(24,18,6,'O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter\'s hand, so [are] ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.'),(24,18,7,'[At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy [it];'),(24,18,8,'If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.'),(24,18,9,'And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];'),(24,18,10,'If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.'),(24,18,11,'Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.'),(24,18,12,'And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.'),(24,18,13,'Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.'),(24,18,14,'Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?'),(24,18,15,'Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;'),(24,18,16,'To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.'),(24,18,17,'I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.'),(24,18,18,'Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.'),(24,18,19,'Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.'),(24,18,20,'Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.'),(24,18,21,'Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.'),(24,18,22,'Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.'),(24,18,23,'Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay [me]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.'),(24,19,1,'Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter\'s earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;'),(24,19,2,'And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which [is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,'),(24,19,3,'And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.'),(24,19,4,'Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;'),(24,19,5,'They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake [it], neither came [it] into my mind:'),(24,19,6,'Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.'),(24,19,7,'And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.'),(24,19,8,'And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.'),(24,19,9,'And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.'),(24,19,10,'Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,'),(24,19,11,'And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a potter\'s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.'),(24,19,12,'Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:'),(24,19,13,'And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.'),(24,19,14,'Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD\'s house; and said to all the people,'),(24,19,15,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.'),(24,20,1,'Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who [was] also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.'),(24,20,2,'Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the house of the LORD.'),(24,20,3,'And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.'),(24,20,4,'For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold [it]: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.'),(24,20,5,'Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.'),(24,20,6,'And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.'),(24,20,7,'O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.'),(24,20,8,'For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.'),(24,20,9,'Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].'),(24,20,10,'For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.'),(24,20,11,'But the LORD [is] with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.'),(24,20,12,'But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.'),(24,20,13,'Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.'),(24,20,14,'Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.'),(24,20,15,'Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.'),(24,20,16,'And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;'),(24,20,17,'Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].'),(24,20,18,'Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?'),(24,21,1,'The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,'),(24,21,2,'Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.'),(24,21,3,'Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:'),(24,21,4,'Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that [are] in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and [against] the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.'),(24,21,5,'And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.'),(24,21,6,'And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.'),(24,21,7,'And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.'),(24,21,8,'And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.'),(24,21,9,'He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.'),(24,21,10,'For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.'),(24,21,11,'And touching the house of the king of Judah, [say], Hear ye the word of the LORD;'),(24,21,12,'O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver [him that is] spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.'),(24,21,13,'Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?'),(24,21,14,'But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.'),(24,22,1,'Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,'),(24,22,2,'And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:'),(24,22,3,'Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.'),(24,22,4,'For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.'),(24,22,5,'But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.'),(24,22,6,'For thus saith the LORD unto the king\'s house of Judah; Thou [art] Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited.'),(24,22,7,'And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.'),(24,22,8,'And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?'),(24,22,9,'Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.'),(24,22,10,'Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.'),(24,22,11,'For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:'),(24,22,12,'But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.'),(24,22,13,'Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour\'s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;'),(24,22,14,'That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.'),(24,22,15,'Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him?'),(24,22,16,'He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.'),(24,22,17,'But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].'),(24,22,18,'Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!'),(24,22,19,'He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.'),(24,22,20,'Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.'),(24,22,21,'I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I will not hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.'),(24,22,22,'The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.'),(24,22,23,'O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!'),(24,22,24,'[As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;'),(24,22,25,'And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24,22,26,'And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.'),(24,22,27,'But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.'),(24,22,28,'[Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he] a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?'),(24,22,29,'O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.'),(24,22,30,'Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man [that] shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.'),(24,23,1,'Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.'),(24,23,2,'Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.'),(24,23,3,'And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.'),(24,23,4,'And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.'),(24,23,5,'Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.'),(24,23,6,'In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.'),(24,23,7,'Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;'),(24,23,8,'But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.'),(24,23,9,'Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.'),(24,23,10,'For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force [is] not right.'),(24,23,11,'For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.'),(24,23,12,'Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.'),(24,23,13,'And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.'),(24,23,14,'I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.'),(24,23,15,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.'),(24,23,16,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.'),(24,23,17,'They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.'),(24,23,18,'For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]?'),(24,23,19,'Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.'),(24,23,20,'The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.'),(24,23,21,'I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.'),(24,23,22,'But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.'),(24,23,23,'[Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?'),(24,23,24,'Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.'),(24,23,25,'I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'),(24,23,26,'How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart;'),(24,23,27,'Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.'),(24,23,28,'The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.'),(24,23,29,'[Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?'),(24,23,30,'Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.'),(24,23,31,'Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.'),(24,23,32,'Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.'),(24,23,33,'And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.'),(24,23,34,'And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.'),(24,23,35,'Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?'),(24,23,36,'And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man\'s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.'),(24,23,37,'Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?'),(24,23,38,'But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;'),(24,23,39,'Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, [and cast you] out of my presence:'),(24,23,40,'And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'),(24,24,1,'The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs [were] set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.'),(24,24,2,'One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.'),(24,24,3,'Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.'),(24,24,4,'Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(24,24,5,'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.'),(24,24,6,'For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull [them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck [them] up.'),(24,24,7,'And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.'),(24,24,8,'And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:'),(24,24,9,'And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.'),(24,24,10,'And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.'),(24,25,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that [was] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;'),(24,25,2,'The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,'),(24,25,3,'From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.'),(24,25,4,'And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.'),(24,25,5,'They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:'),(24,25,6,'And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.'),(24,25,7,'Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.'),(24,25,8,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,'),(24,25,9,'Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.'),(24,25,10,'Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.'),(24,25,11,'And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.'),(24,25,12,'And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.'),(24,25,13,'And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, [even] all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.'),(24,25,14,'For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.'),(24,25,15,'For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.'),(24,25,16,'And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.'),(24,25,17,'Then took I the cup at the LORD\'s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:'),(24,25,18,'[To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this day;'),(24,25,19,'Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;'),(24,25,20,'And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,'),(24,25,21,'Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,'),(24,25,22,'And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which [are] beyond the sea,'),(24,25,23,'Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the utmost corners,'),(24,25,24,'And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,'),(24,25,25,'And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,'),(24,25,26,'And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.'),(24,25,27,'Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.'),(24,25,28,'And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.'),(24,25,29,'For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.'),(24,25,30,'Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.'),(24,25,31,'A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.'),(24,25,32,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.'),(24,25,33,'And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.'),(24,25,34,'Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the ashes], ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.'),(24,25,35,'And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.'),(24,25,36,'A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, [shall be heard]: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.'),(24,25,37,'And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.'),(24,25,38,'He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.'),(24,26,1,'In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,'),(24,26,2,'Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD\'s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD\'s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:'),(24,26,3,'If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.'),(24,26,4,'And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,'),(24,26,5,'To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending [them], but ye have not hearkened;'),(24,26,6,'Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.'),(24,26,7,'So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.'),(24,26,8,'Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.'),(24,26,9,'Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.'),(24,26,10,'When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king\'s house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD\'s [house].'),(24,26,11,'Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man [is] worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.'),(24,26,12,'Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.'),(24,26,13,'Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.'),(24,26,14,'As for me, behold, I [am] in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.'),(24,26,15,'But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.'),(24,26,16,'Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.'),(24,26,17,'Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,'),(24,26,18,'Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.'),(24,26,19,'Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.'),(24,26,20,'And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:'),(24,26,21,'And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;'),(24,26,22,'And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into Egypt.'),(24,26,23,'And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.'),(24,26,24,'Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.'),(24,27,1,'In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,'),(24,27,2,'Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,'),(24,27,3,'And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;'),(24,27,4,'And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;'),(24,27,5,'I have made the earth, the man and the beast that [are] upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.'),(24,27,6,'And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.'),(24,27,7,'And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son\'s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.'),(24,27,8,'And it shall come to pass, [that] the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.'),(24,27,9,'Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:'),(24,27,10,'For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.'),(24,27,11,'But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.'),(24,27,12,'I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.'),(24,27,13,'Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?'),(24,27,14,'Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.'),(24,27,15,'For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.'),(24,27,16,'Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD\'s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.'),(24,27,17,'Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?'),(24,27,18,'But if they [be] prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.'),(24,27,19,'For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,'),(24,27,20,'Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;'),(24,27,21,'Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain [in] the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;'),(24,27,22,'They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.'),(24,28,1,'And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which [was] of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,'),(24,28,2,'Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.'),(24,28,3,'Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD\'s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:'),(24,28,4,'And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'),(24,28,5,'Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,'),(24,28,6,'Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD\'s house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.'),(24,28,7,'Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;'),(24,28,8,'The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.'),(24,28,9,'The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.'),(24,28,10,'Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah\'s neck, and brake it.'),(24,28,11,'And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.'),(24,28,12,'Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah [the prophet], after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,'),(24,28,13,'Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.'),(24,28,14,'For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.'),(24,28,15,'Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.'),(24,28,16,'Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.'),(24,28,17,'So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.'),(24,29,1,'Now these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;'),(24,29,2,'(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)'),(24,29,3,'By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,'),(24,29,4,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;'),(24,29,5,'Build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;'),(24,29,6,'Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.'),(24,29,7,'And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.'),(24,29,8,'For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.'),(24,29,9,'For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.'),(24,29,10,'For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.'),(24,29,11,'For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.'),(24,29,12,'Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.'),(24,29,13,'And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart.'),(24,29,14,'And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.'),(24,29,15,'Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;'),(24,29,16,'[Know] that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, [and] of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;'),(24,29,17,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.'),(24,29,18,'And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:'),(24,29,19,'Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them]; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.'),(24,29,20,'Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:'),(24,29,21,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;'),(24,29,22,'And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;'),(24,29,23,'Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours\' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.'),(24,29,24,'[Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,'),(24,29,25,'Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that [are] at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,'),(24,29,26,'The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man [that is] mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.'),(24,29,27,'Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?'),(24,29,28,'For therefore he sent unto us [in] Babylon, saying, This [captivity is] long: build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.'),(24,29,29,'And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.'),(24,29,30,'Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,'),(24,29,31,'Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:'),(24,29,32,'Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.'),(24,30,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,'),(24,30,2,'Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.'),(24,30,3,'For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.'),(24,30,4,'And these [are] the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.'),(24,30,5,'For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.'),(24,30,6,'Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?'),(24,30,7,'Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob\'s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.'),(24,30,8,'For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:'),(24,30,9,'But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.'),(24,30,10,'Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid.'),(24,30,11,'For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.'),(24,30,12,'For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable, [and] thy wound [is] grievous.'),(24,30,13,'[There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.'),(24,30,14,'All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased.'),(24,30,15,'Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow [is] incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: [because] thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.'),(24,30,16,'Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.'),(24,30,17,'For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.'),(24,30,18,'Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob\'s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.'),(24,30,19,'And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.'),(24,30,20,'Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.'),(24,30,21,'And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who [is] this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.'),(24,30,22,'And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.'),(24,30,23,'Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.'),(24,30,24,'The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done [it], and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.'),(24,31,1,'At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.'),(24,31,2,'Thus saith the LORD, The people [which were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.'),(24,31,3,'The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.'),(24,31,4,'Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.'),(24,31,5,'Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common things.'),(24,31,6,'For there shall be a day, [that] the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.'),(24,31,7,'For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.'),(24,31,8,'Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.'),(24,31,9,'They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my firstborn.'),(24,31,10,'Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare [it] in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd [doth] his flock.'),(24,31,11,'For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of [him that was] stronger than he.'),(24,31,12,'Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.'),(24,31,13,'Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.'),(24,31,14,'And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.'),(24,31,15,'Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they [were] not.'),(24,31,16,'Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.'),(24,31,17,'And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.'),(24,31,18,'I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.'),(24,31,19,'Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.'),(24,31,20,'[Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.'),(24,31,21,'Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.'),(24,31,22,'How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.'),(24,31,23,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, [and] mountain of holiness.'),(24,31,24,'And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth with flocks.'),(24,31,25,'For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.'),(24,31,26,'Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.'),(24,31,27,'Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.'),(24,31,28,'And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.'),(24,31,29,'In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children\'s teeth are set on edge.'),(24,31,30,'But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.'),(24,31,31,'Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:'),(24,31,32,'Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:'),(24,31,33,'But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.'),(24,31,34,'And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.'),(24,31,35,'Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:'),(24,31,36,'If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.'),(24,31,37,'Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.'),(24,31,38,'Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.'),(24,31,39,'And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.'),(24,31,40,'And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, [shall be] holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.'),(24,32,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.'),(24,32,2,'For then the king of Babylon\'s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which [was] in the king of Judah\'s house.'),(24,32,3,'For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;'),(24,32,4,'And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;'),(24,32,5,'And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?'),(24,32,6,'And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(24,32,7,'Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that [is] in Anathoth: for the right of redemption [is] thine to buy [it].'),(24,32,8,'So Hanameel mine uncle\'s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance [is] thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.'),(24,32,9,'And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle\'s son, that [was] in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen shekels of silver.'),(24,32,10,'And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it], and took witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the balances.'),(24,32,11,'So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that which was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that which was open:'),(24,32,12,'And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle\'s [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.'),(24,32,13,'And I charged Baruch before them, saying,'),(24,32,14,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.'),(24,32,15,'For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.'),(24,32,16,'Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,'),(24,32,17,'Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is nothing too hard for thee:'),(24,32,18,'Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, [is] his name,'),(24,32,19,'Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes [are] open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:'),(24,32,20,'Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, and in Israel, and among [other] men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;'),(24,32,21,'And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;'),(24,32,22,'And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;'),(24,32,23,'And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:'),(24,32,24,'Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest [it].'),(24,32,25,'And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24,32,26,'Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,'),(24,32,27,'Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?'),(24,32,28,'Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:'),(24,32,29,'And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.'),(24,32,30,'For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.'),(24,32,31,'For this city hath been to me [as] a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,'),(24,32,32,'Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(24,32,33,'And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.'),(24,32,34,'But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.'),(24,32,35,'And they built the high places of Baal, which [are] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.'),(24,32,36,'And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;'),(24,32,37,'Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:'),(24,32,38,'And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:'),(24,32,39,'And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:'),(24,32,40,'And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.'),(24,32,41,'Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.'),(24,32,42,'For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.'),(24,32,43,'And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, [It is] desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24,32,44,'Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal [them], and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.'),(24,33,1,'Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,'),(24,33,2,'Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD [is] his name;'),(24,33,3,'Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.'),(24,33,4,'For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;'),(24,33,5,'They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.'),(24,33,6,'Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.'),(24,33,7,'And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.'),(24,33,8,'And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.'),(24,33,9,'And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.'),(24,33,10,'Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say [shall be] desolate without man and without beast, [even] in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,'),(24,33,11,'The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.'),(24,33,12,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down.'),(24,33,13,'In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth [them], saith the LORD.'),(24,33,14,'Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.'),(24,33,15,'In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.'),(24,33,16,'In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this [is the name] wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.'),(24,33,17,'For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;'),(24,33,18,'Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.'),(24,33,19,'And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,'),(24,33,20,'Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;'),(24,33,21,'[Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.'),(24,33,22,'As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.'),(24,33,23,'Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24,33,24,'Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.'),(24,33,25,'Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;'),(24,33,26,'Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.'),(24,34,1,'The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,'),(24,34,2,'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:'),(24,34,3,'And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.'),(24,34,4,'Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:'),(24,34,5,'[But] thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn [odours] for thee; and they will lament thee, [saying], Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.'),(24,34,6,'Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,'),(24,34,7,'When the king of Babylon\'s army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.'),(24,34,8,'[This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;'),(24,34,9,'That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, [being] an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.'),(24,34,10,'Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let [them] go.'),(24,34,11,'But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.'),(24,34,12,'Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,'),(24,34,13,'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,'),(24,34,14,'At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.'),(24,34,15,'And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:'),(24,34,16,'But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.'),(24,34,17,'Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.'),(24,34,18,'And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,'),(24,34,19,'The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;'),(24,34,20,'I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.'),(24,34,21,'And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon\'s army, which are gone up from you.'),(24,34,22,'Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.'),(24,35,1,'The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,'),(24,35,2,'Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.'),(24,35,3,'Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;'),(24,35,4,'And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was] above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:'),(24,35,5,'And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.'),(24,35,6,'But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, [neither] ye, nor your sons for ever:'),(24,35,7,'Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have [any]: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye [be] strangers.'),(24,35,8,'Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;'),(24,35,9,'Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:'),(24,35,10,'But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.'),(24,35,11,'But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.'),(24,35,12,'Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,'),(24,35,13,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.'),(24,35,14,'The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father\'s commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.'),(24,35,15,'I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them], saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.'),(24,35,16,'Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:'),(24,35,17,'Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.'),(24,35,18,'And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:'),(24,35,19,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.'),(24,36,1,'And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,'),(24,36,2,'Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.'),(24,36,3,'It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.'),(24,36,4,'Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.'),(24,36,5,'And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:'),(24,36,6,'Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD\'s house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.'),(24,36,7,'It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.'),(24,36,8,'And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD\'s house.'),(24,36,9,'And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.'),(24,36,10,'Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD\'s house, in the ears of all the people.'),(24,36,11,'When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,'),(24,36,12,'Then he went down into the king\'s house, into the scribe\'s chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, [even] Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.'),(24,36,13,'Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.'),(24,36,14,'Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.'),(24,36,15,'And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read [it] in their ears.'),(24,36,16,'Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.'),(24,36,17,'And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?'),(24,36,18,'Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book.'),(24,36,19,'Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.'),(24,36,20,'And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.'),(24,36,21,'So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe\'s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.'),(24,36,22,'Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.'),(24,36,23,'And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth.'),(24,36,24,'Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.'),(24,36,25,'Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.'),(24,36,26,'But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.'),(24,36,27,'Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,'),(24,36,28,'Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.'),(24,36,29,'And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?'),(24,36,30,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.'),(24,36,31,'And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.'),(24,36,32,'Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.'),(24,37,1,'And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.'),(24,37,2,'But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.'),(24,37,3,'And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.'),(24,37,4,'Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.'),(24,37,5,'Then Pharaoh\'s army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.'),(24,37,6,'Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,'),(24,37,7,'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh\'s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.'),(24,37,8,'And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.'),(24,37,9,'Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.'),(24,37,10,'For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained [but] wounded men among them, [yet] should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.'),(24,37,11,'And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh\'s army,'),(24,37,12,'Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.'),(24,37,13,'And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.'),(24,37,14,'Then said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.'),(24,37,15,'Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.'),(24,37,16,'When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;'),(24,37,17,'Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.'),(24,37,18,'Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?'),(24,37,19,'Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?'),(24,37,20,'Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.'),(24,37,21,'Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers\' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.'),(24,38,1,'Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,'),(24,38,2,'Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.'),(24,38,3,'Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon\'s army, which shall take it.'),(24,38,4,'Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.'),(24,38,5,'Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you.'),(24,38,6,'Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.'),(24,38,7,'Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king\'s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;'),(24,38,8,'Ebedmelech went forth out of the king\'s house, and spake to the king, saying,'),(24,38,9,'My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.'),(24,38,10,'Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.'),(24,38,11,'So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.'),(24,38,12,'And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now [these] old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.'),(24,38,13,'So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.'),(24,38,14,'Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that [is] in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.'),(24,38,15,'Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?'),(24,38,16,'So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.'),(24,38,17,'Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon\'s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:'),(24,38,18,'But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon\'s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.'),(24,38,19,'And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.'),(24,38,20,'But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver [thee]. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.'),(24,38,21,'But if thou refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that the LORD hath shewed me:'),(24,38,22,'And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah\'s house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Babylon\'s princes, and those [women] shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, [and] they are turned away back.'),(24,38,23,'So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.'),(24,38,24,'Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.'),(24,38,25,'But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:'),(24,38,26,'Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan\'s house, to die there.'),(24,38,27,'Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.'),(24,38,28,'So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was [there] when Jerusalem was taken.'),(24,39,1,'In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.'),(24,39,2,'[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.'),(24,39,3,'And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [even] Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.'),(24,39,4,'And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king\'s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.'),(24,39,5,'But the Chaldeans\' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.'),(24,39,6,'Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.'),(24,39,7,'Moreover he put out Zedekiah\'s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.'),(24,39,8,'And the Chaldeans burned the king\'s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.'),(24,39,9,'Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.'),(24,39,10,'But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.'),(24,39,11,'Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,'),(24,39,12,'Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.'),(24,39,13,'So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon\'s princes;'),(24,39,14,'Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.'),(24,39,15,'Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,'),(24,39,16,'Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be [accomplished] in that day before thee.'),(24,39,17,'But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou [art] afraid.'),(24,39,18,'For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.'),(24,40,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.'),(24,40,2,'And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.'),(24,40,3,'Now the LORD hath brought [it], and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.'),(24,40,4,'And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which [were] upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land [is] before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.'),(24,40,5,'Now while he was not yet gone back, [he said], Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.'),(24,40,6,'Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.'),(24,40,7,'Now when all the captains of the forces which [were] in the fields, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;'),(24,40,8,'Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.'),(24,40,9,'And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.'),(24,40,10,'As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.'),(24,40,11,'Likewise when all the Jews that [were] in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that [were] in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;'),(24,40,12,'Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.'),(24,40,13,'Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that [were] in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,'),(24,40,14,'And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.'),(24,40,15,'Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know [it]: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?'),(24,40,16,'But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.'),(24,41,1,'Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.'),(24,41,2,'Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.'),(24,41,3,'Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [even] with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, [and] the men of war.'),(24,41,4,'And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew [it],'),(24,41,5,'That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, [even] fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.'),(24,41,6,'And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.'),(24,41,7,'And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that [were] with him.'),(24,41,8,'But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.'),(24,41,9,'Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [them that were] slain.'),(24,41,10,'Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king\'s daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.'),(24,41,11,'But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that [were] with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,'),(24,41,12,'Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that [are] in Gibeon.'),(24,41,13,'Now it came to pass, [that] when all the people which [were] with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that [were] with him, then they were glad.'),(24,41,14,'So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.'),(24,41,15,'But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.'),(24,41,16,'Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that [were] with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after [that] he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [even] mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:'),(24,41,17,'And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,'),(24,41,18,'Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.'),(24,42,1,'Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,'),(24,42,2,'And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, [even] for all this remnant; (for we are left [but] a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)'),(24,42,3,'That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.'),(24,42,4,'Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard [you]; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, [that] whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare [it] unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.'),(24,42,5,'Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.'),(24,42,6,'Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.'),(24,42,7,'And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.'),(24,42,8,'Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which [were] with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,'),(24,42,9,'And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;'),(24,42,10,'If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.'),(24,42,11,'Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I [am] with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.'),(24,42,12,'And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.'),(24,42,13,'But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,'),(24,42,14,'Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:'),(24,42,15,'And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;'),(24,42,16,'Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.'),(24,42,17,'So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.'),(24,42,18,'For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.'),(24,42,19,'The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.'),(24,42,20,'For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do [it].'),(24,42,21,'And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any [thing] for the which he hath sent me unto you.'),(24,42,22,'Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.'),(24,43,1,'And it came to pass, [that] when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, [even] all these words,'),(24,43,2,'Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:'),(24,43,3,'But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.'),(24,43,4,'So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.'),(24,43,5,'But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;'),(24,43,6,'[Even] men, and women, and children, and the king\'s daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.'),(24,43,7,'So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they [even] to Tahpanhes.'),(24,43,8,'Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,'),(24,43,9,'Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh\'s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;'),(24,43,10,'And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.'),(24,43,11,'And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, [and deliver] such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are] for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to the sword.'),(24,43,12,'And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.'),(24,43,13,'He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that [is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.'),(24,44,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,'),(24,44,2,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they [are] a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,'),(24,44,3,'Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye, nor your fathers.'),(24,44,4,'Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.'),(24,44,5,'But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.'),(24,44,6,'Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.'),(24,44,7,'Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;'),(24,44,8,'In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?'),(24,44,9,'Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?'),(24,44,10,'They are not humbled [even] unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.'),(24,44,11,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.'),(24,44,12,'And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt; they shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.'),(24,44,13,'For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:'),(24,44,14,'So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.'),(24,44,15,'Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,'),(24,44,16,'[As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.'),(24,44,17,'But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.'),(24,44,18,'But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.'),(24,44,19,'And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?'),(24,44,20,'Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him [that] answer, saying,'),(24,44,21,'The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it [not] into his mind?'),(24,44,22,'So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.'),(24,44,23,'Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.'),(24,44,24,'Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt:'),(24,44,25,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.'),(24,44,26,'Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.'),(24,44,27,'Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.'),(24,44,28,'Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.'),(24,44,29,'And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:'),(24,44,30,'Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.'),(24,45,1,'The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,'),(24,45,2,'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;'),(24,45,3,'Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.'),(24,45,4,'Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, [that] which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.'),(24,45,5,'And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.'),(24,46,1,'The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;'),(24,46,2,'Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.'),(24,46,3,'Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.'),(24,46,4,'Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the brigandines.'),(24,46,5,'Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: [for] fear [was] round about, saith the LORD.'),(24,46,6,'Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.'),(24,46,7,'Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?'),(24,46,8,'Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.'),(24,46,9,'Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.'),(24,46,10,'For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.'),(24,46,11,'Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured.'),(24,46,12,'The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together.'),(24,46,13,'The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt.'),(24,46,14,'Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.'),(24,46,15,'Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.'),(24,46,16,'He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.'),(24,46,17,'They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.'),(24,46,18,'[As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come.'),(24,46,19,'O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.'),(24,46,20,'Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.'),(24,46,21,'Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation.'),(24,46,22,'The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.'),(24,46,23,'They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.'),(24,46,24,'The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.'),(24,46,25,'The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him:'),(24,46,26,'And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.'),(24,46,27,'But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid.'),(24,46,28,'Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.'),(24,47,1,'The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.'),(24,47,2,'Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.'),(24,47,3,'At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands;'),(24,47,4,'Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, [and] to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.'),(24,47,5,'Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?'),(24,47,6,'O thou sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.'),(24,47,7,'How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.'),(24,48,1,'Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.'),(24,48,2,'[There shall be] no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from [being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.'),(24,48,3,'A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.'),(24,48,4,'Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.'),(24,48,5,'For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.'),(24,48,6,'Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.'),(24,48,7,'For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.'),(24,48,8,'And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.'),(24,48,9,'Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.'),(24,48,10,'Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword from blood.'),(24,48,11,'Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.'),(24,48,12,'Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.'),(24,48,13,'And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.'),(24,48,14,'How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?'),(24,48,15,'Moab is spoiled, and gone up [out of] her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.'),(24,48,16,'The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.'),(24,48,17,'All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, [and] the beautiful rod!'),(24,48,18,'Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds.'),(24,48,19,'O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, [and] say, What is done?'),(24,48,20,'Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,'),(24,48,21,'And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,'),(24,48,22,'And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,'),(24,48,23,'And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,'),(24,48,24,'And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.'),(24,48,25,'The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.'),(24,48,26,'Make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.'),(24,48,27,'For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.'),(24,48,28,'O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the sides of the hole\'s mouth.'),(24,48,29,'We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.'),(24,48,30,'I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it].'),(24,48,31,'Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; [mine heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.'),(24,48,32,'O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.'),(24,48,33,'And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; [their] shouting [shall be] no shouting.'),(24,48,34,'From the cry of Heshbon [even] unto Elealeh, [and even] unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar [even] unto Horonaim, [as] an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.'),(24,48,35,'Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.'),(24,48,36,'Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches [that] he hath gotten are perished.'),(24,48,37,'For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.'),(24,48,38,'[There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure, saith the LORD.'),(24,48,39,'They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.'),(24,48,40,'For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.'),(24,48,41,'Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men\'s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.'),(24,48,42,'And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he hath magnified [himself] against the LORD.'),(24,48,43,'Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.'),(24,48,44,'He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, [even] upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.'),(24,48,45,'They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.'),(24,48,46,'Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.'),(24,48,47,'Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far [is] the judgment of Moab.'),(24,49,1,'Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?'),(24,49,2,'Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.'),(24,49,3,'Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together.'),(24,49,4,'Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come unto me?'),(24,49,5,'Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.'),(24,49,6,'And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.'),(24,49,7,'Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?'),(24,49,8,'Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that] I will visit him.'),(24,49,9,'If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.'),(24,49,10,'But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he [is] not.'),(24,49,11,'Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.'),(24,49,12,'For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment [was] not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and [art] thou he [that] shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].'),(24,49,13,'For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.'),(24,49,14,'I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, [saying], Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.'),(24,49,15,'For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, [and] despised among men.'),(24,49,16,'Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.'),(24,49,17,'Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.'),(24,49,18,'As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.'),(24,49,19,'Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?'),(24,49,20,'Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.'),(24,49,21,'The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.'),(24,49,22,'Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.'),(24,49,23,'Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.'),(24,49,24,'Damascus is waxed feeble, [and] turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.'),(24,49,25,'How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!'),(24,49,26,'Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.'),(24,49,27,'And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.'),(24,49,28,'Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.'),(24,49,29,'Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear [is] on every side.'),(24,49,30,'Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.'),(24,49,31,'Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, [which] dwell alone.'),(24,49,32,'And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them [that are] in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.'),(24,49,33,'And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, [and] a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it.'),(24,49,34,'The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,'),(24,49,35,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.'),(24,49,36,'And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.'),(24,49,37,'For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:'),(24,49,38,'And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.'),(24,49,39,'But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.'),(24,50,1,'The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.'),(24,50,2,'Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.'),(24,50,3,'For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.'),(24,50,4,'In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.'),(24,50,5,'They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.'),(24,50,6,'My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.'),(24,50,7,'All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'),(24,50,8,'Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.'),(24,50,9,'For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.'),(24,50,10,'And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.'),(24,50,11,'Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;'),(24,50,12,'Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.'),(24,50,13,'Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.'),(24,50,14,'Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.'),(24,50,15,'Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it [is] the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.'),(24,50,16,'Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.'),(24,50,17,'Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.'),(24,50,18,'Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.'),(24,50,19,'And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.'),(24,50,20,'In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall be] none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.'),(24,50,21,'Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.'),(24,50,22,'A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.'),(24,50,23,'How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!'),(24,50,24,'I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.'),(24,50,25,'The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this [is] the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.'),(24,50,26,'Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.'),(24,50,27,'Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.'),(24,50,28,'The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.'),(24,50,29,'Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.'),(24,50,30,'Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.'),(24,50,31,'Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time [that] I will visit thee.'),(24,50,32,'And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.'),(24,50,33,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah [were] oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.'),(24,50,34,'Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.'),(24,50,35,'A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men].'),(24,50,36,'A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.'),(24,50,37,'A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.'),(24,50,38,'A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad upon [their] idols.'),(24,50,39,'Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.'),(24,50,40,'As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.'),(24,50,41,'Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.'),(24,50,42,'They shall hold the bow and the lance: they [are] cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, [every one] put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.'),(24,50,43,'The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.'),(24,50,44,'Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?'),(24,50,45,'Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make [their] habitation desolate with them.'),(24,50,46,'At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.'),(24,51,1,'Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;'),(24,51,2,'And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.'),(24,51,3,'Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.'),(24,51,4,'Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.'),(24,51,5,'For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.'),(24,51,6,'Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of the LORD\'s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.'),(24,51,7,'Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD\'s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.'),(24,51,8,'Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.'),(24,51,9,'We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up [even] to the skies.'),(24,51,10,'The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.'),(24,51,11,'Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.'),(24,51,12,'Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.'),(24,51,13,'O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy covetousness.'),(24,51,14,'The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.'),(24,51,15,'He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.'),(24,51,16,'When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.'),(24,51,17,'Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.'),(24,51,18,'They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.'),(24,51,19,'The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the former of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.'),(24,51,20,'Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;'),(24,51,21,'And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;'),(24,51,22,'With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;'),(24,51,23,'I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.'),(24,51,24,'And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.'),(24,51,25,'Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.'),(24,51,26,'And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.'),(24,51,27,'Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.'),(24,51,28,'Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.'),(24,51,29,'And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.'),(24,51,30,'The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in [their] holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.'),(24,51,31,'One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at [one] end,'),(24,51,32,'And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.'),(24,51,33,'For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.'),(24,51,34,'Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.'),(24,51,35,'The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.'),(24,51,36,'Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.'),(24,51,37,'And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.'),(24,51,38,'They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions\' whelps.'),(24,51,39,'In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.'),(24,51,40,'I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.'),(24,51,41,'How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!'),(24,51,42,'The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.'),(24,51,43,'Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby.'),(24,51,44,'And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.'),(24,51,45,'My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.'),(24,51,46,'And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come [one] year, and after that in [another] year [shall come] a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.'),(24,51,47,'Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.'),(24,51,48,'Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is] therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.'),(24,51,49,'As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.'),(24,51,50,'Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.'),(24,51,51,'We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD\'s house.'),(24,51,52,'Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.'),(24,51,53,'Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.'),(24,51,54,'A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:'),(24,51,55,'Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:'),(24,51,56,'Because the spoiler is come upon her, [even] upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.'),(24,51,57,'And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.'),(24,51,58,'Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.'),(24,51,59,'The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And [this] Seraiah [was] a quiet prince.'),(24,51,60,'So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon.'),(24,51,61,'And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;'),(24,51,62,'Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.'),(24,51,63,'And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:'),(24,51,64,'And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.'),(24,52,1,'Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother\'s name [was] Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.'),(24,52,2,'And he did [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.'),(24,52,3,'For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.'),(24,52,4,'And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.'),(24,52,5,'So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.'),(24,52,6,'And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.'),(24,52,7,'Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [was] by the king\'s garden; (now the Chaldeans [were] by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.'),(24,52,8,'But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.'),(24,52,9,'Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.'),(24,52,10,'And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.'),(24,52,11,'Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.'),(24,52,12,'Now in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, [which] served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,'),(24,52,13,'And burned the house of the LORD, and the king\'s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great [men], burned he with fire:'),(24,52,14,'And all the army of the Chaldeans, that [were] with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.'),(24,52,15,'Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive [certain] of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.'),(24,52,16,'But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left [certain] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.'),(24,52,17,'Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.'),(24,52,18,'The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.'),(24,52,19,'And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; [that] which [was] of gold [in] gold, and [that] which [was] of silver [in] silver, took the captain of the guard away.'),(24,52,20,'The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.'),(24,52,21,'And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof [was] four fingers: [it was] hollow.'),(24,52,22,'And a chapiter of brass [was] upon it; and the height of one chapiter [was] five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all [of] brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates [were] like unto these.'),(24,52,23,'And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; [and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred round about.'),(24,52,24,'And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:'),(24,52,25,'He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king\'s person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.'),(24,52,26,'So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.'),(24,52,27,'And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.'),(24,52,28,'This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:'),(24,52,29,'In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:'),(24,52,30,'In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons [were] four thousand and six hundred.'),(24,52,31,'And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,'),(24,52,32,'And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon,'),(24,52,33,'And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.'),(24,52,34,'And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.'),(25,1,1,'How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become tributary!'),(25,1,2,'She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.'),(25,1,3,'Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.'),(25,1,4,'The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.'),(25,1,5,'Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.'),(25,1,6,'And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.'),(25,1,7,'Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, [and] did mock at her sabbaths.'),(25,1,8,'Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.'),(25,1,9,'Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified [himself].'),(25,1,10,'The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.'),(25,1,11,'All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.'),(25,1,12,'[Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.'),(25,1,13,'From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.'),(25,1,14,'The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up.'),(25,1,15,'The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a winepress.'),(25,1,16,'For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.'),(25,1,17,'Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.'),(25,1,18,'The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.'),(25,1,19,'I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.'),(25,1,20,'Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.'),(25,1,21,'They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it]: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.'),(25,1,22,'Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.'),(25,2,1,'How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!'),(25,2,2,'The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought [them] down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.'),(25,2,3,'He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devoureth round about.'),(25,2,4,'He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.'),(25,2,5,'The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.'),(25,2,6,'And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.'),(25,2,7,'The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.'),(25,2,8,'The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.'),(25,2,9,'Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes [are] among the Gentiles: the law [is] no [more]; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.'),(25,2,10,'The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.'),(25,2,11,'Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.'),(25,2,12,'They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers\' bosom.'),(25,2,13,'What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach [is] great like the sea: who can heal thee?'),(25,2,14,'Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.'),(25,2,15,'All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?'),(25,2,16,'All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it].'),(25,2,17,'The LORD hath done [that] which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused [thine] enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.'),(25,2,18,'Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.'),(25,2,19,'Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.'),(25,2,20,'Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?'),(25,2,21,'The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain [them] in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, [and] not pitied.'),(25,2,22,'Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD\'s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.'),(25,3,1,'I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.'),(25,3,2,'He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.'),(25,3,3,'Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.'),(25,3,4,'My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.'),(25,3,5,'He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.'),(25,3,6,'He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.'),(25,3,7,'He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.'),(25,3,8,'Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.'),(25,3,9,'He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.'),(25,3,10,'He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.'),(25,3,11,'He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.'),(25,3,12,'He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.'),(25,3,13,'He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.'),(25,3,14,'I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.'),(25,3,15,'He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.'),(25,3,16,'He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.'),(25,3,17,'And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.'),(25,3,18,'And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:'),(25,3,19,'Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.'),(25,3,20,'My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.'),(25,3,21,'This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.'),(25,3,22,'[It is of] the LORD\'s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.'),(25,3,23,'[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.'),(25,3,24,'The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.'),(25,3,25,'The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.'),(25,3,26,'[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.'),(25,3,27,'[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.'),(25,3,28,'He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.'),(25,3,29,'He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.'),(25,3,30,'He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.'),(25,3,31,'For the Lord will not cast off for ever:'),(25,3,32,'But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.'),(25,3,33,'For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.'),(25,3,34,'To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,'),(25,3,35,'To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,'),(25,3,36,'To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.'),(25,3,37,'Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?'),(25,3,38,'Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?'),(25,3,39,'Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?'),(25,3,40,'Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.'),(25,3,41,'Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.'),(25,3,42,'We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.'),(25,3,43,'Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.'),(25,3,44,'Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.'),(25,3,45,'Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.'),(25,3,46,'All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.'),(25,3,47,'Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.'),(25,3,48,'Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.'),(25,3,49,'Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,'),(25,3,50,'Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.'),(25,3,51,'Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.'),(25,3,52,'Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.'),(25,3,53,'They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.'),(25,3,54,'Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off.'),(25,3,55,'I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.'),(25,3,56,'Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.'),(25,3,57,'Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.'),(25,3,58,'O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.'),(25,3,59,'O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.'),(25,3,60,'Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.'),(25,3,61,'Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;'),(25,3,62,'The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.'),(25,3,63,'Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.'),(25,3,64,'Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.'),(25,3,65,'Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.'),(25,3,66,'Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.'),(25,4,1,'How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.'),(25,4,2,'The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!'),(25,4,3,'Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.'),(25,4,4,'The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.'),(25,4,5,'They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.'),(25,4,6,'For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.'),(25,4,7,'Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of sapphire:'),(25,4,8,'Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.'),(25,4,9,'[They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.'),(25,4,10,'The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.'),(25,4,11,'The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.'),(25,4,12,'The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.'),(25,4,13,'For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,'),(25,4,14,'They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.'),(25,4,15,'They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there].'),(25,4,16,'The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.'),(25,4,17,'As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].'),(25,4,18,'They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.'),(25,4,19,'Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.'),(25,4,20,'The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.'),(25,4,21,'Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.'),(25,4,22,'The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.'),(25,5,1,'Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.'),(25,5,2,'Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.'),(25,5,3,'We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.'),(25,5,4,'We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.'),(25,5,5,'Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.'),(25,5,6,'We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.'),(25,5,7,'Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.'),(25,5,8,'Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.'),(25,5,9,'We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.'),(25,5,10,'Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.'),(25,5,11,'They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.'),(25,5,12,'Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.'),(25,5,13,'They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.'),(25,5,14,'The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.'),(25,5,15,'The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.'),(25,5,16,'The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!'),(25,5,17,'For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.'),(25,5,18,'Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.'),(25,5,19,'Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.'),(25,5,20,'Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?'),(25,5,21,'Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.'),(25,5,22,'But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.'),(26,1,1,'Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I [was] among the captives by the river of Chebar, [that] the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.'),(26,1,2,'In the fifth [day] of the month, which [was] the fifth year of king Jehoiachin\'s captivity,'),(26,1,3,'The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.'),(26,1,4,'And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness [was] about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.'),(26,1,5,'Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.'),(26,1,6,'And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.'),(26,1,7,'And their feet [were] straight feet; and the sole of their feet [was] like the sole of a calf\'s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.'),(26,1,8,'And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.'),(26,1,9,'Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.'),(26,1,10,'As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.'),(26,1,11,'Thus [were] their faces: and their wings [were] stretched upward; two [wings] of every one [were] joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.'),(26,1,12,'And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; [and] they turned not when they went.'),(26,1,13,'As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of fire, [and] like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.'),(26,1,14,'And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.'),(26,1,15,'Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.'),(26,1,16,'The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.'),(26,1,17,'When they went, they went upon their four sides: [and] they turned not when they went.'),(26,1,18,'As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings [were] full of eyes round about them four.'),(26,1,19,'And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.'),(26,1,20,'Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither [was their] spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in the wheels.'),(26,1,21,'When those went, [these] went; and when those stood, [these] stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in the wheels.'),(26,1,22,'And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature [was] as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.'),(26,1,23,'And under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.'),(26,1,24,'And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.'),(26,1,25,'And there was a voice from the firmament that [was] over their heads, when they stood, [and] had let down their wings.'),(26,1,26,'And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.'),(26,1,27,'And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.'),(26,1,28,'As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round about. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.'),(26,2,1,'And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.'),(26,2,2,'And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.'),(26,2,3,'And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, [even] unto this very day.'),(26,2,4,'For [they are] impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,2,5,'And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they [are] a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.'),(26,2,6,'And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns [be] with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they [be] a rebellious house.'),(26,2,7,'And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they [are] most rebellious.'),(26,2,8,'But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.'),(26,2,9,'And when I looked, behold, an hand [was] sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book [was] therein;'),(26,2,10,'And he spread it before me; and it [was] written within and without: and [there was] written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.'),(26,3,1,'Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.'),(26,3,2,'So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.'),(26,3,3,'And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat [it]; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.'),(26,3,4,'And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.'),(26,3,5,'For thou [art] not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, [but] to the house of Israel;'),(26,3,6,'Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.'),(26,3,7,'But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel [are] impudent and hardhearted.'),(26,3,8,'Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.'),(26,3,9,'As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they [be] a rebellious house.'),(26,3,10,'Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.'),(26,3,11,'And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.'),(26,3,12,'Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of the LORD from his place.'),(26,3,13,'[I heard] also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.'),(26,3,14,'So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.'),(26,3,15,'Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.'),(26,3,16,'And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,3,17,'Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.'),(26,3,18,'When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.'),(26,3,19,'Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.'),(26,3,20,'Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.'),(26,3,21,'Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous [man], that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.'),(26,3,22,'And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.'),(26,3,23,'Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.'),(26,3,24,'Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.'),(26,3,25,'But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:'),(26,3,26,'And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they [are] a rebellious house.'),(26,3,27,'But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they [are] a rebellious house.'),(26,4,1,'Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, [even] Jerusalem:'),(26,4,2,'And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set [battering] rams against it round about.'),(26,4,3,'Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it [for] a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This [shall be] a sign to the house of Israel.'),(26,4,4,'Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.'),(26,4,5,'For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.'),(26,4,6,'And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.'),(26,4,7,'Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm [shall be] uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.'),(26,4,8,'And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.'),(26,4,9,'Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.'),(26,4,10,'And thy meat which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.'),(26,4,11,'Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.'),(26,4,12,'And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.'),(26,4,13,'And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.'),(26,4,14,'Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.'),(26,4,15,'Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow\'s dung for man\'s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.'),(26,4,16,'Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:'),(26,4,17,'That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.'),(26,5,1,'And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber\'s rasor, and cause [it] to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the [hair].'),(26,5,2,'Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, [and] smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.'),(26,5,3,'Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.'),(26,5,4,'Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; [for] thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.'),(26,5,5,'Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [is] Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] round about her.'),(26,5,6,'And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.'),(26,5,7,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that [are] round about you, [and] have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that [are] round about you;'),(26,5,8,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, [am] against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.'),(26,5,9,'And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.'),(26,5,10,'Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.'),(26,5,11,'Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish [thee]; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.'),(26,5,12,'A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.'),(26,5,13,'Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it] in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.'),(26,5,14,'Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that [are] round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.'),(26,5,15,'So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that [are] round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken [it].'),(26,5,16,'When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:'),(26,5,17,'So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken [it].'),(26,6,1,'And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,6,2,'Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,'),(26,6,3,'And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.'),(26,6,4,'And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols.'),(26,6,5,'And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.'),(26,6,6,'In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.'),(26,6,7,'And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,6,8,'Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have [some] that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.'),(26,6,9,'And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.'),(26,6,10,'And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.'),(26,6,11,'Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.'),(26,6,12,'He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.'),(26,6,13,'Then shall ye know that I [am] the LORD, when their slain [men] shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.'),(26,6,14,'So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,7,1,'Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,7,2,'Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.'),(26,7,3,'Now [is] the end [come] upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.'),(26,7,4,'And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,7,5,'Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.'),(26,7,6,'An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.'),(26,7,7,'The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble [is] near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.'),(26,7,8,'Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.'),(26,7,9,'And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations [that] are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD that smiteth.'),(26,7,10,'Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.'),(26,7,11,'Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither [shall there be] wailing for them.'),(26,7,12,'The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.'),(26,7,13,'For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision [is] touching the whole multitude thereof, [which] shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.'),(26,7,14,'They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.'),(26,7,15,'The sword [is] without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that [is] in the field shall die with the sword; and he that [is] in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.'),(26,7,16,'But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.'),(26,7,17,'All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak [as] water.'),(26,7,18,'They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame [shall be] upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.'),(26,7,19,'They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.'),(26,7,20,'As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.'),(26,7,21,'And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.'),(26,7,22,'My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret [place]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.'),(26,7,23,'Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.'),(26,7,24,'Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.'),(26,7,25,'Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and [there shall be] none.'),(26,7,26,'Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.'),(26,7,27,'The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,8,1,'And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.'),(26,8,2,'Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.'),(26,8,3,'And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where [was] the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.'),(26,8,4,'And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.'),(26,8,5,'Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.'),(26,8,6,'He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? [even] the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations.'),(26,8,7,'And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.'),(26,8,8,'Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.'),(26,8,9,'And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.'),(26,8,10,'So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.'),(26,8,11,'And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.'),(26,8,12,'Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.'),(26,8,13,'He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.'),(26,8,14,'Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD\'s house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.'),(26,8,15,'Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations than these.'),(26,8,16,'And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD\'s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.'),(26,8,17,'Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.'),(26,8,18,'Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, [yet] will I not hear them.'),(26,9,1,'He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.'),(26,9,2,'And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen, with a writer\'s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.'),(26,9,3,'And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which [had] the writer\'s inkhorn by his side;'),(26,9,4,'And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.'),(26,9,5,'And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:'),(26,9,6,'Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which [were] before the house.'),(26,9,7,'And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.'),(26,9,8,'And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?'),(26,9,9,'Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.'),(26,9,10,'And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, [but] I will recompense their way upon their head.'),(26,9,11,'And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which [had] the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.'),(26,10,1,'Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.'),(26,10,2,'And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, [even] under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter [them] over the city. And he went in in my sight.'),(26,10,3,'Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.'),(26,10,4,'Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD\'s glory.'),(26,10,5,'And the sound of the cherubims\' wings was heard [even] to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.'),(26,10,6,'And it came to pass, [that] when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.'),(26,10,7,'And [one] cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that [was] between the cherubims, and took [thereof], and put [it] into the hands of [him that was] clothed with linen: who took [it], and went out.'),(26,10,8,'And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man\'s hand under their wings.'),(26,10,9,'And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels [was] as the colour of a beryl stone.'),(26,10,10,'And [as for] their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.'),(26,10,11,'When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.'),(26,10,12,'And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, [were] full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four had.'),(26,10,13,'As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.'),(26,10,14,'And every one had four faces: the first face [was] the face of a cherub, and the second face [was] the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.'),(26,10,15,'And the cherubims were lifted up. This [is] the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.'),(26,10,16,'And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.'),(26,10,17,'When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted up themselves [also]: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in them.'),(26,10,18,'Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.'),(26,10,19,'And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also [were] beside them, and [every one] stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD\'s house; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.'),(26,10,20,'This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] the cherubims.'),(26,10,21,'Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man [was] under their wings.'),(26,10,22,'And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.'),(26,11,1,'Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD\'s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.'),(26,11,2,'Then said he unto me, Son of man, these [are] the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:'),(26,11,3,'Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh.'),(26,11,4,'Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.'),(26,11,5,'And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, [every one of] them.'),(26,11,6,'Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.'),(26,11,7,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they [are] the flesh, and this [city is] the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.'),(26,11,8,'Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,11,9,'And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.'),(26,11,10,'Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,11,11,'This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:'),(26,11,12,'And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that [are] round about you.'),(26,11,13,'And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?'),(26,11,14,'Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,11,15,'Son of man, thy brethren, [even] thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, [are] they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.'),(26,11,16,'Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.'),(26,11,17,'Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.'),(26,11,18,'And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.'),(26,11,19,'And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:'),(26,11,20,'That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.'),(26,11,21,'But [as for them] whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,11,22,'Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.'),(26,11,23,'And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which [is] on the east side of the city.'),(26,11,24,'Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.'),(26,11,25,'Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.'),(26,12,1,'The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,'),(26,12,2,'Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they [are] a rebellious house.'),(26,12,3,'Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they [be] a rebellious house.'),(26,12,4,'Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.'),(26,12,5,'Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.'),(26,12,6,'In their sight shalt thou bear [it] upon [thy] shoulders, [and] carry [it] forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee [for] a sign unto the house of Israel.'),(26,12,7,'And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought [it] forth in the twilight, [and] I bare [it] upon [my] shoulder in their sight.'),(26,12,8,'And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,'),(26,12,9,'Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?'),(26,12,10,'Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden [concerneth] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that [are] among them.'),(26,12,11,'Say, I [am] your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove [and] go into captivity.'),(26,12,12,'And the prince that [is] among them shall bear upon [his] shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with [his] eyes.'),(26,12,13,'My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon [to] the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.'),(26,12,14,'And I will scatter toward every wind all that [are] about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.'),(26,12,15,'And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.'),(26,12,16,'But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,12,17,'Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,'),(26,12,18,'Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;'),(26,12,19,'And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, [and] of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.'),(26,12,20,'And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,12,21,'And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,12,22,'Son of man, what [is] that proverb [that] ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?'),(26,12,23,'Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.'),(26,12,24,'For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.'),(26,12,25,'For I [am] the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,12,26,'Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,'),(26,12,27,'Son of man, behold, [they of] the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth [is] for many days [to come], and he prophesieth of the times [that are] far off.'),(26,12,28,'Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,13,1,'And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,13,2,'Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;'),(26,13,3,'Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!'),(26,13,4,'O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.'),(26,13,5,'Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.'),(26,13,6,'They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made [others] to hope that they would confirm the word.'),(26,13,7,'Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith [it]; albeit I have not spoken?'),(26,13,8,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,13,9,'And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.'),(26,13,10,'Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and [there was] no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered [morter]:'),(26,13,11,'Say unto them which daub [it] with untempered [morter], that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend [it].'),(26,13,12,'Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where [is] the daubing wherewith ye have daubed [it]?'),(26,13,13,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend [it] with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in [my] fury to consume [it].'),(26,13,14,'So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered [morter], and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,13,15,'Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered [morter], and will say unto you, The wall [is] no [more], neither they that daubed it;'),(26,13,16,'[To wit], the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and [there is] no peace, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,13,17,'Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,'),(26,13,18,'And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the [women] that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive [that come] unto you?'),(26,13,19,'And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear [your] lies?'),(26,13,20,'Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, [even] the souls that ye hunt to make [them] fly.'),(26,13,21,'Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,13,22,'Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:'),(26,13,23,'Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,14,1,'Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.'),(26,14,2,'And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,14,3,'Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?'),(26,14,4,'Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;'),(26,14,5,'That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.'),(26,14,6,'Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn [yourselves] from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.'),(26,14,7,'For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:'),(26,14,8,'And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.'),(26,14,9,'And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.'),(26,14,10,'And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh [unto him];'),(26,14,11,'That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,14,12,'The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,'),(26,14,13,'Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:'),(26,14,14,'Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver [but] their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,14,15,'If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:'),(26,14,16,'[Though] these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.'),(26,14,17,'Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:'),(26,14,18,'Though these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.'),(26,14,19,'Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:'),(26,14,20,'Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.'),(26,14,21,'For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?'),(26,14,22,'Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, [both] sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, [even] concerning all that I have brought upon it.'),(26,14,23,'And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,15,1,'And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,15,2,'Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, [or than] a branch which is among the trees of the forest?'),(26,15,3,'Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will [men] take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?'),(26,15,4,'Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for [any] work?'),(26,15,5,'Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?'),(26,15,6,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(26,15,7,'And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from [one] fire, and [another] fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I set my face against them.'),(26,15,8,'And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,16,1,'Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,16,2,'Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,'),(26,16,3,'And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity [is] of the land of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.'),(26,16,4,'And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple [thee]; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.'),(26,16,5,'None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.'),(26,16,6,'And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live.'),(26,16,7,'I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: [thy] breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou [wast] naked and bare.'),(26,16,8,'Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.'),(26,16,9,'Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.'),(26,16,10,'I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers\' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.'),(26,16,11,'I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.'),(26,16,12,'And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.'),(26,16,13,'Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment [was of] fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.'),(26,16,14,'And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it [was] perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,16,15,'But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.'),(26,16,16,'And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].'),(26,16,17,'Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,'),(26,16,18,'And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.'),(26,16,19,'My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, [wherewith] I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and [thus] it was, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,16,20,'Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. [Is this] of thy whoredoms a small matter,'),(26,16,21,'That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through [the fire] for them?'),(26,16,22,'And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, [and] wast polluted in thy blood.'),(26,16,23,'And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)'),(26,16,24,'[That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.'),(26,16,25,'Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.'),(26,16,26,'Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.'),(26,16,27,'Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary [food], and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.'),(26,16,28,'Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.'),(26,16,29,'Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.'),(26,16,30,'How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these [things], the work of an imperious whorish woman;'),(26,16,31,'In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;'),(26,16,32,'[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!'),(26,16,33,'They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.'),(26,16,34,'And the contrary is in thee from [other] women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.'),(26,16,35,'Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:'),(26,16,36,'Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;'),(26,16,37,'Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.'),(26,16,38,'And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.'),(26,16,39,'And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.'),(26,16,40,'They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.'),(26,16,41,'And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.'),(26,16,42,'So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.'),(26,16,43,'Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon [thine] head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.'),(26,16,44,'Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her daughter.'),(26,16,45,'Thou [art] thy mother\'s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother [was] an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.'),(26,16,46,'And thine elder sister [is] Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters.'),(26,16,47,'Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.'),(26,16,48,'[As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.'),(26,16,49,'Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.'),(26,16,50,'And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].'),(26,16,51,'Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.'),(26,16,52,'Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.'),(26,16,53,'When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then [will I bring again] the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:'),(26,16,54,'That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.'),(26,16,55,'When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.'),(26,16,56,'For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,'),(26,16,57,'Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of [thy] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all [that are] round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.'),(26,16,58,'Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.'),(26,16,59,'For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.'),(26,16,60,'Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.'),(26,16,61,'Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.'),(26,16,62,'And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD:'),(26,16,63,'That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,17,1,'And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,17,2,'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;'),(26,17,3,'And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:'),(26,17,4,'He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.'),(26,17,5,'He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed [it] by great waters, [and] set it [as] a willow tree.'),(26,17,6,'And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.'),(26,17,7,'There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.'),(26,17,8,'It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.'),(26,17,9,'Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.'),(26,17,10,'Yea, behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.'),(26,17,11,'Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,'),(26,17,12,'Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these [things mean]? tell [them], Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;'),(26,17,13,'And hath taken of the king\'s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:'),(26,17,14,'That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.'),(26,17,15,'But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such [things]? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?'),(26,17,16,'[As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place [where] the king [dwelleth] that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, [even] with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.'),(26,17,17,'Neither shall Pharaoh with [his] mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:'),(26,17,18,'Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these [things], he shall not escape.'),(26,17,19,'Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; [As] I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.'),(26,17,20,'And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.'),(26,17,21,'And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it].'),(26,17,22,'Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set [it]; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant [it] upon an high mountain and eminent:'),(26,17,23,'In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.'),(26,17,24,'And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done [it].'),(26,18,1,'The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,'),(26,18,2,'What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children\'s teeth are set on edge?'),(26,18,3,'[As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel.'),(26,18,4,'Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.'),(26,18,5,'But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,'),(26,18,6,'[And] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour\'s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,'),(26,18,7,'And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;'),(26,18,8,'He [that] hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, [that] hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,'),(26,18,9,'Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he [is] just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.'),(26,18,10,'If he beget a son [that is] a robber, a shedder of blood, and [that] doeth the like to [any] one of these [things],'),(26,18,11,'And that doeth not any of those [duties], but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour\'s wife,'),(26,18,12,'Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,'),(26,18,13,'Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.'),(26,18,14,'Now, lo, [if] he beget a son, that seeth all his father\'s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,'),(26,18,15,'[That] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour\'s wife,');
