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The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.


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All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.


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All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he who can't keep his soul alive.


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They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, For he has done it.


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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.


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You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.


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Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell in Yahweh's house forever.


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He who has clean hands and a pure heart; Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, And has not sworn deceitfully.


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Lift up your heads, you gates; Yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in.


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Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.


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Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.


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Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, For your goodness' sake, Yahweh.


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All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth To such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.


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&gt; Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.


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&gt; Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?


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When evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh, Even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.


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Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, Even then I will be confident.


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One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, To see Yahweh's beauty, And to inquire in his temple.


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For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tent he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.


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Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.


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Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, Neither forsake me, God of my salvation.


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Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.


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&gt; To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.


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Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.


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Don't draw me away with the wicked, With the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.


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Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.


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Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.


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Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.


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Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, And strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, \"Glory!\"


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&gt; I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, And have not made my foes to rejoice over me.


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Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.


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For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, But joy comes in the morning.


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You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain to stand strong. But when you hid your face, I was troubled.


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\"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?


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You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,


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To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!


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Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.


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I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.


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For my life is spent with sorrow, My years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.


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Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.


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For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me, They plot to take away my life.


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Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.


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Oh how great is your goodness, Which you have laid up for those who fear you, Which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, Before the sons of men!


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In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.


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As for me, I said in my haste, \"I am cut off from before your eyes.\" Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.


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Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, And pays back him who deals proudly in full.


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I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, And you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.


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For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.


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You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.


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I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.


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Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, Who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.


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Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, But he who trusts in Yahweh, loving kindness shall surround him.


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Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.


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The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, But those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.


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Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.


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For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.


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Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.


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All my bones shall say, \"Yahweh, who is like you, Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?\"


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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.


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I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.


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But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.


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Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, My precious life from the lions.


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Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.


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For they don't speak peace, But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.


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Don't let them say in their heart, \"Aha! That's the way we want it!\" Don't let them say, \"We have swallowed him up!\"


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Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.


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Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, \"Yahweh be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!\"


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&gt; An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: \"There is no fear of God before his eyes.\"


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Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.


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How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.


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They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.


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Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.


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For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.


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The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To kill those who are upright in the way.


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But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- Vanish like smoke.


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For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.


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I have been young, and now am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his children begging for bread.


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For Yahweh loves justice, And doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, But the children of the wicked shall be cut off.


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Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, And he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.


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Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.


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There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.


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They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all day long.


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&gt; I said, \"I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.\"


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Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.\" Selah.


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\"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.


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When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.\" Selah.


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\"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.


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He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, And gave me a firm place to stand.


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He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.


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Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, And doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.


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Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, And your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be set in order to you; If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.


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Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears: Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.


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I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.


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I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.


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Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.


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For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.


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Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.


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Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, \"Let Yahweh be exalted!\"


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But I am poor and needy; May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.


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Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive, He shall be blessed on the earth, And he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.


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If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.


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Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who ate bread with me, Has lifted up his heel against me.


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These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.


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Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.


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My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, The heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.


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Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.


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Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life.


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I will ask God, my rock, \"Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?\"


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As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, \"Where is your God?\"


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Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, The saving help of my countenance, and my God.


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Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.


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For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.


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Then I will go to the altar of God, To God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.


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Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: My Savior, my helper, and my God.


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&gt; We have heard with our ears, God; Our fathers have told us, What work you did in their days, In the days of old.


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You drove out the nations with your hand, But you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, But you spread them abroad.


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For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, Because you were favorable to them.


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Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.


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All this has come on us, Yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.


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&gt; My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.


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You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, Therefore God has blessed you forever.


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In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.


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You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.


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All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.


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Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.


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Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.


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She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.


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I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.  {}


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Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, Though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;


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Though the waters of it roar and are troubled, Though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.


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There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, The holy place of the tents of the Most High.


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He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.


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\"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.\"


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The princes of the peoples are gathered together, The people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!


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Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion, on the north sides, The city of the great King.


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As we have heard, so we have seen, In the city of Yahweh of Hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.


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As is your name, God, So is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.


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For he sees that wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless perish, And leave their wealth to others.


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Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, And their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.


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They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, Far from their mansion.


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Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very tempestuous around him.


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But to the wicked God says, \"What right do you have to declare my statutes, That you have taken my covenant on your lips,


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You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that the \"I AM\" was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.


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Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, And prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him.\"


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&gt; Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.


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Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.


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Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.


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For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.


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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.


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Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, In burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.


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God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah.


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\"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.\"


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But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.


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I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, In the presence of your saints.


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&gt; The fool has said in his heart, \"There is no God.\" They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.


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God looks down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there are any who understood, Who seek after God.


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Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.


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Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on God?


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There they were in great fear, where no fear was, For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, Because God has rejected them.


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Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Then Jacob shall rejoice. Israel shall be glad.


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For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.


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With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.


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Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.


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For it was not an enemy who insulted me, Then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, Then I would have hid myself from him.


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Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.


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He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, Although there are many who oppose me.


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God, who is enthroned forever, Will hear, and answer them. Selah.  They never change, Who don't fear God.


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His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.


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But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, But I will trust in you.


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&gt; Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.


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For you have delivered my soul from death, And prevented my feet from falling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living.


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&gt; Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, For my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, Until disaster has passed.


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He will send from heaven, and save me, He rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.


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My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.


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They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the midst of it themselves. Selah.


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Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, Like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.


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Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.


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The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;


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So that men shall say, \"Most assuredly there is a reward for the righteous. Most assuredly there is a God who judges the earth.\"


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For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, Not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.


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You, Yahweh God of hosts, the God of Israel, Rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.


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Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.


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For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.


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Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah.


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But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, A refuge in the day of my distress.


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You have given a banner to those who fear you, That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.


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God has spoken from his sanctuary: \"I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, And measure out the valley of Succoth.


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From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.


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He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.


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How long will you assault a man, Would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?


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They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.


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Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.


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Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.


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Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don't set your heart on them.


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&gt; God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, My flesh longs for you, In a dry and weary land, where there is no water.


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But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, For the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.


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They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, \"Who will see them?\"


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They plot injustice, saying, \"We have made a perfect plan!\" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.


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All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely ponder what he has done.


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The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, And shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!


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Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, That he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, Your holy temple.


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By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, Of those who are far away on the sea;


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They also who dwell in far-away places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.


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You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.


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The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.


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Tell God, \"How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.


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He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don't let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.


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You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, But you brought us to the place of abundance.


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I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, With the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.


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Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, For you will judge the peoples with equity, And govern the nations on earth. Selah.


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As smoke is driven away, So drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.


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Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: To Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!


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God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, But the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.


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The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai-- At the presence of God, the God of Israel.


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While you sleep among the campfires, The wings of a dove sheathed with silver, Her feathers with shining gold.


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Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, At the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.


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The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.


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You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, Yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.


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But God will strike through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.


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The Lord said, \"I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;


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That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, That the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.\"


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The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,


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There is little Benjamin, their ruler, The princes of Judah, their council, The princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.


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Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.


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To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; Behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.


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You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!


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I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.


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Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.


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Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Hosts. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.


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But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.


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Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.


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Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.


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Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.


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Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; For comforters, but I found none.


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Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.


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Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, \"Let God be exalted!\"


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But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.


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Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, For you are my rock and my fortress.


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I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.


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Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.


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My mouth will tell about your righteousness, And of your salvation all day, Though I don't know its full measure.


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I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.


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Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, Until I have declared your strength to the next generation, Your might to everyone who is to come.


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Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; You have done great things. God, who is like you?


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You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, You will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.


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I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.


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My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, For they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.


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He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, And will break the oppressor in pieces.


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The kings of Tarshish and of the isles will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.


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They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.


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There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.


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His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.


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If I had said, \"I will speak thus;\" Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.


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For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.


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But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, That I may tell of all your works.


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&gt; God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?


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Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, Which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.


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Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.


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They said in their heart, \"We will crush them completely.\" They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.


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We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, Neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.


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Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.


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&gt; We give thanks to you, God, We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.


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For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, Full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.


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There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, The shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.


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Valiant men lie plundered, They have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.


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Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.


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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.


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The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.


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We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, His strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.


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That the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; Who should arise and tell their children,


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And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, Whose spirit was not steadfast with God.


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Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, Streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?\"


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Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, Anger also went up against Israel,


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When the anger of God went up against them, Killed some of the fattest of them, And struck down the young men of Israel.


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But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, And didn't stir up all his wrath.


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He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, And a band of angels of evil.


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He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,


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He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.


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But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.


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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.


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From following the ewes that have their young, He brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, And Israel, his inheritance.


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So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.


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&gt; God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.


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They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, The flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.


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Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; On the kingdoms that don't call on your name;


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Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need.


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Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.


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Why should the nations say, \"Where is their God?\" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, That vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.


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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death;


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Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom Their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.


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So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, Will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.


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&gt; Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock, You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.


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Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, On the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.


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He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.


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You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.\" Selah.


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I am Yahweh, your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.


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So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, That they might walk in their own counsels.


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But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.\"


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They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.


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\"Come,\" they say, \"and let's destroy them as a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.\"


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My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.


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Yes, the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, Near your altars, Yahweh of Hosts, my King, and my God.


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Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.


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For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.


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For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.


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I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, For he will speak peace to his people, his saints; But let them not turn again to folly.


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For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; Abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.


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God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, And they don't hold regard for you before them.


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But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.


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Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.


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Show me a sign of your goodness, That those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, Because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.


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I will record Rahab{Rahab is a reference to Egypt.} and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: \"This one was born there.\"


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Yes, of Zion it will be said, \"This one and that one was born in her;\" The Most High himself will establish her.


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Set apart among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.


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You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.


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&gt; I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.


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I indeed declare, \"Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.\"


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The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.


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For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,


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A very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, To be feared above all those who are around him?


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You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.


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Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.


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Then you spoke in vision to your saints, And said, \"I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.


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What man is he who shall live and not see death, Who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.


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Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, How I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,


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With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, With which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.


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Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever you had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.


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The days of our years are seventy, Or even by reason of strength eighty years; Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, For it passes quickly, and we fly away.


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Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; Establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.


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He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.


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A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it will not come near you.


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\"Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.


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He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.


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Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.


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For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, For, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evil-doers will be scattered.


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Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can't be moved.


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The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.


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He has brought on them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.


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For he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, And the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!


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Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, And said, \"It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.\"


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Say among the nations, \"Yahweh reigns.\" The world is also established. It can't be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.


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Before Yahweh; for he comes, For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, The peoples with his truth.


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The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.


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Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, Who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!


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You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.


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&gt; Sing to Yahweh a new song, For he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.


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Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.


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He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.


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Let them sing before Yahweh, For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.


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Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.


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The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.


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Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.


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You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, Although you took vengeance for their doings.


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Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.


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Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, Into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.


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I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.


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I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.


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I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.


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My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, He will serve me.


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He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.


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Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city.


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Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.


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You will arise and have mercy on Zion; For it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.


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I said, \"My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.


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They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.


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For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.


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But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, His righteousness to children's children;


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Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, Who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, Obeying the voice of his word.


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He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.


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He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And plants for man to cultivate, That he may bring forth food out of the earth:


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Wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengthens man's heart.


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Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.


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There is the sea, great and wide, In which are innumerable living things, Both small and large animals.


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You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.


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Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!


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That I may see the prosperity of your chosen, That I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, That I may glory with your inheritance.


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Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.


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He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; So he led them through the depths, as through a desert.


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Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.


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They shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.


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Many times he delivered them, But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.


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He remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.


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Save us, Yahweh, our God, Gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to your holy name, To triumph in your praise!


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Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, \"Amen.\" Praise Yah!


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They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.


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He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their cattle to decrease.


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Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.


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God has spoken from his sanctuary: \"In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.


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For they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.


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Let there be none to extend kindness to him, Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.


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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.


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Because he didn't remember to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, The broken in heart, to kill them.


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He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, Like oil into his bones.


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Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, For the belt that is always around him.


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But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake, Because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;


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They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, But your servant shall rejoice.


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Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.


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&gt; Yahweh says to my Lord, \"Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.\"


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Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.


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Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: \"You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.\"


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He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.


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Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, In the council of the upright, and in the congregation.


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He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!


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The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!


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He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.


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The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.


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Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, But to your name give glory, For your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake.


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They have hands, but they don't feel; They have feet, but they don't walk; Neither do they speak through their throat.


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Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.


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Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.


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Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.


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They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.


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The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. \"The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.


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Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.


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Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.


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Where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, According to an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks to the name of Yahweh.


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Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; So our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, Until he has mercy on us.


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Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.


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Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.


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As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.


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For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; So that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.


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But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.


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Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, \"Yahweh has done great things for them.\"


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He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, Will assuredly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.


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&gt; Unless Yahweh builds the house, They labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, The watchman guards it in vain.


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It is vain for you to rise up early, To stay up late, Eating the bread of toil; For he gives sleep to his loved ones.


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Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.


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Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of your house; Your children like olive plants, Around your table.


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Neither do those who go by say, \"The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh.\"


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My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; More than watchmen for the morning.


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&gt; Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Nor do I concern myself with great matters, Or things too wonderful for me.


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Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.


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Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: \"I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.


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If your children will keep my covenant, My testimony that I will teach them, Their children also will sit on your throne forevermore.\"


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It is like the precious oil on the head, That ran down on the beard, Even Aaron's beard; That came down on the edge of his robes;


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Like the dew of Hermon, That comes down on the hills of Zion: For there Yahweh gives the blessing, Even life forevermore.


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Who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightnings with the rain; Who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;


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For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: \"Sing us one of the songs of Zion!\"


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Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; If I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.


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Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, The day of Jerusalem; Who said, \"Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!\"


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Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, He will be happy who rewards you, As you have served us.


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I will bow down toward your holy temple, And give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; For you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.


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All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, For they have heard the words of your mouth.


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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.


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Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your own hands.


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Even the darkness doesn't hide from you, But the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.


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I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.


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My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth.


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Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.


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Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.


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The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.


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Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.


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Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, Into miry pits, from where they never rise.


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Let my prayer be set before you like incense; The lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.


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Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.


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Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; Let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; Don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.


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Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.


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When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.


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Look on my right, and see; For there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.


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Listen to my cry, For I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.


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Bring my soul out of prison, That I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, For you will be good to me.


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&gt; Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.


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For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.


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Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.


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Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, For I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to you.


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Teach me to do your will, For you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.


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In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.


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My loving kindness, my fortress, My high tower, my deliverer, My shield, and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdues my people under me.


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Stretch out your hand from above, Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hands of foreigners;


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Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.


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Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, Our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.


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Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.


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Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, And no outcry in our streets.


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Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.


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Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.


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Praise Yah, For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.


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Who covers the sky with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass grow on the mountains.


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Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.


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He has lifted up the horn of his people, The praise of all his saints; Even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!


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That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:


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If they say, \"Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;


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\"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?


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Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;


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When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.


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Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;


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Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.


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Don't say to your neighbor, \"Go, and come again, Tomorrow I will give it to you,\" When you have it by you.


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For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.


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But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, That shines more and more until the perfect day.


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A loving doe and a graceful deer-- Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.


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My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, If you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;


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Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.


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Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, Like a bird from the snare of the fowler.


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When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.


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He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.


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Until an arrow strikes through his liver, As a bird hurries to the snare, And doesn't know that it will cost his life.


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When he gave to the sea its boundary, That the waters should not violate his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;


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\"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!\" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,


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Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.


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\"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.\" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,


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The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.


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Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, But he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.


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He who gathers in summer is a wise son, But he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.


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Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, But a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.


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In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, But he who restrains his lips does wisely.


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The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.


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The integrity of the upright shall guide them, But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.


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The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.


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The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, But the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.


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With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, But the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.


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By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.


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One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, But one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.


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Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, But in the multitude of counselors there is victory.


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He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, But he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.


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Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, But those whose ways are blameless are his delight.


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Most assuredly, the evil man will not be unpunished, But the seed of the righteous will be delivered.


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There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.


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He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.


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The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, But the speech of the upright rescues them.


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Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, Than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.


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He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, But he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.


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A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man's hands shall be rewarded to him.


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The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, But the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.


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There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.


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A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.


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In the multitude of people is the king's glory, But in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.


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Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, And is even made known in the inward part of fools.


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The king's favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, But his wrath is toward one who causes shame.


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The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is his delight.


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The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But he loves him who follows after righteousness.


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All the days of the afflicted are wretched, But one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.


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How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.


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One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; One who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.


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A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, And shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.


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The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, Therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.


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He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.


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One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, And one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.


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Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, But the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.


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Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.


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A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; And disputes are like the bars of a castle.


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A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.


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All the relatives of the poor shun him: How much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.


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Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; Rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.


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The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion: He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.


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Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; And hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.


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He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; Therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.


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The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; And everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.


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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.


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When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom; When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.


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Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, Both come to poverty.


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Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.


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For as he thinks about the cost, so he is. \"Eat and drink!\" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.


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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?


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Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or as he who lies on top of the rigging:


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\"They hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.\"


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Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!


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If you say, \"Behold, we didn't know this;\" Doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?


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So you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; If you have found it, then there will be a reward, Your hope will not be cut off.


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Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:


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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.


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He who says to the wicked, \"You are righteous;\" Peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him--


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Don't say, \"I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.\"


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Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.


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For it is better that it be said to you, \"Come up here,\" Than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, Whom your eyes have seen.


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Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?


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As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, So is a faithful messenger to those who send him; For he refreshes the soul of his masters.


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As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, Or vinegar on soda, So is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.


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Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: Better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.


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He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, It will be taken as a curse by him.


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Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, Yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.


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There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, For your family's food, And for the nourishment of your servant girls.


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In rebellion, a land has many rulers, But order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.


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Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, He will fall into his own trap; But the blameless will inherit good.


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One who works his land will have an abundance of food; But one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.


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Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, \"It's not wrong.\" He is a partner with a destroyer.


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Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.


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Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?


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Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;


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Lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' Or lest I be poor, and steal, And so dishonor the name of my God.


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There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And their jaws like knives, To devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.


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\"The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.'  \"There are three things that are never satisfied; Four that don't say, 'Enough:'


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Sheol, The barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'


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The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.


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The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent on a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.


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So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'


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\"If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, Or if you have thought evil, Put your hand over your mouth.


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For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, And the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; So the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.\"


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It is not for kings, Lemuel; It is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'


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She rises also while it is yet night, Gives food to her household, And portions for her servant girls.


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The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.


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All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.


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All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.


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That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.


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Is there a thing of which it may be said, \"Behold, this is new?\" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.


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There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.


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I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.


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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.


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I said to myself, \"Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.\"


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I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.


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I said in my heart, \"Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;\" and, behold, this also was vanity.


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I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.


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I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;


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I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men--musical instruments, and that of all sorts.


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So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.


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Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.


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Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.


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I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.


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The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.


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Then said I in my heart, \"As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?\" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.


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For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!


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So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.


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I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes after me.


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Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.


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Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.


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For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.


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For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?


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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.


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There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.


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For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.


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A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck up that which is planted;


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A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;


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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.


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I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.


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That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.


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Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.


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I said in my heart, \"God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.\"


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I said in my heart, \"As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.


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For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.


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Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?\"


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Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?


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Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.


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Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.


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Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.


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There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.


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For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.


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If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.


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Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.


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I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.


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There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.


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Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.


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Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.


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When you vow a vow to God, don't defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.


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Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?


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If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.


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He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.


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When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?


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The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.


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This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?


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Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.


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Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.


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For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.


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a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.


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If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:


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Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?


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For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?


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Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.


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Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.


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For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?


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It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.


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Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.


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For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.


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In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.


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All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evil-doing.


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It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don't withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come forth from them all.


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I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.


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I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.


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which my soul still seeks; but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.


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Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.


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Don't be hasty to go out of his presence. Don't persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,


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Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.


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There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.


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All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.


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So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.


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Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.


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But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.


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There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.


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Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.


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When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),


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then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.


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For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.


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All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.


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This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.


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For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.


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For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.


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Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.


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Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.


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Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.


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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.


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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.


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For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.


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There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.


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Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.


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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.


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Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.


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Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.


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If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don't leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.


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If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.


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A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?


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Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, And your princes eat in due season, For strength, and not for drunkenness!


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Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; And don't curse the rich in your bedchamber: For a bird of the sky may carry your voice, And that which has wings may tell the matter.


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If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; And if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, In the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.


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As you don't know what is the way of the wind, Nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; Even so you don't know the work of God who does all.


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In the morning sow your seed, And in the evening don't withhold your hand; For you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, Or whether they both will be equally good.


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Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.


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Rejoice, young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, And walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.


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Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh; For youth and the dawn of life are vanity.


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Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the evil days come, and the years draw near, When you will say, \"I have no pleasure in them;\"


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Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, And the clouds return after the rain;


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In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, And the strong men shall bow themselves, And the grinders cease because they are few, And those who look out of the windows are darkened,


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And the doors shall be shut in the street; When the sound of the grinding is low, And one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, And all the daughters of music shall be brought low;


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Yes, they shall be afraid of heights, And terrors will be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the grasshopper shall be a burden, And desire shall fail; Because man goes to his everlasting home, And the mourners go about the streets:


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Before the silver cord is severed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher is broken at the spring, Or the wheel broken at the cistern,


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Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.


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The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.


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The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.


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Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.


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This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.


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For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.


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Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his chambers.  Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine!  Beloved They are right to love you.


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Don't stare at me because I am dark, Because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.


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Tell me, you whom my soul loves, Where you graze your flock, Where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled Beside the flocks of your companions?  Lover


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If you don't know, most beautiful among women, Follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.


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As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, His fruit was sweet to my taste.


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I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That you not stir up, nor awaken love, Until it so desires.


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My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.


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The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing has come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land.


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The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, And come away.  Lover


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My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of the mountainside, Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.


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Catch for us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.  Beloved


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Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, And be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.


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I will get up now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.


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I had scarcely passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, Into the chamber of her who conceived me.


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Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all spices of the merchant?


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They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, Because of fear in the night.


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He made its pillars of silver, Its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, Its midst being paved with love, From the daughters of Jerusalem.


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Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, With the crown with which his mother has crowned him, In the day of his weddings, In the day of the gladness of his heart.  Lover


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Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That descend from Mount Gilead.


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Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, Which have come up from the washing, Where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.


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Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.


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Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand shields, All the shields of the mighty men.


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Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, To the hill of frankincense.


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Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, With me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains of the leopards.


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You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, With one chain of your neck.


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How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices!


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Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.


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Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; Myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,


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Awake, north wind; and come, you south; Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And taste his precious fruits. Lover


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I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.  Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.  Beloved


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I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My hair with the dampness of the night.


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I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?


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I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, My fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the lock.


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I opened to my beloved; But my beloved left; gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.


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The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.


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I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him that I am faint with love.  Friends


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How is your beloved better than another beloved, You fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, That you do so adjure us?  Beloved


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His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.


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His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.


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His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.


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His mouth is sweetness; Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, Daughters of Jerusalem.   Friends


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Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?  Beloved


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My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.


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Turn away your eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.


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Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which have come up from the washing; Of which every one has twins; None is bereaved among them.


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My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.


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Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Beautiful as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners?


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I went down into the nut tree grove, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, And the pomegranates were in flower.


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Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you.  Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, As at the dance of Mahanaim?


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How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman.


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Your body is like a round goblet, No mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, Set about with lilies.


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Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.


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Your head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in its tresses.


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I said, \"I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.\" Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, The smell of your breath like apples,  Beloved


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Your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.


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Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, Its blossom is open, And the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.


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The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, Which I have stored up for you, my beloved.


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Oh that you were like my brother, Who sucked the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; Yes, and no one would despise me.


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I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house, Who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.


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I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, That you not stir up, nor awaken love, Until it so desires.  Friends


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Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, Leaning on her beloved?  Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.


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Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh.


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Many waters can't quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, He would be utterly scorned.  Friends


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We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister In the day when she is to be spoken for?


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If she is a wall, We will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, We will enclose her with boards of cedar.  Beloved


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Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.


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My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; Two hundred for those who tend its fruit.  Lover


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Hear, heavens, And listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.


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The ox knows his owner, And the donkey his master's crib; But Israel doesn't know, My people don't consider.


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Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.


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Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.


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From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: Wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.


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Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, And it is desolate, As overthrown by strangers.


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The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, Like a hut in a field of melons, Like a besieged city.


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Unless Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, We would have been as Sodom; We would have been like Gomorrah.


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\"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?,\" says Yahweh. \"I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs, Or of male goats.


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Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.


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My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts; They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.


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When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.


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Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil.


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\"Come now, and let us reason together,\" says Yahweh: \"Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.


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But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.\"


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How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.


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Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.


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Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, The Mighty One of Israel, says: \"Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, And avenge myself of my enemies;


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I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, A faithful town.'


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But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, And those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.


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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.


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The strong will be like tinder, And his work like a spark. They will both burn together, And no one will quench them.\"


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It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be raised above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.


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Many peoples shall go and say, \"Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh, To the house of the God of Jacob; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion the law shall go forth, And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.


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He will judge between the nations, And will decide concerning many peoples; And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.


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For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled from the east, With those who practice divination like the Philistines, And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.


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Their land is full of silver and gold, Neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, Neither is there any end of their chariots.


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Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.


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Enter into the rock, And hide in the dust, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty.


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The lofty looks of man will be brought low, The haughtiness of men will be bowed down, And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.


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For there will be a day of Yahweh of Hosts for all that is proud and haughty, And for all that is lifted up; And it shall be brought low:


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The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.


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Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, And into the holes of the earth, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty, When he arises to shake the earth mightily.


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In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, And their idols of gold, Which have been made for themselves to worship, To the moles and to the bats;


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To go into the caverns of the rocks, And into the clefts of the ragged rocks, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty, When he arises to shake the earth mightily.


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For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, The whole supply of bread, And the whole supply of water;


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The captain of fifty, The honorable man, The counselor, The skilled craftsman, And the clever enchanter.


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The people will be oppressed, Everyone by another, And everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, And the base against the honorable.


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Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, \"You have clothing, you be our ruler, And let this ruin be under your hand.\"


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In that day he will cry out, saying, I will not be a healer; For in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.


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For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; Because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, To provoke the eyes of his glory.


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The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.


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As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.


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Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, And their leaders: \"It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.


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What do you mean that you crush my people, And grind the face of the poor?\" says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.


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Moreover Yahweh said, \"Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, Walking to trip as they go, Jingling ornaments on their feet;


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Therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, And Yahweh will make their scalps bald.\"


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In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,


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It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of well set hair, baldness; Instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty.


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Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, \"We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.\"


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In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.


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It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;


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when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.


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Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.


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There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.


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Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.


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He dug it up, Gathered out its stones, Planted it with the choicest vine, Built a tower in its midst, And also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, But it yielded wild grapes.


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What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?


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Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.


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I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, But it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.\"


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For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.


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Woe to those who join house to house, Who lay field to field, until there is no room, And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!


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In my ears, Yahweh of Hosts says: \"Surely many houses will be desolate, Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.


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For ten acres{Literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.} of vineyard shall yield one bath,{1 bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons} And a homer{1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels} of seed shall yield an ephah.{1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)-- only one tenth of what was sown.}\"


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Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; Who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!


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The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; But they don't regard the work of Yahweh, Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.


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Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitudes are parched with thirst.


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Therefore Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} has enlarged its desire, And opened its mouth without measure; And their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.


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Who say, \"Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, That we may know it!\"


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Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, And light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, And sweet for bitter!


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Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.


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Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against his people, And he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, And their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, But his hand is still stretched out.


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He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, And he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.


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None shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the belt of their loins be untied, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:


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Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind.


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Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, And seize their prey and carry it off, And there will be no one to deliver.


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They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.


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In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.


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Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.


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One called to another, and said, \"Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Hosts! The whole earth is full of his glory!\"


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The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.


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Then I said, \"Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts!\"


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Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.


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He touched my mouth with it, and said, \"Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.\"


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I heard the Lord's voice, saying, \"Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?\" Then I said, \"Here I am. Send me!\"


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He said, \"Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, But don't understand; And you see indeed, But don't perceive.'


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Make the heart of this people fat; Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn again, and be healed.\"


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Then I said, \"Lord, how long?\" He answered, \"Until cities are waste without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the land becomes utterly waste,


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If there are yet a tenth in it, It also shall in turn be eaten up: As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; So the holy seed is its stock.\"


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It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.


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It was told the house of David, saying, \"Syria is allied with Ephraim.\" His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.


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Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, \"Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.


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Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.


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\"Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel.\"


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For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;


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and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'\"


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He said, \"Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?


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Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.{\"Immanuel\" means \"God with us.\"}


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For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.


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Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.


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It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.


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They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures.


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In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.


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and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.


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It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.


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All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.\"


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Yahweh said to me, \"Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;{\"Maher Shalal Hash Baz\" means \"quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil.\"}'


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and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.


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I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said Yahweh to me, Call his name Maher Shalal Hash Baz.


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Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;


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now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;


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and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.


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Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!


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Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.


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For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,


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Don't you say, \"A conspiracy!\" concerning all about which this people shall say, \"A conspiracy!\" neither fear their fear, nor be in dread [of it].


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He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.


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When they shall tell you, \"Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:\" shouldn't a people consult with their God? on behalf of the living [should they consult] with the dead?


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To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.


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They shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:


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and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.


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But there shall be no gloom to her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time has he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.


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The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.


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You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.


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For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.


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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.


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Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.


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All the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,


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The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.


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Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,


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Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.


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Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spares his brother.


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One shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:


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What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?


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However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.


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As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;


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Therefore it shall happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on 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.


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For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit [on thrones]:


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and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.


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Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.


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Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.


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The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.


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He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.


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It shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and those who are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.


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For though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with righteousness.


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For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, my people who dwell in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.


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For yet a very little while, and the indignation [against you] shall be accomplished, and my anger [shall be directed] to his destruction.


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Yahweh of Hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.


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It shall happen in that day, that his burden shall depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.


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they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul is fled.


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This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.


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Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low.


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There shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.


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The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.


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His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;


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but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked.


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The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.


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The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.


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The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.


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They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.


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It shall happen in that day, that the root of Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the peoples, to him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.


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It shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.


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He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.


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The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and those who vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.


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They shall fly down on the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.


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Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will strike it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.


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There shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.


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In that day you will say, \"I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.


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Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.\"


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In that day you will say, \"Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!


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Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel!\"


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Set up an ensign on the bare mountain, lift up the voice to them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.


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I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.


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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Hosts is mustering the host for the battle.


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They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.


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and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.


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Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it out of it.


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For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.


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I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.


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Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.


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It shall happen, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.


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[Their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.


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Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.


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It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.


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But wild animals of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.


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Wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.


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For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the foreigner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.


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The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.


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It shall happen in the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,


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that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!


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who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.


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Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you are laid low, no lumberjack is come up against us.


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Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.


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Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and worms cover you.


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How you are fallen from heaven, day-star, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!


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You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;


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Those who see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, [saying], \"Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;


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who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't let loose his prisoners to their home?\"


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But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.


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You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.


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Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.


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I will rise up against them, says Yahweh of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says Yahweh.


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I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Yahweh of Hosts.


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Yahweh of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:


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that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.


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This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.


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For Yahweh of Hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?


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Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.


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The firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be killed.


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Howl, gate; cry, city; you are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.


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What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.


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The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing.


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They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab wails over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.


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In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.


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Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles within him.


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My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.


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For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.


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For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing of it to Eglaim, and the wailing of it to Beer-elim.


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For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on them of Moab that escape, and on the remnant of the land.


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Send you the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.


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Give counsel, execute justice; make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; don't betray the fugitive.


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Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab, be a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.


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A throne shall be established in loving kindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.


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We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nothing.


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Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir Hareseth shall you mourn, utterly stricken.


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For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.


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Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.


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Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.


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It shall happen, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.


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But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.


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The fortress 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, says Yahweh of Hosts.


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It shall happen in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.


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It shall be as when the harvester gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears; yes, it shall be as when one gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim.


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Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, says Yahweh, the God of Israel.


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In that day shall men look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.


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They shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.


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For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips.


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In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.


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Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!


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At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.


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that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, [saying], Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!


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All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, look; and when the trumpet is blown, listen.


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For thus has Yahweh said to me, I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.


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For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.


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They shall be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the animals of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer on them, and all the animals of the earth shall winter on them.


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In that time shall a present be brought to Yahweh of Hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.


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The burden of Egypt. Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.


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I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.


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The spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.


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I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.


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The rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.


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The fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters shall languish.


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The pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all those who work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.


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The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?


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Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.


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The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the corner-stone of her tribes.


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Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.


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In that day shall the Egyptians be like women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Hosts, which he shakes over them.


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The land of Judah shall become a terror to Egypt; everyone to whom mention is made of it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Yahweh of Hosts, which he purposes against it.


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In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.


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In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border of it to Yahweh.


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It shall be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior, and a defender, and he will deliver them.


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Yahweh shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Yahweh in that day; yes, they shall worship with sacrifice and offering, and shall vow a vow to Yahweh, and shall perform it.


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Yahweh will strike Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them.


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because Yahweh of Hosts has blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.


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In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;


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at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot.


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Yahweh said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;


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They shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.


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The inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?


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The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.


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A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease.


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Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I can't hear; I am dismayed so that I can't see.


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My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.


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They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.


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and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with much heed.


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He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;


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and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. He answered, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.


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You my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you.


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The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?


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The watchman said, \"The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.\"


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To him who was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.


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For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.


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For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;


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and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.


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The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?


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You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.


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All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off.


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Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.


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For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.


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It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.


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He took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.


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You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool;


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you made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.


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In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:


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and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.


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Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.


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Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, [and say],


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\"What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!\"


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Behold, Yahweh, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely.


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He will surely wind you round and round, [and toss you] like a ball into a large country; there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of your lord's house.


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and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.


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The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.


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I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house.


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They shall hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.


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In that day, says Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off; for Yahweh has spoken it.


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The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.


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Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.


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On great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of nations.


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Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.


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Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?


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Who has purposed this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?


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Yahweh of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.


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He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms: Yahweh has given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds of it.


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He said, You shall no more rejoice, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall you have no rest.


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Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces of it; they made it a ruin.


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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 it shall be to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute.


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Take a harp, go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.


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It shall happen after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.


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Her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Yahweh: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.


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Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.


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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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.


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The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.


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The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.


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Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.


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For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.


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These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they cry aloud from the sea.


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Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea!


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From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.


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It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.


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The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.


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It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.


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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.


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Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.


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Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.


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For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.


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For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall.


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As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall be brought low.


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In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts make to all peoples 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.


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He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.


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He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.


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It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.


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For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.


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He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it, as he who swims spreads forth [his hands] to swim; but [Yahweh] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.


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The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.


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For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.


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Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.


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With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.


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Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of Yahweh.


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Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the people, and be disappointed; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.


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Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.


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[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.


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You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.


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Yahweh, in trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer [when] your chastening was on them.


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Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.


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We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.


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Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.


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Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation be past.


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For, behold, Yahweh comes forth 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.


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In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.


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I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.


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Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together.


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Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me.


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In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit.


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Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them?


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In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.


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Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.


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For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches of it.


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When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.


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It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel.


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It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.


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Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!


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Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.


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and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he who looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.


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In that day will Yahweh of Hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;


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and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.


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Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.


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Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?


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For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.


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to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him who is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.


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Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.


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Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:


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therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure foundation: he who believes shall not be in haste.


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I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.


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Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.


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As often as it passes though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nothing but terror to understand the message.


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For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.


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Now therefore don't you be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, on the whole earth.


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When he has leveled the surface of it, doesn't he cast abroad the dill, and scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?


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For the dill are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about on the cumin; but the dill are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod.


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Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.


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then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be to me as Ariel.


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I will encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against you.


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You shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust; and your voice shall be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.


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But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the awesome ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.


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She shall be visited of Yahweh of Hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.


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The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.


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It shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.


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Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.


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For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.


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All vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can't, for it is sealed:


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and the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned.


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The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];


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therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.


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Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?


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You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him who made it, He didn't make me; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?


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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.


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The humble also shall increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.


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For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity are cut off;


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that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.


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But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yes, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.


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They also who err in spirit shall come to understanding, and those who murmur shall receive instruction.


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Woe to the rebellious children, says Yahweh, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,


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They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.


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The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].


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Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.


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who tell the seers, \"Don't see;\" and to the prophets, \"Don't prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,


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get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.\"


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Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, \"Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;


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therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.


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He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.\"


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For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You would not:


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but you said, No, for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride on the swift; therefore shall those who pursue you be swift.


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One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall you flee: until you be left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.


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Therefore will Yahweh wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you: for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.


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For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer you.


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Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers;


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and your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it; when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.


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You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as an unclean thing; you shall tell it, Get you hence.


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He will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures;


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the oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.


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There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.


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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 Yahweh binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.


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Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;


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and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.


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You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel.


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Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.


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Every stroke of the appointed staff, which Yahweh shall lay on him, shall be with [the sound of] tambourines and harps; and in battles with the brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them.


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For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, does kindle it.


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Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Yahweh!


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Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.


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Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.


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For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it.


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As birds hovering, so will Yahweh of Hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and preserve [it].


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For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.


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The Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to forced labor.


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His rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.


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A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.


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The heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.


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For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.


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The instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.


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Rise up, you women who are at ease, [and] hear my voice; you careless daughters, give ear to my speech.


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For days beyond a year shall you be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the harvest shall not come.


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Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins.


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On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.


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For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;


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until the Spirit be poured on us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.


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The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.


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My people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.


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Woe to you who destroy, and you weren't destroyed; and deal treacherously, and they didn't deal treacherously with you! When you have ceased to destroy, you shall be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with you.


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Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.


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At the noise of the thunder the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations are scattered.


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There shall be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Yahweh is your treasure.


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The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: [the enemy] has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he doesn't regard man.


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The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].


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You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.


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The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?


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He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil:


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He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.


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Your heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed [the tribute]? where is he who counted the towers?


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You shall not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can not comprehend, of a strange language that you can not understand.


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Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes of it shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords of it be broken.


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But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.


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Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.


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The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people who dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.


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Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples: let the earth hear, and the fullness of it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.


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For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.


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All the host of the sky shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.


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For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky: behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, to judgment.


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


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The wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.


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The streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into sulfur, and the land of it shall become burning pitch.


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It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.


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They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.


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Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.


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The wild animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.


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There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.


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Seek you out of the book of Yahweh, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it has commanded, and his Spirit, it has gathered them.


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He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.


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It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Yahweh, the excellency of our God.


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Tell those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, don't be afraid: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and save you.


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Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the mute shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.


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The glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.


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A highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for for him who walks in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.


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No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous animal go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:


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and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.


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Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.


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The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a great army. He stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.


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Then came forth to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.


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I say, [your] counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?


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Behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, even on Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.


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But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God: isn't that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?


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Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.


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Am I now come up without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.


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Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Please speak, to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and don't speak to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.


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But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? [has he] not [sent me] to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?


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Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear you the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.


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neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you everyone the waters of his own cistern;


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Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?


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Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


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But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him.


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Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.


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They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.


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It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.


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He heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against you. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?


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Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, who sits [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.


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Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.


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Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.


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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,


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this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.


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By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;


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Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be your to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.


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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 a field [of grain] before it is grown up.


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This shall be the sign to you: you shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it.


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The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.


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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.


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The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.


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It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.


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In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.


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and said, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.


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Go, and tell Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.


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I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.


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I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.


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My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.


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I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.


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Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.


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What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.


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Lord, by these things men live; Wholly therein is the life of my spirit: You restore me, and cause me to live.


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Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your back.


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For Sheol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.


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The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known your truth.


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Yahweh is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.


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Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover.


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At that time Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.


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Hezekiah was glad of them, and shown them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.


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Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country to me, even from Babylon.


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Then said he, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.


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Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.


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Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.


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Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins.


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The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God.


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and the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.


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The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field.


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The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.


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You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain; you who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, don't be afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!


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Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.


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He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.


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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky 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?


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With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shown to him the way of understanding?


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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.


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The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.


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He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.


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Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?


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[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;


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Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.


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Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.


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Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?


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Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.


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but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.


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Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.


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Who has raised up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot? he gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.


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Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.


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So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.


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you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the corners of it, and said to you, You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;


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Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.


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Behold, all those who are incensed against you shall be disappointed and confounded: those who strive with you shall be as nothing, and shall perish.


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You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even those who contend with you: those who war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.


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Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.


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Behold, I have made you [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.


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You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in Yahweh, you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.


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The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst; I, Yahweh, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.


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I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.


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I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together:


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that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.


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Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.


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Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.


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I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun one who calls on my name: and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.


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Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, [He is] right? yes, there is none who declares, yes, there is none who shows, yes, there is none who hears your words.


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[I am the] first [who says] to Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good news.


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When I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.


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Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing; their molten images are wind and confusion.


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Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.


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He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.


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Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:


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I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;


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to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.


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I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to engraved images.


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Behold, the former things have happened, and new things do I declare. Before they spring forth I tell you of them.


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Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants of it.


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Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.


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Yahweh will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up [his] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yes, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.


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I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.


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I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.


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They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.


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Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as Yahweh's servant?


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But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.


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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient to his law.


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Therefore he poured on him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he didn't know; and it burned him, yet he didn't lay it to heart.


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But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine.


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When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle on you.


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For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.


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Since you have been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved you; therefore will I give men in your place, and peoples instead of your life.


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Don't be afraid; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;


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I will tell the north, Give up; and to the south, Don't keep back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;


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everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.


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You are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.


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I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange [god] among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and I am God.


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Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?


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Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.


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who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick):


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Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.


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The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,


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You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.


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You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.


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I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.


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Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set you forth [your cause], that you may be justified.


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Thus says Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you: Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.


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For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:


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One shall say, I am Yahweh's; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand to Yahweh, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.


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Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.


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Who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and that shall happen, let them declare.


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Don't fear, neither be afraid: haven't I declared to you of old, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don't know any Rock.


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Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be disappointed.


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Behold, all his fellows shall be disappointed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.


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The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.


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The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.


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He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.


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Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.


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He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied; yes, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.


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The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.


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They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.


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None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?


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He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?


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Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: Israel, you shall not be forgotten by me.


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I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return to me; for I have redeemed you.


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Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it; shout, you lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.


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Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who stretches forth the heavens alone; who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?);


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who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;


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who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;


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Who says of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; and of the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.


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Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:


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I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;


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and I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.


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For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.


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I am Yahweh, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known me;


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that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.


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I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.


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Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, Yahweh, have created it.


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Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, \"What are you making?\" or your work, \"He has no hands?\"


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Woe to him who says to a father, \"What have you become the father of?\" or to a woman, \"With what do you travail?\"


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Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command you me.


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I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.


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I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Hosts.


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Thus says Yahweh: \"The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no other god.


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They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.


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[But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end.


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For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is no one else.


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I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.


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Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.


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Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; there is no one besides me.


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By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.


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Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed.


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Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the cattle: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [animal].


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Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;


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and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.


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Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.


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They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.


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Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;


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declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;


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calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.


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I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.


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Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.


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Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.


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Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.


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Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.


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I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.


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You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.


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Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:


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but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.


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For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.


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Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.


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Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.


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You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.


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Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.


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Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness


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(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Hosts is his name):


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I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I shown them: suddenly I did them, and they happened.


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therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.


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You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.


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They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.


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Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.


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For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.


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For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.


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Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.


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Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.


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I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.


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Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit.


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Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.


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Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:


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your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.


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Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say you, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob.


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They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.


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Listen, isles, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:


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and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:


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But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.


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Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength);


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


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Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.


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Thus says Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:


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saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.


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They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them.


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Behold, these shall come from far; and, behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.


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Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.


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Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.


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Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an ornament, and gird yourself with them, like a bride.


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For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now shall you be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.


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The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.


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Then shall you say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?


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Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.


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Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.


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But thus says Yahweh, 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 who contends with you, and I will save your children.


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I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.


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Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.


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Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't 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 stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.


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The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.


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I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.


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For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.


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He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.


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Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.


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Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.


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Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.


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Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.


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Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.


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For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.


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Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.


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My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.


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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.


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Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't you fear the reproach of men, neither be you dismayed at their insults.


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For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations.


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Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn't it you who did cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?


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Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?


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The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.


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I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;


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and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?


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The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.


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For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.


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I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, You are my people.


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Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.


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There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.


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These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?


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Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.


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Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:


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and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.


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Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.


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Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.


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For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.


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Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.


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Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I.


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How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!


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The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.


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Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.


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Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.


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Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.


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For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.


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Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),


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For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.


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He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect him.


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Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.


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But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.


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All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.


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He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.


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By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the disobedience of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?


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They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.


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Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.


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He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.


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Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.


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Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says Yahweh.


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Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.


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For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.


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Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood shall you remember no more.


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For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.


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For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, says your God.


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In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, says Yahweh your Redeemer.


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For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.


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For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh who has mercy on you.


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you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.


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I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of emeralds, and all your border of precious stones.


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In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.


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Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you.


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Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.


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No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.


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Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.


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Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.


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Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.


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Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.


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let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.


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For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;


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so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.


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For you 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 fields shall clap their hands.


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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 Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.


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Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.


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Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.


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Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.


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For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:


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To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.


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Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;


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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 on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.


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The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I gather [others] to him, besides his own who are gathered.


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His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.


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Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.


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Come you, [say they], I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.


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


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Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,


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you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?


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Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured a drink-offering, you have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?


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Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have uncovered [yourself] to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.


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You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself even to Sheol.


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You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint.


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Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me?


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When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.


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He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.


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For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.


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For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.


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For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.


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I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him.


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Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.


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Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.


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Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.


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Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.


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Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?


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Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?


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Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?


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Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall by your rearward.


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Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;


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and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;


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and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.


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Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.


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If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:


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then shall you delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.


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Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:


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but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.


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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.


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None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.


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They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.


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The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.


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Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.


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We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.


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For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:


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transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.


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Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.


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Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.


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He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.


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He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.


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So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.


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As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever.


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For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.


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Lift up your eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.


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Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.


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The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Yahweh.


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All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.


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Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.


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Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.


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Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.


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For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.


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The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.


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The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.


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Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.


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You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.


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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 your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.


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Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.


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The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.


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Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.


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Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.


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The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.


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The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound;


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to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;


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to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.


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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.


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Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.


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But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call you the ministers of our God: you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.


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Instead of your shame [you shall have] double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them.


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For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.


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Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.


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I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.


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For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.


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For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.


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The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.


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You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.


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You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.


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For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.


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I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,


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Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:


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but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.


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Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.


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Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.


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They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.


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Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.


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I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.


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I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.


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I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.


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I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh, [and] the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.


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For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely: so he was their Savior.


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But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.


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Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?


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who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?


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As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them to rest; so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.


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Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.


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For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.


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O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.


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Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.


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Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,


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as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!


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When you did terrible things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.


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For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.


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You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?


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For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.


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There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.


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But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.


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Don't be angry very sore, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.


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Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.


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Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?


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I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.


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I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;


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a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;


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who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;


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who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.


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Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,


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your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.


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Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.


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I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.


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Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.


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But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;


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I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed;


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behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.


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You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:


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so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.


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But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.


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I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.


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There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.


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They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.


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They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.


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It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.


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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahweh.


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Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?


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For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.


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He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:


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I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.


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Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is those who shall be disappointed.


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A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.


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Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.


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Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the womb]? says your God.


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Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;


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that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.


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For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you shall suck [of it]; you shall be borne on the side, and shall be dandled on the knees.


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You shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.


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For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.


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For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.


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Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, says Yahweh.


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For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.


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I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.


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They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.


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For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says Yahweh, so shall your seed and your name remain.


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It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says Yahweh.


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They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.


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The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:


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to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.


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It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.


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Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.


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But Yahweh said to me, Don't say, I am a child; for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.


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Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth:


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behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.


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Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what see you? I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.


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The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see you? I said, I see a boiling caldron; and the face of it is from the north.


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For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, and against all the cities of Judah.


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I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.


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You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.


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For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.


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They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you, says Yahweh, to deliver you.


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Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.


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Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh.


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thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?


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Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?


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I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.


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The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.


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Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children's children will I contend.


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For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.


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Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.


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For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.


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The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.


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Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?


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Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?


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Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.


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For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.


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Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?


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For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.


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How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;


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a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.


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Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.


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who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.


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But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.


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In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.


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Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?


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Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.


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Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.


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Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.


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From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.


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They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again? Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.


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


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Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.


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Will he retain [his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.


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Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.


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I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.


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I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.


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It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.


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Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh.


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Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keep [anger] forever.


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Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says Yahweh.


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Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:


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It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.


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At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.


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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 gave for an inheritance to your fathers.


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But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.


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Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh.


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A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.


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Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.


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Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.


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But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.


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Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.


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If you will return, Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;


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and you shall swear, As Yahweh lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.


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For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.


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Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.


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Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.


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Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.


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A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.


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For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.


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It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh, 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.


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Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the life.


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Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.


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Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?


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make you 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.


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As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has been rebellious against me, says Yahweh.


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Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.


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My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.


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Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.


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For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.


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I saw, and, behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities of it were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] before his fierce anger.


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Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.


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You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.


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For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.


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Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.


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O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.


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Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:


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I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.


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Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.


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How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.


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Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.


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


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They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:


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Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.


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Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.


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They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.


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It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.


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Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:


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Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.


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Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.


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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.


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They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.


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Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?


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Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.


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Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.


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Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.


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For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.


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As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.


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


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.


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To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.


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Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.


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Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.


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For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.


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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.


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Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].


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I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen.


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Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.


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To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.


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Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.


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They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.


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We have heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.


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Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.


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Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.


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I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.


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They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.


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Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.


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Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.


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For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;


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if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:


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then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.


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Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,


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and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?


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Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.


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But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.


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Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer:


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


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I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.


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Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.


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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.


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Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?


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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat you flesh.


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For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:


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but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.


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But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.


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Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:


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yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.


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You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.


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You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.


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Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.


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For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.


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They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, neither came it into my mind.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place [to bury].


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The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.


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At that time, says Yahweh, 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;


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and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.


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Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Hosts.


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Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?


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I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.


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Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.


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How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.


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The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?


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Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.


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They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.


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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.


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I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: 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.


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Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.


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The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.


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For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.


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Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?


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Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?


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Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!


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They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.


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Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.


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They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?


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Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.


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Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.


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


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Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?


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Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,


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but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;


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therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.


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I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:


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Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.


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For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.


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Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].


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Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;


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but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.


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Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:


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Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.


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Thus says Yahweh, \"Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.


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For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.


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They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.


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They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good.\"


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Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.


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There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.


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But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.


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Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.


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He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:


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when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.


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Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.


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The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.


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For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it].


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Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.


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My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.


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For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.


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


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Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.


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Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.


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Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;


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and say you to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,


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which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your God;


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that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh.


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Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words of this covenant, and do them.


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For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.


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Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them.


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Yahweh said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.


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Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.


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For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.


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Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.


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


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Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.


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


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


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But, Yahweh of Hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand;


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therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;


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and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.


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Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?


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You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.


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But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.


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How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.


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If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?


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For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.


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My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.


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Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.


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They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.


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Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.


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They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.


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Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.


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It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.


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It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.


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But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.


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Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put it on your loins, and don't put it in water.


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Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.


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It happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.


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Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.


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Thus says Yahweh, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.


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This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.


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For as the belt cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.


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Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?


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Then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.


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I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.


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Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.


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But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.


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Say you to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory.


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Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?


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What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?


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If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.


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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.


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This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.


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I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?


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Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.


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Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.


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Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.


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The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.


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Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.


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You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?


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Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.


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Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.


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When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.


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Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.


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Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.


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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 on them.


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You shall say this word to them, Let my 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 wound.


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If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.


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Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!


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We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.


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Do not abhor [us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us.


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Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.


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Then said Yahweh to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.


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It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.


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I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.


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I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.


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For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?


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You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.


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I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways.


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Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.


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She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh.


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Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.


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Yahweh said, Most assuredly I will strengthen you for good; most assuredly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.


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Your substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.


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I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.


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Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.


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Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of hosts.


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I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.


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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?


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Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.


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I will make you to this people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh.


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I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.


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For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of them in this land:


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They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.


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For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies.


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neither shall men break [bread] 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.


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For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before 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.


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It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?


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Then shall you tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;


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and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:


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therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be said, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.


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Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.


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For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.


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First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.


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Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.


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Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Yahweh.


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The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;


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My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.


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You, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don't know: for you have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever.


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Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.


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For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.


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For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.


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I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.


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As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.


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Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.


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As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.


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Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.


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Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;


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and tell them, Hear you the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:


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Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;


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neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.


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But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.


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It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;


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then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on 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 forever.


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They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh.


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But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.


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When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.


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House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.


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if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.


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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;


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if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.


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Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.


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But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.


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Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?


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For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;


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to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.


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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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.


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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.


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Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.


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Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.


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Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.


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Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;


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and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;


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and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.


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Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,


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and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:


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therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.


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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 hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.


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I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.


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I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.


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and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury.


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Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth:


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and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.


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Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house, and said to all the people:


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.


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Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.


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Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.


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It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.


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For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.


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Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains of it, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.


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You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there shall you be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.


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Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.


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For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.


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If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].


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


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But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.


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But, Yahweh of Hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.


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Sing to Yahweh, praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.


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Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad.


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Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;


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because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.


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Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?


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The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,


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Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes war against us: peradventure Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.


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Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.


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I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.


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I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.


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Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even 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 who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.


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To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.


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He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.


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For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.


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House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.


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Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?


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I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.


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Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.


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Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.


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For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.


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But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.


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For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited.


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I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.


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Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?


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Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.


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Don't you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.


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For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more.


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But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.


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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;


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who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.


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Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.


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But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh 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!


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Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.


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I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.


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The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.


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Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!


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As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;


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and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you die.


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Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?


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Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.


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I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.


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I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.


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Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.


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In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land.


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Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.


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For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;


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for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.


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Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.


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I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.


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In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.


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They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.


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For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, and heard it?


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Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.


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The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.


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Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.


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I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.


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How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?


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who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.


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The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.


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Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.


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Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.


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When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.


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As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.


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Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?


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The burden of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Hosts our God.


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But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;


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therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:


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and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.


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Yahweh shown me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh, 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 craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.


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Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.


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Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.


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For I will set my eyes on 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.


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I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.


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As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,


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I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.


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I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.


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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 (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon),


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which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:


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From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.


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Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear),


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saying, Return you now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;


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and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.


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Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.


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behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.


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This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


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It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.


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I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.


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For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.


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For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.


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They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.


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Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:


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[to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;


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and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;


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and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.


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You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.


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It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: You shall surely drink.


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For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Hosts.


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Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.


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A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh.


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Thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.


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The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.


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Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.


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A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.


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He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.


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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying,


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Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; don't diminish a word.


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It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.


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You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,


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to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;


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The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Yahweh.


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It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely die.


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Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.


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When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's [house].


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Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.


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Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.


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Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you.


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Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.


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Then said the princes and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.


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Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,


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Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.


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Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.


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There was also a man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:


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and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;


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and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.


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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,


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and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;


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and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell your masters:


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I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.


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Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.


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All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.


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It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.


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But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:


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for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.


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But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.


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I spoke 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.


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Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?


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Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.


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For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.


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Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.


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Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?


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But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.


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For thus says Yahweh of Hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,


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which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, 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;


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yes, thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:


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They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.


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It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,


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Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.


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Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:


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and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.


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Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of Yahweh,


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even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.


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The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.


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The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.


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Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way.


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Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,


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Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place bars of iron.


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For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on 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 animals of the field also.


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Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.


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Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,


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(after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem),


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by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:


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Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there, and don't be diminished.


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Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in the peace of it shall you have peace.


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For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.


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For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.


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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.


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I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.


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thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity;


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thus says Yahweh of Hosts; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.


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I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;


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because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.


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Hear you therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes;


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and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;


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because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.


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Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,


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Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.


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because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?


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Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;


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therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.


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Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.


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For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.


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Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?


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It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;


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Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.


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For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.


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All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.


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Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.


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Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.


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For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.


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Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.


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Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.


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Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.


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Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.


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Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.


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The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it.


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At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.


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Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.


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Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.


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Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again shall you be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.


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Again shall you plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit of it].


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For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.


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For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.


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Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.


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They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.


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Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.


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They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to 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.


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I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.


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Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.


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Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.


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There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your] children shall come again to their own border.


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I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.


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Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.


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Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.


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Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.


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How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.


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Judah and all the cities of it shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.


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Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.


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It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.


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But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.


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Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:


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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 broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.


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But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:


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and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.


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Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name:


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If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.


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Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.


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Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.


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The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.


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The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.


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The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.


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For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;


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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 see his eyes;


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and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper?


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Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.


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So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh.


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I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.


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I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.


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So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;


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and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.


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For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.


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Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,


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Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,


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who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Hosts is his name;


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great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:


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who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; and made you a name, as in this day;


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and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;


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and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;


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and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them.


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Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and, behold, you see it.


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You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh: 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:


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and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.


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For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.


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For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face,


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They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.


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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] to Molech; which I didn't command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.


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Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:


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


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and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:


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Yes, 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.


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For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised them.


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Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh.


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Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,


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Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.


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For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword;


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while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:


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Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.


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I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.


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I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.


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[This city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.


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Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,


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the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.


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In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, 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 again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh.


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Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.


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In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.


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In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.


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neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.


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Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;


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then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.


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As the host of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.


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Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.


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Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;


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The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:


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Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:


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and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.


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Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword;


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you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.


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when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities.


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The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;


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that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.


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All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his man-servant, and everyone his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:


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Thus says Yahweh, 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 bondage, saying,


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At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.


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You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:


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but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.


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Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.


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I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it;


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the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;


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I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.


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Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from you.


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Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, 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 inhabitant.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,


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Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.


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Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;


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and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the 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 threshold.


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I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine.


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But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever:


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neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.


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We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;


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but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.


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But it happened, 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.


