INSERT INTO `t_bbe` VALUES (24044024,24,44,24,'Further, Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all those of Judah who are living in Egypt:'),(24044025,24,44,25,'This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You women have said with your mouths, and with your hands you have done what you said, We will certainly give effect to the oaths we have made, to have perfumes burned to the queen of heaven and drink offerings drained out to her: then give effect to your oaths and do them.'),(24044026,24,44,26,'And now give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: Truly, I have taken an oath by my great name, says the Lord, that my name is no longer to be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, By the life of the Lord God.'),(24044027,24,44,27,'See, I am watching over them for evil and not for good: all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be wasted by the sword and by need of food till there is an end of them.'),(24044028,24,44,28,'And those who get away safe from the sword will come back from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, a very small number; and all the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will see whose word has effect, mine or theirs.'),(24044029,24,44,29,'And this will be the sign to you, says the Lord, that I will give you punishment in this place, so that you may see that my words will certainly have effect against you for evil:'),(24044030,24,44,30,'The Lord has said, See, I will give up Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.'),(24045001,24,45,1,'The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,'),(24045002,24,45,2,'This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of you, O Baruch:'),(24045003,24,45,3,'You said, Sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.'),(24045004,24,45,4,'This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;'),(24045005,24,45,5,'And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.'),(24046001,24,46,1,'The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations.'),(24046002,24,46,2,'Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah.'),(24046003,24,46,3,'Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight.'),(24046004,24,46,4,'Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.'),(24046005,24,46,5,'What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.'),(24046006,24,46,6,'Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.'),(24046007,24,46,7,'Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?'),(24046008,24,46,8,'Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people.'),(24046009,24,46,9,'Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.'),(24046010,24,46,10,'But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.'),(24046011,24,46,11,'Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.'),(24046012,24,46,12,'Your shame has come to the ears of the nations, and the earth is full of your cry: for the strong man is falling against the strong, they have come down together.'),(24046013,24,46,13,'The word which the Lord said to Jeremiah the prophet, of how Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, would come and make war on the land of Egypt.'),(24046014,24,46,14,'Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.'),(24046015,24,46,15,'Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.'),(24046016,24,46,16,'... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.'),(24046017,24,46,17,'Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.'),(24046018,24,46,18,'By my life, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies, truly, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so will he come.'),(24046019,24,46,19,'O daughter living in Egypt, make ready the vessels of a prisoner: for Noph will become a waste, it will be burned up and become unpeopled.'),(24046020,24,46,20,'Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.'),(24046021,24,46,21,'And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.'),(24046022,24,46,22,'She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.'),(24046023,24,46,23,'They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.'),(24046024,24,46,24,'The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.'),(24046025,24,46,25,'The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on Amon of No and on Pharaoh and on those who put their faith in him;'),(24046026,24,46,26,'And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.'),(24046027,24,46,27,'But have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and in peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.'),(24046028,24,46,28,'Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.'),(24047001,24,47,1,'The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines, before Pharaoh\'s attack on Gaza.'),(24047002,24,47,2,'This is what the Lord has said: See, waters are coming up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, overflowing the land and everything in it, the town and those who are living in it; and men will give a cry, and all the people of the land will be crying out in pain.'),(24047003,24,47,3,'At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;'),(24047004,24,47,4,'Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.'),(24047005,24,47,5,'The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.'),(24047006,24,47,6,'O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.'),(24047007,24,47,7,'How is it possible for it to be quiet, seeing that the Lord has given it orders? against Ashkelon and against the sea-land he has given it directions.'),(24048001,24,48,1,'Of Moab. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Sorrow on Nebo, for it has been made waste; Kiriathaim has been put to shame and is taken: the strong place is put to shame and broken down.'),(24048002,24,48,2,'The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.'),(24048003,24,48,3,'There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;'),(24048004,24,48,4,'Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.'),(24048005,24,48,5,'For by the slope of Luhith they will go up, weeping all the way; for on the way down to Horonaim the cry of destruction has come to their ears.'),(24048006,24,48,6,'Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.'),(24048007,24,48,7,'For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.'),(24048008,24,48,8,'And the attacker will come against every town, not one will be safe; and the valley will be made waste, and destruction will come to the lowland, as the Lord has said.'),(24048009,24,48,9,'Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.'),(24048010,24,48,10,'Let him be cursed who does the Lord\'s work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.'),(24048011,24,48,11,'From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.'),(24048012,24,48,12,'So truly, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send to him men who will have him turned over till there is no more wine in his vessels, and his wine-skins will be completely broken.'),(24048013,24,48,13,'And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.'),(24048014,24,48,14,'How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters?'),(24048015,24,48,15,'He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.'),(24048016,24,48,16,'The fate of Moab is near, and trouble is coming on him very quickly.'),(24048017,24,48,17,'All you who are round about him, give signs of grief for him, and all you who have knowledge of his name, say, How is the strong rod broken, even the beautiful branch!'),(24048018,24,48,18,'Come down from your glory, O people of Dibon, and take your seat in the place of the waste; for the attacker of Moab has gone up against you, sending destruction on your strong places.'),(24048019,24,48,19,'O daughter of Aroer, take your station by the way, on the watch: questioning him who is in flight, and her who has got away safe, say, What has been done?'),(24048020,24,48,20,'Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.'),(24048021,24,48,21,'And punishment has come on the lowlands; on Holon and Jahzah, and on Mephaath,'),(24048022,24,48,22,'And on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim,'),(24048023,24,48,23,'And on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,'),(24048024,24,48,24,'And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.'),(24048025,24,48,25,'The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.'),(24048026,24,48,26,'Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.'),(24048027,24,48,27,'For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.'),(24048028,24,48,28,'O people of Moab, go away from the towns and take cover in the rock; be like the dove of the Arabah, which makes her living-place in holes.'),(24048029,24,48,29,'We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up.'),(24048030,24,48,30,'I have knowledge of his wrath, says the Lord, that it is nothing; his high-sounding words have done nothing.'),(24048031,24,48,31,'For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.'),(24048032,24,48,32,'My weeping for you, O vine of Sibmah, will be more than the weeping of Jazer: your branches have gone over the sea, stretching even to Jazer: destruction has come down on your summer fruits and your cut grapes.'),(24048033,24,48,33,'All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.'),(24048034,24,48,34,'The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.'),(24048035,24,48,35,'And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.'),(24048036,24,48,36,'So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.'),(24048037,24,48,37,'For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.'),(24048038,24,48,38,'On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.'),(24048039,24,48,39,'How is it broken down! how is Moab\'s back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.'),(24048040,24,48,40,'For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.'),(24048041,24,48,41,'Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab\'s men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.'),(24048042,24,48,42,'And Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the Lord.'),(24048043,24,48,43,'Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord.'),(24048044,24,48,44,'He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.'),(24048045,24,48,45,'Those who went in flight from the fear are waiting under the shade of Heshbon: for a fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the house of Sihon, burning up the pride of Moab and the crown of the head of the violent ones.'),(24048046,24,48,46,'Sorrow is yours, O Moab! the people of Chemosh are overcome: for your sons have been taken away as prisoners, and your daughters made servants.'),(24048047,24,48,47,'But still, I will let the fate of Moab be changed in the last days, says the Lord.'),(24049001,24,49,1,'About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?'),(24049002,24,49,2,'Because of this, see, the days are coming when I will have a cry of war sounded against Rabbah, the town of the children of Ammon; it will become a waste of broken walls, and her daughter-towns will be burned with fire: then Israel will take the heritage of those who took his heritage, says the Lord.'),(24049003,24,49,3,'Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.'),(24049004,24,49,4,'Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?'),(24049005,24,49,5,'See, I will send fear on you, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, from those who are round you on every side; you will be forced out, every man straight before him, and there will be no one to get together the wanderers.'),(24049006,24,49,6,'But after these things, I will let the fate of the children of Ammon be changed, says the Lord.'),(24049007,24,49,7,'About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?'),(24049008,24,49,8,'Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment.'),(24049009,24,49,9,'If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough?'),(24049010,24,49,10,'I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.'),(24049011,24,49,11,'Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.'),(24049012,24,49,12,'For the Lord has said, Those for whom the cup was not made ready will certainly be forced to take of it; and are you to go without punishment? you will not be without punishment, but will certainly be forced to take from the cup.'),(24049013,24,49,13,'For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.'),(24049014,24,49,14,'Word has come to me from the Lord, and a representative has been sent to the nations, to say, Come together and go up against her, and take your places for the fight.'),(24049015,24,49,15,'For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.'),(24049016,24,49,16,'... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.'),(24049017,24,49,17,'And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.'),(24049018,24,49,18,'As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.'),(24049019,24,49,19,'See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?'),(24049020,24,49,20,'For this cause give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Edom, and to his purposes designed against the people of Teman: Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.'),(24049021,24,49,21,'The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.'),(24049022,24,49,22,'See, he will come up like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Bozrah: and the hearts of Edom\'s men of war on that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.'),(24049023,24,49,23,'About Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for the word of evil has come to their ears, their heart in its fear is turned to water, it will not be quiet.'),(24049024,24,49,24,'Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains.'),(24049025,24,49,25,'How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!'),(24049026,24,49,26,'So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.'),(24049027,24,49,27,'And I will have a fire lighted on the wall of Damascus, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.'),(24049028,24,49,28,'About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.'),(24049029,24,49,29,'Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.'),(24049030,24,49,30,'Go in flight, go wandering far off, take cover in deep places, O people of Hazor, says the Lord; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a design against you, he has a purpose against you in mind.'),(24049031,24,49,31,'Up! go against a nation which is living in comfort and without fear of danger, says the Lord, without doors or locks, living by themselves.'),(24049032,24,49,32,'And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.'),(24049033,24,49,33,'And Hazor will be a hole for jackals, a waste for ever: no one will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.'),(24049034,24,49,34,'The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, saying,'),(24049035,24,49,35,'This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will have the bow of Elam, their chief strength, broken.'),(24049036,24,49,36,'And I will send on Elam four winds from the four quarters of heaven, driving them out to all those winds; there will be no nation into which the wanderers from Elam do not come.'),(24049037,24,49,37,'And I will let Elam be broken before their haters, and before those who are making designs against their lives: I will send evil on them, even my burning wrath, says the Lord; and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them:'),(24049038,24,49,38,'I will put the seat of my power in Elam, and in Elam I will put an end to kings and rulers, says the Lord.'),(24049039,24,49,39,'But it will come about that, in the last days, I will let the fate of Elam be changed, says the Lord.'),(24050001,24,50,1,'The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.'),(24050002,24,50,2,'Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.'),(24050003,24,50,3,'For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.'),(24050004,24,50,4,'In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.'),(24050005,24,50,5,'They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.'),(24050006,24,50,6,'My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.'),(24050007,24,50,7,'They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.'),(24050008,24,50,8,'Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks.'),(24050009,24,50,9,'For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.'),(24050010,24,50,10,'And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.'),(24050011,24,50,11,'Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses;'),(24050012,24,50,12,'Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.'),(24050013,24,50,13,'Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.'),(24050014,24,50,14,'Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.'),(24050015,24,50,15,'Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.'),(24050016,24,50,16,'Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.'),(24050017,24,50,17,'Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.'),(24050018,24,50,18,'So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria.'),(24050019,24,50,19,'And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.'),(24050020,24,50,20,'In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.'),(24050021,24,50,21,'Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the people of Pekod; put them to death and send destruction after them, says the Lord, and do everything I have given you orders to do.'),(24050022,24,50,22,'There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.'),(24050023,24,50,23,'How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!'),(24050024,24,50,24,'I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.'),(24050025,24,50,25,'From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.'),(24050026,24,50,26,'Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.'),(24050027,24,50,27,'Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.'),(24050028,24,50,28,'The voice of those who are in flight, who have got away safe from the land of Babylon, to give news in Zion of punishment from the Lord our God, even payment for his Temple.'),(24050029,24,50,29,'Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.'),(24050030,24,50,30,'For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.'),(24050031,24,50,31,'See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.'),(24050032,24,50,32,'And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.'),(24050033,24,50,33,'This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.'),(24050034,24,50,34,'Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.'),(24050035,24,50,35,'A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.'),(24050036,24,50,36,'A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken.'),(24050037,24,50,37,'A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.'),(24050038,24,50,38,'A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.'),(24050039,24,50,39,'For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.'),(24050040,24,50,40,'As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.'),(24050041,24,50,41,'See, a people is coming from the north; a great nation and a number of kings will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.'),(24050042,24,50,42,'Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.'),(24050043,24,50,43,'The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.'),(24050044,24,50,44,'See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will keep his place before me?'),(24050045,24,50,45,'So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.'),(24050046,24,50,46,'At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.'),(24051001,24,51,1,'The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea;'),(24051002,24,51,2,'And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.'),(24051003,24,51,3,'Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.'),(24051004,24,51,4,'And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.'),(24051005,24,51,5,'For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.'),(24051006,24,51,6,'Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord\'s punishment; he will give her her reward.'),(24051007,24,51,7,'Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.'),(24051008,24,51,8,'Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.'),(24051009,24,51,9,'We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.'),(24051010,24,51,10,'The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.'),(24051011,24,51,11,'Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.'),(24051012,24,51,12,'Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord\'s purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.'),(24051013,24,51,13,'O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.'),(24051014,24,51,14,'The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.'),(24051015,24,51,15,'He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:'),(24051016,24,51,16,'At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.'),(24051017,24,51,17,'Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.'),(24051018,24,51,18,'They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.'),(24051019,24,51,19,'The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.'),(24051020,24,51,20,'You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;'),(24051021,24,51,21,'With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;'),(24051022,24,51,22,'With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;'),(24051023,24,51,23,'With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.'),(24051024,24,51,24,'And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.'),(24051025,24,51,25,'See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.'),(24051026,24,51,26,'And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.'),(24051027,24,51,27,'Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her like massed locusts.'),(24051028,24,51,28,'Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captains, and all the land under his rule.'),(24051029,24,51,29,'And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.'),(24051030,24,51,30,'Babylon\'s men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.'),(24051031,24,51,31,'One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter:'),(24051032,24,51,32,'And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.'),(24051033,24,51,33,'For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.'),(24051034,24,51,34,'Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.'),(24051035,24,51,35,'May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.'),(24051036,24,51,36,'For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.'),(24051037,24,51,37,'And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.'),(24051038,24,51,38,'They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.'),(24051039,24,51,39,'When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.'),(24051040,24,51,40,'I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.'),(24051041,24,51,41,'How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!'),(24051042,24,51,42,'The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.'),(24051043,24,51,43,'Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.'),(24051044,24,51,44,'And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.'),(24051045,24,51,45,'My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.'),(24051046,24,51,46,'So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.'),(24051047,24,51,47,'For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and all her land will be shamed, and her dead will be falling down in her.'),(24051048,24,51,48,'And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.'),(24051049,24,51,49,'As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.'),(24051050,24,51,50,'You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.'),(24051051,24,51,51,'We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord\'s house.'),(24051052,24,51,52,'For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images; and through all her land the wounded will be crying out in pain.'),(24051053,24,51,53,'Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.'),(24051054,24,51,54,'There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:'),(24051055,24,51,55,'For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:'),(24051056,24,51,56,'For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.'),(24051057,24,51,57,'And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.'),(24051058,24,51,58,'The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.'),(24051059,24,51,59,'The order which Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his rule. Now Seraiah was the chief controller of the house.'),(24051060,24,51,60,'And Jeremiah put in a book all the evil which was to come on Babylon.'),(24051061,24,51,61,'And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you give them all these words;'),(24051062,24,51,62,'And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever.'),(24051063,24,51,63,'And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates:'),(24051064,24,51,64,'And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.'),(24052001,24,52,1,'Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother\'s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.'),(24052002,24,52,2,'And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.'),(24052003,24,52,3,'And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.'),(24052004,24,52,4,'And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.'),(24052005,24,52,5,'So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.'),(24052006,24,52,6,'In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.'),(24052007,24,52,7,'Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king\'s garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and they went by the way of the Arabah.'),(24052008,24,52,8,'And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.'),(24052009,24,52,9,'Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.'),(24052010,24,52,10,'And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.'),(24052011,24,52,11,'And he put out Zedekiah\'s eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.'),(24052012,24,52,12,'Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.'),(24052013,24,52,13,'And he had the house of the Lord and the king\'s house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:'),(24052014,24,52,14,'And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.'),(24052015,24,52,15,'Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners the rest of the people who were still in the town, and those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the workmen.'),(24052016,24,52,16,'But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.'),(24052017,24,52,17,'And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took all the brass away to Babylon.'),(24052018,24,52,18,'And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord\'s house, they took away.'),(24052019,24,52,19,'And the cups and the fire-trays and the basins and the pots and the supports for the lights and the spoons and the wide basins; the gold of the gold vessels, and the silver of the silver vessels, the captain of the armed men took away.'),(24052020,24,52,20,'The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten wheeled bases, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.'),(24052021,24,52,21,'And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man\'s hand: it was hollow.'),(24052022,24,52,22,'And there was a crown of brass on it: the crown was five cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.'),(24052023,24,52,23,'There were ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the network was a hundred.'),(24052024,24,52,24,'And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;'),(24052025,24,52,25,'And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king\'s near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.'),(24052026,24,52,26,'These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.'),(24052027,24,52,27,'And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken prisoner away from his land.'),(24052028,24,52,28,'These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews:'),(24052029,24,52,29,'And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons:'),(24052030,24,52,30,'In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.'),(24052031,24,52,31,'And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison.'),(24052032,24,52,32,'And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.'),(24052033,24,52,33,'And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king\'s table every day for the rest of his life.'),(24052034,24,52,34,'And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.'),(25001001,25,1,1,'See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!'),(25001002,25,1,2,'She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.'),(25001003,25,1,3,'Judah has been taken away as a prisoner because of trouble and hard work; her living-place is among the nations, there is no rest for her: all her attackers have overtaken her in a narrow place.'),(25001004,25,1,4,'The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.'),(25001005,25,1,5,'Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.'),(25001006,25,1,6,'And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.'),(25001007,25,1,7,'Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.'),(25001008,25,1,8,'Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.'),(25001009,25,1,9,'In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.'),(25001010,25,1,10,'The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.'),(25001011,25,1,11,'Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.'),(25001012,25,1,12,'Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.'),(25001013,25,1,13,'From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.'),(25001014,25,1,14,'A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.'),(25001015,25,1,15,'The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.'),(25001016,25,1,16,'For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.'),(25001017,25,1,17,'Zion\'s hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.'),(25001018,25,1,18,'The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.'),(25001019,25,1,19,'I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.'),(25001020,25,1,20,'See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.'),(25001021,25,1,21,'Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.'),(25001022,25,1,22,'Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.'),(25002001,25,2,1,'How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.'),(25002002,25,2,2,'The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.'),(25002003,25,2,3,'In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.'),(25002004,25,2,4,'His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.'),(25002005,25,2,5,'The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.'),(25002006,25,2,6,'And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.'),(25002007,25,2,7,'The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.'),(25002008,25,2,8,'It is the Lord\'s purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.'),(25002009,25,2,9,'Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.'),(25002010,25,2,10,'The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.'),(25002011,25,2,11,'My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.'),(25002012,25,2,12,'They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother\'s breast.'),(25002013,25,2,13,'What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?'),(25002014,25,2,14,'The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.'),(25002015,25,2,15,'All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?'),(25002016,25,2,16,'All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.'),(25002017,25,2,17,'The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.'),(25002018,25,2,18,'Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.'),(25002019,25,2,19,'Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.'),(25002020,25,2,20,'Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?'),(25002021,25,2,21,'The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.'),(25002022,25,2,22,'As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord\'s wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.'),(25003001,25,3,1,'I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.'),(25003002,25,3,2,'By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.'),(25003003,25,3,3,'Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.'),(25003004,25,3,4,'My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.'),(25003005,25,3,5,'He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.'),(25003006,25,3,6,'He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.'),(25003007,25,3,7,'He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.'),(25003008,25,3,8,'Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.'),(25003009,25,3,9,'He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.'),(25003010,25,3,10,'He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.'),(25003011,25,3,11,'By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.'),(25003012,25,3,12,'With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.'),(25003013,25,3,13,'He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.'),(25003014,25,3,14,'I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.'),(25003015,25,3,15,'He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.'),(25003016,25,3,16,'By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.'),(25003017,25,3,17,'My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.'),(25003018,25,3,18,'And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.'),(25003019,25,3,19,'Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.'),(25003020,25,3,20,'My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.'),(25003021,25,3,21,'This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.'),(25003022,25,3,22,'It is through the Lord\'s love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.'),(25003023,25,3,23,'They are new every morning; great is your good faith.'),(25003024,25,3,24,'I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.'),(25003025,25,3,25,'The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.'),(25003026,25,3,26,'It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.'),(25003027,25,3,27,'It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.'),(25003028,25,3,28,'Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.'),(25003029,25,3,29,'Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.'),(25003030,25,3,30,'Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.'),(25003031,25,3,31,'For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.'),(25003032,25,3,32,'For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.'),(25003033,25,3,33,'For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.'),(25003034,25,3,34,'In a man\'s crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,'),(25003035,25,3,35,'In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.'),(25003036,25,3,36,'In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.'),(25003037,25,3,37,'Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?'),(25003038,25,3,38,'Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?'),(25003039,25,3,39,'What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?'),(25003040,25,3,40,'Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;'),(25003041,25,3,41,'Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.'),(25003042,25,3,42,'We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.'),(25003043,25,3,43,'Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;'),(25003044,25,3,44,'Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.'),(25003045,25,3,45,'You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.'),(25003046,25,3,46,'The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.'),(25003047,25,3,47,'Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.'),(25003048,25,3,48,'Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.'),(25003049,25,3,49,'My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,'),(25003050,25,3,50,'Till the Lord\'s eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.'),(25003051,25,3,51,'The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.'),(25003052,25,3,52,'They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;'),(25003053,25,3,53,'They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.'),(25003054,25,3,54,'Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.'),(25003055,25,3,55,'I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.'),(25003056,25,3,56,'My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.'),(25003057,25,3,57,'You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.'),(25003058,25,3,58,'O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.'),(25003059,25,3,59,'O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.'),(25003060,25,3,60,'You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.'),(25003061,25,3,61,'Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;'),(25003062,25,3,62,'The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.'),(25003063,25,3,63,'Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.'),(25003064,25,3,64,'You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.'),(25003065,25,3,65,'You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.'),(25003066,25,3,66,'You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.'),(25004001,25,4,1,'How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.'),(25004002,25,4,2,'The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!'),(25004003,25,4,3,'Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.'),(25004004,25,4,4,'The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.'),(25004005,25,4,5,'Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.'),(25004006,25,4,6,'For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.'),(25004007,25,4,7,'Her holy ones were cleaner than snow, they were whiter than milk, their bodies were redder than corals, their form was as the sapphire:'),(25004008,25,4,8,'Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.'),(25004009,25,4,9,'Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.'),(25004010,25,4,10,'The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.'),(25004011,25,4,11,'The Lord has given full effect to his passion, he has let loose his burning wrath; he has made a fire in Zion, causing the destruction of its bases.'),(25004012,25,4,12,'To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.'),(25004013,25,4,13,'It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.'),(25004014,25,4,14,'They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.'),(25004015,25,4,15,'Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.'),(25004016,25,4,16,'The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.'),(25004017,25,4,17,'Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.'),(25004018,25,4,18,'They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.'),(25004019,25,4,19,'Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.'),(25004020,25,4,20,'Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.'),(25004021,25,4,21,'Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.'),(25004022,25,4,22,'The punishment of your evil-doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner: he will give you the reward of your evil-doing, O daughter of Edom; he will let your sin be uncovered.'),(25005001,25,5,1,'Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.'),(25005002,25,5,2,'Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.'),(25005003,25,5,3,'We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.'),(25005004,25,5,4,'We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.'),(25005005,25,5,5,'Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.'),(25005006,25,5,6,'We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.'),(25005007,25,5,7,'Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.'),(25005008,25,5,8,'Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.'),(25005009,25,5,9,'We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.'),(25005010,25,5,10,'Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.'),(25005011,25,5,11,'They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.'),(25005012,25,5,12,'Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.'),(25005013,25,5,13,'The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.'),(25005014,25,5,14,'The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.'),(25005015,25,5,15,'The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.'),(25005016,25,5,16,'The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.'),(25005017,25,5,17,'Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;'),(25005018,25,5,18,'Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.'),(25005019,25,5,19,'You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.'),(25005020,25,5,20,'Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?'),(25005021,25,5,21,'Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.'),(25005022,25,5,22,'But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.'),(26001001,26,1,1,'Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was by the river Chebar among those who had been made prisoners, that the heavens were made open and I saw visions of God.'),(26001002,26,1,2,'On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,'),(26001003,26,1,3,'The word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldaeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was on me there.'),(26001004,26,1,4,'And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.'),(26001005,26,1,5,'And in the heart of it were the forms of four living beings. And this was what they were like; they had the form of a man.'),(26001006,26,1,6,'And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.'),(26001007,26,1,7,'And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides of their feet were like the feet of oxen; and they were shining like polished brass.'),(26001008,26,1,8,'And they had the hands of a man under their wings; the four of them had faces on their four sides.'),(26001009,26,1,9,'They went without turning, every one went straight forward.'),(26001010,26,1,10,'As for the form of their faces, they had the face of a man, and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side, and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four of them had the face of an eagle.'),(26001011,26,1,11,'And their wings were separate at the top; two of the wings of every one were joined one to another, and two were covering their bodies.'),(26001012,26,1,12,'Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go they went; they went on without turning.'),(26001013,26,1,13,'And between the living beings it was like burning coals of fire, as if flames were going one after the other between the living beings; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went thunder-flames.'),(26001014,26,1,14,'And the living beings went out and came back as quickly as a thunder-flame.'),(26001015,26,1,15,'Now while I was looking at the four living beings, I saw one wheel on the earth, by the side of the living beings, for the four of them.'),(26001016,26,1,16,'The form of the wheels and their work was like a beryl; the four of them had the same form and design, and they were like a wheel inside a wheel.'),(26001017,26,1,17,'The four of them went straight forward without turning to one side.'),(26001018,26,1,18,'And I saw that they had edges, and their edges, even of the four, were full of eyes round about.'),(26001019,26,1,19,'And when the living beings went on, the wheels went by their side; and when the living beings were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.'),(26001020,26,1,20,'Wherever the spirit was to go they went; and the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.'),(26001021,26,1,21,'When these went on, the others went; and when these came to rest, the others came to rest; and when these were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.'),(26001022,26,1,22,'And over the heads of the living beings there was the form of an arch, looking like ice, stretched out over their heads on high.'),(26001023,26,1,23,'Under the arch their wings were straight, one stretched out to another: every one had two wings covering their bodies on this side and two covering their bodies on that side.'),(26001024,26,1,24,'And when they went, the sound of their wings was like the sound of great waters to my ears, like the voice of the Ruler of all, a sound like the rushing of an army: when they came to rest they let down their wings.'),(26001025,26,1,25,'And there was a voice from the top of the arch which was over their heads: when they came to rest they let down their wings.'),(26001026,26,1,26,'And on the top of the arch which was over their heads was the form of a king\'s seat, like a sapphire stone; and on the form of the seat was the form of a man seated on it on high.'),(26001027,26,1,27,'And I saw it coloured like electrum, with the look of fire in it and round it, going up from what seemed to be the middle of his body; and going down from what seemed to be the middle of his body I saw what was like fire, and there was a bright light shining round him.'),(26001028,26,1,28,'Like the bow in the cloud on a day of rain, so was the light shining round him. And this is what the glory of the Lord was like. And when I saw it I went down on my face, and the voice of one talking came to my ears.'),(26002001,26,2,1,'And he said to me, Son of man, get up on your feet, so that I may say words to you.'),(26002002,26,2,2,'And at his words the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and his voice came to my ears.'),(26002003,26,2,3,'And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.'),(26002004,26,2,4,'And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.'),(26002005,26,2,5,'And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.'),(26002006,26,2,6,'And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.'),(26002007,26,2,7,'And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.'),(26002008,26,2,8,'But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.'),(26002009,26,2,9,'And looking, I saw a hand stretched out to me, and I saw the roll of a book in it;'),(26002010,26,2,10,'And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.'),(26003001,26,3,1,'And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.'),(26003002,26,3,2,'And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.'),(26003003,26,3,3,'And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.'),(26003004,26,3,4,'And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.'),(26003005,26,3,5,'For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;'),(26003006,26,3,6,'Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.'),(26003007,26,3,7,'But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.'),(26003008,26,3,8,'See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.'),(26003009,26,3,9,'Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.'),(26003010,26,3,10,'Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.'),(26003011,26,3,11,'And go now to those who have been taken away as prisoners, to the children of your people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said; if they give ear or if they do not.'),(26003012,26,3,12,'Then I was lifted up by the wind, and at my back the sound of a great rushing came to my ears when the glory of the Lord was lifted up from his place.'),(26003013,26,3,13,'And there was the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another, and the sound of the wheels at their side, the sound of a great rushing.'),(26003014,26,3,14,'And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.'),(26003015,26,3,15,'Then I came to those who had been taken away as prisoners, who were at Telabib by the river Chebar, and I was seated among them full of wonder for seven days.'),(26003016,26,3,16,'And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26003017,26,3,17,'Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.'),(26003018,26,3,18,'When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.'),(26003019,26,3,19,'But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and he is not turned from his sin or from his evil way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing; but your life will be safe.'),(26003020,26,3,20,'Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.'),(26003021,26,3,21,'But if you say to the upright man that he is not to do evil, he will certainly keep his life because he took note of your word; and your life will be safe.'),(26003022,26,3,22,'And the hand of the Lord was on me there; and he said, Get up and go out into the valley and there I will have talk with you.'),(26003023,26,3,23,'Then I got up and went out into the valley; and I saw the glory of the Lord resting there as I had seen it by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face.'),(26003024,26,3,24,'Then the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and he had talk with me and said to me, Go and keep yourself shut up inside your house.'),(26003025,26,3,25,'But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you, prisoning you in them, and you will not go out among them:'),(26003026,26,3,26,'And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your mouth, so that you have no voice and may not make protests to them: for they are an uncontrolled people.'),(26003027,26,3,27,'But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.'),(26004001,26,4,1,'And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem.'),(26004002,26,4,2,'And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.'),(26004003,26,4,3,'And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.'),(26004004,26,4,4,'Then, stretching yourself out on your left side, take the sin of the children of Israel on yourself: for as long as you are stretched out, so long will the sin of the children of Israel be on you.'),(26004005,26,4,5,'For I have had the years of their sin measured for you by a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: and you will take on yourself the sin of the children of Israel.'),(26004006,26,4,6,'And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.'),(26004007,26,4,7,'And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it.'),(26004008,26,4,8,'And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.'),(26004009,26,4,9,'And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.'),(26004010,26,4,10,'And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.'),(26004011,26,4,11,'And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.'),(26004012,26,4,12,'And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.'),(26004013,26,4,13,'And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.'),(26004014,26,4,14,'Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.'),(26004015,26,4,15,'Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow\'s waste in place of man\'s waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.'),(26004016,26,4,16,'And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:'),(26004017,26,4,17,'So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.'),(26005001,26,5,1,'And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a haircutter\'s blade, and making it go over your head and the hair of your chin: and take scales for separating the hair by weight.'),(26005002,26,5,2,'You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.'),(26005003,26,5,3,'And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts.'),(26005004,26,5,4,'And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,'),(26005005,26,5,5,'This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;'),(26005006,26,5,6,'And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.'),(26005007,26,5,7,'For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been more uncontrolled than the nations round about you, and have not been guided by my rules or kept my orders, but have kept the orders of the nations round about you;'),(26005008,26,5,8,'For this cause the Lord has said: See, I, even I, am against you; and I will be judging among you before the eyes of the nations.'),(26005009,26,5,9,'And I will do in you what I have not done and will not do again, because of all your disgusting ways.'),(26005010,26,5,10,'For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.'),(26005011,26,5,11,'For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.'),(26005012,26,5,12,'A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third will be put to the sword round about you; and a third I will send away to every wind, letting loose a sword after them.'),(26005013,26,5,13,'So my wrath will be complete and my passion will come to rest on them; and they will be certain that I the Lord have given the word of decision, when my wrath against them is complete.'),(26005014,26,5,14,'And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.'),(26005015,26,5,15,'And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter words, an example and a wonder to the nations round about you, when I give effect to my judging among you in wrath and in passion and in burning protests: I the Lord have said it:'),(26005016,26,5,16,'When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing destruction, which I will send to put an end to you; and, further, I will take away your necessary food.'),(26005017,26,5,17,'And I will send on you need of food and evil beasts, and they will be a cause of loss to you; and disease and violent death will go through you; and I will send the sword on you: I the Lord have said it.'),(26006001,26,6,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26006002,26,6,2,'Son of man, let your face be turned to the mountains of Israel, and be a prophet to them, and say,'),(26006003,26,6,3,'You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.'),(26006004,26,6,4,'And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images will be broken: and I will have your dead men placed before your images.'),(26006005,26,6,5,'And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.'),(26006006,26,6,6,'In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.'),(26006007,26,6,7,'And the dead will be falling down among you, and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26006008,26,6,8,'But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.'),(26006009,26,6,9,'And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.'),(26006010,26,6,10,'And they will be certain that I am the Lord: not for nothing did I say that I would do this evil to them.'),(26006011,26,6,11,'This is what the Lord has said: Give blows with your hand, stamping with your foot, and say, O sorrow! because of all the evil and disgusting ways of the children of Israel: for death will overtake them by the sword and through need of food and by disease.'),(26006012,26,6,12,'He who is far away will come to his death by disease; he who is near will be put to the sword; he who is shut up will come to his death through need of food; and I will give full effect to my passion against them.'),(26006013,26,6,13,'And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when their dead men are stretched among their images round about their altars on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every branching tree, and under every thick oak-tree, the places where they made sweet smells to all their images.'),(26006014,26,6,14,'And my hand will be stretched out against them, making the land waste and unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah, through all their living-places: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26007001,26,7,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26007002,26,7,2,'And you, son of man, say, This is what the Lord has said to the land of Israel: An end has come, the end has come on the four quarters of the land.'),(26007003,26,7,3,'Now the end has come on you, and I will send my wrath on you, judging you for your ways, I will send punishment on you for all your disgusting acts.'),(26007004,26,7,4,'My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no pity: but I will send the punishment of your ways on you, and your disgusting works will be among you: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26007005,26,7,5,'This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming.'),(26007006,26,7,6,'An end has come, the end has come; see, it is coming on you.'),(26007007,26,7,7,'The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land: the time has come, the day is near; the day will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.'),(26007008,26,7,8,'Now, in a little time, I will let loose my passion on you, and give full effect to my wrath against you, judging you for your ways, and sending punishment on you for all your disgusting works.'),(26007009,26,7,9,'My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment.'),(26007010,26,7,10,'See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds.'),(26007011,26,7,11,'Violent behaviour has been lifted up into a rod of evil; it will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.'),(26007012,26,7,12,'The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:'),(26007013,26,7,13,'For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living:'),(26007014,26,7,14,'And he who has given a price for goods will not get them, for my wrath is on all of them.'),(26007015,26,7,15,'Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.'),(26007016,26,7,16,'And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.'),(26007017,26,7,17,'All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.'),(26007018,26,7,18,'And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.'),(26007019,26,7,19,'They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.'),(26007020,26,7,20,'As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them.'),(26007021,26,7,21,'And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.'),(26007022,26,7,22,'And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy.'),(26007023,26,7,23,'Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.'),(26007024,26,7,24,'For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean.'),(26007025,26,7,25,'Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.'),(26007026,26,7,26,'Destruction will come on destruction, and one story after another; and the vision of the prophet will be shamed, and knowledge of the law will come to an end among the priests, and wisdom among the old.'),(26007027,26,7,27,'The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26008001,26,8,1,'Now in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in my house and the responsible men of Judah were seated before me, the hand of the Lord came on me there.'),(26008002,26,8,2,'And looking, I saw a form like fire; from the middle of his body and down there was fire: and up from the middle of his body a sort of shining, like electrum.'),(26008003,26,8,3,'And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; and the wind, lifting me up between the earth and the heaven, took me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way into the inner door facing to the north; where was the seat of the image of envy.'),(26008004,26,8,4,'And I saw the glory of the Lord there, as in the vision which I saw in the valley.'),(26008005,26,8,5,'Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in.'),(26008006,26,8,6,'And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.'),(26008007,26,8,7,'And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.'),(26008008,26,8,8,'And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door.'),(26008009,26,8,9,'And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here.'),(26008010,26,8,10,'So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living thing which goes flat on the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the images of the children of Israel, were pictured round about on the wall.'),(26008011,26,8,11,'And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume.'),(26008012,26,8,12,'And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.'),(26008013,26,8,13,'Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting things which they do.'),(26008014,26,8,14,'Then he took me to the door of the way into the Lord\'s house looking to the north; and there women were seated weeping for Tammuz.'),(26008015,26,8,15,'Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? you will see even more disgusting things than these.'),(26008016,26,8,16,'And he took me into the inner square of the Lord\'s house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.'),(26008017,26,8,17,'Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.'),(26008018,26,8,18,'For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.'),(26009001,26,9,1,'Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.'),(26009002,26,9,2,'And six men came from the way of the higher doorway looking to the north, every man with his axe in his hand: and one man among them was clothed in linen, with a writer\'s inkpot at his side. And they went in and took their places by the brass altar.'),(26009003,26,9,3,'And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the winged ones on which it was resting, to the doorstep of the house. And crying out to the man clothed in linen who had the writer\'s inkpot at his side,'),(26009004,26,9,4,'The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.'),(26009005,26,9,5,'And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:'),(26009006,26,9,6,'Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.'),(26009007,26,9,7,'And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.'),(26009008,26,9,8,'Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I went down on my face, and crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you give all the rest of Israel to destruction in letting loose your wrath on Jerusalem?'),(26009009,26,9,9,'Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.'),(26009010,26,9,10,'And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.'),(26009011,26,9,11,'Then the man clothed in linen, who had the inkpot at his side, came back and said, I have done what you gave me orders to do.'),(26010001,26,10,1,'Then looking, I saw that on the arch which was over the head of the winged ones there was seen over them what seemed like a sapphire stone, having the form of a king\'s seat.'),(26010002,26,10,2,'And he said to the man clothed in linen, Go in between the wheels, under the winged ones, and get your two hands full of burning coals from between the winged ones and send them in a shower over the town. And he went in before my eyes.'),(26010003,26,10,3,'Now the winged ones were stationed on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the inner square was full of the cloud.'),(26010004,26,10,4,'And the glory of the Lord went up from the winged ones and came to rest over the doorstep of the house; and the house was full of the cloud and the open square was full of the shining of the Lord\'s glory.'),(26010005,26,10,5,'And the sound of the wings of the winged ones was clear even in the outer square, like the voice of the Ruler of all.'),(26010006,26,10,6,'And when he gave orders to the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the winged ones, then he went in and took his place at the side of a wheel.'),(26010007,26,10,7,'And stretching out his hand to the fire which was between the winged ones, he took some of it and went out.'),(26010008,26,10,8,'And I saw the form of a man\'s hands among the winged ones under their wings.'),(26010009,26,10,9,'And looking, I saw four wheels by the side of the winged ones, one wheel by the side of a winged one and another wheel by the side of another: and the wheels were like the colour of a beryl stone to the eye.'),(26010010,26,10,10,'In form the four of them were all the same, they seemed like a wheel inside a wheel.'),(26010011,26,10,11,'When they were moving, they went on their four sides without turning; they went after the head in the direction in which it was looking; they went without turning.'),(26010012,26,10,12,'And the edges of the four wheels were full of eyes round about.'),(26010013,26,10,13,'As for the wheels, they were named in my hearing, the circling wheels.'),(26010014,26,10,14,'And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a winged one, and the second was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.'),(26010015,26,10,15,'And the winged ones went up on high: this is the living being which I saw by the river Chebar.'),(26010016,26,10,16,'And when the winged ones went, the wheels went by their side: and when their wings were lifted to take them up from the earth, the wheels were not turned from their side.'),(26010017,26,10,17,'When they were at rest in their place, these were at rest; when they were lifted up, these went up with them: for the spirit of life was in them.'),(26010018,26,10,18,'Then the glory of the Lord went out from the doorstep of the house, and came to rest over the winged ones.'),(26010019,26,10,19,'And the winged ones, lifting up their wings, went up from the earth before my eyes, with the wheels by their side: and they came to rest at the east doorway of the Lord\'s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them on high.'),(26010020,26,10,20,'This is the living being which I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and it was clear to me that they were the winged ones.'),(26010021,26,10,21,'Every one had four faces and every one had four wings; and hands like a man\'s hands were under their wings.'),(26010022,26,10,22,'As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose form I saw by the river Chebar; when they went, every one of them went straight forward.'),(26011001,26,11,1,'And the wind, lifting me up, took me to the east doorway of the Lord\'s house, looking to the east: and at the door I saw twenty-five men; and among them I saw Jaazaniah, the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people.'),(26011002,26,11,2,'Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:'),(26011003,26,11,3,'Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.'),(26011004,26,11,4,'For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.'),(26011005,26,11,5,'And the spirit of the Lord came on me, and he said to me, Say, These are the words of the Lord: This is what you have said, O children of Israel; what comes into your mind is clear to me.'),(26011006,26,11,6,'You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.'),(26011007,26,11,7,'For this reason the Lord has said: Your dead whom you have put down in its streets, they are the flesh, and this town is the cooking-pot: but I will make you come out from inside it.'),(26011008,26,11,8,'You have been fearing the sword, and I will send the sword on you, says the Lord.'),(26011009,26,11,9,'I will make you come out from inside the town and will give you up into the hands of men from other lands, and will be judge among you.'),(26011010,26,11,10,'You will come to your death by the sword; and I will be your judge in the land of Israel; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26011011,26,11,11,'This town will not be your cooking-pot, and you will not be the flesh inside it; I will be your judge at the limit of the land of Israel;'),(26011012,26,11,12,'And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.'),(26011013,26,11,13,'Now while I was saying these things, death came to Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah. Then falling down on my face and crying out with a loud voice, I said, Ah, Lord! will you put an end to all the rest of Israel?'),(26011014,26,11,14,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26011015,26,11,15,'Son of man, your countrymen, your relations, and all the children of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the people of Jerusalem have said, Go far from the Lord; this land is given to us for a heritage:'),(26011016,26,11,16,'For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.'),(26011017,26,11,17,'Then say, This is what the Lord has said: I will get you together from the peoples, and make you come out of the countries where you have been sent in flight, and I will give you the land of Israel.'),(26011018,26,11,18,'And they will come there, and take away all the hated and disgusting things from it.'),(26011019,26,11,19,'And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:'),(26011020,26,11,20,'So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.'),(26011021,26,11,21,'But as for those whose heart goes after their hated and disgusting things, I will send on their heads the punishment of their ways, says the Lord.'),(26011022,26,11,22,'Then the wings of the winged ones were lifted up, and the wheels were by their side; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them on high.'),(26011023,26,11,23,'And the glory of the Lord went up from inside the town, and came to rest on the mountain on the east side of the town.'),(26011024,26,11,24,'And the wind, lifting me up, took me in the visions of God into Chaldaea, to those who had been taken away as prisoners. So the vision which I had seen went away from me.'),(26011025,26,11,25,'Then I gave an account to those who had been taken prisoners of all the things which the Lord had made me see.'),(26012001,26,12,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26012002,26,12,2,'Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.'),(26012003,26,12,3,'And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.'),(26012004,26,12,4,'By day, before their eyes, take out your vessels like those of one who is taken away: and go out in the evening before their eyes, like those who are taken away as prisoners.'),(26012005,26,12,5,'Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.'),(26012006,26,12,6,'And before their eyes, take your goods on your back and go out in the dark; go with your face covered: for I have made you a sign to the children of Israel.'),(26012007,26,12,7,'And I did as I was ordered: I took out my vessels by day, like those of one who is taken away, and in the evening I made a hole through the wall with a tent-pin; and in the dark I went out, taking my things on my back before their eyes.'),(26012008,26,12,8,'And in the morning the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26012009,26,12,9,'Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?'),(26012010,26,12,10,'You are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: This word has to do with the ruler in Jerusalem and all the children of Israel in it.'),(26012011,26,12,11,'Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so will it be done to them: they will go away as prisoners.'),(26012012,26,12,12,'And the ruler who is among them will take his goods on his back in the dark and go out: he will make a hole in the wall through which to go out: he will have his face covered so that he may not be seen.'),(26012013,26,12,13,'And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.'),(26012014,26,12,14,'And all his helpers round about him and all his armies I will send in flight to every wind; and I will let loose a sword after them.'),(26012015,26,12,15,'And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send them in flight among the nations, driving them out through the countries.'),(26012016,26,12,16,'But a small number of them I will keep from the sword, from the need of food, and from disease, so that they may make clear all their disgusting ways among the nations where they come; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26012017,26,12,17,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26012018,26,12,18,'Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;'),(26012019,26,12,19,'And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.'),(26012020,26,12,20,'And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26012021,26,12,21,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26012022,26,12,22,'Son of man, what is this saying which you have about the land of Israel, The time is long and every vision comes to nothing?'),(26012023,26,12,23,'For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: I have made this saying come to an end, and it will no longer be used as a common saying in Israel; but say to them, The days are near, and the effect of every vision.'),(26012024,26,12,24,'For there will be no more false visions or smooth use of secret arts in Israel.'),(26012025,26,12,25,'For I am the Lord; I will say the word and what I say I will do; it will not be put off: for in your days, O uncontrolled people, I will say the word and do it, says the Lord.'),(26012026,26,12,26,'Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26012027,26,12,27,'Son of man, see, the children of Israel say, The vision which he sees is for the days which are a long way off, and his words are of times still far away.'),(26012028,26,12,28,'Say to them then, This is what the Lord has said: Not one of my words will be put off any longer, but what I say I will do, says the Lord.'),(26013001,26,13,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26013002,26,13,2,'Son of man, be a prophet against the prophets of Israel, and say to those prophets whose words are the invention of their hearts, Give ear to the word of the Lord;'),(26013003,26,13,3,'This is what the Lord has said: A curse on the foolish prophets who go after the spirit which is in them and have seen nothing!'),(26013004,26,13,4,'O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the waste places.'),(26013005,26,13,5,'You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.'),(26013006,26,13,6,'They have seen visions without substance and made use of secret arts, who say, The Lord has said; and the Lord has not sent them: hoping that the word would have effect.'),(26013007,26,13,7,'Have you not seen a vision without substance and have you not falsely made use of secret arts, when you say, The Lord has said; though I have said nothing?'),(26013008,26,13,8,'So this is what the Lord has said: Because your words are without substance and your visions are false, see, I am against you, says the Lord.'),(26013009,26,13,9,'And my hand will be against the prophets who see visions without substance and who make false use of secret arts: they will not be in the secret of my people, and they will not be recorded in the list of the children of Israel, and they will not come into the land of Israel; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.'),(26013010,26,13,10,'Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:'),(26013011,26,13,11,'Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.'),(26013012,26,13,12,'And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?'),(26013013,26,13,13,'For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.'),(26013014,26,13,14,'So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.'),(26013015,26,13,15,'So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?'),(26013016,26,13,16,'Even the prophets of Israel who say words to Jerusalem, who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace, says the Lord.'),(26013017,26,13,17,'And you, son of man, let your face be turned against the daughters of your people, who are acting the part of prophets at their pleasure; be a prophet against them, and say,'),(26013018,26,13,18,'This is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the women who are stitching bands on all arms and putting veils on the heads of those of every size, so that they may go after souls! Will you go after the souls of my people and keep yourselves safe from death?'),(26013019,26,13,19,'And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.'),(26013020,26,13,20,'For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against your bands with which you go after souls, and I will violently take them off their arms; and I will let loose the souls, even the souls whom you go after freely.'),(26013021,26,13,21,'And I will have your veils violently parted in two, and will make my people free from your hands, and they will no longer be in your power for you to go after them; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26013022,26,13,22,'Because with your false words you have given pain to the heart of the upright man when I had not made him sad; in order to make strong the hands of the evil-doer so that he may not be turned from his evil way and get life:'),(26013023,26,13,23,'For this cause you will see no more foolish visions or make false use of secret arts: and I will make my people free from your power; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26014001,26,14,1,'Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to me and took their seats before me.'),(26014002,26,14,2,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26014003,26,14,3,'Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?'),(26014004,26,14,4,'For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;'),(26014005,26,14,5,'So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.'),(26014006,26,14,6,'For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things.'),(26014007,26,14,7,'When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:'),(26014008,26,14,8,'And my face will be turned against that man, and I will make him a sign and a common saying, cutting him off from among my people; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26014009,26,14,9,'And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel.'),(26014010,26,14,10,'And the punishment of their sin will be on them: the sin of the prophet will be the same as the sin of him who goes to him for directions;'),(26014011,26,14,11,'So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.'),(26014012,26,14,12,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26014013,26,14,13,'Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:'),(26014014,26,14,14,'Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, only themselves would they keep safe by their righteousness, says the Lord.'),(26014015,26,14,15,'Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:'),(26014016,26,14,16,'Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves, and the land would be made waste.'),(26014017,26,14,17,'Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:'),(26014018,26,14,18,'Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves.'),(26014019,26,14,19,'Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:'),(26014020,26,14,20,'Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep son or daughter safe; only themselves would they keep safe through their righteousness.'),(26014021,26,14,21,'For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?'),(26014022,26,14,22,'But truly, there will still be a small band who will be safe, even sons and daughters: and they will come out to you, and you will see their ways and their doings: and you will be comforted about the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem, even about everything I have sent on it.'),(26014023,26,14,23,'They will give you comfort when you see their ways and their doings: and you will be certain that not for nothing have I done all the things I have done in it, says the Lord.'),(26015001,26,15,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26015002,26,15,2,'Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?'),(26015003,26,15,3,'Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?'),(26015004,26,15,4,'See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?'),(26015005,26,15,5,'Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?'),(26015006,26,15,6,'For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.'),(26015007,26,15,7,'And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.'),(26015008,26,15,8,'And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.'),(26016001,26,16,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26016002,26,16,2,'Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,'),(26016003,26,16,3,'And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.'),(26016004,26,16,4,'As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.'),(26016005,26,16,5,'No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.'),(26016006,26,16,6,'And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;'),(26016007,26,16,7,'And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.'),(26016008,26,16,8,'Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.'),(26016009,26,16,9,'Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.'),(26016010,26,16,10,'And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.'),(26016011,26,16,11,'And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.'),(26016012,26,16,12,'And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.'),(26016013,26,16,13,'So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.'),(26016014,26,16,14,'You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.'),(26016015,26,16,15,'But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.'),(26016016,26,16,16,'And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.'),(26016017,26,16,17,'And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;'),(26016018,26,16,18,'And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.'),(26016019,26,16,19,'And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.'),(26016020,26,16,20,'And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,'),(26016021,26,16,21,'That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?'),(26016022,26,16,22,'And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.'),(26016023,26,16,23,'And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord,'),(26016024,26,16,24,'That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.'),(26016025,26,16,25,'You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.'),(26016026,26,16,26,'And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.'),(26016027,26,16,27,'Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.'),(26016028,26,16,28,'And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.'),(26016029,26,16,29,'And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enough.'),(26016030,26,16,30,'How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;'),(26016031,26,16,31,'For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.'),(26016032,26,16,32,'The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!'),(26016033,26,16,33,'They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.'),(26016034,26,16,34,'And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.'),(26016035,26,16,35,'For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:'),(26016036,26,16,36,'This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;'),(26016037,26,16,37,'For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all those to whom you have given your love, with all those who were hated by you; I will even make them come together against you on every side, and I will have you uncovered before them so that they may see your shame.'),(26016038,26,16,38,'And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.'),(26016039,26,16,39,'I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.'),(26016040,26,16,40,'And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.'),(26016041,26,16,41,'And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.'),(26016042,26,16,42,'And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.'),(26016043,26,16,43,'Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition to all your disgusting acts.'),(26016044,26,16,44,'See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.'),(26016045,26,16,45,'You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.'),(26016046,26,16,46,'Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left hand, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, living at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.'),(26016047,26,16,47,'Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.'),(26016048,26,16,48,'By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.'),(26016049,26,16,49,'Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.'),(26016050,26,16,50,'They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.'),(26016051,26,16,51,'And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done.'),(26016052,26,16,52,'And you yourself will be put to shame, in that you have given the decision for your sisters; through your sins, which are more disgusting than theirs, they are more upright than you: truly, you will be shamed and made low, for you have made your sisters seem upright.'),(26016053,26,16,53,'And I will let their fate be changed, the fate of Sodom and her daughters, and the fate of Samaria and her daughters, and your fate with theirs.'),(26016054,26,16,54,'So that you will be shamed and made low because of all you have done, when I have mercy on you.'),(26016055,26,16,55,'And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will go back to their first condition, and Samaria and her daughters will go back to their first condition, and you and your daughters will go back to your first condition.'),(26016056,26,16,56,'Was not your sister Sodom an oath in your mouth in the day of your pride,'),(26016057,26,16,57,'Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Edom and all who are round about you, the daughters of the Philistines who put shame on you round about.'),(26016058,26,16,58,'The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord.'),(26016059,26,16,59,'For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.'),(26016060,26,16,60,'But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.'),(26016061,26,16,61,'Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome with shame, when I take your sisters, the older and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not by your agreement.'),(26016062,26,16,62,'And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:'),(26016063,26,16,63,'So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.'),(26017001,26,17,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26017002,26,17,2,'Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,'),(26017003,26,17,3,'And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:'),(26017004,26,17,4,'Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.'),(26017005,26,17,5,'And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.'),(26017006,26,17,6,'And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.'),(26017007,26,17,7,'And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water.'),(26017008,26,17,8,'He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.'),(26017009,26,17,9,'Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?'),(26017010,26,17,10,'And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?'),(26017011,26,17,11,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26017012,26,17,12,'Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon;'),(26017013,26,17,13,'And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:'),(26017014,26,17,14,'So that the kingdom might be made low with no power of lifting itself up, but might keep his agreement to be his servants.'),(26017015,26,17,15,'But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?'),(26017016,26,17,16,'By my life, says the Lord, truly in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he put on one side and let his agreement with him be broken, even in Babylon he will come to his death.'),(26017017,26,17,17,'And Pharaoh with his strong army and great forces will be no help to him in the war, when they put up earthworks and make strong walls for the cutting off of lives:'),(26017018,26,17,18,'For he put his oath on one side in letting the agreement be broken; and though he had given his hand to it, he did all these things; he will not get away safe.'),(26017019,26,17,19,'And so the Lord has said, By my life, truly, for my oath which he put on one side, and my agreement which has been broken, I will send punishment on his head.'),(26017020,26,17,20,'My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.'),(26017021,26,17,21,'All his best fighting-men will be put to the sword, and the rest will be sent away to every wind: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it.'),(26017022,26,17,22,'This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain;'),(26017023,26,17,23,'It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.'),(26017024,26,17,24,'And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.'),(26018001,26,18,1,'The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,'),(26018002,26,18,2,'Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children\'s teeth are on edge?'),(26018003,26,18,3,'By my life, says the Lord, you will no longer have this saying in Israel.'),(26018004,26,18,4,'See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner\'s soul.'),(26018005,26,18,5,'But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,'),(26018006,26,18,6,'And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel; if he has not had connection with his neighbour\'s wife, or come near to a woman at the time when she is unclean;'),(26018007,26,18,7,'And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one\'s goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;'),(26018008,26,18,8,'And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,'),(26018009,26,18,9,'And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.'),(26018010,26,18,10,'If he has a son who is a thief, a taker of life, who does any of these things,'),(26018011,26,18,11,'Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has had connection with his neighbour\'s wife,'),(26018012,26,18,12,'Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,'),(26018013,26,18,13,'And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.'),(26018014,26,18,14,'Now if he has a son who sees all his father\'s sins which he has done, and in fear does not do the same:'),(26018015,26,18,15,'Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour\'s wife,'),(26018016,26,18,16,'Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;'),(26018017,26,18,17,'Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.'),(26018018,26,18,18,'As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.'),(26018019,26,18,19,'But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.'),(26018020,26,18,20,'The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.'),(26018021,26,18,21,'But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.'),(26018022,26,18,22,'Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in memory against him: in the righteousness which he has done he will have life.'),(26018023,26,18,23,'Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?'),(26018024,26,18,24,'But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.'),(26018025,26,18,25,'But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?'),(26018026,26,18,26,'When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.'),(26018027,26,18,27,'Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.'),(26018028,26,18,28,'Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.'),(26018029,26,18,29,'But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?'),(26018030,26,18,30,'For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.'),(26018031,26,18,31,'Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?'),(26018032,26,18,32,'For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.'),(26019001,26,19,1,'Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,'),(26019002,26,19,2,'What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.'),(26019003,26,19,3,'And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.'),(26019004,26,19,4,'And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.'),(26019005,26,19,5,'Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.'),(26019006,26,19,6,'And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.'),(26019007,26,19,7,'And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.'),(26019008,26,19,8,'Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.'),(26019009,26,19,9,'They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.'),(26019010,26,19,10,'Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.'),(26019011,26,19,11,'And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.'),(26019012,26,19,12,'But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.'),(26019013,26,19,13,'And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.'),(26019014,26,19,14,'And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler\'s rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.'),(26020001,26,20,1,'Now it came about in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the responsible men of Israel came to get directions from the Lord and were seated before me.'),(26020002,26,20,2,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26020003,26,20,3,'Son of man, say to the responsible men of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Have you come to get directions from me? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no directions from me.'),(26020004,26,20,4,'Will you be their judge, O son of man, will you be their judge? make clear to them the disgusting ways of their fathers,'),(26020005,26,20,5,'And say to them, This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I took Israel for myself, when I made an oath to the seed of the family of Jacob, and I gave them knowledge of myself in the land of Egypt, saying to them with an oath, I am the Lord your God;'),(26020006,26,20,6,'In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land of Egypt into a land which I had been searching out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands:'),(26020007,26,20,7,'And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.'),(26020008,26,20,8,'But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.'),(26020009,26,20,9,'And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt.'),(26020010,26,20,10,'So I made them go out of the land of Egypt and took them into the waste land.'),(26020011,26,20,11,'And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.'),(26020012,26,20,12,'And further, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so that it might be clear that I, who make them holy, am the Lord.'),(26020013,26,20,13,'But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.'),(26020014,26,20,14,'And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.'),(26020015,26,20,15,'And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands;'),(26020016,26,20,16,'Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.'),(26020017,26,20,17,'But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.'),(26020018,26,20,18,'And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:'),(26020019,26,20,19,'I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:'),(26020020,26,20,20,'And keep my Sabbaths holy; and they will be a sign between me and you so that it may be clear to you that I am the Lord your God.'),(26020021,26,20,21,'But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.'),(26020022,26,20,22,'And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.'),(26020023,26,20,23,'Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that I would send them wandering among the nations, driving them out among the countries;'),(26020024,26,20,24,'Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.'),(26020025,26,20,25,'And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;'),(26020026,26,20,26,'I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.'),(26020027,26,20,27,'For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.'),(26020028,26,20,28,'For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.'),(26020029,26,20,29,'Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.'),(26020030,26,20,30,'For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Are you making yourselves unclean as your fathers did? are you being untrue to me by going after their disgusting works?'),(26020031,26,20,31,'And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.'),(26020032,26,20,32,'And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;'),(26020033,26,20,33,'By my life, says the Lord, truly, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose, I will be King over you:'),(26020034,26,20,34,'And I will take you out from the peoples and get you together out of the countries where you are wandering, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose:'),(26020035,26,20,35,'And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.'),(26020036,26,20,36,'As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.'),(26020037,26,20,37,'And I will make you go under the rod and will make you small in number:'),(26020038,26,20,38,'Clearing out from among you all those who are uncontrolled and who are sinning against me; I will take them out of the land where they are living, but they will not come into the land of Israel: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26020039,26,20,39,'As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images.'),(26020040,26,20,40,'For in my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, says the Lord, there all the children of Israel, all of them, will be my servants in the land; there I will take pleasure in them, and there I will be worshipped with your offerings and the first-fruits of the things you give, and with all your holy things.'),(26020041,26,20,41,'I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when I take you out from the peoples and get you together from the countries where you have been sent in flight; and I will make myself holy in you before the eyes of the nations.'),(26020042,26,20,42,'And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you into the land of Israel, into the country which I made an oath to give to your fathers.'),(26020043,26,20,43,'And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.'),(26020044,26,20,44,'And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you in hand for the honour of my name, and not for your evil ways or your unclean doings, O children of Israel, says the Lord.'),(26020045,26,20,45,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26020046,26,20,46,'Son of man, let your face be turned to the south, let your words be dropped to the south, and be a prophet against the woodland of the South;'),(26020047,26,20,47,'And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said: See, I will have a fire lighted in you, for the destruction of every green tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame will not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.'),(26020048,26,20,48,'And all flesh will see that I the Lord have had it lighted: it will not be put out.'),(26020049,26,20,49,'Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?'),(26021001,26,21,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26021002,26,21,2,'Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;'),(26021003,26,21,3,'And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its cover, cutting off from you the upright and the evil.'),(26021004,26,21,4,'Because I am going to have the upright and the evil cut off from you, for this cause my sword will go out from its cover against all flesh from the south to the north:'),(26021005,26,21,5,'And all flesh will see that I the Lord have taken my sword out of its cover: and it will never go back.'),(26021006,26,21,6,'Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.'),(26021007,26,21,7,'And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.'),(26021008,26,21,8,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26021009,26,21,9,'Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished:'),(26021010,26,21,10,'It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...'),(26021011,26,21,11,'And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.'),(26021012,26,21,12,'Give loud cries and make sounds of grief, O son of man: for it has come on my people, it has come on all the rulers of Israel: fear of the sword has come on my people: for this cause give signs of grief.'),(26021013,26,21,13,'...'),(26021014,26,21,14,'So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands together with a loud sound, and give two blows with the sword, and even three; it is the sword of those who are wounded, even the sword of the wounded; the great sword which goes round about them.'),(26021015,26,21,15,'In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.'),(26021016,26,21,16,'Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.'),(26021017,26,21,17,'And I will put my hands together with a loud sound, and I will let my wrath have rest: I the Lord have said it.'),(26021018,26,21,18,'And the word of the Lord came to me again, saying,'),(26021019,26,21,19,'And you, son of man, have two ways marked out, so that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; let the two of them come out of one land: and let there be a pillar at the top of the road:'),(26021020,26,21,20,'Put a pillar at the top of the road for the sword to come to Rabbah in the land of the children of Ammon, and to Judah and to Jerusalem in the middle of her.'),(26021021,26,21,21,'For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting of the ways, at the top of the two roads, to make use of secret arts: shaking the arrows this way and that, he put questions to the images of his gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead beasts.'),(26021022,26,21,22,'At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls.'),(26021023,26,21,23,'And this answer given by secret arts will seem false to those who have given their oaths and have let them be broken: but he will keep the memory of evil-doing so that they may be taken.'),(26021024,26,21,24,'For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made your evil-doing come to mind by the uncovering of your wrongdoing, causing your sins to be seen in all your evil-doings; because you have come to mind, you will be taken in them.'),(26021025,26,21,25,'And you, O evil one, wounded to death, O ruler of Israel, whose day has come in the time of the last punishment;'),(26021026,26,21,26,'This is what the Lord has said: Take away the holy head-dress, take off the crown: this will not be again: let that which is low be lifted up, and that which is high be made low.'),(26021027,26,21,27,'I will let it be overturned, overturned, overturned: this will not be again till he comes whose right it is; and I will give it to him.'),(26021028,26,21,28,'And you, son of man, say as a prophet, This is what the Lord has said about the children of Ammon and about their shame: Say, A sword, even a sword let loose, polished for death, to make it shining so that it may be like a flame:'),(26021029,26,21,29,'Your vision is to no purpose, your use of secret arts gives a false answer, to put it on the necks of evil-doers who are wounded to death, whose day has come, in the time of the last punishment.'),(26021030,26,21,30,'Go back into your cover. In the place where you were made, in the land from which you were taken, I will be your judge.'),(26021031,26,21,31,'And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.'),(26021032,26,21,32,'You will be food for the fire; your blood will be drained out in the land; there will be no more memory of you: for I the Lord have said it.'),(26022001,26,22,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26022002,26,22,2,'And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.'),(26022003,26,22,3,'And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!'),(26022004,26,22,4,'You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.'),(26022005,26,22,5,'Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.'),(26022006,26,22,6,'See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.'),(26022007,26,22,7,'In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.'),(26022008,26,22,8,'You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.'),(26022009,26,22,9,'In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.'),(26022010,26,22,10,'In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.'),(26022011,26,22,11,'And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour\'s wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father\'s daughter.'),(26022012,26,22,12,'In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours\' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.'),(26022013,26,22,13,'See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.'),(26022014,26,22,14,'Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.'),(26022015,26,22,15,'And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.'),(26022016,26,22,16,'And you will be made low before the eyes of the nations; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.'),(26022017,26,22,17,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26022018,26,22,18,'Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.'),(26022019,26,22,19,'For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.'),(26022020,26,22,20,'As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.'),(26022021,26,22,21,'Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.'),(26022022,26,22,22,'As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.'),(26022023,26,22,23,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26022024,26,22,24,'Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.'),(26022025,26,22,25,'Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.'),(26022026,26,22,26,'Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.'),(26022027,26,22,27,'Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.'),(26022028,26,22,28,'And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.'),(26022029,26,22,29,'The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men\'s goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.'),(26022030,26,22,30,'And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.'),(26022031,26,22,31,'And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.'),(26023001,26,23,1,'The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,'),(26023002,26,23,2,'Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:'),(26023003,26,23,3,'They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.'),(26023004,26,23,4,'Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.'),(26023005,26,23,5,'And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,'),(26023006,26,23,6,'Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.'),(26023007,26,23,7,'And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.'),(26023008,26,23,8,'And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.'),(26023009,26,23,9,'For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.'),(26023010,26,23,10,'By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.'),(26023011,26,23,11,'And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.'),(26023012,26,23,12,'She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.'),(26023013,26,23,13,'And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.'),(26023014,26,23,14,'And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,'),(26023015,26,23,15,'With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.'),(26023016,26,23,16,'And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.'),(26023017,26,23,17,'And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.'),(26023018,26,23,18,'So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.'),(26023019,26,23,19,'But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.'),(26023020,26,23,20,'And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.'),(26023021,26,23,21,'And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.'),(26023022,26,23,22,'For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;'),(26023023,26,23,23,'The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: young men to be desired, captains and rulers all of them, and chiefs, her neighbours, all of them on horseback.'),(26023024,26,23,24,'And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they will put themselves in order against you with breastplate and body-cover and metal head-dress round about you: and I will make them your judges, and they will give their decision against you as seems right to them.'),(26023025,26,23,25,'And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.'),(26023026,26,23,26,'And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.'),(26023027,26,23,27,'So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.'),(26023028,26,23,28,'For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will give you up into the hands of those who are hated by you, into the hands of those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust:'),(26023029,26,23,29,'And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways.'),(26023030,26,23,30,'They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.'),(26023031,26,23,31,'You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand.'),(26023032,26,23,32,'This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister\'s cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo.'),(26023033,26,23,33,'You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.'),(26023034,26,23,34,'And after drinking it and draining it out, you will take the last drops of it to the end, pulling off your breasts: for I have said it, says the Lord.'),(26023035,26,23,35,'So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.'),(26023036,26,23,36,'Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the judge of Oholibah? then make clear to her the disgusting things she has done.'),(26023037,26,23,37,'For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.'),(26023038,26,23,38,'Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.'),(26023039,26,23,39,'For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.'),(26023040,26,23,40,'And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.'),(26023041,26,23,41,'And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.'),(26023042,26,23,42,'... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.'),(26023043,26,23,43,'Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.'),(26023044,26,23,44,'And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.'),(26023045,26,23,45,'And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands.'),(26023046,26,23,46,'For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her.'),(26023047,26,23,47,'And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire.'),(26023048,26,23,48,'And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done.'),(26023049,26,23,49,'And I will send on you the punishment of your evil ways, and you will be rewarded for your sins with your images: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26024001,26,24,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,'),(26024002,26,24,2,'Son of man, put down in writing this very day: The king of Babylon let loose the weight of his attack against Jerusalem on this very day.'),(26024003,26,24,3,'And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it:'),(26024004,26,24,4,'And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.'),(26024005,26,24,5,'Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.'),(26024006,26,24,6,'For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.'),(26024007,26,24,7,'For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;'),(26024008,26,24,8,'In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.'),(26024009,26,24,9,'For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.'),(26024010,26,24,10,'Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.'),(26024011,26,24,11,'And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away.'),(26024012,26,24,12,'I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.'),(26024013,26,24,13,'As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.'),(26024014,26,24,14,'I the Lord have said the word and I will do it; I will not go back or have mercy, and my purpose will not be changed; in the measure of your ways and of your evil doings you will be judged, says the Lord.'),(26024015,26,24,15,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26024016,26,24,16,'Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.'),(26024017,26,24,17,'Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief.'),(26024018,26,24,18,'So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.'),(26024019,26,24,19,'And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them?'),(26024020,26,24,20,'Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26024021,26,24,21,'Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.'),(26024022,26,24,22,'And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.'),(26024023,26,24,23,'And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.'),(26024024,26,24,24,'And Ezekiel will be a sign to you; everything he has done you will do: when this takes place, you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26024025,26,24,25,'And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which their hearts are fixed, and their sons and daughters.'),(26024026,26,24,26,'In that day, one who has got away safe will come to you to give you news of it.'),(26024027,26,24,27,'In that day your mouth will be open to him who has got away safe, and you will say words to him and your lips will no longer be shut: so you will be a sign to them and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26025001,26,25,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26025002,26,25,2,'Son of man, let your face be turned to the children of Ammon, and be a prophet against them:'),(26025003,26,25,3,'And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you said, Aha! against my holy place when it was made unclean, and against the land of Israel when it was made waste, and against the people of Judah when they were taken away as prisoners;'),(26025004,26,25,4,'For this cause I will give you up to the children of the east for their heritage, and they will put their tent-circles in you and make their houses in you; they will take your fruit for their food and your milk for their drink.'),(26025005,26,25,5,'And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26025006,26,25,6,'For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of joy with your hands, stamping your feet, and have been glad, putting shame with all your soul on the land of Israel;'),(26025007,26,25,7,'For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26025008,26,25,8,'This is what the Lord has said: Because Moab and Seir are saying, See, the people of Judah are like all the nations;'),(26025009,26,25,9,'For this cause, I will let the side of Moab be uncovered, and his towns on every side, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and as far as Kiriathaim.'),(26025010,26,25,10,'To the children of the east I have given her for a heritage, as well as the children of Ammon, so that there may be no memory of her among the nations:'),(26025011,26,25,11,'And I will be the judge of Moab; and they will see that I am the Lord.'),(26025012,26,25,12,'This is what the Lord has said: Because Edom has taken his payment from the people of Judah, and has done great wrong in taking payment from them;'),(26025013,26,25,13,'The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword.'),(26025014,26,25,14,'I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord.'),(26025015,26,25,15,'This is what the Lord has said: Because the Philistines have taken payment, with the purpose of causing shame and destruction with unending hate;'),(26025016,26,25,16,'The Lord has said, See, my hand will be stretched out against the Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and sending destruction on the rest of the sea-land.'),(26025017,26,25,17,'And I will take great payment from them with acts of wrath; and they will be certain that I am the Lord when I send my punishment on them.'),(26026001,26,26,1,'Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26026002,26,26,2,'Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;'),(26026003,26,26,3,'For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves.'),(26026004,26,26,4,'And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock'),(26026005,26,26,5,'She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have said it, says the Lord: and her goods will be given over to the nations.'),(26026006,26,26,6,'And her daughters in the open country will be put to the sword: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26026007,26,26,7,'For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will send up from the north Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre, with horses and war-carriages and with an army and great numbers of people.'),(26026008,26,26,8,'He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.'),(26026009,26,26,9,'He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.'),(26026010,26,26,10,'Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.'),(26026011,26,26,11,'Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.'),(26026012,26,26,12,'They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.'),(26026013,26,26,13,'I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.'),(26026014,26,26,14,'I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord.'),(26026015,26,26,15,'This is what the Lord has said to Tyre: Will not the sea-lands be shaking at the sound of your fall, when the wounded give cries of pain, when men are put to the sword in you?'),(26026016,26,26,16,'Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.'),(26026017,26,26,17,'And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!'),(26026018,26,26,18,'Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.'),(26026019,26,26,19,'For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a waste town, like the towns which are unpeopled; when I make the deep come upon you, covering you with great waters.'),(26026020,26,26,20,'Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.'),(26026021,26,26,21,'I will make you a thing of fear, and you will come to an end: even if you are looked for, you will not be seen again for ever, says the Lord.'),(26027001,26,27,1,'The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,'),(26027002,26,27,2,'And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;'),(26027003,26,27,3,'And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.'),(26027004,26,27,4,'Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.'),(26027005,26,27,5,'They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails.'),(26027006,26,27,6,'Of oak-trees from Bashan they have made your driving blades; they have made your floors of ivory and boxwood from the sea-lands of Kittim.'),(26027007,26,27,7,'The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.'),(26027008,26,27,8,'The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships;'),(26027009,26,27,9,'The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.'),(26027010,26,27,10,'Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.'),(26027011,26,27,11,'The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful.'),(26027012,26,27,12,'Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.'),(26027013,26,27,13,'Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.'),(26027014,26,27,14,'The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods.'),(26027015,26,27,15,'The men of Rodan were your traders: a great number of sea-lands did business with you: they gave you horns of ivory and ebony as an offering.'),(26027016,26,27,16,'Edom did business with you because of the great number of things which you made; they gave emeralds, purple, and needlework, and the best linen and coral and rubies for your goods.'),(26027017,26,27,17,'Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.'),(26027018,26,27,18,'Damascus did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool.'),(26027019,26,27,19,'... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods.'),(26027020,26,27,20,'Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses.'),(26027021,26,27,21,'Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.'),(26027022,26,27,22,'The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you; they gave the best of all sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of great price and gold for your goods.'),(26027023,26,27,23,'Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:'),(26027024,26,27,24,'These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls of blue and needlework, and in chests of coloured cloth, corded with cords and made of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with you.'),(26027025,26,27,25,'Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.'),(26027026,26,27,26,'Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.'),(26027027,26,27,27,'Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.'),(26027028,26,27,28,'At the sound of the cry of your ships\' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.'),(26027029,26,27,29,'And all the boatmen, the seamen and those who are expert at guiding a ship through the sea, will come down from their ships and take their places on the land;'),(26027030,26,27,30,'And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:'),(26027031,26,27,31,'And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.'),(26027032,26,27,32,'And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?'),(26027033,26,27,33,'When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.'),(26027034,26,27,34,'Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you.'),(26027035,26,27,35,'All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.'),(26027036,26,27,36,'Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.'),(26028001,26,28,1,'The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,'),(26028002,26,28,2,'Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:'),(26028003,26,28,3,'See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge:'),(26028004,26,28,4,'By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:'),(26028005,26,28,5,'By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:'),(26028006,26,28,6,'For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made your heart as the heart of God,'),(26028007,26,28,7,'See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among the nations: they will let loose their swords against your bright wisdom, they will make your glory a common thing.'),(26028008,26,28,8,'They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.'),(26028009,26,28,9,'Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you.'),(26028010,26,28,10,'Your death will be the death of those who are without circumcision, by the hands of men from strange lands: for I have said it, says the Lord.'),(26028011,26,28,11,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26028012,26,28,12,'Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;'),(26028013,26,28,13,'You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.'),(26028014,26,28,14,'I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.'),(26028015,26,28,15,'There has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you.'),(26028016,26,28,16,'Through all your trading you have become full of violent ways, and have done evil: so I sent you out shamed from the mountain of God; the winged one put an end to you from among the stones of fire.'),(26028017,26,28,17,'Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you.'),(26028018,26,28,18,'By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have made your holy places unclean; so I will make a fire come out from you, it will make a meal of you, and I will make you as dust on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.'),(26028019,26,28,19,'All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will be overcome with wonder at you: you have become a thing of fear, and you will never be seen again.'),(26028020,26,28,20,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26028021,26,28,21,'Son of man, let your face be turned to Zidon, and be a prophet against it, and say,'),(26028022,26,28,22,'These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will get glory for myself in you: and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send my punishments on her, and I will be seen to be holy in her.'),(26028023,26,28,23,'And I will send on her disease and blood in her streets; and the wounded will be falling in the middle of her, and the sword will be against her on every side; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26028024,26,28,24,'And there will no longer be a plant with sharp points wounding the children of Israel, or a thorn troubling them among any who are round about them, who put shame on them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26028025,26,28,25,'This is what the Lord has said: When I have got together the children of Israel from the peoples among whom they are wandering, and have been made holy among them before the eyes of the nations, then they will have rest in the land which is theirs, which I gave to my servant Jacob'),(26028026,26,28,26,'And they will be safe there, building houses and planting vine-gardens and living without fear; when I have sent my punishments on all those who put shame on them round about them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord their God.'),(26029001,26,29,1,'In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26029002,26,29,2,'Son of man, let your face be turned against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and be a prophet against him and against all Egypt:'),(26029003,26,29,3,'Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.'),(26029004,26,29,4,'And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.'),(26029005,26,29,5,'And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven.'),(26029006,26,29,6,'And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.'),(26029007,26,29,7,'When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.'),(26029008,26,29,8,'For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.'),(26029009,26,29,9,'And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.'),(26029010,26,29,10,'See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.'),(26029011,26,29,11,'No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.'),(26029012,26,29,12,'I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.'),(26029013,26,29,13,'For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:'),(26029014,26,29,14,'I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make them come back into the land of Pathros, into the land from which they came; and there they will be an unimportant kingdom.'),(26029015,26,29,15,'It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations.'),(26029016,26,29,16,'And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26029017,26,29,17,'Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26029018,26,29,18,'Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.'),(26029019,26,29,19,'For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon: he will take away her wealth, and take her goods by force and everything which is there; and this will be the payment for his army.'),(26029020,26,29,20,'I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.'),(26029021,26,29,21,'In that day I will make a horn put out buds for the children of Israel, and I will let your words come freely among them, and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26030001,26,30,1,'The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,'),(26030002,26,30,2,'Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day!'),(26030003,26,30,3,'For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.'),(26030004,26,30,4,'And a sword will come on Egypt, and cruel pain will be in Ethiopia, when they are falling by the sword in Egypt; and they will take away her wealth and her bases will be broken down.'),(26030005,26,30,5,'Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Libya and the children of the land of the Cherethites will all be put to death with them by the sword.'),(26030006,26,30,6,'This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord.'),(26030007,26,30,7,'And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.'),(26030008,26,30,8,'And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have put a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are broken.'),(26030009,26,30,9,'In that day men will go out quickly to take the news, causing fear in untroubled Ethiopia; and bitter pain will come on them as in the day of Egypt; for see, it is coming.'),(26030010,26,30,10,'This is what the Lord has said: I will put an end to great numbers of the people of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.'),(26030011,26,30,11,'He and the people with him, causing fear among the nations, will be sent for the destruction of the land; their swords will be let loose against Egypt and the land will be full of dead.'),(26030012,26,30,12,'And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give the land into the hands of evil men, causing the land and everything in it to be wasted by the hands of men from a strange country: I the Lord have said it.'),(26030013,26,30,13,'This is what the Lord has said: In addition to this, I will give up the images to destruction and put an end to the false gods in Noph; never again will there be a ruler in the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.'),(26030014,26,30,14,'And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in Zoan, and send my punishments on No.'),(26030015,26,30,15,'I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No.'),(26030016,26,30,16,'And I will put a fire in Egypt; Syene will be twisting in pain, and No will be broken into, as by the onrush of waters.'),(26030017,26,30,17,'The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be put to the sword: and these towns will be taken away prisoners.'),(26030018,26,30,18,'And at Tehaphnehes the day will become dark, when the yoke of Egypt is broken there, and the pride of her power comes to an end: as for her, she will be covered with a cloud, and her daughters will be taken away prisoners.'),(26030019,26,30,19,'And I will send my punishments on Egypt: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26030020,26,30,20,'Now in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26030021,26,30,21,'Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, has been broken by me, and no band has been put round it to make it well, no band has been twisted round it to make it strong for gripping the sword.'),(26030022,26,30,22,'For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and by me his strong arm will be broken; and I will make the sword go out of his hand.'),(26030023,26,30,23,'And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.'),(26030024,26,30,24,'And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and will put my sword in his hand: but Pharaoh\'s arms will be broken, and he will give cries of pain before him like the cries of a man wounded to death.'),(26030025,26,30,25,'And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and the arms of Pharaoh will be hanging down; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and it is stretched out against the land of Egypt.'),(26030026,26,30,26,'And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26031001,26,31,1,'Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26031002,26,31,2,'Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power?'),(26031003,26,31,3,'See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.'),(26031004,26,31,4,'It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.'),(26031005,26,31,5,'In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.'),(26031006,26,31,6,'In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.'),(26031007,26,31,7,'So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.'),(26031008,26,31,8,'No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.'),(26031009,26,31,9,'I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.'),(26031010,26,31,10,'For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high,'),(26031011,26,31,11,'I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.'),(26031012,26,31,12,'And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.'),(26031013,26,31,13,'All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches:'),(26031014,26,31,14,'In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.'),(26031015,26,31,15,'This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.'),(26031016,26,31,16,'I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones.'),(26031017,26,31,17,'And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations'),(26031018,26,31,18,'Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.'),(26032001,26,32,1,'And it came about in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26032002,26,32,2,'Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.'),(26032003,26,32,3,'This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.'),(26032004,26,32,4,'And I will let you be stretched on the land; I will send you out violently into the open field; I will let all the birds of heaven come to rest on you and will make the beasts of all the earth full of you.'),(26032005,26,32,5,'And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood.'),(26032006,26,32,6,'And the land will be watered with your blood, and the waterways will be full of you.'),(26032007,26,32,7,'And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.'),(26032008,26,32,8,'All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.'),(26032009,26,32,9,'And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you.'),(26032010,26,32,10,'And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall.'),(26032011,26,32,11,'For this is what the Lord has said: The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.'),(26032012,26,32,12,'I will let the swords of the strong be the cause of the fall of your people; all of them men to be feared among the nations: and they will make waste the pride of Egypt, and all its people will come to destruction.'),(26032013,26,32,13,'And I will put an end to all her beasts which are by the great waters, and they will never again be troubled by the foot of man or by the feet of beasts.'),(26032014,26,32,14,'Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers will be flowing like oil, says the Lord.'),(26032015,26,32,15,'When I make Egypt an unpeopled waste, cutting off from the land all the things in it; when I send punishment on all those living in it, then it will be clear to them that I am the Lord.'),(26032016,26,32,16,'It is a song of grief, and people will give voice to it, the daughters of the nations will give voice to it, even for Egypt and all her people, says the Lord.'),(26032017,26,32,17,'And in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26032018,26,32,18,'Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld.'),(26032019,26,32,19,'Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision,'),(26032020,26,32,20,'Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people.'),(26032021,26,32,21,'The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword.'),(26032022,26,32,22,'There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword:'),(26032023,26,32,23,'Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.'),(26032024,26,32,24,'There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld:'),(26032025,26,32,25,'They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword.'),(26032026,26,32,26,'There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living.'),(26032027,26,32,27,'And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.'),(26032028,26,32,28,'But you will have your bed among those without circumcision, and will be put to rest with those who have been put to death with the sword.'),(26032029,26,32,29,'There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have been given a resting-place with those who were put to the sword: they will be resting among those without circumcision, even with those who go down to the underworld.'),(26032030,26,32,30,'There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld.'),(26032031,26,32,31,'Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of all his people: even Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the sword, says the Lord.'),(26032032,26,32,32,'For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.'),(26033001,26,33,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26033002,26,33,2,'Son of man, give a word to the children of your people, and say to them, When I make the sword come on a land, if the people of the land take a man from among their number and make him their watchman:'),(26033003,26,33,3,'If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by sounding the horn he gives the people news of their danger;'),(26033004,26,33,4,'Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does not take note of it, will himself be responsible for his death, if the sword comes and takes him away.'),(26033005,26,33,5,'On hearing the sound of the horn, he did not take note; his blood will be on him; for if he had taken note his life would have been safe.'),(26033006,26,33,6,'But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not give a note on the horn, and the people have no word of the danger, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them; he will be taken away in his sin, but I will make the watchman responsible for his blood.'),(26033007,26,33,7,'So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger.'),(26033008,26,33,8,'When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly overtake you; and you say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way; death will overtake that evil man in his evil-doing, but I will make you responsible for his blood.'),(26033009,26,33,9,'But if you make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way for the purpose of turning him from it, and he is not turned from his way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, but your life will be safe.'),(26033010,26,33,10,'And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life?'),(26033011,26,33,11,'Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?'),(26033012,26,33,12,'And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.'),(26033013,26,33,13,'When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him.'),(26033014,26,33,14,'And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right;'),(26033015,26,33,15,'If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.'),(26033016,26,33,16,'Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.'),(26033017,26,33,17,'But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal.'),(26033018,26,33,18,'When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.'),(26033019,26,33,19,'And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.'),(26033020,26,33,20,'And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways.'),(26033021,26,33,21,'Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had got away in flight from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The town has been taken.'),(26033022,26,33,22,'Now the hand of the Lord had been on me in the evening, before the man who had got away came to me; and he made my mouth open, ready for his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was open and I was no longer without voice.'),(26033023,26,33,23,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26033024,26,33,24,'Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage.'),(26033025,26,33,25,'For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?'),(26033026,26,33,26,'You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour\'s wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?'),(26033027,26,33,27,'This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease.'),(26033028,26,33,28,'And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.'),(26033029,26,33,29,'Then they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a waste and a cause of wonder, because of all the disgusting things which they have done,'),(26033030,26,33,30,'And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord.'),(26033031,26,33,31,'And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.'),(26033032,26,33,32,'And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.'),(26033033,26,33,33,'And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.'),(26034001,26,34,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26034002,26,34,2,'Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?'),(26034003,26,34,3,'You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.'),(26034004,26,34,4,'You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.'),(26034005,26,34,5,'And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.'),(26034006,26,34,6,'And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.'),(26034007,26,34,7,'For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:'),(26034008,26,34,8,'By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;'),(26034009,26,34,9,'For this reason, O you keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord;'),(26034010,26,34,10,'This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them.'),(26034011,26,34,11,'For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep.'),(26034012,26,34,12,'As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.'),(26034013,26,34,13,'And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country.'),(26034014,26,34,14,'I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel.'),(26034015,26,34,15,'I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord.'),(26034016,26,34,16,'I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.'),(26034017,26,34,17,'And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.'),(26034018,26,34,18,'Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?'),(26034019,26,34,19,'And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet.'),(26034020,26,34,20,'For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.'),(26034021,26,34,21,'Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction;'),(26034022,26,34,22,'I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep.'),(26034023,26,34,23,'And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.'),(26034024,26,34,24,'And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.'),(26034025,26,34,25,'And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods.'),(26034026,26,34,26,'And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.'),(26034027,26,34,27,'And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.'),(26034028,26,34,28,'And their goods will no longer be taken by the nations, and they will not again be food for the beasts of the earth; but they will be living safely and no one will be a cause of fear to them.'),(26034029,26,34,29,'And I will give them planting-places of peace, and they will no longer be wasted from need of food or put to shame by the nations.'),(26034030,26,34,30,'And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the children of Israel, are my people, says the Lord.'),(26034031,26,34,31,'And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.'),(26035001,26,35,1,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26035002,26,35,2,'Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it,'),(26035003,26,35,3,'And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder.'),(26035004,26,35,4,'I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26035005,26,35,5,'Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:'),(26035006,26,35,6,'For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.'),(26035007,26,35,7,'And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.'),(26035008,26,35,8,'I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword.'),(26035009,26,35,9,'I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26035010,26,35,10,'Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:'),(26035011,26,35,11,'For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do to you as you have done in your wrath and in your envy, which you have made clear in your hate for them; and I will make clear to you who I am when you are judged by me.'),(26035012,26,35,12,'And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.'),(26035013,26,35,13,'And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears.'),(26035014,26,35,14,'This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:'),(26035015,26,35,15,'You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26036001,26,36,1,'And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord:'),(26036002,26,36,2,'This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them:'),(26036003,26,36,3,'For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:'),(26036004,26,36,4,'For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:'),(26036005,26,36,5,'For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:'),(26036006,26,36,6,'For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations:'),(26036007,26,36,7,'For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you.'),(26036008,26,36,8,'But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.'),(26036009,26,36,9,'For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:'),(26036010,26,36,10,'And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;'),(26036011,26,36,11,'Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26036012,26,36,12,'Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them.'),(26036013,26,36,13,'This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;'),(26036014,26,36,14,'For this reason you will no longer take the lives of men and will never again be the cause of loss of children to your nation, says the Lord.'),(26036015,26,36,15,'And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.'),(26036016,26,36,16,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26036017,26,36,17,'Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.'),(26036018,26,36,18,'So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:'),(26036019,26,36,19,'And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.'),(26036020,26,36,20,'And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land.'),(26036021,26,36,21,'But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went.'),(26036022,26,36,22,'For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.'),(26036023,26,36,23,'And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.'),(26036024,26,36,24,'For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land.'),(26036025,26,36,25,'And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.'),(26036026,26,36,26,'And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.'),(26036027,26,36,27,'And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.'),(26036028,26,36,28,'So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.'),(26036029,26,36,29,'And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.'),(26036030,26,36,30,'And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.'),(26036031,26,36,31,'And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.'),(26036032,26,36,32,'Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.'),(26036033,26,36,33,'This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.'),(26036034,26,36,34,'And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.'),(26036035,26,36,35,'And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.'),(26036036,26,36,36,'Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it.'),(26036037,26,36,37,'This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.'),(26036038,26,36,38,'Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26037001,26,37,1,'The hand of the Lord had been on me, and he took me out in the spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones;'),(26037002,26,37,2,'And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry.'),(26037003,26,37,3,'And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these bones to come to life? And I made answer, and said, It is for you to say, O Lord.'),(26037004,26,37,4,'And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord.'),(26037005,26,37,5,'This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life;'),(26037006,26,37,6,'And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26037007,26,37,7,'So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words there was a shaking of the earth, and the bones came together, bone to bone.'),(26037008,26,37,8,'And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them.'),(26037009,26,37,9,'And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life.'),(26037010,26,37,10,'And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came into them, and they came to life and got up on their feet, a very great army.'),(26037011,26,37,11,'Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.'),(26037012,26,37,12,'For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am opening the resting-places of your dead, and I will make you come up out of your resting-places, O my people; and I will take you into the land of Israel.'),(26037013,26,37,13,'And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people.'),(26037014,26,37,14,'And I will put my spirit in you, so that you may come to life, and I will give you a rest in your land: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it and have done it, says the Lord.'),(26037015,26,37,15,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26037016,26,37,16,'And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company:'),(26037017,26,37,17,'Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.'),(26037018,26,37,18,'And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?'),(26037019,26,37,19,'Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.'),(26037020,26,37,20,'And the sticks with your writing on them will be in your hand before their eyes.'),(26037021,26,37,21,'And say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am taking the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will get them together on every side, and take them into their land:'),(26037022,26,37,22,'And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all: and they will no longer be two nations, and will no longer be parted into two kingdoms:'),(26037023,26,37,23,'And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.'),(26037024,26,37,24,'And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.'),(26037025,26,37,25,'And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children\'s children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.'),(26037026,26,37,26,'And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.'),(26037027,26,37,27,'And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.'),(26037028,26,37,28,'And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.'),(26038001,26,38,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(26038002,26,38,2,'Son of man, let your face be turned against Gog, of the land of Magog, the ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and be a prophet against him,'),(26038003,26,38,3,'And say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:'),(26038004,26,38,4,'And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth and make you come out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them in full war-dress, a great force with breastplate and body-cover, all of them armed with swords:'),(26038005,26,38,5,'Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress:'),(26038006,26,38,6,'Gomer and all her forces; the people of Togarmah in the inmost parts of the north, with all his forces: a great number of peoples with you.'),(26038007,26,38,7,'Be ready, make yourself ready, you and all the forces who are with you, and be ready for my orders.'),(26038008,26,38,8,'After a long time you will get your orders: in the last years you will come into the land which has been given back from the sword, which has been got together out of a great number of peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have ever been a waste: but it has been taken out from the peoples and they will be living, all of them, without fear of danger.'),(26038009,26,38,9,'And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you.'),(26038010,26,38,10,'This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:'),(26038011,26,38,11,'And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors:'),(26038012,26,38,12,'To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.'),(26038013,26,38,13,'Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?'),(26038014,26,38,14,'For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to Gog, These are the words of the Lord: In that day, when my people Israel are living without fear of danger, will you not be moved against them?'),(26038015,26,38,15,'And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army:'),(26038016,26,38,16,'And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.'),(26038017,26,38,17,'This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them.'),(26038018,26,38,18,'And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up against the land of Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will come up, and my passion and my bitter feeling.'),(26038019,26,38,19,'For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;'),(26038020,26,38,20,'So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.'),(26038021,26,38,21,'And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man\'s sword will be against his brother.'),(26038022,26,38,22,'And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.'),(26038023,26,38,23,'And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26039001,26,39,1,'And you, son of man, be a prophet against Gog, and say, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:'),(26039002,26,39,2,'And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make you come up from the inmost parts of the north; I will make you come on to the mountains of Israel:'),(26039003,26,39,3,'And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.'),(26039004,26,39,4,'On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.'),(26039005,26,39,5,'You will come down in the open field: for I have said it, says the Lord.'),(26039006,26,39,6,'And I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who are living in the sea-lands without fear: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.'),(26039007,26,39,7,'And I will make clear my holy name among my people Israel; I will no longer let my holy name be made unclean: and the nations will be certain that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.'),(26039008,26,39,8,'See, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord; this is the day of which I have given word.'),(26039009,26,39,9,'And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them:'),(26039010,26,39,10,'And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.'),(26039011,26,39,11,'And it will come about in those days, that I will give to Gog a last resting-place there in Israel, in the valley of Abarim on the east of the sea: and those who go through will be stopped: and there Gog and all his people will be put to rest, and the place will be named, The valley of Hamon-gog.'),(26039012,26,39,12,'And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean.'),(26039013,26,39,13,'And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord.'),(26039014,26,39,14,'And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search.'),(26039015,26,39,15,'And while they go through the land, if anyone sees a man\'s bone, he is to put up a sign by the place till those who are doing the work have put it in the earth in the valley of Hamon-gog.'),(26039016,26,39,16,'And there they will put all the army of Gog in the earth. So they will make the land clean.'),(26039017,26,39,17,'And you, son of man, this is what the Lord has said: Say to the birds of every sort and to all the beasts of the field, Get together and come; come together on every side to the offering which I am putting to death for you, a great offering on the mountains of Israel, so that you may have flesh for your food and blood for your drink.'),(26039018,26,39,18,'The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.'),(26039019,26,39,19,'You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.'),(26039020,26,39,20,'At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.'),(26039021,26,39,21,'And I will put my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see my punishments which I have put into effect, and my hand which I have put on them.'),(26039022,26,39,22,'So the children of Israel will be certain that I am the Lord their God, from that day and for the future.'),(26039023,26,39,23,'And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.'),(26039024,26,39,24,'In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them.'),(26039025,26,39,25,'For this cause the Lord has said, Now I will let the fate of Jacob be changed, and I will have mercy on all the children of Israel, and will take care of the honour of my holy name.'),(26039026,26,39,26,'And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them;'),(26039027,26,39,27,'When I have taken them back from among the peoples and got them together out of the lands of their haters, and have made myself holy in them before the eyes of a great number of nations.'),(26039028,26,39,28,'And they will be certain that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away as prisoners among the nations, and have taken them together back to their land; and I have not let one of them be there any longer.'),(26039029,26,39,29,'And my face will no longer be covered from them: for I have sent the out-flowing of my spirit on the children of Israel, says the Lord.'),(26040001,26,40,1,'In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.'),(26040002,26,40,2,'In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.'),(26040003,26,40,3,'He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.'),(26040004,26,40,4,'And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.'),(26040005,26,40,5,'And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man\'s hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand\'s measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.'),(26040006,26,40,6,'Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.'),(26040007,26,40,7,'And the watchmen\'s rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.'),(26040008,26,40,8,'And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,'),(26040009,26,40,9,'Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.'),(26040010,26,40,10,'And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size.'),(26040011,26,40,11,'And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;'),(26040012,26,40,12,'And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.'),(26040013,26,40,13,'And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.'),(26040014,26,40,14,'And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about.'),(26040015,26,40,15,'And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.'),(26040016,26,40,16,'And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees.'),(26040017,26,40,17,'Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor.'),(26040018,26,40,18,'And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.'),(26040019,26,40,19,'Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north,'),(26040020,26,40,20,'And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was.'),(26040021,26,40,21,'And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.'),(26040022,26,40,22,'And its windows, and the windows of its covered ways, and its palm-trees, were the same as those of the doorway looking to the east; and there were seven steps up to it; and the covered way went inside.'),(26040023,26,40,23,'And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits.'),(26040024,26,40,24,'And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.'),(26040025,26,40,25,'And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.'),(26040026,26,40,26,'And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered way went inside: and it had palm-trees, one on this side and one on that, on its uprights.'),(26040027,26,40,27,'And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits.'),(26040028,26,40,28,'Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures;'),(26040029,26,40,29,'And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered ways, by these measures:'),(26040030,26,40,30,'And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.'),(26040031,26,40,31,'The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it.'),(26040032,26,40,32,'And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;'),(26040033,26,40,33,'And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.'),(26040034,26,40,34,'And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.'),(26040035,26,40,35,'And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures;'),(26040036,26,40,36,'Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.'),(26040037,26,40,37,'Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.'),(26040038,26,40,38,'And there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed.'),(26040039,26,40,39,'And in the covered way of the doorway there were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which the burned offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error were put to death:'),(26040040,26,40,40,'On the outer side, to the north, as one goes up to the opening of the doorway, were two tables.'),(26040041,26,40,41,'There were four tables on one side and four tables on the other, by the side of the doorway; eight tables, on which they put to death the beasts for the offerings.'),(26040042,26,40,42,'And there were four tables for the burned offering, made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high, where the instruments were placed which were used for putting to death the burned offering and the beasts for the offerings.'),(26040043,26,40,43,'And they had edges all round as wide as a man\'s hand: and on the tables was the flesh of the offerings.'),(26040044,26,40,44,'And he took me into the inner square, and there were two rooms in the inner square, one at the side of the north doorway, facing south; and one at the side of the south doorway, facing north.'),(26040045,26,40,45,'And he said to me, This room, facing south, is for the priests who have the care of the house.'),(26040046,26,40,46,'And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house.'),(26040047,26,40,47,'And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house.'),(26040048,26,40,48,'Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.'),(26040049,26,40,49,'The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.'),(26041001,26,41,1,'And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other.'),(26041002,26,41,2,'And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.'),(26041003,26,41,3,'And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.'),(26041004,26,41,4,'And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.'),(26041005,26,41,5,'Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.'),(26041006,26,41,6,'And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house.'),(26041007,26,41,7,'The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.'),(26041008,26,41,8,'And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.'),(26041009,26,41,9,'The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.'),(26041010,26,41,10,'And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.'),(26041011,26,41,11,'And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round.'),(26041012,26,41,12,'And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long.'),(26041013,26,41,13,'And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long;'),(26041014,26,41,14,'And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide.'),(26041015,26,41,15,'And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;'),(26041016,26,41,16,'And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;'),(26041017,26,41,17,'And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.'),(26041018,26,41,18,'And it had pictured forms of winged beings and palm-trees; a palm-tree between two winged ones, and every winged one had two faces;'),(26041019,26,41,19,'So that there was the face of a man turned to the palm-tree on one side, and the face of a young lion on the other side: so it was made all round the house.'),(26041020,26,41,20,'From earth level up to the windows there were winged ones and palm-trees pictured on the wall.'),(26041021,26,41,21,'...'),(26041022,26,41,22,'The altar was made of wood, and was three cubits high and two cubits long; it had angles, and its base and sides were of wood; and he said to me, This is the table which is before the Lord.'),(26041023,26,41,23,'The Temple had two doors.'),(26041024,26,41,24,'And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had two turning leaves, two for one and two for the other.'),(26041025,26,41,25,'And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside.'),(26041026,26,41,26,'And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and the ...'),(26042001,26,42,1,'And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.'),(26042002,26,42,2,'On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,'),(26042003,26,42,3,'Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.'),(26042004,26,42,4,'And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.'),(26042005,26,42,5,'And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.'),(26042006,26,42,6,'For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.'),(26042007,26,42,7,'And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.'),(26042008,26,42,8,'For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.'),(26042009,26,42,9,'And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.'),(26042010,26,42,10,'(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.'),(26042011,26,42,11,'And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.'),(26042012,26,42,12,'And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.'),(26042013,26,42,13,'And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.'),(26042014,26,42,14,'When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord\'s house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.'),(26042015,26,42,15,'And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.'),(26042016,26,42,16,'He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.'),(26042017,26,42,17,'And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.'),(26042018,26,42,18,'And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.'),(26042019,26,42,19,'And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.'),(26042020,26,42,20,'He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.'),(26043001,26,43,1,'And he took me to the doorway looking to the east:'),(26043002,26,43,2,'And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory.'),(26043003,26,43,3,'And the vision which I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came for the destruction of the town: and like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face.'),(26043004,26,43,4,'And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the doorway looking to the east.'),(26043005,26,43,5,'And the spirit, lifting me up, took me into the inner square; and I saw that the house was full of the glory of the Lord.'),(26043006,26,43,6,'And the voice of one talking to me came to my ears from inside the house; and the man was by my side.'),(26043007,26,43,7,'And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;'),(26043008,26,43,8,'By putting their doorstep by my doorstep, and the pillar of their door by the pillar of my door, with only a wall between me and them; and they have made my holy name unclean by the disgusting things which they have done: so in my wrath I sent destruction on them.'),(26043009,26,43,9,'Now let them put their loose ways and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will be among them for ever.'),(26043010,26,43,10,'You, son of man, give the children of Israel an account of this house, so that they may be shamed because of their evil-doing: and let them see the vision of it and its image.'),(26043011,26,43,11,'And they will be shamed by what they have done; so give them the knowledge of the form of the house and its structure, and the ways out of it and into it, and all its laws and its rules, writing it down for them: so that they may keep all its laws and do them.'),(26043012,26,43,12,'This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.'),(26043013,26,43,13,'And these are the measures of the altar in cubits: (the cubit being a cubit and a hand\'s measure;) its hollow base is a cubit high and a cubit wide, and it has an overhanging edge as wide as a hand-stretch all round it:'),(26043014,26,43,14,'And from the base on the earth level to the lower shelf, the altar is two cubits high and a cubit wide; and from the smaller shelf to the greater shelf it is four cubits high and a cubit wide.'),(26043015,26,43,15,'And the fireplace is four cubits high: and coming up from the fireplace are the horns, a cubit high.'),(26043016,26,43,16,'And the fireplace is twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides.'),(26043017,26,43,17,'And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, on its four sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the base of it is a cubit all round, and its steps are facing the east.'),(26043018,26,43,18,'And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood.'),(26043019,26,43,19,'You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering.'),(26043020,26,43,20,'You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns and on the four angles of the shelf and on the edge all round: and you are to make it clean and free from sin.'),(26043021,26,43,21,'And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.'),(26043022,26,43,22,'And on the second day you are to have a he-goat without any mark on it offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make the altar clean as they did with the young ox.'),(26043023,26,43,23,'And after you have made it clean, let a young ox without a mark be offered, and a male sheep from the flock without a mark.'),(26043024,26,43,24,'And you are to take them before the Lord, and the priests will put salt on them, offering them up for a burned offering to the Lord.'),(26043025,26,43,25,'Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a sin-offering: and let them give in addition a young ox and a male sheep from the flock without any mark on them.'),(26043026,26,43,26,'For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.'),(26043027,26,43,27,'And when these days have come to an end, then on the eighth day and after, the priests will make your burned offerings on the altar and your peace-offerings; and I will take pleasure in you, says the Lord.'),(26044001,26,44,1,'And he took me back to the outer doorway of the holy place, looking to the east; and it was shut.'),(26044002,26,44,2,'And the Lord said to me, This doorway is to be shut, it is not to be open, and no man is to go in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has gone in by it; and it is to be shut.'),(26044003,26,44,3,'But the ruler will be seated there to take his food before the Lord; he will go in by the covered way to the door, and will come out by the same way.'),(26044004,26,44,4,'And he took me to the north doorway in front of the house; and, looking, I saw that the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord; and I went down on my face.'),(26044005,26,44,5,'And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and let your eyes see and your ears be open to everything I say to you about all the rules of the house of the Lord and all its laws; and take note of the ways into the house and all the ways out of the holy place.'),(26044006,26,44,6,'And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: O you children of Israel, let it be enough for you, among the disgusting things which you have done,'),(26044007,26,44,7,'To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.'),(26044008,26,44,8,'And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.'),(26044009,26,44,9,'For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.'),(26044010,26,44,10,'But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.'),(26044011,26,44,11,'But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.'),(26044012,26,44,12,'Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.'),(26044013,26,44,13,'And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.'),(26044014,26,44,14,'But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.'),(26044015,26,44,15,'But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord;'),(26044016,26,44,16,'They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house.'),(26044017,26,44,17,'And when they come in by the doorways of the inner square, they are to be clothed in linen robes; there is to be no wool on them while they are doing my work in the doorway of the inner square and inside the house.'),(26044018,26,44,18,'They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to have nothing round them to make their skin wet with heat.'),(26044019,26,44,19,'And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes.'),(26044020,26,44,20,'They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.'),(26044021,26,44,21,'The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.'),(26044022,26,44,22,'And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.'),(26044023,26,44,23,'And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.'),(26044024,26,44,24,'In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.'),(26044025,26,44,25,'They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.'),(26044026,26,44,26,'And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him.'),(26044027,26,44,27,'And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to do the work of the holy place, he is to make his sin-offering, says the Lord.'),(26044028,26,44,28,'And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.'),(26044029,26,44,29,'Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs.'),(26044030,26,44,30,'And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.'),(26044031,26,44,31,'The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.'),(26045001,26,45,1,'And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy.'),(26045002,26,45,2,'Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it.'),(26045003,26,45,3,'And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy.'),(26045004,26,45,4,'This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle.'),(26045005,26,45,5,'A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.'),(26045006,26,45,6,'And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel.'),(26045007,26,45,7,'And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land.'),(26045008,26,45,8,'And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes.'),(26045009,26,45,9,'This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.'),(26045010,26,45,10,'Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.'),(26045011,26,45,11,'The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.'),(26045012,26,45,12,'And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels'),(26045013,26,45,13,'This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of barley;'),(26045014,26,45,14,'And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a bath from the cor, for ten baths make up the cor;'),(26045015,26,45,15,'And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.'),(26045016,26,45,16,'All the people are to give this offering to the ruler.'),(26045017,26,45,17,'And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel.'),(26045018,26,45,18,'This is what the Lord has said: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young ox without any mark on him, and you are to make the holy place clean.'),(26045019,26,45,19,'And the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin-offering and put it on the uprights at the sides of the doors of the house, and on the four angles of the shelf of the altar, and on the sides of the doorway of the inner square.'),(26045020,26,45,20,'And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin.'),(26045021,26,45,21,'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food.'),(26045022,26,45,22,'And on that day the ruler is to give for himself and for all the people of the land an ox for a sin-offering.'),(26045023,26,45,23,'And on the seven days of the feast he is to give a burned offering to the Lord, seven oxen and seven sheep without any mark on them, every day for seven days; and a he-goat every day for a sin-offering.'),(26045024,26,45,24,'And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for every ox and an ephah for every sheep and a hin of oil to every ephah.'),(26045025,26,45,25,'In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he is to give the same for seven days; the sin-offering, the burned offering, the meal offering, and the oil as before.'),(26046001,26,46,1,'This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open.'),(26046002,26,46,2,'And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of the outer doorway outside, and take his place by the pillar of the doorway, and the priests will make his burned offering and his peace-offerings and he will give worship at the doorstep of the doorway; then he will go out, and the door will not be shut till the evening.'),(26046003,26,46,3,'And the people of the land are to give worship at the door of that doorway before the Lord on the Sabbaths and at the new moons.'),(26046004,26,46,4,'And the burned offering offered to the Lord by the ruler on the Sabbath day is to be six lambs without a mark on them and a male sheep without a mark;'),(26046005,26,46,5,'And the meal offering is to be an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.'),(26046006,26,46,6,'And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark:'),(26046007,26,46,7,'And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for the ox and an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.'),(26046008,26,46,8,'And when the ruler comes in, he is to go in through the covered way of the doorway, and he is to go out by the same way.'),(26046009,26,46,9,'But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the fixed feasts, he who comes in by the north doorway to give worship is to go out by the south doorway; and he who comes in by the south doorway is to go out by the north doorway: he is not to come back by the doorway through which he went in, but is to go straight before him.'),(26046010,26,46,10,'And the ruler, when they come in, is to come among them, and is to go out when they go out.'),(26046011,26,46,11,'At the feasts and the fixed meetings the meal offerings are to be an ephah for an ox, and an ephah for a male sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.'),(26046012,26,46,12,'And when the ruler makes a free offering, a burned offering or a peace-offering freely given to the Lord, the doorway looking to the east is to be made open for him, and he is to make his burned offering and his peace-offerings as he does on the Sabbath day: and he will go out; and the door will be shut after he has gone out.'),(26046013,26,46,13,'And you are to give a lamb a year old without any mark on it for a burned offering to the Lord every day: morning by morning you are to give it.'),(26046014,26,46,14,'And you are to give, morning by morning, a meal offering with it, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil dropped on the best meal; a meal offering offered to the Lord at all times by an eternal order.'),(26046015,26,46,15,'And they are to give the lamb and the meal offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a burned offering at all times.'),(26046016,26,46,16,'This is what the Lord has said: If the ruler gives a property to any of his sons, it is his heritage and will be the property of his sons; it is theirs for their heritage.'),(26046017,26,46,17,'And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons\' heritage, and is to be theirs.'),(26046018,26,46,18,'And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property.'),(26046019,26,46,19,'And he took me through by the way in at the side of the doorway into the holy rooms which are the priests\', looking to the north: and I saw a place at the side of them to the west.'),(26046020,26,46,20,'And he said to me, This is the place where the offering for error and the sin-offering are to be cooked in water by the priests, and where the meal offering is to be cooked in the oven; so that they may not be taken out into the outer square to make the people holy.'),(26046021,26,46,21,'And he took me out into the outer square and made me go by the four angles of the square; and I saw that in every angle of the open square there was a space shut in.'),(26046022,26,46,22,'In the four angles there were spaces walled in, forty cubits long and thirty wide; the four were of the same size.'),(26046023,26,46,23,'And there was a line of wall all round inside them, round all four, and boiling-places were made under it all round about.'),(26046024,26,46,24,'And he said to me, These are the boiling-rooms, where the offering of the people is cooked by the servants of the house.'),(26047001,26,47,1,'And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar.'),(26047002,26,47,2,'And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side.'),(26047003,26,47,3,'And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet.'),(26047004,26,47,4,'And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body.'),(26047005,26,47,5,'Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through.'),(26047006,26,47,6,'And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he took me to the river\'s edge.'),(26047007,26,47,7,'And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river a very great number of trees on this side and on that.'),(26047008,26,47,8,'And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet.'),(26047009,26,47,9,'And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life.'),(26047010,26,47,10,'And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number.'),(26047011,26,47,11,'The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.'),(26047012,26,47,12,'And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.'),(26047013,26,47,13,'This is what the Lord has said: These are the limits by which you will take up your heritage in the land among the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph is to have two parts.'),(26047014,26,47,14,'And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.'),(26047015,26,47,15,'And this is to be the limit of the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea, in the direction of Hethlon, as far as the way into Hamath;'),(26047016,26,47,16,'To Zedad, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the limit of Damascus and the limit of Hazar-hatticon, which is on the limit of Hauran.'),(26047017,26,47,17,'And this is the limit from the sea in the direction of Hazar-enon; and the limit of Damascus is to the north, and on the north is the limit of Hamath. This is the north side.'),(26047018,26,47,18,'And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is between Hauran and Damascus; and between Gilead and the land of Israel the Jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar. This is the east side.'),(26047019,26,47,19,'And the south side to the south will be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the south side, on the south.'),(26047020,26,47,20,'And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the limit on the south to a point opposite the way into Hamath. This is the west side.'),(26047021,26,47,21,'You will make a division of the land among you, tribe by tribe.'),(26047022,26,47,22,'And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel.'),(26047023,26,47,23,'In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.'),(26048001,26,48,1,'Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, from the west on the way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in the direction of Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the north, by Hamath; and on the limit from the east side to the west side: Dan, one part.'),(26048002,26,48,2,'And on the limit of Dan, from the east side to the west side: Asher, one part.'),(26048003,26,48,3,'And on the limit of Asher, from the east side to the west side: Naphtali, one part.'),(26048004,26,48,4,'And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part.'),(26048005,26,48,5,'And on the limit of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side: Ephraim, one part.'),(26048006,26,48,6,'And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one part.'),(26048007,26,48,7,'And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one part.'),(26048008,26,48,8,'And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you are to make, twenty-five thousand wide, and as long as one of the parts, from the east side to the west side: and the holy place will be in the middle of it.'),(26048009,26,48,9,'The offering you will give to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty-five thousand wide.'),(26048010,26,48,10,'And for these, that is the priests, the holy offering is to be twenty-five thousand long to the north, ten thousand wide to the west, ten thousand wide to the east and twenty-five thousand long to the south; and the holy place of the Lord will be in the middle of it.'),(26048011,26,48,11,'For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,'),(26048012,26,48,12,'Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites.'),(26048013,26,48,13,'And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests\', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide.'),(26048014,26,48,14,'And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.'),(26048015,26,48,15,'And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it.'),(26048016,26,48,16,'And these will be its measures: the north side, four thousand five hundred, and the south side, four thousand five hundred, and on the east side, four thousand five hundred, and on the west side, four thousand five hundred.'),(26048017,26,48,17,'And the town will have a free space on the north of two hundred and fifty, on the south of two hundred and fifty, on the east of two hundred and fifty, and on the west of two hundred and fifty.'),(26048018,26,48,18,'And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering, will be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west: and its produce will be for food for the workers of the town.'),(26048019,26,48,19,'It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel.'),(26048020,26,48,20,'The size of the offering all together is to be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you are to make the holy offering a square, together with the property of the town.'),(26048021,26,48,21,'And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and on that side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the east limit, and to the west, in front of the twenty-five thousand, as far as the west limit, and of the same measure as those parts; it will be the property of the prince: and the holy offering and holy place of the house will be in the middle of it.'),(26048022,26,48,22,'And the property of the Levites and the property of the town will be in the middle of the prince\'s property; between the limit of Judah\'s part and the limit of Benjamin\'s part will be for the prince.'),(26048023,26,48,23,'And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side: Benjamin, one part.'),(26048024,26,48,24,'And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part.'),(26048025,26,48,25,'And on the limit of Simeon, from the east side to the west side: Issachar, one part.'),(26048026,26,48,26,'And on the limit of Issachar, from the east side to the west side: Zebulun, one part.'),(26048027,26,48,27,'And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad one part.'),(26048028,26,48,28,'And on the limit of Gad, on the south side and to the south of it, the limit will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream, to the Great Sea.'),(26048029,26,48,29,'This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord.'),(26048030,26,48,30,'And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure;'),(26048031,26,48,31,'And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi;'),(26048032,26,48,32,'And at the east side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Joseph, one for Benjamin, one for Dan;'),(26048033,26,48,33,'And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun;'),(26048034,26,48,34,'At the west side, four thousand five hundred by measure, with their three doors, one for Gad, one for Asher, one for Naphtali.'),(26048035,26,48,35,'It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.'),(27001001,27,1,1,'In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, shutting it in with his forces.'),(27001002,27,1,2,'And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.'),(27001003,27,1,3,'And the king gave orders to Ashpenaz, the captain of his unsexed servants, to take in some of the children of Israel, certain of the king\'s family, and those of high birth;'),(27001004,27,1,4,'Young men who were strong and healthy, good-looking, and trained in all wisdom, having a good education and much knowledge, and able to take positions in the king\'s house; and to have them trained in the writing and language of the Chaldaeans.'),(27001005,27,1,5,'And a regular amount of food and wine every day from the king\'s table was ordered for them by the king; and they were to be cared for for three years so that at the end of that time they might take their places before the king.'),(27001006,27,1,6,'And among these there were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.'),(27001007,27,1,7,'And the captain of the unsexed servants gave them names; to Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar, to Hananiah the name of Shadrach, to Mishael the name of Meshach, and to Azariah the name of Abed-nego.'),(27001008,27,1,8,'And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king\'s food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.'),(27001009,27,1,9,'And God put into the heart of the captain of the unsexed servants kind feelings and pity for Daniel.'),(27001010,27,1,10,'And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my head in danger from the king.'),(27001011,27,1,11,'Then Daniel said to the keeper in whose care the captain of the unsexed servants had put Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:'),(27001012,27,1,12,'Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink.'),(27001013,27,1,13,'Then take a look at our faces and the faces of the young men who have food from the king\'s table; and, having seen them, do to your servants as it seems right to you.'),(27001014,27,1,14,'So he gave ear to them in this thing and put them to the test for ten days.'),(27001015,27,1,15,'And at the end of ten days their faces seemed fairer and they were fatter in flesh than all the young men who had their food from the king\'s table.'),(27001016,27,1,16,'So the keeper regularly took away their meat and the wine which was to have been their drink, and gave them grain.'),(27001017,27,1,17,'Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.'),(27001018,27,1,18,'Now at the end of the time fixed by the king for them to go in, the captain of the unsexed servants took them in to Nebuchadnezzar.'),(27001019,27,1,19,'And the king had talk with them; and among them all there was no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they were given places before the king.'),(27001020,27,1,20,'And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom.'),(27001021,27,1,21,'And Daniel went on till the first year of King Cyrus.'),(27002001,27,2,1,'In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.'),(27002002,27,2,2,'Then the king gave orders that the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and those who made use of evil powers, and the Chaldaeans, were to be sent for to make clear to the king his dreams. So they came and took their places before the king.'),(27002003,27,2,3,'And the king said to them, I have had a dream, and my spirit is troubled by the desire to have the dream made clear to me.'),(27002004,27,2,4,'Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in the Aramaean language, O King, have life for ever: give your servants an account of your dream, and we will make clear to you the sense of it.'),(27002005,27,2,5,'The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.'),(27002006,27,2,6,'But if you make clear the dream and the sense of it, you will have from me offerings and rewards and great honour: so make clear to me the dream and the sense of it.'),(27002007,27,2,7,'A second time they said in answer, Let the king give his servants an account of his dream, and we will make clear the sense.'),(27002008,27,2,8,'The king made answer and said, I am certain that you are attempting to get more time, because you see that my decision is fixed;'),(27002009,27,2,9,'That if you do not make my dream clear to me there is only one fate for you: for you have made ready false and evil words to say before me till the times are changed: so give me an account of the dream, and I will be certain that you are able to make the sense of it clear.'),(27002010,27,2,10,'Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king\'s business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean.'),(27002011,27,2,11,'The king\'s request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.'),(27002012,27,2,12,'Because of this the king was angry and full of wrath, and gave orders for the destruction of all the wise men of Babylon.'),(27002013,27,2,13,'So the order went out that the wise men were to be put to death; and they were looking for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.'),(27002014,27,2,14,'Then Daniel gave an answer with wisdom and good sense to Arioch, the captain of the king\'s armed men, who had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon;'),(27002015,27,2,15,'He made answer and said to Arioch, O captain of the king, why is the king\'s order so cruel? Then Arioch gave Daniel an account of the business.'),(27002016,27,2,16,'And Daniel went in and made a request to the king to give him time and he would make clear the sense of his dream to the king.'),(27002017,27,2,17,'And Daniel went to his house and gave his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah the news:'),(27002018,27,2,18,'So that they might make a request for the mercy of the God of heaven in the question of this secret; so that Daniel and his friends might not come to destruction with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.'),(27002019,27,2,19,'Then the secret was made clear to Daniel in a vision of the night. And Daniel gave blessing to the God of heaven.'),(27002020,27,2,20,'And Daniel said in answer, May the name of God be praised for ever and ever: for wisdom and strength are his:'),(27002021,27,2,21,'By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:'),(27002022,27,2,22,'He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.'),(27002023,27,2,23,'I give you praise and worship, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and strength, and have now made clear to me what we were requesting from you: for you have given us knowledge of the king\'s business.'),(27002024,27,2,24,'For this reason Daniel went to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders for the destruction of the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, Do not put to death the wise men of Babylon: take me in before the king and I will make clear to him the sense of the dream.'),(27002025,27,2,25,'Then Arioch quickly took Daniel in before the king, and said to him, Here is a man from among the prisoners of Judah, who will make clear to the king the sense of the dream.'),(27002026,27,2,26,'The king made answer and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make clear to me the dream which I saw and its sense?'),(27002027,27,2,27,'Then Daniel said in answer to the king, No wise men, or users of secret arts, or wonder-workers, or readers of signs, are able to make clear to the king the secret he is searching for;'),(27002028,27,2,28,'But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these:'),(27002029,27,2,29,'As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come.'),(27002030,27,2,30,'As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.'),(27002031,27,2,31,'You, O King, were looking, and a great image was there. This image, which was very great, and whose glory was very bright, was placed before you: its form sent fear into the heart.'),(27002032,27,2,32,'As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass,'),(27002033,27,2,33,'Its legs of iron, its feet were in part of iron and in part of potter\'s earth.'),(27002034,27,2,34,'While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits.'),(27002035,27,2,35,'Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.'),(27002036,27,2,36,'This is the dream; and we will make clear to the king the sense of it.'),(27002037,27,2,37,'You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory,'),(27002038,27,2,38,'Wherever the children of men are living; into whose hands he has given the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven, and has made you ruler over them all, you are the head of gold.'),(27002039,27,2,39,'And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth.'),(27002040,27,2,40,'And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: because, as all things are broken and overcome by iron, so it will have the power of crushing and smashing down all the earth.'),(27002041,27,2,41,'And as you saw the feet and toes, part of potter\'s work and part of iron, there will be a division in the kingdom; but there will be some of the strength of iron in it, because you saw the iron mixed with the potter\'s earth.'),(27002042,27,2,42,'And as the toes of the feet were in part of iron and in part of earth, so part of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will readily be broken.'),(27002043,27,2,43,'And as you saw the iron mixed with earth, they will give their daughters to one another as wives: but they will not be united one with another, even as iron is not mixed with earth.'),(27002044,27,2,44,'And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.'),(27002045,27,2,45,'Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that by it the iron and the brass and the earth and the silver and the gold were broken to bits, a great God has given the king knowledge of what is to take place in the future: the dream is fixed, and its sense is certain.'),(27002046,27,2,46,'Then King Nebuchadnezzar, falling down on his face, gave worship to Daniel, and gave orders for an offering and spices to be given to him;'),(27002047,27,2,47,'And the king made answer to Daniel and said, Truly, your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and an unveiler of secrets, for you have been able to make this secret clear.'),(27002048,27,2,48,'Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon.'),(27002049,27,2,49,'And at Daniel\'s request, the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego authority over the business of the land of Babylon: but Daniel was kept near the king\'s person.'),(27003001,27,3,1,'Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide: he put it up in the valley of Dura, in the land of Babylon.'),(27003002,27,3,2,'And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to get together all the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, to come to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up.'),(27003003,27,3,3,'Then the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, came together to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up; and they took their places before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had put up.'),(27003004,27,3,4,'Then one of the king\'s criers said in a loud voice, To you the order is given, O peoples, nations, and languages,'),(27003005,27,3,5,'That when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to your ears, you are to go down on your faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king has put up:'),(27003006,27,3,6,'And anyone not falling down and worshipping will that same hour be put into a burning and flaming fire.'),(27003007,27,3,7,'So at that time, all the people, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, and all sorts of instruments, came to their ears, went down on their faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up.'),(27003008,27,3,8,'At that time certain Chaldaeans came near and made a statement against the Jews.'),(27003009,27,3,9,'They made answer and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O King, have life for ever.'),(27003010,27,3,10,'You, O King, have given an order that every man, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to his ears, is to go down on his face in worship before the image of gold:'),(27003011,27,3,11,'And anyone not falling down and worshipping is to be put into a burning and flaming fire.'),(27003012,27,3,12,'There are certain Jews whom you have put over the business of the land of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men have not given attention to you, O King: they are not servants of your gods or worshippers of the gold image which you have put up.'),(27003013,27,3,13,'Then Nebuchadnezzar in his wrath and passion gave orders for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to be sent for. Then they made these men come in before the king.'),(27003014,27,3,14,'Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that you will not be servants of my god or give worship to the image of gold which I have put up?'),(27003015,27,3,15,'Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands?'),(27003016,27,3,16,'Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question.'),(27003017,27,3,17,'If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe.'),(27003018,27,3,18,'But if not, be certain, O King, that we will not be the servants of your gods, or give worship to the image of gold which you have put up.'),(27003019,27,3,19,'Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: and he gave orders that the fire was to be heated up seven times more than it was generally heated.'),(27003020,27,3,20,'And he gave orders to certain strong men in his army to put cords on Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego and put them into the burning and flaming fire.'),(27003021,27,3,21,'Then these men had cords put round them as they were, in their coats, their trousers, their hats, and their clothing, and were dropped into the burning and flaming fire.'),(27003022,27,3,22,'And because the king\'s order was not to be put on one side, and the heat of the fire was so great, the men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were burned to death by the flame of the fire.'),(27003023,27,3,23,'And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, with the cords about them, went down into the burning and flaming fire.'),(27003024,27,3,24,'Then King Nebuchadnezzar, full of fear and wonder, got up quickly, and said to his wise men, Did we not put three men in cords into the fire? and they made answer and said to the king, True, O King.'),(27003025,27,3,25,'He made answer and said, Look! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not damaged; and the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.'),(27003026,27,3,26,'Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning and flaming fire: he made answer and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the fire.'),(27003027,27,3,27,'And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king\'s wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them.'),(27003028,27,3,28,'Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king\'s word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God.'),(27003029,27,3,29,'And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.'),(27003030,27,3,30,'Then the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego even greater authority in the land of Babylon.'),(27004001,27,4,1,'Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.'),(27004002,27,4,2,'It has seemed good to me to make clear the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done with me.'),(27004003,27,4,3,'How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation.'),(27004004,27,4,4,'I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my place, and all things were going well for me in my great house:'),(27004005,27,4,5,'I saw a dream which was a cause of great fear to me; I was troubled by the images of my mind on my bed, and by the visions of my head.'),(27004006,27,4,6,'And I gave orders for all the wise men of Babylon to come in before me so that they might make clear to me the sense of my dream.'),(27004007,27,4,7,'Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me.'),(27004008,27,4,8,'But at last Daniel came in before me, he whose name was Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I put the dream before him, saying,'),(27004009,27,4,9,'O Belteshazzar, master of the wonder-workers, because I am certain that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and you are troubled by no secret; this is the dream which I saw: make clear to me its sense.'),(27004010,27,4,10,'On my bed I saw a vision: there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and it was very high.'),(27004011,27,4,11,'And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:'),(27004012,27,4,12,'Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.'),(27004013,27,4,13,'In the visions of my head on my bed I saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven,'),(27004014,27,4,14,'Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches:'),(27004015,27,4,15,'But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts.'),(27004016,27,4,16,'Let his heart be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a beast be given to him; and let seven times go by him.'),(27004017,27,4,17,'This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.'),(27004018,27,4,18,'This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.'),(27004019,27,4,19,'Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was at a loss for a time, his thoughts troubling him. The king made answer and said, Belteshazzar, do not be troubled by the dream or by the sense of it. Belteshazzar, answering, said, My lord, may the dream be about your haters, and its sense about those who are against you.'),(27004020,27,4,20,'The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth;'),(27004021,27,4,21,'Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:'),(27004022,27,4,22,'It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.'),(27004023,27,4,23,'And as for the vision which the king saw of a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, saying, Let the tree be cut down and given to destruction;'),(27004024,27,4,24,'This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king:'),(27004025,27,4,25,'That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.'),(27004026,27,4,26,'And as they gave orders to let the broken end and the roots of the tree be, so your kingdom will be safe for you after it is clear to you that the heavens are ruling.'),(27004027,27,4,27,'For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.'),(27004028,27,4,28,'All this came to King Nebuchadnezzar.'),(27004029,27,4,29,'At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of his great house in Babylon.'),(27004030,27,4,30,'The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?'),(27004031,27,4,31,'While the word was still in the king\'s mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:'),(27004032,27,4,32,'And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.'),(27004033,27,4,33,'That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles\' feathers and his nails like those of birds.'),(27004034,27,4,34,'And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation.'),(27004035,27,4,35,'And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?'),(27004036,27,4,36,'At the same time my reason came back to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my great name came back to me; and my wise men and my lords were turned to me again; and I was made safe in my kingdom and had more power than before.'),(27004037,27,4,37,'Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.'),(27005001,27,5,1,'Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.'),(27005002,27,5,2,'Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.'),(27005003,27,5,3,'Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them.'),(27005004,27,5,4,'They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.'),(27005005,27,5,5,'In that very hour the fingers of a man\'s hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king\'s house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.'),(27005006,27,5,6,'Then the colour went from the king\'s face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.'),(27005007,27,5,7,'The king, crying out with a loud voice, said that the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs, were to be sent for. The king made answer and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever is able to make out this writing, and make clear to me the sense of it, will be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold round his neck, and will be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.'),(27005008,27,5,8,'Then all the king\'s wise men came in: but they were not able to make out the writing or give the sense of it to the king.'),(27005009,27,5,9,'Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled and the colour went from his face, and his lords were at a loss.'),(27005010,27,5,10,'The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the house of the feast: the queen made answer and said, O King, have life for ever; do not be troubled by your thoughts or let the colour go from your face:'),(27005011,27,5,11,'There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs;'),(27005012,27,5,12,'Because a most special spirit, and knowledge and reason and the power of reading dreams and unfolding dark sayings and answering hard questions, were seen to be in him, even in Daniel (named Belteshazzar by the king): now let Daniel be sent for, and he will make clear the sense of the writing.'),(27005013,27,5,13,'Then they took Daniel in before the king; the king made answer and said to Daniel, So you are that Daniel, of the prisoners of Judah, whom my father took out of Judah.'),(27005014,27,5,14,'And I have had news of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and reason and special wisdom have been seen in you.'),(27005015,27,5,15,'And now the wise men, the users of secret arts, have been sent in before me for the purpose of reading this writing and making clear to me the sense of it: but they are not able to make clear the sense of the thing:'),(27005016,27,5,16,'And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.'),(27005017,27,5,17,'Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it.'),(27005018,27,5,18,'As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:'),(27005019,27,5,19,'And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him.'),(27005020,27,5,20,'But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:'),(27005021,27,5,21,'And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts\', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.'),(27005022,27,5,22,'And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;'),(27005023,27,5,23,'But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;'),(27005024,27,5,24,'Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded.'),(27005025,27,5,25,'And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres.'),(27005026,27,5,26,'This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.'),(27005027,27,5,27,'Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.'),(27005028,27,5,28,'Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.'),(27005029,27,5,29,'Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.'),(27005030,27,5,30,'That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.'),(27006001,27,6,1,'And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.'),(27006002,27,6,2,'Darius was pleased to put over the kingdom a hundred and twenty captains, who were to be all through the kingdom;'),(27006003,27,6,3,'And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss.'),(27006004,27,6,4,'Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king\'s purpose to put him over all the kingdom.'),(27006005,27,6,5,'Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.'),(27006006,27,6,6,'Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God.'),(27006007,27,6,7,'Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever.'),(27006008,27,6,8,'All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king\'s authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions\' hole.'),(27006009,27,6,9,'Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.'),(27006010,27,6,10,'For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.'),(27006011,27,6,11,'And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.'),(27006012,27,6,12,'Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace before his God.'),(27006013,27,6,13,'Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions\' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.'),(27006014,27,6,14,'Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God.'),(27006015,27,6,15,'When this thing came to the king\'s ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free.'),(27006016,27,6,16,'Then these men said to the king, Be certain, O King, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no order or law which the king has put into force may be changed.'),(27006017,27,6,17,'Then the king gave the order, and they took Daniel and put him into the lions\' hole. The king made answer and said to Daniel, Your God, whose servant you are at all times, will keep you safe.'),(27006018,27,6,18,'Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king\'s stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed.'),(27006019,27,6,19,'Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no ... were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.'),(27006020,27,6,20,'Then very early in the morning the king got up and went quickly to the lions\' hole.'),(27006021,27,6,21,'And when he came near the hole where Daniel was, he gave a loud cry of grief; the king made answer and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whose servant you are at all times, able to keep you safe from the lions?'),(27006022,27,6,22,'Then Daniel said to the king, O King, have life for ever.'),(27006023,27,6,23,'My God has sent his angel to keep the lions\' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong.'),(27006024,27,6,24,'Then the king was very glad, and gave orders for them to take Daniel up out of the hole. So Daniel was taken up out of the hole and he was seen to be untouched, because he had faith in his God.'),(27006025,27,6,25,'And at the king\'s order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions\' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken.'),(27006026,27,6,26,'Then King Darius sent a letter to all the peoples, nations, and languages, living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.'),(27006027,27,6,27,'It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end.'),(27006028,27,6,28,'He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.'),(27006029,27,6,29,'So this Daniel did well in the kingdom of Darius and in the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian.'),(27007001,27,7,1,'In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream, and visions came into his head on his bed: then he put the dream in writing.'),(27007002,27,7,2,'I had a vision by night, and saw the four winds of heaven violently moving the great sea.'),(27007003,27,7,3,'And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another.'),(27007004,27,7,4,'The first was like a lion and had eagle\'s wings; while I was watching its wings were pulled off, and it was lifted up from the earth and placed on two feet like a man, and a man\'s heart was given to it.'),(27007005,27,7,5,'And I saw another beast, like a bear, and it was lifted up on one side, and three side-bones were in its mouth, between its teeth: and they said to it, Up! take much flesh.'),(27007006,27,7,6,'After this I saw another beast, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings like those of a bird; and the beast had four heads, and the power of a ruler was given to it.'),(27007007,27,7,7,'After this, in my vision of the night, I saw a fourth beast, a thing causing fear and very troubling, full of power and very strong; and it had great iron teeth: it took its food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping down the rest with its feet: it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.'),(27007008,27,7,8,'I was watching the horns with care, and I saw another coming up among them, a little one, before which three of the first horns were pulled up by the roots: and there were eyes like a man\'s eyes in this horn, and a mouth saying great things.'),(27007009,27,7,9,'I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire.'),(27007010,27,7,10,'A stream of fire was flowing and coming out from before him: a thousand thousands were his servants, and ten thousand times ten thousand were in their places before him: the judge was seated and the books were open.'),(27007011,27,7,11,'Then I saw--because of the voice of the great words which the horn said--I saw till the beast was put to death, and its body was given to destruction, and the beast was given to the burning of fire.'),(27007012,27,7,12,'As for the rest of the beasts, their authority was taken away: but they let them go on living for a measure of time.'),(27007013,27,7,13,'I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.'),(27007014,27,7,14,'And to him was given authority and glory and a kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages were his servants: his authority is an eternal authority which will not come to an end, and his kingdom is one which will not come to destruction.'),(27007015,27,7,15,'As for me, Daniel, my spirit was pained because of this, and the visions of my head were troubling me.'),(27007016,27,7,16,'I came near to one of those who were waiting there, questioning him about what all this was. And he said to me that he would make clear to me the sense of these things.'),(27007017,27,7,17,'These great beasts are four kings who will be cut off from the earth.'),(27007018,27,7,18,'But the saints of the Most High will take the kingdom, and it will be theirs for ever, even for ever and ever.'),(27007019,27,7,19,'Then it was my desire to have certain knowledge about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, a cause of great fear, whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass; who took his food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping on the rest with his feet;'),(27007020,27,7,20,'And about the ten horns on his head and the other which came up, causing the fall of three; that horn which had eyes, and a mouth saying great things, which seemed to be greater than the other horns.'),(27007021,27,7,21,'And I saw how that horn made war on the saints and overcame them,'),(27007022,27,7,22,'Till he came, who was very old, and the decision was made and the authority was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came when the saints took the kingdom.'),(27007023,27,7,23,'This is what he said: The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom which will come on earth, different from all the kingdoms, and it will overcome all the earth, crushing it down and smashing it.'),(27007024,27,7,24,'And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will come to power; and after them another will come up: he will be different from the first ones and will put down three kings.'),(27007025,27,7,25,'And he will say words against the Most High, attempting to put an end to the saints of the Most High; and he will have the idea of changing times and law; and the saints will be given into his hands for a time and times and half a time.'),(27007026,27,7,26,'But the judge will be seated, and they will put an end to his authority, to overcome it and send complete destruction on it.'),(27007027,27,7,27,'And the kingdom and the authority and the power of the kingdoms under all the heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and all powers will be his servants and do his pleasure.'),(27007028,27,7,28,'Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.'),(27008001,27,8,1,'In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one I saw at first.'),(27008002,27,8,2,'And I saw in the vision; and when I saw it, I was in the strong town Shushan, which is in the country of Elam; and in the vision I was by the water-door of the Ulai.'),(27008003,27,8,3,'And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, the higher one coming up last.'),(27008004,27,8,4,'I saw the sheep pushing to the west and to the north and to the south; and no beasts were able to keep their place before him, and no one was able to get people out of his power; but he did whatever his pleasure was and made himself great.'),(27008005,27,8,5,'And while I was giving thought to this, I saw a he-goat coming from the west over the face of all the earth without touching the earth: and the he-goat had a great horn between his eyes.'),(27008006,27,8,6,'And he came to the two-horned sheep which I saw before the stream, rushing at him in the heat of his power.'),(27008007,27,8,7,'And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the sheep so that his two horns were broken; and the sheep had not strength to keep his place before him, but was pushed down on the earth and crushed under his feet: and there was no one to get the sheep out of his power.'),(27008008,27,8,8,'And the he-goat became very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and in its place came up four other horns turned to the four winds of heaven.'),(27008009,27,8,9,'And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land.'),(27008010,27,8,10,'And it became great, even as high as the army of heaven, pulling down some of the army, even of the stars, to the earth and crushing them under its feet.'),(27008011,27,8,11,'It made itself great, even as great as the lord of the army; and by it the regular burned offering was taken away, and the place overturned and the holy place made waste.'),(27008012,27,8,12,'... against the regular burned offering; and ... crushed down to the earth, and it did its pleasure and things went well for it.'),(27008013,27,8,13,'Then there came to my ears the voice of a holy one talking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was talking, How long will the vision be while the regular burned offering is taken away, and the unclean thing causing fear is put up, and the holy place crushed under foot?'),(27008014,27,8,14,'And he said to him, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be made clean.'),(27008015,27,8,15,'And it came about that when I, Daniel, had seen this vision, I had a desire for the sense of it to be unfolded; and I saw one before me in the form of a man.'),(27008016,27,8,16,'And the voice of a man came to my ears between the sides of the Ulai, crying out and saying, Gabriel, make the vision clear to this man.'),(27008017,27,8,17,'So he came and took his place near where I was; and when he came, I was full of fear and went down on my face: but he said to me, Let it be clear to you, O son of man; for the vision has to do with the time of the end.'),(27008018,27,8,18,'Now while he was talking to me, I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth: but touching me, he put me on my feet where I had been.'),(27008019,27,8,19,'And he said, See, I will make clear to you what is to come in the later time of the wrath: for it has to do with the fixed time of the end.'),(27008020,27,8,20,'The sheep which you saw with two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.'),(27008021,27,8,21,'And the he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.'),(27008022,27,8,22,'And as for that which was broken, in place of which four came up, four kingdoms will come up from his nation, but not with his power.'),(27008023,27,8,23,'And in the later years of their kingdom, when their evil doings have become complete, there will come up a king full of pride and expert in dark sayings.'),(27008024,27,8,24,'And his power will be great, and he will be purposing strange things. And all will go well for him and he will do his pleasure; and he will send destruction on the strong ones.'),(27008025,27,8,25,'And his designs will be turned against the holy people, causing deceit to do well in his hand; in his heart he will make himself great, and send destruction on numbers who are living unconscious of their danger; and he will put himself up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken, though not by men\'s hands.'),(27008026,27,8,26,'And the vision of evenings and mornings which has been talked of is true: and keep the vision secret; for it has to do with the far-off future.'),(27008027,27,8,27,'And I, Daniel, was ill for some days; then I got up and did the king\'s business: and I was full of wonder at the vision, but no one was able to give the sense of it.'),(27009001,27,9,1,'In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans;'),(27009002,27,9,2,'In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.'),(27009003,27,9,3,'And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.'),(27009004,27,9,4,'And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;'),(27009005,27,9,5,'We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:'),(27009006,27,9,6,'We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.'),(27009007,27,9,7,'O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.'),(27009008,27,9,8,'O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.'),(27009009,27,9,9,'With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;'),(27009010,27,9,10,'And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.'),(27009011,27,9,11,'And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.'),(27009012,27,9,12,'And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.'),(27009013,27,9,13,'As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.'),(27009014,27,9,14,'So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.'),(27009015,27,9,15,'And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.'),(27009016,27,9,16,'O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.'),(27009017,27,9,17,'And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.'),(27009018,27,9,18,'O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.'),(27009019,27,9,19,'O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.'),(27009020,27,9,20,'And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;'),(27009021,27,9,21,'Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my weariness was great, put his hand on me about the time of the evening offering.'),(27009022,27,9,22,'And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom.'),(27009023,27,9,23,'At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.'),(27009024,27,9,24,'Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.'),(27009025,27,9,25,'Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.'),(27009026,27,9,26,'And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.'),(27009027,27,9,27,'And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.'),(27010001,27,10,1,'In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.'),(27010002,27,10,2,'In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.'),(27010003,27,10,3,'I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.'),(27010004,27,10,4,'And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was by the side of the great river;'),(27010005,27,10,5,'And lifting up my eyes I saw the form of a man clothed in a linen robe, and round him there was a band of gold, of the best gold:'),(27010006,27,10,6,'And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.'),(27010007,27,10,7,'And I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see it; but a great shaking came on them and they went in flight to take cover.'),(27010008,27,10,8,'So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me; and the colour went from my face.'),(27010009,27,10,9,'But the sound of his words came to my ears, and on hearing his voice I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth.'),(27010010,27,10,10,'Then a hand gave me a touch, awaking me, and putting me on my knees and my hands.'),(27010011,27,10,11,'And he said to me, O Daniel, you man dearly loved, take in the sense of the words I say to you and get up on to your feet: for to you I am now sent; and when he had said this to me I got on to my feet, shaking with fear.'),(27010012,27,10,12,'Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words.'),(27010013,27,10,13,'But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia.'),(27010014,27,10,14,'Now I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days; for there is still a vision for the days.'),(27010015,27,10,15,'And after he had said these words to me, I kept my face turned to the earth and was unable to say anything.'),(27010016,27,10,16,'Then one whose form was like the sons of men put his finger on my lips; and opening my mouth, I said to him who was before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have come on me, and I have no more strength.'),(27010017,27,10,17,'For how may this servant of my lord have talk with my lord? for, as for me, straight away my strength went from me and there was no breath in my body.'),(27010018,27,10,18,'Then again one having the form of a man put his hand on me and gave me strength. And he said to me, O man greatly loved, have no fear: peace be with you, be strong and let your heart be lifted up. And at his words I became strong, and said, Let my lord say on, for you have given me strength.'),(27010019,27,10,19,'Then he said, It is clear to you why I have come to you. And now I will give you an account of what is recorded in the true writings:'),(27010020,27,10,20,'But I am going back to make war with the angel of Persia, and when I am gone, the angel of Greece will come. And there is no one on my side against these, but Michael, your angel.'),(27010021,27,10,21,'[]'),(27011001,27,11,1,'And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.'),(27011002,27,11,2,'And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece.'),(27011003,27,11,3,'And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure.'),(27011004,27,11,4,'And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his.'),(27011005,27,11,5,'And the king of the south will be strong, but one of his captains will be stronger than he and will be ruler; and his rule will be a great rule.'),(27011006,27,11,6,'And at the end of years they will be joined together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not keep the strength of her arm; and his offspring will not keep their place; but she will be uprooted, with those who were the cause of her coming, and her son, and he who took her in those times.'),(27011007,27,11,7,'But out of a branch from her roots one will come up to take his place, who will come against the army, forcing his way into the strong place of the king of the north, and he will take them in hand and overcome them:'),(27011008,27,11,8,'And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north.'),(27011009,27,11,9,'And he will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will go back to his land.'),(27011010,27,11,10,'And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place.'),(27011011,27,11,11,'And the king of the south will be moved with wrath, and will come out and make war on him, on this same king of the north: and he will get together a great army, but the army will be given into his hand.'),(27011012,27,11,12,'And the army will be taken away, and his heart will be uplifted: he will be the cause of the downfall of tens of thousands, but he will not be strong.'),(27011013,27,11,13,'And again the king of the north will get together an army greater than the first; and he will make an attack on him at the end of years, with a great army and much wealth.'),(27011014,27,11,14,'In those times, a number will take up arms against the king of the south: and the children of the violent among your people will be lifting themselves up to make the vision come true; but it will be their downfall.'),(27011015,27,11,15,'So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so.'),(27011016,27,11,16,'And he who comes against him will do his pleasure, and no one will be able to keep his place before him: he will take up his position in the beautiful land and in his hand there will be destruction.'),(27011017,27,11,17,'And it will be his purpose to come with the strength of all his kingdom, but in place of this he will make an agreement with him; and he will give him the daughter of women to send destruction on it; but this will not take place or come about.'),(27011018,27,11,18,'After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him.'),(27011019,27,11,19,'Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again.'),(27011020,27,11,20,'Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.'),(27011021,27,11,21,'And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.'),(27011022,27,11,22,'And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate.'),(27011023,27,11,23,'And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force,'),(27011024,27,11,24,'Against fertile places, and will make waste a part of the country; and he will do what his fathers have not done, or his fathers\' fathers; he will make distribution among them of goods taken in war and by force, and of property: he will even make designs against the strong places for a time.'),(27011025,27,11,25,'And he will put in motion his power and his strength against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will go to war with a very great and strong army: but he will be forced to give way, because of their designs against him;'),(27011026,27,11,26,'And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword.'),(27011027,27,11,27,'And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed.'),(27011028,27,11,28,'And he will go back to his land with great wealth; and his heart will be against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure and go back to his land.'),(27011029,27,11,29,'At the time fixed he will come back and come into the south; but in the later time it will not be as it was before.'),(27011030,27,11,30,'For those who go out from the west will come against him, and he will be in fear and will go back, full of wrath against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure: and he will go back and be united with those who have given up the holy agreement.'),(27011031,27,11,31,'And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.'),(27011032,27,11,32,'And those who do evil against the agreement will be turned to sin by his fair words: but the people who have knowledge of their God will be strong and do well.'),(27011033,27,11,33,'And those who are wise among the people will be the teachers of the mass of the people: but they will come to their downfall by the sword and by the flame, being made prisoners and undergoing loss for a long time.'),(27011034,27,11,34,'Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.'),(27011035,27,11,35,'And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.'),(27011036,27,11,36,'And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.'),(27011037,27,11,37,'He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all.'),(27011038,27,11,38,'But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.'),(27011039,27,11,39,'And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price.'),(27011040,27,11,40,'And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters.'),(27011041,27,11,41,'And he will come into the beautiful land, and tens of thousands will be overcome: but these will be kept from falling into his hands: Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon.'),(27011042,27,11,42,'And his hand will be stretched out on the countries: and the land of the south will not be safe from him.'),(27011043,27,11,43,'But he will have power over the stores of gold and silver, and over all the valued things of the south: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.'),(27011044,27,11,44,'But he will be troubled by news from the east and from the north; and he will go out in great wrath, to send destruction on, and put an end to, great numbers.'),(27011045,27,11,45,'He will put the tents of his great house between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain: but he will come to his end with no helper.'),(27012001,27,12,1,'And at that time Michael will take up his place, the great angel, who is the supporter of the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as there never was from the time there was a nation even till that same time: and at that time your people will be kept safe, everyone who is recorded in the book.'),(27012002,27,12,2,'And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.'),(27012003,27,12,3,'And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.'),(27012004,27,12,4,'But as for you, O Daniel, let the words be kept secret and the book rolled up and kept shut till the time of the end: numbers will be going out of the way and troubles will be increased.'),(27012005,27,12,5,'Then I, Daniel, looking, saw two others, one at the edge of the river on this side and one at the edge of the river on that side.'),(27012006,27,12,6,'And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the waters of the river, How long will it be to the end of these wonders?'),(27012007,27,12,7,'Then in my hearing the man clothed in linen, who was over the river, lifting up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, took an oath by him who is living for ever that it would be a time, times, and a half; and when the power of the crusher of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be ended.'),(27012008,27,12,8,'And the words came to my ears, but the sense of them was not clear to me: then I said, O my lord, what is the sense of these things?'),(27012009,27,12,9,'And he said, Go on your way, Daniel: for the words are secret and shut up till the time of the end;'),(27012010,27,12,10,'Till a number are tested and make themselves clean; and the evil-doers will do evil; for not one of the evil-doers will have knowledge; but all will be made clear to those who are wise.'),(27012011,27,12,11,'And from the time when the regular burned offering is taken away, and an unclean thing causing fear is put up, there will be a thousand, two hundred and ninety days.'),(27012012,27,12,12,'A blessing will be on the man who goes on waiting, and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days.'),(27012013,27,12,13,'But you, go on your way and take your rest: for you will be in your place at the end of the days.'),(28001001,28,1,1,'The word of the Lord which came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.'),(28001002,28,1,2,'The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.'),(28001003,28,1,3,'So he took as his wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she gave birth to a son.'),(28001004,28,1,4,'And the Lord said to him, Give him the name of Jezreel, for after a little time I will send punishment for the blood of Jezreel on the line of Jehu, and put an end to the kingdom of Israel.'),(28001005,28,1,5,'And in that day I will let the bow of Israel be broken in the valley of Jezreel.'),(28001006,28,1,6,'And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness.'),(28001007,28,1,7,'But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.'),(28001008,28,1,8,'Now when Lo-ruhamah had been taken from the breast, the woman gave birth to a son.'),(28001009,28,1,9,'And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.'),(28001010,28,1,10,'But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God'),(28001011,28,1,11,'And the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together and take for themselves one head, and will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.'),(28002001,28,2,1,'Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.'),(28002002,28,2,2,'Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;'),(28002003,28,2,3,'For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.'),(28002004,28,2,4,'And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.'),(28002005,28,2,5,'For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.'),(28002006,28,2,6,'For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.'),(28002007,28,2,7,'And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.'),(28002008,28,2,8,'For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.'),(28002009,28,2,9,'So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.'),(28002010,28,2,10,'And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.'),(28002011,28,2,11,'And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.'),(28002012,28,2,12,'And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.'),(28002013,28,2,13,'And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.'),(28002014,28,2,14,'For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.'),(28002015,28,2,15,'And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.'),(28002016,28,2,16,'And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;'),(28002017,28,2,17,'For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.'),(28002018,28,2,18,'And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.'),(28002019,28,2,19,'And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.'),(28002020,28,2,20,'I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.'),(28002021,28,2,21,'And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;'),(28002022,28,2,22,'And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;'),(28002023,28,2,23,'And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.'),(28003001,28,3,1,'And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.'),(28003002,28,3,2,'So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;'),(28003003,28,3,3,'And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.'),(28003004,28,3,4,'For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.'),(28003005,28,3,5,'And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.'),(28004001,28,4,1,'Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.'),(28004002,28,4,2,'There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.'),(28004003,28,4,3,'Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.'),(28004004,28,4,4,'Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.'),(28004005,28,4,5,'You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.'),(28004006,28,4,6,'Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.'),(28004007,28,4,7,'Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.'),(28004008,28,4,8,'The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.'),(28004009,28,4,9,'And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.'),(28004010,28,4,10,'They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.'),(28004011,28,4,11,'Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.'),(28004012,28,4,12,'My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.'),(28004013,28,4,13,'They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.'),(28004014,28,4,14,'I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.'),(28004015,28,4,15,'Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.'),(28004016,28,4,16,'For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.'),(28004017,28,4,17,'Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.'),(28004018,28,4,18,'Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.'),(28004019,28,4,19,'They are folded in the skirts of the wind; they will be shamed because of their offerings.'),(28005001,28,5,1,'Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.'),(28005002,28,5,2,'They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.'),(28005003,28,5,3,'I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.'),(28005004,28,5,4,'Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.'),(28005005,28,5,5,'And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.'),(28005006,28,5,6,'They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.'),(28005007,28,5,7,'They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.'),(28005008,28,5,8,'Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.'),(28005009,28,5,9,'Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.'),(28005010,28,5,10,'The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.'),(28005011,28,5,11,'Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.'),(28005012,28,5,12,'And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.'),(28005013,28,5,13,'When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.'),(28005014,28,5,14,'For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.'),(28005015,28,5,15,'I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.'),(28006001,28,6,1,'Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.'),(28006002,28,6,2,'After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.'),(28006003,28,6,3,'And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.'),(28006004,28,6,4,'O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.'),(28006005,28,6,5,'So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;'),(28006006,28,6,6,'Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.'),(28006007,28,6,7,'But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.'),(28006008,28,6,8,'Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.'),(28006009,28,6,9,'And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.'),(28006010,28,6,10,'In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;'),(28006011,28,6,11,'And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.'),(28007001,28,7,1,'When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.'),(28007002,28,7,2,'And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.'),(28007003,28,7,3,'In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.'),(28007004,28,7,4,'They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.'),(28007005,28,7,5,'On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.'),(28007006,28,7,6,'For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.'),(28007007,28,7,7,'They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.'),(28007008,28,7,8,'Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.'),(28007009,28,7,9,'Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.'),(28007010,28,7,10,'And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.'),(28007011,28,7,11,'And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.'),(28007012,28,7,12,'When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.'),(28007013,28,7,13,'May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.'),(28007014,28,7,14,'And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.'),(28007015,28,7,15,'Though I have given training and strength to their arms, they have evil designs against me.'),(28007016,28,7,16,'They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.'),(28008001,28,8,1,'Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.'),(28008002,28,8,2,'They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.'),(28008003,28,8,3,'Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.'),(28008004,28,8,4,'They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.'),(28008005,28,8,5,'I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?'),(28008006,28,8,6,'The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.'),(28008007,28,8,7,'For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.'),(28008008,28,8,8,'Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.'),(28008009,28,8,9,'For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.'),(28008010,28,8,10,'But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.'),(28008011,28,8,11,'Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.'),(28008012,28,8,12,'Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.'),(28008013,28,8,13,'He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.'),(28008014,28,8,14,'For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.'),(28009001,28,9,1,'Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman\'s reward on every grain-floor.'),(28009002,28,9,2,'The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.'),(28009003,28,9,3,'They will have no resting-place in the Lord\'s land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.'),(28009004,28,9,4,'They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.'),(28009005,28,9,5,'What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?'),(28009006,28,9,6,'For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.'),(28009007,28,9,7,'The days of punishment, the days of reward are come; Israel will be put to shame; the prophet is foolish, the man who has the spirit is off his head, because of your great sin.'),(28009008,28,9,8,'There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.'),(28009009,28,9,9,'They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.'),(28009010,28,9,10,'I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.'),(28009011,28,9,11,'As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.'),(28009012,28,9,12,'Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.'),(28009013,28,9,13,'As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.'),(28009014,28,9,14,'O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.'),(28009015,28,9,15,'All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.'),(28009016,28,9,16,'The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.'),(28009017,28,9,17,'My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.'),(28010001,28,10,1,'Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.'),(28010002,28,10,2,'Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.'),(28010003,28,10,3,'Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?'),(28010004,28,10,4,'Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.'),(28010005,28,10,5,'The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.'),(28010006,28,10,6,'And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.'),(28010007,28,10,7,'As for Samaria, her king is cut off, like mist on the water.'),(28010008,28,10,8,'And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.'),(28010009,28,10,9,'O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.'),(28010010,28,10,10,'I will come and give them punishment; and the peoples will come together against them when I give them the reward of their two sins.'),(28010011,28,10,11,'And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.'),(28010012,28,10,12,'Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.'),(28010013,28,10,13,'You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.'),(28010014,28,10,14,'So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.'),(28010015,28,10,15,'So will Beth-el do to you because of your evil-doing; at dawn will the king of Israel be cut off completely.'),(28011001,28,11,1,'When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.'),(28011002,28,11,2,'When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.'),(28011003,28,11,3,'But I was guiding Ephraim\'s footsteps; I took them up in my arms, but they were not conscious that I was ready to make them well.'),(28011004,28,11,4,'I made them come after me with the cords of a man, with the bands of love; I was to them as one who took the yoke from off their mouths, putting meat before them.'),(28011005,28,11,5,'He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.'),(28011006,28,11,6,'And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.'),(28011007,28,11,7,'My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.'),(28011008,28,11,8,'How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.'),(28011009,28,11,9,'I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.'),(28011010,28,11,10,'They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;'),(28011011,28,11,11,'Shaking with fear like a bird, they will come out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will give them rest in their houses, says the Lord.'),(28012001,28,12,1,'The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...'),(28012002,28,12,2,'Ephraim\'s food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.'),(28012003,28,12,3,'The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.'),(28012004,28,12,4,'In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;'),(28012005,28,12,5,'He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;'),(28012006,28,12,6,'Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.'),(28012007,28,12,7,'So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.'),(28012008,28,12,8,'As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.'),(28012009,28,12,9,'And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.'),(28012010,28,12,10,'But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.'),(28012011,28,12,11,'My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.'),(28012012,28,12,12,'In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.'),(28012013,28,12,13,'And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.'),(28012014,28,12,14,'And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.'),(28012015,28,12,15,'I have been bitterly moved to wrath by Ephraim; so that his blood will be on him, and the Lord will make his shame come back on him.'),(28013001,28,13,1,'When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.'),(28013002,28,13,2,'And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.'),(28013003,28,13,3,'So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.'),(28013004,28,13,4,'But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.'),(28013005,28,13,5,'I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.'),(28013006,28,13,6,'When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.'),(28013007,28,13,7,'So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;'),(28013008,28,13,8,'I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.'),(28013009,28,13,9,'I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?'),(28013010,28,13,10,'Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.'),(28013011,28,13,11,'I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.'),(28013012,28,13,12,'The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.'),(28013013,28,13,13,'The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.'),(28013014,28,13,14,'I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.'),(28013015,28,13,15,'Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.'),(28014001,28,14,1,'Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.'),(28014002,28,14,2,'O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.'),(28014003,28,14,3,'Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.'),(28014004,28,14,4,'Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.'),(28014005,28,14,5,'I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.'),(28014006,28,14,6,'I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.'),(28014007,28,14,7,'His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.'),(28014008,28,14,8,'They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon.'),(28014009,28,14,9,'As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.'),(28014010,28,14,10,'He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.'),(29001001,29,1,1,'The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.'),(29001002,29,1,2,'Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?'),(29001003,29,1,3,'Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.'),(29001004,29,1,4,'What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.'),(29001005,29,1,5,'Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.'),(29001006,29,1,6,'For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.'),(29001007,29,1,7,'By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.'),(29001008,29,1,8,'Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.'),(29001009,29,1,9,'The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord\'s servants, are sorrowing.'),(29001010,29,1,10,'The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.'),(29001011,29,1,11,'The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.'),(29001012,29,1,12,'The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.'),(29001013,29,1,13,'Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.'),(29001014,29,1,14,'Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.'),(29001015,29,1,15,'Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.'),(29001016,29,1,16,'Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?'),(29001017,29,1,17,'The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.'),(29001018,29,1,18,'What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.'),(29001019,29,1,19,'O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.'),(29001020,29,1,20,'The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.'),(29002001,29,2,1,'Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;'),(29002002,29,2,2,'For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.'),(29002003,29,2,3,'Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.'),(29002004,29,2,4,'Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.'),(29002005,29,2,5,'Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.'),(29002006,29,2,6,'At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.'),(29002007,29,2,7,'They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.'),(29002008,29,2,8,'No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.'),(29002009,29,2,9,'They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.'),(29002010,29,2,10,'The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:'),(29002011,29,2,11,'And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?'),(29002012,29,2,12,'But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:'),(29002013,29,2,13,'Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.'),(29002014,29,2,14,'May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?'),(29002015,29,2,15,'Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:'),(29002016,29,2,16,'Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.'),(29002017,29,2,17,'Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?'),(29002018,29,2,18,'Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.'),(29002019,29,2,19,'And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:'),(29002020,29,2,20,'I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.'),(29002021,29,2,21,'Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.'),(29002022,29,2,22,'Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.'),(29002023,29,2,23,'Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.'),(29002024,29,2,24,'And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.'),(29002025,29,2,25,'I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.'),(29002026,29,2,26,'You will have food in full measure, and give praise to the name of the Lord your God, who has done wonders for you:'),(29002027,29,2,27,'And you will be certain that I am in Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other: and my people will never be shamed.'),(29003001,29,3,1,'And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:'),(29003002,29,3,2,'And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will send my spirit.'),(29003003,29,3,3,'And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.'),(29003004,29,3,4,'The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.'),(29003005,29,3,5,'And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.'),(29003006,29,3,6,'For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,'),(29003007,29,3,7,'I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.'),(29003008,29,3,8,'And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.'),(29003009,29,3,9,'And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,'),(29003010,29,3,10,'For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.'),(29003011,29,3,11,'And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:'),(29003012,29,3,12,'See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;'),(29003013,29,3,13,'I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.'),(29003014,29,3,14,'Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.'),(29003015,29,3,15,'Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.'),(29003016,29,3,16,'Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.'),(29003017,29,3,17,'Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.'),(29003018,29,3,18,'Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.'),(29003019,29,3,19,'Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.'),(29003020,29,3,20,'The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining.'),(29003021,29,3,21,'And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.'),(29003022,29,3,22,'And you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will ever again go through her.'),(29003023,29,3,23,'And it will come about in that day that the mountains will be dropping sweet wine, and the hills will be flowing with milk, and all the streams of Judah will be flowing with water; and a fountain will come out from the house of the Lord, watering the valley of acacia-trees.'),(29003024,29,3,24,'Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.'),(29003025,29,3,25,'But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.'),(29003026,29,3,26,'And I will send punishment for their blood, for which punishment has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion.'),(30001001,30,1,1,'The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa; what he saw about Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earth-shock.'),(30001002,30,1,2,'And he said, The Lord will give a lion\'s cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.'),(30001003,30,1,3,'These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.'),(30001004,30,1,4,'And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.'),(30001005,30,1,5,'And I will have the locks of the door of Damascus broken, and him who is seated in power cut off from the valley of Aven, and him in whose hand is the rod from the house of Eden; and the people of Aram will go away as prisoners into Kir, says the Lord.'),(30001006,30,1,6,'These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they took all the people away prisoners, to give them up to Edom.'),(30001007,30,1,7,'And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, burning up its great houses:'),(30001008,30,1,8,'Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod, and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will come to destruction, says the Lord God.'),(30001009,30,1,9,'These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers\' agreement between them.'),(30001010,30,1,10,'And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, burning up its great houses.'),(30001011,30,1,11,'These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever.'),(30001012,30,1,12,'And I will send a fire on Teman, burning up the great houses of Bozrah.'),(30001013,30,1,13,'These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because in Gilead they had women with child cut open, so that they might make wider the limits of their land.'),(30001014,30,1,14,'And I will make a fire in the wall of Rabbah, burning up its great houses, with loud cries in the days of war, with a storm in the day of the great wind:'),(30001015,30,1,15,'And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.'),(30002001,30,2,1,'These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.'),(30002002,30,2,2,'And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:'),(30002003,30,2,3,'And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.'),(30002004,30,2,4,'These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.'),(30002005,30,2,5,'And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.'),(30002006,30,2,6,'These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;'),(30002007,30,2,7,'Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:'),(30002008,30,2,8,'By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.'),(30002009,30,2,9,'Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.'),(30002010,30,2,10,'And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.'),(30002011,30,2,11,'And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.'),(30002012,30,2,12,'But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.'),(30002013,30,2,13,'See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.'),(30002014,30,2,14,'And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:'),(30002015,30,2,15,'And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.'),(30002016,30,2,16,'And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.'),(30003001,30,3,1,'Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,'),(30003002,30,3,2,'You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.'),(30003003,30,3,3,'Is it possible for two to go walking together, if not by agreement?'),(30003004,30,3,4,'Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?'),(30003005,30,3,5,'Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?'),(30003006,30,3,6,'If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?'),(30003007,30,3,7,'Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.'),(30003008,30,3,8,'The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?'),(30003009,30,3,9,'Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel acts are done in it.'),(30003010,30,3,10,'For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.'),(30003011,30,3,11,'For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come, shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come down and your great houses will be made waste.'),(30003012,30,3,12,'These are the words of the Lord: As the keeper of sheep takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs or part of an ear; so will the children of Israel be made safe, who are resting in Samaria on seats of honour or on the silk cushions of a bed.'),(30003013,30,3,13,'Give ear now, and give witness against the family of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of armies;'),(30003014,30,3,14,'For in the day when I give Israel punishment for his sins, I will send punishment on the altars of Beth-el, and the horns of the altar will be cut off and come down to the earth.'),(30003015,30,3,15,'And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.'),(30004001,30,4,1,'Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.'),(30004002,30,4,2,'The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.'),(30004003,30,4,3,'And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.'),(30004004,30,4,4,'Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:'),(30004005,30,4,5,'Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.'),(30004006,30,4,6,'But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.'),(30004007,30,4,7,'And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.'),(30004008,30,4,8,'So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.'),(30004009,30,4,9,'I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.'),(30004010,30,4,10,'I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.'),(30004011,30,4,11,'And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.'),(30004012,30,4,12,'So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.'),(30004013,30,4,13,'For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.'),(30005001,30,5,1,'Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.'),(30005002,30,5,2,'The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.'),(30005003,30,5,3,'For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.'),(30005004,30,5,4,'For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:'),(30005005,30,5,5,'Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.'),(30005006,30,5,6,'Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.'),(30005007,30,5,7,'You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;'),(30005008,30,5,8,'Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;'),(30005009,30,5,9,'Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.'),(30005010,30,5,10,'They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.'),(30005011,30,5,11,'So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.'),(30005012,30,5,12,'For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.'),(30005013,30,5,13,'So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time.'),(30005014,30,5,14,'Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.'),(30005015,30,5,15,'Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.'),(30005016,30,5,16,'So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.'),(30005017,30,5,17,'In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.'),(30005018,30,5,18,'Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.'),(30005019,30,5,19,'As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.'),(30005020,30,5,20,'Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?'),(30005021,30,5,21,'Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.'),(30005022,30,5,22,'Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.'),(30005023,30,5,23,'Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.'),(30005024,30,5,24,'But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.'),(30005025,30,5,25,'Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?'),(30005026,30,5,26,'Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.'),(30005027,30,5,27,'And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.'),(30006001,30,6,1,'Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!'),(30006002,30,6,2,'Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?'),(30006003,30,6,3,'You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;'),(30006004,30,6,4,'Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;'),(30006005,30,6,5,'Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;'),(30006006,30,6,6,'Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.'),(30006007,30,6,7,'So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.'),(30006008,30,6,8,'The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.'),(30006009,30,6,9,'Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.'),(30006010,30,6,10,'And when a man\'s relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.'),(30006011,30,6,11,'For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.'),(30006012,30,6,12,'Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?'),(30006013,30,6,13,'You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?'),(30006014,30,6,14,'For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.'),(30007001,30,7,1,'This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king\'s cutting was done.'),(30007002,30,7,2,'And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.'),(30007003,30,7,3,'The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.'),(30007004,30,7,4,'This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord\'s heritage.'),(30007005,30,7,5,'Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.'),(30007006,30,7,6,'The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be.'),(30007007,30,7,7,'This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.'),(30007008,30,7,8,'And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:'),(30007009,30,7,9,'And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.'),(30007010,30,7,10,'Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.'),(30007011,30,7,11,'For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.'),(30007012,30,7,12,'And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:'),(30007013,30,7,13,'But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king\'s house.'),(30007014,30,7,14,'Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:'),(30007015,30,7,15,'And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.'),(30007016,30,7,16,'Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.'),(30007017,30,7,17,'So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.'),(30008001,30,8,1,'This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.'),(30008002,30,8,2,'And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.'),(30008003,30,8,3,'And the songs of the king\'s house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.'),(30008004,30,8,4,'Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,'),(30008005,30,8,5,'Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;'),(30008006,30,8,6,'Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.'),(30008007,30,8,7,'The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.'),(30008008,30,8,8,'Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.'),(30008009,30,8,9,'And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:'),(30008010,30,8,10,'Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.'),(30008011,30,8,11,'See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.'),(30008012,30,8,12,'And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.'),(30008013,30,8,13,'In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.'),(30008014,30,8,14,'Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.'),(30009001,30,9,1,'I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.'),(30009002,30,9,2,'Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:'),(30009003,30,9,3,'Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:'),(30009004,30,9,4,'And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.'),(30009005,30,9,5,'For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will go down again like the River of Egypt;'),(30009006,30,9,6,'It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.'),(30009007,30,9,7,'Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Have I not taken Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Aramaeans from Kir?'),(30009008,30,9,8,'See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.'),(30009009,30,9,9,'For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.'),(30009010,30,9,10,'All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.'),(30009011,30,9,11,'In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;'),(30009012,30,9,12,'So that the rest of Edom may be their heritage, and all the nations who have been named by my name, says the Lord, who is doing this.'),(30009013,30,9,13,'See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.'),(30009014,30,9,14,'And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.'),(30009015,30,9,15,'And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.'),(31001001,31,1,1,'The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.'),(31001002,31,1,2,'See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on.'),(31001003,31,1,3,'You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?'),(31001004,31,1,4,'Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.'),(31001005,31,1,5,'If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?'),(31001006,31,1,6,'How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!'),(31001007,31,1,7,'All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.'),(31001008,31,1,8,'Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau?'),(31001009,31,1,9,'And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.'),(31001010,31,1,10,'Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever.'),(31001011,31,1,11,'Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.'),(31001012,31,1,12,'Do not see with pleasure your brother\'s evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.'),(31001013,31,1,13,'Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall.'),(31001014,31,1,14,'And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble.'),(31001015,31,1,15,'For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.'),(31001016,31,1,16,'For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.'),(31001017,31,1,17,'But in Mount Zion some will be kept safe, and it will be holy; and the children of Jacob will take their heritage.'),(31001018,31,1,18,'And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.'),(31001019,31,1,19,'And they will take the South, and the lowland, and the country of Ephraim, and Gilead, as their heritage.'),(31001020,31,1,20,'And those of the children of Israel who were the first to be taken away as prisoners, will have their heritage among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and those who were taken away from Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will have the towns of the South.'),(31001021,31,1,21,'And those who have been kept safe will come up from Mount Zion to be judges of the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom will be the Lord\'s.'),(32001001,32,1,1,'And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,'),(32001002,32,1,2,'Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.'),(32001003,32,1,3,'And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.'),(32001004,32,1,4,'And the Lord sent out a great wind on to the sea and there was a violent storm in the sea, so that the ship seemed in danger of being broken.'),(32001005,32,1,5,'Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.'),(32001006,32,1,6,'And the ship\'s captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.'),(32001007,32,1,7,'And they said to one another, Come, let us put this to the decision of chance and see on whose account this evil has come on us. So they did so, and Jonah was seen to be the man.'),(32001008,32,1,8,'Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?'),(32001009,32,1,9,'And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.'),(32001010,32,1,10,'And the men were in great fear, and they said to him, What is this you have done? For the men had knowledge of his flight from the Lord because he had not kept it from them.'),(32001011,32,1,11,'And they said to him, What are we to do to you so that the sea may become calm for us? For the sea was getting rougher and rougher.'),(32001012,32,1,12,'And he said to them, Take me up and put me into the sea, and the sea will become calm for you: for I am certain that because of me this great storm has come on you.'),(32001013,32,1,13,'And the men were working hard to get back to the land, but they were not able to do so: for the sea got rougher and rougher against them.'),(32001014,32,1,14,'So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man\'s life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.'),(32001015,32,1,15,'So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.'),(32001016,32,1,16,'Then great was the men\'s fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.'),(32002001,32,2,1,'And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.'),(32002002,32,2,2,'Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,'),(32002003,32,2,3,'In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.'),(32002004,32,2,4,'For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.'),(32002005,32,2,5,'And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?'),(32002006,32,2,6,'The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.'),(32002007,32,2,7,'I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.'),(32002008,32,2,8,'When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.'),(32002009,32,2,9,'The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.'),(32002010,32,2,10,'But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord\'s.'),(32002011,32,2,11,'And at the Lord\'s order, the fish sent Jonah out of its mouth on to the dry land.'),(32003001,32,3,1,'And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,'),(32003002,32,3,2,'Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.'),(32003003,32,3,3,'So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days\' journey from end to end.'),(32003004,32,3,4,'And Jonah first of all went a day\'s journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.'),(32003005,32,3,5,'And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.'),(32003006,32,3,6,'And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.'),(32003007,32,3,7,'And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:'),(32003008,32,3,8,'And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.'),(32003009,32,3,9,'Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?'),(32003010,32,3,10,'And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God\'s purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.'),(32004001,32,4,1,'But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.'),(32004002,32,4,2,'And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.'),(32004003,32,4,3,'So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.'),(32004004,32,4,4,'And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?'),(32004005,32,4,5,'Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.'),(32004006,32,4,6,'And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.'),(32004007,32,4,7,'But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.'),(32004008,32,4,8,'Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.'),(32004009,32,4,9,'And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.'),(32004010,32,4,10,'And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;'),(32004011,32,4,11,'And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?'),(33001001,33,1,1,'The word of the Lord which came to Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: his vision about Samaria and Jerusalem.'),(33001002,33,1,2,'Give ear, you peoples, all of you; give attention, O earth and everything in it: let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy Temple.'),(33001003,33,1,3,'For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.'),(33001004,33,1,4,'And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.'),(33001005,33,1,5,'All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?'),(33001006,33,1,6,'So I will make Samaria into a field and the plantings of a vine-garden: I will send its stones falling down into the valley, uncovering its bases.'),(33001007,33,1,7,'And all her pictured images will be hammered into bits, and all the payments for her loose ways will be burned with fire, and all the images of her gods I will make waste: for with the price of a loose woman she got them together, and as the price of a loose woman will they be given back.'),(33001008,33,1,8,'For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.'),(33001009,33,1,9,'For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.'),(33001010,33,1,10,'Give no word of it in Gath, let there be no weeping at all: at Beth-le-aphrah be rolling in the dust.'),(33001011,33,1,11,'Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.'),(33001012,33,1,12,'For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.'),(33001013,33,1,13,'Let the war-carriage be yoked to the quick-running horse, you who are living in Lachish: she was the first cause of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the wrongdoings of Israel were seen in you.'),(33001014,33,1,14,'For this cause give a parting offering to Moresheth-gath: the daughter of Achzib will be a deceit to the king of Israel.'),(33001015,33,1,15,'Even now will the taker of your heritage come to you, you who are living in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will come to destruction for ever.'),(33001016,33,1,16,'Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle\'s; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.'),(33002001,33,2,1,'A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.'),(33002002,33,2,2,'They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.'),(33002003,33,2,3,'For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.'),(33002004,33,2,4,'In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.'),(33002005,33,2,5,'For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.'),(33002006,33,2,6,'Let not words like these be dropped, they say: Shame and the curse will not come to the family of Jacob!'),(33002007,33,2,7,'Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel?'),(33002008,33,2,8,'As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.'),(33002009,33,2,9,'The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.'),(33002010,33,2,10,'Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.'),(33002011,33,2,11,'If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.'),(33002012,33,2,12,'I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.'),(33002013,33,2,13,'The opener of the way will go up before them: forcing their way out they will go on to the doorway and out through it: their king will go on before them, and the Lord at their head.'),(33003001,33,3,1,'And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?'),(33003002,33,3,2,'You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;'),(33003003,33,3,3,'Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.'),(33003004,33,3,4,'Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.'),(33003005,33,3,5,'This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.'),(33003006,33,3,6,'For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.'),(33003007,33,3,7,'And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.'),(33003008,33,3,8,'But I truly am full of the spirit of the Lord, with power of judging and with strength to make clear to Jacob his wrongdoing and to Israel his sin.'),(33003009,33,3,9,'Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.'),(33003010,33,3,10,'They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.'),(33003011,33,3,11,'Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.'),(33003012,33,3,12,'For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.'),(33004001,33,4,1,'But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord\'s house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and peoples will be flowing to it.'),(33004002,33,4,2,'And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.'),(33004003,33,4,3,'And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.'),(33004004,33,4,4,'But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.'),(33004005,33,4,5,'For all the peoples will be walking, every one in the name of his god, and we will be walking in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.'),(33004006,33,4,6,'In that day, says the Lord, I will get together her who goes with uncertain steps, I will get together her who has been sent away, and her on whom I have sent evil;'),(33004007,33,4,7,'And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.'),(33004008,33,4,8,'And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.'),(33004009,33,4,9,'Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:'),(33004010,33,4,10,'Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.'),(33004011,33,4,11,'And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.'),(33004012,33,4,12,'But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.'),(33004013,33,4,13,'Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.'),(33004014,33,4,14,'Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.'),(33005001,33,5,1,'And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.'),(33005002,33,5,2,'For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.'),(33005003,33,5,3,'And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.'),(33005004,33,5,4,'And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.'),(33005005,33,5,5,'And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.'),(33005006,33,5,6,'And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.'),(33005007,33,5,7,'And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.'),(33005008,33,5,8,'Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.'),(33005009,33,5,9,'And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction:'),(33005010,33,5,10,'I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:'),(33005011,33,5,11,'I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:'),(33005012,33,5,12,'And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.'),(33005013,33,5,13,'I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.'),(33005014,33,5,14,'And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.'),(33006001,33,6,1,'Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.'),(33006002,33,6,2,'Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord\'s cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.'),(33006003,33,6,3,'O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.'),(33006004,33,6,4,'For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.'),(33006005,33,6,5,'O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.'),(33006006,33,6,6,'With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?'),(33006007,33,6,7,'Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?'),(33006008,33,6,8,'He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.'),(33006009,33,6,9,'The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.'),(33006010,33,6,10,'Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?'),(33006011,33,6,11,'Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?'),(33006012,33,6,12,'For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.'),(33006013,33,6,13,'So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.'),(33006014,33,6,14,'You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.'),(33006015,33,6,15,'You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.'),(33006016,33,6,16,'For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.'),(33007001,33,7,1,'Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.'),(33007002,33,7,2,'The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.'),(33007003,33,7,3,'Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.'),(33007004,33,7,4,'The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.'),(33007005,33,7,5,'Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.'),(33007006,33,7,6,'For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man\'s haters are those of his family.'),(33007007,33,7,7,'But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.'),(33007008,33,7,8,'Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.'),(33007009,33,7,9,'I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;'),(33007010,33,7,10,'And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.'),(33007011,33,7,11,'A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.'),(33007012,33,7,12,'In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the towns of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.'),(33007013,33,7,13,'But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.'),(33007014,33,7,14,'Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.'),(33007015,33,7,15,'As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, let us see things of wonder.'),(33007016,33,7,16,'The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.'),(33007017,33,7,17,'They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.'),(33007018,33,7,18,'Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.'),(33007019,33,7,19,'He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.'),(33007020,33,7,20,'You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.'),(34001001,34,1,1,'The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.'),(34001002,34,1,2,'The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.'),(34001003,34,1,3,'The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.'),(34001004,34,1,4,'He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.'),(34001005,34,1,5,'The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.'),(34001006,34,1,6,'Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.'),(34001007,34,1,7,'The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.'),(34001008,34,1,8,'But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.'),(34001009,34,1,9,'What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.'),(34001010,34,1,10,'For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.'),(34001011,34,1,11,'One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.'),(34001012,34,1,12,'This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.'),(34001013,34,1,13,'And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.'),(34001014,34,1,14,'The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.'),(34002001,34,2,1,'See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.'),(34002002,34,2,2,'A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.'),(34002003,34,2,3,'For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.'),(34002004,34,2,4,'The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.'),(34002005,34,2,5,'The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.'),(34002006,34,2,6,'He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.'),(34002007,34,2,7,'The river doorways are forced open, and the king\'s house is flowing away.'),(34002008,34,2,8,'And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.'),(34002009,34,2,9,'But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.'),(34002010,34,2,10,'Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.'),(34002011,34,2,11,'Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.'),(34002012,34,2,12,'Where is the lions\' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?'),(34002013,34,2,13,'Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.'),(34002014,34,2,14,'See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.'),(34003001,34,3,1,'A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.'),(34003002,34,3,2,'The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,'),(34003003,34,3,3,'Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:'),(34003004,34,3,4,'Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.'),(34003005,34,3,5,'See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.'),(34003006,34,3,6,'I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.'),(34003007,34,3,7,'And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?'),(34003008,34,3,8,'Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?'),(34003009,34,3,9,'Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.'),(34003010,34,3,10,'But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.'),(34003011,34,3,11,'And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.'),(34003012,34,3,12,'All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.'),(34003013,34,3,13,'See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.'),(34003014,34,3,14,'Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter\'s earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.'),(34003015,34,3,15,'There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.'),(34003016,34,3,16,'Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:'),(34003017,34,3,17,'Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.'),(34003018,34,3,18,'Sorrow! how are the keepers of your flock sleeping, O king of Assyria! your strong men are at rest; your people are wandering on the mountains, and there is no one to get them together.'),(34003019,34,3,19,'Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?'),(35001001,35,1,1,'The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.'),(35001002,35,1,2,'How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.'),(35001003,35,1,3,'Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.'),(35001004,35,1,4,'For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.'),(35001005,35,1,5,'See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.'),(35001006,35,1,6,'For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.'),(35001007,35,1,7,'They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.'),(35001008,35,1,8,'And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.'),(35001009,35,1,9,'They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.'),(35001010,35,1,10,'He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.'),(35001011,35,1,11,'Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.'),(35001012,35,1,12,'Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.'),(35001013,35,1,13,'Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?'),(35001014,35,1,14,'He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.'),(35001015,35,1,15,'He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.'),(35001016,35,1,16,'For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.'),(35001017,35,1,17,'For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.'),(35002001,35,2,1,'I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.'),(35002002,35,2,2,'And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.'),(35002003,35,2,3,'For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.'),(35002004,35,2,4,'As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.'),(35002005,35,2,5,'A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.'),(35002006,35,2,6,'Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!'),(35002007,35,2,7,'Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?'),(35002008,35,2,8,'Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men\'s blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.'),(35002009,35,2,9,'A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!'),(35002010,35,2,10,'You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.'),(35002011,35,2,11,'For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.'),(35002012,35,2,12,'A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!'),(35002013,35,2,13,'See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?'),(35002014,35,2,14,'For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.'),(35002015,35,2,15,'A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!'),(35002016,35,2,16,'You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord\'s right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame.'),(35002017,35,2,17,'For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men\'s blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.'),(35002018,35,2,18,'What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?'),(35002019,35,2,19,'A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.'),(35002020,35,2,20,'But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.'),(35003001,35,3,1,'A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, put to Shigionoth.'),(35003002,35,3,2,'O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.'),(35003003,35,3,3,'God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. The heavens were covered with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise.'),(35003004,35,3,4,'He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.'),(35003005,35,3,5,'Before him went disease, and flames went out at his feet.'),(35003006,35,3,6,'From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.'),(35003007,35,3,7,'The curtains of Cushan were troubled, and the tents of Midian were shaking.'),(35003008,35,3,8,'Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation?'),(35003009,35,3,9,'Your bow was quite uncovered. Selah. By you the earth was cut through with rivers.'),(35003010,35,3,10,'The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.'),(35003011,35,3,11,'At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.'),(35003012,35,3,12,'You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.'),(35003013,35,3,13,'You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.'),(35003014,35,3,14,'You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.'),(35003015,35,3,15,'The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.'),(35003016,35,3,16,'Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.'),(35003017,35,3,17,'For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:'),(35003018,35,3,18,'Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.'),(35003019,35,3,19,'The Lord God is my strength, and he makes my feet like roes\' feet, guiding me on my high places. For the chief music-maker on corded instruments.'),(36001001,36,1,1,'The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.'),(36001002,36,1,2,'I will take away everything from the face of the earth, says the Lord.'),(36001003,36,1,3,'I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.'),(36001004,36,1,4,'And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,'),(36001005,36,1,5,'And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord\'s worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,'),(36001006,36,1,6,'And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.'),(36001007,36,1,7,'Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.'),(36001008,36,1,8,'And it will come about in the day of the Lord\'s offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king\'s sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.'),(36001009,36,1,9,'And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master\'s house full of violent behaviour and deceit.'),(36001010,36,1,10,'And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;'),(36001011,36,1,11,'Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.'),(36001012,36,1,12,'And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.'),(36001013,36,1,13,'And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.'),(36001014,36,1,14,'The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.'),(36001015,36,1,15,'That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.'),(36001016,36,1,16,'A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.'),(36001017,36,1,17,'And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.'),(36001018,36,1,18,'Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord\'s wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.'),(36002001,36,2,1,'Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;'),(36002002,36,2,2,'Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord\'s wrath comes on you.'),(36002003,36,2,3,'Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord\'s wrath.'),(36002004,36,2,4,'For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.'),(36002005,36,2,5,'Sorrow to the people living by the sea, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will send destruction on you till there is no one living in you.'),(36002006,36,2,6,'And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.'),(36002007,36,2,7,'The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.'),(36002008,36,2,8,'My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.'),(36002009,36,2,9,'For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.'),(36002010,36,2,10,'This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.'),(36002011,36,2,11,'The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.'),(36002012,36,2,12,'And you Ethiopians will be put to death by my sword.'),(36002013,36,2,13,'And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.'),(36002014,36,2,14,'And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep.'),(36002015,36,2,15,'This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.'),(36003001,36,3,1,'Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!'),(36003002,36,3,2,'She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.'),(36003003,36,3,3,'Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.'),(36003004,36,3,4,'Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.'),(36003005,36,3,5,'The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.'),(36003006,36,3,6,'I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.'),(36003007,36,3,7,'I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.'),(36003008,36,3,8,'For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.'),(36003009,36,3,9,'For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.'),(36003010,36,3,10,'From over the rivers of Ethiopia, and from the sides of the north, they will come to me with an offering.'),(36003011,36,3,11,'In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.'),(36003012,36,3,12,'But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.'),(36003013,36,3,13,'The rest of Israel will do no evil and say no false words; the tongue of deceit will not be seen in their mouth: for they will take their food and their rest, and no one will be a cause of fear to them.'),(36003014,36,3,14,'Make melody, O daughter of Zion; give a loud cry, O Israel; be glad and let your heart be full of joy, O daughter of Jerusalem.'),(36003015,36,3,15,'The Lord has taken away those who were judging you, he has sent your haters far away: the King of Israel, even the Lord, is among you: you will have no more fear of evil.'),(36003016,36,3,16,'In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.'),(36003017,36,3,17,'The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.'),(36003018,36,3,18,'I will take away your troubles, lifting up your shame from off you.'),(36003019,36,3,19,'See, at that time I will put an end to all who have been troubling you: I will give salvation to her whose steps are uncertain, and get together her who has been sent in flight; and I will make them a cause of praise and an honoured name in all the earth, when I let their fate be changed.'),(36003020,36,3,20,'At that time I will make you come in, at that time I will get you together: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I let your fate be changed before your eyes, says the Lord.'),(37001001,37,1,1,'In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,'),(37001002,37,1,2,'These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord\'s house.'),(37001003,37,1,3,'Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,'),(37001004,37,1,4,'Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?'),(37001005,37,1,5,'For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.'),(37001006,37,1,6,'Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.'),(37001007,37,1,7,'This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.'),(37001008,37,1,8,'Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.'),(37001009,37,1,9,'You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.'),(37001010,37,1,10,'For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.'),(37001011,37,1,11,'And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man\'s hands.'),(37001012,37,1,12,'Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people, gave ear to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were in fear before the Lord.'),(37001013,37,1,13,'Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.'),(37001014,37,1,14,'And the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, was moved by the Lord, as was the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of armies, their God.'),(37001015,37,1,15,'On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.'),(37002001,37,2,1,'In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,'),(37002002,37,2,2,'Say now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the rest of the people,'),(37002003,37,2,3,'Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?'),(37002004,37,2,4,'But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the Lord, and get to work: for I am with you, says the Lord of armies:'),(37002005,37,2,5,'The agreement which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit, are with you still; have no fear.'),(37002006,37,2,6,'For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;'),(37002007,37,2,7,'And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies.'),(37002008,37,2,8,'The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.'),(37002009,37,2,9,'The second glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of armies.'),(37002010,37,2,10,'On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,'),(37002011,37,2,11,'These are the words of the Lord of armies: Put now a point of law to the priests, saying,'),(37002012,37,2,12,'If anyone has some holy flesh folded in the skirt of his robe, will bread or soup or wine or oil or any other food be made holy if touched by his skirt? And the priests answering said, No.'),(37002013,37,2,13,'Then Haggai said, Will any of these be made unclean by the touch of one who is unclean through touching a dead body? And the priests answering said, It will be made unclean.'),(37002014,37,2,14,'Then Haggai said, So is this people and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and the offering they give there is unclean.'),(37002015,37,2,15,'And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:'),(37002016,37,2,16,'How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.'),(37002017,37,2,17,'And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.'),(37002018,37,2,18,'And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord\'s house was put in its place, give thought to it.'),(37002019,37,2,19,'Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.'),(37002020,37,2,20,'And the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai, on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,'),(37002021,37,2,21,'Say to Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth,'),(37002022,37,2,22,'Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.'),(37002023,37,2,23,'In that day, says the Lord of armies, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the Lord, and will make you as a jewelled ring: for I have taken you to be mine, says the Lord of armies.'),(38001001,38,1,1,'In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,'),(38001002,38,1,2,'The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:'),(38001003,38,1,3,'And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.'),(38001004,38,1,4,'Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.'),(38001005,38,1,5,'Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?'),(38001006,38,1,6,'But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.'),(38001007,38,1,7,'On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,'),(38001008,38,1,8,'I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.'),(38001009,38,1,9,'Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.'),(38001010,38,1,10,'And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth.'),(38001011,38,1,11,'And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.'),(38001012,38,1,12,'Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?'),(38001013,38,1,13,'And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.'),(38001014,38,1,14,'And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.'),(38001015,38,1,15,'And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.'),(38001016,38,1,16,'So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.'),(38001017,38,1,17,'And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.'),(38002001,38,2,1,'And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.'),(38002002,38,2,2,'And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.'),(38002003,38,2,3,'And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.'),(38002004,38,2,4,'Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.'),(38002005,38,2,5,'And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.'),(38002006,38,2,6,'And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.'),(38002007,38,2,7,'And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and, meeting him,'),(38002008,38,2,8,'Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.'),(38002009,38,2,9,'For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her.'),(38002010,38,2,10,'Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.'),(38002011,38,2,11,'Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.'),(38002012,38,2,12,'For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.'),(38002013,38,2,13,'For at the shaking of my hand over them, their goods will be taken by those who were their servants: and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me.'),(38002014,38,2,14,'Give songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I will make my resting-place among you, says the Lord.'),(38002015,38,2,15,'And a number of nations will be joined to the Lord in that day, and will become my people; and I will be living among you, and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.'),(38002016,38,2,16,'And Judah will be the Lord\'s heritage in the holy land, and Jerusalem will again be his.'),(38002017,38,2,17,'Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.'),(38003001,38,3,1,'And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.'),(38003002,38,3,2,'And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord\'s word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?'),(38003003,38,3,3,'Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.'),(38003004,38,3,4,'And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;'),(38003005,38,3,5,'And let them put a clean head-dress on his head. So they put a clean head-dress on his head, clothing him with clean robes: and to him he said, See, I have taken your sin away from you.'),(38003006,38,3,6,'And the angel of the Lord made a statement to Joshua, and said,'),(38003007,38,3,7,'These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who are there.'),(38003008,38,3,8,'Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated before you; for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.'),(38003009,38,3,9,'For see, the stone which I have put before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: see, the design cut on it will be my work, says the Lord of armies, and I will take away the sin of that land in one day.'),(38003010,38,3,10,'In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another\'s guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.'),(38004001,38,4,1,'And the angel who was talking to me came again, awaking me as a man out of his sleep.'),(38004002,38,4,2,'And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it;'),(38004003,38,4,3,'And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.'),(38004004,38,4,4,'And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?'),(38004005,38,4,5,'Then the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said, Have you no knowledge of what these are? And I said, No, my lord.'),(38004006,38,4,6,'This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.'),(38004007,38,4,7,'Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.'),(38004008,38,4,8,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(38004009,38,4,9,'The hands of Zerubbabel have put the base of this house in place, and his hands will make it complete; and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.'),(38004010,38,4,10,'For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.'),(38004011,38,4,11,'And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?'),(38004012,38,4,12,'And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?'),(38004013,38,4,13,'And he said in answer to me, Have you no knowledge what these are? And I said, No, my lord.'),(38004014,38,4,14,'And he said, These are the two sons of oil, whose place is by the Lord of all the earth.'),(38005001,38,5,1,'Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.'),(38005002,38,5,2,'And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going through the air; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.'),(38005003,38,5,3,'Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.'),(38005004,38,5,4,'And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.'),(38005005,38,5,5,'And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.'),(38005006,38,5,6,'And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land.'),(38005007,38,5,7,'And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.'),(38005008,38,5,8,'And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.'),(38005009,38,5,9,'And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven.'),(38005010,38,5,10,'And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the ephah?'),(38005011,38,5,11,'And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.'),(38006001,38,6,1,'And again lifting up my eyes I saw four war-carriages coming out from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.'),(38006002,38,6,2,'In the first war-carriage were red horses; and in the second, black horses;'),(38006003,38,6,3,'And in the third, white horses; and in the fourth, horses of mixed colour.'),(38006004,38,6,4,'And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?'),(38006005,38,6,5,'And the angel, answering, said to me, These go out to the four winds of heaven from their place before the Lord of all the earth.'),(38006006,38,6,6,'The carriage in which are the black horses goes in the direction of the north country; the white go to the west; and those of mixed colour go in the direction of the south country.'),(38006007,38,6,7,'And the red ones go to the east; and they made request that they might go up and down through the earth: and he said, Go up and down through the earth. So they went up and down through the earth.'),(38006008,38,6,8,'Then crying out to me, he said, See, those who are going to the north country have given rest to the spirit of the Lord in the north country.'),(38006009,38,6,9,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(38006010,38,6,10,'Take the offerings of those who went away as prisoners, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, and from the family of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, who have come from Babylon;'),(38006011,38,6,11,'And take silver and gold and make a crown and put it on the head of Zerubbabel;'),