(20023022,20,23,22,'Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.'),(20023023,20,23,23,'Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.'),(20023024,20,23,24,'The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.'),(20023025,20,23,25,'Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.'),(20023026,20,23,26,'My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.'),(20023027,20,23,27,'For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.'),(20023028,20,23,28,'Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.'),(20023029,20,23,29,'Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?'),(20023030,20,23,30,'Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.'),(20023031,20,23,31,'Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:'),(20023032,20,23,32,'In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.'),(20023033,20,23,33,'Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.'),(20023034,20,23,34,'Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.'),(20023035,20,23,35,'They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.'),(20024001,20,24,1,'Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:'),(20024002,20,24,2,'For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.'),(20024003,20,24,3,'The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:'),(20024004,20,24,4,'And by knowledge its rooms are full of all dear and pleasing things.'),(20024005,20,24,5,'A wise man is strong; and a man of knowledge makes strength greater.'),(20024006,20,24,6,'For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.'),(20024007,20,24,7,'Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.'),(20024008,20,24,8,'He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.'),(20024009,20,24,9,'The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.'),(20024010,20,24,10,'If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.'),(20024011,20,24,11,'Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.'),(20024012,20,24,12,'If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?'),(20024013,20,24,13,'My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:'),(20024014,20,24,14,'So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.'),(20024015,20,24,15,'Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:'),(20024016,20,24,16,'For an upright man, after falling seven times, will get up again: but trouble is the downfall of the evil.'),(20024017,20,24,17,'Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:'),(20024018,20,24,18,'For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.'),(20024019,20,24,19,'Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:'),(20024020,20,24,20,'For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.'),(20024021,20,24,21,'My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:'),(20024022,20,24,22,'For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?'),(20024023,20,24,23,'These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person\'s position when judging is not good.'),(20024024,20,24,24,'He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.'),(20024025,20,24,25,'But those who say sharp words to him will have delight, and a blessing of good will come on them.'),(20024026,20,24,26,'He gives a kiss with his lips who gives a right answer.'),(20024027,20,24,27,'Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.'),(20024028,20,24,28,'Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.'),(20024029,20,24,29,'Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.'),(20024030,20,24,30,'I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;'),(20024031,20,24,31,'And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.'),(20024032,20,24,32,'Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.'),(20024033,20,24,33,'A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:'),(20024034,20,24,34,'So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.'),(20025001,20,25,1,'These are more wise sayings of Solomon, copied out by the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah.'),(20025002,20,25,2,'It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.'),(20025003,20,25,3,'The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.'),(20025004,20,25,4,'Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.'),(20025005,20,25,5,'Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.'),(20025006,20,25,6,'Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:'),(20025007,20,25,7,'For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.'),(20025008,20,25,8,'Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?'),(20025009,20,25,9,'Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:'),(20025010,20,25,10,'Or your hearer may say evil of you, and your shame will not be turned away.'),(20025011,20,25,11,'A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.'),(20025012,20,25,12,'Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.'),(20025013,20,25,13,'As the cold of snow in the time of grain-cutting, so is a true servant to those who send him; for he gives new life to the soul of his master.'),(20025014,20,25,14,'As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.'),(20025015,20,25,15,'A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.'),(20025016,20,25,16,'If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.'),(20025017,20,25,17,'Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour\'s house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.'),(20025018,20,25,18,'One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.'),(20025019,20,25,19,'Putting one\'s faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.'),(20025020,20,25,20,'Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.'),(20025021,20,25,21,'If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:'),(20025022,20,25,22,'For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.'),(20025023,20,25,23,'As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.'),(20025024,20,25,24,'It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.'),(20025025,20,25,25,'As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.'),(20025026,20,25,26,'Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.'),(20025027,20,25,27,'It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.'),(20025028,20,25,28,'He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.'),(20026001,20,26,1,'Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.'),(20026002,20,26,2,'As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.'),(20026003,20,26,3,'A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.'),(20026004,20,26,4,'Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.'),(20026005,20,26,5,'Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.'),(20026006,20,26,6,'He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.'),(20026007,20,26,7,'The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.'),(20026008,20,26,8,'Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.'),(20026009,20,26,9,'Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.'),(20026010,20,26,10,'Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.'),(20026011,20,26,11,'Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.'),(20026012,20,26,12,'Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.'),(20026013,20,26,13,'The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.'),(20026014,20,26,14,'A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.'),(20026015,20,26,15,'The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.'),(20026016,20,26,16,'The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.'),(20026017,20,26,17,'He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.'),(20026018,20,26,18,'As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,'),(20026019,20,26,19,'So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?'),(20026020,20,26,20,'Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.'),(20026021,20,26,21,'Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.'),(20026022,20,26,22,'The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.'),(20026023,20,26,23,'Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.'),(20026024,20,26,24,'With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;'),(20026025,20,26,25,'When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:'),(20026026,20,26,26,'Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.'),(20026027,20,26,27,'He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.'),(20026028,20,26,28,'A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.'),(20027001,20,27,1,'Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day\'s outcome may be.'),(20027002,20,27,2,'Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.'),(20027003,20,27,3,'A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.'),(20027004,20,27,4,'Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?'),(20027005,20,27,5,'Better is open protest than love kept secret.'),(20027006,20,27,6,'The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.'),(20027007,20,27,7,'The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.'),(20027008,20,27,8,'Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.'),(20027009,20,27,9,'Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.'),(20027010,20,27,10,'Do not give up your friend and your father\'s friend; and do not go into your brother\'s house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.'),(20027011,20,27,11,'My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.'),(20027012,20,27,12,'The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.'),(20027013,20,27,13,'Take a man\'s clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.'),(20027014,20,27,14,'He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.'),(20027015,20,27,15,'Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.'),(20027016,20,27,16,'He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.'),(20027017,20,27,17,'Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.'),(20027018,20,27,18,'Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.'),(20027019,20,27,19,'Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.'),(20027020,20,27,20,'The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.'),(20027021,20,27,21,'The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.'),(20027022,20,27,22,'Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.'),(20027023,20,27,23,'Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;'),(20027024,20,27,24,'For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.'),(20027025,20,27,25,'The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.'),(20027026,20,27,26,'The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:'),(20027027,20,27,27,'There will be goats\' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.'),(20028001,20,28,1,'The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.'),(20028002,20,28,2,'Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.'),(20028003,20,28,3,'A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.'),(20028004,20,28,4,'Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.'),(20028005,20,28,5,'Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.'),(20028006,20,28,6,'Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.'),(20028007,20,28,7,'He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.'),(20028008,20,28,8,'He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.'),(20028009,20,28,9,'As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.'),(20028010,20,28,10,'Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.'),(20028011,20,28,11,'The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.'),(20028012,20,28,12,'When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.'),(20028013,20,28,13,'He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.'),(20028014,20,28,14,'Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.'),(20028015,20,28,15,'Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.'),(20028016,20,28,16,'The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.'),(20028017,20,28,17,'One who has been the cause of a man\'s death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.'),(20028018,20,28,18,'He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.'),(20028019,20,28,19,'By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.'),(20028020,20,28,20,'A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.'),(20028021,20,28,21,'It is not good to have respect for a man\'s position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.'),(20028022,20,28,22,'He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.'),(20028023,20,28,23,'He who says words of protest to a man will later have more approval than one who says smooth words with his tongue.'),(20028024,20,28,24,'He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.'),(20028025,20,28,25,'He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.'),(20028026,20,28,26,'He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.'),(20028027,20,28,27,'He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.'),(20028028,20,28,28,'When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.'),(20029001,20,29,1,'A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.'),(20029002,20,29,2,'When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.'),(20029003,20,29,3,'A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.'),(20029004,20,29,4,'A king, by right rule, makes the land safe; but one full of desires makes it a waste.'),(20029005,20,29,5,'A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.'),(20029006,20,29,6,'In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.'),(20029007,20,29,7,'The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.'),(20029008,20,29,8,'Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.'),(20029009,20,29,9,'If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.'),(20029010,20,29,10,'Men of blood are haters of the good man, and evil-doers go after his soul.'),(20029011,20,29,11,'A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.'),(20029012,20,29,12,'If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.'),(20029013,20,29,13,'The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.'),(20029014,20,29,14,'The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.'),(20029015,20,29,15,'The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.'),(20029016,20,29,16,'When evil men are in power, wrongdoing is increased; but the upright will have pleasure when they see their downfall.'),(20029017,20,29,17,'Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.'),(20029018,20,29,18,'Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.'),(20029019,20,29,19,'A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.'),(20029020,20,29,20,'Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.'),(20029021,20,29,21,'If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.'),(20029022,20,29,22,'An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.'),(20029023,20,29,23,'A man\'s pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.'),(20029024,20,29,24,'A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.'),(20029025,20,29,25,'The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.'),(20029026,20,29,26,'The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man\'s cause comes from the Lord.'),(20029027,20,29,27,'An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.'),(20030001,20,30,1,'The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh, from Massa. The man says: I am full of weariness, O God, I am full of weariness; O God, I have come to an end:'),(20030002,20,30,2,'For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:'),(20030003,20,30,3,'I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.'),(20030004,20,30,4,'Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son\'s name, if you are able to say?'),(20030005,20,30,5,'Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.'),(20030006,20,30,6,'Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.'),(20030007,20,30,7,'I have made request to you for two things; do not keep them from me before my death:'),(20030008,20,30,8,'Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:'),(20030009,20,30,9,'For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.'),(20030010,20,30,10,'Do not say evil of a servant to his master, or he will put a curse on you, and you will get into trouble.'),(20030011,20,30,11,'There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.'),(20030012,20,30,12,'There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.'),(20030013,20,30,13,'There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!'),(20030014,20,30,14,'There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.'),(20030015,20,30,15,'The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:'),(20030016,20,30,16,'The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.'),(20030017,20,30,17,'The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.'),(20030018,20,30,18,'There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:'),(20030019,20,30,19,'The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.'),(20030020,20,30,20,'This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.'),(20030021,20,30,21,'For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:'),(20030022,20,30,22,'A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;'),(20030023,20,30,23,'A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master\'s wife.'),(20030024,20,30,24,'There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise:'),(20030025,20,30,25,'The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;'),(20030026,20,30,26,'The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;'),(20030027,20,30,27,'The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;'),(20030028,20,30,28,'You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings\' houses.'),(20030029,20,30,29,'There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:'),(20030030,20,30,30,'The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;'),(20030031,20,30,31,'The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.'),(20030032,20,30,32,'If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.'),(20030033,20,30,33,'The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.'),(20031001,20,31,1,'The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.'),(20031002,20,31,2,'What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?'),(20031003,20,31,3,'Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.'),(20031004,20,31,4,'It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?'),(20031005,20,31,5,'For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.'),(20031006,20,31,6,'Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:'),(20031007,20,31,7,'Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.'),(20031008,20,31,8,'Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.'),(20031009,20,31,9,'Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.'),(20031010,20,31,10,'Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.'),(20031011,20,31,11,'The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.'),(20031012,20,31,12,'She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.'),(20031013,20,31,13,'She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.'),(20031014,20,31,14,'She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.'),(20031015,20,31,15,'She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls.'),(20031016,20,31,16,'After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work.'),(20031017,20,31,17,'She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.'),(20031018,20,31,18,'She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.'),(20031019,20,31,19,'She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.'),(20031020,20,31,20,'Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.'),(20031021,20,31,21,'She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.'),(20031022,20,31,22,'She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.'),(20031023,20,31,23,'Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.'),(20031024,20,31,24,'She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price.'),(20031025,20,31,25,'Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.'),(20031026,20,31,26,'Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.'),(20031027,20,31,27,'She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.'),(20031028,20,31,28,'Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,'),(20031029,20,31,29,'Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.'),(20031030,20,31,30,'Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.'),(20031031,20,31,31,'Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.'),(21001001,21,1,1,'The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.'),(21001002,21,1,2,'All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.'),(21001003,21,1,3,'What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?'),(21001004,21,1,4,'One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.'),(21001005,21,1,5,'The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.'),(21001006,21,1,6,'The wind goes to the south, turning back again to the north; circling round for ever.'),(21001007,21,1,7,'All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.'),(21001008,21,1,8,'All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.'),(21001009,21,1,9,'That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.'),(21001010,21,1,10,'Is there anything of which men say, See, this is new? It has been in the old time which was before us.'),(21001011,21,1,11,'There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.'),(21001012,21,1,12,'I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.'),(21001013,21,1,13,'And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.'),(21001014,21,1,14,'I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.'),(21001015,21,1,15,'That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.'),(21001016,21,1,16,'I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.'),(21001017,21,1,17,'And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.'),(21001018,21,1,18,'Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.'),(21002001,21,2,1,'I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.'),(21002002,21,2,2,'Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?'),(21002003,21,2,3,'I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.'),(21002004,21,2,4,'I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.'),(21002005,21,2,5,'I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.'),(21002006,21,2,6,'I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.'),(21002007,21,2,7,'I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.'),(21002008,21,2,8,'I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.'),(21002009,21,2,9,'And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.'),(21002010,21,2,10,'And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.'),(21002011,21,2,11,'Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.'),(21002012,21,2,12,'And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.'),(21002013,21,2,13,'Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.'),(21002014,21,2,14,'The wise man\'s eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.'),(21002015,21,2,15,'Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.'),(21002016,21,2,16,'Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!'),(21002017,21,2,17,'So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.'),(21002018,21,2,18,'Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.'),(21002019,21,2,19,'And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.'),(21002020,21,2,20,'So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.'),(21002021,21,2,21,'Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.'),(21002022,21,2,22,'What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?'),(21002023,21,2,23,'All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.'),(21002024,21,2,24,'There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.'),(21002025,21,2,25,'Who may take food or have pleasure without him?'),(21002026,21,2,26,'To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.'),(21003001,21,3,1,'For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.'),(21003002,21,3,2,'A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;'),(21003003,21,3,3,'A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;'),(21003004,21,3,4,'A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;'),(21003005,21,3,5,'A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;'),(21003006,21,3,6,'A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;'),(21003007,21,3,7,'A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;'),(21003008,21,3,8,'A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.'),(21003009,21,3,9,'What profit has the worker in the work which he does?'),(21003010,21,3,10,'I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.'),(21003011,21,3,11,'He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.'),(21003012,21,3,12,'I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.'),(21003013,21,3,13,'And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.'),(21003014,21,3,14,'I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.'),(21003015,21,3,15,'Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.'),(21003016,21,3,16,'And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.'),(21003017,21,3,17,'I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.'),(21003018,21,3,18,'I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.'),(21003019,21,3,19,'Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.'),(21003020,21,3,20,'All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.'),(21003021,21,3,21,'Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?'),(21003022,21,3,22,'So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?'),(21004001,21,4,1,'And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.'),(21004002,21,4,2,'So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.'),(21004003,21,4,3,'Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.'),(21004004,21,4,4,'And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man\'s envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.'),(21004005,21,4,5,'The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.'),(21004006,21,4,6,'One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.'),(21004007,21,4,7,'Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.'),(21004008,21,4,8,'It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.'),(21004009,21,4,9,'Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.'),(21004010,21,4,10,'And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.'),(21004011,21,4,11,'So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?'),(21004012,21,4,12,'And two attacked by one would be safe, and three cords twisted together are not quickly broken.'),(21004013,21,4,13,'A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.'),(21004014,21,4,14,'Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.'),(21004015,21,4,15,'I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.'),(21004016,21,4,16,'There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.'),(21004017,21,4,17,'Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.'),(21005001,21,5,1,'Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.'),(21005002,21,5,2,'As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.'),(21005003,21,5,3,'When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.'),(21005004,21,5,4,'It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.'),(21005005,21,5,5,'Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.'),(21005006,21,5,6,'Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.'),(21005007,21,5,7,'If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.'),(21005008,21,5,8,'It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.'),(21005009,21,5,9,'He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.'),(21005010,21,5,10,'When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?'),(21005011,21,5,11,'The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.'),(21005012,21,5,12,'There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.'),(21005013,21,5,13,'And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.'),(21005014,21,5,14,'As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.'),(21005015,21,5,15,'And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?'),(21005016,21,5,16,'All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.'),(21005017,21,5,17,'This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.'),(21005018,21,5,18,'Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.'),(21005019,21,5,19,'He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.'),(21006001,21,6,1,'There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;'),(21006002,21,6,2,'A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.'),(21006003,21,6,3,'If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.'),(21006004,21,6,4,'In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.'),(21006005,21,6,5,'Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.'),(21006006,21,6,6,'And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?'),(21006007,21,6,7,'All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.'),(21006008,21,6,8,'What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?'),(21006009,21,6,9,'What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.'),(21006010,21,6,10,'That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.'),(21006011,21,6,11,'There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?'),(21006012,21,6,12,'Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?'),(21007001,21,7,1,'A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.'),(21007002,21,7,2,'It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.'),(21007003,21,7,3,'Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.'),(21007004,21,7,4,'The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.'),(21007005,21,7,5,'It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.'),(21007006,21,7,6,'Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.'),(21007007,21,7,7,'The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.'),(21007008,21,7,8,'The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.'),(21007009,21,7,9,'Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.'),(21007010,21,7,10,'Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.'),(21007011,21,7,11,'Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.'),(21007012,21,7,12,'Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.'),(21007013,21,7,13,'Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?'),(21007014,21,7,14,'In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.'),(21007015,21,7,15,'These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.'),(21007016,21,7,16,'Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?'),(21007017,21,7,17,'Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?'),(21007018,21,7,18,'It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.'),(21007019,21,7,19,'Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.'),(21007020,21,7,20,'There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.'),(21007021,21,7,21,'Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.'),(21007022,21,7,22,'Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.'),(21007023,21,7,23,'All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.'),(21007024,21,7,24,'Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?'),(21007025,21,7,25,'I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one\'s senses.'),(21007026,21,7,26,'And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.'),(21007027,21,7,27,'Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,'),(21007028,21,7,28,'For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.'),(21007029,21,7,29,'This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.'),(21008001,21,8,1,'Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man\'s wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.'),(21008002,21,8,2,'I say to you, Keep the king\'s law, from respect for the oath of God.'),(21008003,21,8,3,'Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.'),(21008004,21,8,4,'The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?'),(21008005,21,8,5,'Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man\'s heart has knowledge of time and of decision.'),(21008006,21,8,6,'For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.'),(21008007,21,8,7,'No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?'),(21008008,21,8,8,'No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man\'s time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.'),(21008009,21,8,9,'All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.'),(21008010,21,8,10,'And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.'),(21008011,21,8,11,'Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.'),(21008012,21,8,12,'Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.'),(21008013,21,8,13,'But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.'),(21008014,21,8,14,'There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.'),(21008015,21,8,15,'So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.'),(21008016,21,8,16,'When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),'),(21008017,21,8,17,'Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.'),(21009001,21,9,1,'All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.'),(21009002,21,9,2,'Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.'),(21009003,21,9,3,'This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.'),(21009004,21,9,4,'For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.'),(21009005,21,9,5,'The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.'),(21009006,21,9,6,'Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.'),(21009007,21,9,7,'Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.'),(21009008,21,9,8,'Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.'),(21009009,21,9,9,'Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.'),(21009010,21,9,10,'Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.'),(21009011,21,9,11,'And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.'),(21009012,21,9,12,'Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.'),(21009013,21,9,13,'This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.'),(21009014,21,9,14,'There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.'),(21009015,21,9,15,'Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.'),(21009016,21,9,16,'Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man\'s wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.'),(21009017,21,9,17,'The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.'),(21009018,21,9,18,'Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.'),(21010001,21,10,1,'Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.'),(21010002,21,10,2,'The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.'),(21010003,21,10,3,'And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.'),(21010004,21,10,4,'If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.'),(21010005,21,10,5,'There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:'),(21010006,21,10,6,'The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low.'),(21010007,21,10,7,'I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.'),(21010008,21,10,8,'He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.'),(21010009,21,10,9,'He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.'),(21010010,21,10,10,'If the iron has no edge, and he does not make it sharp, then he has to put out more strength; but wisdom makes things go well.'),(21010011,21,10,11,'If a snake gives a bite before the word of power is said, then there is no longer any use in the word of power.'),(21010012,21,10,12,'The words of a wise man\'s mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.'),(21010013,21,10,13,'The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.'),(21010014,21,10,14,'The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?'),(21010015,21,10,15,'The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.'),(21010016,21,10,16,'Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.'),(21010017,21,10,17,'Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.'),(21010018,21,10,18,'When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.'),(21010019,21,10,19,'A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.'),(21010020,21,10,20,'Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.'),(21011001,21,11,1,'Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.'),(21011002,21,11,2,'Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.'),(21011003,21,11,3,'If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.'),(21011004,21,11,4,'He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.'),(21011005,21,11,5,'As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.'),(21011006,21,11,6,'In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.'),(21011007,21,11,7,'Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.'),(21011008,21,11,8,'But even if a man\'s life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.'),(21011009,21,11,9,'Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.'),(21011010,21,11,10,'So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.'),(21012001,21,12,1,'Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;'),(21012002,21,12,2,'While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;'),(21012003,21,12,3,'In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;'),(21012004,21,12,4,'When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;'),(21012005,21,12,5,'And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;'),(21012006,21,12,6,'Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;'),(21012007,21,12,7,'And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.'),(21012008,21,12,8,'All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.'),(21012009,21,12,9,'And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.'),(21012010,21,12,10,'The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.'),(21012011,21,12,11,'The words of the wise are pointed, and sayings grouped together are like nails fixed with a hammer; they are given by one guide.'),(21012012,21,12,12,'And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh.'),(21012013,21,12,13,'This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.'),(21012014,21,12,14,'God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.'),(22001001,22,1,1,'The song of Songs, which is Solomon\'s.'),(22001002,22,1,2,'Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.'),(22001003,22,1,3,'Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.'),(22001004,22,1,4,'Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.'),(22001005,22,1,5,'I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.'),(22001006,22,1,6,'Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother\'s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.'),(22001007,22,1,7,'Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?'),(22001008,22,1,8,'If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.'),(22001009,22,1,9,'I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh\'s carriages.'),(22001010,22,1,10,'Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.'),(22001011,22,1,11,'We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.'),(22001012,22,1,12,'While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.'),(22001013,22,1,13,'As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.'),(22001014,22,1,14,'My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.'),(22001015,22,1,15,'See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.'),(22001016,22,1,16,'See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.'),(22001017,22,1,17,'Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.'),(22002001,22,2,1,'I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.'),(22002002,22,2,2,'As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.'),(22002003,22,2,3,'As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.'),(22002004,22,2,4,'He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.'),(22002005,22,2,5,'Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.'),(22002006,22,2,6,'His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.'),(22002007,22,2,7,'I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.'),(22002008,22,2,8,'The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.'),(22002009,22,2,9,'My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.'),(22002010,22,2,10,'My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.'),(22002011,22,2,11,'For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;'),(22002012,22,2,12,'The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land;'),(22002013,22,2,13,'The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.'),(22002014,22,2,14,'O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.'),(22002015,22,2,15,'Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.'),(22002016,22,2,16,'My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.'),(22002017,22,2,17,'Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.'),(22003001,22,3,1,'By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.'),(22003002,22,3,2,'I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.'),(22003003,22,3,3,'The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart\'s desire?'),(22003004,22,3,4,'I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother\'s house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.'),(22003005,22,3,5,'I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.'),(22003006,22,3,6,'Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?'),(22003007,22,3,7,'See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,'),(22003008,22,3,8,'All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.'),(22003009,22,3,9,'King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.'),(22003010,22,3,10,'He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.'),(22003011,22,3,11,'Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.'),(22004001,22,4,1,'See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.'),(22004002,22,4,2,'Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.'),(22004003,22,4,3,'Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.'),(22004004,22,4,4,'Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.'),(22004005,22,4,5,'Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.'),(22004006,22,4,6,'Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.'),(22004007,22,4,7,'You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.'),(22004008,22,4,8,'Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.'),(22004009,22,4,9,'You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!'),(22004010,22,4,10,'How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!'),(22004011,22,4,11,'Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.'),(22004012,22,4,12,'A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.'),(22004013,22,4,13,'The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,'),(22004014,22,4,14,'Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.'),(22004015,22,4,15,'You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.'),(22004016,22,4,16,'Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.'),(22005001,22,5,1,'I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.'),(22005002,22,5,2,'I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.'),(22005003,22,5,3,'I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?'),(22005004,22,5,4,'My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.'),(22005005,22,5,5,'I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.'),(22005006,22,5,6,'I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.'),(22005007,22,5,7,'The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.'),(22005008,22,5,8,'I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.'),(22005009,22,5,9,'What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?'),(22005010,22,5,10,'My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.'),(22005011,22,5,11,'His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.'),(22005012,22,5,12,'His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.'),(22005013,22,5,13,'His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.'),(22005014,22,5,14,'His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.'),(22005015,22,5,15,'His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.'),(22005016,22,5,16,'His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.'),(22006001,22,6,1,'Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?'),(22006002,22,6,2,'My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.'),(22006003,22,6,3,'I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.'),(22006004,22,6,4,'You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.'),(22006005,22,6,5,'Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.'),(22006006,22,6,6,'Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.'),(22006007,22,6,7,'Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.'),(22006008,22,6,8,'There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.'),(22006009,22,6,9,'My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.'),(22006010,22,6,10,'Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?'),(22006011,22,6,11,'I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.'),(22006012,22,6,12,'Before I was conscious of it, ...'),(22006013,22,6,13,'Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.'),(22007001,22,7,1,'How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king\'s daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:'),(22007002,22,7,2,'Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.'),(22007003,22,7,3,'Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.'),(22007004,22,7,4,'Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:'),(22007005,22,7,5,'Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.'),(22007006,22,7,6,'How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.'),(22007007,22,7,7,'You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.'),(22007008,22,7,8,'I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;'),(22007009,22,7,9,'And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.'),(22007010,22,7,10,'I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.'),(22007011,22,7,11,'Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.'),(22007012,22,7,12,'Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.'),(22007013,22,7,13,'The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.'),(22008001,22,8,1,'Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother\'s breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.'),(22008002,22,8,2,'I would take you by the hand into my mother\'s house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.'),(22008003,22,8,3,'His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.'),(22008004,22,8,4,'I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.'),(22008005,22,8,5,'Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.'),(22008006,22,8,6,'Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.'),(22008007,22,8,7,'Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.'),(22008008,22,8,8,'We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?'),(22008009,22,8,9,'If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.'),(22008010,22,8,10,'I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.'),(22008011,22,8,11,'Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.'),(22008012,22,8,12,'My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.'),(22008013,22,8,13,'You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.'),(22008014,22,8,14,'Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.'),(23001001,23,1,1,'The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.'),(23001002,23,1,2,'Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.'),(23001003,23,1,3,'Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.'),(23001004,23,1,4,'O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.'),(23001005,23,1,5,'Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.'),(23001006,23,1,6,'The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.'),(23001007,23,1,7,'Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.'),(23001008,23,1,8,'And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman\'s house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.'),(23001009,23,1,9,'If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.'),(23001010,23,1,10,'Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.'),(23001011,23,1,11,'What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.'),(23001012,23,1,12,'At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?'),(23001013,23,1,13,'Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.'),(23001014,23,1,14,'Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.'),(23001015,23,1,15,'And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.'),(23001016,23,1,16,'Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;'),(23001017,23,1,17,'Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.'),(23001018,23,1,18,'Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?'),(23001019,23,1,19,'If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;'),(23001020,23,1,20,'But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.'),(23001021,23,1,21,'The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men\'s lives.'),(23001022,23,1,22,'Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.'),(23001023,23,1,23,'Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.'),(23001024,23,1,24,'For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;'),(23001025,23,1,25,'And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;'),(23001026,23,1,26,'And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.'),(23001027,23,1,27,'Upright acts will be the price of Zion\'s forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.'),(23001028,23,1,28,'But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.'),(23001029,23,1,29,'For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.'),(23001030,23,1,30,'For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.'),(23001031,23,1,31,'And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.'),(23002001,23,2,1,'The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.'),(23002002,23,2,2,'And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.'),(23002003,23,2,3,'And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, 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 out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.'),(23002004,23,2,4,'And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.'),(23002005,23,2,5,'O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.'),(23002006,23,2,6,'For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.'),(23002007,23,2,7,'And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their carriages.'),(23002008,23,2,8,'Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.'),(23002009,23,2,9,'And the poor man\'s head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.'),(23002010,23,2,10,'Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.'),(23002011,23,2,11,'The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.'),(23002012,23,2,12,'For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;'),(23002013,23,2,13,'And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;'),(23002014,23,2,14,'And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;'),(23002015,23,2,15,'And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;'),(23002016,23,2,16,'And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.'),(23002017,23,2,17,'And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.'),(23002018,23,2,18,'And the images will never be seen again.'),(23002019,23,2,19,'And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.'),(23002020,23,2,20,'In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;'),(23002021,23,2,21,'To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.'),(23002022,23,2,22,'Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.'),(23003001,23,3,1,'For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;'),(23003002,23,3,2,'The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;'),(23003003,23,3,3,'The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.'),(23003004,23,3,4,'And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.'),(23003005,23,3,5,'And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.'),(23003006,23,3,6,'When one man puts his hand on another in his father\'s house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:'),(23003007,23,3,7,'Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.'),(23003008,23,3,8,'For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.'),(23003009,23,3,9,'Their respect for a man\'s position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.'),(23003010,23,3,10,'Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.'),(23003011,23,3,11,'Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.'),(23003012,23,3,12,'As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.'),(23003013,23,3,13,'The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.'),(23003014,23,3,14,'The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.'),(23003015,23,3,15,'By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.'),(23003016,23,3,16,'Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:'),(23003017,23,3,17,'The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.'),(23003018,23,3,18,'In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments,'),(23003019,23,3,19,'The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,'),(23003020,23,3,20,'The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,'),(23003021,23,3,21,'The rings, and the nose-jewels,'),(23003022,23,3,22,'The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,'),(23003023,23,3,23,'The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.'),(23003024,23,3,24,'And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.'),(23003025,23,3,25,'Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.'),(23003026,23,3,26,'And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.'),(23004001,23,4,1,'And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.'),(23004002,23,4,2,'In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.'),(23004003,23,4,3,'And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:'),(23004004,23,4,4,'When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.'),(23004005,23,4,5,'And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;'),(23004006,23,4,6,'And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover from storm and from rain.'),(23005001,23,5,1,'Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:'),(23005002,23,5,2,'And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.'),(23005003,23,5,3,'And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.'),(23005004,23,5,4,'Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?'),(23005005,23,5,5,'And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;'),(23005006,23,5,6,'And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.'),(23005007,23,5,7,'For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.'),(23005008,23,5,8,'Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!'),(23005009,23,5,9,'The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.'),(23005010,23,5,10,'For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.'),(23005011,23,5,11,'Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!'),(23005012,23,5,12,'And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.'),(23005013,23,5,13,'For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.'),(23005014,23,5,14,'For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.'),(23005015,23,5,15,'And the poor man\'s head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:'),(23005016,23,5,16,'But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.'),(23005017,23,5,17,'Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.'),(23005018,23,5,18,'Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!'),(23005019,23,5,19,'Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.'),(23005020,23,5,20,'Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!'),(23005021,23,5,21,'Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!'),(23005022,23,5,22,'Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!'),(23005023,23,5,23,'Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.'),(23005024,23,5,24,'For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.'),(23005025,23,5,25,'For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.'),(23005026,23,5,26,'And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.'),(23005027,23,5,27,'There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.'),(23005028,23,5,28,'Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.'),(23005029,23,5,29,'The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.'),(23005030,23,5,30,'And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man\'s eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.'),(23006001,23,6,1,'In the year of King Uzziah\'s death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.'),(23006002,23,6,2,'Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight.'),(23006003,23,6,3,'And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.'),(23006004,23,6,4,'And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.'),(23006005,23,6,5,'Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.'),(23006006,23,6,6,'Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the fire-spoon.'),(23006007,23,6,7,'And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.'),(23006008,23,6,8,'And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.'),(23006009,23,6,9,'And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.'),(23006010,23,6,10,'Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.'),(23006011,23,6,11,'Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,'),(23006012,23,6,12,'And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.'),(23006013,23,6,13,'And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).'),(23007001,23,7,1,'Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it.'),(23007002,23,7,2,'And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king\'s heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.'),(23007003,23,7,3,'Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman\'s field;'),(23007004,23,7,4,'And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.'),(23007005,23,7,5,'Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying,'),(23007006,23,7,6,'Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel:'),(23007007,23,7,7,'This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come about or be effected.'),(23007008,23,7,8,'For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be broken, and will no longer be a people):'),(23007009,23,7,9,'And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah\'s son. If you will not have faith, your kingdom will be broken.'),(23007010,23,7,10,'And Isaiah said again to Ahaz,'),(23007011,23,7,11,'Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.'),(23007012,23,7,12,'But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.'),(23007013,23,7,13,'And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?'),(23007014,23,7,14,'For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.'),(23007015,23,7,15,'Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.'),(23007016,23,7,16,'For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.'),(23007017,23,7,17,'The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father\'s house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.'),(23007018,23,7,18,'And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.'),(23007019,23,7,19,'And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.'),(23007020,23,7,20,'In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.'),(23007021,23,7,21,'And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;'),(23007022,23,7,22,'And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.'),(23007023,23,7,23,'And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.'),(23007024,23,7,24,'Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.'),(23007025,23,7,25,'And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.'),(23008001,23,8,1,'And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;'),(23008002,23,8,2,'And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.'),(23008003,23,8,3,'And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,'),(23008004,23,8,4,'For before the child is able to say, Father, or, Mother, the wealth of Damascus and the goods of Samaria will be taken away by the king of Assyria.'),(23008005,23,8,5,'And the Lord said again to me,'),(23008006,23,8,6,'Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah\'s son;'),(23008007,23,8,7,'For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:'),(23008008,23,8,8,'And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.'),(23008009,23,8,9,'Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:'),(23008010,23,8,10,'Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.'),(23008011,23,8,11,'For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,'),(23008012,23,8,12,'Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of.'),(23008013,23,8,13,'But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him.'),(23008014,23,8,14,'And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.'),(23008015,23,8,15,'And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.'),(23008016,23,8,16,'Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.'),(23008017,23,8,17,'And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.'),(23008018,23,8,18,'See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, whose resting-place is in Mount Zion.'),(23008019,23,8,19,'And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?'),(23008020,23,8,20,'Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...'),(23008021,23,8,21,'And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;'),(23008022,23,8,22,'And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.'),(23009001,23,9,1,'In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations.'),(23009002,23,9,2,'The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.'),(23009003,23,9,3,'You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.'),(23009004,23,9,4,'For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.'),(23009005,23,9,5,'For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire.'),(23009006,23,9,6,'For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.'),(23009007,23,9,7,'Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.'),(23009008,23,9,8,'The Lord has sent a word to Jacob, and it has come on Israel;'),(23009009,23,9,9,'And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts,'),(23009010,23,9,10,'The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.'),(23009011,23,9,11,'For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of Israel, driving them on to make war against him;'),(23009012,23,9,12,'Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.'),(23009013,23,9,13,'But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.'),(23009014,23,9,14,'For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.'),(23009015,23,9,15,'The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.'),(23009016,23,9,16,'For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.'),(23009017,23,9,17,'For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.'),(23009018,23,9,18,'For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.'),(23009019,23,9,19,'The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men\'s flesh for food.'),(23009020,23,9,20,'On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.'),(23009021,23,9,21,'Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.'),(23010001,23,10,1,'Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:'),(23010002,23,10,2,'Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.'),(23010003,23,10,3,'And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?'),(23010004,23,10,4,'... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.'),(23010005,23,10,5,'Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!'),(23010006,23,10,6,'I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.'),(23010007,23,10,7,'But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.'),(23010008,23,10,8,'For he says, Are not all my captains kings?'),(23010009,23,10,9,'Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?'),(23010010,23,10,10,'As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;'),(23010011,23,10,11,'So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.'),(23010012,23,10,12,'For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.'),(23010013,23,10,13,'For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples\' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;'),(23010014,23,10,14,'And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.'),(23010015,23,10,15,'Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.'),(23010016,23,10,16,'For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.'),(23010017,23,10,17,'And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.'),(23010018,23,10,18,'And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.'),(23010019,23,10,19,'And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.'),(23010020,23,10,20,'And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.'),(23010021,23,10,21,'The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God.'),(23010022,23,10,22,'For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.'),(23010023,23,10,23,'For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make destruction complete in all the land.'),(23010024,23,10,24,'For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.'),(23010025,23,10,25,'For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.'),(23010026,23,10,26,'And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.'),(23010027,23,10,27,'And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.'),(23010028,23,10,28,'He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.'),(23010029,23,10,29,'They have gone across the mountain; Geba will be our resting-place tonight, they say: Ramah is shaking with fear; Gibeah of Saul has gone in flight.'),(23010030,23,10,30,'Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.'),(23010031,23,10,31,'Madmenah has gone; the men of Gebim are putting their goods in a safe place.'),(23010032,23,10,32,'This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.'),(23010033,23,10,33,'See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.'),(23010034,23,10,34,'And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.'),(23011001,23,11,1,'And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.'),(23011002,23,11,2,'And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;'),(23011003,23,11,3,'And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:'),(23011004,23,11,4,'But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.'),(23011005,23,11,5,'And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.'),(23011006,23,11,6,'And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.'),(23011007,23,11,7,'And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.'),(23011008,23,11,8,'And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.'),(23011009,23,11,9,'There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.'),(23011010,23,11,10,'And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.'),(23011011,23,11,11,'And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.'),(23011012,23,11,12,'And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth.'),(23011013,23,11,13,'And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah\'s hate for Ephraim.'),(23011014,23,11,14,'And they will be united in attacking the Philistines on the west, and together they will take the goods of the children of the east: their hand will be on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon will be under their rule.'),(23011015,23,11,15,'And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.'),(23011016,23,11,16,'And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.'),(23012001,23,12,1,'And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.'),(23012002,23,12,2,'See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.'),(23012003,23,12,3,'So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.'),(23012004,23,12,4,'And in that day you will say, Give praise to the Lord, let his name be honoured, give word of his doings among the peoples, say that his name is lifted up.'),(23012005,23,12,5,'Make a song to the Lord; for he has done noble things: give news of them through all the earth.'),(23012006,23,12,6,'Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.'),(23013001,23,13,1,'The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.'),(23013002,23,13,2,'Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones.'),(23013003,23,13,3,'I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give effect to my wrath.'),(23013004,23,13,4,'The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war.'),(23013005,23,13,5,'They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.'),(23013006,23,13,6,'Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.'),(23013007,23,13,7,'For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;'),(23013008,23,13,8,'Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.'),(23013009,23,13,9,'See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.'),(23013010,23,13,10,'For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.'),(23013011,23,13,11,'And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.'),(23013012,23,13,12,'I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.'),(23013013,23,13,13,'For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.'),(23013014,23,13,14,'And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.'),(23013015,23,13,15,'Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.'),(23013016,23,13,16,'Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.'),(23013017,23,13,17,'See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.'),(23013018,23,13,18,'In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.'),(23013019,23,13,19,'And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God\'s destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.'),(23013020,23,13,20,'People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.'),(23013021,23,13,21,'But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.'),(23013022,23,13,22,'And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.'),(23014001,23,14,1,'For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.'),(23014002,23,14,2,'And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord\'s land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.'),(23014003,23,14,3,'And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,'),(23014004,23,14,4,'That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;'),(23014005,23,14,5,'The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;'),(23014006,23,14,6,'He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.'),(23014007,23,14,7,'All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.'),(23014008,23,14,8,'Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.'),(23014009,23,14,9,'The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.'),(23014010,23,14,10,'They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?'),(23014011,23,14,11,'Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.'),(23014012,23,14,12,'How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!'),(23014013,23,14,13,'For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.'),(23014014,23,14,14,'I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.'),(23014015,23,14,15,'But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.'),(23014016,23,14,16,'Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?'),(23014017,23,14,17,'Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.'),(23014018,23,14,18,'All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,'),(23014019,23,14,19,'But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.'),(23014020,23,14,20,'As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.'),(23014021,23,14,21,'Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.'),(23014022,23,14,22,'For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son\'s son, says the Lord.'),(23014023,23,14,23,'And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.'),(23014024,23,14,24,'The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:'),(23014025,23,14,25,'To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.'),(23014026,23,14,26,'This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.'),(23014027,23,14,27,'For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?'),(23014028,23,14,28,'In the year of the death of King Ahaz this word came to the prophet:'),(23014029,23,14,29,'Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake\'s root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.'),(23014030,23,14,30,'And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.'),(23014031,23,14,31,'Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.'),(23014032,23,14,32,'What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.'),(23015001,23,15,1,'The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.'),(23015002,23,15,2,'The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.'),(23015003,23,15,3,'In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.'),(23015004,23,15,4,'Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.'),(23015005,23,15,5,'My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.'),(23015006,23,15,6,'The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.'),(23015007,23,15,7,'For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.'),(23015008,23,15,8,'For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim.'),(23015009,23,15,9,'For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: and I\'m sending even more on Moab, a lion on those of Moab who go in flight, and on the rest of the land.'),(23016001,23,16,1,'And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.'),(23016002,23,16,2,'For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.'),(23016003,23,16,3,'Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.'),(23016004,23,16,4,'Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.'),(23016005,23,16,5,'Then a king\'s seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.'),(23016006,23,16,6,'We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.'),(23016007,23,16,7,'For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.'),(23016008,23,16,8,'For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.'),(23016009,23,16,9,'For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;'),(23016010,23,16,10,'And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.'),(23016011,23,16,11,'For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.'),(23016012,23,16,12,'And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.'),(23016013,23,16,13,'This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.'),(23016014,23,16,14,'But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.'),(23017001,23,17,1,'The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.'),(23017002,23,17,2,'Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.'),(23017003,23,17,3,'The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.'),(23017004,23,17,4,'And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.'),(23017005,23,17,5,'And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.'),(23017006,23,17,6,'But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.'),(23017007,23,17,7,'In that day a man\'s heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.'),(23017008,23,17,8,'He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.'),(23017009,23,17,9,'In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.'),(23017010,23,17,10,'For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;'),(23017011,23,17,11,'In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.'),(23017012,23,17,12,'Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!'),(23017013,23,17,13,'But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.'),(23017014,23,17,14,'In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.'),(23018001,23,18,1,'Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:'),(23018002,23,18,2,'Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.'),(23018003,23,18,3,'All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.'),(23018004,23,18,4,'For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.'),(23018005,23,18,5,'For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.'),(23018006,23,18,6,'They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.'),(23018007,23,18,7,'In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.'),(23019001,23,19,1,'The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.'),(23019002,23,19,2,'And I will send the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they will be fighting every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; town against town, and kingdom against kingdom.'),(23019003,23,19,3,'And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.'),(23019004,23,19,4,'And I will give the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a hard king will be their ruler, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.'),(23019005,23,19,5,'And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:'),(23019006,23,19,6,'And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.'),(23019007,23,19,7,'The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.'),(23019008,23,19,8,'The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.'),(23019009,23,19,9,'And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.'),(23019010,23,19,10,'And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.'),(23019011,23,19,11,'The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?'),(23019012,23,19,12,'Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.'),(23019013,23,19,13,'The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt\'s wandering out of the way.'),(23019014,23,19,14,'The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.'),(23019015,23,19,15,'And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or tail, high or low, to do.'),(23019016,23,19,16,'In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord\'s hand stretched out over it.'),(23019017,23,19,17,'And the land of Judah will become a cause of great fear to Egypt; whenever its name comes to mind, Egypt will be in fear before the Lord of armies because of his purpose against it.'),(23019018,23,19,18,'In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.'),(23019019,23,19,19,'In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at the edge of the land.'),(23019020,23,19,20,'And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free.'),(23019021,23,19,21,'And the Lord will give the knowledge of himself to Egypt, and the Egyptians will give honour to the Lord in that day; they will give him worship with offerings and meal offerings, and will take an oath to the Lord and give effect to it.'),(23019022,23,19,22,'And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will give ear to their prayer and take away their disease.'),(23019023,23,19,23,'In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt will come into Assyria; and the Egyptians will give worship to the Lord together with the Assyrians.'),(23019024,23,19,24,'In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth:'),(23019025,23,19,25,'Because of the blessing of the Lord of armies which he has given them, saying, A blessing on Egypt my people, and on Assyria the work of my hands, and on Israel my heritage.'),(23020001,23,20,1,'In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it;'),(23020002,23,20,2,'At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.'),(23020003,23,20,3,'And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia,'),(23020004,23,20,4,'So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.'),(23020005,23,20,5,'And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory.'),(23020006,23,20,6,'And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?'),(23021001,23,21,1,'The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.'),(23021002,23,21,2,'A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.'),(23021003,23,21,3,'For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.'),(23021004,23,21,4,'My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.'),(23021005,23,21,5,'They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.'),(23021006,23,21,6,'For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees:'),(23021007,23,21,7,'And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention.'),(23021008,23,21,8,'And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night:'),(23021009,23,21,9,'See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth.'),(23021010,23,21,10,'O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.'),(23021011,23,21,11,'The word about Edom. A voice comes to me from Seir, Watchman, how far gone is the night? how far gone is the night?'),(23021012,23,21,12,'The watchman says, The morning has come, but night is still to come: if you have questions to put, put them, and come back again.'),(23021013,23,21,13,'The word about Arabia. In the thick woods of Arabia will be your night\'s resting-place, O travelling bands of Dedanites!'),(23021014,23,21,14,'Give water to him who is in need of water; give bread, O men of the land of Tema, to those in flight.'),(23021015,23,21,15,'For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.'),(23021016,23,21,16,'For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:'),(23021017,23,21,17,'And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.'),(23022001,23,22,1,'The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?'),(23022002,23,22,2,'You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.'),(23022003,23,22,3,'All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.'),(23022004,23,22,4,'For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.'),(23022005,23,22,5,'For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...'),(23022006,23,22,6,'And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.'),(23022007,23,22,7,'And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.'),(23022008,23,22,8,'He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.'),(23022009,23,22,9,'And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.'),(23022010,23,22,10,'And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.'),(23022011,23,22,11,'And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.'),(23022012,23,22,12,'And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:'),(23022013,23,22,13,'But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.'),(23022014,23,22,14,'And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.'),(23022015,23,22,15,'The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,'),(23022016,23,22,16,'Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?'),(23022017,23,22,17,'See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,'),(23022018,23,22,18,'Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord\'s house!'),(23022019,23,22,19,'And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.'),(23022020,23,22,20,'And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:'),(23022021,23,22,21,'And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.'),(23022022,23,22,22,'And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.'),(23022023,23,22,23,'And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father\'s family.'),(23022024,23,22,24,'And all the glory of his father\'s family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.'),(23022025,23,22,25,'In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.'),(23023001,23,23,1,'The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.'),(23023002,23,23,2,'Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;'),(23023003,23,23,3,'Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations.'),(23023004,23,23,4,'Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.'),(23023005,23,23,5,'When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.'),(23023006,23,23,6,'Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.'),(23023007,23,23,7,'Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?'),(23023008,23,23,8,'By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?'),(23023009,23,23,9,'It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.'),(23023010,23,23,10,'Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.'),(23023011,23,23,11,'His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places.'),(23023012,23,23,12,'And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest.'),(23023013,23,23,13,'...'),(23023014,23,23,14,'Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.'),(23023015,23,23,15,'And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.'),(23023016,23,23,16,'Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men\'s minds.'),(23023017,23,23,17,'And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.'),(23023018,23,23,18,'And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord\'s land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.'),(23024001,23,24,1,'See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.'),(23024002,23,24,2,'And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.'),(23024003,23,24,3,'The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.'),(23024004,23,24,4,'The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.'),(23024005,23,24,5,'The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.'),(23024006,23,24,6,'For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.'),(23024007,23,24,7,'The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.'),(23024008,23,24,8,'The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.'),(23024009,23,24,9,'There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.'),(23024010,23,24,10,'The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.'),(23024011,23,24,11,'There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.'),(23024012,23,24,12,'In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.'),(23024013,23,24,13,'For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.'),(23024014,23,24,14,'But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord.'),(23024015,23,24,15,'Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.'),(23024016,23,24,16,'From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.'),(23024017,23,24,17,'Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.'),(23024018,23,24,18,'And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.'),(23024019,23,24,19,'The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.'),(23024020,23,24,20,'The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.'),(23024021,23,24,21,'And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.'),(23024022,23,24,22,'And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.'),(23024023,23,24,23,'Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.'),(23025001,23,25,1,'O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.'),(23025002,23,25,2,'For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.'),(23025003,23,25,3,'For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.'),(23025004,23,25,4,'For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.'),(23025005,23,25,5,'As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.'),(23025006,23,25,6,'And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.'),(23025007,23,25,7,'And in this mountain he will put an end to the shade covering the face of all peoples, and the veil which is stretched over all nations.'),(23025008,23,25,8,'He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.'),(23025009,23,25,9,'And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.'),(23025010,23,25,10,'For in this mountain will the hand of the Lord come to rest, and Moab will be crushed down in his place, even as the dry stems of the grain are crushed under foot in the waste place.'),(23025011,23,25,11,'And if he puts out his hands, like a man stretching out his hands in swimming, the Lord will make low his pride, however expert his designs.'),(23025012,23,25,12,'And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.'),(23026001,23,26,1,'In that day will this song be made in the land of Judah: We have a strong town; he will make salvation our walls and towers.'),(23026002,23,26,2,'Let the doors be open, so that the upright nation which keeps faith may come in.'),(23026003,23,26,3,'The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.'),(23026004,23,26,4,'Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is an unchanging Rock.'),(23026005,23,26,5,'For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust.'),(23026006,23,26,6,'It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.'),(23026007,23,26,7,'The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.'),(23026008,23,26,8,'We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.'),(23026009,23,26,9,'In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.'),(23026010,23,26,10,'Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.'),(23026011,23,26,11,'Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.'),(23026012,23,26,12,'Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the outcome of your purpose.'),(23026013,23,26,13,'O Lord, our God, other lords than you have had rule over us; but in you only is our salvation, and no other name will we take on our lips.'),(23026014,23,26,14,'The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.'),(23026015,23,26,15,'You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.'),(23026016,23,26,16,'Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.'),(23026017,23,26,17,'As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.'),(23026018,23,26,18,'We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.'),(23026019,23,26,19,'Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.'),(23026020,23,26,20,'Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.'),(23026021,23,26,21,'For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.'),(23027001,23,27,1,'In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.'),(23027002,23,27,2,'In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.'),(23027003,23,27,3,'I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.'),(23027004,23,27,4,'My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.'),(23027005,23,27,5,'Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.'),(23027006,23,27,6,'In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.'),(23027007,23,27,7,'Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?'),(23027008,23,27,8,'Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.'),(23027009,23,27,9,'So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.'),(23027010,23,27,10,'For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.'),(23027011,23,27,11,'When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.'),(23027012,23,27,12,'And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.'),(23027013,23,27,13,'And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.'),(23028001,23,28,1,'Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!'),(23028002,23,28,2,'See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.'),(23028003,23,28,3,'The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;'),(23028004,23,28,4,'And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.'),(23028005,23,28,5,'In that day will the Lord of armies be a crown of glory, and a fair ornament, to the rest of his people;'),(23028006,23,28,6,'And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.'),(23028007,23,28,7,'And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.'),(23028008,23,28,8,'For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.'),(23028009,23,28,9,'To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?'),(23028010,23,28,10,'For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.'),(23028011,23,28,11,'No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:'),(23028012,23,28,12,'To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.'),(23028013,23,28,13,'For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.'),(23028014,23,28,14,'Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:'),(23028015,23,28,15,'Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:'),(23028016,23,28,16,'For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.'),(23028017,23,28,17,'And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.'),(23028018,23,28,18,'And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.'),(23028019,23,28,19,'Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.'),(23028020,23,28,20,'For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.'),(23028021,23,28,21,'For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.'),(23028022,23,28,22,'And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.'),(23028023,23,28,23,'Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.'),(23028024,23,28,24,'Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?'),(23028025,23,28,25,'When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?'),(23028026,23,28,26,'For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.'),(23028027,23,28,27,'For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.'),(23028028,23,28,28,'Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.'),(23028029,23,28,29,'This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.'),(23029001,23,29,1,'Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:'),(23029002,23,29,2,'And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.'),(23029003,23,29,3,'And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.'),(23029004,23,29,4,'And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.'),(23029005,23,29,5,'And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.'),(23029006,23,29,6,'The Lord of armies will come in with thunder and earth-shaking and great noise, with rushing wind and storm, and the flame of burning fire.'),(23029007,23,29,7,'And all the nations making war on Ariel, and all those who are fighting against her and shutting her in with their towers, will be like a dream, like a vision of the night.'),(23029008,23,29,8,'And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.'),(23029009,23,29,9,'Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.'),(23029010,23,29,10,'For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.'),(23029011,23,29,11,'And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:'),(23029012,23,29,12,'And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.'),(23029013,23,29,13,'And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;'),(23029014,23,29,14,'For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.'),(23029015,23,29,15,'Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?'),(23029016,23,29,16,'You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?'),(23029017,23,29,17,'In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood.'),(23029018,23,29,18,'And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.'),(23029019,23,29,19,'And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.'),(23029020,23,29,20,'For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off:'),(23029021,23,29,21,'Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man\'s right without cause.'),(23029022,23,29,22,'For this reason the Lord, the saviour of Abraham, says about the family of Jacob, Jacob will not now be put to shame, or his face be clouded with fear.'),(23029023,23,29,23,'But when they, the children of Jacob, see the work of my hands among them, they will give honour to my name; yes, they will give honour to the Holy One of Jacob, and go in fear of the God of Israel.'),(23029024,23,29,24,'Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.'),(23030001,23,30,1,'Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:'),(23030002,23,30,2,'Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.'),(23030003,23,30,3,'And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.'),(23030004,23,30,4,'For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.'),(23030005,23,30,5,'For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.'),(23030006,23,30,6,'The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.'),(23030007,23,30,7,'For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.'),(23030008,23,30,8,'Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.'),(23030009,23,30,9,'For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:'),(23030010,23,30,10,'Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:'),(23030011,23,30,11,'Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.'),(23030012,23,30,12,'For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:'),(23030013,23,30,13,'This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.'),(23030014,23,30,14,'And he will let it be broken as a potter\'s vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.'),(23030015,23,30,15,'For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.'),(23030016,23,30,16,'Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.'),(23030017,23,30,17,'A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.'),(23030018,23,30,18,'For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.'),(23030019,23,30,19,'O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.'),(23030020,23,30,20,'And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:'),(23030021,23,30,21,'And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.'),(23030022,23,30,22,'And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!'),(23030023,23,30,23,'And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.'),(23030024,23,30,24,'And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.'),(23030025,23,30,25,'And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.'),(23030026,23,30,26,'And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.'),(23030027,23,30,27,'See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:'),(23030028,23,30,28,'And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.'),(23030029,23,30,29,'You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.'),(23030030,23,30,30,'And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.'),(23030031,23,30,31,'For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be broken, and the Lord\'s rod will be lifted up against him.'),(23030032,23,30,32,'And every blow of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will send on him, will be with the sound of music: and with the waving of his sword the Lord will make war against him.'),(23030033,23,30,33,'For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.'),(23031001,23,31,1,'Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;'),(23031002,23,31,2,'Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.'),(23031003,23,31,3,'For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord\'s hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.'),(23031004,23,31,4,'For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.'),(23031005,23,31,5,'Like birds with outstretched wings, so will the Lord of armies be a cover to Jerusalem; he will be a cover and salvation for it, going over it he will keep it from danger.'),(23031006,23,31,6,'Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.'),(23031007,23,31,7,'For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.'),(23031008,23,31,8,'Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.'),(23031009,23,31,9,'And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.'),(23032001,23,32,1,'See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.'),(23032002,23,32,2,'And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.'),(23032003,23,32,3,'And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.'),(23032004,23,32,4,'The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.'),(23032005,23,32,5,'The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour.'),(23032006,23,32,6,'For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.'),(23032007,23,32,7,'The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.'),(23032008,23,32,8,'But the noble-hearted man has noble purposes, and by these he will be guided.'),(23032009,23,32,9,'Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.'),(23032010,23,32,10,'In not much more than a year, you, who are not looking for evil, will be troubled: for the produce of the vine-gardens will be cut off, and there will be no getting in of the grapes.'),(23032011,23,32,11,'Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.'),(23032012,23,32,12,'Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;'),(23032013,23,32,13,'And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.'),(23032014,23,32,14,'For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;'),(23032015,23,32,15,'Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood.'),(23032016,23,32,16,'Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.'),(23032017,23,32,17,'And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.'),(23032018,23,32,18,'And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.'),(23032019,23,32,19,'But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.'),(23032020,23,32,20,'Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.'),(23033001,23,33,1,'Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.'),(23033002,23,33,2,'O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.'),(23033003,23,33,3,'At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your coming up the nations have gone in all directions.'),(23033004,23,33,4,'And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.'),(23033005,23,33,5,'The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.'),(23033006,23,33,6,'And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.'),(23033007,23,33,7,'See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.'),(23033008,23,33,8,'The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.'),(23033009,23,33,9,'The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.'),(23033010,23,33,10,'Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.'),(23033011,23,33,11,'Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.'),(23033012,23,33,12,'And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.'),(23033013,23,33,13,'Give ear, you who are far off, to what I have done: see my power, you who are near.'),(23033014,23,33,14,'The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?'),(23033015,23,33,15,'He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;'),(23033016,23,33,16,'He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.'),(23033017,23,33,17,'Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.'),(23033018,23,33,18,'Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?'),(23033019,23,33,19,'Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.'),(23033020,23,33,20,'Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.'),(23033021,23,33,21,'But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.'),(23033022,23,33,22,'For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.'),(23033023,23,33,23,'Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.'),(23033024,23,33,24,'And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.'),(23034001,23,34,1,'Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it.'),(23034002,23,34,2,'For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.'),(23034003,23,34,3,'Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.'),(23034004,23,34,4,'And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.'),(23034005,23,34,5,'For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse.'),(23034006,23,34,6,'The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.'),(23034007,23,34,7,'And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle.'),(23034008,23,34,8,'For it is the day of the Lord\'s punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.'),(23034009,23,34,9,'And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.'),(23034010,23,34,10,'It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever.'),(23034011,23,34,11,'But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.'),(23034012,23,34,12,'The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.'),(23034013,23,34,13,'And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.'),(23034014,23,34,14,'And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.'),(23034015,23,34,15,'The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.'),(23034016,23,34,16,'See what is recorded in the book of the Lord: all these will be there, not one without the other: the mouth of the Lord has given the order, and his spirit has made them come together.'),(23034017,23,34,17,'And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.'),(23035001,23,35,1,'The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.'),(23035002,23,35,2,'It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.'),(23035003,23,35,3,'Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.'),(23035004,23,35,4,'Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.'),(23035005,23,35,5,'Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open.'),(23035006,23,35,6,'Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.'),(23035007,23,35,7,'And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.'),(23035008,23,35,8,'And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.'),(23035009,23,35,9,'No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,'),(23035010,23,35,10,'Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.'),(23036001,23,36,1,'And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.'),(23036002,23,36,2,'And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman\'s'),(23036003,23,36,3,'And there came out to him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.'),(23036004,23,36,4,'And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?'),(23036005,23,36,5,'You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?'),(23036006,23,36,6,'See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go into a man\'s hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.'),(23036007,23,36,7,'And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?'),(23036008,23,36,8,'And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.'),(23036009,23,36,9,'How then may you put to shame the least of my master\'s servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:'),(23036010,23,36,10,'And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord\'s authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.'),(23036011,23,36,11,'Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Please make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews\' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.'),(23036012,23,36,12,'But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.'),(23036013,23,36,13,'Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews\' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria:'),(23036014,23,36,14,'This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him.'),(23036015,23,36,15,'And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.'),(23036016,23,36,16,'Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says, Make peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;'),(23036017,23,36,17,'Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.'),(23036018,23,36,18,'Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?'),(23036019,23,36,19,'Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? where are the gods of Samaria? and have they kept Samaria out of my hand?'),(23036020,23,36,20,'Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?'),(23036021,23,36,21,'But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king\'s order was, Give him no answer.'),(23036022,23,36,22,'Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothing parted as a sign of grief, and gave him an account of what the Rab-shakeh had said.'),(23037001,23,37,1,'And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.'),(23037002,23,37,2,'And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.'),(23037003,23,37,3,'And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.'),(23037004,23,37,4,'It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.'),(23037005,23,37,5,'So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.'),(23037006,23,37,6,'And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.'),(23037007,23,37,7,'See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.'),(23037008,23,37,8,'So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.'),(23037009,23,37,9,'And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,'),(23037010,23,37,10,'This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.'),(23037011,23,37,11,'No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?'),(23037012,23,37,12,'Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?'),(23037013,23,37,13,'Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?'),(23037014,23,37,14,'And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,'),(23037015,23,37,15,'And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,'),(23037016,23,37,16,'O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.'),(23037017,23,37,17,'Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.'),(23037018,23,37,18,'Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,'),(23037019,23,37,19,'And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men\'s hands; so they have given them to destruction.'),(23037020,23,37,20,'But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.'),(23037021,23,37,21,'Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.'),(23037022,23,37,22,'This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.'),(23037023,23,37,23,'Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.'),(23037024,23,37,24,'You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.'),(23037025,23,37,25,'I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.'),(23037026,23,37,26,'Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.'),(23037027,23,37,27,'This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.'),(23037028,23,37,28,'But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.'),(23037029,23,37,29,'Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.'),(23037030,23,37,30,'And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.'),(23037031,23,37,31,'And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.'),(23037032,23,37,32,'For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.'),(23037033,23,37,33,'For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.'),(23037034,23,37,34,'By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.'),(23037035,23,37,35,'For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.'),(23037036,23,37,36,'And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.'),(23037037,23,37,37,'Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.'),(23037038,23,37,38,'And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.'),(23038001,23,38,1,'In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.'),(23038002,23,38,2,'And Hezekiah, turning his face to the wall, made his prayer to the Lord, saying,'),(23038003,23,38,3,'O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.'),(23038004,23,38,4,'Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,'),(23038005,23,38,5,'Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.'),(23038006,23,38,6,'And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.'),(23038007,23,38,7,'And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said:'),(23038008,23,38,8,'See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.'),(23038009,23,38,9,'The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease.'),(23038010,23,38,10,'I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.'),(23038011,23,38,11,'I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.'),(23038012,23,38,12,'My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman\'s tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker\'s thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.'),(23038013,23,38,13,'I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.'),(23038014,23,38,14,'I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.'),(23038015,23,38,15,'What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.'),(23038016,23,38,16,'O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.'),(23038017,23,38,17,'See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.'),(23038018,23,38,18,'For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.'),(23038019,23,38,19,'The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.'),(23038020,23,38,20,'O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.'),(23038021,23,38,21,'And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it on the diseased place, and he will get well.'),(23038022,23,38,22,'And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?'),(23039001,23,39,1,'At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill, and was well again.'),(23039002,23,39,2,'And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which he did not let them see.'),(23039003,23,39,3,'Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.'),(23039004,23,39,4,'And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.'),(23039005,23,39,5,'Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies:'),(23039006,23,39,6,'Truly, the days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone.'),(23039007,23,39,7,'And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.'),(23039008,23,39,8,'Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.'),(23040001,23,40,1,'Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.'),(23040002,23,40,2,'Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord\'s hand twice over for all her sins.'),(23040003,23,40,3,'A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.'),(23040004,23,40,4,'Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley,'),(23040005,23,40,5,'And the glory of the Lord will be made clear, and all flesh will see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it.'),(23040006,23,40,6,'A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.'),(23040007,23,40,7,'The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.'),(23040008,23,40,8,'The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.'),(23040009,23,40,9,'You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!'),(23040010,23,40,10,'See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him.'),(23040011,23,40,11,'He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.'),(23040012,23,40,12,'In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?'),(23040013,23,40,13,'By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher?'),(23040014,23,40,14,'Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?'),(23040015,23,40,15,'See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.'),(23040016,23,40,16,'And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.'),(23040017,23,40,17,'All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.'),(23040018,23,40,18,'Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?'),(23040019,23,40,19,'The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.'),(23040020,23,40,20,'The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.'),(23040021,23,40,21,'Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?'),(23040022,23,40,22,'It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.'),(23040023,23,40,23,'He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.'),(23040024,23,40,24,'They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.'),(23040025,23,40,25,'Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.'),(23040026,23,40,26,'Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.'),(23040027,23,40,27,'Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord\'s eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?'),(23040028,23,40,28,'Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.'),(23040029,23,40,29,'He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.'),(23040030,23,40,30,'Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;'),(23040031,23,40,31,'But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.'),(23041001,23,41,1,'Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.'),(23041002,23,41,2,'Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.'),(23041003,23,41,3,'He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.'),(23041004,23,41,4,'Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.'),(23041005,23,41,5,'The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.'),(23041006,23,41,6,'They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!'),(23041007,23,41,7,'So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.'),(23041008,23,41,8,'But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:'),(23041009,23,41,9,'You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:'),(23041010,23,41,10,'Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.'),(23041011,23,41,11,'Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.'),(23041012,23,41,12,'You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.'),(23041013,23,41,13,'For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper.'),(23041014,23,41,14,'Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.'),(23041015,23,41,15,'See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.'),(23041016,23,41,16,'You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.'),(23041017,23,41,17,'The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.'),(23041018,23,41,18,'I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.'),(23041019,23,41,19,'I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:'),(23041020,23,41,20,'So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made it.'),(23041021,23,41,21,'Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.'),(23041022,23,41,22,'Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.'),(23041023,23,41,23,'Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we may all see it and be surprised.'),(23041024,23,41,24,'But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.'),(23041025,23,41,25,'I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.'),(23041026,23,41,26,'Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say, His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says anything, or who gives ear to your words.'),(23041027,23,41,27,'I was the first to give word of it to Zion, and I gave the good news to Jerusalem.'),(23041028,23,41,28,'And I saw that there was no man, even no wise man among them, who might give an answer to my questions.'),(23041029,23,41,29,'Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.'),(23042001,23,42,1,'See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.'),(23042002,23,42,2,'He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men\'s ears in the streets.'),(23042003,23,42,3,'He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.'),(23042004,23,42,4,'His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.'),(23042005,23,42,5,'God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:'),(23042006,23,42,6,'I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:'),(23042007,23,42,7,'To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.'),(23042008,23,42,8,'I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.'),(23042009,23,42,9,'See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.'),(23042010,23,42,10,'Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.'),(23042011,23,42,11,'Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.'),(23042012,23,42,12,'Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.'),(23042013,23,42,13,'The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.'),(23042014,23,42,14,'I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.'),(23042015,23,42,15,'I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.'),(23042016,23,42,16,'And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.'),(23042017,23,42,17,'They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.'),(23042018,23,42,18,'Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.'),(23042019,23,42,19,'Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord\'s servant?'),(23042020,23,42,20,'Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.'),(23042021,23,42,21,'It was the Lord\'s pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.'),(23042022,23,42,22,'But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.'),(23042023,23,42,23,'Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?'),(23042024,23,42,24,'Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.'),(23042025,23,42,25,'For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.'),(23043001,23,43,1,'But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.'),(23043002,23,43,2,'When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.'),(23043003,23,43,3,'For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.'),(23043004,23,43,4,'Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.'),(23043005,23,43,5,'Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;'),(23043006,23,43,6,'I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;'),(23043007,23,43,7,'Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.'),(23043008,23,43,8,'Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.'),(23043009,23,43,9,'Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.'),(23043010,23,43,10,'You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.'),(23043011,23,43,11,'I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.'),(23043012,23,43,12,'I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses, says the Lord.'),(23043013,23,43,13,'From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?'),(23043014,23,43,14,'The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.'),(23043015,23,43,15,'I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King.'),(23043016,23,43,16,'This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;'),(23043017,23,43,17,'Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out.'),(23043018,23,43,18,'Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.'),(23043019,23,43,19,'See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.'),(23043020,23,43,20,'The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:'),(23043021,23,43,21,'Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.'),(23043022,23,43,22,'But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.'),(23043023,23,43,23,'You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.'),(23043024,23,43,24,'You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.'),(23043025,23,43,25,'I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.'),(23043026,23,43,26,'Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.'),(23043027,23,43,27,'Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.'),(23043028,23,43,28,'Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.'),(23044001,23,44,1,'And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:'),(23044002,23,44,2,'The Lord who made you, forming you in your mother\'s body, the Lord, your helper, says, Have no fear, O Jacob my servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have taken for myself.'),(23044003,23,44,3,'For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.'),(23044004,23,44,4,'And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.'),(23044005,23,44,5,'One will say, I am the Lord\'s; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord\'s, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.'),(23044006,23,44,6,'The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.'),(23044007,23,44,7,'If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me.'),(23044008,23,44,8,'Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?'),(23044009,23,44,9,'Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.'),(23044010,23,44,10,'Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.'),(23044011,23,44,11,'Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.'),(23044012,23,44,12,'The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.'),(23044013,23,44,13,'The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house.'),(23044014,23,44,14,'He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.'),(23044015,23,44,15,'Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.'),(23044016,23,44,16,'With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:'),(23044017,23,44,17,'And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.'),(23044018,23,44,18,'They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.'),(23044019,23,44,19,'And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?'),(23044020,23,44,20,'As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.'),(23044021,23,44,21,'Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.'),(23044022,23,44,22,'I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.'),(23044023,23,44,23,'Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.'),(23044024,23,44,24,'The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother\'s body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?'),(23044025,23,44,25,'Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:'),(23044026,23,44,26,'Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:'),(23044027,23,44,27,'Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:'),(23044028,23,44,28,'Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in place.'),(23045001,23,45,1,'The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;'),(23045002,23,45,2,'I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:'),(23045003,23,45,3,'And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.'),(23045004,23,45,4,'Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.'),(23045005,23,45,5,'I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:'),(23045006,23,45,6,'So that they may see from the east and from the west that there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other.'),(23045007,23,45,7,'I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.'),(23045008,23,45,8,'Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.'),(23045009,23,45,9,'Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?'),(23045010,23,45,10,'Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?'),(23045011,23,45,11,'The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?'),(23045012,23,45,12,'I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.'),(23045013,23,45,13,'I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.'),(23045014,23,45,14,'The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.'),(23045015,23,45,15,'Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!'),(23045016,23,45,16,'All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.'),(23045017,23,45,17,'But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.'),(23045018,23,45,18,'For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other.'),(23045019,23,45,19,'I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.'),(23045020,23,45,20,'Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.'),(23045021,23,45,21,'Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.'),(23045022,23,45,22,'Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.'),(23045023,23,45,23,'By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.'),(23045024,23,45,24,'Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.'),(23045025,23,45,25,'In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.'),(23046001,23,46,1,'Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.'),(23046002,23,46,2,'They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.'),(23046003,23,46,3,'Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:'),(23046004,23,46,4,'Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.'),(23046005,23,46,5,'Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?'),(23046006,23,46,6,'As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.'),(23046007,23,46,7,'They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.'),(23046008,23,46,8,'Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.'),(23046009,23,46,9,'Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;'),(23046010,23,46,10,'Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;'),(23046011,23,46,11,'Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.'),(23046012,23,46,12,'Give ear to me, you feeble-hearted, who have no faith in my righteousness:'),(23046013,23,46,13,'My righteousness is near, it is not far off; salvation will come quickly; and I will make Zion free, and give Israel my glory.'),(23047001,23,47,1,'Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.'),(23047002,23,47,2,'Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.'),(23047003,23,47,3,'The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,'),(23047004,23,47,4,'Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.'),(23047005,23,47,5,'Be seated in the dark without a word, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will no longer be named, The Queen of Kingdoms.'),(23047006,23,47,6,'I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;'),(23047007,23,47,7,'And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.'),(23047008,23,47,8,'So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.'),(23047009,23,47,9,'But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.'),(23047010,23,47,10,'For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.'),(23047011,23,47,11,'Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.'),(23047012,23,47,12,'Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.'),(23047013,23,47,13,'But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.'),(23047014,23,47,14,'Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.'),(23047015,23,47,15,'Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.'),(23048001,23,48,1,'Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.'),(23048002,23,48,2,'For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.'),(23048003,23,48,3,'I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about.'),(23048004,23,48,4,'Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;'),(23048005,23,48,5,'For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.'),(23048006,23,48,6,'All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.'),(23048007,23,48,7,'They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.'),(23048008,23,48,8,'Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.'),(23048009,23,48,9,'Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.'),(23048010,23,48,10,'See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.'),(23048011,23,48,11,'For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.'),(23048012,23,48,12,'Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he, I am the first and I am the last.'),(23048013,23,48,13,'Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.'),(23048014,23,48,14,'Come together, all of you, and give ear; who among you has given news of these things? the Lord\'s loved one will do his pleasure with Babylon, and with the seed of the Chaldaeans.'),(23048015,23,48,15,'I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.'),(23048016,23,48,16,'Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.'),(23048017,23,48,17,'The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.'),(23048018,23,48,18,'If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:'),(23048019,23,48,19,'Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.'),(23048020,23,48,20,'Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.'),(23048021,23,48,21,'They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.'),(23048022,23,48,22,'There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.'),(23049001,23,49,1,'Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother\'s body, he had my name in mind:'),(23049002,23,49,2,'And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place;'),(23049003,23,49,3,'And he said to me, You are my servant, Israel, in whom my glory will be seen;'),(23049004,23,49,4,'And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.'),(23049005,23,49,5,'And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother\'s body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength.'),(23049006,23,49,6,'It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.'),(23049007,23,49,7,'The Lord who takes up Israel\'s cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.'),(23049008,23,49,8,'This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;'),(23049009,23,49,9,'Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.'),(23049010,23,49,10,'They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.'),(23049011,23,49,11,'And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways will be lifted up.'),(23049012,23,49,12,'See, these are coming from far; and these from the north and the west; and these from the land of Sinim.'),(23049013,23,49,13,'Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.'),(23049014,23,49,14,'But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.'),(23049015,23,49,15,'Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.'),(23049016,23,49,16,'See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me.'),(23049017,23,49,17,'Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.'),(23049018,23,49,18,'Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed with them like a bride.'),(23049019,23,49,19,'For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.'),(23049020,23,49,20,'The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.'),(23049021,23,49,21,'Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?'),(23049022,23,49,22,'This is the word of the Lord God: See, I will make a sign with my hand to the nations, and put up my flag for the peoples; and they will take up your sons on their beasts, and your daughters on their backs.'),(23049023,23,49,23,'And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.'),(23049024,23,49,24,'Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?'),(23049025,23,49,25,'But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep your children safe.'),(23049026,23,49,26,'And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.'),(23050001,23,50,1,'This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.'),(23050002,23,50,2,'Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.'),(23050003,23,50,3,'By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.'),(23050004,23,50,4,'The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:'),(23050005,23,50,5,'And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.'),(23050006,23,50,6,'I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.'),(23050007,23,50,7,'For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.'),(23050008,23,50,8,'He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.'),(23050009,23,50,9,'See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.'),(23050010,23,50,10,'Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.'),(23050011,23,50,11,'See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.'),(23051001,23,51,1,'Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.'),(23051002,23,51,2,'Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.'),(23051003,23,51,3,'For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.'),(23051004,23,51,4,'Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.'),(23051005,23,51,5,'Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.'),(23051006,23,51,6,'Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.'),(23051007,23,51,7,'Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.'),(23051008,23,51,8,'For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.'),(23051009,23,51,9,'Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?'),(23051010,23,51,10,'Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord\'s people to go through?'),(23051011,23,51,11,'Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.'),(23051012,23,51,12,'I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?'),(23051013,23,51,13,'And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?'),(23051014,23,51,14,'The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.'),(23051015,23,51,15,'For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.'),(23051016,23,51,16,'And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.'),(23051017,23,51,17,'Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord\'s hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.'),(23051018,23,51,18,'She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.'),(23051019,23,51,19,'These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?'),(23051020,23,51,20,'Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.'),(23051021,23,51,21,'So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:'),(23051022,23,51,22,'This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:'),(23051023,23,51,23,'And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.'),(23052001,23,52,1,'Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.'),(23052002,23,52,2,'Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.'),(23052003,23,52,3,'For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.'),(23052004,23,52,4,'For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.'),(23052005,23,52,5,'Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.'),(23052006,23,52,6,'For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.'),(23052007,23,52,7,'How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!'),(23052008,23,52,8,'The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.'),(23052009,23,52,9,'Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.'),(23052010,23,52,10,'The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.'),(23052011,23,52,11,'Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.'),(23052012,23,52,12,'For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.'),(23052013,23,52,13,'See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.'),(23052014,23,52,14,'As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.'),(23052015,23,52,15,'So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.'),(23053001,23,53,1,'Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?'),(23053002,23,53,2,'For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;'),(23053003,23,53,3,'Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men\'s faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.'),(23053004,23,53,4,'But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God\'s punishment had come.'),(23053005,23,53,5,'But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.'),(23053006,23,53,6,'We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.'),(23053007,23,53,7,'Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.'),(23053008,23,53,8,'They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.'),(23053009,23,53,9,'And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth.'),(23053010,23,53,10,'And the Lord was pleased ... see a seed, long life, ... will do well in his hand. ...'),(23053011,23,53,11,'... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.'),(23053012,23,53,12,'For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.'),(23054001,23,54,1,'Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.'),(23054002,23,54,2,'Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.'),(23054003,23,54,3,'For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.'),(23054004,23,54,4,'Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.'),(23054005,23,54,5,'For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.'),(23054006,23,54,6,'For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one\'s early days.'),(23054007,23,54,7,'For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.'),(23054008,23,54,8,'In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.'),(23054009,23,54,9,'For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.'),(23054010,23,54,10,'For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.'),(23054011,23,54,11,'O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.'),(23054012,23,54,12,'I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.'),(23054013,23,54,13,'And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.'),(23054014,23,54,14,'All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.'),(23054015,23,54,15,'See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you.'),(23054016,23,54,16,'See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.'),(23054017,23,54,17,'No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.'),(23055001,23,55,1,'Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.'),(23055002,23,55,2,'Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.'),(23055003,23,55,3,'Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.'),(23055004,23,55,4,'See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.'),(23055005,23,55,5,'See, you will send for a nation of which you had no knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.'),(23055006,23,55,6,'Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:'),(23055007,23,55,7,'Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.'),(23055008,23,55,8,'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.'),(23055009,23,55,9,'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.'),(23055010,23,55,10,'For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;'),(23055011,23,55,11,'So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.'),(23055012,23,55,12,'For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.'),(23055013,23,55,13,'In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.'),(23056001,23,56,1,'The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.'),(23056002,23,56,2,'Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.'),(23056003,23,56,3,'And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.'),(23056004,23,56,4,'For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:'),(23056005,23,56,5,'I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.'),(23056006,23,56,6,'And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:'),(23056007,23,56,7,'I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.'),(23056008,23,56,8,'The Lord God, who gets together the wandering ones of Israel, says, I will get together others in addition to those of Israel who have come back.'),(23056009,23,56,9,'All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.'),(23056010,23,56,10,'His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.'),(23056011,23,56,11,'Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.'),(23056012,23,56,12,'Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.'),(23057001,23,57,1,'The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.'),(23057002,23,57,2,'They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.'),(23057003,23,57,3,'But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.'),(23057004,23,57,4,'Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,'),(23057005,23,57,5,'You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?'),(23057006,23,57,6,'Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?'),(23057007,23,57,7,'You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.'),(23057008,23,57,8,'And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it'),(23057009,23,57,9,'And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.'),(23057010,23,57,10,'You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.'),(23057011,23,57,11,'And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?'),(23057012,23,57,12,'I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.'),(23057013,23,57,13,'Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.'),(23057014,23,57,14,'And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.'),(23057015,23,57,15,'For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.'),(23057016,23,57,16,'For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.'),(23057017,23,57,17,'I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.'),(23057018,23,57,18,'I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.'),(23057019,23,57,19,'I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.'),(23057020,23,57,20,'But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.'),(23057021,23,57,21,'There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.'),(23058001,23,58,1,'Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.'),(23058002,23,58,2,'Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.'),(23058003,23,58,3,'They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;'),(23058004,23,58,4,'If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.'),(23058005,23,58,5,'Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?'),(23058006,23,58,6,'Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?'),(23058007,23,58,7,'Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?'),(23058008,23,58,8,'Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.'),(23058009,23,58,9,'Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;'),(23058010,23,58,10,'And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:'),(23058011,23,58,11,'And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.'),(23058012,23,58,12,'And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.'),(23058013,23,58,13,'If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;'),(23058014,23,58,14,'Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.'),(23059001,23,59,1,'Truly, the Lord\'s hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:'),(23059002,23,59,2,'But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.'),(23059003,23,59,3,'For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.'),(23059004,23,59,4,'No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.'),(23059005,23,59,5,'They give birth to snake\'s eggs, and make spider\'s threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.'),(23059006,23,59,6,'Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.'),(23059007,23,59,7,'Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.'),(23059008,23,59,8,'They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.'),(23059009,23,59,9,'For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.'),(23059010,23,59,10,'We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.'),(23059011,23,59,11,'We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.'),(23059012,23,59,12,'For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:'),(23059013,23,59,13,'We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.'),(23059014,23,59,14,'And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.'),(23059015,23,59,15,'Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.'),(23059016,23,59,16,'And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.'),(23059017,23,59,17,'Yes, he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and salvation as a head-dress; and he put on punishment as clothing, and wrath as a robe.'),(23059018,23,59,18,'He will give them the right reward of their doings, wrath to his attackers, punishment to his haters, and even on the sea-lands he will send punishment.'),(23059019,23,59,19,'So they will see the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the east: for he will come like a rushing stream, forced on by a wind of the Lord.'),(23059020,23,59,20,'And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.'),(23059021,23,59,21,'And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed\'s seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.'),(23060001,23,60,1,'Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.'),(23060002,23,60,2,'For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.'),(23060003,23,60,3,'And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.'),(23060004,23,60,4,'Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.'),(23060005,23,60,5,'Then you will see, and be bright with joy, and your heart will be shaking with increase of delight: for the produce of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.'),(23060006,23,60,6,'You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.'),(23060007,23,60,7,'All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.'),(23060008,23,60,8,'Who are these coming like a cloud, like a flight of doves to their windows?'),(23060009,23,60,9,'Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.'),(23060010,23,60,10,'And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.'),(23060011,23,60,11,'Your doors will be open at all times; they will not be shut day or night; so that men may come into you with the wealth of the nations, with their kings at their head.'),(23060012,23,60,12,'For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.'),(23060013,23,60,13,'The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.'),(23060014,23,60,14,'And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'),(23060015,23,60,15,'And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.'),(23060016,23,60,16,'And you will take the milk of the nations, flowing from the breast of kings; and you will see that I, the Lord, am your saviour, and he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.'),(23060017,23,60,17,'In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.'),(23060018,23,60,18,'Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.'),(23060019,23,60,19,'The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.'),(23060020,23,60,20,'Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.'),(23060021,23,60,21,'Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.'),(23060022,23,60,22,'The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.'),(23061001,23,61,1,'The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;'),(23061002,23,61,2,'To give knowledge that the year of the Lord\'s good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;'),(23061003,23,61,3,'To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.'),(23061004,23,61,4,'And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.'),(23061005,23,61,5,'And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.'),(23061006,23,61,6,'But you will be named the priests of the Lord, the servants of our God: you will have the wealth of the nations for your food, and you will be clothed with their glory.'),(23061007,23,61,7,'As they had twice as much grief, and marks of shame were their heritage, so in their land they will be rewarded twice over, and will have eternal joy.'),(23061008,23,61,8,'For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.'),(23061009,23,61,9,'And their seed will be noted among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples: it will be clear to all who see them that they are the seed to which the Lord has given his blessing.'),(23061010,23,61,10,'I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.'),(23061011,23,61,11,'For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.'),(23062001,23,62,1,'Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.'),(23062002,23,62,2,'And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of the Lord.'),(23062003,23,62,3,'And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king\'s head-dress in the hand of your God.'),(23062004,23,62,4,'You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.'),(23062005,23,62,5,'For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.'),(23062006,23,62,6,'I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord\'s recorders, take no rest,'),(23062007,23,62,7,'And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.'),(23062008,23,62,8,'The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:'),(23062009,23,62,9,'But those who have got in the grain will have it for their food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of my holy house.'),(23062010,23,62,10,'Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.'),(23062011,23,62,11,'The Lord has sent out word to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your saviour comes; those whom he has made free are with him, and those to whom he has given salvation go before him.'),(23062012,23,62,12,'And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.'),(23063001,23,63,1,'Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.'),(23063002,23,63,2,'Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?'),(23063003,23,63,3,'I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.'),(23063004,23,63,4,'For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.'),(23063005,23,63,5,'And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.'),(23063006,23,63,6,'And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.'),(23063007,23,63,7,'I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.'),(23063008,23,63,8,'For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.'),(23063009,23,63,9,'It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.'),(23063010,23,63,10,'But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.'),(23063011,23,63,11,'Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,'),(23063012,23,63,12,'He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;'),(23063013,23,63,13,'He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?'),(23063014,23,63,14,'Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.'),(23063015,23,63,15,'Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:'),(23063016,23,63,16,'For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.'),(23063017,23,63,17,'O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.'),(23063018,23,63,18,'Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?'),(23063019,23,63,19,'We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.'),(23064001,23,64,1,'O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you, As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;'),(23064002,23,64,2,'While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.'),(23064003,23,64,3,'The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.'),(23064004,23,64,4,'Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.'),(23064005,23,64,5,'For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.'),(23064006,23,64,6,'And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.'),(23064007,23,64,7,'But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.'),(23064008,23,64,8,'Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.'),(23064009,23,64,9,'Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.'),(23064010,23,64,10,'Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.'),(23064011,23,64,11,'In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?'),(23064012,23,64,12,'[]'),(23065001,23,65,1,'I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.'),(23065002,23,65,2,'All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;'),(23065003,23,65,3,'A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.'),(23065004,23,65,4,'Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig\'s flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.'),(23065005,23,65,5,'Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.'),(23065006,23,65,6,'See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,'),(23065007,23,65,7,'For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.'),(23065008,23,65,8,'This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.'),(23065009,23,65,9,'And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.'),(23065010,23,65,10,'And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.'),(23065011,23,65,11,'But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate;'),(23065012,23,65,12,'Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.'),(23065013,23,65,13,'For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:'),(23065014,23,65,14,'My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.'),(23065015,23,65,15,'And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:'),(23065016,23,65,16,'So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.'),(23065017,23,65,17,'For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.'),(23065018,23,65,18,'But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.'),(23065019,23,65,19,'And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.'),(23065020,23,65,20,'No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.'),(23065021,23,65,21,'And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.'),(23065022,23,65,22,'They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.'),(23065023,23,65,23,'Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.'),(23065024,23,65,24,'And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.'),(23065025,23,65,25,'The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake\'s food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.'),(23066001,23,66,1,'The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?'),(23066002,23,66,2,'For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.'),(23066003,23,66,3,'He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig\'s blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;'),(23066004,23,66,4,'So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.'),(23066005,23,66,5,'Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord\'s glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.'),(23066006,23,66,6,'There is a noise of war from the town, a sound from the Temple, the voice of the Lord giving punishment to his haters.'),(23066007,23,66,7,'Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.'),(23066008,23,66,8,'When has such a story come to men\'s ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion\'s pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.'),(23066009,23,66,9,'Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.'),(23066010,23,66,10,'Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:'),(23066011,23,66,11,'So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory.'),(23066012,23,66,12,'For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.'),(23066013,23,66,13,'As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.'),(23066014,23,66,14,'And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.'),(23066015,23,66,15,'For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages will be like the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of his wrath, and his passion is like flames of fire.'),(23066016,23,66,16,'For with fire and sword will the Lord come, judging all the earth, and his sword will be on all flesh: and great numbers will be put to death by him.'),(23066017,23,66,17,'As for those who keep themselves separate, and make themselves clean in the gardens, going after one in the middle, taking pig\'s flesh for food, and other disgusting things, such as the mouse: their works and their thoughts will come to an end together, says the Lord.'),(23066018,23,66,18,'And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues: and they will come and will see my glory.'),(23066019,23,66,19,'And I will put a sign among them, and I will send those who are still living to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, Meshech and Rosh, Tubal and Javan, to the sea-lands far away, who have not had word of me, or seen my glory; and they will give the knowledge of my glory to the nations.'),(23066020,23,66,20,'And they will take your countrymen out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in carriages, and in carts, and on asses, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel take their offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.'),(23066021,23,66,21,'And some of them will I take for priests and Levites, says the Lord.'),(23066022,23,66,22,'For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.'),(23066023,23,66,23,'And it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before me, says the Lord.'),(23066024,23,66,24,'And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.'),(24001001,24,1,1,'The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:'),(24001002,24,1,2,'To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.'),(24001003,24,1,3,'And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.'),(24001004,24,1,4,'Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(24001005,24,1,5,'Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.'),(24001006,24,1,6,'Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.'),(24001007,24,1,7,'But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.'),(24001008,24,1,8,'Have no fear because of them: for I am with you, to keep you safe, says the Lord.'),(24001009,24,1,9,'Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth; and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth:'),(24001010,24,1,10,'See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.'),(24001011,24,1,11,'Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree.'),(24001012,24,1,12,'Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it.'),(24001013,24,1,13,'And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the north.'),(24001014,24,1,14,'Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.'),(24001015,24,1,15,'For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.'),(24001016,24,1,16,'And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.'),(24001017,24,1,17,'So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.'),(24001018,24,1,18,'For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.'),(24001019,24,1,19,'They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.'),(24002001,24,2,1,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(24002002,24,2,2,'Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.'),(24002003,24,2,3,'Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.'),(24002004,24,2,4,'Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:'),(24002005,24,2,5,'These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?'),(24002006,24,2,6,'And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?'),(24002007,24,2,7,'And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.'),(24002008,24,2,8,'The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.'),(24002009,24,2,9,'For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children\'s children.'),(24002010,24,2,10,'For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.'),(24002011,24,2,11,'Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.'),(24002012,24,2,12,'Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.'),(24002013,24,2,13,'For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.'),(24002014,24,2,14,'Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?'),(24002015,24,2,15,'The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.'),(24002016,24,2,16,'Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.'),(24002017,24,2,17,'Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?'),(24002018,24,2,18,'And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?'),(24002019,24,2,19,'The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.'),(24002020,24,2,20,'For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman'),(24002021,24,2,21,'But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?'),(24002022,24,2,22,'For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.'),(24002023,24,2,23,'How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;'),(24002024,24,2,24,'An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.'),(24002025,24,2,25,'Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.'),(24002026,24,2,26,'As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;'),(24002027,24,2,27,'Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.'),(24002028,24,2,28,'But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.'),(24002029,24,2,29,'Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.'),(24002030,24,2,30,'I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.'),(24002031,24,2,31,'O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?'),(24002032,24,2,32,'Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.'),(24002033,24,2,33,'With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.'),(24002034,24,2,34,'And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...'),(24002035,24,2,35,'And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.'),(24002036,24,2,36,'Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.'),(24002037,24,2,37,'Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.'),(24003001,24,3,1,'They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man\'s, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.'),(24003002,24,3,2,'Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.'),(24003003,24,3,3,'So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.'),(24003004,24,3,4,'Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?'),(24003005,24,3,5,'Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.'),(24003006,24,3,6,'And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.'),(24003007,24,3,7,'And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.'),(24003008,24,3,8,'And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.'),(24003009,24,3,9,'So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.'),(24003010,24,3,10,'But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.'),(24003011,24,3,11,'And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.'),(24003012,24,3,12,'Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.'),(24003013,24,3,13,'Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.'),(24003014,24,3,14,'Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;'),(24003015,24,3,15,'And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.'),(24003016,24,3,16,'And it will come about, when your numbers are increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, that they will no longer say, The ark of the agreement of the Lord: it will not come into their minds, they will not have any memory of it, or be conscious of the loss of it, and it will not be made again.'),(24003017,24,3,17,'At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord\'s kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.'),(24003018,24,3,18,'In those days the family of Judah will go with the family of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north into the land which I gave for a heritage to your fathers.'),(24003019,24,3,19,'But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.'),(24003020,24,3,20,'Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.'),(24003021,24,3,21,'A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.'),(24003022,24,3,22,'Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.'),(24003023,24,3,23,'Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.'),(24003024,24,3,24,'But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.'),(24003025,24,3,25,'Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.'),(24004001,24,4,1,'If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.'),(24004002,24,4,2,'And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.'),(24004003,24,4,3,'For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.'),(24004004,24,4,4,'Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.'),(24004005,24,4,5,'Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns.'),(24004006,24,4,6,'Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.'),(24004007,24,4,7,'A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.'),(24004008,24,4,8,'For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.'),(24004009,24,4,9,'And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder.'),(24004010,24,4,10,'Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.'),(24004011,24,4,11,'At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;'),(24004012,24,4,12,'A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.'),(24004013,24,4,13,'See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.'),(24004014,24,4,14,'O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?'),(24004015,24,4,15,'For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out evil from the hills of Ephraim:'),(24004016,24,4,16,'Make this come to the minds of the nations, make a statement openly against Jerusalem, that attackers are coming from a far country and their voices will be loud against the towns of Judah.'),(24004017,24,4,17,'Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.'),(24004018,24,4,18,'Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.'),(24004019,24,4,19,'My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.'),(24004020,24,4,20,'News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.'),(24004021,24,4,21,'How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?'),(24004022,24,4,22,'For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.'),(24004023,24,4,23,'Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.'),(24004024,24,4,24,'Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.'),(24004025,24,4,25,'Looking, I saw that there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had gone in flight.'),(24004026,24,4,26,'Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.'),(24004027,24,4,27,'For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.'),(24004028,24,4,28,'The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.'),(24004029,24,4,29,'All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.'),(24004030,24,4,30,'And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.'),(24004031,24,4,31,'A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.'),(24005001,24,5,1,'Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.'),(24005002,24,5,2,'And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.'),(24005003,24,5,3,'O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.'),(24005004,24,5,4,'Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.'),(24005005,24,5,5,'I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.'),(24005006,24,5,6,'And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.'),(24005007,24,5,7,'How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.'),(24005008,24,5,8,'They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour\'s wife.'),(24005009,24,5,9,'Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?'),(24005010,24,5,10,'Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord\'s.'),(24005011,24,5,11,'For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.'),(24005012,24,5,12,'They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:'),(24005013,24,5,13,'And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.'),(24005014,24,5,14,'For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.'),(24005015,24,5,15,'See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.'),(24005016,24,5,16,'Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.'),(24005017,24,5,17,'They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.'),(24005018,24,5,18,'But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.'),(24005019,24,5,19,'And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.'),(24005020,24,5,20,'Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,'),(24005021,24,5,21,'Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:'),(24005022,24,5,22,'Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.'),(24005023,24,5,23,'But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.'),(24005024,24,5,24,'And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.'),(24005025,24,5,25,'Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.'),(24005026,24,5,26,'For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.'),(24005027,24,5,27,'As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.'),(24005028,24,5,28,'They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.'),(24005029,24,5,29,'Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?'),(24005030,24,5,30,'A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;'),(24005031,24,5,31,'The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?'),(24006001,24,6,1,'Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.'),(24006002,24,6,2,'The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.'),(24006003,24,6,3,'Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.'),(24006004,24,6,4,'Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.'),(24006005,24,6,5,'Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.'),(24006006,24,6,6,'For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.'),(24006007,24,6,7,'As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.'),(24006008,24,6,8,'Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.'),(24006009,24,6,9,'This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.'),(24006010,24,6,10,'To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.'),(24006011,24,6,11,'For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.'),(24006012,24,6,12,'And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.'),(24006013,24,6,13,'For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.'),(24006014,24,6,14,'And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.'),(24006015,24,6,15,'Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.'),(24006016,24,6,16,'This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.'),(24006017,24,6,17,'And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.'),(24006018,24,6,18,'So then, give ear, you nations, and ...'),(24006019,24,6,19,'Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.'),(24006020,24,6,20,'To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.'),(24006021,24,6,21,'For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.'),(24006022,24,6,22,'The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.'),(24006023,24,6,23,'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 Zion.'),(24006024,24,6,24,'The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.'),(24006025,24,6,25,'Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.'),(24006026,24,6,26,'O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.'),(24006027,24,6,27,'I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.'),(24006028,24,6,28,'All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.'),(24006029,24,6,29,'The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.'),(24006030,24,6,30,'They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.'),(24007001,24,7,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,'),(24007002,24,7,2,'Take your place in the doorway of the Lord\'s house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.'),(24007003,24,7,3,'The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.'),(24007004,24,7,4,'Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.'),(24007005,24,7,5,'For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;'),(24007006,24,7,6,'If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:'),(24007007,24,7,7,'Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.'),(24007008,24,7,8,'See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.'),(24007009,24,7,9,'Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;'),(24007010,24,7,10,'And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?'),(24007011,24,7,11,'Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.'),(24007012,24,7,12,'But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.'),(24007013,24,7,13,'And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer:'),(24007014,24,7,14,'For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.'),(24007015,24,7,15,'And I will send you away from before my face, as I have sent away all your brothers, even all the seed of Ephraim.'),(24007016,24,7,16,'And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.'),(24007017,24,7,17,'Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?'),(24007018,24,7,18,'The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.'),(24007019,24,7,19,'Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?'),(24007020,24,7,20,'So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out.'),(24007021,24,7,21,'These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.'),(24007022,24,7,22,'For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:'),(24007023,24,7,23,'But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.'),(24007024,24,7,24,'But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.'),(24007025,24,7,25,'From the day when your fathers came out of Egypt till this day, I have sent my servants the prophets to you, getting up early every day and sending them:'),(24007026,24,7,26,'But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.'),(24007027,24,7,27,'And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.'),(24007028,24,7,28,'And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.'),(24007029,24,7,29,'Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.'),(24007030,24,7,30,'For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.'),(24007031,24,7,31,'And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.'),(24007032,24,7,32,'For this cause, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death: for they will put the dead into the earth in Topheth till there is no more room.'),(24007033,24,7,33,'And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.'),(24007034,24,7,34,'And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.'),(24008001,24,8,1,'At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places:'),(24008002,24,8,2,'And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.'),(24008003,24,8,3,'And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.'),(24008004,24,8,4,'Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?'),(24008005,24,8,5,'Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.'),(24008006,24,8,6,'I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.'),(24008007,24,8,7,'Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.'),(24008008,24,8,8,'How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.'),(24008009,24,8,9,'The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?'),(24008010,24,8,10,'So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.'),(24008011,24,8,11,'And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.'),(24008012,24,8,12,'Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.'),(24008013,24,8,13,'I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.'),(24008014,24,8,14,'Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.'),(24008015,24,8,15,'We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.'),(24008016,24,8,16,'The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.'),(24008017,24,8,17,'See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.'),(24008018,24,8,18,'Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.'),(24008019,24,8,19,'The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?'),(24008020,24,8,20,'The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.'),(24008021,24,8,21,'For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.'),(24008022,24,8,22,'Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?'),(24009001,24,9,1,'If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!'),(24009002,24,9,2,'If only I had in the waste land a night\'s resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.'),(24009003,24,9,3,'Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.'),(24009004,24,9,4,'Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.'),(24009005,24,9,5,'Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.'),(24009006,24,9,6,'There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.'),(24009007,24,9,7,'So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.'),(24009008,24,9,8,'His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.'),(24009009,24,9,9,'Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?'),(24009010,24,9,10,'Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.'),(24009011,24,9,11,'And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.'),(24009012,24,9,12,'Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?'),(24009013,24,9,13,'And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;'),(24009014,24,9,14,'But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.'),(24009015,24,9,15,'So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.'),(24009016,24,9,16,'And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.'),(24009017,24,9,17,'This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:'),(24009018,24,9,18,'Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.'),(24009019,24,9,19,'For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.'),(24009020,24,9,20,'But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.'),(24009021,24,9,21,'For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.'),(24009022,24,9,22,'The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.'),(24009023,24,9,23,'This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:'),(24009024,24,9,24,'But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.'),(24009025,24,9,25,'See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;'),(24009026,24,9,26,'On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.'),(24010001,24,10,1,'Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:'),(24010002,24,10,2,'This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.'),(24010003,24,10,3,'For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.'),(24010004,24,10,4,'They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.'),(24010005,24,10,5,'It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.'),(24010006,24,10,6,'There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.'),(24010007,24,10,7,'Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.'),(24010008,24,10,8,'But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.'),(24010009,24,10,9,'Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.'),(24010010,24,10,10,'But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.'),(24010011,24,10,11,'This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.'),(24010012,24,10,12,'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.'),(24010013,24,10,13,'At the sound of his voice there is a massing of 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.'),(24010014,24,10,14,'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.'),(24010015,24,10,15,'They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.'),(24010016,24,10,16,'The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.'),(24010017,24,10,17,'Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.'),(24010018,24,10,18,'For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.'),(24010019,24,10,19,'Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.'),(24010020,24,10,20,'My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.'),(24010021,24,10,21,'For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.'),(24010022,24,10,22,'News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.'),(24010023,24,10,23,'O Lord, I am conscious that a man\'s way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.'),(24010024,24,10,24,'O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.'),(24010025,24,10,25,'Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.'),(24011001,24,11,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,'),(24011002,24,11,2,'Give ear to the words of this agreement, and say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem,'),(24011003,24,11,3,'The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,'),(24011004,24,11,4,'To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:'),(24011005,24,11,5,'So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.'),(24011006,24,11,6,'And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.'),(24011007,24,11,7,'For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.'),(24011008,24,11,8,'But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.'),(24011009,24,11,9,'And the Lord said to me, There is an evil design at work among the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.'),(24011010,24,11,10,'They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.'),(24011011,24,11,11,'So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.'),(24011012,24,11,12,'Then the towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying for help to the gods to whom they have been burning perfumes: but they will give them no salvation in the time of their trouble.'),(24011013,24,11,13,'For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.'),(24011014,24,11,14,'And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.'),(24011015,24,11,15,'About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?'),(24011016,24,11,16,'You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.'),(24011017,24,11,17,'For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.'),(24011018,24,11,18,'And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.'),(24011019,24,11,19,'But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.'),(24011020,24,11,20,'But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.'),(24011021,24,11,21,'So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:'),(24011022,24,11,22,'So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:'),(24011023,24,11,23,'Not one of them will keep his life, for I will send evil on the men of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.'),(24012001,24,12,1,'You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?'),(24012002,24,12,2,'They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.'),(24012003,24,12,3,'But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.'),(24012004,24,12,4,'How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.'),(24012005,24,12,5,'If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?'),(24012006,24,12,6,'For even your brothers, your father\'s family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.'),(24012007,24,12,7,'I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.'),(24012008,24,12,8,'My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.'),(24012009,24,12,9,'My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.'),(24012010,24,12,10,'The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;'),(24012011,24,12,11,'They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.'),(24012012,24,12,12,'Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.'),(24012013,24,12,13,'Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.'),(24012014,24,12,14,'This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.'),(24012015,24,12,15,'And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.'),(24012016,24,12,16,'And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.'),(24012017,24,12,17,'But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.'),(24013001,24,13,1,'This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.'),(24013002,24,13,2,'So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.'),(24013003,24,13,3,'And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,'),(24013004,24,13,4,'Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.'),(24013005,24,13,5,'So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me.'),(24013006,24,13,6,'Then after a long time, the Lord said to me, Up! go to Parah and get the band which I gave you orders to put there.'),(24013007,24,13,7,'So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything.'),(24013008,24,13,8,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(24013009,24,13,9,'The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.'),(24013010,24,13,10,'These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.'),(24013011,24,13,11,'For as a band goes tightly round a man\'s body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.'),(24013012,24,13,12,'So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine?'),(24013013,24,13,13,'Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David\'s seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink.'),(24013014,24,13,14,'I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.'),(24013015,24,13,15,'Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.'),(24013016,24,13,16,'Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.'),(24013017,24,13,17,'But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord\'s flock has been taken away as prisoners.'),(24013018,24,13,18,'Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.'),(24013019,24,13,19,'The towns of the south are shut up, and there is no one to make them open: Judah is taken away as prisoners; all Judah is taken away as prisoners.'),(24013020,24,13,20,'Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?'),(24013021,24,13,21,'What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?'),(24013022,24,13,22,'And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.'),(24013023,24,13,23,'Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.'),(24013024,24,13,24,'So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land.'),(24013025,24,13,25,'This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.'),(24013026,24,13,26,'So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.'),(24013027,24,13,27,'I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?'),(24014001,24,14,1,'The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.'),(24014002,24,14,2,'Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.'),(24014003,24,14,3,'Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.'),(24014004,24,14,4,'Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.'),(24014005,24,14,5,'And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.'),(24014006,24,14,6,'And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.'),(24014007,24,14,7,'Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.'),(24014008,24,14,8,'O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?'),(24014009,24,14,9,'Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.'),(24014010,24,14,10,'This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.'),(24014011,24,14,11,'And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.'),(24014012,24,14,12,'When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.'),(24014013,24,14,13,'Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.'),(24014014,24,14,14,'Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.'),(24014015,24,14,15,'So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.'),(24014016,24,14,16,'And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.'),(24014017,24,14,17,'And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.'),(24014018,24,14,18,'If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.'),(24014019,24,14,19,'Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.'),(24014020,24,14,20,'We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.'),(24014021,24,14,21,'Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.'),(24014022,24,14,22,'Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.'),(24015001,24,15,1,'Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.'),(24015002,24,15,2,'And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.'),(24015003,24,15,3,'And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.'),(24015004,24,15,4,'And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.'),(24015005,24,15,5,'For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?'),(24015006,24,15,6,'You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.'),(24015007,24,15,7,'And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.'),(24015008,24,15,8,'I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.'),(24015009,24,15,9,'The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.'),(24015010,24,15,10,'Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.'),(24015011,24,15,11,'...'),(24015012,24,15,12,'Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?'),(24015013,24,15,13,'I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.'),(24015014,24,15,14,'They will go away with your haters into a land which is strange to you: for my wrath is on fire with a flame which will be burning on you.'),(24015015,24,15,15,'O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;'),(24015016,24,15,16,'But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.'),(24015017,24,15,17,'I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.'),(24015018,24,15,18,'Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.'),(24015019,24,15,19,'For this cause the Lord has said, If you will come back, then I will again let you take your place before me; and if you give out what is of value and not that which has no value, you will be as my mouth: let them come back to you, but do not go back to them.'),(24015020,24,15,20,'And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.'),(24015021,24,15,21,'I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones.'),(24016001,24,16,1,'Then again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(24016002,24,16,2,'You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.'),(24016003,24,16,3,'For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:'),(24016004,24,16,4,'Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.'),(24016005,24,16,5,'For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.'),(24016006,24,16,6,'Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:'),(24016007,24,16,7,'No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.'),(24016008,24,16,8,'And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.'),(24016009,24,16,9,'For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.'),(24016010,24,16,10,'And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?'),(24016011,24,16,11,'Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;'),(24016012,24,16,12,'And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:'),(24016013,24,16,13,'For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you and to your fathers; there you will be the servants of other gods day and night, and you will have no mercy from me.'),(24016014,24,16,14,'For this cause, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt.'),(24016015,24,16,15,'But, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had sent them: and I will take them back again to their land which I gave to their fathers.'),(24016016,24,16,16,'See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.'),(24016017,24,16,17,'For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.'),(24016018,24,16,18,'And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.'),(24016019,24,16,19,'O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.'),(24016020,24,16,20,'Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?'),(24016021,24,16,21,'For this reason, truly, I will make them see, this once I will give them knowledge of my hand and my power; and they will be certain that my name is the Lord.'),(24017001,24,17,1,'The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:'),(24017002,24,17,2,'Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.'),(24017003,24,17,3,'I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.'),(24017004,24,17,4,'And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.'),(24017005,24,17,5,'This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.'),(24017006,24,17,6,'For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.'),(24017007,24,17,7,'A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.'),(24017008,24,17,8,'For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.'),(24017009,24,17,9,'The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?'),(24017010,24,17,10,'I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.'),(24017011,24,17,11,'Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.'),(24017012,24,17,12,'A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.'),(24017013,24,17,13,'O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.'),(24017014,24,17,14,'Make me well, O Lord, and I will be well; be my saviour, and I will be safe: for you are my hope.'),(24017015,24,17,15,'See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.'),(24017016,24,17,16,'As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.'),(24017017,24,17,17,'Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.'),(24017018,24,17,18,'Let them be put to shame who are attacking me, but let me not be shamed; let them be overcome with fear, but let me not be overcome: send on them the day of evil, and put them to destruction twice over.'),(24017019,24,17,19,'This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;'),(24017020,24,17,20,'And say to them, Give ear to the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all the people of Jerusalem who come in by these doors:'),(24017021,24,17,21,'This is what the Lord has said: See to yourselves, that you take up no weight on the Sabbath day, or take it in through the doors of Jerusalem;'),(24017022,24,17,22,'And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;'),(24017023,24,17,23,'But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.'),(24017024,24,17,24,'And it will be, that if with all care you give ear to me, says the Lord, and take no weight through the doorways of this town on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work in it;'),(24017025,24,17,25,'Then through the doors of this town there will come kings and princes, seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, they and their princes, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem: and this town will keep its place for ever.'),(24017026,24,17,26,'And they will come from the towns of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowlands, and from the mountains, and from the South, with burned offerings and offerings of beasts and meal offerings and perfume and offerings of praise, to the house of the Lord.'),(24017027,24,17,27,'But if you do not give ear to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to let no weight be lifted and taken through the doors of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: then I will put a fire in its doorways, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem, and it will never be put out.'),(24018001,24,18,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,'),(24018002,24,18,2,'Up! go down to the potter\'s house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.'),(24018003,24,18,3,'Then I went down to the potter\'s house, and he was doing his work on the stones.'),(24018004,24,18,4,'And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.'),(24018005,24,18,5,'Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(24018006,24,18,6,'O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter\'s hand are you in my hands, O Israel.'),(24018007,24,18,7,'Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;'),(24018008,24,18,8,'If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.'),(24018009,24,18,9,'And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it;'),(24018010,24,18,10,'If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.'),(24018011,24,18,11,'Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.'),(24018012,24,18,12,'But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.'),(24018013,24,18,13,'So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing.'),(24018014,24,18,14,'Will the white snow go away from the top of Sirion? will the cold waters flowing from the mountains become dry?'),(24018015,24,18,15,'For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;'),(24018016,24,18,16,'Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.'),(24018017,24,18,17,'I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.'),(24018018,24,18,18,'Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.'),(24018019,24,18,19,'Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.'),(24018020,24,18,20,'Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.'),(24018021,24,18,21,'For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.'),(24018022,24,18,22,'Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.'),(24018023,24,18,23,'But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.'),(24019001,24,19,1,'This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter\'s bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;'),(24019002,24,19,2,'And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, by the way into the door of broken pots, and there say in a loud voice the words which I will give you;'),(24019003,24,19,3,'Say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem; the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send evil on this place which will be bitter to the ears of anyone hearing of it.'),(24019004,24,19,4,'Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;'),(24019005,24,19,5,'And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind:'),(24019006,24,19,6,'For this cause, see, a time is coming, says the Lord, when this place will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death.'),(24019007,24,19,7,'I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.'),(24019008,24,19,8,'And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.'),(24019009,24,19,9,'I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.'),(24019010,24,19,10,'Then let the potter\'s bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you,'),(24019011,24,19,11,'And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter\'s bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till there is no more room.'),(24019012,24,19,12,'This is what I will do to this place, says the Lord, and to its people, making this town like Topheth:'),(24019013,24,19,13,'And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.'),(24019014,24,19,14,'Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to give the prophet\'s word; and he took his place in the open square of the Lord\'s house, and said to all the people,'),(24019015,24,19,15,'The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send on this town and on all her towns all the evil which I have said; because they made their necks stiff, so that they might not give ear to my words.'),(24020001,24,20,1,'Now it came to the ears of Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief in authority in the house of the Lord, that Jeremiah was saying these things;'),(24020002,24,20,2,'And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord.'),(24020003,24,20,3,'Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur.'),(24020004,24,20,4,'For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.'),(24020005,24,20,5,'And more than this, I will give all the wealth of this town and all its profits and all its things of value, even all the stores of the kings of Judah will I give into the hands of their haters, who will put violent hands on them and take them away to Babylon.'),(24020006,24,20,6,'And you, Pashhur, and all who are in your house, will go away prisoners: you will come to Babylon, and there your body will be put to rest, you and all your friends, to whom you said false words.'),(24020007,24,20,7,'O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.'),(24020008,24,20,8,'For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.'),(24020009,24,20,9,'And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.'),(24020010,24,20,10,'For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.'),(24020011,24,20,11,'But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.'),(24020012,24,20,12,'But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.'),(24020013,24,20,13,'Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.'),(24020014,24,20,14,'A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.'),(24020015,24,20,15,'A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.'),(24020016,24,20,16,'May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;'),(24020017,24,20,17,'Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother\'s body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.'),(24020018,24,20,18,'Why did I come from my mother\'s body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?'),(24021001,24,21,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,'),(24021002,24,21,2,'Will you get directions from the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, is making war against us; it may be that the Lord will do something for us like all the wonders he has done, and make him go away from us.'),(24021003,24,21,3,'Then Jeremiah said to them, This is what you are to say to Zedekiah:'),(24021004,24,21,4,'The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town.'),(24021005,24,21,5,'And I myself will be fighting against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even with angry feeling and passion and in great wrath.'),(24021006,24,21,6,'And I will send a great disease on the people living in this town, on man and on beast, causing their death.'),(24021007,24,21,7,'And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.'),(24021008,24,21,8,'And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.'),(24021009,24,21,9,'He who keeps in this town will come to his death by the sword and through need of food and through disease; but he who goes out and gives himself up to the Chaldaeans who are shutting you in, will go on living, and will keep his life safe.'),(24021010,24,21,10,'For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.'),(24021011,24,21,11,'About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;'),(24021012,24,21,12,'O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.'),(24021013,24,21,13,'See, I am against you, you who are living on the rock of the valley, says the Lord; you who say, Who will come down against us? or who will get into our houses?'),(24021014,24,21,14,'I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.'),(24022001,24,22,1,'This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,'),(24022002,24,22,2,'And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors.'),(24022003,24,22,3,'This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.'),(24022004,24,22,4,'For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people'),(24022005,24,22,5,'But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.'),(24022006,24,22,6,'For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.'),(24022007,24,22,7,'And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.'),(24022008,24,22,8,'And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?'),(24022009,24,22,9,'And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.'),(24022010,24,22,10,'Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.'),(24022011,24,22,11,'For this is what the Lord has said about Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: He will never come back there again:'),(24022012,24,22,12,'But death will come to him in the place where they have taken him away prisoner, and he will never see this land again.'),(24022013,24,22,13,'A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;'),(24022014,24,22,14,'Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.'),(24022015,24,22,15,'Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?'),(24022016,24,22,16,'He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.'),(24022017,24,22,17,'But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.'),(24022018,24,22,18,'So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!'),(24022019,24,22,19,'They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem.'),(24022020,24,22,20,'Go up to Lebanon and give a cry; let your voice be loud in Bashan, crying out from Abarim; for all your lovers have come to destruction'),(24022021,24,22,21,'My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.'),(24022022,24,22,22,'All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.'),(24022023,24,22,23,'O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!'),(24022024,24,22,24,'By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off;'),(24022025,24,22,25,'And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans.'),(24022026,24,22,26,'I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.'),(24022027,24,22,27,'But to the land on which their soul\'s desire is fixed, they will never come back.'),(24022028,24,22,28,'Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?'),(24022029,24,22,29,'O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!'),(24022030,24,22,30,'The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah.'),(24023001,24,23,1,'A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.'),(24023002,24,23,2,'So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.'),(24023003,24,23,3,'And I will get the rest of my flock together from all the countries where I have sent them, and will make them come back again to their resting-place; and they will have offspring and be increased.'),(24023004,24,23,4,'And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord.'),(24023005,24,23,5,'See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.'),(24023006,24,23,6,'In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.'),(24023007,24,23,7,'And so, truly, the days are coming when they will say no longer, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt;'),(24023008,24,23,8,'But, By the living Lord, who took up the seed of Israel, and made them come out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had sent them; and they will be living in the land which is theirs.'),(24023009,24,23,9,'About the prophets. My heart is broken in me, all my bones are shaking; I am like a man full of strong drink, like a man overcome by wine; because of the Lord, and because of his holy words.'),(24023010,24,23,10,'For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.'),(24023011,24,23,11,'For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.'),(24023012,24,23,12,'For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.'),(24023013,24,23,13,'And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.'),(24023014,24,23,14,'And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.'),(24023015,24,23,15,'So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.'),(24023016,24,23,16,'This is what the Lord of armies has said: Do not give ear to the words which the prophets say to you: they give you teaching of no value: it is from themselves that their vision comes, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.'),(24023017,24,23,17,'They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.'),(24023018,24,23,18,'For which of them has knowledge of the secret of the Lord, and has seen him, and given ear to his word? which of them has taken note of his word and given attention to it?'),(24023019,24,23,19,'See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.'),(24023020,24,23,20,'The wrath of the Lord will not be turned back till he has done, till he has put into effect, the purposes of his heart: in days to come you will have full knowledge of this.'),(24023021,24,23,21,'I did not send these prophets, but they went running: I said nothing to them, but they gave out the prophet\'s word.'),(24023022,24,23,22,'But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.'),(24023023,24,23,23,'Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?'),(24023024,24,23,24,'In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.'),(24023025,24,23,25,'My ears have been open to what the prophets have said, who say false words in my name, saying, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, I have had a dream,'),(24023026,24,23,26,'Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?'),(24023027,24,23,27,'Whose purpose is to take away the memory of my name from my people by their dreams, of which every man is talking to his neighbour, as their fathers gave up the memory of my name for the Baal.'),(24023028,24,23,28,'If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord.'),(24023029,24,23,29,'Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?'),(24023030,24,23,30,'For this cause I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who take my words, every one from his neighbour.'),(24023031,24,23,31,'See, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who let their tongues say, He has said.'),(24023032,24,23,32,'See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.'),(24023033,24,23,33,'And if this people, or the prophet, or a priest, questioning you, says, What word of weight is there from the Lord? then you are to say to them, You are the word, for I will not be troubled with you any more, says the Lord.'),(24023034,24,23,34,'And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, A word of weight from the Lord! I will send punishment on that man and on his house.'),(24023035,24,23,35,'But this is what you are to say, every man to his neighbour and every man to his brother, What answer has the Lord given? and, What has the Lord said?'),(24023036,24,23,36,'And you will no longer put people in mind of the word of weight of the Lord: for every man\'s word will be a weight on himself; for the words of the living God, of the Lord of armies, our God, have been twisted by you.'),(24023037,24,23,37,'This is what you are to say to the prophet, What answer has the Lord given to you? and, What has the Lord said?'),(24023038,24,23,38,'But if you say, The word of weight of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you say, The weight of the Lord, and I have sent to you, saying, You are not to say, The weight of the Lord;'),(24023039,24,23,39,'For this reason, truly, I will put you completely out of my memory, and I will put you, and the town which I gave to you and to your fathers, away from before my face:'),(24023040,24,23,40,'And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.'),(24024001,24,24,1,'The Lord gave me a vision, and I saw two baskets full of figs put in front of the Temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, had taken prisoner Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the chiefs of Judah, and the expert workmen and metal-workers from Jerusalem, and had taken them to Babylon.'),(24024002,24,24,2,'One basket had very good figs, like the figs which first come to growth: and the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were of no use for food.'),(24024003,24,24,3,'Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad very bad, and of no use for food, they are so bad.'),(24024004,24,24,4,'And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(24024005,24,24,5,'This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Like these good figs, so in my eyes will be the prisoners of Judah, whom I have sent from this place into the land of the Chaldaeans for their good.'),(24024006,24,24,6,'For I will keep my eyes on them for good, and I will take them back again to this land, building them up and not pulling them down, planting them and not uprooting them.'),(24024007,24,24,7,'And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.'),(24024008,24,24,8,'And like the bad figs which are so bad that they are of no use for food, so I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his chiefs and the rest of Jerusalem who are still in this land, and those who are in the land of Egypt:'),(24024009,24,24,9,'I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.'),(24024010,24,24,10,'And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.'),(24025001,24,25,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah; this was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.'),(24025002,24,25,2,'This word Jeremiah gave out to all the people of Judah and to those living in Jerusalem, saying,'),(24025003,24,25,3,'From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even till this day, for twenty-three years, the word of the Lord has been coming to me, and I have given it to you, getting up early and talking to you; but you have not given ear.'),(24025004,24,25,4,'And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;'),(24025005,24,25,5,'Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:'),(24025006,24,25,6,'Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.'),(24025007,24,25,7,'But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.'),(24025008,24,25,8,'So this is what the Lord of armies has said: Because you have not given ear to my words,'),(24025009,24,25,9,'See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.'),(24025010,24,25,10,'And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.'),(24025011,24,25,11,'All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.'),(24025012,24,25,12,'And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.'),(24025013,24,25,13,'And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations.'),(24025014,24,25,14,'For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.'),(24025015,24,25,15,'For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.'),(24025016,24,25,16,'And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.'),(24025017,24,25,17,'Then I took the cup from the Lord\'s hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;'),(24025018,24,25,18,'Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;'),(24025019,24,25,19,'Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;'),(24025020,24,25,20,'And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;'),(24025021,24,25,21,'Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon,'),(24025022,24,25,22,'And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;'),(24025023,24,25,23,'Dedan and Tema and Buz, and all who have the ends of their hair cut;'),(24025024,24,25,24,'And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people living in the waste land;'),(24025025,24,25,25,'And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;'),(24025026,24,25,26,'And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.'),(24025027,24,25,27,'And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.'),(24025028,24,25,28,'And it will be, if they will not take of the cup in your hand, then you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: You will certainly take of it.'),(24025029,24,25,29,'For see, I am starting to send evil on the town which is named by my name, and are you to be without any punishment? You will not be without punishment: for I will send a sword on all people living on the earth, says the Lord of armies.'),(24025030,24,25,30,'So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, like those who are crushing the grapes, against all the people of the earth.'),(24025031,24,25,31,'A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.'),(24025032,24,25,32,'This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, evil is going out from nation to nation, and a great storm will come up from the inmost parts of the earth.'),(24025033,24,25,33,'And at that day, the bodies of those whom the Lord has put to death will be seen from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: there will be no weeping for them, their bodies will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; they will be like waste on the face of the land.'),(24025034,24,25,34,'Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.'),(24025035,24,25,35,'There will be no way of flight for the keepers of sheep, no road for the chiefs of the flock to get away safely.'),(24025036,24,25,36,'A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.'),(24025037,24,25,37,'And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.'),(24025038,24,25,38,'The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.'),(24026001,24,26,1,'When Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king, this word came from the Lord, saying,'),(24026002,24,26,2,'This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord\'s house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord\'s house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;'),(24026003,24,26,3,'It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.'),(24026004,24,26,4,'And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,'),(24026005,24,26,5,'And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention;'),(24026006,24,26,6,'Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.'),(24026007,24,26,7,'And in the hearing of the priests and the prophets and all the people, Jeremiah said these words in the house of the Lord.'),(24026008,24,26,8,'Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.'),(24026009,24,26,9,'Why have you said in the name of the Lord, This house will be like Shiloh, and this land a waste with no one living in it? And all the people had come together to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.'),(24026010,24,26,10,'And the rulers of Judah, hearing of these things, came up from the king\'s house to the house of the Lord, and took their seats by the new door of the Lord\'s house.'),(24026011,24,26,11,'Then the priests and the prophets said to the rulers and to all the people, The right fate for this man is death; for he has said words against this town in your hearing.'),(24026012,24,26,12,'Then Jeremiah said to all the rulers and to all the people, The Lord has sent me as his prophet to say against this house and against this town all the words which have come to your ears.'),(24026013,24,26,13,'So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil.'),(24026014,24,26,14,'As for me, here I am in your hands: do with me whatever seems good and right in your opinion.'),(24026015,24,26,15,'Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.'),(24026016,24,26,16,'Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, It is not right for this man to be put to death: for he has said words to us in the name of the Lord our God.'),(24026017,24,26,17,'Then some of the responsible men of the land got up and said to all the meeting of the people,'),(24026018,24,26,18,'Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.'),(24026019,24,26,19,'Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.'),(24026020,24,26,20,'And there was another man who was a prophet of the Lord, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; he said against this town and against this land all the words which Jeremiah had said:'),(24026021,24,26,21,'And when his words came to the ears of Jehoiakim the king and all his men of war and his captains, the king would have put him to death; but Uriah, hearing of it, was full of fear and went in flight into Egypt:'),(24026022,24,26,22,'And Jehoiakim the king sent Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt.'),(24026023,24,26,23,'And they took Uriah out of Egypt and came back with him to Jehoiakim the king; who put him to death with the sword, and had his dead body put into the resting-place of the bodies of the common people.'),(24026024,24,26,24,'But Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, gave Jeremiah his help, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to be put to death.'),(24027001,24,27,1,'When Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,'),(24027002,24,27,2,'This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;'),(24027003,24,27,3,'And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by their servants who come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, king of Judah;'),(24027004,24,27,4,'And give them orders to say to their masters, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Say to your masters,'),(24027005,24,27,5,'I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure.'),(24027006,24,27,6,'And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use.'),(24027007,24,27,7,'And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son\'s son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.'),(24027008,24,27,8,'And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.'),(24027009,24,27,9,'And you are not to give attention to your prophets or your readers of signs or your dreamers or those who see into the future or those who make use of secret arts, who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon:'),(24027010,24,27,10,'For they say false words to you, so that you may be sent away far from your land, and so that you may be forced out by me and come to destruction.'),(24027011,24,27,11,'But as for that nation which puts its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and becomes his servant, I will let that nation keep on in its land, farming it and living in it, says the Lord.'),(24027012,24,27,12,'And I said all this to Zedekiah, king of Judah, saying, Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and become his servants and his people, so that you may keep your lives.'),(24027013,24,27,13,'Why are you desiring death, you and your people, by the sword, and because food is gone, and by disease, as the Lord has said of the nation which does not become the servant of the king of Babylon?'),(24027014,24,27,14,'And you are not to give ear to the prophets who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon: for what they say is not true.'),(24027015,24,27,15,'For I have not sent them, says the Lord, but they are saying what is false in my name, so that I might send you out by force, causing destruction to come on you and on your prophets.'),(24027016,24,27,16,'And I said to the priests and to all the people, This is what the Lord has said: Give no attention to the words of your prophets who say to you, See, in a very little time now the vessels of the Lord\'s house will come back again from Babylon: for what they say to you is false.'),(24027017,24,27,17,'Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?'),(24027018,24,27,18,'But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them now make request to the Lord of armies that the vessels which are still in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.'),(24027019,24,27,19,'For this is what the Lord has said about the rest of the vessels which are still in this town,'),(24027020,24,27,20,'Which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, when he took Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, a prisoner from Jerusalem to Babylon, with all the great men of Judah and Jerusalem;'),(24027021,24,27,21,'For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about the rest of the vessels in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem:'),(24027022,24,27,22,'They will be taken away to Babylon, and there they will be till the day when I send their punishment on them, says the Lord. Then I will take them up and put them back in their place.'),(24028001,24,28,1,'And it came about in that year, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur the prophet, who came from Gibeon, said to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, before the priests and all the people,'),(24028002,24,28,2,'These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: By me the yoke of the king of Babylon has been broken.'),(24028003,24,28,3,'In the space of two years I will send back into this place all the vessels of the Lord\'s house which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this place to Babylon:'),(24028004,24,28,4,'And I will let Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, come back to this place, with all the prisoners of Judah who went to Babylon, says the Lord: for I will have the yoke of the king of Babylon broken.'),(24028005,24,28,5,'Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, before the priests and all the people who had come into the house of the Lord,'),(24028006,24,28,6,'The prophet Jeremiah said, So be it: may the Lord do so: may the Lord give effect to the words which you have said, and let the vessels of the Lord\'s house, and all the people who have been taken away, come back from Babylon to this place.'),(24028007,24,28,7,'But still, give ear to this word which I am saying to you and to all the people:'),(24028008,24,28,8,'The prophets, who were before me and before you, from early times gave word to a number of countries and great kingdoms about war and destruction and disease.'),(24028009,24,28,9,'The prophet whose words are of peace, when his words come true, will be seen to be a prophet whom the Lord has sent.'),(24028010,24,28,10,'Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and it was broken by his hands.'),(24028011,24,28,11,'And before all the people Hananiah said, The Lord has said, Even so will I let the yoke of the king of Babylon be broken off the necks of all the nations in the space of two years. Then the prophet Jeremiah went away.'),(24028012,24,28,12,'Then after the yoke had been broken off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah by Hananiah the prophet, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24028013,24,28,13,'Go and say to Hananiah, This is what the Lord has said: Yokes of wood have been broken by you, but in their place I will make yokes of iron.'),(24028014,24,28,14,'For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: I have put a yoke of iron on the necks of all these nations, making them servants to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; and they are to be his servants: and in addition I have given him the beasts of the field.'),(24028015,24,28,15,'Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Give ear, now, Hananiah; the Lord has not sent you; but you are making this people put their faith in what is false.'),(24028016,24,28,16,'For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will send you away from off the face of the earth: this year death will overtake you, because you have said words against the Lord.'),(24028017,24,28,17,'So death came to Hananiah the prophet the same year, in the seventh month.'),(24029001,24,29,1,'Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the responsible men among those who had been taken away, and to the priests and the prophets and to all the rest of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon;'),(24029002,24,29,2,'(After Jeconiah the king and the queen-mother and the unsexed servants and the rulers of Judah and Jerusalem and the expert workmen and the metal-workers had gone away from Jerusalem;)'),(24029003,24,29,3,'By the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,) saying,'),(24029004,24,29,4,'This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said to all those whom I have taken away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon:'),(24029005,24,29,5,'Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;'),(24029006,24,29,6,'Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.'),(24029007,24,29,7,'And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.'),(24029008,24,29,8,'For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Do not let yourselves be tricked by the prophets who are among you, and the readers of signs, and give no attention to their dreams which they may have;'),(24029009,24,29,9,'For they are saying to you what is false in my name: I have not sent them, says the Lord.'),(24029010,24,29,10,'For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.'),(24029011,24,29,11,'For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.'),(24029012,24,29,12,'And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.'),(24029013,24,29,13,'And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.'),(24029014,24,29,14,'I will be near you again, says the Lord, and your fate will be changed, and I will get you together from all the nations and from all the places where I had sent you away, says the Lord; and I will take you back again to the place from which I sent you away prisoners.'),(24029015,24,29,15,'For you have said, The Lord has given us prophets in Babylon.'),(24029016,24,29,16,'For this is what the Lord has said about the king who is seated on the seat of David\'s kingdom, and about all the people living in this town, your countrymen who have not gone out with you as prisoners;'),(24029017,24,29,17,'This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will send on them the sword and need of food and disease, and will make them like bad figs, which are of no use for food, they are so bad.'),(24029018,24,29,18,'I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:'),(24029019,24,29,19,'Because they have not given ear to my words, says the Lord, when I sent to them my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you did not give ear, says the Lord.'),(24029020,24,29,20,'And now, give ear to the word of the Lord, all you whom I have sent away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.'),(24029021,24,29,21,'This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are saying to you what is false in my name: See, I will give them up into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your eyes.'),(24029022,24,29,22,'And their fate will be used as a curse by all the prisoners of Judah who are in Babylon, who will say, May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, who were burned in the fire by the king of Babylon;'),(24029023,24,29,23,'Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours\' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.'),(24029024,24,29,24,'About Shemaiah the Nehelamite.'),(24029025,24,29,25,'Shemaiah the Nehelamite sent a letter in his name to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,'),(24029026,24,29,26,'The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.'),(24029027,24,29,27,'So why have you made no protest against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is acting as a prophet to you?'),(24029028,24,29,28,'For he has sent to us in Babylon saying, The time will be long: go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them.'),(24029029,24,29,29,'And Zephaniah the priest made clear to Jeremiah the prophet what was said in the letter, reading it to him.'),(24029030,24,29,30,'Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,'),(24029031,24,29,31,'Send to all those who have been taken away, saying, This is what the Lord has said about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has been acting as a prophet to you, and I did not send him, and has made you put your faith in what is false;'),(24029032,24,29,32,'For this cause the Lord has said, Truly I will send punishment on Shemaiah and on his seed; not a man of his family will have a place among this people, and he will not see the good which I am going to do to my people, says the Lord: because he has said words against the Lord.'),(24030001,24,30,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,'),(24030002,24,30,2,'The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Put down in a book all the words which I have said to you.'),(24030003,24,30,3,'For see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will let the fate of my people Israel and Judah be changed, says the Lord: and I will make them come back to the land which I gave to their fathers, so that they may take it for their heritage.'),(24030004,24,30,4,'And these are the words which the Lord said about Israel and about Judah.'),(24030005,24,30,5,'This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.'),(24030006,24,30,6,'Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?'),(24030007,24,30,7,'Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob\'s trouble: but he will get salvation from it.'),(24030008,24,30,8,'For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:'),(24030009,24,30,9,'But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.'),(24030010,24,30,10,'So have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; 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 at peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.'),(24030011,24,30,11,'For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, 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.'),(24030012,24,30,12,'For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter.'),(24030013,24,30,13,'There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.'),(24030014,24,30,14,'Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;'),(24030015,24,30,15,'Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.'),(24030016,24,30,16,'For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.'),(24030017,24,30,17,'For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.'),(24030018,24,30,18,'The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again.'),(24030019,24,30,19,'And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.'),(24030020,24,30,20,'And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them.'),(24030021,24,30,21,'And their chief will be of their number; their ruler will come from among themselves; and I will let him be present before me, so that he may come near to me: for who may have strength of heart to come near me? says the Lord.'),(24030022,24,30,22,'And you will be my people, and I will be your God.'),(24030023,24,30,23,'See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.'),(24030024,24,30,24,'The wrath of the Lord will not be turned back till he has done, till he has put into effect, the purposes of his heart: in days to come you will have full knowledge of this.'),(24031001,24,31,1,'At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.'),(24031002,24,31,2,'The Lord has said, Grace came in the waste land to a people kept safe from the sword, even to Israel on the way to his resting-place.'),(24031003,24,31,3,'From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.'),(24031004,24,31,4,'I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad.'),(24031005,24,31,5,'Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.'),(24031006,24,31,6,'For there will be a day when those who get in the grapes on the hills of Ephraim will be crying, Up! let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God.'),(24031007,24,31,7,'For the Lord has said, Make a glad song for Jacob and give a cry on the top of the mountains: give the news, give praise, and say, The Lord has given salvation to his people, even to the rest of Israel.'),(24031008,24,31,8,'See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here.'),(24031009,24,31,9,'They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.'),(24031010,24,31,10,'Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.'),(24031011,24,31,11,'For the Lord has given a price for Jacob, and made him free from the hands of him who was stronger than he.'),(24031012,24,31,12,'So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.'),(24031013,24,31,13,'Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.'),(24031014,24,31,14,'I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.'),(24031015,24,31,15,'So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss.'),(24031016,24,31,16,'The Lord has said this: Keep your voice from sorrow and your eyes from weeping: for your work will be rewarded, says the Lord; and they will come back from the land of their hater.'),(24031017,24,31,17,'And there is hope for the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.'),(24031018,24,31,18,'Certainly Ephraim\'s words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.'),(24031019,24,31,19,'Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.'),(24031020,24,31,20,'Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.'),(24031021,24,31,21,'Put up guiding pillars, make road signs for yourself: give attention to the highway, even the way in which you went: be turned again, O virgin of Israel, be turned to these your towns.'),(24031022,24,31,22,'How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.'),(24031023,24,31,23,'So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Again will these words be used in the land of Judah and in its towns, when I have let their fate be changed: May the blessing of the Lord be on you, O resting-place of righteousness, O holy mountain.'),(24031024,24,31,24,'And Judah and all its towns will be living there together; the farmers and those who go about with flocks.'),(24031025,24,31,25,'For I have given new strength to the tired soul and to every sorrowing soul in full measure.'),(24031026,24,31,26,'At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.'),(24031027,24,31,27,'See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will have Israel and Judah planted with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.'),(24031028,24,31,28,'And it will come about that, as I have been watching over them for the purpose of uprooting and smashing down and overturning and sending destruction and causing trouble; so I will be watching over them for the purpose of building up and planting, says the Lord.'),(24031029,24,31,29,'In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children\'s teeth are put on edge.'),(24031030,24,31,30,'But everyone will be put to death for the evil which he himself has done: whoever has taken bitter grapes will himself have his teeth put on edge.'),(24031031,24,31,31,'See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:'),(24031032,24,31,32,'Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.'),(24031033,24,31,33,'But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.'),(24031034,24,31,34,'And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.'),(24031035,24,31,35,'These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.'),(24031036,24,31,36,'If the order of these things before me is ever broken, says the Lord, then will the seed of Israel come to an end as a nation before me for ever.'),(24031037,24,31,37,'This is what the Lord has said: If the heavens on high may be measured, and the bases of the earth searched out, then I will give up the seed of Israel, because of all they have done, says the Lord.'),(24031038,24,31,38,'See, the days are coming, says the Lord, for the building of the Lord\'s town, from the tower of Hananel to the doorway of the angle.'),(24031039,24,31,39,'And the measuring-line will go out in front of it as far as the hill Gareb, going round to Goah.'),(24031040,24,31,40,'And all the valley of the dead bodies, and all the field of death as far as the stream Kidron, up to the angle of the horses\' doorway to the east, will be holy to the Lord; it will not again be uprooted or overturned for ever.'),(24032001,24,32,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.'),(24032002,24,32,2,'Now at that time the king of Babylon\'s army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.'),(24032003,24,32,3,'For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;'),(24032004,24,32,4,'And Zedekiah, king of Judah, will not get away from the hands of the Chaldaeans, but will certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will have talk with him, mouth to mouth, and see him, eye to eye.'),(24032005,24,32,5,'And he will take Zedekiah away to Babylon, where he will be till I have pity on him, says the Lord: though you are fighting with the Chaldaeans, things will not go well for you?'),(24032006,24,32,6,'And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,'),(24032007,24,32,7,'See, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your father\'s brother, will come to you and say, Give the price and get for yourself my property in Anathoth: for you have the right of the nearest relation.'),(24032008,24,32,8,'So Hanamel, the son of my father\'s brother, came to me, as the Lord had said, to the place of the armed watchmen, and said to me, Give the price and get my property which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for you have the nearest relation\'s right to the heritage; so get it for yourself. Then it was clear to me that this was the word of the Lord.'),(24032009,24,32,9,'So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father\'s brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;'),(24032010,24,32,10,'And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.'),(24032011,24,32,11,'So I took the paper witnessing the business, one copy rolled up and stamped, and one copy open:'),(24032012,24,32,12,'And I gave the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel, the son of my father\'s brother, and of the witnesses who had put their names to the paper, and before all the Jews who were seated in the place of the armed watchmen.'),(24032013,24,32,13,'And I gave orders to Baruch in front of them, saying,'),(24032014,24,32,14,'This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take these papers, the witness of this business, the one which is rolled up and stamped, and the one which is open; and put them in a vessel of earth so that they may be kept for a long time.'),(24032015,24,32,15,'For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, There will again be trading in houses and fields and vine-gardens in this land.'),(24032016,24,32,16,'Now after I had given the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I made my prayer to the Lord, saying,'),(24032017,24,32,17,'Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:'),(24032018,24,32,18,'You have mercy on thousands, and send punishment for the evil-doing of the fathers on their children after them: the great, the strong God, the Lord of armies is his name:'),(24032019,24,32,19,'Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings:'),(24032020,24,32,20,'You have done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day, in Israel and among other men; and have made a name for yourself as at this day;'),(24032021,24,32,21,'And have taken your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, causing great fear;'),(24032022,24,32,22,'And have given them this land, which you gave your word to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;'),(24032023,24,32,23,'And they came in and took it for their heritage, but they did not give ear to your voice, and were not ruled by your law; they have done nothing of all you gave them orders to do: so you have made all this evil come on them:'),(24032024,24,32,24,'See, they have made earthworks against the town to take it; and the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and need of food and disease: and what you have said has taken place, and truly you see it.'),(24032025,24,32,25,'And you have said to me, Give the money to get yourself a property, and have the business witnessed; though the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans.'),(24032026,24,32,26,'And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24032027,24,32,27,'See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything so hard that I am unable to do it?'),(24032028,24,32,28,'So this is what the Lord has said: See, I am giving this town into the hands of the Chaldaeans and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will take it:'),(24032029,24,32,29,'And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.'),(24032030,24,32,30,'For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their earliest years: the children of Israel have only made me angry with the work of their hands, says the Lord.'),(24032031,24,32,31,'For this town has been to me a cause of wrath and of burning passion from the day of its building till this day, so that I put it away from before my face:'),(24032032,24,32,32,'Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.'),(24032033,24,32,33,'And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching.'),(24032034,24,32,34,'But they put their disgusting images into the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.'),(24032035,24,32,35,'And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.'),(24032036,24,32,36,'And now the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of this town, about which you say, It is given into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword and by need of food and by disease:'),(24032037,24,32,37,'See, I will get them together from all the countries where I have sent them in my wrath and in the heat of my passion and in my bitter feeling; and I will let them come back into this place where they may take their rest safely.'),(24032038,24,32,38,'And they will be my people, and I will be their God:'),(24032039,24,32,39,'And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:'),(24032040,24,32,40,'And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.'),(24032041,24,32,41,'And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.'),(24032042,24,32,42,'For the Lord has said: As I have made all this great evil come on this people, so I will send on them all the good which I said about them.'),(24032043,24,32,43,'And there will be trading in fields in this land of which you say, It is a waste, without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans.'),(24032044,24,32,44,'Men will get fields for money, and put the business in writing, stamping the papers and having them witnessed, in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill-country and in the towns of the lowland and in the towns of the South: for I will let their fate be changed, says the Lord.'),(24033001,24,33,1,'Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,'),(24033002,24,33,2,'These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain; the Lord is his name;'),(24033003,24,33,3,'Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.'),(24033004,24,33,4,'For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;'),(24033005,24,33,5,'... and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town.'),(24033006,24,33,6,'See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well; I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure.'),(24033007,24,33,7,'And I will let the fate of Judah and of Israel be changed, building them up as at first.'),(24033008,24,33,8,'And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.'),(24033009,24,33,9,'And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.'),(24033010,24,33,10,'This is what the Lord has said: There will again be sounding in this place, of which you say, It is a waste, without man and without beast; even in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem which are waste and unpeopled, without man and without beast,'),(24033011,24,33,11,'Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.'),(24033012,24,33,12,'This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.'),(24033013,24,33,13,'In the towns of the hill-country, in the towns of the lowland, and in the towns of the South and in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, the flocks will again go under the hand of him who is numbering them, says the Lord.'),(24033014,24,33,14,'See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give effect to the good word which I have said about the people of Israel and the people of Judah.'),(24033015,24,33,15,'In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.'),(24033016,24,33,16,'In those days, Judah will have salvation and Jerusalem will be safe: and this is the name which will be given to her: The Lord is our righteousness.'),(24033017,24,33,17,'For the Lord has said, David will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel;'),(24033018,24,33,18,'And the priests and the Levites will never be without a man to come before me, offering burned offerings and perfumes and meal offerings and offerings of beasts at all times.'),(24033019,24,33,19,'And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24033020,24,33,20,'The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,'),(24033021,24,33,21,'Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.'),(24033022,24,33,22,'As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.'),(24033023,24,33,23,'And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24033024,24,33,24,'Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.'),(24033025,24,33,25,'The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,'),(24033026,24,33,26,'Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.'),(24034001,24,34,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,'),(24034002,24,34,2,'The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:'),(24034003,24,34,3,'And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.'),(24034004,24,34,4,'But give ear to the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; this is what the Lord has said about you: Death will not come to you by the sword:'),(24034005,24,34,5,'You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kings before you, will be made for you; and they will be weeping for you and saying, Ah lord! for I have said the word, says the Lord.'),(24034006,24,34,6,'Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,'),(24034007,24,34,7,'When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.'),(24034008,24,34,8,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;'),(24034009,24,34,9,'That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:'),(24034010,24,34,10,'And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.'),(24034011,24,34,11,'But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.'),(24034012,24,34,12,'For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,'),(24034013,24,34,13,'The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,'),(24034014,24,34,14,'At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.'),(24034015,24,34,15,'And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:'),(24034016,24,34,16,'But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.'),(24034017,24,34,17,'And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.'),(24034018,24,34,18,'And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,'),(24034019,24,34,19,'The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,'),(24034020,24,34,20,'Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.'),(24034021,24,34,21,'And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon\'s army which has gone away from you.'),(24034022,24,34,22,'See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.'),(24035001,24,35,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,'),(24035002,24,35,2,'Go into the house of the Rechabites, and have talk with them, and take them into the house of the Lord, into one of the rooms, and give them wine.'),(24035003,24,35,3,'Then I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and all the Rechabites;'),(24035004,24,35,4,'And I took them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the rulers\' room, which was over the room of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door;'),(24035005,24,35,5,'And I put before the sons of the Rechabites basins full of wine and cups, and I said to them, Take some wine.'),(24035006,24,35,6,'But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:'),(24035007,24,35,7,'And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.'),(24035008,24,35,8,'And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters;'),(24035009,24,35,9,'Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:'),(24035010,24,35,10,'But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do.'),(24035011,24,35,11,'But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem.'),(24035012,24,35,12,'Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24035013,24,35,13,'This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.'),(24035014,24,35,14,'The orders which Jonadab, the son of Rechab, gave to his sons to take no wine, are done, and to this day they take no wine, for they do the orders of their father: but I have sent my words to you, getting up early and sending them, and you have not given ear to me.'),(24035015,24,35,15,'And I have sent you all my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them, saying, Come back, now, every man from his evil way, and do better, and go not after other gods to become their servants, and you will go on living in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but your ears have not been open, and you have not given attention to me.'),(24035016,24,35,16,'Though the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have done the orders of their father which he gave them, this people has not given ear to me:'),(24035017,24,35,17,'For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil which I said I would do to them: because I sent my words to them, but they did not give ear; crying out to them, but they gave no answer.'),(24035018,24,35,18,'But to the Rechabites Jeremiah said, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have done the orders of Jonadab your father, and have kept his rules, and done everything as he gave you orders to do it;'),(24035019,24,35,19,'For this reason the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, will never be without a man to take his place before me.'),(24036001,24,36,1,'Now it came about in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,'),(24036002,24,36,2,'Take a book and put down in it all the words I have said to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, from the day when my word came to you in the days of Josiah till this day.'),(24036003,24,36,3,'It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways; so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.'),(24036004,24,36,4,'Then Jeremiah sent for Baruch, the son of Neriah; and Baruch took down from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he had said to him, writing them in a book.'),(24036005,24,36,5,'And Jeremiah gave orders to Baruch, saying, I am shut up, and am not able to go into the house of the Lord:'),(24036006,24,36,6,'So you are to go, reading there from the book, which you have taken down from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord\'s house, on a day when they go without food, and in the hearing of all the men of Judah who have come out from their towns.'),(24036007,24,36,7,'It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.'),(24036008,24,36,8,'And Baruch, the son of Neriah, did as Jeremiah the prophet gave him orders to do, reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord\'s house.'),(24036009,24,36,9,'Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.'),(24036010,24,36,10,'Then Baruch gave a public reading of the words of Jeremiah from the book, in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher square, as one goes in by the new doorway of the Lord\'s house, in the hearing of all the people.'),(24036011,24,36,11,'And Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, after hearing all the words of the Lord from the book,'),(24036012,24,36,12,'Went down to the king\'s house, to the scribe\'s room: and all the rulers were seated there, Elishama the scribe and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the rulers.'),(24036013,24,36,13,'Then Micaiah gave them an account of all the words which had come to his ears when Baruch was reading the book to the people.'),(24036014,24,36,14,'So all the rulers sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the book from which you have been reading to the people and come. So Baruch, the son of Neriah, took the book in his hand and came down to them.'),(24036015,24,36,15,'Then they said to him, Be seated now, and give us a reading from it. So Baruch did so, reading it to them.'),(24036016,24,36,16,'Now it came about that, after hearing all the words, they said to one another in fear, We will certainly give the king an account of all these words.'),(24036017,24,36,17,'And questioning Baruch, they said, Say now, how did you put all these words down in writing from his mouth?'),(24036018,24,36,18,'Then Baruch, answering, said, He said all these things to me by word of mouth, and I put them down with ink in the book.'),(24036019,24,36,19,'Then the rulers said to Baruch, Go and put yourself in a safe place, you and Jeremiah, and let no man have knowledge of where you are.'),(24036020,24,36,20,'Then they went into the open square to the king; but the book they put away in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they gave the king an account of all the words.'),(24036021,24,36,21,'So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king\'s side.'),(24036022,24,36,22,'Now the king was seated in the winter house, and a fire was burning in the fireplace in front of him.'),(24036023,24,36,23,'And it came about that whenever Jehudi, in his reading, had got through three or four divisions, the king, cutting them with his penknife, put them into the fire, till all the book was burned up in the fire which was burning in the fireplace.'),(24036024,24,36,24,'But they had no fear and gave no signs of grief, not the king or any of his servants, after hearing all these words.'),(24036025,24,36,25,'And Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made a strong request to the king not to let the book be burned, but he would not give ear to them.'),(24036026,24,36,26,'And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king\'s son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.'),(24036027,24,36,27,'Then after the book, in which Baruch had put down the words of Jeremiah, had been burned by the king, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24036028,24,36,28,'Take another book and put down in it all the words which were in the first book, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, put into the fire.'),(24036029,24,36,29,'And about Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: You have put this book into the fire, saying, Why have you put in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come, causing the destruction of this land and putting an end to every man and beast in it?'),(24036030,24,36,30,'For this reason the Lord has said of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, He will have no son to take his place on the seat of David: his dead body will be put out to undergo the heat of the day and the cold of the night.'),(24036031,24,36,31,'And I will send punishment on him and on his seed and on his servants for their evil-doing; I will send on them and on the people of Jerusalem and the men of Judah, all the evil which I said against them, but they did not give ear.'),(24036032,24,36,32,'Then Jeremiah took another book, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who put down in it, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which had been burned in the fire by Jehoiakim, king of Judah: and in addition a number of other words of the same sort.'),(24037001,24,37,1,'And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.'),(24037002,24,37,2,'But he and his servants and the people of the land did not give ear to the words of the Lord which he said by Jeremiah the prophet.'),(24037003,24,37,3,'And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Make prayer now to the Lord our God for us.'),(24037004,24,37,4,'(Now Jeremiah was going about among the people, for they had not put him in prison.'),(24037005,24,37,5,'And Pharaoh\'s army had come out from Egypt: and the Chaldaeans, who were attacking Jerusalem, hearing news of them, went away from Jerusalem.)'),(24037006,24,37,6,'Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,'),(24037007,24,37,7,'The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh\'s army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land.'),(24037008,24,37,8,'And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire.'),(24037009,24,37,9,'The Lord has said, Have no false hopes, saying to yourselves, The Chaldaeans will go away from us: for they will not go away.'),(24037010,24,37,10,'For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.'),(24037011,24,37,11,'And it came about that when the Chaldaean army outside Jerusalem had gone away for fear of Pharaoh\'s army,'),(24037012,24,37,12,'Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, with the purpose of taking up his heritage there among the people.'),(24037013,24,37,13,'But when he was at the Benjamin door, a captain of the watch named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who was stationed there, put his hand on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are going to give yourself up to the Chaldaeans.'),(24037014,24,37,14,'Then Jeremiah said, That is not true; I am not going to the Chaldaeans. But he would not give ear to him: so Irijah made him prisoner and took him to the rulers.'),(24037015,24,37,15,'And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.'),(24037016,24,37,16,'So Jeremiah came into the hole of the prison, under the arches, and was there for a long time.'),(24037017,24,37,17,'Then King Zedekiah sent and got him out: and the king, questioning him secretly in his house, said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, There is. Then he said, You will be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon.'),(24037018,24,37,18,'Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What has been my sin against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?'),(24037019,24,37,19,'Where now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?'),(24037020,24,37,20,'And now be pleased to give ear, O my lord the king; let my prayer for help come before you, and do not make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, for fear that I may come to my death there.'),(24037021,24,37,21,'Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.'),(24038001,24,38,1,'Now it came to the ears of Shephatiah, the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah, the son of Pashhur, and Jucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, that Jeremiah had said to all the people,'),(24038002,24,38,2,'These are the words of the Lord: Whoever goes on living in this town will come to his death by the sword or through need of food or by disease: but whoever goes out to the Chaldaeans will keep his life out of the power of the attackers and be safe.'),(24038003,24,38,3,'The Lord has said, This town will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.'),(24038004,24,38,4,'Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.'),(24038005,24,38,5,'Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them.'),(24038006,24,38,6,'So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king\'s son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.'),(24038007,24,38,7,'Now it came to the ears of Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an unsexed servant in the king\'s house, that they had put Jeremiah into the water-hole; the king at that time being seated in the doorway of Benjamin:'),(24038008,24,38,8,'And Ebed-melech went out from the king\'s house and said to the king,'),(24038009,24,38,9,'My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.'),(24038010,24,38,10,'Then the king gave orders to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take with you three men from here and get Jeremiah out of the water-hole before death overtakes him.'),(24038011,24,38,11,'So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went into the house of the king, to the place where the clothing was kept, and got from there old clothing and bits of old cloth, and let them down by cords into the water-hole where Jeremiah was.'),(24038012,24,38,12,'And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put these bits of old cloth under your arms under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.'),(24038013,24,38,13,'So pulling Jeremiah up with the cords they got him out of the water-hole: and Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.'),(24038014,24,38,14,'Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and took him into the rulers\' doorway in the house of the Lord: and the king said to Jeremiah, I have a question to put to you; keep nothing back from me.'),(24038015,24,38,15,'Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly put me to death? and if I make a suggestion to you, you will not give it a hearing.'),(24038016,24,38,16,'So King Zedekiah gave his oath to Jeremiah secretly, saying, By the living Lord, who gave us our life, I will not put you to death, or give you up to these men who are desiring to take your life.'),(24038017,24,38,17,'Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel: If you go out to the king of Babylon\'s captains, then you will have life, and the town will not be burned with fire, and you and your family will be kept from death:'),(24038018,24,38,18,'But if you do not go out to the king of Babylon\'s captains, then this town will be given into the hands of the Chaldaeans and they will put it on fire, and you will not get away from them.'),(24038019,24,38,19,'And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, I am troubled on account of the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldaeans, for fear that they may give me up to them and they will put me to shame.'),(24038020,24,38,20,'But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given it to you, and it will be well for you, and you will keep your life.'),(24038021,24,38,21,'But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me:'),(24038022,24,38,22,'See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon\'s captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.'),(24038023,24,38,23,'And they will take all your wives and your children out to the Chaldaeans: and you will not get away out of their hands, but will be taken by the hands of the king of Babylon: and this town will be burned with fire.'),(24038024,24,38,24,'Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man have knowledge of these words, and you will not be put to death.'),(24038025,24,38,25,'But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death;'),(24038026,24,38,26,'Then you are to say to them, I made my request to the king, that he would not send me back to my death in Jonathan\'s house.'),(24038027,24,38,27,'Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah, questioning him: and he gave them an answer in the words the king had given him orders to say. So they said nothing more to him; for the thing was not made public.'),(24038028,24,38,28,'So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.'),(24039001,24,39,1,'And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;'),(24039002,24,39,2,'In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)'),(24039003,24,39,3,'All the captains of the king of Babylon came in and took their places in the middle doorway of the town, Nergal-shar-ezer, ruler of Sin-magir, the Rabmag, and Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and all the captains of the king of Babylon.'),(24039004,24,39,4,'And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king\'s garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.'),(24039005,24,39,5,'But the Chaldaean army went after them and overtook Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho: and they made him a prisoner and took him up to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, to be judged by him.'),(24039006,24,39,6,'Then the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes in Riblah: and the king of Babylon put to death all the great men of Judah.'),(24039007,24,39,7,'And more than this, he put out Zedekiah\'s eyes, and had him put in chains to take him away to Babylon.'),(24039008,24,39,8,'And the Chaldaeans put the king\'s house on fire, as well as the houses of the people, and had the walls of Jerusalem broken down.'),(24039009,24,39,9,'Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away to Babylon as prisoners, all the rest of the workmen who were still in the town, as well as those who had given themselves up to him, and all the rest of the people.'),(24039010,24,39,10,'But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the people, who had nothing whatever, go on living in the land of Judah, and gave them vine-gardens and fields at the same time.'),(24039011,24,39,11,'Now Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, gave orders about Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, saying,'),(24039012,24,39,12,'Take him and keep an eye on him and see that no evil comes to him; but do with him whatever he says to you.'),(24039013,24,39,13,'So Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, sent Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and Nergal-shar-ezer, the Rabmag, and all the chief captains of the king of Babylon,'),(24039014,24,39,14,'And they sent and took Jeremiah out of the place of the watchmen, and gave him into the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him to his house: so he was living among the people.'),(24039015,24,39,15,'Now the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,'),(24039016,24,39,16,'Go and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my words will come true for this town, for evil and not for good: they will come about before your eyes on that day.'),(24039017,24,39,17,'But I will keep you safe on that day, says the Lord: you will not be given into the hands of the men you are fearing.'),(24039018,24,39,18,'For I will certainly let you go free, and you will not be put to the sword, but your life will be given to you out of the hands of your attackers: because you have put your faith in me, says the Lord.'),(24040001,24,40,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him; for he had been put in chains, among all the prisoners of Jerusalem and Judah who were taken away prisoners to Babylon.'),(24040002,24,40,2,'And the captain of the armed men took Jeremiah and said to him, The Lord your God gave word of the evil which was to come on this place:'),(24040003,24,40,3,'*** and the Lord has made it come, and has done as he said; because of your sin against the Lord in not giving ear to his voice; and that is why this thing has come on you.'),(24040004,24,40,4,'Now see, this day I am freeing you from the chains which are on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will keep an eye on you; but if it does not seem good to you to come with me to Babylon, then do not come: see, all the land is before you; if it seems good and right to you to go on living in the land,'),(24040005,24,40,5,'Then go back to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made ruler over the towns of Judah, and make your living-place with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the armed men gave him food and some money and let him go.'),(24040006,24,40,6,'So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, in Mizpah, and was living with him among the people who were still in the land.'),(24040007,24,40,7,'Now when it came to the ears of all the captains of the forces who were in the field, and their men, that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, ruler in the land, and had put under his care the men and women and children, all the poorest of the land, those who had not been taken away to Babylon;'),(24040008,24,40,8,'Then they came to Gedaliah in Mizpah, even Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah, the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.'),(24040009,24,40,9,'And Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear of the servants of the Chaldaeans: go on living in the land, and become the servants of the king of Babylon, and all will be well.'),(24040010,24,40,10,'As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken.'),(24040011,24,40,11,'In the same way, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and in all the countries, had news that the king of Babylon had let Judah keep some of its people and that he had put over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;'),(24040012,24,40,12,'Then all the Jews came back from all the places to which they had gone in flight, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and got in a great store of wine and summer fruit.'),(24040013,24,40,13,'Now Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were in the field, came to Gedaliah in Mizpah,'),(24040014,24,40,14,'And said to him, Has it come to your knowledge that Baalis, the king of the children of Ammon, has sent Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to take your life? But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, put no faith in what they said.'),(24040015,24,40,15,'Then Johanan, the son of Kareah, said to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, Let me now go and put Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to death without anyone\'s knowledge: why let him take your life so that all the Jews who have come together to you may be sent in flight, and the rest of the men of Judah come to an end?'),(24040016,24,40,16,'But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, said to Johanan, the son of Kareah, You are not to do this: for what you say about Ishmael is false.'),(24041001,24,41,1,'Now it came about in the seventh month that Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king\'s seed, having with him ten men, came to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, in Mizpah; and they had a meal together in Mizpah.'),(24041002,24,41,2,'Then Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, got up, and attacking Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, put to death him whom the king of Babylon had made ruler over the land.'),(24041003,24,41,3,'And Ishmael put to death all the Jews who were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldaean men of war.'),(24041004,24,41,4,'Now on the second day after he had put Gedaliah to death, when no one had knowledge of it,'),(24041005,24,41,5,'Some people came from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, eighty men, with the hair of their faces cut off and their clothing out of order, and with cuts on their bodies, and in their hands meal offerings and perfumes which they were taking to the house of the Lord.'),(24041006,24,41,6,'And Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, went out from Mizpah with the purpose of meeting them, weeping on his way: and it came about that when he was face to face with them he said, Come to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam.'),(24041007,24,41,7,'And when they came inside the town, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and the men who were with him, put them to death and put their bodies into a deep hole.'),(24041008,24,41,8,'But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, Do not put us to death, for we have secret stores, in the country, of grain and oil and honey. So he did not put them to death with their countrymen.'),(24041009,24,41,9,'Now the hole into which Ishmael had put the dead bodies of the men whom he had put to death, was the great hole which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha, king of Israel: and Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, made it full of the bodies of those who had been put to death.'),(24041010,24,41,10,'Then Ishmael took away as prisoners all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king\'s daughters and all the people still in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, had put under the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam: Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, took them away prisoners with the purpose of going over to the children of Ammon.'),(24041011,24,41,11,'But when Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the armed forces who were with him, had news of all the evil which Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had done,'),(24041012,24,41,12,'They took their men and went out to make war on Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and they came face to face with him by the great waters in Gibeon.'),(24041013,24,41,13,'Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces with him, then they were glad.'),(24041014,24,41,14,'And all the people whom Ishmael had taken away prisoners from Mizpah, turning round, came back and went to Johanan, the son of Kareah.'),(24041015,24,41,15,'But Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, got away from Johanan, with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.'),(24041016,24,41,16,'Then Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, took all the rest of the people whom Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had made prisoners, after he had put to death Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the people from Mizpah, that is, the men of war and the women and the children and the unsexed servants, whom he had taken back with him from Gibeon:'),(24041017,24,41,17,'And they went and were living in the resting-place of Chimham, which is near Beth-lehem on the way into Egypt,'),(24041018,24,41,18,'Because of the Chaldaeans: for they were in fear of them because Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had put to death Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made ruler over the land.'),(24042001,24,42,1,'Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah, the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near,'),(24042002,24,42,2,'And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:'),(24042003,24,42,3,'That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.'),(24042004,24,42,4,'Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.'),(24042005,24,42,5,'Then they said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a true witness against us in good faith, if we do not do everything which the Lord your God sends you to say to us.'),(24042006,24,42,6,'If it is good or if it is evil, we will be guided by the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you; so that it may be well for us when we give ear to the voice of the Lord our God.'),(24042007,24,42,7,'And it came about that after ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.'),(24042008,24,42,8,'And he sent for Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were still with him, and all the people, from the least to the greatest,'),(24042009,24,42,9,'And said to them, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to put your request before him:'),(24042010,24,42,10,'If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.'),(24042011,24,42,11,'Have no fear of the king of Babylon, of whom you are now in fear; have no fear of him, says the Lord: for I am with you to keep you safe and to give you salvation from his hands.'),(24042012,24,42,12,'And I will have mercy on you, so that he may have mercy on you and let you go back to your land.'),(24042013,24,42,13,'But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,'),(24042014,24,42,14,'Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;'),(24042015,24,42,15,'Then give ear now to the word of the Lord, O you last of Judah: the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, If your minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there;'),(24042016,24,42,16,'Then it will come about that the sword, which is the cause of your fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and need of food, which you are fearing, will go after you there in Egypt; and there death will come to you.'),(24042017,24,42,17,'Such will be the fate of all the men whose minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there; they will come to their end by the sword, by being short of food, and by disease: not one of them will keep his life or get away from the evil which I will send on them.'),(24042018,24,42,18,'For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: As my wrath and passion have been let loose on the people of Jerusalem, so will my passion be let loose on you when you go into Egypt: and you will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame; and you will never see this place again.'),(24042019,24,42,19,'The Lord has said about you, O last of Judah, Go not into Egypt: be certain that I have given witness to you this day.'),(24042020,24,42,20,'For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.'),(24042021,24,42,21,'And this day I have made it clear to you, and you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.'),(24042022,24,42,22,'And now be certain that you will come to your end by the sword and by being short of food and by disease, in the place to which you are pleased to go for a living-place.'),(24043001,24,43,1,'And it came about that when Jeremiah had come to the end of giving all the people the words of the Lord their God, which the Lord their God had sent him to say to them, even all these words,'),(24043002,24,43,2,'Then Azariah, the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the men of pride, said to Jeremiah, You have said what is false: the Lord our God has not sent you to say, You are not to go into the land of Egypt and make your living-place there:'),(24043003,24,43,3,'But Baruch, the son of Neriah, is moving you against us, to give us up into the hands of the Chaldaeans so that they may put us to death, and take us away prisoners into Babylon.'),(24043004,24,43,4,'So Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, did not give ear to the order of the Lord that they were to go on living in the land of Judah.'),(24043005,24,43,5,'But Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces took all the rest of Judah who had come back into the land of Judah from all the nations where they had been forced to go;'),(24043006,24,43,6,'The men and the women and the children and the king\'s daughters, and every person whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, had put under the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch, the son of Neriah;'),(24043007,24,43,7,'And they came into the land of Egypt; for they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: and they came to Tahpanhes.'),(24043008,24,43,8,'Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,'),(24043009,24,43,9,'Take in your hand some great stones, and put them in a safe place in the paste in the brickwork which is at the way into Pharaoh\'s house in Tahpanhes, before the eyes of the men of Judah;'),(24043010,24,43,10,'And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and he will put the seat of his kingdom on these stones which have been put in a safe place here by you; and his tent will be stretched over them.'),(24043011,24,43,11,'And he will come and overcome the land of Egypt; those who are for death will be put to death, those who are to be prisoners will be made prisoners, and those who are for the sword will be given to the sword.'),(24043012,24,43,12,'And he will put a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and they will be burned by him: and he will make Egypt clean as a keeper of sheep makes clean his clothing; and he will go out from there in peace.'),(24043013,24,43,13,'And the stone pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt will be broken by him, and the houses of the gods of Egypt burned with fire.'),(24044001,24,44,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah about all the Jews who were living in the land of Egypt, in Migdol and at Tahpanhes and at Noph and in the country of Pathros, saying,'),(24044002,24,44,2,'The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You have seen all the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah; and now, this day they are waste and unpeopled;'),(24044003,24,44,3,'Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.'),(24044004,24,44,4,'And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.'),(24044005,24,44,5,'But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.'),(24044006,24,44,6,'Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.'),(24044007,24,44,7,'So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;'),(24044008,24,44,8,'Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?'),(24044009,24,44,9,'Have you no memory of the evil-doing of your fathers, and the evil-doing of the kings of Judah, and the evil-doing of their wives, and the evil which you yourselves have done, and the evil which your wives have done, in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?'),(24044010,24,44,10,'Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.'),(24044011,24,44,11,'So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my face will be turned against you for evil, for the cutting off of all Judah;'),(24044012,24,44,12,'And I will take the last of Judah, whose minds are fixed on going into the land of Egypt and stopping there, and they will all come to their end, falling in the land of Egypt by the sword and by being short of food and by disease; death will overtake them, from the least to the greatest, death by the sword and by need of food: they will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame.'),(24044013,24,44,13,'For I will send punishment on those who are living in the land of Egypt, as I have sent punishment on Jerusalem, by the sword and by need of food and by disease:'),(24044014,24,44,14,'So that not one of the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will get away or keep his life, to come back to the land of Judah where they are hoping to come back and be living again: for not one will come back, but only those who are able to get away.'),(24044015,24,44,15,'Then all the men who had knowledge that their wives were burning perfumes to other gods, and all the women who were present, a great meeting, answering Jeremiah, said,'),(24044016,24,44,16,'As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.'),(24044017,24,44,17,'But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.'),(24044018,24,44,18,'But from the time when we gave up burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, we have been in need of all things, and have been wasted by the sword and by need of food.'),(24044019,24,44,19,'And the women said, When we were burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes in her image and give her our drink offerings without the knowledge of our husbands?'),(24044020,24,44,20,'Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women and all the people who had given him that answer,'),(24044021,24,44,21,'The perfumes which you have been burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers and your kings and your rulers and the people of the land, had the Lord no memory of them, and did he not keep them in mind?'),(24044022,24,44,22,'And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.'),(24044023,24,44,23,'Because you have been burning perfumes, and sinning against the Lord, and have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, or gone in the way of his law or his rules or his orders; for this reason this evil has come on you, as it is today.');
