(20025008,20,25,8,'Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.'),(20025009,20,25,9,'Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;'),(20025010,20,25,10,'lest he that heareth [it] disgrace thee, and thine evil report turn not away.'),(20025011,20,25,11,'[As] apples of gold in pictures of silver, is a word spoken in season.'),(20025012,20,25,12,'An ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, is a wise reprover upon an attentive ear.'),(20025013,20,25,13,'As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [so] is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.'),(20025014,20,25,14,'Clouds and wind without rain, [so] is a man that boasteth himself of a false gift.'),(20025015,20,25,15,'By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.'),(20025016,20,25,16,'Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be surfeited therewith, and vomit it.'),(20025017,20,25,17,'Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour\'s house; lest he be weary of thee and hate thee.'),(20025018,20,25,18,'A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, is a man that beareth false witness against his neighbour.'),(20025019,20,25,19,'A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful [man] in the day of trouble.'),(20025020,20,25,20,'[As] he that taketh off a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a sad heart.'),(20025021,20,25,21,'If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:'),(20025022,20,25,22,'for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah shall reward thee.'),(20025023,20,25,23,'The north wind bringeth forth rain, and the angry countenance a backbiting tongue.'),(20025024,20,25,24,'It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.'),(20025025,20,25,25,'[As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.'),(20025026,20,25,26,'A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous [man] that giveth way before the wicked.'),(20025027,20,25,27,'It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is [itself] a weight.'),(20025028,20,25,28,'He that hath no rule over his own spirit is [as] a city broken down, without walls.'),(20026001,20,26,1,'As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour beseemeth not a fool.'),(20026002,20,26,2,'As the sparrow for flitting about, as the swallow for flying, so a curse undeserved shall not come.'),(20026003,20,26,3,'A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.'),(20026004,20,26,4,'Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.'),(20026005,20,26,5,'Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.'),(20026006,20,26,6,'He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off [his own] feet, [and] drinketh damage.'),(20026007,20,26,7,'The legs of the lame hang loose; so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.'),(20026008,20,26,8,'As a bag of gems in a stoneheap, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.'),(20026009,20,26,9,'[As] a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.'),(20026010,20,26,10,'A master roughly worketh every one: he both hireth the fool and hireth passers-by.'),(20026011,20,26,11,'As a dog turneth back to its vomit, [so] a fool repeateth his folly.'),(20026012,20,26,12,'Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.'),(20026013,20,26,13,'The sluggard saith, There is a fierce lion in the way; a lion is in the midst of the streets!'),(20026014,20,26,14,'[As] the door turneth upon its hinges, so the sluggard upon his bed.'),(20026015,20,26,15,'The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish: it wearieth him to bring it again to his mouth.'),(20026016,20,26,16,'A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven [men] that answer discreetly.'),(20026017,20,26,17,'He that passing by vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is [like] one that taketh a dog by the ears.'),(20026018,20,26,18,'As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,'),(20026019,20,26,19,'so is a man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am I not in sport?'),(20026020,20,26,20,'Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no talebearer, the contention ceaseth.'),(20026021,20,26,21,'[As] coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.'),(20026022,20,26,22,'The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.'),(20026023,20,26,23,'Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.'),(20026024,20,26,24,'He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, but he layeth up deceit within him:'),(20026025,20,26,25,'when his voice is gracious, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart.'),(20026026,20,26,26,'Though [his] hatred is covered by dissimulation, his wickedness shall be made manifest in the congregation.'),(20026027,20,26,27,'Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.'),(20026028,20,26,28,'A lying tongue hateth those that are injured by it, and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.'),(20027001,20,27,1,'Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth.'),(20027002,20,27,2,'Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.'),(20027003,20,27,3,'A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool\'s vexation is heavier than them both.'),(20027004,20,27,4,'Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?'),(20027005,20,27,5,'Open rebuke is better than hidden love.'),(20027006,20,27,6,'Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.'),(20027007,20,27,7,'The full soul trampleth on a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.'),(20027008,20,27,8,'As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.'),(20027009,20,27,9,'Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one\'s friend is [the fruit] of hearty counsel.'),(20027010,20,27,10,'Thine own friend, and thy father\'s friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother\'s house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.'),(20027011,20,27,11,'Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me.'),(20027012,20,27,12,'A prudent [man] seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; the simple pass on, [and] are punished.'),(20027013,20,27,13,'Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.'),(20027014,20,27,14,'He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be reckoned a curse to him.'),(20027015,20,27,15,'A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:'),(20027016,20,27,16,'whosoever will restrain her restraineth the wind, and his right hand encountereth oil.'),(20027017,20,27,17,'Iron is sharpened by iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.'),(20027018,20,27,18,'Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured.'),(20027019,20,27,19,'As [in] water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.'),(20027020,20,27,20,'Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.'),(20027021,20,27,21,'The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him.'),(20027022,20,27,22,'If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.'),(20027023,20,27,23,'Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:'),(20027024,20,27,24,'for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown [endure] from generation to generation?'),(20027025,20,27,25,'The hay is removed, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered in.'),(20027026,20,27,26,'The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of a field;'),(20027027,20,27,27,'and there is goats\' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens.'),(20028001,20,28,1,'The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.'),(20028002,20,28,2,'By the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by a man of understanding [and] of knowledge, [its] stability is prolonged.'),(20028003,20,28,3,'A poor man who oppresseth the helpless is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.'),(20028004,20,28,4,'They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.'),(20028005,20,28,5,'Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything.'),(20028006,20,28,6,'Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse, double in ways, though he be rich.'),(20028007,20,28,7,'Whoso observeth the law is a son that hath understanding; but he that is a companion of profligates bringeth shame to his father.'),(20028008,20,28,8,'He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor.'),(20028009,20,28,9,'He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.'),(20028010,20,28,10,'Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, shall himself fall into his own pit; but the perfect shall inherit good.'),(20028011,20,28,11,'A rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.'),(20028012,20,28,12,'When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men conceal themselves.'),(20028013,20,28,13,'He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall obtain mercy.'),(20028014,20,28,14,'Happy is the man that feareth always; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil.'),(20028015,20,28,15,'A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.'),(20028016,20,28,16,'The prince void of intelligence is also a great oppressor: he that hateth covetousness shall prolong [his] days.'),(20028017,20,28,17,'A man laden with the blood of [any] person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him.'),(20028018,20,28,18,'Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in [his] double ways, shall fall in one [of them].'),(20028019,20,28,19,'He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless shall have poverty enough.'),(20028020,20,28,20,'A faithful man aboundeth with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.'),(20028021,20,28,21,'To have respect of persons is not good; but for a piece of bread will a man transgress.'),(20028022,20,28,22,'He that hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth, and knoweth not that poverty shall come upon him.'),(20028023,20,28,23,'He that rebuketh a man shall afterwards find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.'),(20028024,20,28,24,'Whoso robbeth his father and his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.'),(20028025,20,28,25,'He that is puffed up in soul exciteth contention; but he that relieth upon Jehovah shall be made fat.'),(20028026,20,28,26,'He that confideth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.'),(20028027,20,28,27,'He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that withdraweth his eyes shall have many a curse.'),(20028028,20,28,28,'When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.'),(20029001,20,29,1,'He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy.'),(20029002,20,29,2,'When the righteous increase, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.'),(20029003,20,29,3,'Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; but he that is a companion of harlots destroyeth [his] substance.'),(20029004,20,29,4,'A king by just judgment establisheth the land; but he that taketh gifts overthroweth it.'),(20029005,20,29,5,'A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his steps.'),(20029006,20,29,6,'In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; but the righteous shall sing and rejoice.'),(20029007,20,29,7,'The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge.'),(20029008,20,29,8,'Scornful men set the city in a flame; but the wise turn away anger.'),(20029009,20,29,9,'If a wise man contendeth with a fool, whether he rage or laugh, [he] hath no rest.'),(20029010,20,29,10,'The bloodthirsty hate the perfect, but the upright care for his soul.'),(20029011,20,29,11,'A fool uttereth all his mind; but a wise [man] keepeth it back.'),(20029012,20,29,12,'If a ruler hearken to lying words, all his servants are wicked.'),(20029013,20,29,13,'The indigent and the oppressor meet together; Jehovah lighteneth the eyes of them both.'),(20029014,20,29,14,'A king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.'),(20029015,20,29,15,'The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.'),(20029016,20,29,16,'When the wicked increase, transgression increaseth; but the righteous shall see their fall.'),(20029017,20,29,17,'Chasten thy son, and he shall give thee rest, and shall give delight unto thy soul.'),(20029018,20,29,18,'Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint; but happy is he that keepeth the law.'),(20029019,20,29,19,'A servant is not corrected by words: he understandeth indeed, but he will not answer.'),(20029020,20,29,20,'Hast thou seen a man hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.'),(20029021,20,29,21,'He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall in the end have him as a son.'),(20029022,20,29,22,'An angry man exciteth contention; and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.'),(20029023,20,29,23,'A man\'s pride bringeth him low; but the humble in spirit shall obtain honour.'),(20029024,20,29,24,'Whoso shareth with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration, and declareth not.'),(20029025,20,29,25,'The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his confidence in Jehovah is protected.'),(20029026,20,29,26,'Many seek the ruler\'s face; but a man\'s right judgment is from Jehovah.'),(20029027,20,29,27,'An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is of upright way is an abomination to the wicked [man].'),(20030001,20,30,1,'The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the prophecy uttered by the man unto Ithiel, [even] unto Ithiel and Ucal:'),(20030002,20,30,2,'Truly *I* am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man\'s intelligence.'),(20030003,20,30,3,'I have neither learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.'),(20030004,20,30,4,'Who hath ascended up into the heavens, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a mantle? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son\'s name, if thou knowest?'),(20030005,20,30,5,'Every word of +God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.'),(20030006,20,30,6,'Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.'),(20030007,20,30,7,'Two things do I ask of thee; deny me [them] not before I die:'),(20030008,20,30,8,'Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:'),(20030009,20,30,9,'lest I be full and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God.'),(20030010,20,30,10,'Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.'),(20030011,20,30,11,'There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;'),(20030012,20,30,12,'there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;'),(20030013,20,30,13,'there is a generation, -- how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!'),(20030014,20,30,14,'-- a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.'),(20030015,20,30,15,'The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three [things] never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:'),(20030016,20,30,16,'-- Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.'),(20030017,20,30,17,'The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.'),(20030018,20,30,18,'There are three [things] too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:'),(20030019,20,30,19,'The way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid.'),(20030020,20,30,20,'Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.'),(20030021,20,30,21,'Under three [things] the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up:'),(20030022,20,30,22,'Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;'),(20030023,20,30,23,'under an odious [woman] when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.'),(20030024,20,30,24,'There are four [things] little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:'),(20030025,20,30,25,'The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;'),(20030026,20,30,26,'the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;'),(20030027,20,30,27,'the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;'),(20030028,20,30,28,'thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings\' palaces.'),(20030029,20,30,29,'There are three [things] which have a stately step, and four are comely in going:'),(20030030,20,30,30,'The lion, mighty among beasts, which turneth not away for any;'),(20030031,20,30,31,'a [horse] girt in the loins; or the he-goat; and a king, against whom none can rise up.'),(20030032,20,30,32,'If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] the hand upon thy mouth.'),(20030033,20,30,33,'For the pressing of milk bringeth forth butter, and the pressing of the nose bringeth forth blood; and the pressing of anger bringeth forth strife.'),(20031001,20,31,1,'The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him:'),(20031002,20,31,2,'What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? and what, O son of my vows?'),(20031003,20,31,3,'Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to them that destroy kings.'),(20031004,20,31,4,'It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers [to say], Where is the strong drink?'),(20031005,20,31,5,'-- lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.'),(20031006,20,31,6,'Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul:'),(20031007,20,31,7,'let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.'),(20031008,20,31,8,'Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.'),(20031009,20,31,9,'Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.'),(20031010,20,31,10,'Who can find a woman of worth? for her price is far above rubies.'),(20031011,20,31,11,'The heart of her husband confideth in her, and he shall have no lack of spoil.'),(20031012,20,31,12,'She doeth him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.'),(20031013,20,31,13,'She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.'),(20031014,20,31,14,'She is like the merchants\' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;'),(20031015,20,31,15,'And she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and the day\'s work to her maidens.'),(20031016,20,31,16,'She considereth a field, and acquireth it; of the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.'),(20031017,20,31,17,'She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.'),(20031018,20,31,18,'She perceiveth that her earning is good; her lamp goeth not out by night.'),(20031019,20,31,19,'She putteth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.'),(20031020,20,31,20,'She stretcheth out her hand to the afflicted, and she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.'),(20031021,20,31,21,'She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.'),(20031022,20,31,22,'She maketh herself coverlets; her clothing is byssus and purple.'),(20031023,20,31,23,'Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.'),(20031024,20,31,24,'She maketh body linen and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.'),(20031025,20,31,25,'Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laugheth [at] the coming day.'),(20031026,20,31,26,'She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and upon her tongue is the law of kindness.'),(20031027,20,31,27,'She surveyeth the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.'),(20031028,20,31,28,'Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her:'),(20031029,20,31,29,'Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all.'),(20031030,20,31,30,'Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman [that] feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.'),(20031031,20,31,31,'Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.'),(21001001,21,1,1,'The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.'),(21001002,21,1,2,'Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities! all is vanity.'),(21001003,21,1,3,'What profit hath man of all his labour wherewith he laboureth under the sun?'),(21001004,21,1,4,'[One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh, but the earth standeth for ever.'),(21001005,21,1,5,'The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.'),(21001006,21,1,6,'The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about towards the north: it turneth about continually, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.'),(21001007,21,1,7,'All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full: unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.'),(21001008,21,1,8,'All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.'),(21001009,21,1,9,'That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which will be done: and there is nothing new under the sun.'),(21001010,21,1,10,'Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already in the ages which were before us.'),(21001011,21,1,11,'There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be remembrance of things that are to come with those who shall live afterwards.'),(21001012,21,1,12,'I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.'),(21001013,21,1,13,'And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God given to the children of men to weary themselves therewith.'),(21001014,21,1,14,'I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.'),(21001015,21,1,15,'That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.'),(21001016,21,1,16,'I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have become great and have acquired wisdom more than all they that have been before me over Jerusalem; and my heart hath seen much of wisdom and knowledge.'),(21001017,21,1,17,'And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.'),(21001018,21,1,18,'For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.'),(21002001,21,2,1,'I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.'),(21002002,21,2,2,'I said of laughter, Madness! and of mirth, What availeth it?'),(21002003,21,2,3,'I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.'),(21002004,21,2,4,'I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;'),(21002005,21,2,5,'I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;'),(21002006,21,2,6,'I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.'),(21002007,21,2,7,'I acquired servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that had been in Jerusalem before me.'),(21002008,21,2,8,'I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines.'),(21002009,21,2,9,'And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.'),(21002010,21,2,10,'And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.'),(21002011,21,2,11,'Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do [them]; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.'),(21002012,21,2,12,'And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what shall the man [do] that cometh after the king? -- that which hath already been done.'),(21002013,21,2,13,'And I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as light excelleth darkness.'),(21002014,21,2,14,'The wise man\'s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.'),(21002015,21,2,15,'And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.'),(21002016,21,2,16,'For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?'),(21002017,21,2,17,'And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.'),(21002018,21,2,18,'And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.'),(21002019,21,2,19,'And who knoweth whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.'),(21002020,21,2,20,'Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.'),(21002021,21,2,21,'For there is a man whose labour hath been with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill, and who leaveth it to a man that hath not laboured therein, to be his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.'),(21002022,21,2,22,'For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?'),(21002023,21,2,23,'For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.'),(21002024,21,2,24,'There is nothing good for man, but that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.'),(21002025,21,2,25,'For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?'),(21002026,21,2,26,'For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God\'s sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.'),(21003001,21,3,1,'To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens:'),(21003002,21,3,2,'A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;'),(21003003,21,3,3,'A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up;'),(21003004,21,3,4,'A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance;'),(21003005,21,3,5,'A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;'),(21003006,21,3,6,'A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;'),(21003007,21,3,7,'A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;'),(21003008,21,3,8,'A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.'),(21003009,21,3,9,'What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?'),(21003010,21,3,10,'I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of men to toil in.'),(21003011,21,3,11,'He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.'),(21003012,21,3,12,'I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;'),(21003013,21,3,13,'yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.'),(21003014,21,3,14,'I know that whatever God doeth, it shall be for ever; there is nothing to be added to it, nor anything to be taken from it; and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.'),(21003015,21,3,15,'That which is was long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God bringeth back again that which is past.'),(21003016,21,3,16,'And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there.'),(21003017,21,3,17,'I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.'),(21003018,21,3,18,'I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.'),(21003019,21,3,19,'For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity.'),(21003020,21,3,20,'All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.'),(21003021,21,3,21,'Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards? and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth?'),(21003022,21,3,22,'And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?'),(21004001,21,4,1,'And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter.'),(21004002,21,4,2,'Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive;'),(21004003,21,4,3,'and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.'),(21004004,21,4,4,'And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man\'s jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.'),(21004005,21,4,5,'The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.'),(21004006,21,4,6,'Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with labour and pursuit of the wind.'),(21004007,21,4,7,'And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.'),(21004008,21,4,8,'There is one [alone] and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.'),(21004009,21,4,9,'Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.'),(21004010,21,4,10,'For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and who hath not another to lift him up!'),(21004011,21,4,11,'Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one alone be warm?'),(21004012,21,4,12,'And if a [man] overpower the one, the two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.'),(21004013,21,4,13,'Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished.'),(21004014,21,4,14,'For out of the prison-house he came forth to reign, although he was born poor in his kingdom.'),(21004015,21,4,15,'I saw all the living that walk under the sun, with the child, the second, that should stand up in his stead.'),(21004016,21,4,16,'[There is] no end of all the people, of all that stood before them; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after the wind.'),(21005001,21,5,1,'Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.'),(21005002,21,5,2,'Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.'),(21005003,21,5,3,'For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool\'s voice through a multitude of words.'),(21005004,21,5,4,'When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.'),(21005005,21,5,5,'Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.'),(21005006,21,5,6,'Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?'),(21005007,21,5,7,'For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.'),(21005008,21,5,8,'If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.'),(21005009,21,5,9,'Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.'),(21005010,21,5,10,'He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.'),(21005011,21,5,11,'When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?'),(21005012,21,5,12,'The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.'),(21005013,21,5,13,'There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;'),(21005014,21,5,14,'or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.'),(21005015,21,5,15,'As he came forth from his mother\'s womb, naked shall he go away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.'),(21005016,21,5,16,'And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?'),(21005017,21,5,17,'All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.'),(21005018,21,5,18,'Behold what I have seen good and comely: [it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.'),(21005019,21,5,19,'Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.'),(21005020,21,5,20,'For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [him] with the joy of his heart.'),(21006001,21,6,1,'There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among men:'),(21006002,21,6,2,'one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.'),(21006003,21,6,3,'If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.'),(21006004,21,6,4,'For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;'),(21006005,21,6,5,'moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.'),(21006006,21,6,6,'Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?'),(21006007,21,6,7,'All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.'),(21006008,21,6,8,'For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?'),(21006009,21,6,9,'Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.'),(21006010,21,6,10,'That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he.'),(21006011,21,6,11,'For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?'),(21006012,21,6,12,'For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?'),(21007001,21,7,1,'A [good] name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one\'s birth.'),(21007002,21,7,2,'It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: in that that is the end of all men, and the living taketh it to heart.'),(21007003,21,7,3,'Vexation is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.'),(21007004,21,7,4,'The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools in the house of mirth.'),(21007005,21,7,5,'It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise, than to hear the song of fools.'),(21007006,21,7,6,'For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.'),(21007007,21,7,7,'Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad, and a gift destroyeth the heart.'),(21007008,21,7,8,'Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; better is a patient spirit than a proud spirit.'),(21007009,21,7,9,'Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools.'),(21007010,21,7,10,'Say not, How is it that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.'),(21007011,21,7,11,'Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and profitable to them that see the sun.'),(21007012,21,7,12,'For wisdom is a defence [as] money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, [that] wisdom maketh them that possess it to live.'),(21007013,21,7,13,'Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?'),(21007014,21,7,14,'In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing [of what shall be] after him.'),(21007015,21,7,15,'All [this] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous [man] that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his days] by his wickedness.'),(21007016,21,7,16,'Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?'),(21007017,21,7,17,'Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?'),(21007018,21,7,18,'It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God cometh forth from them all.'),(21007019,21,7,19,'Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty [men] that are in a city.'),(21007020,21,7,20,'Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.'),(21007021,21,7,21,'Also give not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee.'),(21007022,21,7,22,'For also thine own heart knoweth that oftentimes thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.'),(21007023,21,7,23,'All this have I tried by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.'),(21007024,21,7,24,'Whatever hath been, is far off, and exceeding deep: who will find it out?'),(21007025,21,7,25,'I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;'),(21007026,21,7,26,'and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.'),(21007027,21,7,27,'See this which I have found, saith the Preacher, [searching] one by one to find out the reason;'),(21007028,21,7,28,'which my soul yet seeketh, and I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.'),(21007029,21,7,29,'Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.'),(21008001,21,8,1,'Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the explanation of things? A man\'s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.'),(21008002,21,8,2,'I [say], Keep the king\'s commandment, and [that] on account of the oath of God.'),(21008003,21,8,3,'Be not hasty to go out of his sight; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatever pleaseth him,'),(21008004,21,8,4,'because the word of a king is power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?'),(21008005,21,8,5,'Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man\'s heart knoweth time and manner.'),(21008006,21,8,6,'For to every purpose there is time and manner. For the misery of man is great upon him;'),(21008007,21,8,7,'for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?'),(21008008,21,8,8,'There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.'),(21008009,21,8,9,'All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.'),(21008010,21,8,10,'And I have also seen the wicked buried and going away; and such as had acted rightly went from [the] holy place, and were forgotten in the city. This also is vanity.'),(21008011,21,8,11,'Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.'),(21008012,21,8,12,'Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his [days], yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him;'),(21008013,21,8,13,'but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.'),(21008014,21,8,14,'There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous [men] unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked [men] to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.'),(21008015,21,8,15,'And I commended mirth, because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.'),(21008016,21,8,16,'When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),'),(21008017,21,8,17,'then I saw that all [is] the work of God, [and] that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however man may labour to seek [it] out, yet doth he not find [it]; and even, if a wise [man] think to know [it], he shall not be able to find [it] out.'),(21009001,21,9,1,'For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.'),(21009002,21,9,2,'All things [come] alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.'),(21009003,21,9,3,'This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, [they have to go] to the dead.'),(21009004,21,9,4,'For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.'),(21009005,21,9,5,'For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.'),(21009006,21,9,6,'Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.'),(21009007,21,9,7,'Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.'),(21009008,21,9,8,'Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.'),(21009009,21,9,9,'Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.'),(21009010,21,9,10,'Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.'),(21009011,21,9,11,'I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.'),(21009012,21,9,12,'For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.'),(21009013,21,9,13,'This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it was great unto me.'),(21009014,21,9,14,'There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:'),(21009015,21,9,15,'and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.'),(21009016,21,9,16,'Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man\'s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.'),(21009017,21,9,17,'The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.'),(21009018,21,9,18,'Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.'),(21010001,21,10,1,'Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to stink [and] ferment; [so] a little folly is weightier than wisdom [and] honour.'),(21010002,21,10,2,'The heart of a wise [man] is at his right hand; but a fool\'s heart at his left.'),(21010003,21,10,3,'Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his sense faileth [him], and he saith to every one [that] he is a fool.'),(21010004,21,10,4,'If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for quietness pacifieth great offences.'),(21010005,21,10,5,'There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as an error [that] proceedeth from the ruler:'),(21010006,21,10,6,'folly is set in great dignities, but the rich sit in a low place.'),(21010007,21,10,7,'I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.'),(21010008,21,10,8,'He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.'),(21010009,21,10,9,'Whoso removeth stones is hurt therewith; he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.'),(21010010,21,10,10,'If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he apply more strength; but wisdom is profitable to give success.'),(21010011,21,10,11,'If the serpent bite before enchantment, then the charmer hath no advantage.'),(21010012,21,10,12,'The words of a wise man\'s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool swallow up himself.'),(21010013,21,10,13,'The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.'),(21010014,21,10,14,'And the fool multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?'),(21010015,21,10,15,'The labour of fools wearieth them, because they know not how to go to the city.'),(21010016,21,10,16,'Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!'),(21010017,21,10,17,'Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, and thy princes eat in [due] season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!'),(21010018,21,10,18,'By much sloth fulness the framework falleth in; and through idleness of the hands the house drippeth.'),(21010019,21,10,19,'A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh life merry; but money answereth everything.'),(21010020,21,10,20,'Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for the bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which hath wings will tell the matter.'),(21011001,21,11,1,'Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.'),(21011002,21,11,2,'Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.'),(21011003,21,11,3,'If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.'),(21011004,21,11,4,'He that observeth the wind will not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds will not reap.'),(21011005,21,11,5,'As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones [grow] in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.'),(21011006,21,11,6,'In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.'),(21011007,21,11,7,'Now the light is sweet, and pleasant is it to the eyes to see the sun;'),(21011008,21,11,8,'but if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many: all that cometh is vanity.'),(21011009,21,11,9,'Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.'),(21011010,21,11,10,'Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.'),(21012001,21,12,1,'And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;'),(21012002,21,12,2,'before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;'),(21012003,21,12,3,'in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows are darkened,'),(21012004,21,12,4,'and the doors are shut toward the street; when the sound of the grinding is subdued, and they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;'),(21012005,21,12,5,'they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)'),(21012006,21,12,6,'-- before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be shattered at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern;'),(21012007,21,12,7,'and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.'),(21012008,21,12,8,'Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.'),(21012009,21,12,9,'And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, and sought out, [and] set in order many proverbs.'),(21012010,21,12,10,'The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words; and that which was written is upright, words of truth.'),(21012011,21,12,11,'The words of the wise are as goads, and the collections [of them] as nails fastened in: they are given from one shepherd.'),(21012012,21,12,12,'And besides, my son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.'),(21012013,21,12,13,'Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.'),(21012014,21,12,14,'For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.'),(22001001,22,1,1,'The song of songs, which is Solomon\'s.'),(22001002,22,1,2,'Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine.'),(22001003,22,1,3,'Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee.'),(22001004,22,1,4,'Draw me, we will run after thee! -- The king hath brought me into his chambers -- We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will remember thy love more than wine. They love thee uprightly.'),(22001005,22,1,5,'I am black, but comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.'),(22001006,22,1,6,'Look not upon me, because I am black; Because the sun hath looked upon me. My mother\'s children were angry with me: They made me keeper of the vineyards; Mine own vineyard have I not kept.'),(22001007,22,1,7,'Tell me, thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest [thy flock], Where thou makest it to rest at noon; For why should I be as one veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?'),(22001008,22,1,8,'If thou know not, thou fairest among women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy kids beside the shepherds\' booths.'),(22001009,22,1,9,'I compare thee, my love, To a steed in Pharaoh\'s chariots.'),(22001010,22,1,10,'Thy cheeks are comely with bead-rows, Thy neck with ornamental chains.'),(22001011,22,1,11,'We will make thee bead-rows of gold With studs of silver.'),(22001012,22,1,12,'While the king is at his table, My spikenard sendeth forth its fragrance.'),(22001013,22,1,13,'A bundle of myrrh is my beloved unto me; He shall pass the night between my breasts.'),(22001014,22,1,14,'My beloved is unto me a cluster of henna-flowers In the vineyards of Engedi.'),(22001015,22,1,15,'Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves.'),(22001016,22,1,16,'Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; Also our bed is green.'),(22001017,22,1,17,'The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are cypresses.'),(22002001,22,2,1,'I am a narcissus of Sharon, A lily of the valleys.'),(22002002,22,2,2,'As the lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.'),(22002003,22,2,3,'As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste.'),(22002004,22,2,4,'He hath brought me to the house of wine, And his banner over me is love.'),(22002005,22,2,5,'Sustain ye me with raisin-cakes, Refresh me with apples; For I am sick of love.'),(22002006,22,2,6,'His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.'),(22002007,22,2,7,'I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.'),(22002008,22,2,8,'The voice of my beloved! Behold, he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.'),(22002009,22,2,9,'My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh in through the windows, Glancing through the lattice.'),(22002010,22,2,10,'My beloved spake and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.'),(22002011,22,2,11,'For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over, it is gone:'),(22002012,22,2,12,'The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;'),(22002013,22,2,13,'The fig-tree melloweth her winter figs, And the vines in bloom give forth [their] fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away!'),(22002014,22,2,14,'My dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the precipice, Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.'),(22002015,22,2,15,'Take us the foxes, The little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in bloom.'),(22002016,22,2,16,'My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth [his flock] among the lilies,'),(22002017,22,2,17,'Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away. Turn, my beloved: be thou like a gazelle or a young hart, Upon the mountains of Bether.'),(22003001,22,3,1,'On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.'),(22003002,22,3,2,'I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broadways Will I seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.'),(22003003,22,3,3,'The watchmen that go about the city found me: -- Have ye seen him whom my soul loveth?'),(22003004,22,3,4,'-- Scarcely had I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother\'s house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.'),(22003005,22,3,5,'I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.'),(22003006,22,3,6,'Who is this, [she] that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant? ...'),(22003007,22,3,7,'Behold his couch, Solomon\'s own: Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty of Israel.'),(22003008,22,3,8,'They all hold the sword, Experts in war; Each hath his sword upon his thigh Because of alarm in the nights.'),(22003009,22,3,9,'King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.'),(22003010,22,3,10,'Its pillars he made of silver, Its support of gold, Its seat of purple; The midst thereof was paved [with] love By the daughters of Jerusalem.'),(22003011,22,3,11,'Go forth, daughters of Zion, And behold king Solomon With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.'),(22004001,22,4,1,'Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; Thine eyes are doves behind thy veil; Thy hair is as a flock of goats, On the slopes of mount Gilead.'),(22004002,22,4,2,'Thy teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep, Which go up from the washing; Which have all borne twins, And none is barren among them.'),(22004003,22,4,3,'Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, And thy speech is comely; As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil.'),(22004004,22,4,4,'Thy neck is like the tower of David, Built for an armoury: A thousand bucklers hang thereon, All shields of mighty men.'),(22004005,22,4,5,'Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, Which feed among the lilies.'),(22004006,22,4,6,'Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense.'),(22004007,22,4,7,'Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.'),(22004008,22,4,8,'[Come] with me, from Lebanon, [my] spouse, With me from Lebanon, -- Come, look from the top of Amanah, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions\' dens, From the mountains of the leopards.'),(22004009,22,4,9,'Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] spouse; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.'),(22004010,22,4,10,'How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine ointments than all spices!'),(22004011,22,4,11,'Thy lips, [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.'),(22004012,22,4,12,'A garden enclosed is my sister, [my] spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.'),(22004013,22,4,13,'Thy shoots are a paradise of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants;'),(22004014,22,4,14,'Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:'),(22004015,22,4,15,'A fountain in the gardens, A well of living waters, Which stream from Lebanon.'),(22004016,22,4,16,'Awake, north wind, and come, [thou] south; Blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow forth. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat its precious fruits.'),(22005001,22,5,1,'I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, beloved ones!'),(22005002,22,5,2,'I slept, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved! he knocketh: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.'),(22005003,22,5,3,'-- I have put off my tunic, how should I put it on? I have washed my feet, how should I pollute them? --'),(22005004,22,5,4,'My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door]; And my bowels yearned for him.'),(22005005,22,5,5,'I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the lock.'),(22005006,22,5,6,'I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself; he was gone: My soul went forth when he spoke. I sought him, but I found him not; I called him, but he gave me no answer.'),(22005007,22,5,7,'The watchmen that went about the city found me; They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.'),(22005008,22,5,8,'I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, ... What will ye tell him? -- That I am sick of love.'),(22005009,22,5,9,'What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, Thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, That thou dost so charge us?'),(22005010,22,5,10,'My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.'),(22005011,22,5,11,'His head is [as] the finest gold; His locks are flowing, black as the raven;'),(22005012,22,5,12,'His eyes are like doves by the water-brooks, Washed with milk, fitly set;'),(22005013,22,5,13,'His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.'),(22005014,22,5,14,'His hands gold rings, set with the chrysolite; His belly is bright ivory, overlaid [with] sapphires;'),(22005015,22,5,15,'His legs, pillars of marble, set upon bases of fine gold: His bearing as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars;'),(22005016,22,5,16,'His mouth is most sweet: Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, yea, this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.'),(22006001,22,6,1,'Whither is thy beloved gone, Thou fairest among women? Whither is thy beloved turned aside? And we will seek him with thee.'),(22006002,22,6,2,'My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.'),(22006003,22,6,3,'I am my beloved\'s, and my beloved is mine: He feedeth [his flock] among the lilies.'),(22006004,22,6,4,'Thou art fair, my love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as troops with banners:'),(22006005,22,6,5,'Turn away thine eyes from me, For they overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats On the slopes of Gilead.'),(22006006,22,6,6,'Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep Which go up from the washing; Which have all borne twins, And none is barren among them.'),(22006007,22,6,7,'As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil.'),(22006008,22,6,8,'There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number:'),(22006009,22,6,9,'My dove, mine undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother, She is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and they called her blessed; The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.'),(22006010,22,6,10,'Who is she that looketh forth as the dawn, Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, Terrible as troops with banners?'),(22006011,22,6,11,'I went down into the garden of nuts, To see the verdure of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, Whether the pomegranates blossomed.'),(22006012,22,6,12,'Before I was aware, My soul set me upon the chariots of my willing people.'),(22006013,22,6,13,'Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. -- What would ye look upon in the Shulamite? -- As it were the dance of two camps.'),(22007001,22,7,1,'How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince\'s daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.'),(22007002,22,7,2,'Thy navel is a round goblet, [which] wanteth not mixed wine; Thy belly a heap of wheat, set about with lilies;'),(22007003,22,7,3,'Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle;'),(22007004,22,7,4,'Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, [like] the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus;'),(22007005,22,7,5,'Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by [thy] ringlets!'),(22007006,22,7,6,'How fair and how pleasant art thou, [my] love, in delights!'),(22007007,22,7,7,'This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to grape clusters.'),(22007008,22,7,8,'I said, I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; And thy breasts shall indeed be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy nose like apples,'),(22007009,22,7,9,'And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, ... That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep.'),(22007010,22,7,10,'I am my beloved\'s, And his desire is toward me.'),(22007011,22,7,11,'-- Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; Let us lodge in the villages.'),(22007012,22,7,12,'We will go up early to the vineyards, We will see if the vine hath budded, [If] the blossom is opening, And the pomegranates are in bloom: There will I give thee my loves.'),(22007013,22,7,13,'The mandrakes yield fragrance; And at our gates are all choice fruits, new and old: I have laid them up for thee, my beloved.'),(22008001,22,8,1,'Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! Should I find thee without, I would kiss thee; And they would not despise me.'),(22008002,22,8,2,'I would lead thee, bring thee into my mother\'s house; Thou wouldest instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.'),(22008003,22,8,3,'His left hand would be under my head, And his right hand embrace me.'),(22008004,22,8,4,'I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, ... Why should ye stir up, why awake [my] love, till he please?'),(22008005,22,8,5,'Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awoke thee under the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth [that] bore thee.'),(22008006,22,8,6,'Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol: The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, Flames of Jah.'),(22008007,22,8,7,'Many waters cannot quench love, Neither do the floods drown it: Even if a man gave all the substance of his house for love, It would utterly be contemned.'),(22008008,22,8,8,'We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for? --'),(22008009,22,8,9,'If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver; And if she be a door, We will enclose her with boards of cedar.'),(22008010,22,8,10,'I am a wall, and my breasts like towers; Then was I in his eyes as one that findeth peace.'),(22008011,22,8,11,'Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon: He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand silver-pieces.'),(22008012,22,8,12,'My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: The thousand [silver-pieces] be to thee, Solomon; And to the keepers of its fruit, two hundred.'),(22008013,22,8,13,'Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken to thy voice: Let me hear [it].'),(22008014,22,8,14,'Haste, my beloved, And be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.'),(23001001,23,1,1,'The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.'),(23001002,23,1,2,'Hear, [ye] heavens, and give ear, [thou] earth! for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children; and they have rebelled against me.'),(23001003,23,1,3,'The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master\'s crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.'),(23001004,23,1,4,'Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned away backward.'),(23001005,23,1,5,'Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.'),(23001006,23,1,6,'From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.'),(23001007,23,1,7,'Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.'),(23001008,23,1,8,'And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard, as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city.'),(23001009,23,1,9,'Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.'),(23001010,23,1,10,'Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah!'),(23001011,23,1,11,'To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure.'),(23001012,23,1,12,'When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this from your hand -- to tread my courts?'),(23001013,23,1,13,'Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, -- new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations -- wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear.'),(23001014,23,1,14,'Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing [them].'),(23001015,23,1,15,'And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.'),(23001016,23,1,16,'Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; -- cease to do evil,'),(23001017,23,1,17,'learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.'),(23001018,23,1,18,'Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.'),(23001019,23,1,19,'If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land;'),(23001020,23,1,20,'but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.'),(23001021,23,1,21,'How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.'),(23001022,23,1,22,'Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:'),(23001023,23,1,23,'thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.'),(23001024,23,1,24,'Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies.'),(23001025,23,1,25,'And I will turn my hand upon thee, and will thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy;'),(23001026,23,1,26,'and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be called, Town of righteousness, Faithful city.'),(23001027,23,1,27,'Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness.'),(23001028,23,1,28,'But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.'),(23001029,23,1,29,'For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen.'),(23001030,23,1,30,'For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.'),(23001031,23,1,31,'And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench [them].'),(23002001,23,2,1,'The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.'),(23002002,23,2,2,'And it shall come to pass in the end of days, [that] the mountain of Jehovah\'s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it.'),(23002003,23,2,3,'And many peoples shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and Jehovah\'s word from Jerusalem.'),(23002004,23,2,4,'And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprove many peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.'),(23002005,23,2,5,'House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.'),(23002006,23,2,6,'For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with what comes] from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the children of foreigners.'),(23002007,23,2,7,'And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end of their treasures: their land also is full of horses, and there is no end of their chariots.'),(23002008,23,2,8,'And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made.'),(23002009,23,2,9,'And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man shall be brought low: and do not thou forgive them!'),(23002010,23,2,10,'Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.'),(23002011,23,2,11,'The lofty eyes of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.'),(23002012,23,2,12,'For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low;'),(23002013,23,2,13,'and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan;'),(23002014,23,2,14,'and upon all the lofty mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up;'),(23002015,23,2,15,'and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall;'),(23002016,23,2,16,'and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant works of art.'),(23002017,23,2,17,'And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day:'),(23002018,23,2,18,'and the idols shall utterly pass away.'),(23002019,23,2,19,'And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.'),(23002020,23,2,20,'In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made [each] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;'),(23002021,23,2,21,'to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.'),(23002022,23,2,22,'Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?'),(23003001,23,3,1,'For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,'),(23003002,23,3,2,'the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder,'),(23003003,23,3,3,'the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments.'),(23003004,23,3,4,'And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.'),(23003005,23,3,5,'And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable.'),(23003006,23,3,6,'When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father\'s house, [and shall say:] Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand;'),(23003007,23,3,7,'he will lift up [his hand] in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people.'),(23003008,23,3,8,'For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.'),(23003009,23,3,9,'The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.'),(23003010,23,3,10,'Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well [with him], for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.'),(23003011,23,3,11,'Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill [with him], because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.'),(23003012,23,3,12,'[As for] my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead [thee], and destroy the way of thy paths.'),(23003013,23,3,13,'Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.'),(23003014,23,3,14,'Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, [saying:] It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses.'),(23003015,23,3,15,'What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.'),(23003016,23,3,16,'And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;'),(23003017,23,3,17,'therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.'),(23003018,23,3,18,'In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the little suns and crescents,'),(23003019,23,3,19,'the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils,'),(23003020,23,3,20,'the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets;'),(23003021,23,3,21,'the finger-rings, and the nose-rings;'),(23003022,23,3,22,'the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets;'),(23003023,23,3,23,'the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils.'),(23003024,23,3,24,'And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty.'),(23003025,23,3,25,'Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight;'),(23003026,23,3,26,'and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.'),(23004001,23,4,1,'And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, Our own bread will we eat, and with our own garments will we be clothed; only let us be called by thy name; -- take away our reproach!'),(23004002,23,4,2,'In that day there shall be a sprout of Jehovah for beauty and glory, and the fruit of the earth for excellency and for ornament for those that are escaped of Israel.'),(23004003,23,4,3,'And it shall come to pass that he who remaineth in Zion, and he that is left in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, -- every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;'),(23004004,23,4,4,'when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have scoured out the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.'),(23004005,23,4,5,'And Jehovah will create over every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and over its convocations, a cloud by day and a smoke, and the brightness of a flame of fire by night: for over all the glory shall be a covering.'),(23004006,23,4,6,'And there shall be a tabernacle for shade by day from the heat, and for a shelter and for a covert from storm and from rain.'),(23005001,23,5,1,'I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.'),(23005002,23,5,2,'And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.'),(23005003,23,5,3,'And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.'),(23005004,23,5,4,'What was there yet to do to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? --'),(23005005,23,5,5,'And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;'),(23005006,23,5,6,'and I will make it a waste -- it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.'),(23005007,23,5,7,'For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry.'),(23005008,23,5,8,'Woe unto them that add house to house, that join field to field, until there is no more room, and that ye dwell yourselves alone in the midst of the land!'),(23005009,23,5,9,'In mine ears Jehovah of hosts [hath said], Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.'),(23005010,23,5,10,'Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.'),(23005011,23,5,11,'Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, [till] wine inflameth them!'),(23005012,23,5,12,'And harp and lyre, tambour and flute, and wine are in their banquets; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, nor do they see the operation of his hands.'),(23005013,23,5,13,'Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.'),(23005014,23,5,14,'Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend [into it], and her multitude, and her tumult, and [all] that is joyful within her.'),(23005015,23,5,15,'And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man brought low, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low;'),(23005016,23,5,16,'and Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy ùGod hallowed in righteousness.'),(23005017,23,5,17,'And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.'),(23005018,23,5,18,'Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes!'),(23005019,23,5,19,'who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we may see [it]; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!'),(23005020,23,5,20,'Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!'),(23005021,23,5,21,'Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem!'),(23005022,23,5,22,'Woe unto them that are mighty for drinking wine, and men valiant to mix strong drink;'),(23005023,23,5,23,'who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn away the righteousness of the righteous from them!'),(23005024,23,5,24,'Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.'),(23005025,23,5,25,'Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand against them and hath smitten them; and the mountains trembled, and their carcases are become as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.'),(23005026,23,5,26,'And he will lift up a banner to the nations afar off, and will hiss for one from the end of the earth; and behold, it will come rapidly [and] lightly.'),(23005027,23,5,27,'None among them is weary, none stumbleth; they slumber not, nor sleep; none hath the girdle of his loins loosed, nor the thong of his sandals broken;'),(23005028,23,5,28,'their arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses\' hoofs are reckoned as the flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind.'),(23005029,23,5,29,'Their roaring is like a lioness, they roar as the young lions; yea, they growl, and snatch the prey, and carry it away safe, and there is none to deliver;'),(23005030,23,5,30,'and they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if one look upon the earth, behold darkness [and] distress, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.'),(23006001,23,6,1,'In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.'),(23006002,23,6,2,'Seraphim were standing above him: each had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he flew.'),(23006003,23,6,3,'And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!'),(23006004,23,6,4,'And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.'),(23006005,23,6,5,'And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.'),(23006006,23,6,6,'And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;'),(23006007,23,6,7,'and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.'),(23006008,23,6,8,'And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.'),(23006009,23,6,9,'And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive.'),(23006010,23,6,10,'Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.'),(23006011,23,6,11,'And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,'),(23006012,23,6,12,'and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land.'),(23006013,23,6,13,'But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk [remaineth] after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.'),(23007001,23,7,1,'And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but they were not able to fight against it.'),(23007002,23,7,2,'And it was told the house of David saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. Then his heart and the heart of his people shook, as the trees of the forest are shaken with the wind.'),(23007003,23,7,3,'And Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, thou and thy son Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller\'s field;'),(23007004,23,7,4,'and thou shalt say unto him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, and let not thy heart faint before these two ends of smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.'),(23007005,23,7,5,'Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim [also] and the son of Remaliah, saying,'),(23007006,23,7,6,'Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein -- the son of Tabeal;'),(23007007,23,7,7,'thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall not stand, nor come to pass;'),(23007008,23,7,8,'for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no [more a] people;'),(23007009,23,7,9,'and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah\'s son. If ye believe not, surely ye shall not be established.'),(23007010,23,7,10,'And Jehovah spoke again to Ahaz, saying,'),(23007011,23,7,11,'Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; ask for it in the deep, or in the height above.'),(23007012,23,7,12,'And Ahaz said, I will not ask, and will not tempt Jehovah.'),(23007013,23,7,13,'And he said, Hear then, house of David: Is it a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God?'),(23007014,23,7,14,'Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and shall bring forth a son, and call his name Immanuel.'),(23007015,23,7,15,'Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.'),(23007016,23,7,16,'For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.'),(23007017,23,7,17,'Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father\'s house, days which have not come since the day when Ephraim turned away from Judah -- [even] the king of Assyria.'),(23007018,23,7,18,'And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly which is at the extremity of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria;'),(23007019,23,7,19,'and they shall come and settle all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorn-bushes, and on all the pastures.'),(23007020,23,7,20,'In that day will the Lord, with a razor which is hired beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and the hair of the feet, yea, the beard also will it take away.'),(23007021,23,7,21,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep,'),(23007022,23,7,22,'and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they shall give, [that] he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.'),(23007023,23,7,23,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:'),(23007024,23,7,24,'with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.'),(23007025,23,7,25,'And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe -- thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle.'),(23008001,23,8,1,'And Jehovah said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write thereon with a man\'s style, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.'),(23008002,23,8,2,'And I took unto me to witness, sure witnesses, Urijah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.'),(23008003,23,8,3,'And I came near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son; and Jehovah said unto me, Call his name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.'),(23008004,23,8,4,'For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.'),(23008005,23,8,5,'And Jehovah spoke again to me, saying,'),(23008006,23,8,6,'Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah which flow softly, and rejoiceth in Rezin and in the son of Remaliah,'),(23008007,23,8,7,'therefore behold, the Lord will bring up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall mount up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:'),(23008008,23,8,8,'and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!'),(23008009,23,8,9,'Rage, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth: Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!'),(23008010,23,8,10,'Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: for ùGod is with us.'),(23008011,23,8,11,'For Jehovah spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,'),(23008012,23,8,12,'Ye shall not say, Conspiracy, of everything of which this people saith, Conspiracy; and fear ye not their fear, and be not in dread.'),(23008013,23,8,13,'Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.'),(23008014,23,8,14,'And he will be for a sanctuary; and for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(23008015,23,8,15,'And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and snared, and taken.'),(23008016,23,8,16,'Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.'),(23008017,23,8,17,'And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth his face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for him.'),(23008018,23,8,18,'Behold, I and the children that Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel, from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.'),(23008019,23,8,19,'And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto the necromancers and unto the soothsayers, who chirp and who mutter, [say,] Shall not a people seek unto their God? [Will they go] for the living unto the dead?'),(23008020,23,8,20,'To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.'),(23008021,23,8,21,'And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze upward:'),(23008022,23,8,22,'and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness.'),(23009001,23,9,1,'Nevertheless the darkness shall not be as when the distress was in the [land], at the time he at first lightly, and afterwards heavily, visited the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, -- the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:'),(23009002,23,9,2,'the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them light hath shone.'),(23009003,23,9,3,'Thou hast multiplied the nation, hast increased its joy: they joy before thee like to the joy in harvest; as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.'),(23009004,23,9,4,'For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.'),(23009005,23,9,5,'For every boot of him that is shod for the tumult, and the garment rolled in blood, shall be for burning, fuel for fire.'),(23009006,23,9,6,'For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty ùGod, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.'),(23009007,23,9,7,'Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.'),(23009008,23,9,8,'The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it lighteth upon Israel.'),(23009009,23,9,9,'And all the people shall know [it], Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and stoutness of heart,'),(23009010,23,9,10,'The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamore trees are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.'),(23009011,23,9,11,'And Jehovah will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and arm his enemies,'),(23009012,23,9,12,'the Syrians on the east, and the Philistines on the west; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.'),(23009013,23,9,13,'But the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, and they do not seek Jehovah of hosts.'),(23009014,23,9,14,'And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day:'),(23009015,23,9,15,'the ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.'),(23009016,23,9,16,'For the guides of this people mislead [them]; and they that are guided by them are swallowed up.'),(23009017,23,9,17,'Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, neither will he have mercy on their fatherless and on their widows; for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.'),(23009018,23,9,18,'For wickedness burneth as a fire: it devoureth briars and thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go rolling up like a pillar of smoke.'),(23009019,23,9,19,'Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burned up, and the people is as fuel for fire: a man spareth not his brother;'),(23009020,23,9,20,'and he snatcheth on the right hand, and is hungry, and eateth on the left hand; and they are not satisfied. They eat every man the flesh of his own arm:'),(23009021,23,9,21,'Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; [and] they together are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.'),(23010001,23,10,1,'Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression,'),(23010002,23,10,2,'to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!'),(23010003,23,10,3,'And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the sudden destruction [which] shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help, and where will ye leave your glory?'),(23010004,23,10,4,'They can but crouch under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.'),(23010005,23,10,5,'Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.'),(23010006,23,10,6,'I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.'),(23010007,23,10,7,'But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.'),(23010008,23,10,8,'For he saith, Are not my princes all kings?'),(23010009,23,10,9,'Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?'),(23010010,23,10,10,'As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, -- and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,'),(23010011,23,10,11,'-- shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?'),(23010012,23,10,12,'And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.'),(23010013,23,10,13,'For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it], and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and, like a valiant man, I have brought down them that sit [on thrones];'),(23010014,23,10,14,'and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples, and as one gathereth forsaken eggs, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.'),(23010015,23,10,15,'-- Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? As if the rod should wield them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up [him who is] not wood!'),(23010016,23,10,16,'Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire:'),(23010017,23,10,17,'and the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day,'),(23010018,23,10,18,'and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a sick man fainteth.'),(23010019,23,10,19,'And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be few: yea, a child might write them.'),(23010020,23,10,20,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob shall no more again rely upon him that smote them; but they shall rely upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.'),(23010021,23,10,21,'The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty ùGod.'),(23010022,23,10,22,'For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption determined shall overflow in righteousness.'),(23010023,23,10,23,'For a consumption, and [one] determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, accomplish in the midst of all the land.'),(23010024,23,10,24,'Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts: O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian; he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt:'),(23010025,23,10,25,'for yet a very little while, and the indignation shall be accomplished, and mine anger, in their destruction.'),(23010026,23,10,26,'And Jehovah of hosts will stir up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and his rod [shall be] upon the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.'),(23010027,23,10,27,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck; and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. ...'),(23010028,23,10,28,'He is come to Aiath, he hath passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage.'),(23010029,23,10,29,'They are gone through the pass; they make their lodging at Geba: Ramah trembleth, Gibeah of Saul is fled.'),(23010030,23,10,30,'Lift up thy voice, daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laish! -- Poor Anathoth!'),(23010031,23,10,31,'Madmenah is fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim take to flight.'),(23010032,23,10,32,'Still a day of halting at Nob; he shaketh his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. ...'),(23010033,23,10,33,'Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with violence; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be brought low;'),(23010034,23,10,34,'and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.'),(23011001,23,11,1,'And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall be fruitful;'),(23011002,23,11,2,'and the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.'),(23011003,23,11,3,'And his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears;'),(23011004,23,11,4,'but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.'),(23011005,23,11,5,'And righteousness shall be the girdle of his reins, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.'),(23011006,23,11,6,'The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead them.'),(23011007,23,11,7,'And the cow and the she-bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.'),(23011008,23,11,8,'And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the adder, and the weaned child shall put forth its hand to the viper\'s den.'),(23011009,23,11,9,'They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.'),(23011010,23,11,10,'And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, standing as a banner of the peoples: the nations shall seek it; and his resting-place shall be glory.'),(23011011,23,11,11,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to acquire the remnant of his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.'),(23011012,23,11,12,'And he shall lift up a banner to the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.'),(23011013,23,11,13,'And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the troublers of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will not trouble Ephraim:'),(23011014,23,11,14,'but they shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines towards the west; together shall they spoil the sons of the east; they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them.'),(23011015,23,11,15,'And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind will he shake his hand over the river, and will smite it into seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod.'),(23011016,23,11,16,'And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people which will be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day when he went up out of the land of Egypt.'),(23012001,23,12,1,'And in that day thou shalt say, Jehovah, I will praise thee; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.'),(23012002,23,12,2,'Behold, ùGod is my salvation: I will trust, and not be afraid; for Jah, Jehovah, is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.'),(23012003,23,12,3,'And with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.'),(23012004,23,12,4,'And in that day shall ye say, Give ye thanks to Jehovah, call upon his name, declare his deeds among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted.'),(23012005,23,12,5,'Sing psalms of Jehovah, for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.'),(23012006,23,12,6,'Cry out and shout, thou inhabitress of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.'),(23013001,23,13,1,'The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.'),(23013002,23,13,2,'Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.'),(23013003,23,13,3,'I have commanded my hallowed ones, I have also called my mighty men for mine anger, them that rejoice in my highness.'),(23013004,23,13,4,'The noise of a multitude on the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled together: Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.'),(23013005,23,13,5,'They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens -- Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation -- to destroy the whole land.'),(23013006,23,13,6,'Howl, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; it cometh as destruction from the Almighty.'),(23013007,23,13,7,'Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,'),(23013008,23,13,8,'and they shall be terrified: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall writhe as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as flames.'),(23013009,23,13,9,'Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the earth desolate; and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it.'),(23013010,23,13,10,'For the stars of the heavens and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.'),(23013011,23,13,11,'And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.'),(23013012,23,13,12,'I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.'),(23013013,23,13,13,'Therefore I will make the heavens to shake, and the earth shall be removed out of her place, at the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.'),(23013014,23,13,14,'And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land.'),(23013015,23,13,15,'All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league [with them] shall fall by the sword.'),(23013016,23,13,16,'And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.'),(23013017,23,13,17,'Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.'),(23013018,23,13,18,'And [their] bows shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb: their eye shall not spare children.'),(23013019,23,13,19,'And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans\' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.'),(23013020,23,13,20,'It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in, even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent there, nor shepherds make fold there.'),(23013021,23,13,21,'But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.'),(23013022,23,13,22,'And jackals shall cry to one another in their palaces, and wild dogs in the pleasant castles. And her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.'),(23014001,23,14,1,'For Jehovah will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in rest in their own land; and the stranger shall be united to them, and they shall be joined to the house of Jacob.'),(23014002,23,14,2,'And the peoples shall take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and handmaids; and they shall take them captive whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors.'),(23014003,23,14,3,'And it shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy trouble and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,'),(23014004,23,14,4,'that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, -- the exactress of gold ceased!'),(23014005,23,14,5,'Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers.'),(23014006,23,14,6,'He that smote the peoples in wrath with a relentless stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted unsparingly.'),(23014007,23,14,7,'The whole earth is at rest, is quiet: they break forth into singing.'),(23014008,23,14,8,'Even the cypresses rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, [saying,] Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.'),(23014009,23,14,9,'Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming, stirring up the dead for thee, all the he-goats of the earth; making to rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.'),(23014010,23,14,10,'All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us!'),(23014011,23,14,11,'-- Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.'),(23014012,23,14,12,'How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!'),(23014013,23,14,13,'And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of ùGod, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;'),(23014014,23,14,14,'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:'),(23014015,23,14,15,'none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.'),(23014016,23,14,16,'They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, [saying,] Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;'),(23014017,23,14,17,'[that] made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; [that] dismissed not his prisoners homewards?'),(23014018,23,14,18,'-- All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house;'),(23014019,23,14,19,'but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, covered with the slain -- those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase trodden under foot.'),(23014020,23,14,20,'Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.'),(23014021,23,14,21,'Prepare ye slaughter for his children, because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise up and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.'),(23014022,23,14,22,'For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and scion and descendant, saith Jehovah.'),(23014023,23,14,23,'And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.'),(23014024,23,14,24,'Jehovah of hosts hath sworn saying, Assuredly as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, it shall stand:'),(23014025,23,14,25,'to break the Assyrian in my land; and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.'),(23014026,23,14,26,'This is the counsel which is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand which is stretched out upon all the nations.'),(23014027,23,14,27,'For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall frustrate [it]? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?'),(23014028,23,14,28,'In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:'),(23014029,23,14,29,'Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent\'s root shall come forth a viper, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.'),(23014030,23,14,30,'And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; but I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.'),(23014031,23,14,31,'Howl, O gate! cry, O city! thou, Philistia, art wholly dissolved; for there cometh from the north a smoke, and none remaineth apart in his gatherings [of troops].'),(23014032,23,14,32,'And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and the afflicted of his people find refuge in it.'),(23015001,23,15,1,'The burden of Moab: For in the night of being laid waste, Ar of Moab is destroyed; for in the night of being laid waste, Kir of Moab is destroyed!'),(23015002,23,15,2,'He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.'),(23015003,23,15,3,'In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears.'),(23015004,23,15,4,'And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh: their voice is heard unto Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out: his soul trembleth in him.'),(23015005,23,15,5,'My heart crieth out for Moab; their fugitives [have fled] unto Zoar, unto Eglath-Sheli-shijah: for by the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.'),(23015006,23,15,6,'For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.'),(23015007,23,15,7,'Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, do they carry away to the torrent of the willows.'),(23015008,23,15,8,'For the cry goeth round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.'),(23015009,23,15,9,'For the waters of Dimon are full of blood, for I will lay yet more upon Dimon: a lion upon them that are escaped of Moab, and upon that which remaineth of the land.'),(23016001,23,16,1,'Send the lamb of the ruler of the land from the rock to the wilderness, -- unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.'),(23016002,23,16,2,'And it shall be [that] as a wandering bird, [as] a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.'),(23016003,23,16,3,'Bring in counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of noonday; hide the outcasts, discover not the fugitive.'),(23016004,23,16,4,'Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster. For the extortioner is at an end, the wasting hath ceased, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.'),(23016005,23,16,5,'And a throne shall be established in mercy: and in the tent of David there shall sit upon it, in truth, one judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.'),(23016006,23,16,6,'We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, -- [he is] very proud, -- of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath: his pratings are vain.'),(23016007,23,16,7,'Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab; every one of them shall howl. For the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn, verily afflicted.'),(23016008,23,16,8,'For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.'),(23016009,23,16,9,'Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest.'),(23016010,23,16,10,'And joy and gladness is taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, neither is there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses, I have made the cry [of the winepress] to cease.'),(23016011,23,16,11,'Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirheres.'),(23016012,23,16,12,'And it shall come to pass, when Moab shall appear, shall weary himself on the high place, and enter into his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.'),(23016013,23,16,13,'This is the word which Jehovah hath spoken from of old concerning Moab.'),(23016014,23,16,14,'And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account.'),(23017001,23,17,1,'The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.'),(23017002,23,17,2,'The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.'),(23017003,23,17,3,'The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.'),(23017004,23,17,4,'And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.'),(23017005,23,17,5,'And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.'),(23017006,23,17,6,'And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an olive-tree: two, three berries above, in the tree-top; four, five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.'),(23017007,23,17,7,'In that day shall man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Israel.'),(23017008,23,17,8,'And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images.'),(23017009,23,17,9,'In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation.'),(23017010,23,17,10,'For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips:'),(23017011,23,17,11,'in the day of thy planting wilt thou make [them] to grow, and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; [but] the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurable.'),(23017012,23,17,12,'Ha! a tumult of many peoples! they make a noise as the noise of the seas; -- and the rushing of nations! they rush as the rushing of mighty waters.'),(23017013,23,17,13,'The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling [of dust] before the whirlwind:'),(23017014,23,17,14,'behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.'),(23018001,23,18,1,'Ha! land shadowing with wings, which art beyond the rivers of Cush,'),(23018002,23,18,2,'that sendest ambassadors over the sea, and in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying,] Go, swift messengers, to a nation scattered and ravaged, to a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth; to a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!'),(23018003,23,18,3,'All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, see ye, and when a trumpet is blown, hear ye!'),(23018004,23,18,4,'For thus hath Jehovah said unto me: I will take my rest, and I will observe from my dwelling-place like clear heat upon herbs, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.'),(23018005,23,18,5,'For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away [and] cut down the branches.'),(23018006,23,18,6,'They shall be left together unto the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.'),(23018007,23,18,7,'In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts of a people scattered and ravaged, -- and from a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth, a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled, ... to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.'),(23019001,23,19,1,'The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt are moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt melteth in the midst of it.'),(23019002,23,19,2,'And I will incite the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.'),(23019003,23,19,3,'And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols and unto the conjurers, and unto the necromancers, and unto the soothsayers.'),(23019004,23,19,4,'And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.'),(23019005,23,19,5,'And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;'),(23019006,23,19,6,'and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.'),(23019007,23,19,7,'The meadows by the Nile, on the banks of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away, and be no [more].'),(23019008,23,19,8,'And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast fish-hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread net upon the waters shall languish.'),(23019009,23,19,9,'And they that work in fine flax, and they that weave white stuffs shall be ashamed.'),(23019010,23,19,10,'And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers for hire shall be sad of soul.'),(23019011,23,19,11,'They are but fools, the princes of Zoan, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh: [their] counsel is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?'),(23019012,23,19,12,'Where are they then, thy wise [men]? Let them now tell thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.'),(23019013,23,19,13,'The princes of Zoan are become foolish, the princes of Noph are deceived; and the corner-stones of its tribes have caused Egypt to err.'),(23019014,23,19,14,'Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunkard staggereth in his vomit.'),(23019015,23,19,15,'Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.'),(23019016,23,19,16,'In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over it.'),(23019017,23,19,17,'And the land of Judah shall be a dismay unto Egypt: every one that thinketh of it shall be afraid for himself, because of the counsel of Jehovah of hosts, which he hath purposed against it.'),(23019018,23,19,18,'In that day shall there be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the language of Canaan, and swearing by Jehovah of hosts: one shall be called, The city of Heres.'),(23019019,23,19,19,'In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah:'),(23019020,23,19,20,'and it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a saviour and defender, who shall deliver them.'),(23019021,23,19,21,'And Jehovah shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day, and shall serve with sacrifice and oblation; and they shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and perform it.'),(23019022,23,19,22,'And Jehovah will smite Egypt; he will smite and heal: and they shall return to Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them.'),(23019023,23,19,23,'In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria; and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and Egypt shall serve with Assyria.'),(23019024,23,19,24,'In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;'),(23019025,23,19,25,'whom Jehovah of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance!'),(23020001,23,20,1,'In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, (and he fought against Ashdod and took it,)'),(23020002,23,20,2,'at that time spoke Jehovah by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy sandal from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.'),(23020003,23,20,3,'And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years, a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,'),(23020004,23,20,4,'so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, [to] the shame of Egypt.'),(23020005,23,20,5,'And they shall be terrified and ashamed of Ethiopia their confidence, and of Egypt their boast.'),(23020006,23,20,6,'And the inhabitants of this coast shall say in that day, Behold, such is our confidence, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?'),(23021001,23,21,1,'The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through, so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.'),(23021002,23,21,2,'A grievous vision is declared unto me: the treacherous dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, Elam! besiege, Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.'),(23021003,23,21,3,'Therefore are my loins filled with pain; anguish hath taken hold upon me, as the anguish of a woman in travail: I am bowed down so as not to hear, I am dismayed so as not to see.'),(23021004,23,21,4,'My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me.'),(23021005,23,21,5,'Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.'),(23021006,23,21,6,'For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.'),(23021007,23,21,7,'And he saw chariots, horsemen by pairs, a chariot with asses, a chariot with camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed.'),(23021008,23,21,8,'And he cried [as] a lion, Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights.'),(23021009,23,21,9,'-- And behold, there cometh a chariot of men; horsemen by pairs. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.'),(23021010,23,21,10,'O my threshing, and the corn of my floor! What I have heard of Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.'),(23021011,23,21,11,'The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'),(23021012,23,21,12,'The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire; return, come.'),(23021013,23,21,13,'The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia shall ye lodge, [ye] caravans of Dedanites.'),(23021014,23,21,14,'Bring ye water to meet the thirsty! The inhabitants of the land of Tema come forth with their bread for him that fleeth.'),(23021015,23,21,15,'For they flee from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.'),(23021016,23,21,16,'For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Within a year, according to the years of a hired servant, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail;'),(23021017,23,21,17,'and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be diminished: for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken.'),(23022001,23,22,1,'The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?'),(23022002,23,22,2,'Thou that wast full of stir, a town of tumult, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.'),(23022003,23,22,3,'All thy rulers have fled together, they are taken prisoners without the bow: all that are found of thee are made prisoners together; they were fleeing far off.'),(23022004,23,22,4,'Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.'),(23022005,23,22,5,'For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; [a day of] breaking down the wall, and of crying to the mountain:'),(23022006,23,22,6,'-- Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield.'),(23022007,23,22,7,'And it shall come to pass [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.'),(23022008,23,22,8,'And he uncovereth the covering of Judah: and thou didst look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest;'),(23022009,23,22,9,'and ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and ye have gathered together the waters of the lower pool;'),(23022010,23,22,10,'and ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and have broken down the houses to fortify the wall;'),(23022011,23,22,11,'and ye have made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not had regard unto the maker thereof, neither have ye looked unto him that fashioned it long ago.'),(23022012,23,22,12,'And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;'),(23022013,23,22,13,'and behold joy and rejoicing, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: -- Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'),(23022014,23,22,14,'And it was revealed in mine ears by Jehovah of hosts: Assuredly this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.'),(23022015,23,22,15,'Thus saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts: Go, get thee in unto this steward, unto Shebna, who is over the house, [and say,]'),(23022016,23,22,16,'What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth out his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for himself?'),(23022017,23,22,17,'Behold, Jehovah will hurl thee with the force of a mighty man, and will cover thee entirely.'),(23022018,23,22,18,'Rolling thee up completely, he will roll thee as a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy lord\'s house!'),(23022019,23,22,19,'And I will drive thee from thine office, and from thy station will I pull thee down.'),(23022020,23,22,20,'And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkijah;'),(23022021,23,22,21,'and I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.'),(23022022,23,22,22,'And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.'),(23022023,23,22,23,'And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father\'s house:'),(23022024,23,22,24,'and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father\'s house, the offspring and the issue, all the small vessels, as well the vessels of cups as all the vessels of flagons.'),(23022025,23,22,25,'In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for Jehovah hath spoken.'),(23023001,23,23,1,'The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish! for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, none entering in. From the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.'),(23023002,23,23,2,'Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle! The merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished thee.'),(23023003,23,23,3,'And on great waters, the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of the nations.'),(23023004,23,23,4,'Be thou ashamed, Sidon, for the sea hath spoken, the strength of the sea, saying, I have not travailed nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men [nor] brought up virgins.'),(23023005,23,23,5,'-- When the report came into Egypt, they were sorely pained at the news of Tyre.'),(23023006,23,23,6,'Pass over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the coast!'),(23023007,23,23,7,'Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.'),(23023008,23,23,8,'Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the honourable of the earth?'),(23023009,23,23,9,'Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of all glory, to bring to nought all the honourable of the earth.'),(23023010,23,23,10,'Overflow thy land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.'),(23023011,23,23,11,'He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he shaketh the kingdoms. Jehovah hath given a commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof,'),(23023012,23,23,12,'and hath said, Thou shalt no more exult, [thou] oppressed virgin, daughter of Sidon: get thee up, pass over to Chittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.'),(23023013,23,23,13,'Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this people did not exist; the Assyrian founded it for the dwellers in the desert: they set up their towers, they destroyed the palaces thereof; he brought it to ruin.'),(23023014,23,23,14,'Howl, ships of Tarshish! for your fortress is laid waste.'),(23023015,23,23,15,'And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it shall be for Tyre as the harlot\'s song.'),(23023016,23,23,16,'Take a harp, go about the city, thou forgotten harlot! Make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.'),(23023017,23,23,17,'And it shall come to pass at the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre; and she will return to her hire, and will commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the earth upon the face of the ground.'),(23023018,23,23,18,'And her merchandise and her hire shall be holy to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat and be sufficed, and for excellent clothing.'),(23024001,23,24,1,'Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.'),(23024002,23,24,2,'And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.'),(23024003,23,24,3,'The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.'),(23024004,23,24,4,'The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.'),(23024005,23,24,5,'And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.'),(23024006,23,24,6,'Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.'),(23024007,23,24,7,'The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;'),(23024008,23,24,8,'the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.'),(23024009,23,24,9,'They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.'),(23024010,23,24,10,'The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.'),(23024011,23,24,11,'There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone;'),(23024012,23,24,12,'desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, -- a ruin.'),(23024013,23,24,13,'For so will it be in the midst of the land among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the grape-gleanings when the vintage is done.'),(23024014,23,24,14,'These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout for the majesty of Jehovah, they shall cry aloud from the sea.'),(23024015,23,24,15,'Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.'),(23024016,23,24,16,'From the end of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous! And I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.'),(23024017,23,24,17,'Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, inhabitant of the land.'),(23024018,23,24,18,'And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the sound of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are open, and the foundations of the earth shake.'),(23024019,23,24,19,'The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is completely dissolved, the earth is violently moved.'),(23024020,23,24,20,'The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it falleth and shall not rise again.'),(23024021,23,24,21,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.'),(23024022,23,24,22,'And they shall be brought together, [as] an assemblage of prisoners for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited.'),(23024023,23,24,23,'And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients in glory.'),(23025001,23,25,1,'Jehovah, thou art my God: I will exalt thee; I will celebrate thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things; counsels of old [which are] faithfulness [and] truth.'),(23025002,23,25,2,'For thou hast made of the city a heap, of the fortified town a ruin, the palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built up.'),(23025003,23,25,3,'Therefore shall the mighty people glorify thee, the city of terrible nations shall fear thee.'),(23025004,23,25,4,'For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat: for the blast of the terrible ones [has been] as the storm [against] a wall.'),(23025005,23,25,5,'Thou hast subdued the tumult of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; [as] the heat, by the shadow of a cloud, [so] the song of the terrible ones is brought low.'),(23025006,23,25,6,'And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.'),(23025007,23,25,7,'And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the veil which veileth all the peoples, and the covering that is spread over all the nations.'),(23025008,23,25,8,'He will swallow up death in victory. And the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken.'),(23025009,23,25,9,'And it shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah, we have waited for him; we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.'),(23025010,23,25,10,'For in this mountain shall the hand of Jehovah rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is trodden down in the dunghill;'),(23025011,23,25,11,'and he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth them forth to swim; and he shall bring down their pride together with the plots of their hands.'),(23025012,23,25,12,'And the fortress of the high defences of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, bring to the ground, into the dust.'),(23026001,23,26,1,'In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation doth he appoint for walls and bulwarks.'),(23026002,23,26,2,'Open ye the gates, and the righteous nation which keepeth faithfulness shall enter in.'),(23026003,23,26,3,'Thou wilt keep in perfect peace the mind stayed [on thee], for he confideth in thee.'),(23026004,23,26,4,'Confide ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jah, Jehovah, is the rock of ages.'),(23026005,23,26,5,'For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low, he layeth it low to the ground, he bringeth it even to the dust.'),(23026006,23,26,6,'The foot shall tread it down, -- the feet of the afflicted, the steps of the poor.'),(23026007,23,26,7,'The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost make the path of the just even.'),(23026008,23,26,8,'Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul is to thy name, and to thy memorial.'),(23026009,23,26,9,'With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.'),(23026010,23,26,10,'If favour be shewn to the wicked, he doth not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he dealeth unjustly, and beholdeth not the majesty of Jehovah.'),(23026011,23,26,11,'Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, but they do not see: [yet] they shall see [thy] jealousy [for] the people, and be ashamed; yea, the fire which is for thine adversaries shall devour them.'),(23026012,23,26,12,'Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.'),(23026013,23,26,13,'Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name.'),(23026014,23,26,14,'[They are] dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall not rise: for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.'),(23026015,23,26,15,'Thou hast increased the nation, Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified. Thou hadst removed [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.'),(23026016,23,26,16,'Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out [their] whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.'),(23026017,23,26,17,'As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.'),(23026018,23,26,18,'We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.'),(23026019,23,26,19,'Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.'),(23026020,23,26,20,'Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past.'),(23026021,23,26,21,'For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.'),(23027001,23,27,1,'In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.'),(23027002,23,27,2,'In that day [there shall be] a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it:'),(23027003,23,27,3,'I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day.'),(23027004,23,27,4,'Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars [and] thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.'),(23027005,23,27,5,'Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: [yea,] let him make peace with me.'),(23027006,23,27,6,'In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.'),(23027007,23,27,7,'Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him?'),(23027008,23,27,8,'In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken [her] away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.'),(23027009,23,27,9,'By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces, -- the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand.'),(23027010,23,27,10,'For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.'),(23027011,23,27,11,'When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come [and] set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.'),(23027012,23,27,12,'And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, [ye] children of Israel.'),(23027013,23,27,13,'And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were perishing in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.'),(23028001,23,28,1,'Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious adornment, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine.'),(23028002,23,28,2,'Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, as a storm of hail [and] a destroying tempest; as a storm of mighty waters overflowing, shall he cast down to the earth with might.'),(23028003,23,28,3,'The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet;'),(23028004,23,28,4,'and the fading flower of his glorious adornment which is on the head of the fat valley shall be like an early fig before the summer: as soon as he that seeth it perceiveth it, scarcely is it in his hand, he swalloweth it down.'),(23028005,23,28,5,'In that day will Jehovah of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the remnant of his people;'),(23028006,23,28,6,'and for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.'),(23028007,23,28,7,'But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled [in] judgment.'),(23028008,23,28,8,'For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no [more] place.'),(23028009,23,28,9,'Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts?'),(23028010,23,28,10,'For [it is] precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. ...'),(23028011,23,28,11,'For with stammering lips and a strange tongue will he speak to this people;'),(23028012,23,28,12,'to whom he said, This is the rest: cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. But they would not hear.'),(23028013,23,28,13,'And the word of Jehovah was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little: that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.'),(23028014,23,28,14,'Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.'),(23028015,23,28,15,'For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.'),(23028016,23,28,16,'Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I lay for foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation: he that trusteth shall not make haste.'),(23028017,23,28,17,'And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.'),(23028018,23,28,18,'And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, ye shall be trodden down by it.'),(23028019,23,28,19,'As it passeth through it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be terror only to understand the report.'),(23028020,23,28,20,'For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.'),(23028021,23,28,21,'For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.'),(23028022,23,28,22,'Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and [one] determined, upon the whole land.'),(23028023,23,28,23,'Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.'),(23028024,23,28,24,'Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?'),(23028025,23,28,25,'Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?'),(23028026,23,28,26,'His God doth instruct him in [his] judgment, he doth teach him.'),(23028027,23,28,27,'For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but dill is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.'),(23028028,23,28,28,'Bread [corn] is crushed, because he will not ever be threshing it; and if he drove the wheels of his cart and his horses [over it], he would not crush it.'),(23028029,23,28,29,'This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, great in wisdom.'),(23029001,23,29,1,'Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city of David\'s encampment! Add ye year to year; let the feasts come round.'),(23029002,23,29,2,'But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.'),(23029003,23,29,3,'And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts against thee.'),(23029004,23,29,4,'And thou shalt be brought low, thou shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall come low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.'),(23029005,23,29,5,'And the multitude of thine enemies shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; and it shall be in an instant, suddenly.'),(23029006,23,29,6,'Thou shalt be visited by Jehovah of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.'),(23029007,23,29,7,'And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel, even all that war against her and her fortifications, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.'),(23029008,23,29,8,'It shall even be as when the hungry dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; and he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when the thirsty dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; and he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul craveth: so shall the multitude of all the nations be that war against mount Zion.'),(23029009,23,29,9,'Be astounded and astonished, blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.'),(23029010,23,29,10,'For Jehovah hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes; the prophets and your chiefs, the seers, hath he covered.'),(23029011,23,29,11,'And the whole vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.'),(23029012,23,29,12,'And they give the book to him that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read.'),(23029013,23,29,13,'And the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is removed far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught of men;'),(23029014,23,29,14,'therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid.'),(23029015,23,29,15,'Woe unto them that hide deep, far from Jehovah, their counsel! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?'),(23029016,23,29,16,'[Oh] your perverseness! -- Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?'),(23029017,23,29,17,'Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?'),(23029018,23,29,18,'And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and, out of obscurity and out of darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see;'),(23029019,23,29,19,'and the meek shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the needy among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.'),(23029020,23,29,20,'For the terrible one shall come to nought, and the scorner shall be no more, and all that watch for iniquity shall be cut off,'),(23029021,23,29,21,'that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert [the judgment of] the righteous by futility.'),(23029022,23,29,22,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now be pale;'),(23029023,23,29,23,'for when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall hallow my name, and hallow the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.'),(23029024,23,29,24,'And they that are of erring spirit shall know understanding, and the disobedient shall learn doctrine.'),(23030001,23,30,1,'Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin;'),(23030002,23,30,2,'who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked of my mouth, -- to take refuge under the protection of Pharaoh, and trust in the shadow of Egypt!'),(23030003,23,30,3,'For to you the protection of Pharaoh shall be a shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt a confusion.'),(23030004,23,30,4,'For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.'),(23030005,23,30,5,'They were all ashamed of a people [that] did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.'),(23030006,23,30,6,'-- The burden of the beasts of the south: Through a land of trouble and anguish, whence come the lioness and lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to the people that shall not profit [them].'),(23030007,23,30,7,'For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I named her, Arrogance, that doeth nothing.'),(23030008,23,30,8,'Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and record it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, as a witness for ever,'),(23030009,23,30,9,'that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;'),(23030010,23,30,10,'who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits;'),(23030011,23,30,11,'get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us!'),(23030012,23,30,12,'Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and confide in oppression and wilfulness, and depend thereon,'),(23030013,23,30,13,'therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a towering wall, whose breaking shall come suddenly in an instant.'),(23030014,23,30,14,'And he shall break it as the breaking of a potter\'s vessel, that is broken in pieces unsparingly; and in the pieces of it there shall not be found a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water out of the cistern.'),(23030015,23,30,15,'For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength; but ye would not.'),(23030016,23,30,16,'And ye said, No, but we will flee upon horses, -- therefore shall ye flee; and, We will ride upon the swift, -- therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.'),(23030017,23,30,17,'One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as a banner on a hill.'),(23030018,23,30,18,'And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up, that he may have mercy upon you; for Jehovah is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.'),(23030019,23,30,19,'For the people shall dwell in Zion, at Jerusalem. Thou shalt weep no more; he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; as he heareth it, he will answer thee.'),(23030020,23,30,20,'And the Lord will give you the bread of adversity, and the water of oppression; yet thy teachers shall not be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.'),(23030021,23,30,21,'And when ye turn to the right hand or when ye turn to the left, thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.'),(23030022,23,30,22,'And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: Out! shalt thou say unto it.'),(23030023,23,30,23,'And he will give the rain of thy seed with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the produce of the ground, and it shall be fat and rich. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;'),(23030024,23,30,24,'and the oxen and the asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.'),(23030025,23,30,25,'And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every hill that is lifted up, brooks [and] water-courses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.'),(23030026,23,30,26,'And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the wound of their stroke.'),(23030027,23,30,27,'Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning [with] his anger -- a grievous conflagration; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a consuming fire;'),(23030028,23,30,28,'and his breath as an overflowing torrent, which reacheth even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and [to put] a bridle into the jaws of the peoples, that causeth them to go astray.'),(23030029,23,30,29,'Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a feast is sanctified; and joy of heart, as of one who goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.'),(23030030,23,30,30,'And Jehovah will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and will shew the lighting down of his arm with indignation of anger, and a flame of consuming fire, with waterflood and storm and hailstones.'),(23030031,23,30,31,'For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be broken down: he will smite [him] with the rod.'),(23030032,23,30,32,'And wherever shall pass the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambours and harps; and with tumultuous battles will he fight with it.'),(23030033,23,30,33,'For Topheth is prepared of old; for the king also it is prepared: he hath made it deep and large; its pile is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.'),(23031001,23,31,1,'Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and depend on horses, and confide in chariots because [they are] many, and in horsemen because they are very strong; and who look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!'),(23031002,23,31,2,'But he also is wise, and he bringeth evil, and recalleth not his words; and he will arise against the house of evildoers, and against the help of workers of iniquity.'),(23031003,23,31,3,'And the Egyptians are men, and not ùGod, and their horses flesh, and not spirit; and Jehovah shall stretch forth his hand, and he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall perish together.'),(23031004,23,31,4,'For thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Like as the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, is not afraid of their voice, nor giveth way before the multitude of them; so will Jehovah of hosts come down to war upon mount Zion, and on the hill thereof.'),(23031005,23,31,5,'As birds with outstretched wings, so will Jehovah of hosts cover Jerusalem; covering, he will also deliver, passing over, he will rescue [it].'),(23031006,23,31,6,'Turn unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, ye children of Israel;'),(23031007,23,31,7,'for in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your sinful hands have made unto you.'),(23031008,23,31,8,'And Asshur shall fall by the sword, not of a great man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become tributary;'),(23031009,23,31,9,'and for fear, he shall pass over to his rock, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, saith Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.'),(23032001,23,32,1,'Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.'),(23032002,23,32,2,'And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the storm; as brooks of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.'),(23032003,23,32,3,'And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken;'),(23032004,23,32,4,'and the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.'),(23032005,23,32,5,'The vile man shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful:'),(23032006,23,32,6,'for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.'),(23032007,23,32,7,'The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.'),(23032008,23,32,8,'But the noble deviseth noble things; and to noble things doth he stand.'),(23032009,23,32,9,'Rise up, ye women that are at ease, hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.'),(23032010,23,32,10,'In a year and [some] days shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.'),(23032011,23,32,11,'Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins!'),(23032012,23,32,12,'They shall smite on the breasts [in lamentation] for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.'),(23032013,23,32,13,'Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles [and] briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.'),(23032014,23,32,14,'For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;'),(23032015,23,32,15,'until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.'),(23032016,23,32,16,'And judgment shall inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness dwell in the fruitful field.'),(23032017,23,32,17,'And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.'),(23032018,23,32,18,'And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.'),(23032019,23,32,19,'And it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.'),(23032020,23,32,20,'Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.'),(23033001,23,33,1,'Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and that dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.'),(23033002,23,33,2,'Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be their arm every morning, yea, our salvation in the time of trouble.'),(23033003,23,33,3,'At the noise of the tumult the peoples fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.'),(23033004,23,33,4,'And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running of locusts shall they run upon it.'),(23033005,23,33,5,'Jehovah is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness;'),(23033006,23,33,6,'and he shall be the stability of thy times, the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah shall be your treasure.'),(23033007,23,33,7,'Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the messengers of peace weep bitterly.'),(23033008,23,33,8,'The highways are desolate, the wayfaring man ceaseth. He hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.'),(23033009,23,33,9,'The land mourneth, it languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, is withered; the Sharon is become as a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped.'),(23033010,23,33,10,'Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I be exalted, now will I lift up myself.'),(23033011,23,33,11,'Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath shall devour you [as] fire.'),(23033012,23,33,12,'And the peoples shall be [as] burnings of lime, [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.'),(23033013,23,33,13,'Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might.'),(23033014,23,33,14,'The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath surprised the hypocrites: Who among us shall dwell with the consuming fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting flames?'),(23033015,23,33,15,'-- He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil:'),(23033016,23,33,16,'he shall dwell on high, the fortresses of the rocks shall be his high retreat; bread shall be given him, his water shall be sure.'),(23033017,23,33,17,'Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is far off.'),(23033018,23,33,18,'Thy heart shall meditate on terror: Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?'),(23033019,23,33,19,'Thou shalt no more see the fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst comprehend, of a stammering tongue that cannot be understood.'),(23033020,23,33,20,'Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be pulled up, neither shall any of its cords be broken;'),(23033021,23,33,21,'but there Jehovah is unto us glorious, -- a place of rivers, of broad streams: no galley with oars shall go there, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.'),(23033022,23,33,22,'For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah, our lawgiver, Jehovah, our king: he will save us.'),(23033023,23,33,23,'Thy tacklings are loosed; they strengthen not the socket of their mast, they cannot spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.'),(23033024,23,33,24,'And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven [their] iniquity.'),(23034001,23,34,1,'Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and all its fulness; the world, and all that cometh forth of it.'),(23034002,23,34,2,'For the wrath of Jehovah is against all the nations, and [his] fury against all their armies: he hath devoted them to destruction, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.'),(23034003,23,34,3,'And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.'),(23034004,23,34,4,'And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered [fruit] from the fig-tree.'),(23034005,23,34,5,'For my sword is bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to judgment.'),(23034006,23,34,6,'The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.'),(23034007,23,34,7,'And the buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.'),(23034008,23,34,8,'For it is the day of Jehovah\'s vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.'),(23034009,23,34,9,'And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:'),(23034010,23,34,10,'it shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.'),(23034011,23,34,11,'And the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he shall stretch out upon it the line of waste, and the plummets of emptiness.'),(23034012,23,34,12,'Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought.'),(23034013,23,34,13,'And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses; and it shall be a dwelling-place of wild dogs, a court for ostriches.'),(23034014,23,34,14,'And there shall the beasts of the desert meet with the jackals, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; the lilith also shall settle there, and find for herself a place of rest.'),(23034015,23,34,15,'There shall the arrow-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there also shall the vultures be gathered one with another.'),(23034016,23,34,16,'Search ye in the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall fail, one shall not have to seek for the other; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.'),(23034017,23,34,17,'For he himself hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them with the line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.'),(23035001,23,35,1,'The wilderness and the dry land shall be gladdened; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.'),(23035002,23,35,2,'It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and shouting: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God.'),(23035003,23,35,3,'Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the tottering knees.'),(23035004,23,35,4,'Say to them that are of a timid heart, Be strong, fear not; behold your God: vengeance cometh, the recompense of God! He will come himself, and save you.'),(23035005,23,35,5,'Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf be unstopped;'),(23035006,23,35,6,'then shall the lame [man] leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and torrents in the desert.'),(23035007,23,35,7,'And the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of wild dogs, where they lay down, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.'),(23035008,23,35,8,'And a highway shall be there and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness: the unclean shall not pass through it; but it shall be for these. Those that go [this] way -- even fools, -- shall not err [therein].'),(23035009,23,35,9,'No lion shall be there, nor shall ravenous beast go up thereon, nor be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there].'),(23035010,23,35,10,'And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.'),(23036001,23,36,1,'And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.'),(23036002,23,36,2,'And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a strong force. And he stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller\'s field.'),(23036003,23,36,3,'Then came forth to him Eliakim the son of Hilkijah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the chronicler.'),(23036004,23,36,4,'And Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this in which thou trustest?'),(23036005,23,36,5,'Thou sayest, but it is a word of the lips, [There is] counsel and strength for war. Now on whom dost thou rely, that thou hast revolted against me?'),(23036006,23,36,6,'Behold, thou reliest upon the staff of that broken reed, upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it goes into his hand, and pierces it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that rely upon him.'),(23036007,23,36,7,'And if thou say to me, We rely upon Jehovah our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?'),(23036008,23,36,8,'And now engage, I pray thee, with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.'),(23036009,23,36,9,'How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master\'s servants? And thou reliest upon Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!'),(23036010,23,36,10,'And now am I come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.'),(23036011,23,36,11,'And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rab-shakeh, Speak, we pray thee, to thy servants in Syriac, for we understand it; and speak not to us in the Jewish [language] in the ears of the people that are upon the wall.'),(23036012,23,36,12,'And Rab-shakeh said, Is it to thy master and to thee that my master sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own urine with you?'),(23036013,23,36,13,'And Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish [language], and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!'),(23036014,23,36,14,'Thus says the king: Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.'),(23036015,23,36,15,'Neither let Hezekiah make you rely upon Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will certainly deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'),(23036016,23,36,16,'Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me and come out to me; and eat every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink every one the waters of his own cistern;'),(23036017,23,36,17,'until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.'),(23036018,23,36,18,'Let not Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?'),(23036019,23,36,19,'Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?'),(23036020,23,36,20,'Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'),(23036021,23,36,21,'And they were silent, and answered him not a word; for the king\'s command was, saying, Answer him not.'),(23036022,23,36,22,'And Eliakim the son of Hilkijah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the chronicler, came to Hezekiah, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.'),(23037001,23,37,1,'And it came to pass when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he rent his garments, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Jehovah.'),(23037002,23,37,2,'And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.'),(23037003,23,37,3,'And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of reviling; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.'),(23037004,23,37,4,'It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.'),(23037005,23,37,5,'And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.'),(23037006,23,37,6,'And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.'),(23037007,23,37,7,'Behold, I will put a spirit into him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'),(23037008,23,37,8,'And Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.'),(23037009,23,37,9,'And he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He has come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard [it], he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,'),(23037010,23,37,10,'Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: Let not thy God, upon whom thou reliest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.'),(23037011,23,37,11,'Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?'),(23037012,23,37,12,'Have the gods of the nations which my fathers have destroyed delivered them, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Thelassar?'),(23037013,23,37,13,'Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'),(23037014,23,37,14,'And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up into the house of Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.'),(23037015,23,37,15,'And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah, saying,'),(23037016,23,37,16,'Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, who sittest [between] the cherubim, thou, the Same, thou alone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made the heavens and the earth.'),(23037017,23,37,17,'Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open, Jehovah, thine eyes, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to reproach the living God.'),(23037018,23,37,18,'Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands, and their countries,'),(23037019,23,37,19,'and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men\'s hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.'),(23037020,23,37,20,'And now, Jehovah our God, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Jehovah, thou only.'),(23037021,23,37,21,'And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,'),(23037022,23,37,22,'this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him: The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.'),(23037023,23,37,23,'Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.'),(23037024,23,37,24,'By thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; and I will enter into its furthest height, [into] the forest of its fruitful field.'),(23037025,23,37,25,'I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.'),(23037026,23,37,26,'Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.'),(23037027,23,37,27,'And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were [as] the grass of the field and the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.'),(23037028,23,37,28,'But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.'),(23037029,23,37,29,'Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.'),(23037030,23,37,30,'And this [shall be] the sign unto thee: there shall be eaten this year such as groweth of itself; and in the second year that which springeth of the same; but in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof.'),(23037031,23,37,31,'And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;'),(23037032,23,37,32,'for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that escape: the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.'),(23037033,23,37,33,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.'),(23037034,23,37,34,'By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Jehovah.'),(23037035,23,37,35,'And I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David\'s sake.'),(23037036,23,37,36,'And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.'),(23037037,23,37,37,'And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and abode at Nineveh.'),(23037038,23,37,38,'And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.'),(23038001,23,38,1,'In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.'),(23038002,23,38,2,'And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Jehovah,'),(23038003,23,38,3,'and said, Ah, Jehovah, remember, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept much.'),(23038004,23,38,4,'And the word of Jehovah came to Isaiah, saying,'),(23038005,23,38,5,'Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.'),(23038006,23,38,6,'And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.'),(23038007,23,38,7,'And this [shall be] the sign to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:'),(23038008,23,38,8,'behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which hath gone down with the sun on the dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned on the dial ten degrees, by which it had gone down.'),(23038009,23,38,9,'The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:'),(23038010,23,38,10,'I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.'),(23038011,23,38,11,'I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.'),(23038012,23,38,12,'Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd\'s tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum: -- from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.'),(23038013,23,38,13,'I kept still until the morning; ... as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.'),(23038014,23,38,14,'Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.'),(23038015,23,38,15,'What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.'),(23038016,23,38,16,'Lord, by these things [men] live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live.'),(23038017,23,38,17,'Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.'),(23038018,23,38,18,'For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.'),(23038019,23,38,19,'The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.'),(23038020,23,38,20,'Jehovah was [purposed] to save me. -- And we will play upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of Jehovah.'),(23038021,23,38,21,'Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.'),(23038022,23,38,22,'And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah?'),(23039001,23,39,1,'At that time Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.'),(23039002,23,39,2,'And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the fine oil, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found amongst his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not shew them.'),(23039003,23,39,3,'Then came the prophet Isaiah to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country to me, from Babylon.'),(23039004,23,39,4,'And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah said, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewn them.'),(23039005,23,39,5,'And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of hosts:'),(23039006,23,39,6,'Behold, days come when all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.'),(23039007,23,39,7,'And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'),(23039008,23,39,8,'And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.'),(23040001,23,40,1,'Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.'),(23040002,23,40,2,'Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her time of suffering is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of Jehovah\'s hand double for all her sins.'),(23040003,23,40,3,'The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!'),(23040004,23,40,4,'Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places a plain.'),(23040005,23,40,5,'And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.'),(23040006,23,40,6,'A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? -- All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.'),(23040007,23,40,7,'The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.'),(23040008,23,40,8,'The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever.'),(23040009,23,40,9,'O Zion, that bringest glad tidings, get thee up into a high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest glad tidings, lift up thy voice with strength: lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!'),(23040010,23,40,10,'Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with might, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.'),(23040011,23,40,11,'He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; he will gently lead those that give suck.'),(23040012,23,40,12,'Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with [his] span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?'),(23040013,23,40,13,'Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and, [as] his counsellor, hath taught him?'),(23040014,23,40,14,'With whom took he counsel, and [who] gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?'),(23040015,23,40,15,'Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.'),(23040016,23,40,16,'And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.'),(23040017,23,40,17,'All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.'),(23040018,23,40,18,'To whom then will ye liken ùGod? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?'),(23040019,23,40,19,'The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains [for it].'),(23040020,23,40,20,'He that is impoverished, so that he hath no offering, chooseth a tree that doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.'),(23040021,23,40,21,'-- Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?'),(23040022,23,40,22,'[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;'),(23040023,23,40,23,'that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.'),(23040024,23,40,24,'Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.'),(23040025,23,40,25,'To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.'),(23040026,23,40,26,'Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who hath created these things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of power, not one faileth.'),(23040027,23,40,27,'Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and my right is passed away from my God?'),(23040028,23,40,28,'Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.'),(23040029,23,40,29,'He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.'),(23040030,23,40,30,'Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;'),(23040031,23,40,31,'but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew [their] strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.'),(23041001,23,41,1,'Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us draw near together to judgment.'),(23041002,23,41,2,'Who raised up from the east him whom righteousness calleth to its foot? He gave the nations before him, and caused him to have dominion over kings; he gave them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow.'),(23041003,23,41,3,'He pursued them, he passed on in safety, by a way he had never come with his feet.'),(23041004,23,41,4,'Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first; and with the last, I [am] HE.'),(23041005,23,41,5,'The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth trembled: they drew near, and came.'),(23041006,23,41,6,'They helped every one his neighbour, and [each] said to his brother, Take courage.'),(23041007,23,41,7,'And the artizan encouraged the founder, he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that it be not moved.'),(23041008,23,41,8,'But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend'),(23041009,23,41,9,'-- thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from the extremities thereof, and to whom I said, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not rejected thee,'),(23041010,23,41,10,'-- Fear not, for I [am] with thee; be not dismayed, for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.'),(23041011,23,41,11,'Lo, all that are incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded; they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish.'),(23041012,23,41,12,'Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them -- them that contend with thee; they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.'),(23041013,23,41,13,'For I, Jehovah, thy God, hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.'),(23041014,23,41,14,'Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.'),(23041015,23,41,15,'Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;'),(23041016,23,41,16,'thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.'),(23041017,23,41,17,'The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue faileth for thirst: I, Jehovah, will answer them, [I], the God of Israel, will not forsake them.'),(23041018,23,41,18,'I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs.'),(23041019,23,41,19,'I will give in the wilderness the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oleaster; I will set in the desert the cypress, pine, and box-tree together;'),(23041020,23,41,20,'that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.'),(23041021,23,41,21,'Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, saith the King of Jacob.'),(23041022,23,41,22,'Let them bring them forward, and declare to us what shall happen: shew the former things, what they are, that we may give attention to them, and know the end of them; -- or let us hear things to come:'),(23041023,23,41,23,'declare the things that are to happen hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods; yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be astonished, and behold it together.'),(23041024,23,41,24,'Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...'),(23041025,23,41,25,'I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come, -- from the rising of the sun, he who will call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as on mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.'),(23041026,23,41,26,'Who hath declared [it] from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [It is] right? Indeed, there is none that declareth; no, none that sheweth; no, none that heareth your words.'),(23041027,23,41,27,'The first, [I said] to Zion, Behold, behold them! and to Jerusalem, I will give one that bringeth glad tidings.'),(23041028,23,41,28,'And I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, -- and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.'),(23041029,23,41,29,'Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.'),(23042001,23,42,1,'Behold my servant whom I uphold, mine elect [in whom] my soul delighteth! I will put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.'),(23042002,23,42,2,'He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.'),(23042003,23,42,3,'A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment according to truth.'),(23042004,23,42,4,'He shall not faint nor be in haste, till he have set justice in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.'),(23042005,23,42,5,'Thus saith ùGod, Jehovah, he that created the heavens and stretched them out, he that spread forth the earth and its productions, he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:'),(23042006,23,42,6,'I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will take hold of thy hand; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations,'),(23042007,23,42,7,'to open the blind eyes, to bring forth the prisoner from the prison, them that sit in darkness out of the house of restraint.'),(23042008,23,42,8,'I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.'),(23042009,23,42,9,'Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth will I cause you to hear them.'),(23042010,23,42,10,'Sing unto Jehovah a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles and their inhabitants.'),(23042011,23,42,11,'Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains:'),(23042012,23,42,12,'let them give glory unto Jehovah, and declare his praise in the islands.'),(23042013,23,42,13,'Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man, he will stir up jealousy like a man of war: he will cry, yea, he will shout; he will shew himself mighty against his enemies.'),(23042014,23,42,14,'Long time have I holden my peace; I have been still, I have restrained myself: I will cry like a woman that travaileth; I will blow and pant at once.'),(23042015,23,42,15,'I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.'),(23042016,23,42,16,'And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not, in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.'),(23042017,23,42,17,'They shall be turned back, they shall be covered with shame, that confide in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.'),(23042018,23,42,18,'-- Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.'),(23042019,23,42,19,'Who is blind, but my servant? and deaf, as my messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as he in whom I have trusted, and blind as Jehovah\'s servant,'),(23042020,23,42,20,'-- seeing many things, and thou observest not? With opened ears, he heareth not.'),(23042021,23,42,21,'Jehovah had delight [in him] for his righteousness\' sake: he hath magnified the law, and made it honourable.'),(23042022,23,42,22,'But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and hidden in prison-houses; they are become a prey, and none delivereth, -- a spoil, and none saith, Restore.'),(23042023,23,42,23,'Who among you will give ear to this, [who] will hearken and hear what is to come?'),(23042024,23,42,24,'Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, neither did they hearken unto his law.'),(23042025,23,42,25,'And he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he took it not to heart.'),(23043001,23,43,1,'But now thus saith Jehovah, that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou art mine.'),(23043002,23,43,2,'When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.'),(23043003,23,43,3,'For I [am] Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.'),(23043004,23,43,4,'Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee; and I will give men for thee, and peoples for thy life.'),(23043005,23,43,5,'Fear not, for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;'),(23043006,23,43,6,'I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the end of the earth,'),(23043007,23,43,7,'every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory: I have formed him, yea, I have made him.'),(23043008,23,43,8,'Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.'),(23043009,23,43,9,'Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them declareth this, or causeth us to hear former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, [It is] truth.'),(23043010,23,43,10,'Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] HE: before me there was no ùGod formed, neither shall there be after me.'),(23043011,23,43,11,'I, I [am] Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.'),(23043012,23,43,12,'It is I that have declared, and have saved, and have shewed, when there was no strange [god] among you; and ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, that I [am] ùGod.'),(23043013,23,43,13,'Yea, since the day was, I [am] HE, and there is none that delivereth out of my hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?'),(23043014,23,43,14,'Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.'),(23043015,23,43,15,'I [am] Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.'),(23043016,23,43,16,'Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,'),(23043017,23,43,17,'who bringeth forth chariot and horse, army and power -- they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as tow:'),(23043018,23,43,18,'-- Remember not the former things, neither consider the ancient things:'),(23043019,23,43,19,'behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste.'),(23043020,23,43,20,'The beast of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I will give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the waste, to give drink to my people, my chosen.'),(23043021,23,43,21,'This people have I formed for myself: they shall shew forth my praise.'),(23043022,23,43,22,'-- But thou hast not called upon me, Jacob; for thou hast been weary of me, O Israel:'),(23043023,23,43,23,'thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings, neither hast thou glorified me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to toil with an oblation, nor wearied thee with incense.'),(23043024,23,43,24,'Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.'),(23043025,23,43,25,'-- I, I [am] He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.'),(23043026,23,43,26,'Put me in remembrance, let us plead together; rehearse thine own [cause], that thou mayest be justified.'),(23043027,23,43,27,'Thy first father hath sinned, and thy mediators have rebelled against me.'),(23043028,23,43,28,'And I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches.'),(23044001,23,44,1,'And now hear, Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen:'),(23044002,23,44,2,'thus saith Jehovah, that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who helpeth thee, Fear not, Jacob, my servant, and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.'),(23044003,23,44,3,'For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.'),(23044004,23,44,4,'And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.'),(23044005,23,44,5,'One shall say, I am Jehovah\'s; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand: [I am] Jehovah\'s, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.'),(23044006,23,44,6,'Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I [am] the first, and I [am] the last, and beside me there is no God.'),(23044007,23,44,7,'And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? And the coming things, and those that shall happen, let them declare unto them.'),(23044008,23,44,8,'Fear not, neither be afraid. Have I not caused thee to hear from that time, and have declared it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a +God beside me? yea, there is no Rock: I know not any.'),(23044009,23,44,9,'They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; -- that they may be ashamed.'),(23044010,23,44,10,'Who hath formed a ùgod, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?'),(23044011,23,44,11,'Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; and the workmen are but men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up: they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together.'),(23044012,23,44,12,'The iron-smith [hath] a chisel, and he worketh in the coals, and he fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm; -- but he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he hath not drunk water, and he is faint.'),(23044013,23,44,13,'The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house.'),(23044014,23,44,14,'When he heweth him down cedars, he taketh also a holm-oak and a terebinth -- he chooseth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh [it] grow.'),(23044015,23,44,15,'And it shall be for a man to burn, and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; he kindleth it also, and baketh bread; he maketh also a ùgod, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.'),(23044016,23,44,16,'He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh, he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he is warm, and saith, Aha, I am become warm, I have seen the fire.'),(23044017,23,44,17,'And with the remainder thereof he maketh a ùgod, his graven image; he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my ùgod.'),(23044018,23,44,18,'They have no knowledge, and understand not; for he hath plastered their eyes, that they may not see; and their hearts, that they may not understand.'),(23044019,23,44,19,'And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten [it], and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?'),(23044020,23,44,20,'He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?'),(23044021,23,44,21,'Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant; I have formed thee: thou art my servant, Israel; thou shalt not be forgotten of me.'),(23044022,23,44,22,'I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.'),(23044023,23,44,23,'Sing, ye heavens; for Jehovah hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye mountains, the forest, and every tree therein! For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.'),(23044024,23,44,24,'Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb: I [am] Jehovah, the maker of all things; who alone stretched out the heavens, who did spread forth the earth by myself;'),(23044025,23,44,25,'-- he that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;'),(23044026,23,44,26,'that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built up, and I will raise up their ruins;'),(23044027,23,44,27,'that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;'),(23044028,23,44,28,'that saith of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure; even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.'),(23045001,23,45,1,'Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him -- and I will loose the loins of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, and the gates shall not be shut:'),(23045002,23,45,2,'I will go before thee, and make the elevated places plain; I will break in pieces the brazen doors, and cut asunder the bars of iron;'),(23045003,23,45,3,'and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places; that thou mayest know that I, Jehovah, who call thee by name, [am] the God of Israel.'),(23045004,23,45,4,'For Jacob my servant\'s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have called thee by thy name; I surnamed thee, though thou didst not know me;'),(23045005,23,45,5,'I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else; there is no God beside me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me;'),(23045006,23,45,6,'-- that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the going down, that there is none beside me. I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else;'),(23045007,23,45,7,'forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.'),(23045008,23,45,8,'Drop down, [ye] heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and with it let righteousness spring up. I, Jehovah, have created it.'),(23045009,23,45,9,'Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?'),(23045010,23,45,10,'Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What begettest thou? Or to [his] mother, What hast thou brought forth?'),(23045011,23,45,11,'Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me.'),(23045012,23,45,12,'It is I that have made the earth, and created man upon it; it is I, my hands, that have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.'),(23045013,23,45,13,'It is I that have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts.'),(23045014,23,45,14,'Thus saith Jehovah: The wealth of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall walk after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall bow down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, [saying,] Surely ùGod is in thee; and there is none else, no other God. ...'),(23045015,23,45,15,'Verily thou art a ùGod that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. ...'),(23045016,23,45,16,'They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they shall go away in confusion together, the makers of idols.'),(23045017,23,45,17,'Israel shall be saved by Jehovah with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded, unto the ages of ages.'),(23045018,23,45,18,'For thus saith Jehovah who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, he who established it, -- not as waste did he create it: he formed it to be inhabited: -- I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else.'),(23045019,23,45,19,'I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I [am] Jehovah, speaking righteousness, declaring things which are right.'),(23045020,23,45,20,'Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a ùgod that cannot save.'),(23045021,23,45,21,'Declare and bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath caused this to be heard from ancient time? [who] hath declared it long ago? Is it not I, Jehovah? And there is no God else beside me; a just ùGod and a Saviour, there is none besides me.'),(23045022,23,45,22,'Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] ùGod, and there is none else.'),(23045023,23,45,23,'I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.'),(23045024,23,45,24,'Only in Jehovah, shall one say, have I righteousness and strength. To him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.'),(23045025,23,45,25,'In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.'),(23046001,23,46,1,'Bel is bowed down, Nebo bendeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things ye carried are laid on, a burden to the weary [beast].'),(23046002,23,46,2,'They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity.'),(23046003,23,46,3,'Hearken unto me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, ye who have been borne from the belly, who have been carried from the womb:'),(23046004,23,46,4,'Even to old age, I [am] HE, and unto hoary hairs I will carry [you]: It is I that have made, and I will bear, and I will carry, and will deliver.'),(23046005,23,46,5,'To whom will ye liken me and make me equal, or compare me, that we may be like?'),(23046006,23,46,6,'-- They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a ùgod: they fall down, yea, they worship.'),(23046007,23,46,7,'They bear him on the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place; there he standeth, he doth not remove from his place: yea, one crieth unto him, and he answereth not; he saveth him not out of his trouble.'),(23046008,23,46,8,'Remember this, and shew yourselves men; call it to mind, ye transgressors.'),(23046009,23,46,9,'Remember the former things of old; for I [am] ùGod, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;'),(23046010,23,46,10,'declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;'),(23046011,23,46,11,'calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.'),(23046012,23,46,12,'Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness:'),(23046013,23,46,13,'I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay; and I will give salvation in Zion, [and] unto Israel my glory.'),(23047001,23,47,1,'Come down and sit in the dust, virgin-daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground, -- [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.'),(23047002,23,47,2,'Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:'),(23047003,23,47,3,'thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will meet none [to stay me]. ...'),(23047004,23,47,4,'Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. ...'),(23047005,23,47,5,'Sit silent, and get thee into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called, Mistress of kingdoms.'),(23047006,23,47,6,'I was wroth with my people, I polluted mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged didst thou very heavily lay thy yoke;'),(23047007,23,47,7,'and thou saidst, I shall be a mistress for ever; so that thou didst not take these things to heart, thou didst not remember the end thereof.'),(23047008,23,47,8,'And now hear this, thou voluptuous one, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thy heart, It is I, and there is none but me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know loss of children:'),(23047009,23,47,9,'yet these two things shall come upon thee in a moment, in one day, loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon thee in full measure for the multitude of thy sorceries, for the great abundance of thine enchantments.'),(23047010,23,47,10,'For thou hast confided in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath seduced thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, It is I, and there is none but me.'),(23047011,23,47,11,'But evil shall come upon thee -- thou shalt not know from whence it riseth; and mischief shall fall upon thee, which thou shalt not be able to ward off; and desolation that thou suspectest not shall come upon thee suddenly.'),(23047012,23,47,12,'Stand now with thine enchantments and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to turn them to profit, if so be thou mayest cause terror.'),(23047013,23,47,13,'Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the interpreters of the heavens, the observers of the stars, who predict according to the new moons what shall come upon thee, stand up, and save thee.'),(23047014,23,47,14,'Behold, they shall be as stubble, the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it.'),(23047015,23,47,15,'Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, they that trafficked with thee from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his own quarter; there is none to save thee.'),(23048001,23,48,1,'Hear ye this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Jehovah, and make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, nor in righteousness.'),(23048002,23,48,2,'For they are named after the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel: Jehovah of hosts is his name.'),(23048003,23,48,3,'I have declared the former things long ago; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I caused them to be heard: I wrought suddenly, and they came to pass.'),(23048004,23,48,4,'Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,'),(23048005,23,48,5,'so I have long ago declared [them] to thee; before they came to pass I caused thee to hear [them]; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, or my molten image hath commanded them.'),(23048006,23,48,6,'Thou heardest, see all this; -- and ye, will not ye declare [it]? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, and things hidden, and that thou knewest not:'),(23048007,23,48,7,'they are created now, and not long ago; and before this day thou hast not heard them, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.'),(23048008,23,48,8,'Yea, thou heardest not, yea, thou knewest not, yea, from of old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest ever deal treacherously, and thou wast called a transgressor from the womb.'),(23048009,23,48,9,'For my name\'s sake I will defer mine anger, and [for] my praise will I refrain as to thee, that I cut thee not off.'),(23048010,23,48,10,'Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.'),(23048011,23,48,11,'For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do [it]; for how should [my name] be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.'),(23048012,23,48,12,'Hearken unto me, Jacob, and [thou] Israel, my called. I [am] HE; I, the first, and I, the last.'),(23048013,23,48,13,'Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread abroad the heavens: I call unto them, they stand up together.'),(23048014,23,48,14,'All ye, gather yourselves together, and hear: which among them hath declared these things? He whom Jehovah hath loved shall execute his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.'),(23048015,23,48,15,'I, [even] I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, and his way shall be prosperous.'),(23048016,23,48,16,'Come near unto me, hear ye this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit.'),(23048017,23,48,17,'Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I [am] Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee for [thy] profit, who leadeth thee in the way that thou shouldest go.'),(23048018,23,48,18,'Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then would thy peace have been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea;'),(23048019,23,48,19,'and thy seed would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: their name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.'),(23048020,23,48,20,'Go ye forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing; declare, cause this to be heard, utter it to the end of the earth; say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob.'),(23048021,23,48,21,'And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; yea, he clave the rock, and the waters gushed out.'),(23048022,23,48,22,'There is no peace, saith Jehovah, unto the wicked.'),(23049001,23,49,1,'Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples from afar. Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.'),(23049002,23,49,2,'And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hath concealed me under the shadow of his hand, and he hath made me a polished shaft: in his quiver hath he hidden me.'),(23049003,23,49,3,'And he said unto me, Thou art my servant, Israel, in whom I will glorify myself.'),(23049004,23,49,4,'-- And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; nevertheless my judgment is with Jehovah, and my work with my God.'),(23049005,23,49,5,'And now, saith Jehovah, that formed me from the womb to be his servant, that I should bring Jacob again to him; (though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorified in the eyes of Jehovah, and my God shall be my strength;)'),(23049006,23,49,6,'-- and he saith, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; I have even given thee for a light of the nations, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.'),(23049007,23,49,7,'Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and they shall worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.'),(23049008,23,49,8,'Thus saith Jehovah: In a time of acceptance have I answered thee, and in the day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the land, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;'),(23049009,23,49,9,'saying to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare hills.'),(23049010,23,49,10,'They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them; for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, and by the springs of water will he guide them.'),(23049011,23,49,11,'And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised up.'),(23049012,23,49,12,'Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.'),(23049013,23,49,13,'Shout, ye heavens; and be joyful, thou earth; and break forth into singing, ye mountains: for Jehovah hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted ones.'),(23049014,23,49,14,'But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.'),(23049015,23,49,15,'Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee.'),(23049016,23,49,16,'Lo, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls are continually before me.'),(23049017,23,49,17,'Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.'),(23049018,23,49,18,'Lift up thine eyes round about and behold: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee. As I live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt indeed clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and bind them on as a bride doth.'),(23049019,23,49,19,'For [in] thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy destroyed land, thou shalt even now be too straitened by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.'),(23049020,23,49,20,'The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me: make room for me, that I may dwell.'),(23049021,23,49,21,'And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath borne me these, seeing I had lost my children and was desolate, an exile, and driven about? and who hath brought up these? behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'),(23049022,23,49,22,'Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in [their] bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon the shoulder.'),(23049023,23,49,23,'And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nursing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee with the face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah; for they shall not be ashamed who wait on me.'),(23049024,23,49,24,'Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? and shall he that is rightfully captive be delivered?'),(23049025,23,49,25,'For thus saith Jehovah: Even the captive of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; and I will strive with him that striveth with thee, and I will save thy children.'),(23049026,23,49,26,'And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with new wine. And all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.'),(23050001,23,50,1,'Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother\'s divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.'),(23050002,23,50,2,'Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.'),(23050003,23,50,3,'I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.'),(23050004,23,50,4,'The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.'),(23050005,23,50,5,'The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not away back.'),(23050006,23,50,6,'I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.'),(23050007,23,50,7,'But the Lord Jehovah will help me: therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.'),(23050008,23,50,8,'He is near that justifieth me: who will contend with me? let us stand together; who is mine adverse party? let him draw near unto me.'),(23050009,23,50,9,'Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.'),(23050010,23,50,10,'Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that hearkeneth to the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, -- let him confide in the name of Jehovah, and stay himself upon his God.'),(23050011,23,50,11,'Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and among the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand: ye shall lie down in sorrow.'),(23051001,23,51,1,'Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock [whence] ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye were digged.'),(23051002,23,51,2,'Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you; for I called him when he was alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.'),(23051003,23,51,3,'For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.'),(23051004,23,51,4,'Listen unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will establish my judgment for a light of the peoples.'),(23051005,23,51,5,'My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples: the isles shall wait for me, and in mine arm shall they trust.'),(23051006,23,51,6,'Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner; but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.'),(23051007,23,51,7,'Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their revilings.'),(23051008,23,51,8,'For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.'),(23051009,23,51,9,'Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, [as in] the generations of passed ages. Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, [and] pierced the monster?'),(23051010,23,51,10,'Is it not thou that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?'),(23051011,23,51,11,'So the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and sighing shall flee away.'),(23051012,23,51,12,'I, [even] I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou fearest a man that shall die, and the son of man that shall become as grass;'),(23051013,23,51,13,'and forgettest Jehovah thy Maker, who hath stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and thou art afraid continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepareth to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?'),(23051014,23,51,14,'He that is bowed down shall speedily be loosed, and he shall not die in the pit, nor shall his bread fail.'),(23051015,23,51,15,'And I am Jehovah thy God, who raiseth the sea, so that its waves roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.'),(23051016,23,51,16,'And I have put my words in thy mouth, and covered thee with the shadow of my hand, to plant the heavens, and to lay the foundations of the earth, and to say unto Zion, Thou art my people.'),(23051017,23,51,17,'Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment:'),(23051018,23,51,18,'-- there is none to guide her among all the children that she hath brought forth; neither is there any to take her by the hand of all the children that she hath brought up.'),(23051019,23,51,19,'These two [things] are come unto thee; who will bemoan thee? -- desolation and destruction, and famine and sword: how shall I comfort thee?'),(23051020,23,51,20,'Thy children have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an oryx in a net: they are full of the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.'),(23051021,23,51,21,'Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:'),(23051022,23,51,22,'thus saith thy Lord, Jehovah, and thy God, who pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I take out of thy hand the cup of bewilderment, the goblet-cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:'),(23051023,23,51,23,'and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street to them that went over.'),(23052001,23,52,1,'Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.'),(23052002,23,52,2,'Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, captive daughter of Zion.'),(23052003,23,52,3,'For thus saith Jehovah: Ye have sold yourselves for nought, and ye shall be redeemed without money.'),(23052004,23,52,4,'For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and Assyria oppressed them without cause;'),(23052005,23,52,5,'and now, what have I here, saith Jehovah, that my people hath been taken away for nought? They that rule over them make them to howl, saith Jehovah; and continually all the day is my name scorned.'),(23052006,23,52,6,'Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore [they shall know] in that day that I [am] HE, that saith, Here am I.'),(23052007,23,52,7,'How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that announceth glad tidings, that publisheth peace; that announceth glad tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!'),(23052008,23,52,8,'-- The voice of thy watchmen, they lift up the voice, they sing aloud together; for they shall see eye to eye, when Jehovah shall bring again Zion.'),(23052009,23,52,9,'Break forth, sing aloud together, waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah comforteth his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.'),(23052010,23,52,10,'Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.'),(23052011,23,52,11,'-- Depart, depart, go out from thence, touch not what is unclean; go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, that bear the vessels of Jehovah.'),(23052012,23,52,12,'For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; for Jehovah will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear-guard.'),(23052013,23,52,13,'Behold, my servant shall deal prudently; he shall be exalted and be lifted up, and be very high.'),(23052014,23,52,14,'As many were astonished at thee -- his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the children of men'),(23052015,23,52,15,'-- so shall he astonish many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for what had not been told them shall they see, and what they had not heard shall they consider.'),(23053001,23,53,1,'Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?'),(23053002,23,53,2,'For he shall grow up before him as a tender sapling, and as a root out of dry ground: he hath no form nor lordliness, and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.'),(23053003,23,53,3,'He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom [men] hide their faces; -- despised, and we esteemed him not.'),(23053004,23,53,4,'Surely *he* hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.'),(23053005,23,53,5,'But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.'),(23053006,23,53,6,'All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all.'),(23053007,23,53,7,'He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.'),(23053008,23,53,8,'He was taken from oppression and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.'),(23053009,23,53,9,'And [men] appointed his grave with the wicked, but he was with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, neither was there guile in his mouth.'),(23053010,23,53,10,'Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath subjected [him] to suffering. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.'),(23053011,23,53,11,'He shall see of [the fruit of] the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant instruct many in righteousness; and *he* shall bear their iniquities.'),(23053012,23,53,12,'Therefore will I assign him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong: because he hath poured out his soul unto death, and was reckoned with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.'),(23054001,23,54,1,'Exult, thou barren, that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and shout for joy, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.'),(23054002,23,54,2,'Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.'),(23054003,23,54,3,'For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess nations, and they shall make desolate cities to be inhabited.'),(23054004,23,54,4,'Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.'),(23054005,23,54,5,'For thy Maker is thy husband: Jehovah of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole earth shall he be called.'),(23054006,23,54,6,'For Jehovah hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and as a wife of youth, that hath been refused, saith thy God.'),(23054007,23,54,7,'For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.'),(23054008,23,54,8,'In the outpouring of wrath have I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting loving-kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer.'),(23054009,23,54,9,'For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me, since I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth: so have I sworn that I will no more be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.'),(23054010,23,54,10,'For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving-kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah, that hath mercy on thee.'),(23054011,23,54,11,'[Thou] afflicted, tossed with tempest, not comforted! Behold, I will set thy stones in antimony, and lay thy foundations with sapphires;'),(23054012,23,54,12,'and I will make thy battlements of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of precious stones.'),(23054013,23,54,13,'And all thy children [shall be] taught of Jehovah, and great shall be the peace of thy children.'),(23054014,23,54,14,'In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near thee.'),(23054015,23,54,15,'Behold, they shall surely gather together, [but] not by me: whosoever gathereth together against thee shall fall because of thee.'),(23054016,23,54,16,'Behold, it is I who have created the smith that bloweth in the fire of coal, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the destroyer to ravage.'),(23054017,23,54,17,'No weapon that is prepared against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah; and their righteousness is of me, saith Jehovah.'),(23055001,23,55,1,'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy, and eat: yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price!'),(23055002,23,55,2,'Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.'),(23055003,23,55,3,'Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.'),(23055004,23,55,4,'Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the peoples, a prince and commander to the peoples.'),(23055005,23,55,5,'Behold, thou shalt call a nation thou knowest not, and a nation [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of Jehovah thy God, and the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.'),(23055006,23,55,6,'Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.'),(23055007,23,55,7,'Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.'),(23055008,23,55,8,'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.'),(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 cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:'),(23055011,23,55,11,'so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall do that which I please, and it shall accomplish that for which I send it.'),(23055012,23,55,12,'For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.'),(23055013,23,55,13,'Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off.'),(23056001,23,56,1,'Thus saith Jehovah: Keep ye judgment and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.'),(23056002,23,56,2,'Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast to it; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.'),(23056003,23,56,3,'And let not the son of the alien, that hath joined himself to Jehovah, speak saying, Jehovah hath entirely separated me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree;'),(23056004,23,56,4,'for thus saith Jehovah: Unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,'),(23056005,23,56,5,'even unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.'),(23056006,23,56,6,'Also the sons of the alien, that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast to my covenant;'),(23056007,23,56,7,'even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar: for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.'),(23056008,23,56,8,'The Lord Jehovah, who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith: Yet will I gather [others] to him, with those of his that are gathered.'),(23056009,23,56,9,'All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, all ye beasts in the forest.'),(23056010,23,56,10,'His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:'),(23056011,23,56,11,'and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last of them:'),(23056012,23,56,12,'Come, [say they,] I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.'),(23057001,23,57,1,'The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from before the evil.'),(23057002,23,57,2,'He entereth into peace: they rest in their beds, [each one] that hath walked in his uprightness.'),(23057003,23,57,3,'But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.'),(23057004,23,57,4,'Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom do ye make a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,'),(23057005,23,57,5,'inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?'),(23057006,23,57,6,'Among the smooth [stones] of the torrent is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured out a drink-offering, thou hast offered an oblation. Shall I be comforted myself as to these things?'),(23057007,23,57,7,'Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither didst thou go up to offer sacrifice.'),(23057008,23,57,8,'Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for apart from me, thou hast uncovered thyself, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and hast made agreement with them; thou lovedst their bed, thou sawest their nakedness.'),(23057009,23,57,9,'And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst multiply thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers afar off, and didst debase thyself unto Sheol.'),(23057010,23,57,10,'Thou wast wearied by the multitude of thy ways; [but] thou saidst not, It is of no avail. Thou didst find a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not sick [of it].'),(23057011,23,57,11,'And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor taken it to heart? Have not I even of long time held my peace, and thou fearest me not?'),(23057012,23,57,12,'I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; and they shall not profit thee.'),(23057013,23,57,13,'When thou criest, let them that are gathered by thee deliver thee! But a wind shall carry them all away, a breath shall take them; but he that putteth his trust in me shall inherit the land, and possess my holy mountain.'),(23057014,23,57,14,'And it shall be said, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people.'),(23057015,23,57,15,'For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, and whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy [place], and with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.'),(23057016,23,57,16,'For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.'),(23057017,23,57,17,'For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on backslidingly in the way of his heart.'),(23057018,23,57,18,'I have seen his ways, and will heal him; and I will lead him, and will restore comforts unto him and to those of his that mourn.'),(23057019,23,57,19,'I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him [that is] afar off, and to him [that is] nigh, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him.'),(23057020,23,57,20,'But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt.'),(23057021,23,57,21,'There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.'),(23058001,23,58,1,'Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.'),(23058002,23,58,2,'Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that doeth righteousness, and hath not forsaken the ordinance of their God; they ask of me the ordinances of righteousness, they take delight in approaching to God:'),(23058003,23,58,3,'-- Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not; have afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find what pleaseth [you], and exact all your labours.'),(23058004,23,58,4,'Behold, ye have fasted for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye do not at present fast, to cause your voice to be heard on high.'),(23058005,23,58,5,'Is such the fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul, -- that he should bow down his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? Wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to Jehovah?'),(23058006,23,58,6,'Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?'),(23058007,23,58,7,'Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?'),(23058008,23,58,8,'Then shall thy light break forth as the dawn, and thy health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearguard.'),(23058009,23,58,9,'Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and the unjust speech,'),(23058010,23,58,10,'and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thine obscurity be as midday;'),(23058011,23,58,11,'and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and strengthen thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a water-spring, whose waters deceive not.'),(23058012,23,58,12,'And they [that come] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations [that have remained] from generation to generation; and thou shalt be called, Repairer of the breaches, restorer of frequented paths.'),(23058013,23,58,13,'If thou turn back thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy [day] of Jehovah, honourable; and thou honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [idle] words;'),(23058014,23,58,14,'then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah, and I will cause thee to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.'),(23059001,23,59,1,'Behold, Jehovah\'s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear;'),(23059002,23,59,2,'but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he doth not hear.'),(23059003,23,59,3,'For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:'),(23059004,23,59,4,'none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.'),(23059005,23,59,5,'They hatch serpents\' eggs, and weave the spider\'s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.'),(23059006,23,59,6,'Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.'),(23059007,23,59,7,'Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths;'),(23059008,23,59,8,'the way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made their paths crooked: whoso goeth therein knoweth not peace.'),(23059009,23,59,9,'Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness overtaketh us not: we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in obscurity.'),(23059010,23,59,10,'We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.'),(23059011,23,59,11,'We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.'),(23059012,23,59,12,'For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us; and our iniquities, we know them:'),(23059013,23,59,13,'in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.'),(23059014,23,59,14,'And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth stumbleth in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.'),(23059015,23,59,15,'And truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw [it], and it was evil in his sight that there was no judgment.'),(23059016,23,59,16,'And he saw that there was no man, and he wondered that there was no intercessor; and his arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness, it sustained him.'),(23059017,23,59,17,'And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.'),(23059018,23,59,18,'According to deeds, so will he repay: fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.'),(23059019,23,59,19,'And they shall fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and from the rising of the sun, his glory. When the adversary shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of Jehovah will lift up a banner against him.'),(23059020,23,59,20,'And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah.'),(23059021,23,59,21,'And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed\'s seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.'),(23060001,23,60,1,'Arise, shine! for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee.'),(23060002,23,60,2,'For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen on thee.'),(23060003,23,60,3,'And the nations shall walk by thy light, and kings by the brightness of thy rising.'),(23060004,23,60,4,'Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons come from afar, and thy daughters are carried upon the side.'),(23060005,23,60,5,'Then thou shalt see, and shalt be brightened, and thy heart shall throb, and be enlarged; for the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.'),(23060006,23,60,6,'A multitude of camels shall cover thee, young camels of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall publish the praises of Jehovah.'),(23060007,23,60,7,'All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall serve thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will beautify the house of my magnificence.'),(23060008,23,60,8,'Who are these that come flying as a cloud, and as doves to their dove-cotes?'),(23060009,23,60,9,'For the isles shall await me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of Jehovah thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.'),(23060010,23,60,10,'And the sons of the alien shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee. For in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.'),(23060011,23,60,11,'And thy gates shall stand open continually: (they shall not be shut day nor night,) that the wealth of the nations may be brought unto thee, and that their kings may be led [to thee].'),(23060012,23,60,12,'For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be utterly wasted.'),(23060013,23,60,13,'The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress, pine, and box-tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.'),(23060014,23,60,14,'And the children of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'),(23060015,23,60,15,'Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, so that no one went through [thee], I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy from generation to generation.'),(23060016,23,60,16,'And thou shalt suck the milk of the nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings; and thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.'),(23060017,23,60,17,'For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood bronze, and for stones iron; and I will make thine officers peace, and thy rulers righteousness.'),(23060018,23,60,18,'Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.'),(23060019,23,60,19,'The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but Jehovah shall be thine everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.'),(23060020,23,60,20,'Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for Jehovah shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.'),(23060021,23,60,21,'Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall possess the land for ever -- the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.'),(23060022,23,60,22,'The little one shall become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation: I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.'),(23061001,23,61,1,'The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound;'),(23061002,23,61,2,'to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;'),(23061003,23,61,3,'to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty should be given unto them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness: that they might be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.'),(23061004,23,61,4,'And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the places desolate from generation to generation.'),(23061005,23,61,5,'And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your vinedressers.'),(23061006,23,61,6,'But as for you, ye shall be called priests of Jehovah; it shall be said of you: Ministers of our God. Ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and into their glory shall ye enter.'),(23061007,23,61,7,'Instead of your shame [ye shall have] double; instead of confusion they shall celebrate with joy their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double; everlasting joy shall be unto them.'),(23061008,23,61,8,'For I, Jehovah, love judgment, I hate robbery with wrong; and I will give their recompence in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.'),(23061009,23,61,9,'And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are a seed that Jehovah hath blessed.'),(23061010,23,61,10,'I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with the priestly turban, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.'),(23061011,23,61,11,'For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as a garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.'),(23062001,23,62,1,'For Zion\'s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem\'s sake I will not be still, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a torch that burneth.'),(23062002,23,62,2,'And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah will name.'),(23062003,23,62,3,'And thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.'),(23062004,23,62,4,'Thou shalt no more be termed, Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed, Desolate: but thou shalt be called, My delight is in her, and thy land, Married; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.'),(23062005,23,62,5,'For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, shall thy sons marry thee; and with the joy of the bridegroom over the bride, shall thy God rejoice over thee.'),(23062006,23,62,6,'I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem; all the day and all the night they shall never hold their peace: ye that put Jehovah in remembrance, keep not silence,'),(23062007,23,62,7,'and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.'),(23062008,23,62,8,'Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, I will indeed no more give thy corn [to be] food for thine enemies; and the sons of the alien shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast laboured;'),(23062009,23,62,9,'for they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.'),(23062010,23,62,10,'Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples.'),(23062011,23,62,11,'Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.'),(23062012,23,62,12,'And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah; and thou shalt be called, The sought out, The city not forsaken.'),(23063001,23,63,1,'Who is this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red garments from Bozrah, this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? -- I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.'),(23063002,23,63,2,'-- Wherefore is redness in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?'),(23063003,23,63,3,'I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all mine apparel.'),(23063004,23,63,4,'For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed had come.'),(23063005,23,63,5,'And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: and mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.'),(23063006,23,63,6,'And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury; and their blood have I brought down to the earth.'),(23063007,23,63,7,'I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed upon us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.'),(23063008,23,63,8,'And he said, They are indeed my people, children that will not lie; and he became their Saviour.'),(23063009,23,63,9,'In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of old.'),(23063010,23,63,10,'But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them.'),(23063011,23,63,11,'But he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him,'),(23063012,23,63,12,'his glorious arm leading them by the right hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name,'),(23063013,23,63,13,'-- who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, [and] they stumbled not?'),(23063014,23,63,14,'As cattle go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah gave them rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.'),(23063015,23,63,15,'Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me?'),(23063016,23,63,16,'For thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer, from everlasting, is thy name.'),(23063017,23,63,17,'Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants\' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.'),(23063018,23,63,18,'Thy holy people have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.'),(23063019,23,63,19,'We have become [like those] over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name.'),(23064001,23,64,1,'Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, -- that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,'),(23064002,23,64,2,'-- as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence!'),(23064003,23,64,3,'When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, and the mountains flowed down at thy presence.'),(23064004,23,64,4,'Never have [men] heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor hath eye seen a God beside thee, who acteth for him that waiteth for him.'),(23064005,23,64,5,'Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved.'),(23064006,23,64,6,'And we are all become as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;'),(23064007,23,64,7,'and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our iniquities.'),(23064008,23,64,8,'And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.'),(23064009,23,64,9,'Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.'),(23064010,23,64,10,'Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.'),(23064011,23,64,11,'Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste.'),(23064012,23,64,12,'Wilt thou restrain thyself in presence of these things, Jehovah? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?'),(23065001,23,65,1,'I am sought out of them that inquired not [for me], I am found of them that sought me not; I have said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.'),(23065002,23,65,2,'I have stretched out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way not good, after their own thoughts;'),(23065003,23,65,3,'the people that provoke me to anger continually to my face, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon the bricks;'),(23065004,23,65,4,'who sit down among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat swine\'s flesh, and broth of abominable things [is in] their vessels;'),(23065005,23,65,5,'who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.'),(23065006,23,65,6,'Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,'),(23065007,23,65,7,'your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and outraged me upon the hills; and I will measure their former work into their bosom.'),(23065008,23,65,8,'Thus saith Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, and it is said, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants\' sakes, that I may not destroy [them] all.'),(23065009,23,65,9,'And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah a possessor of my mountains; and mine elect shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there.'),(23065010,23,65,10,'And the Sharon shall be a fold for flocks, and the valley of Achor a couching-place of the herds, for my people that have sought me.'),(23065011,23,65,11,'But ye who forsake Jehovah, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, and fill up mixed wine unto Meni:'),(23065012,23,65,12,'I will even assign you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down in the slaughter; because I called, and ye did not answer, I spoke, and ye did not hear; but ye did what was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delight not.'),(23065013,23,65,13,'Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, my servants shall eat, and *ye* shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, and *ye* shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, and *ye* shall be ashamed;'),(23065014,23,65,14,'behold, my servants shall sing aloud for gladness of heart, and *ye* shall cry out for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.'),(23065015,23,65,15,'And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto mine elect; for the Lord Jehovah will slay thee, and will call his servants by another name:'),(23065016,23,65,16,'so that he who blesseth himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the land shall swear by the God of truth: because the former troubles shall be forgotten, and because they shall be hidden from mine eyes.'),(23065017,23,65,17,'For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.'),(23065018,23,65,18,'But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.'),(23065019,23,65,19,'And I will rejoice over Jerusalem, and will joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.'),(23065020,23,65,20,'There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.'),(23065021,23,65,21,'And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof:'),(23065022,23,65,22,'they shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.'),(23065023,23,65,23,'They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.'),(23065024,23,65,24,'And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; while they are yet speaking, I will hear.'),(23065025,23,65,25,'The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent\'s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.'),(23066001,23,66,1,'Thus saith Jehovah: The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what is the house that ye will build unto me? and what is the place of my rest?'),(23066002,23,66,2,'Even all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith Jehovah. But to this man will I look: to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at my word.'),(23066003,23,66,3,'He that slaughtereth an ox, smiteth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, breaketh a dog\'s neck; he that offereth an oblation, [it is as] swine\'s blood; he that presenteth a memorial of incense, [is as] he that blesseth an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations,'),(23066004,23,66,4,'I also will choose their calamities, and will bring their fears upon them; because I called, and none answered, I spoke, and they did not hear, but did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delight not.'),(23066005,23,66,5,'Hear the word of Jehovah, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name\'s sake, said, Let Jehovah be glorified, and let us see your joy! but they shall be ashamed.'),(23066006,23,66,6,'A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah that rendereth recompence to his enemies!'),(23066007,23,66,7,'Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.'),(23066008,23,66,8,'Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Can a land be made to bring forth in one day? shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her sons.'),(23066009,23,66,9,'Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith Jehovah; I who cause to bring forth, shall I shut [the womb]? saith thy God.'),(23066010,23,66,10,'Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her; rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her:'),(23066011,23,66,11,'because ye shall suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; because ye shall drink out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.'),(23066012,23,66,12,'For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing torrent; and ye shall suck, ye shall be carried upon the side, and be dandled upon the knees.'),(23066013,23,66,13,'As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.'),(23066014,23,66,14,'And ye shall see [this], and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of Jehovah shall be known toward his servants, and he will have indignation toward his enemies.'),(23066015,23,66,15,'For behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.'),(23066016,23,66,16,'For by fire and by his sword will Jehovah enter into judgment with all flesh: and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.'),(23066017,23,66,17,'They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one in the midst; that eat swine\'s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall perish together, saith Jehovah.'),(23066018,23,66,18,'And I, -- their works and their thoughts [are before me]. ... [The time] cometh for the gathering of all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.'),(23066019,23,66,19,'And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow; to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory: and they shall declare my glory among the nations.'),(23066020,23,66,20,'And they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations as an oblation unto Jehovah, upon horses, and in chariots, and in covered waggons, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain, to Jerusalem, saith Jehovah, as the children of Israel bring an oblation in a clean vessel into the house of Jehovah.'),(23066021,23,66,21,'And I will also take of them for priests [and] for Levites, saith Jehovah.'),(23066022,23,66,22,'For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain.'),(23066023,23,66,23,'And it shall come to pass from new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, saith Jehovah.'),(23066024,23,66,24,'And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the  men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh.'),(24001001,24,1,1,'The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkijah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:'),(24001002,24,1,2,'to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign;'),(24001003,24,1,3,'it came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the fifth month.'),(24001004,24,1,4,'And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,'),(24001005,24,1,5,'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I hallowed thee, I appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.'),(24001006,24,1,6,'And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child.'),(24001007,24,1,7,'But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am a child; for thou shalt go to whomsoever I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.'),(24001008,24,1,8,'Be not afraid of them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith Jehovah.'),(24001009,24,1,9,'And Jehovah put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.'),(24001010,24,1,10,'See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to overthrow, to build and to plant.'),(24001011,24,1,11,'And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.'),(24001012,24,1,12,'And Jehovah said unto me, Thou hast well seen; for I am watchful over my word to perform it.'),(24001013,24,1,13,'And the word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething-pot, and its face is from the north.'),(24001014,24,1,14,'And Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north shall evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.'),(24001015,24,1,15,'For behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah, and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah:'),(24001016,24,1,16,'and I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.'),(24001017,24,1,17,'Thou, therefore, gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I shall command thee: be not dismayed at them, lest I cause thee to be dismayed before them.'),(24001018,24,1,18,'And I, behold, I appoint thee this day as a strong city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land; against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.'),(24001019,24,1,19,'And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee.'),(24002001,24,2,1,'And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,'),(24002002,24,2,2,'Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.'),(24002003,24,2,3,'Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him are guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.'),(24002004,24,2,4,'Hear the word of Jehovah, house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.'),(24002005,24,2,5,'Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain?'),(24002006,24,2,6,'And they said not, Where is Jehovah, that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a land of drought and of the shadow of death, in a land that no one passeth through, and where no man dwelleth?'),(24002007,24,2,7,'And I brought you into a fruitful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof; and ye entered and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.'),(24002008,24,2,8,'The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handled the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed against me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.'),(24002009,24,2,9,'Therefore will I yet plead with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children\'s children will I plead.'),(24002010,24,2,10,'For pass over to the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there have been such a thing.'),(24002011,24,2,11,'Hath a nation changed [its] gods? and they are no gods; -- but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.'),(24002012,24,2,12,'Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, and shudder; be amazed very much, saith Jehovah.'),(24002013,24,2,13,'For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water.'),(24002014,24,2,14,'Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why is he become a spoil?'),(24002015,24,2,15,'The young lions roared against him, they gave forth their voice, and they made his land desolate: his cities are burned, without inhabitant.'),(24002016,24,2,16,'Even the children of Noph and Tahapanes have fed on the crown of thy head.'),(24002017,24,2,17,'Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?'),(24002018,24,2,18,'And now, what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? And what hast thou to do with the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?'),(24002019,24,2,19,'Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.'),(24002020,24,2,20,'For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot.'),(24002021,24,2,21,'And I, -- I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?'),(24002022,24,2,22,'For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.'),(24002023,24,2,23,'How sayest thou, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? See thy way in the valley, acknowledge what thou hast done -- a swift dromedary traversing her ways!'),(24002024,24,2,24,'-- a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall turn her away? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.'),(24002025,24,2,25,'Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst, There is no hope; no, for I love strangers, and after them will I go.'),(24002026,24,2,26,'As a thief is ashamed when he is found, so shall the house of Israel be ashamed -- they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets --'),(24002027,24,2,27,'saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us!'),(24002028,24,2,28,'Where then are thy gods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for as the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah.'),(24002029,24,2,29,'Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.'),(24002030,24,2,30,'In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.'),(24002031,24,2,31,'O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee?'),(24002032,24,2,32,'Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.'),(24002033,24,2,33,'How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.'),(24002034,24,2,34,'Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but [it is found] upon all these.'),(24002035,24,2,35,'And thou sayest, Indeed I am innocent; his anger will turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou sayest, I have not sinned.'),(24002036,24,2,36,'Why dost thou gad about so much, and change thy way? Thou shalt also be brought to shame by Egypt, as thou wast brought to shame by Assyria.'),(24002037,24,2,37,'Thou shalt indeed go forth from her with thy hands upon thy head; for Jehovah hath rejected those thou confidest in, and thou shalt not prosper by them.'),(24003001,24,3,1,'They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man\'s, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.'),(24003002,24,3,2,'Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.'),(24003003,24,3,3,'And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot\'s forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed.'),(24003004,24,3,4,'Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?'),(24003005,24,3,5,'Will he keep [his anger] for ever? Will he preserve it perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and thou art [so] determined.'),(24003006,24,3,6,'And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.'),(24003007,24,3,7,'And I said, After she hath done all these [things], she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw [it].'),(24003008,24,3,8,'And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.'),(24003009,24,3,9,'And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.'),(24003010,24,3,10,'And even for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith Jehovah.'),(24003011,24,3,11,'And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah.'),(24003012,24,3,12,'Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah: I will not make my face dark upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah; I will not keep [anger] for ever.'),(24003013,24,3,13,'Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast turned thy ways hither and thither to the strangers under every green tree; and ye have not hearkened to my voice, saith Jehovah.'),(24003014,24,3,14,'Return, backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you, and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.'),(24003015,24,3,15,'And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.'),(24003016,24,3,16,'And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied in the land and become fruitful, in those days, saith Jehovah, they shall say no more, Ark of the covenant of Jehovah! neither shall it come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit [it]; neither shall it be done any more.'),(24003017,24,3,17,'At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem; and they shall no more walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.'),(24003018,24,3,18,'In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel; and they shall come together out of the land of the north, to the land which I caused your fathers to inherit.'),(24003019,24,3,19,'And as for me, I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee the pleasant land, the goodly inheritance of the hosts of the nations? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from following me.'),(24003020,24,3,20,'Surely [as] a woman treacherously departeth from her companion, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah.'),(24003021,24,3,21,'A voice is heard upon the heights, the weeping supplications of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.'),(24003022,24,3,22,'-- Return, backsliding children; I will heal your backslidings. ... Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.'),(24003023,24,3,23,'Truly in vain [is salvation looked for] from the hills, [and] the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.'),(24003024,24,3,24,'But shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.'),(24003025,24,3,25,'We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God.'),(24004001,24,4,1,'If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, return unto me; and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be a wanderer;'),(24004002,24,4,2,'-- and thou shalt in truth, in justice, and in righteousness swear, [As] Jehovah liveth! and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.'),(24004003,24,4,3,'For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up for you a fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.'),(24004004,24,4,4,'Circumcise yourselves for Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.'),(24004005,24,4,5,'Declare ye in Judah, and cause it to be heard in Jerusalem, and say, ... and blow the trumpet in the land, cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities.'),(24004006,24,4,6,'Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.'),(24004007,24,4,7,'The lion is come up from his thicket, the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.'),(24004008,24,4,8,'For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.'),(24004009,24,4,9,'And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.'),(24004010,24,4,10,'And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.'),(24004011,24,4,11,'At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind [cometh] from the heights in the wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for fanning, nor for cleansing.'),(24004012,24,4,12,'A wind more vehement than that shall come from me: now will I also pronounce judgments against them.'),(24004013,24,4,13,'Behold, he cometh up as clouds, and his chariots are as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are destroyed.'),(24004014,24,4,14,'Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?'),(24004015,24,4,15,'For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.'),(24004016,24,4,16,'Inform the nations; behold, make Jerusalem to hear: Besiegers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.'),(24004017,24,4,17,'As keepers of a field are they against her round about; for she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.'),(24004018,24,4,18,'Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto thee; this is thy wickedness, yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.'),(24004019,24,4,19,'My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! [Oh,] the walls of my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of war.'),(24004020,24,4,20,'Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment.'),(24004021,24,4,21,'How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the trumpet?'),(24004022,24,4,22,'For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.'),(24004023,24,4,23,'I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.'),(24004024,24,4,24,'I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently.'),(24004025,24,4,25,'I beheld, and lo, man was not, and all the fowl of the heavens were fled.'),(24004026,24,4,26,'I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before his fierce anger.'),(24004027,24,4,27,'For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.'),(24004028,24,4,28,'For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back therefrom.'),(24004029,24,4,29,'At the noise of the horsemen and bowmen, every city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken and no man dwelleth therein.'),(24004030,24,4,30,'-- And thou, wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair: [thy] lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.'),(24004031,24,4,31,'For I hear a voice, as of a woman in travail, anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion: she moaneth, she spreadeth forth her hands, [saying], Woe unto me! for my soul faileth because of murderers.'),(24005001,24,5,1,'Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broadways thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that doeth justice, that seeketh fidelity; and I will pardon it.'),(24005002,24,5,2,'And if they say, [As] Jehovah liveth! surely they swear falsely.'),(24005003,24,5,3,'Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.'),(24005004,24,5,4,'And I said, Surely these are the wretched ones, they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.'),(24005005,24,5,5,'I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God; but these have altogether broken the yoke, have burst the bonds.'),(24005006,24,5,6,'Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall waste them; the leopard lurketh against their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces: for their transgressions are multiplied, their backslidings are increased.'),(24005007,24,5,7,'Wherefore should I pardon thee? Thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not God. I have satiated them, and they have committed adultery, and they troop to the harlots\' house.'),(24005008,24,5,8,'[As] well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour\'s wife.'),(24005009,24,5,9,'Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah, and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?'),(24005010,24,5,10,'Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements, for they are not Jehovah\'s.'),(24005011,24,5,11,'For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.'),(24005012,24,5,12,'They have denied Jehovah, and say, He is not; and evil shall not come upon us, nor shall we see sword nor famine;'),(24005013,24,5,13,'and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.'),(24005014,24,5,14,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.'),(24005015,24,5,15,'Behold, I bring a nation upon you from afar, house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest thou what they say.'),(24005016,24,5,16,'Their quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty men.'),(24005017,24,5,17,'And they shall eat up thy harvest and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall destroy with the sword thy strong cities, wherein thou trustedst.'),(24005018,24,5,18,'Nevertheless in those days, saith Jehovah, I will not make a full end with you.'),(24005019,24,5,19,'And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say to them, As ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'),(24005020,24,5,20,'Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,'),(24005021,24,5,21,'Hear now this, O foolish and heartless people, who have eyes and see not; who have ears, and hear not.'),(24005022,24,5,22,'Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it?'),(24005023,24,5,23,'But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart; they have turned aside and are gone.'),(24005024,24,5,24,'And they say not in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the early and the latter, in its season; who preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of harvest.'),(24005025,24,5,25,'Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden from you what is good.'),(24005026,24,5,26,'For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.'),(24005027,24,5,27,'As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.'),(24005028,24,5,28,'They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge.'),(24005029,24,5,29,'Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?'),(24005030,24,5,30,'An appalling and horrible thing is committed in the land:'),(24005031,24,5,31,'the prophets prophesy falsehood, and the priests rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so. But what will ye do in the end thereof?'),(24006001,24,6,1,'Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a signal in Beth-haccerem; for evil appeareth out of the north, and a great destruction.'),(24006002,24,6,2,'The comely and delicate one do I cut off, the daughter of Zion.'),(24006003,24,6,3,'Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.'),(24006004,24,6,4,'Prepare war against her. Arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day hath declined, for the shadows of the evening are lengthening.'),(24006005,24,6,5,'Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.'),(24006006,24,6,6,'For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said: Hew ye down trees, and cast a mound against Jerusalem. She is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.'),(24006007,24,6,7,'As a well poureth forth her waters, so she poureth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction are heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.'),(24006008,24,6,8,'Be thou instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.'),(24006009,24,6,9,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean like a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back thy hand, as a grape-gatherer unto the baskets.'),(24006010,24,6,10,'To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.'),(24006011,24,6,11,'And I am full of the fury of Jehovah, I am weary with holding in. Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken; the aged with him [that is] full of days.'),(24006012,24,6,12,'And their houses shall be turned unto others, [their] fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.'),(24006013,24,6,13,'For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely.'),(24006014,24,6,14,'And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace.'),(24006015,24,6,15,'Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they what it is to blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.'),(24006016,24,6,16,'Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].'),(24006017,24,6,17,'Also I have set watchmen over you: -- Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.'),(24006018,24,6,18,'Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O assembly, what is among them.'),(24006019,24,6,19,'Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, the fruit of their thoughts; for they have not hearkened unto my words, and as to my law, they have rejected it.'),(24006020,24,6,20,'To what purpose should there come to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing unto me.'),(24006021,24,6,21,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall over them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.'),(24006022,24,6,22,'Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation is stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.'),(24006023,24,6,23,'They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as a man for the battle, against thee, daughter of Zion.'),(24006024,24,6,24,'We have heard the report thereof: our hands are grown feeble; anguish hath taken hold of us, pain as of a woman that travaileth.'),(24006025,24,6,25,'Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for [there is] the sword of the enemy, terror is on every side.'),(24006026,24,6,26,'Daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make mourning, [as] for an only son -- bitter lamentation; for the spoiler cometh suddenly upon us.'),(24006027,24,6,27,'I have set thee among my people as an assayer, a fortress, that thou mayest know and try their way.'),(24006028,24,6,28,'They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.'),(24006029,24,6,29,'The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.'),(24006030,24,6,30,'Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.'),(24007001,24,7,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24007002,24,7,2,'Stand in the gate of Jehovah\'s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah.'),(24007003,24,7,3,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.'),(24007004,24,7,4,'Confide ye not in words of falsehood, saying, Jehovah\'s temple, Jehovah\'s temple, Jehovah\'s temple is this.'),(24007005,24,7,5,'But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour,'),(24007006,24,7,6,'[if] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;'),(24007007,24,7,7,'then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for ever.'),(24007008,24,7,8,'Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit.'),(24007009,24,7,9,'What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not ...'),(24007010,24,7,10,'then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered, -- in order to do all these abominations!'),(24007011,24,7,11,'Is this house, which is called by my name, a den of robbers in your eyes? Even I, behold, I have seen it, saith Jehovah.'),(24007012,24,7,12,'For go now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel.'),(24007013,24,7,13,'And now, because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, and ye heard not, and I called you, and ye answered not;'),(24007014,24,7,14,'I will even do unto the house which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh;'),(24007015,24,7,15,'and I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.'),(24007016,24,7,16,'And thou, pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, and make not intercession to me; for I will not hear thee.'),(24007017,24,7,17,'Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?'),(24007018,24,7,18,'The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.'),(24007019,24,7,19,'Is it I whom they provoke to anger? saith Jehovah; is it not themselves, to the shame of their own face?'),(24007020,24,7,20,'Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place; upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.'),(24007021,24,7,21,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.'),(24007022,24,7,22,'For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt;'),(24007023,24,7,23,'but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'),(24007024,24,7,24,'But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.'),(24007025,24,7,25,'Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt, unto this day, have I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them;'),(24007026,24,7,26,'but they have not hearkened unto me, nor inclined their ear; and they have hardened their neck: they have done worse than their fathers.'),(24007027,24,7,27,'And thou shalt speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken unto thee; and thou shalt call unto them, but they will not answer thee.'),(24007028,24,7,28,'And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation which hath not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received correction; fidelity is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.'),(24007029,24,7,29,'Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'),(24007030,24,7,30,'For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith Jehovah; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.'),(24007031,24,7,31,'And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither did it come up into my mind.'),(24007032,24,7,32,'Therefore, behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when it shall no more be said, Topheth, and Valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place.'),(24007033,24,7,33,'And the carcases of this people shall be food for the fowl of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall scare [them] away.'),(24007034,24,7,34,'And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.'),(24008001,24,8,1,'At that time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring forth the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;'),(24008002,24,8,2,'and they shall spread them out to the sun and to the moon and to all the host of the heavens, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the ground.'),(24008003,24,8,3,'And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, in all the places whither I have driven those that remain, saith Jehovah of hosts.'),(24008004,24,8,4,'And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Do [men] fall, and not rise up? Doth one turn away, and not return?'),(24008005,24,8,5,'Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.'),(24008006,24,8,6,'I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle.'),(24008007,24,8,7,'Even a stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of Jehovah.'),(24008008,24,8,8,'How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? Behold, certainly the lying pen of the scribes hath made it falsehood.'),(24008009,24,8,9,'The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected Jehovah\'s word; and what wisdom is in them?'),(24008010,24,8,10,'Therefore will I give their wives unto others, their fields to those that shall possess [them]; for every one, from the least even unto the greatest, is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely.'),(24008011,24,8,11,'And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace.'),(24008012,24,8,12,'Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.'),(24008013,24,8,13,'I will utterly take them away, saith Jehovah: there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree; and the leaf is faded: and I will give them up to those that shall pass over them.'),(24008014,24,8,14,'Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities, and let us be silent there: for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.'),(24008015,24,8,15,'Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.'),(24008016,24,8,16,'The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: the whole land trembleth at the sound of the neighing of his steeds, and they come, and devour the land, and all it contains, the city and those that dwell therein.'),(24008017,24,8,17,'For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.'),(24008018,24,8,18,'My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!'),(24008019,24,8,19,'Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?'),(24008020,24,8,20,'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'),(24008021,24,8,21,'-- For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.'),(24008022,24,8,22,'Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?'),(24009001,24,9,1,'Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!'),(24009002,24,9,2,'Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller\'s lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.'),(24009003,24,9,3,'And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.'),(24009004,24,9,4,'Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.'),(24009005,24,9,5,'And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.'),(24009006,24,9,6,'Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.'),(24009007,24,9,7,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else could I do for the daughter of my people?'),(24009008,24,9,8,'Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. [A man] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth his ambush.'),(24009009,24,9,9,'Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?'),(24009010,24,9,10,'For the mountains will I take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.'),(24009011,24,9,11,'And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.'),(24009012,24,9,12,'Who is a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished, burnt up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?'),(24009013,24,9,13,'And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not hearkened unto my voice, nor walked in it,'),(24009014,24,9,14,'but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;'),(24009015,24,9,15,'therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink,'),(24009016,24,9,16,'and will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.'),(24009017,24,9,17,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;'),(24009018,24,9,18,'and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.'),(24009019,24,9,19,'For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.'),(24009020,24,9,20,'Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation.'),(24009021,24,9,21,'For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.'),(24009022,24,9,22,'Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Yea, the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the reaper, and there shall be none to gather.'),(24009023,24,9,23,'Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches:'),(24009024,24,9,24,'but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] Jehovah, who exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah.'),(24009025,24,9,25,'Behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when I will visit all [them that are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;'),(24009026,24,9,26,'Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their beard] cut off, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.'),(24010001,24,10,1,'Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of Israel.'),(24010002,24,10,2,'Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.'),(24010003,24,10,3,'For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;'),(24010004,24,10,4,'they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.'),(24010005,24,10,5,'They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.'),(24010006,24,10,6,'There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.'),(24010007,24,10,7,'Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.'),(24010008,24,10,8,'But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.'),(24010009,24,10,9,'Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful [men].'),(24010010,24,10,10,'But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.'),(24010011,24,10,11,'Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.'),(24010012,24,10,12,'He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.'),(24010013,24,10,13,'When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.'),(24010014,24,10,14,'Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.'),(24010015,24,10,15,'They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.'),(24010016,24,10,16,'The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.'),(24010017,24,10,17,'Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortress.'),(24010018,24,10,18,'For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.'),(24010019,24,10,19,'Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is [my] grief, and I will bear it.'),(24010020,24,10,20,'My tent is despoiled, and all my cords are broken; my children are gone forth from me, and they are not; there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.'),(24010021,24,10,21,'For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their flock is scattered.'),(24010022,24,10,22,'The voice of a rumour! Behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.'),(24010023,24,10,23,'I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.'),(24010024,24,10,24,'Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.'),(24010025,24,10,25,'Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.'),(24011001,24,11,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24011002,24,11,2,'Hear ye the words of this covenant; and speak ye unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(24011003,24,11,3,'And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant'),(24011004,24,11,4,'which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Hearken unto my voice and do them, according to all that I command you; so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:'),(24011005,24,11,5,'that I may perform the oath that I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said, Amen, Jehovah!'),(24011006,24,11,6,'And Jehovah said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.'),(24011007,24,11,7,'For I earnestly protested unto your fathers, in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Hearken unto my voice.'),(24011008,24,11,8,'But they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, but have walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart; and I have brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do, and they have not done.'),(24011009,24,11,9,'And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(24011010,24,11,10,'They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.'),(24011011,24,11,11,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will bring evil upon them, from which they shall not be able to escape; and they will cry unto me, and I will not hearken unto them.'),(24011012,24,11,12,'Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom they have burned incense; but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.'),(24011013,24,11,13,'For [as] the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah; and [as] the number of the streets of Jerusalem, have ye set up altars to the Shame, altars to burn incense unto Baal.'),(24011014,24,11,14,'And thou, pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.'),(24011015,24,11,15,'What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing that the more part practise their evil devices, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? When thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.'),(24011016,24,11,16,'Jehovah had called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair, of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and its branches are broken.'),(24011017,24,11,17,'For Jehovah of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done for themselves, to provoke me to anger in burning incense unto Baal.'),(24011018,24,11,18,'And Jehovah hath given me knowledge, and I know [it]; then thou shewedst me their doings.'),(24011019,24,11,19,'And I was like a tame lamb [that] is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, [saying,] Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.'),(24011020,24,11,20,'But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.'),(24011021,24,11,21,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand,'),(24011022,24,11,22,'-- therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;'),(24011023,24,11,23,'and there shall be no remnant of them; for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.'),(24012001,24,12,1,'Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of [thy] judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?'),(24012002,24,12,2,'Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.'),(24012003,24,12,3,'But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.'),(24012004,24,12,4,'How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of all the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts and the birds perish; for they say, He will not see our end.'),(24012005,24,12,5,'If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou then contend with horses? And if in a land of peace thou thinkest thyself in security, how wilt thou then do in the swelling of the Jordan?'),(24012006,24,12,6,'For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak good [words] unto thee.'),(24012007,24,12,7,'I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage, I have given the beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.'),(24012008,24,12,8,'My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest; it hath raised its voice against me: therefore have I hated it.'),(24012009,24,12,9,'My heritage is unto me [as] a speckled bird of prey; the birds of prey round about are against her. Go, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.'),(24012010,24,12,10,'Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness:'),(24012011,24,12,11,'they have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourneth unto me: the whole land is made desolate, for no man layeth it to heart.'),(24012012,24,12,12,'Spoilers are come upon all heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah devoureth from one end of the land even to the [other] end of the land: no flesh hath peace.'),(24012013,24,12,13,'They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, [and] do not profit. Be ye therefore ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.'),(24012014,24,12,14,'Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.'),(24012015,24,12,15,'And it shall come to pass, after I have plucked them up, I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land.'),(24012016,24,12,16,'And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, [As] Jehovah liveth -- even as they taught my people to swear by Baal -- they shall be built up in the midst of my people.'),(24012017,24,12,17,'And if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith Jehovah.'),(24013001,24,13,1,'Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go and buy thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins; but dip it not in water.'),(24013002,24,13,2,'And I bought a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.'),(24013003,24,13,3,'And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second time, saying,'),(24013004,24,13,4,'Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.'),(24013005,24,13,5,'So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah had commanded me.'),(24013006,24,13,6,'And it came to pass at the end of many days, that Jehovah said unto me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence which I commanded thee to hide there.'),(24013007,24,13,7,'And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and behold, the girdle was spoiled, it was good for nothing.'),(24013008,24,13,8,'And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,'),(24013009,24,13,9,'Thus saith Jehovah: After this manner will I spoil the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.'),(24013010,24,13,10,'This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle which is good for nothing.'),(24013011,24,13,11,'For as a girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.'),(24013012,24,13,12,'And thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Every skin shall be filled with wine. And they will say unto thee, Do we not very well know that every skin shall be filled with wine?'),(24013013,24,13,13,'And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings that sit for David upon his throne, and the priests and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.'),(24013014,24,13,14,'And I will dash them one against another, both the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah; I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy so as not to destroy them.'),(24013015,24,13,15,'Hear ye, and give ear, be not lifted up; for Jehovah hath spoken.'),(24013016,24,13,16,'Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make [it] gross darkness.'),(24013017,24,13,17,'And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah\'s flock is gone into captivity.'),(24013018,24,13,18,'Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your magnificence.'),(24013019,24,13,19,'The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open [them]; all Judah is carried away captive: it is wholly carried away captive.'),(24013020,24,13,20,'Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?'),(24013021,24,13,21,'What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee, since thou thyself hast trained them to be princes in chief over thee? Shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?'),(24013022,24,13,22,'And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, [and] thy heels have suffered violence.'),(24013023,24,13,23,'Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? [Then] may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.'),(24013024,24,13,24,'And I will scatter them as stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.'),(24013025,24,13,25,'This shall be thy lot, thy measured portion from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and confided in falsehood.'),(24013026,24,13,26,'Therefore will I also turn thy skirts over thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.'),(24013027,24,13,27,'Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy fornication, on the hills, in the fields, -- thine abominations, have I seen. Woe unto thee, Jerusalem! Wilt thou not be made clean? after how long a time yet?'),(24014001,24,14,1,'The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.'),(24014002,24,14,2,'Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goeth up.'),(24014003,24,14,3,'And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads.'),(24014004,24,14,4,'Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the ploughmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.'),(24014005,24,14,5,'For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh [its young], because there is no grass.'),(24014006,24,14,6,'And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.'),(24014007,24,14,7,'Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou act for thy name\'s sake; for our backslidings are many -- we have sinned against thee.'),(24014008,24,14,8,'Thou hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveller that turneth aside to stay a night?'),(24014009,24,14,9,'Why wilt thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name: leave us not.'),(24014010,24,14,10,'Thus saith Jehovah to this people: Even so have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet; and Jehovah hath no delight in them: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.'),(24014011,24,14,11,'And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.'),(24014012,24,14,12,'When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer up burnt-offering and oblation, I will not accept them: for I will consume them by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence.'),(24014013,24,14,13,'And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; for I will give you assured peace in this place.'),(24014014,24,14,14,'And Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy falsehood in my name; I have not sent them, neither have I commanded them, nor spoken unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.'),(24014015,24,14,15,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, and who say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and by famine shall those prophets be consumed;'),(24014016,24,14,16,'and the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword; and there shall be none to bury them, them, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters; and I will pour their wickedness upon them.'),(24014017,24,14,17,'And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears, night and day, and not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.'),(24014018,24,14,18,'If I go forth into the field, behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, behold them that pine away with famine! For both prophet and priest shall go about into a land that they know not.'),(24014019,24,14,19,'-- Hast thou then utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? Peace is looked for, and there is no good, -- and a time of healing, and behold terror!'),(24014020,24,14,20,'Jehovah, we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.'),(24014021,24,14,21,'For thy name\'s sake, do not spurn [us], do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.'),(24014022,24,14,22,'Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou HE, Jehovah, our God? And we wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things.'),(24015001,24,15,1,'And Jehovah said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my soul [would] not [turn] toward this people. Send [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.'),(24015002,24,15,2,'And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.'),(24015003,24,15,3,'For I will visit them with four kinds [of punishments], saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and dogs to tear, and the fowl of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.'),(24015004,24,15,4,'And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.'),(24015005,24,15,5,'For who shall have pity upon thee, Jerusalem? and who shall bemoan thee? and who shall turn aside to ask after thy welfare?'),(24015006,24,15,6,'Thou hast cast me off, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward; and I have stretched out my hand against thee, and will destroy thee: I am become weary of repenting.'),(24015007,24,15,7,'And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave of children [and] destroy my people: they have not returned from their ways.'),(24015008,24,15,8,'Their widows are increased to me more than the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a spoiler at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall upon her suddenly.'),(24015009,24,15,9,'She that hath borne seven languisheth, she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it is yet day; she is put to shame and confounded. And the residue of them will I give up to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.'),(24015010,24,15,10,'Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.'),(24015011,24,15,11,'Jehovah said, Verily I will set thee free for [thy] good; verily I will cause the enemy to meet thee kindly in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.'),(24015012,24,15,12,'Will iron break? iron from the north? and bronze?'),(24015013,24,15,13,'Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, and in all thy borders;'),(24015014,24,15,14,'and I will make [them] to pass with thine enemies into a land that thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger; it shall burn upon you.'),(24015015,24,15,15,'Jehovah, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; in thy long-suffering take me not away: know that for thy sake I bear reproach.'),(24015016,24,15,16,'Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy words were unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.'),(24015017,24,15,17,'I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.'),(24015018,24,15,18,'Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? It refuseth to be healed. Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a treacherous [spring], [as] waters that fail?'),(24015019,24,15,19,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah: If thou return, then will I bring thee again, thou shalt stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. Let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.'),(24015020,24,15,20,'And I will make thee unto this people a strong brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee, to save thee and to deliver thee, saith Jehovah;'),(24015021,24,15,21,'yea, I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.'),(24016001,24,16,1,'And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,'),(24016002,24,16,2,'Thou shalt not take thee a wife, and thou shalt not have sons nor daughters in this place.'),(24016003,24,16,3,'For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bear them, and concerning their fathers that beget them in this land:'),(24016004,24,16,4,'They shall die of painful deaths; they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground, and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine, and their carcases shall be food for the fowl of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.'),(24016005,24,16,5,'For thus saith Jehovah: Enter not into the house of wailing, neither go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, the loving-kindness and the tender mercies.'),(24016006,24,16,6,'Both great and small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried; and none shall lament for them, or cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.'),(24016007,24,16,7,'Nor shall they break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall they give them the cup of consolations to drink for their father or for their mother.'),(24016008,24,16,8,'And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, to eat and to drink.'),(24016009,24,16,9,'For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.'),(24016010,24,16,10,'And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt declare unto this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? and what is our iniquity? and what is our sin which we have committed against Jehovah our God?'),(24016011,24,16,11,'then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;'),(24016012,24,16,12,'and you, ye have done still worse than your fathers; and there ye are walking every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, not to hearken unto me:'),(24016013,24,16,13,'and I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land that ye know not, ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night: because I will shew you no favour.'),(24016014,24,16,14,'Therefore, behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, [As] Jehovah liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;'),(24016015,24,16,15,'but, [As] Jehovah liveth, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them. For I will bring them again into their land, which I gave unto their fathers.'),(24016016,24,16,16,'Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them, from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.'),(24016017,24,16,17,'For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not concealed from my face, neither is their iniquity hidden from before mine eyes.'),(24016018,24,16,18,'But first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have profaned my land with the carcases of their detestable things, and with their abominations have they filled mine inheritance.'),(24016019,24,16,19,'Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of distress, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited falsehood [and] vanity; and in these things there is no profit.'),(24016020,24,16,20,'Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no-gods?'),(24016021,24,16,21,'Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Jehovah.'),(24017001,24,17,1,'The sin of Judah is written with a style of iron, with the point of a diamond, engraven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;'),(24017002,24,17,2,'whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherahs, by the green trees, upon the high hills.'),(24017003,24,17,3,'My mountain in the field, thy substance, all thy treasures will I give for a spoil, -- thy high places, because of sin throughout thy borders.'),(24017004,24,17,4,'And of thyself thou shalt let go thine inheritance which I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in a land that thou knowest not; for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, -- it shall burn for ever.'),(24017005,24,17,5,'Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.'),(24017006,24,17,6,'And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.'),(24017007,24,17,7,'Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is.'),(24017008,24,17,8,'For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit.'),(24017009,24,17,9,'The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?'),(24017010,24,17,10,'I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.'),(24017011,24,17,11,'[As] the partridge sitteth on [eggs] it hath not laid, [so] is he that getteth riches and not by right: in the midst of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.'),(24017012,24,17,12,'A throne of glory, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.'),(24017013,24,17,13,'Thou hope of Israel, Jehovah! all that forsake thee shall be ashamed. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth; because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.'),(24017014,24,17,14,'Heal me, Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.'),(24017015,24,17,15,'Behold, these say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it then come!'),(24017016,24,17,16,'But as for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd in following thee, neither have I desired the fatal day, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.'),(24017017,24,17,17,'Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the day of evil.'),(24017018,24,17,18,'Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and break them with a double breaking.'),(24017019,24,17,19,'Thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;'),(24017020,24,17,20,'and say unto them, Hear the word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates;'),(24017021,24,17,21,'thus saith Jehovah: Take heed to your souls, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, and bring nothing in through the gates of Jerusalem;'),(24017022,24,17,22,'and carry forth no burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work; but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers,'),(24017023,24,17,23,'but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but hardened their neck, that they might not hear nor receive instruction.'),(24017024,24,17,24,'And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, and to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;'),(24017025,24,17,25,'then shall there enter in, through the gates of this city, kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.'),(24017026,24,17,26,'And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the south, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and oblations, and incense, and bringing thanksgiving unto the house of Jehovah.'),(24017027,24,17,27,'But if ye will not hearken unto me, to hallow the sabbath day and not to bear a burden and enter in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.'),(24018001,24,18,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24018002,24,18,2,'Arise and go down to the potter\'s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.'),(24018003,24,18,3,'And I went down to the potter\'s house; and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.'),(24018004,24,18,4,'And the vessel that he made was marred, as clay, in the hand of the potter; and he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make.'),(24018005,24,18,5,'And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,'),(24018006,24,18,6,'House of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter\'s hand, so are ye in my hand, house of Israel.'),(24018007,24,18,7,'At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy,'),(24018008,24,18,8,'if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.'),(24018009,24,18,9,'And at the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant,'),(24018010,24,18,10,'if it do evil in my sight, that it hearken not unto my voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them.'),(24018011,24,18,11,'And now, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I prepare evil against you, and devise a device against you: turn ye then every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.'),(24018012,24,18,12,'But they say, There is no hope; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will each one do [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'),(24018013,24,18,13,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, Who hath heard such things? The virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.'),(24018014,24,18,14,'Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the field? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried up?'),(24018015,24,18,15,'For my people hath forgotten me: they burn incense to vanity; and they have caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient paths, to walk in by-paths of a way not cast up;'),(24018016,24,18,16,'to make their land an astonishment, a perpetual hissing: every one that passeth by shall be astonished, and shake his head.'),(24018017,24,18,17,'As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.'),(24018018,24,18,18,'And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.'),(24018019,24,18,19,'Jehovah, give heed to me, and listen to the voice of those that contend with me.'),(24018020,24,18,20,'Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.'),(24018021,24,18,21,'Therefore give up their children to the famine, and deliver them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of children and be widows; and let their men be swept off by death, their young men be smitten by the sword in battle.'),(24018022,24,18,22,'Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.'),(24018023,24,18,23,'And thou, Jehovah, knowest all their counsel against me to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee: deal with them in the time of thine anger.'),(24019001,24,19,1,'Thus saith Jehovah: Go and buy a potter\'s earthen flagon, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;'),(24019002,24,19,2,'and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the pottery-gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,'),(24019003,24,19,3,'and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle;'),(24019004,24,19,4,'because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place [from me], and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;'),(24019005,24,19,5,'and they have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire as burnt-offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it up into my mind:'),(24019006,24,19,6,'therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor Valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter.'),(24019007,24,19,7,'And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life, and their carcases will I give as food to the fowl of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.'),(24019008,24,19,8,'And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing; every one that passeth by shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.'),(24019009,24,19,9,'And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the straitness wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.'),(24019010,24,19,10,'And thou shalt break the flagon in the sight of the men that go with thee,'),(24019011,24,19,11,'and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter\'s vessel, that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.'),(24019012,24,19,12,'Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, and make this city as Topheth.'),(24019013,24,19,13,'And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as the place of Topheth, defiled, all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.'),(24019014,24,19,14,'And Jeremiah came from Topheth, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah\'s house, and said to all the people,'),(24019015,24,19,15,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her cities all the evil that I have spoken against it; for they have hardened their necks, not to hear my words.'),(24020001,24,20,1,'And Pashur the son of Immer, the priest -- and he was chief officer in the house of Jehovah -- heard Jeremiah prophesy these things.'),(24020002,24,20,2,'And Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.'),(24020003,24,20,3,'And it came to pass the next day, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks; and Jeremiah said unto him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.'),(24020004,24,20,4,'For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall see [it]; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall smite them with the sword.'),(24020005,24,20,5,'And, I will give all the wealth of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah, will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.'),(24020006,24,20,6,'And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there thou shalt be buried, thou and all thy friends to whom thou hast prophesied falsehood.'),(24020007,24,20,7,'Jehovah, thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed; thou hast laid hold of me, and hast prevailed; I am become a derision the whole day: every one mocketh me.'),(24020008,24,20,8,'For as oft as I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and spoil; for the word of Jehovah is become unto me a reproach and a derision all the day.'),(24020009,24,20,9,'And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: but it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I became wearied with holding in, and I could not.'),(24020010,24,20,10,'For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side: Report, and we will report it. All my familiars are watching for my stumbling: Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him; and we shall take our revenge on him.'),(24020011,24,20,11,'But Jehovah is with me as a mighty terrible one; therefore my persecutors shall stumble and shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed, for they have not prospered: it shall be an everlasting confusion that shall not be forgotten.'),(24020012,24,20,12,'And thou, Jehovah of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.'),(24020013,24,20,13,'Sing ye unto Jehovah, praise Jehovah, for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.'),(24020014,24,20,14,'Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!'),(24020015,24,20,15,'Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad!'),(24020016,24,20,16,'And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday,'),(24020017,24,20,17,'because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!'),(24020018,24,20,18,'Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?'),(24021001,24,21,1,'The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,'),(24021002,24,21,2,'Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that Jehovah will deal with us according to all his marvellous works, that he may go up from us.'),(24021003,24,21,3,'And Jeremiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:'),(24021004,24,21,4,'Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you, outside the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.'),(24021005,24,21,5,'And I myself will fight against you with a stretched-out hand, and with a strong arm, and in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.'),(24021006,24,21,6,'And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.'),(24021007,24,21,7,'And afterwards, saith Jehovah, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life, and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword: he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.'),(24021008,24,21,8,'And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.'),(24021009,24,21,9,'He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth out, and deserteth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.'),(24021010,24,21,10,'For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith Jehovah: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.'),(24021011,24,21,11,'And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear ye the word of Jehovah.'),(24021012,24,21,12,'House of David, thus saith Jehovah: Judge with justice in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.'),(24021013,24,21,13,'Behold, I am against thee, inhabitress of the valley, the rock of the plain, saith Jehovah; ye that say, Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter into our dwellings?'),(24021014,24,21,14,'And I will visit you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.'),(24022001,24,22,1,'Thus saith Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,'),(24022002,24,22,2,'and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people who enter in through these gates.'),(24022003,24,22,3,'Thus saith Jehovah: Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place.'),(24022004,24,22,4,'For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in through the gates of this house kings sitting in the place of David upon his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, -- he, and his servants, and his people.'),(24022005,24,22,5,'But if ye will not hear these words, I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a waste.'),(24022006,24,22,6,'For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art a Gilead unto me, the summit of Lebanon: verily I will make thee a wilderness, cities not inhabited.'),(24022007,24,22,7,'And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down the choice of thy cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.'),(24022008,24,22,8,'And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?'),(24022009,24,22,9,'And they shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.'),(24022010,24,22,10,'Weep not for the dead, neither bemoan him; [but] weep sore for him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.'),(24022011,24,22,11,'For thus saith Jehovah concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, who went forth out of this place: He shall not return thither any more;'),(24022012,24,22,12,'for he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.'),(24022013,24,22,13,'Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice; that taketh his neighbour\'s service without wages, and giveth him not his earning;'),(24022014,24,22,14,'that saith, I will build me a wide house, and spacious upper chambers; and he cutteth out for himself windows; and it is wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.'),(24022015,24,22,15,'Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? Then it was well with him.'),(24022016,24,22,16,'He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.'),(24022017,24,22,17,'But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.'),(24022018,24,22,18,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: They shall not lament for him, Ah, my brother! or, Ah, sister! They shall not lament for him, Ah, lord! or Ah, his glory!'),(24022019,24,22,19,'He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged along and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.'),(24022020,24,22,20,'Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and give forth thy voice in Bashan, and cry from [the heights of] Abarim: for all thy lovers are destroyed.'),(24022021,24,22,21,'I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy way from thy youth, that thou hearkenedst not unto my voice.'),(24022022,24,22,22,'The wind shall feed on all thy shepherds, and thy lovers shall go into captivity; surely, then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.'),(24022023,24,22,23,'Thou inhabitress of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how pitiful shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, pain as of a woman in travail!'),(24022024,24,22,24,'[As] I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet upon my right hand, yet will I pluck thee thence;'),(24022025,24,22,25,'and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them before whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24022026,24,22,26,'And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.'),(24022027,24,22,27,'And into the land whereunto they lift up their souls to return, thither shall they not return.'),(24022028,24,22,28,'Is this man Coniah a despised broken vase? a vessel wherein is no delight? Wherefore are they thrown out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?'),(24022029,24,22,29,'O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah!'),(24022030,24,22,30,'Thus saith Jehovah: Write this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.'),(24023001,24,23,1,'Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.'),(24023002,24,23,2,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel concerning the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock,and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah.'),(24023003,24,23,3,'And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their pastures; and they shall be fruitful and shall multiply.'),(24023004,24,23,4,'And I will raise up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, saith Jehovah.'),(24023005,24,23,5,'Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, who shall reign as king, and act wisely, and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.'),(24023006,24,23,6,'In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell in safety; and this is his name whereby he shall be called, Jehovah our Righteousness.'),(24023007,24,23,7,'Therefore behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, that they shall no more say, [As] Jehovah liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;'),(24023008,24,23,8,'but, [As] Jehovah liveth, who brought up and who led back the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them. And they shall dwell in their own land.'),(24023009,24,23,9,'Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome; because of Jehovah, and because of the words of his holiness.'),(24023010,24,23,10,'For the land is full of adulterers; for because of execration the land mourneth. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up; for their course is evil, and their force is not right.'),(24023011,24,23,11,'For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.'),(24023012,24,23,12,'Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.'),(24023013,24,23,13,'And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.'),(24023014,24,23,14,'And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.'),(24023015,24,23,15,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.'),(24023016,24,23,16,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they lead you to vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, not out of the mouth of Jehovah.'),(24023017,24,23,17,'They say constantly unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace. And they say unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his heart, No evil shall come upon you.'),(24023018,24,23,18,'For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah, so that he hath perceived and heard his word? who hath hearkened to his word and listened?'),(24023019,24,23,19,'Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, yea, a whirling storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked.'),(24023020,24,23,20,'The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and until he have performed the purposes of his heart: at the end of the days ye shall understand it clearly.'),(24023021,24,23,21,'I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.'),(24023022,24,23,22,'But if they had stood in my council, and had caused my people to hear my words, then would they have turned them from their evil way and from the wickedness of their doings.'),(24023023,24,23,23,'Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?'),(24023024,24,23,24,'Can any hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? saith Jehovah.'),(24023025,24,23,25,'I have heard what the prophets say, who prophesy falsehood in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'),(24023026,24,23,26,'How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, and who are prophets of the deceit of their own heart?'),(24023027,24,23,27,'who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour: as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.'),(24023028,24,23,28,'The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell the dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith Jehovah.'),(24023029,24,23,29,'Is not my word like a fire, saith Jehovah; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?'),(24023030,24,23,30,'Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.'),(24023031,24,23,31,'Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that use their tongues, and say, He hath said.'),(24023032,24,23,32,'Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith Jehovah, and that tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies and by their boasting; and I have not sent them, nor commanded them; and they profit not this people at all, saith Jehovah.'),(24023033,24,23,33,'And when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even cast you off, saith Jehovah.'),(24023034,24,23,34,'And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.'),(24023035,24,23,35,'Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother: What hath Jehovah answered? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?'),(24023036,24,23,36,'And the burden of Jehovah shall ye mention no more; for every man\'s own word shall be his burden: for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts, our God.'),(24023037,24,23,37,'Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?'),(24023038,24,23,38,'But since ye say, The burden of Jehovah, therefore thus saith Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah;'),(24023039,24,23,39,'therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, far from my face, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers.'),(24023040,24,23,40,'And I will bring everlasting reproach upon you, and everlasting shame, that shall not be forgotten.'),(24024001,24,24,1,'Jehovah shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive from Jerusalem, Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and smiths, and had brought them to Babylon.'),(24024002,24,24,2,'One basket had very good figs, like the figs first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.'),(24024003,24,24,3,'And Jehovah said unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs very good; and the bad very bad, which cannot be eaten for badness.'),(24024004,24,24,4,'And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,'),(24024005,24,24,5,'Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard for good them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans;'),(24024006,24,24,6,'and I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.'),(24024007,24,24,7,'And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.'),(24024008,24,24,8,'And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, surely, thus saith Jehovah: So will I make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt.'),(24024009,24,24,9,'And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them;'),(24024010,24,24,10,'and I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.'),(24025001,24,25,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah (that is, the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon),'),(24025002,24,25,2,'which Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:'),(24025003,24,25,3,'From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, even unto this day, these three and twenty years, the word of Jehovah hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.'),(24025004,24,25,4,'And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,'),(24025005,24,25,5,'when they said, Turn again now every one from his evil way, and from the wickedness of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers from of old even for ever.'),(24025006,24,25,6,'And go not after other gods, to serve them and to worship them; and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.'),(24025007,24,25,7,'But ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, to your own hurt.'),(24025008,24,25,8,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not listened to my words,'),(24025009,24,25,9,'behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.'),(24025010,24,25,10,'And I will cause to perish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.'),(24025011,24,25,11,'And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.'),(24025012,24,25,12,'And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will visit on the king of Babylon and on that nation, saith Jehovah, their iniquity, and on the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it perpetual desolations.'),(24025013,24,25,13,'And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.'),(24025014,24,25,14,'For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.'),(24025015,24,25,15,'For thus hath Jehovah the God of Israel said unto me: Take the cup of the wine of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send thee to drink it.'),(24025016,24,25,16,'And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.'),(24025017,24,25,17,'And I took the cup at Jehovah\'s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Jehovah had sent me:'),(24025018,24,25,18,'Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a waste, an astonishment, a hissing, 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 mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gazah, and Ekron, and the remnant 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 isles that are beyond the sea;'),(24025023,24,25,23,'Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners [of their beard] cut off;'),(24025024,24,25,24,'and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert;'),(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, which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.'),(24025027,24,25,27,'And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunken, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword that I will send among you.'),(24025028,24,25,28,'And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall certainly drink.'),(24025029,24,25,29,'For behold, I begin to bring evil on the city that is called by my name, and should ye be altogether unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.'),(24025030,24,25,30,'And thou, prophesy unto them all these words, and say unto them, Jehovah will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar upon his dwelling-place, he will give a shout, as they that tread [the vintage], against all the inhabitants of the earth.'),(24025031,24,25,31,'The noise shall come to the end of the earth: for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations, he entereth into judgment with all flesh; as for the wicked, he will give them up to the sword, saith Jehovah.'),(24025032,24,25,32,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.'),(24025033,24,25,33,'And the slain of Jehovah shall [be] at that day from [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face of the ground.'),(24025034,24,25,34,'Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the dust], noble ones of the flock: for the days of your slaughter are accomplished, and I will disperse you; and ye shall fall like a precious vessel.'),(24025035,24,25,35,'And refuge shall perish from the shepherds, and escape from the noble ones of the flock.'),(24025036,24,25,36,'There shall be a voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the noble ones of the flock: for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture;'),(24025037,24,25,37,'and the peaceable enclosures shall be desolated, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.'),(24025038,24,25,38,'He hath forsaken his covert as a young lion; for their land is a desolation because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.'),(24026001,24,26,1,'In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying,'),(24026002,24,26,2,'Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the court of Jehovah\'s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Jehovah\'s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them: diminish not a word.'),(24026003,24,26,3,'Peradventure they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto them because of the wickedness of their doings.'),(24026004,24,26,4,'And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye will not hearken unto me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,'),(24026005,24,26,5,'to hearken unto the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent unto you, even rising early and sending [them], but ye have not hearkened,'),(24026006,24,26,6,'-- then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.'),(24026007,24,26,7,'And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.'),(24026008,24,26,8,'And it came to pass when Jeremiah had ended speaking all that Jehovah had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, Thou shalt certainly die.'),(24026009,24,26,9,'Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.'),(24026010,24,26,10,'And the princes of Judah heard these things; and they went up from the king\'s house unto the house of Jehovah, and sat in the entry of the new gate of Jehovah.'),(24026011,24,26,11,'And the priests and the prophets spoke unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die, for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.'),(24026012,24,26,12,'And Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.'),(24026013,24,26,13,'And now, amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.'),(24026014,24,26,14,'But as for me, behold, I am in your hand; do unto me as seemeth good and right in your eyes:'),(24026015,24,26,15,'only know for certain that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.'),(24026016,24,26,16,'And the princes and all the people said unto the priests and to the prophets, This man is not worthy to die; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.'),(24026017,24,26,17,'And there rose up certain of the elders of the land and spoke to all the congregation of the people, saying,'),(24026018,24,26,18,'Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be ploughed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.'),(24026019,24,26,19,'Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear Jehovah, and supplicate Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil that he had pronounced against them? And we should be doing a great evil against our souls.'),(24026020,24,26,20,'And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim: and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah;'),(24026021,24,26,21,'and Jehoiakim the king, and all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, and the king sought to put him to death; but Urijah heard it, and he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.'),(24026022,24,26,22,'And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and men with him, into Egypt;'),(24026023,24,26,23,'and they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king; and he slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the children of the people.'),(24026024,24,26,24,'-- Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.'),(24027001,24,27,1,'In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24027002,24,27,2,'Thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy 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 the hand of the messengers that come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah.'),(24027004,24,27,4,'And give them a charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus shall ye say unto your masters:'),(24027005,24,27,5,'I have made the earth, man and beast that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give them unto whom it seemeth right in mine eyes.'),(24027006,24,27,6,'And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him.'),(24027007,24,27,7,'And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son\'s son, until the time of his land also come, when many nations and great kings shall reduce him to servitude.'),(24027008,24,27,8,'And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I visit, saith Jehovah, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.'),(24027009,24,27,9,'And ye, hearken not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak unto you saying: Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon.'),(24027010,24,27,10,'For they prophesy falsehood unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.'),(24027011,24,27,11,'But the nation that bringeth its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serveth him, will I let remain still in its own land, saith Jehovah; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.'),(24027012,24,27,12,'And I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.'),(24027013,24,27,13,'Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?'),(24027014,24,27,14,'And hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy falsehood unto you.'),(24027015,24,27,15,'For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, yet they prophesy falsely in my name; in order that I should drive you out, and that ye should perish, ye, and the prophets who prophesy unto you.'),(24027016,24,27,16,'And I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Jehovah\'s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy falsehood unto you.'),(24027017,24,27,17,'Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a waste?'),(24027018,24,27,18,'But if they be prophets, and if the word of Jehovah be with them, let them now make intercession to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.'),(24027019,24,27,19,'For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,'),(24027020,24,27,20,'which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;'),(24027021,24,27,21,'yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:'),(24027022,24,27,22,'They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day of my visiting them, saith Jehovah; then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.'),(24028001,24,28,1,'And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Jehovah, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,'),(24028002,24,28,2,'Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.'),(24028003,24,28,3,'Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Jehovah\'s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon;'),(24028004,24,28,4,'and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah that went to Babylon, saith Jehovah: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'),(24028005,24,28,5,'And the prophet Jeremiah spoke unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of Jehovah.'),(24028006,24,28,6,'And the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen, may Jehovah do so! may Jehovah perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again from Babylon, into this place, the vessels of Jehovah\'s house, and all them of the captivity!'),(24028007,24,28,7,'Nevertheless, hear, I pray thee, this word which I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people:'),(24028008,24,28,8,'The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old, prophesied also concerning many countries and concerning great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.'),(24028009,24,28,9,'The prophet that prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, shall be known as the prophet whom Jehovah hath really sent.'),(24028010,24,28,10,'And the prophet Hananiah took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah\'s neck, and broke it.'),(24028011,24,28,11,'And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: So will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.'),(24028012,24,28,12,'And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after that the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,'),(24028013,24,28,13,'Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast broken the yokes of wood, and thou hast made in their place yokes of iron.'),(24028014,24,28,14,'For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.'),(24028015,24,28,15,'And the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah, Hear now, Hananiah: Jehovah hath not sent thee; and thou makest this people to trust in falsehood.'),(24028016,24,28,16,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, for thou hast spoken revolt against Jehovah.'),(24028017,24,28,17,'And the prophet Hananiah died in the same year in the seventh month.'),(24029001,24,29,1,'And these are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon'),(24029002,24,29,2,'(after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem);'),(24029003,24,29,3,'by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkijah (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon, unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,'),(24029004,24,29,4,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon:'),(24029005,24,29,5,'Build houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.'),(24029006,24,29,6,'Take wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and be not diminished.'),(24029007,24,29,7,'And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.'),(24029008,24,29,8,'For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in your midst, nor your diviners deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams, which ye like to dream.'),(24029009,24,29,9,'For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith Jehovah.'),(24029010,24,29,10,'For thus saith Jehovah: When seventy years shall be accomplished for Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in bringing you back to this place.'),(24029011,24,29,11,'For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope.'),(24029012,24,29,12,'And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you;'),(24029013,24,29,13,'and ye shall seek me and find me, for ye shall search for me with all your heart,'),(24029014,24,29,14,'and I will be found of you, saith Jehovah. And I will turn your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith Jehovah; and I will bring you again into the place whence I have caused you to be carried away captive.'),(24029015,24,29,15,'If ye say, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;'),(24029016,24,29,16,'yea, thus saith Jehovah concerning the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and concerning all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;'),(24029017,24,29,17,'thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will send against them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like the vile figs, that cannot be eaten for badness.'),(24029018,24,29,18,'And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will give them over to be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I will drive them:'),(24029019,24,29,19,'because they have not hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets, rising early and sending; but ye have not hearkened, saith Jehovah.'),(24029020,24,29,20,'But ye, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon, hear the word of Jehovah.'),(24029021,24,29,21,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy falsehood unto you in my name: Behold, I will give them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall smite them before your eyes.'),(24029022,24,29,22,'And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;'),(24029023,24,29,23,'because they have committed infamy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours\' wives, and have spoken words of falsehood in my name, which I had not commanded them: and I [am] he that knoweth, and [am] witness, saith Jehovah.'),(24029024,24,29,24,'And thou shalt speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,'),(24029025,24,29,25,'Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,'),(24029026,24,29,26,'Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there should be officers [in] the house of Jehovah, over every madman and self-made prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in the shackles.'),(24029027,24,29,27,'And now, why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you?'),(24029028,24,29,28,'Forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying, It will be long; build houses, and dwell [in them], and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.'),(24029029,24,29,29,'-- And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of the prophet Jeremiah.'),(24029030,24,29,30,'And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying,'),(24029031,24,29,31,'Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath caused you to trust in falsehood;'),(24029032,24,29,32,'therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he see the good that I will do for my people, saith Jehovah; because he hath spoken revolt against Jehovah.'),(24030001,24,30,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24030002,24,30,2,'Thus speaketh Jehovah the God of Israel, saying, Write thee in a book all the words that I have spoken unto thee.'),(24030003,24,30,3,'For behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when I will turn the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith Jehovah; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.'),(24030004,24,30,4,'And these are the words that Jehovah hath spoken concerning Israel and concerning Judah;'),(24030005,24,30,5,'for thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, there is fear, and no peace.'),(24030006,24,30,6,'Ask ye now, and see, whether a male doth travail with child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail; and all faces are turned into paleness?'),(24030007,24,30,7,'Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob\'s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.'),(24030008,24,30,8,'And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more reduce him to servitude.'),(24030009,24,30,9,'But they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.'),(24030010,24,30,10,'And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith Jehovah; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid.'),(24030011,24,30,11,'For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee; yet of thee will I not make a full end, but I will correct thee with judgment, and will not hold thee altogether guiltless.'),(24030012,24,30,12,'For thus saith Jehovah: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is grievous.'),(24030013,24,30,13,'There is none to plead thy cause, to bind up [thy wound]; thou hast no healing medicines.'),(24030014,24,30,14,'All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity: thy sins are manifold.'),(24030015,24,30,15,'Why criest thou because of thy bruise? thy sorrow is incurable; for the greatness of thine iniquity, [because] thy sins are manifold, I have done these things unto thee.'),(24030016,24,30,16,'Therefore all that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be for a spoil; and all they that prey upon thee will I give to be a prey.'),(24030017,24,30,17,'For I will apply a bandage unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; for they have called thee an outcast: This is Zion that no man seeketh after.'),(24030018,24,30,18,'Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob\'s tents, and have mercy on his habitations; and the city shall be built upon her own heap; and the palace shall be inhabited after the manner thereof.'),(24030019,24,30,19,'And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished; and I will honour them, and they shall not be small.'),(24030020,24,30,20,'And their sons shall be as aforetime; and their assembly shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them.'),(24030021,24,30,21,'And their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to approach, and he shall draw near unto me. For who is this that engageth his heart to draw near unto me? saith Jehovah.'),(24030022,24,30,22,'And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.'),(24030023,24,30,23,'Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked.'),(24030024,24,30,24,'The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and until he have performed the purposes of his heart. At the end of the days ye shall consider it.'),(24031001,24,31,1,'At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.'),(24031002,24,31,2,'Thus saith Jehovah: The people [that were] left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness, [even] Israel, when I go to give him rest.'),(24031003,24,31,3,'Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, [saying,] Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.'),(24031004,24,31,4,'I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.'),(24031005,24,31,5,'Thou shalt again plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat the fruit.'),(24031006,24,31,6,'For there shall be a day, when the watchmen upon mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion, unto Jehovah our God.'),(24031007,24,31,7,'For thus saith Jehovah: Sing aloud [with] gladness for Jacob, and shout at the head of the nations; publish ye, praise ye, and say, Jehovah, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.'),(24031008,24,31,8,'Behold, I bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth; [and] among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great assemblage shall they return hither.'),(24031009,24,31,9,'They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by water-brooks, in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I will be a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.'),(24031010,24,31,10,'Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations, and declare [it] to the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd his flock.'),(24031011,24,31,11,'For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he.'),(24031012,24,31,12,'And they shall come and sing aloud upon the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for corn, and for new wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not languish any more at all.'),(24031013,24,31,13,'Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into gladness, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice after their sorrow.'),(24031014,24,31,14,'And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith Jehovah.'),(24031015,24,31,15,'Thus saith Jehovah: A voice hath been heard in Ramah, the wail of very bitter weeping, -- Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are not.'),(24031016,24,31,16,'Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for there is a reward for thy work, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.'),(24031017,24,31,17,'And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and thy children shall come again to their own border.'),(24031018,24,31,18,'I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock not trained: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.'),(24031019,24,31,19,'Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon [my] thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth.'),(24031020,24,31,20,'Is Ephraim a dear son unto me? is he a child of delights? For whilst I have been speaking against him, I do constantly remember him still. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will certainly have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.'),(24031021,24,31,21,'Set up waymarks, make for thyself signposts; set thy heart toward the highway, the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.'),(24031022,24,31,22,'How long wilt thou wander about, thou backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath created a new thing on the earth, a woman shall encompass a man.'),(24031023,24,31,23,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: They shall again use this speech, in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn their captivity: Jehovah bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness!'),(24031024,24,31,24,'And therein shall dwell Judah, and all the cities thereof together, the husbandmen, and they that go about with flocks.'),(24031025,24,31,25,'For I have satiated the weary soul, and every languishing soul have I replenished.'),(24031026,24,31,26,'-- Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.'),(24031027,24,31,27,'Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah [with] the seed of man and the seed of beast.'),(24031028,24,31,28,'And it shall come to pass, as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to overthrow, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build, and to plant, saith Jehovah.'),(24031029,24,31,29,'In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children\'s teeth are set on edge:'),(24031030,24,31,30,'for every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.'),(24031031,24,31,31,'Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:'),(24031032,24,31,32,'not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.'),(24031033,24,31,33,'For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.'),(24031034,24,31,34,'And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.'),(24031035,24,31,35,'Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar, -- Jehovah of hosts is his name:'),(24031036,24,31,36,'If those ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.'),(24031037,24,31,37,'Thus saith Jehovah: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off the whole seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith Jehovah.'),(24031038,24,31,38,'Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the city shall be built to Jehovah, from the tower of Hananeel unto the corner-gate.'),(24031039,24,31,39,'And the measuring line shall yet go forth before it unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn toward Goath.'),(24031040,24,31,40,'And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the torrent Kidron, unto the corner of the horse-gate toward the east, shall be holy unto Jehovah: it shall not be plucked up, nor overthrown any more for ever.'),(24032001,24,32,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah: that year was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.'),(24032002,24,32,2,'And the king of Babylon\'s army was then besieging Jerusalem; and the prophet Jeremiah was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah\'s house.'),(24032003,24,32,3,'For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why dost thou prophesy and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;'),(24032004,24,32,4,'and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans; for he shall certainly be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;'),(24032005,24,32,5,'and he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?'),(24032006,24,32,6,'And Jeremiah said, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,'),(24032007,24,32,7,'Behold, Hanameel, the son of Shallum thine uncle, shall come unto thee, saying, Buy for thyself my field which is in Anathoth; for thine is the right of redemption, to buy [it].'),(24032008,24,32,8,'And Hanameel, mine uncle\'s son, came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Jehovah, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine: buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah.'),(24032009,24,32,9,'And I bought of Hanameel, mine uncle\'s son, the field which is in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, seventeen shekels of silver.'),(24032010,24,32,10,'And I subscribed the writing, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances.'),(24032011,24,32,11,'And I took the writing of the purchase, that which was sealed [according to] the law and the statutes, and that which was open;'),(24032012,24,32,12,'and I gave the writing of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Nerijah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle\'s [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that had subscribed the writing of purchase, before all the Jews that were sitting in the court of the guard.'),(24032013,24,32,13,'And I charged Baruch in their presence, saying,'),(24032014,24,32,14,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these writings, this writing of the purchase, both that which is sealed and this writing which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may remain many days.'),(24032015,24,32,15,'For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be purchased in this land.'),(24032016,24,32,16,'And after I had given the writing of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Nerijah, I prayed unto Jehovah saying,'),(24032017,24,32,17,'Alas, Lord Jehovah! Behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and stretched-out arm; there is nothing too hard for thee:'),(24032018,24,32,18,'who shewest mercy unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them, thou, the great, the mighty ùGod, -- Jehovah of hosts is his name;'),(24032019,24,32,19,'great in counsel and mighty in work, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:'),(24032020,24,32,20,'who hast displayed signs and wonders unto this day, in the land of Egypt and in Israel and among [other] men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day.'),(24032021,24,32,21,'And thou broughtest forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt by signs, and by wonders, and by a powerful hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terror;'),(24032022,24,32,22,'and didst give them this land, which thou hadst sworn unto their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.'),(24032023,24,32,23,'And they came in and possessed it: but they hearkened not unto thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do; so that thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them.'),(24032024,24,32,24,'Behold the mounds, they are come unto the city for taking it; and the city is given over into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, by the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and behold, thou seest [it].'),(24032025,24,32,25,'And thou, Lord Jehovah, thou hast said unto me, Buy for thyself the field for money, and take witnesses; -- and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24032026,24,32,26,'And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying,'),(24032027,24,32,27,'Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?'),(24032028,24,32,28,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.'),(24032029,24,32,29,'And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come in and set fire to this city, and shall burn it, and the houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.'),(24032030,24,32,30,'For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have been doing only evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah.'),(24032031,24,32,31,'For this city hath been to me [a provocation] of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,'),(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 provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(24032033,24,32,33,'And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face; and though I taught them, rising early and teaching, they hearkened not to receive instruction.'),(24032034,24,32,34,'And they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it;'),(24032035,24,32,35,'and they have built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause to pass through [the fire] their sons and their daughters unto Molech: which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.'),(24032036,24,32,36,'And now therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith thus concerning this city, whereof ye say, It hath been given over into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:'),(24032037,24,32,37,'Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries whither I have driven them, in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.'),(24032038,24,32,38,'And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.'),(24032039,24,32,39,'And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all [their] days, for the good of them, and of their children after them.'),(24032040,24,32,40,'And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not draw back from them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not turn aside from me.'),(24032041,24,32,41,'And I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land with my whole heart and with my whole soul.'),(24032042,24,32,42,'For thus saith Jehovah: Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have spoken concerning them.'),(24032043,24,32,43,'And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24032044,24,32,44,'[Men] shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the writings, and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the environs of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity, saith Jehovah.'),(24033001,24,33,1,'And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying,'),(24033002,24,33,2,'Thus saith Jehovah the doer of it, Jehovah that formeth it to establish it, Jehovah is his name:'),(24033003,24,33,3,'Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will shew thee great and hidden things, which thou knowest not.'),(24033004,24,33,4,'For thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down because of the mounds and because of the sword:'),(24033005,24,33,5,'They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but to fill them with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.'),(24033006,24,33,6,'Behold, I will apply a healing dressing to it and cure, and I will heal them, and will reveal unto them an abundance of peace and truth.'),(24033007,24,33,7,'And I will turn the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, as at the beginning.'),(24033008,24,33,8,'And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have transgressed against me.'),(24033009,24,33,9,'And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear of all the good that I do unto them; and they shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.'),(24033010,24,33,10,'Thus saith Jehovah: In this place of which ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast! in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,'),(24033011,24,33,11,'there shall again be heard the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that say, Give ye thanks unto Jehovah of hosts; for Jehovah is good, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever, -- of them that bring thanksgiving unto the house of Jehovah. For I will turn the captivity of the land as in the beginning, saith Jehovah.'),(24033012,24,33,12,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In this place which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, there shall again be a habitation of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down.'),(24033013,24,33,13,'In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the environs of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that counteth [them], saith Jehovah.'),(24033014,24,33,14,'Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will perform the good word which I have spoken unto the house of Israel and unto the house of Judah.'),(24033015,24,33,15,'In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.'),(24033016,24,33,16,'In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell in safety. And this is the name wherewith she shall be called: Jehovah our Righteousness.'),(24033017,24,33,17,'For thus saith Jehovah: There shall never fail to David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;'),(24033018,24,33,18,'neither shall there fail to the priests the Levites a man before me to offer up burnt-offerings, and to burn oblations, and to do sacrifice continually.'),(24033019,24,33,19,'And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24033020,24,33,20,'Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant [in respect] of the day, and my covenant [in respect] of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,'),(24033021,24,33,21,'[then] shall also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.'),(24033022,24,33,22,'As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.'),(24033023,24,33,23,'And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24033024,24,33,24,'Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.'),(24033025,24,33,25,'Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,'),(24033026,24,33,26,'[then] will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will turn their captivity, and will have mercy on them.'),(24034001,24,34,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion, and all the peoples, fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof, saying,'),(24034002,24,34,2,'Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.'),(24034003,24,34,3,'And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt certainly be taken, and given into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak with thy mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.'),(24034004,24,34,4,'Only, hear the word of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah. Thus saith Jehovah as to thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword;'),(24034005,24,34,5,'thou shalt die in peace, and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they burn for thee; and they will lament for thee, Ah, lord! for I have spoken the word, saith Jehovah.'),(24034006,24,34,6,'And the prophet Jeremiah spoke all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem.'),(24034007,24,34,7,'And the king of Babylon\'s army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah; for these were amongst the cities of Judah, the fenced cities that were left.'),(24034008,24,34,8,'The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them:'),(24034009,24,34,9,'that every man should let his bondman, and every man his bondmaid, the Hebrew and the Hebrewess, go free, that none should exact service of them, [that is,] of a Jew his brother.'),(24034010,24,34,10,'And all the princes and all the people that had entered into the covenant obeyed, every man letting his bondman and every man his bondmaid go free, that none should exact service of them any more: they obeyed, and let [them] go.'),(24034011,24,34,11,'But afterwards they turned, and caused the bondmen and the bondmaids whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for bondmen and for bondmaids.'),(24034012,24,34,12,'And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24034013,24,34,13,'Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,'),(24034014,24,34,14,'At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother, a Hebrew, who hath sold himself unto thee; when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee. But your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.'),(24034015,24,34,15,'And you, ye had this day turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:'),(24034016,24,34,16,'but ye have turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his bondman, and every man his bondmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and ye have brought them into subjection, to be unto you for bondmen and for bondmaids.'),(24034017,24,34,17,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will give you over to be driven hither and thither among all the kingdoms of the earth.'),(24034018,24,34,18,'And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, -- the calf which they cut in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,'),(24034019,24,34,19,'-- the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;'),(24034020,24,34,20,'them will I give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life; and their carcases shall be food for the fowl of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.'),(24034021,24,34,21,'And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon\'s army, which are gone up from you.'),(24034022,24,34,22,'Behold, I command, saith Jehovah, and I will cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.'),(24035001,24,35,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying,'),(24035002,24,35,2,'Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.'),(24035003,24,35,3,'And I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites,'),(24035004,24,35,4,'and I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.'),(24035005,24,35,5,'And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink wine.'),(24035006,24,35,6,'And they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, ye nor your sons for ever;'),(24035007,24,35,7,'neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor shall ye have [any]; but all your days ye shall dwell in tents, that ye may live many days in the land where ye sojourn.'),(24035008,24,35,8,'And we have hearkened unto the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters,'),(24035009,24,35,9,'and not to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed;'),(24035010,24,35,10,'but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.'),(24035011,24,35,11,'And it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come and let us go into Jerusalem because of the army of the Chaldeans, and because of the army of Syria; and we dwell at Jerusalem.'),(24035012,24,35,12,'And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying,'),(24035013,24,35,13,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken unto my words? saith Jehovah.'),(24035014,24,35,14,'The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they have drunk none, for they have obeyed their father\'s commandment. But I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking, and ye have not hearkened unto me.'),(24035015,24,35,15,'And I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them; and ye shall dwell in the land that I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened unto me.'),(24035016,24,35,16,'Yea, the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people hath not hearkened unto me;'),(24035017,24,35,17,'therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken unto them, but they have not hearkened, and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.'),(24035018,24,35,18,'And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his injunctions, and have done according unto all that he hath commanded you;'),(24035019,24,35,19,'therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, There shall not fail to Jonadab the son of Rechab a man to stand before me, for ever.'),(24036001,24,36,1,'And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, [that] this word came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24036002,24,36,2,'Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.'),(24036003,24,36,3,'It may be the house of Judah will hear all the evil that I purpose to do unto them, that they may return every man from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.'),(24036004,24,36,4,'And Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Nerijah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.'),(24036005,24,36,5,'And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up, I cannot go into the house of Jehovah; but go thou in,'),(24036006,24,36,6,'and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in the house of Jehovah upon the fast day; and thou shalt also read them in the ears of all Judah that come from their cities.'),(24036007,24,36,7,'It may be they will present their supplication before Jehovah, and that they will return every one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah hath pronounced against this people.'),(24036008,24,36,8,'And Baruch the son of Nerijah did according to all that the prophet Jeremiah commanded him, reading in the book the words of Jehovah in Jehovah\'s house.'),(24036009,24,36,9,'And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before Jehovah, for all the people in Jerusalem, and for all the people that came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.'),(24036010,24,36,10,'And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the house of Jehovah, in the ears of all the people.'),(24036011,24,36,11,'And Micah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan heard out of the book all the words of Jehovah;'),(24036012,24,36,12,'and he went down to the king\'s house, into the scribe\'s chamber, and behold, all the princes were sitting 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 princes.'),(24036013,24,36,13,'And Micah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read in the book in the ears of the people.'),(24036014,24,36,14,'And all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thy hand the roll in which thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. And Baruch the son of Nerijah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.'),(24036015,24,36,15,'And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. And Baruch read [it] in their ears.'),(24036016,24,36,16,'And it came to pass, when they heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch, We will certainly report to the king all these words.'),(24036017,24,36,17,'And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words from his mouth?'),(24036018,24,36,18,'And Baruch said unto them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book.'),(24036019,24,36,19,'And the princes said unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; that none may know where ye are.'),(24036020,24,36,20,'And they went in unto the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.'),(24036021,24,36,21,'And the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he fetched it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.'),(24036022,24,36,22,'Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month, and with the fire-pan burning before him.'),(24036023,24,36,23,'And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe\'s knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.'),(24036024,24,36,24,'And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words.'),(24036025,24,36,25,'Moreover, Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them.'),(24036026,24,36,26,'And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them.'),(24036027,24,36,27,'And after that the king had burned the roll, and the words that Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24036028,24,36,28,'Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.'),(24036029,24,36,29,'And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from it man and beast?'),(24036030,24,36,30,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.'),(24036031,24,36,31,'And I will visit their iniquity upon him, and upon his seed, and upon his servants; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; and they have not hearkened.'),(24036032,24,36,32,'And Jeremiah took another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Nerijah; and he wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.'),(24037001,24,37,1,'And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon having made him king in the land of Judah.'),(24037002,24,37,2,'And neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah.'),(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, Pray now unto Jehovah our God for us.'),(24037004,24,37,4,'And Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.'),(24037005,24,37,5,'And Pharaoh\'s army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they went up from Jerusalem.'),(24037006,24,37,6,'And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the prophet, saying,'),(24037007,24,37,7,'Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh\'s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.'),(24037008,24,37,8,'And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.'),(24037009,24,37,9,'Thus saith Jehovah: Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans are certainly gone away from us; for they are not gone.'),(24037010,24,37,10,'For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained [but] wounded men among them, [yet] should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.'),(24037011,24,37,11,'And it came to pass when the army of the Chaldeans was gone up from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh\'s army,'),(24037012,24,37,12,'that Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to have his portion there among the people.'),(24037013,24,37,13,'And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Thou art deserting to the Chaldeans.'),(24037014,24,37,14,'And Jeremiah said, It is false: I am not deserting to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; and Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.'),(24037015,24,37,15,'And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in the place of confinement in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.'),(24037016,24,37,16,'When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon and into the vaults, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,'),(24037017,24,37,17,'king Zedekiah sent and took him out. And the king asked of him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is; and he said, Thou shalt be given into the hand of the king of Babylon.'),(24037018,24,37,18,'And Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in the prison?'),(24037019,24,37,19,'And where are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?'),(24037020,24,37,20,'And now hear, I pray thee, my lord, O king: let my supplication, I pray thee, come before thee; and cause me not to return into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.'),(24037021,24,37,21,'Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard, and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers\' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. And Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard.'),(24038001,24,38,1,'And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,'),(24038002,24,38,2,'Thus saith Jehovah: He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; and he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.'),(24038003,24,38,3,'Thus saith Jehovah: This city shall certainly be given into the hand of the king of Babylon\'s army, and he shall take it.'),(24038004,24,38,4,'And the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; for why should he weaken the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking to them according to these words? for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.'),(24038005,24,38,5,'And king Zedekiah said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do a thing against you.'),(24038006,24,38,6,'Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.'),(24038007,24,38,7,'And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king\'s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon -- now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin,'),(24038008,24,38,8,'-- and Ebed-melech went forth out of the king\'s house, and spoke to the king, saying,'),(24038009,24,38,9,'My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he will die by reason of the famine in the place where he is; for there is no more bread in the city.'),(24038010,24,38,10,'And the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.'),(24038011,24,38,11,'And Ebed-melech took the men under his order, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old shreds and worn-out clothes, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.'),(24038012,24,38,12,'And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put, I pray, [these] old shreds and rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.'),(24038013,24,38,13,'And they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and brought him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.'),(24038014,24,38,14,'And king Zedekiah sent and took the prophet Jeremiah unto him, into the third entry that is in the house of Jehovah; and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing: hide nothing from me.'),(24038015,24,38,15,'And Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto thee, wilt thou not certainly put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.'),(24038016,24,38,16,'And king Zedekiah swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.'),(24038017,24,38,17,'And Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, Thus saith Jehovah the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt freely go forth to the king of Babylon\'s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house.'),(24038018,24,38,18,'But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon\'s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.'),(24038019,24,38,19,'And king Zedekiah said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me over into their hand, and they mock me.'),(24038020,24,38,20,'And Jeremiah said, They shall not give [thee] over. Hearken, I beseech thee, unto the voice of Jehovah, in that which I speak unto thee; so shall it be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.'),(24038021,24,38,21,'But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word which Jehovah hath shewn me:'),(24038022,24,38,22,'Behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah\'s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon\'s princes; and they shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee; thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.'),(24038023,24,38,23,'And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand; for thou shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon, and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.'),(24038024,24,38,24,'And Zedekiah said unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.'),(24038025,24,38,25,'And if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; and what hath the king said unto thee?'),(24038026,24,38,26,'then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan\'s house, to die there.'),(24038027,24,38,27,'-- And all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. And they withdrew quietly from him; for the matter was not reported.'),(24038028,24,38,28,'And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.'),(24039001,24,39,1,'And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.'),(24039002,24,39,2,'In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was broken into;'),(24039003,24,39,3,'and all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebu, Sarsechim, chief chamberlain, Nergal-sharezer, chief magian, and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.'),(24039004,24,39,4,'And it came to pass when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king\'s garden, by the gate between the two walls; and he went out the way of the plain.'),(24039005,24,39,5,'And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they took him, and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, unto Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment upon him.'),(24039006,24,39,6,'And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon slaughtered all the nobles of Judah;'),(24039007,24,39,7,'and he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, to carry him to Babylon.'),(24039008,24,39,8,'And the Chaldeans burned the king\'s house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.'),(24039009,24,39,9,'And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive into Babylon the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the deserters that had deserted to him, with the rest of the people that were left.'),(24039010,24,39,10,'But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left [certain] of the people, the poor who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.'),(24039011,24,39,11,'And Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had given charge concerning Jeremiah by Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard, saying,'),(24039012,24,39,12,'Take him, and keep an eye upon him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.'),(24039013,24,39,13,'So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard sent, and Nebushazban, chief chamberlain, and Nergal-sharezer, chief magian, and all the king of Babylon\'s princes,'),(24039014,24,39,14,'even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should conduct him away home. And he dwelt among the people.'),(24039015,24,39,15,'And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,'),(24039016,24,39,16,'Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good, and they shall come to pass before thy face in that day.'),(24039017,24,39,17,'And I will deliver thee in that day, saith Jehovah; and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid;'),(24039018,24,39,18,'for I will certainly save thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thou shalt have thy life for a prey; for thou hast put thy confidence in me, saith Jehovah.'),(24040001,24,40,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him, being bound in chains, among all the captivity of Jerusalem and Judah, that were carried away captive to Babylon.'),(24040002,24,40,2,'And the captain of the body-guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place,'),(24040003,24,40,3,'and Jehovah hath brought [it about] and done according as he said; for ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not hearkened unto his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.'),(24040004,24,40,4,'And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains that are upon thy hand. If it seem good in thy sight to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will keep mine eye upon thee; but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me to Babylon, forbear. See, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and right in thy sight to go, thither go.'),(24040005,24,40,5,'And while he had not yet given answer; [he said,] Yea, go back to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath appointed over the cities of Judah, and abide with him in the midst of the people; or go wheresoever it seemeth right in thy sight to go. And the captain of the body-guard gave him provisions and a present, and let him go.'),(24040006,24,40,6,'And Jeremiah came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and abode with him among the people that remained in the land.'),(24040007,24,40,7,'And all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that had not been carried away captive to Babylon.'),(24040008,24,40,8,'And they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah; even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.'),(24040009,24,40,9,'And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.'),(24040010,24,40,10,'And as for me, behold, I dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans, who will come unto us; and ye, gather wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your vessels, and dwell in your cities which ye have taken.'),(24040011,24,40,11,'Likewise all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon and in Edom, and that were in all the lands, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;'),(24040012,24,40,12,'and all the Jews returned out of all the places whither they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.'),(24040013,24,40,13,'And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah unto Mizpah,'),(24040014,24,40,14,'and said unto him, Dost thou indeed know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to smite thee to death? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.'),(24040015,24,40,15,'And Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will smite Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and no man shall know it: why should he take thy life, and all they of Judah who are gathered unto thee be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?'),(24040016,24,40,16,'But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing; for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.'),(24041001,24,41,1,'And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and [one] of the king\'s chief men, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam unto Mizpah, and there they ate bread together, in Mizpah.'),(24041002,24,41,2,'And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah arose, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.'),(24041003,24,41,3,'And Ishmael smote all the Jews that were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, the men of war.'),(24041004,24,41,4,'And it came to pass the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it,'),(24041005,24,41,5,'that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves; with oblations and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.'),(24041006,24,41,6,'And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went; and it came to pass when he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.'),(24041007,24,41,7,'And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, he and the men that were with him, slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit.'),(24041008,24,41,8,'But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Do not kill us, for we have hidden stores in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbore, and did not kill them among their brethren.'),(24041009,24,41,9,'And the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain by the side of Gedaliah was the one which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.'),(24041010,24,41,10,'And Ishmael carried away captive all the remnant of the people that were in Mizpah, the king\'s daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.'),(24041011,24,41,11,'And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done;'),(24041012,24,41,12,'and they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are at Gibeon.'),(24041013,24,41,13,'And it came to pass when all the people that were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.'),(24041014,24,41,14,'And all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.'),(24041015,24,41,15,'But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped 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 that were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon;'),(24041017,24,41,17,'and they departed, and dwelt at Geruth-Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,'),(24041018,24,41,18,'because of the Chaldeans; for they feared them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had smitten Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.'),(24042001,24,42,1,'And all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,'),(24042002,24,42,2,'came near and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication come before thee, and pray for us unto Jehovah thy God, for all this remnant (for we are left a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us);'),(24042003,24,42,3,'that Jehovah thy God may shew us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do.'),(24042004,24,42,4,'And Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard; behold, I will pray unto Jehovah your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass [that] whatsoever thing Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you: I will keep nothing back from you.'),(24042005,24,42,5,'And they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not even according to all the word for which Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us.'),(24042006,24,42,6,'Whether it be good or whether it be evil, we will hearken unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us when we hearken unto the voice of Jehovah our God.'),(24042007,24,42,7,'And it came to pass at the end of ten days, that the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah.'),(24042008,24,42,8,'And he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest,'),(24042009,24,42,9,'and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, to whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him:'),(24042010,24,42,10,'If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not overthrow [you], and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.'),(24042011,24,42,11,'Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid: be not afraid of him, saith Jehovah; for I will be with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.'),(24042012,24,42,12,'And I will grant mercies to you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.'),(24042013,24,42,13,'But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so as not to hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God,'),(24042014,24,42,14,'saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger for bread; and there will we dwell;'),(24042015,24,42,15,'-- and now, therefore, hear the word of Jehovah, ye remnant of Judah: thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: If ye really set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there,'),(24042016,24,42,16,'then it shall come to pass, that the sword which ye fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.'),(24042017,24,42,17,'And it shall be that all the men that have set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.'),(24042018,24,42,18,'For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my fury have been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, and ye shall see this place no more.'),(24042019,24,42,19,'Jehovah hath said concerning you, the remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt. Know certainly that I have admonished you this day.'),(24042020,24,42,20,'For ye deceived yourselves in your own souls, when ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God; and according to all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.'),(24042021,24,42,21,'And I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God, nor anything for which he hath sent me unto you.'),(24042022,24,42,22,'And now know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go to sojourn.'),(24043001,24,43,1,'And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had ended speaking unto all the people all the words of Jehovah their God, with which Jehovah their God had sent him to them -- all these words,'),(24043002,24,43,2,'-- then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there;'),(24043003,24,43,3,'but Baruch the son of Nerijah is setting thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.'),(24043004,24,43,4,'So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah to abide 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 remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations whither they had been driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah;'),(24043006,24,43,6,'men, and women, and children, and the king\'s daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerijah;'),(24043007,24,43,7,'and they came into the land of Egypt: for they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah. And they came as far as Tahpanhes.'),(24043008,24,43,8,'And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,'),(24043009,24,43,9,'Take great stones in thy hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh\'s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the Jews,'),(24043010,24,43,10,'and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones which I have hidden, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.'),(24043011,24,43,11,'And he shall come and smite the land of Egypt: such as are for death to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.'),(24043012,24,43,12,'And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive; and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.'),(24043013,24,43,13,'And he shall break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, which is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.'),(24044001,24,44,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who dwelt in the land of Egypt, who dwelt at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,'),(24044002,24,44,2,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and behold they are, this day, a waste, and no man dwelleth therein,'),(24044003,24,44,3,'because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense to serve other gods which they knew not, they, [nor] ye, nor your fathers.'),(24044004,24,44,4,'And I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing which I hate!'),(24044005,24,44,5,'But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.'),(24044006,24,44,6,'And my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are become a waste, a desolation, as at this day.'),(24044007,24,44,7,'And now thus saith Jehovah the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you no remnant;'),(24044008,24,44,8,'provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are come to sojourn, that ye should be cut off, and that ye should be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?'),(24044009,24,44,9,'Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?'),(24044010,24,44,10,'They are not humbled unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes which I set before you and before your fathers.'),(24044011,24,44,11,'Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.'),(24044012,24,44,12,'And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to enter into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed: in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine, from the least even unto the greatest; they shall die by the sword and by the famine, and they shall be an execration, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.'),(24044013,24,44,13,'And I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;'),(24044014,24,44,14,'and none of the remnant of Judah, that have come into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, so as to return into the land of Judah, whither they have a desire to return to dwell there; for none shall return but such as shall escape.'),(24044015,24,44,15,'Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assemblage, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,'),(24044016,24,44,16,'[As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee,'),(24044017,24,44,17,'but we will certainly do every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and we had plenty of bread, and were well, and saw no evil.'),(24044018,24,44,18,'But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out drink-offerings to her, we have wanted everything, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.'),(24044019,24,44,19,'And when we burned incense to the queen of the heavens and poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make for her cakes to portray her, and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?'),(24044020,24,44,20,'And Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,'),(24044021,24,44,21,'Is it not the incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and your princes and the people of the land, that Jehovah remembered, and that came into his mind?'),(24044022,24,44,22,'And Jehovah could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations that ye had committed; and your land is become a waste, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as at this day.'),(24044023,24,44,23,'Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil hath come upon you, as at this day.'),(24044024,24,44,24,'And Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt.'),(24044025,24,44,25,'Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hands, saying, We will certainly perform our vows which we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her. Ye will certainly establish your vows, and entirely perform your vows.'),(24044026,24,44,26,'Therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith Jehovah, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, [As] the Lord Jehovah liveth.'),(24044027,24,44,27,'Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.'),(24044028,24,44,28,'And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, a very small company; and all the remnant of Judah, that have come into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine or theirs.'),(24044029,24,44,29,'And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall certainly stand against you for evil:'),(24044030,24,44,30,'thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will give Pharaoh-Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.'),(24045001,24,45,1,'The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Nerijah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying,'),(24045002,24,45,2,'Thus sayeth Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning thee, Baruch:'),(24045003,24,45,3,'Thou didst say, Woe unto me! for Jehovah hath added grief to my sorrow; I am weary with my sighing, and I find no rest.'),(24045004,24,45,4,'Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, what I have built do I overthrow, and what I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land.'),(24045005,24,45,5,'And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not; for behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou shalt go.'),(24046001,24,46,1,'The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.'),(24046002,24,46,2,'Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-Necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah.'),(24046003,24,46,3,'Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!'),(24046004,24,46,4,'Harness the horses, and mount ye horsemen, and stand forth with helmets; polish the spears, put on the coats of mail!'),(24046005,24,46,5,'Why do I see them dismayed, turned away back? And their mighty ones are beaten down, and take to flight, and look not back? Terror [is] on every side, saith Jehovah.'),(24046006,24,46,6,'Let not the swift flee away, neither let the mighty man escape! -- Toward the north, hard by the river Euphrates, they have stumbled and fallen.'),(24046007,24,46,7,'Who is this [that] riseth up as the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?'),(24046008,24,46,8,'It is Egypt that riseth up as the Nile, and [his] waters toss themselves like the rivers; and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.'),(24046009,24,46,9,'Go up, ye horses, and drive furiously, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Phut that handle the shield, and the Ludim that handle the bow [and] bend it.'),(24046010,24,46,10,'For this is the day of the Lord Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may be avenged of his adversaries; and the sword shall devour, and it shall be sated and made drunk with their blood; for the Lord Jehovah of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country, by the river Euphrates.'),(24046011,24,46,11,'Go up to Gilead, and fetch balm, O virgin-daughter of Egypt! In vain shalt thou multiply remedies: there is no healing for thee.'),(24046012,24,46,12,'The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the earth; for the mighty man stumbleth against the mighty, they are both fallen together.'),(24046013,24,46,13,'The word that Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, concerning the coming of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt:'),(24046014,24,46,14,'Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph, and in Tahpanhes; say, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword devoureth round about thee.'),(24046015,24,46,15,'Why are thy valiants swept away? They stood not, for Jehovah did thrust them down.'),(24046016,24,46,16,'He made many to stumble, yea, one fell upon another; and they said, Arise, and let us return to our own people and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.'),(24046017,24,46,17,'There did they cry, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the time appointed go by.'),(24046018,24,46,18,'[As] I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely as Tabor among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.'),(24046019,24,46,19,'Thou, inhabitress, daughter of Egypt, furnish for thyself a captive\'s baggage, for Noph shall be a desolation and shall be ruined, so that none shall dwell therein.'),(24046020,24,46,20,'Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.'),(24046021,24,46,21,'Also her hired men in the midst of her are like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, they have fled away together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.'),(24046022,24,46,22,'Her voice shall go like a serpent\'s; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.'),(24046023,24,46,23,'They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it be impenetrable; for they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.'),(24046024,24,46,24,'The daughter of Egypt is put to shame; she is delivered into the hand of the people of the north.'),(24046025,24,46,25,'Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith, Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings; yea, Pharaoh and them that confide in him.'),(24046026,24,46,26,'And I will give them into the hand of those that seek their life, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; but afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.'),(24046027,24,46,27,'But thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, neither be dismayed, Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid.'),(24046028,24,46,28,'Fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee with judgment, and I will not hold thee altogether guiltless.'),(24047001,24,47,1,'The word of Jehovah that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gazah.'),(24047002,24,47,2,'Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,'),(24047003,24,47,3,'at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his steeds, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels: fathers shall not look back for [their] children, from feebleness of hands;'),(24047004,24,47,4,'because of the day that cometh to lay waste all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remaineth; for Jehovah will lay waste the Philistines, the remnant of the island of Caphtor.'),(24047005,24,47,5,'Baldness is come upon Gazah; Ashkelon is cut off, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?'),(24047006,24,47,6,'Alas! sword of Jehovah, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Withdraw into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.'),(24047007,24,47,7,'How shouldest thou be quiet? -- For Jehovah hath given it a charge: against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore, there hath he appointed it.'),(24048001,24,48,1,'Concerning Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled; Kirjathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and dismayed.'),(24048002,24,48,2,'Moab\'s praise is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from [being] a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be cut down; the sword shall pursue thee.'),(24048003,24,48,3,'A voice of crying from Horonaim; wasting and great destruction!'),(24048004,24,48,4,'Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.'),(24048005,24,48,5,'For by the ascent of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the descent of Horonaim is heard the anguish of the cry of destruction.'),(24048006,24,48,6,'Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrub in the wilderness.'),(24048007,24,48,7,'For because thou hast confided in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken, and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.'),(24048008,24,48,8,'And the waster shall come upon every city, that not a city shall escape; and the valley shall perish, and the plateau shall be destroyed: as Jehovah hath said.'),(24048009,24,48,9,'Give wings unto Moab, that she may flee and get away; and the cities thereof shall become a desolation, without inhabitant.'),(24048010,24,48,10,'Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood!'),(24048011,24,48,11,'Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and hath settled on his lees; he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed.'),(24048012,24,48,12,'Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will send unto him pourers that shall pour him off, and shall empty his vessels, and break in pieces his flagons.'),(24048013,24,48,13,'And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.'),(24048014,24,48,14,'How do ye say, We are mighty, and men of valour for the war?'),(24048015,24,48,15,'Moab is laid waste, and his cities are gone up [in smoke], and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.'),(24048016,24,48,16,'The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.'),(24048017,24,48,17,'All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!'),(24048018,24,48,18,'Come down from [thy] glory and sit in the drought, O inhabitress, daughter of Dibon; the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee, thy strongholds hath he destroyed.'),(24048019,24,48,19,'Stand by the way, and watch, inhabitress of Aroer; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth; say, What is done?'),(24048020,24,48,20,'Moab is put to shame; for he is broken down: howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.'),(24048021,24,48,21,'And judgment is come upon the country of the plateau; upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath;'),(24048022,24,48,22,'and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim;'),(24048023,24,48,23,'and upon Kirjathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon;'),(24048024,24,48,24,'and upon Kerijoth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.'),(24048025,24,48,25,'The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith Jehovah.'),(24048026,24,48,26,'Make him drunken, for he magnified himself against Jehovah; and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.'),(24048027,24,48,27,'For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves, that as oft as thou didst speak of him, thou didst shake the head?'),(24048028,24,48,28,'Leave the cities, and dwell in the rocks, ye inhabitants of Moab, and be like the dove, that maketh her nest in the sides of the cave\'s mouth.'),(24048029,24,48,29,'We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, -- [he is] very proud; -- his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.'),(24048030,24,48,30,'I know his wrath, saith Jehovah; his pratings are vain: they do not as [they say].'),(24048031,24,48,31,'Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall there be moaning.'),(24048032,24,48,32,'O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with more than the weeping of Jaazer: thy shoots passed over the sea, they reached to the sea of Jaazer. The spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.'),(24048033,24,48,33,'And joy and gladness is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: they shall no more tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.'),(24048034,24,48,34,'Because of the cry from Heshbon, unto Elaleh, unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar unto Horonaim, [unto] Eglath-shelishijah: for even the waters of Nimrim shall become desolations.'),(24048035,24,48,35,'And I will cause to cease in Moab, saith Jehovah, him that offereth in the high place, and him that burneth incense to his gods.'),(24048036,24,48,36,'Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres; because the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.'),(24048037,24,48,37,'For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.'),(24048038,24,48,38,'It is wholly lamentation upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the public places thereof; for I have broken Moab, like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith Jehovah.'),(24048039,24,48,39,'They howl, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! And Moab shall be a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.'),(24048040,24,48,40,'For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.'),(24048041,24,48,41,'Kerijoth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Moab shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.'),(24048042,24,48,42,'And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.'),(24048043,24,48,43,'Fear, and the pit, and the snare shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah.'),(24048044,24,48,44,'He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon her, upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.'),(24048045,24,48,45,'They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon powerless; for a fire hath come forth from Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and hath consumed the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the sons of tumult.'),(24048046,24,48,46,'Woe to thee, Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away in captivity, and thy daughters are captives.'),(24048047,24,48,47,'But I will turn the captivity of Moab at the end of the days, saith Jehovah. Thus far is the judgement of Moab.'),(24049001,24,49,1,'Concerning the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? Why is Malcam heir of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?'),(24049002,24,49,2,'Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause the clamour of war to be heard in Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall be a desolate heap; and her towns shall be burned with fire; and Israel shall possess them that possessed him, saith Jehovah.'),(24049003,24,49,3,'Howl, Heshbon! for Ai is laid waste; cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth, lament and run to and fro within the enclosures: for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.'),(24049004,24,49,4,'Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys? Thy valley shall flow down, O backsliding daughter, that trusteth in her treasures, [saying,] Who shall come against me?'),(24049005,24,49,5,'Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts, from all that are about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall assemble the fugitives.'),(24049006,24,49,6,'And afterwards I will turn the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith Jehovah.'),(24049007,24,49,7,'Concerning Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom spent?'),(24049008,24,49,8,'Flee, turn back, dwell deep down, ye inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I visit him.'),(24049009,24,49,9,'If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a gleaning? If thieves by night, they would destroy only till they had enough.'),(24049010,24,49,10,'But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, that he is unable to hide himself: his seed is wasted, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.'),(24049011,24,49,11,'Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.'),(24049012,24,49,12,'For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and thou indeed, shouldest thou be altogether unpunished? Thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink.'),(24049013,24,49,13,'For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.'),(24049014,24,49,14,'I have heard a rumour from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among the nations: -- Gather yourselves together, and come against her and rise up for the battle.'),(24049015,24,49,15,'For behold, I have made thee small among the nations, despised among men.'),(24049016,24,49,16,'Thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart, hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill. Though thou shouldest make thy nest high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.'),(24049017,24,49,17,'And Edom shall be an astonishment: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, because of all the plagues thereof.'),(24049018,24,49,18,'As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and their neighbour cities, saith Jehovah, no one shall dwell there, neither shall a son of man sojourn therein.'),(24049019,24,49,19,'Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will make them suddenly run away from it; and who is a chosen [man] whom I shall appoint over her? For who is like me? and who will assign me a time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?'),(24049020,24,49,20,'Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, which he hath taken against Edom, and his purposes which he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: The little ones of the flock shall certainly draw them away; he shall certainly make their habitation desolate for them.');
