(21008011,21,8,11,'Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.'),(21008012,21,8,12,'Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.'),(21008013,21,8,13,'But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn\'t fear God.'),(21008014,21,8,14,'There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.'),(21008015,21,8,15,'Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.'),(21008016,21,8,16,'When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),'),(21008017,21,8,17,'then I saw all the work of God, that man can\'t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won\'t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won\'t be able to find it.'),(21009001,21,9,1,'For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn\'t know it; all is before them.'),(21009002,21,9,2,'All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn\'t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.'),(21009003,21,9,3,'This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.'),(21009004,21,9,4,'For to him who is joined with 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 will die, but the dead don\'t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.'),(21009006,21,9,6,'Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.'),(21009007,21,9,7,'Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.'),(21009008,21,9,8,'Let your garments be always white, and don\'t let your head lack oil.'),(21009009,21,9,9,'Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.'),(21009010,21,9,10,'Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.'),(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 men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.'),(21009012,21,9,12,'For man also doesn\'t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.'),(21009013,21,9,13,'I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.'),(21009014,21,9,14,'There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.'),(21009015,21,9,15,'Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.'),(21009016,21,9,16,'Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man\'s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.'),(21009017,21,9,17,'The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.'),(21009018,21,9,18,'Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.'),(21010001,21,10,1,'Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.'),(21010002,21,10,2,'A wise man\'s heart is at his right hand, but a fool\'s heart at his left.'),(21010003,21,10,3,'Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.'),(21010004,21,10,4,'If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don\'t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.'),(21010005,21,10,5,'There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.'),(21010006,21,10,6,'Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.'),(21010007,21,10,7,'I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.'),(21010008,21,10,8,'He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.'),(21010009,21,10,9,'Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby.'),(21010010,21,10,10,'If the axe is blunt, and one doesn\'t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.'),(21010011,21,10,11,'If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer\'s tongue.'),(21010012,21,10,12,'The words of a wise man\'s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.'),(21010013,21,10,13,'The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.'),(21010014,21,10,14,'A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn\'t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?'),(21010015,21,10,15,'The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn\'t know how to go to the city.'),(21010016,21,10,16,'Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, And your princes eat in the morning!'),(21010017,21,10,17,'Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, And your princes eat in due season, For strength, and not for drunkenness!'),(21010018,21,10,18,'By slothfulness the roof sinks in; And through idleness of the hands the house leaks.'),(21010019,21,10,19,'A feast is made for laughter, And wine makes the life glad; And money is the answer for all things.'),(21010020,21,10,20,'Don\'t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; And don\'t curse the rich in your bedchamber: For a bird of the sky may carry your voice, And that which has wings may tell the matter.'),(21011001,21,11,1,'Cast your bread on the waters; For you shall find it after many days.'),(21011002,21,11,2,'Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; For you don\'t know what evil will be on the earth.'),(21011003,21,11,3,'If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; And if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, In the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.'),(21011004,21,11,4,'He who observes the wind won\'t sow; And he who regards the clouds won\'t reap.'),(21011005,21,11,5,'As you don\'t know what is the way of the wind, Nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; Even so you don\'t know the work of God who does all.'),(21011006,21,11,6,'In the morning sow your seed, And in the evening don\'t withhold your hand; For you don\'t know which will prosper, whether this or that, Or whether they both will be equally good.'),(21011007,21,11,7,'Truly the light is sweet, And a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.'),(21011008,21,11,8,'Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.'),(21011009,21,11,9,'Rejoice, young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, And walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.'),(21011010,21,11,10,'Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh; For youth and the dawn of life are vanity.'),(21012001,21,12,1,'Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the evil days come, and the years draw near, When you will say, \"I have no pleasure in them;\"'),(21012002,21,12,2,'Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, And the clouds return after the rain;'),(21012003,21,12,3,'In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, And the strong men shall bow themselves, And the grinders cease because they are few, And those who look out of the windows are darkened,'),(21012004,21,12,4,'And the doors shall be shut in the street; When the sound of the grinding is low, And one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, And all the daughters of music shall be brought low;'),(21012005,21,12,5,'Yes, they shall be afraid of heights, And terrors will be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the grasshopper shall be a burden, And desire shall fail; Because man goes to his everlasting home, And the mourners go about the streets:'),(21012006,21,12,6,'Before the silver cord is severed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher is broken at the spring, Or the wheel broken at the cistern,'),(21012007,21,12,7,'And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.'),(21012008,21,12,8,'Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!'),(21012009,21,12,9,'Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, 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 blamelessly, words of truth.'),(21012011,21,12,11,'The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.'),(21012012,21,12,12,'Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.'),(21012013,21,12,13,'This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.'),(21012014,21,12,14,'For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.'),(22001001,22,1,1,'The Song of songs, which is Solomon\'s.  Beloved'),(22001002,22,1,2,'Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For your love is better than wine.'),(22001003,22,1,3,'Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, Therefore the virgins love you.'),(22001004,22,1,4,'Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his chambers.  Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine!  Beloved They are right to love you.'),(22001005,22,1,5,'I am dark, but lovely, You daughters of Jerusalem, Like Kedar\'s tents, Like Solomon\'s curtains.'),(22001006,22,1,6,'Don\'t stare at me because I am dark, Because the sun has scorched me. My mother\'s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven\'t kept my own vineyard.'),(22001007,22,1,7,'Tell me, you whom my soul loves, Where you graze your flock, Where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled Beside the flocks of your companions?  Lover'),(22001008,22,1,8,'If you don\'t know, most beautiful among women, Follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds\' tents.'),(22001009,22,1,9,'I have compared you, my love, To a steed in Pharaoh\'s chariots.'),(22001010,22,1,10,'Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, Your neck with strings of jewels.'),(22001011,22,1,11,'We will make you earrings of gold, With studs of silver.  Beloved'),(22001012,22,1,12,'While the king sat at his table, My perfume spread its fragrance.'),(22001013,22,1,13,'My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, That lies between my breasts.'),(22001014,22,1,14,'My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms From the vineyards of En Gedi.  Lover'),(22001015,22,1,15,'Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves.  Beloved'),(22001016,22,1,16,'Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; And our couch is verdant.  Lover'),(22001017,22,1,17,'The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved'),(22002001,22,2,1,'I am a rose of Sharon, A lily of the valleys.'),(22002002,22,2,2,'As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.  Beloved'),(22002003,22,2,3,'As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, His fruit was sweet to my taste.'),(22002004,22,2,4,'He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.'),(22002005,22,2,5,'Strengthen me with raisins, Refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.'),(22002006,22,2,6,'His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.'),(22002007,22,2,7,'I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That you not stir up, nor awaken love, Until it so desires.'),(22002008,22,2,8,'The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, Leaping on the mountains, Skipping on the hills.'),(22002009,22,2,9,'My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.'),(22002010,22,2,10,'My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.'),(22002011,22,2,11,'For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.'),(22002012,22,2,12,'The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing has come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land.'),(22002013,22,2,13,'The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, And come away.  Lover'),(22002014,22,2,14,'My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of the mountainside, Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.'),(22002015,22,2,15,'Catch for us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.  Beloved'),(22002016,22,2,16,'My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.'),(22002017,22,2,17,'Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, And be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.'),(22003001,22,3,1,'By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn\'t find him.'),(22003002,22,3,2,'I will get up now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn\'t find him.'),(22003003,22,3,3,'The watchmen who go about the city found me; \"Have you seen him whom my soul loves?\"'),(22003004,22,3,4,'I had scarcely passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother\'s house, Into the chamber of her who conceived me.'),(22003005,22,3,5,'I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That you not stir up, nor awaken love, Until it so desires.'),(22003006,22,3,6,'Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all spices of the merchant?'),(22003007,22,3,7,'Behold, it is Solomon\'s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, Of the mighty men of Israel.'),(22003008,22,3,8,'They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, Because of fear in the night.'),(22003009,22,3,9,'King Solomon made himself a carriage Of the wood of Lebanon.'),(22003010,22,3,10,'He made its pillars of silver, Its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, Its midst being paved with love, From the daughters of Jerusalem.'),(22003011,22,3,11,'Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, With the crown with which his mother has crowned him, In the day of his weddings, In the day of the gladness of his heart.  Lover'),(22004001,22,4,1,'Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That descend from Mount Gilead.'),(22004002,22,4,2,'Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, Which have come up from the washing, Where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.'),(22004003,22,4,3,'Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.'),(22004004,22,4,4,'Your neck is like David\'s tower built for an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand shields, All the shields of the mighty men.'),(22004005,22,4,5,'Your two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe, Which feed among the lilies.'),(22004006,22,4,6,'Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, To the hill of frankincense.'),(22004007,22,4,7,'You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.'),(22004008,22,4,8,'Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, With me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions\' dens, From the mountains of the leopards.'),(22004009,22,4,9,'You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, With one chain of your neck.'),(22004010,22,4,10,'How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices!'),(22004011,22,4,11,'Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.'),(22004012,22,4,12,'A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; A locked up spring, A sealed fountain.'),(22004013,22,4,13,'Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: Henna with spikenard plants,'),(22004014,22,4,14,'Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; Myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,'),(22004015,22,4,15,'A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, Flowing streams from Lebanon.  Beloved'),(22004016,22,4,16,'Awake, north wind; and come, you south; Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And taste his precious fruits. Lover'),(22005001,22,5,1,'I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.  Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.  Beloved'),(22005002,22,5,2,'I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My hair with the dampness of the night.'),(22005003,22,5,3,'I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?'),(22005004,22,5,4,'My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.'),(22005005,22,5,5,'I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, My fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the lock.'),(22005006,22,5,6,'I opened to my beloved; But my beloved left; gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn\'t find him. I called him, but he didn\'t answer.'),(22005007,22,5,7,'The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.'),(22005008,22,5,8,'I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him that I am faint with love.  Friends'),(22005009,22,5,9,'How is your beloved better than another beloved, You fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, That you do so adjure us?  Beloved'),(22005010,22,5,10,'My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.'),(22005011,22,5,11,'His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.'),(22005012,22,5,12,'His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, Washed with milk, mounted like jewels.'),(22005013,22,5,13,'His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.'),(22005014,22,5,14,'His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.'),(22005015,22,5,15,'His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.'),(22005016,22,5,16,'His mouth is sweetness; Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, Daughters of Jerusalem.   Friends'),(22006001,22,6,1,'Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?  Beloved'),(22006002,22,6,2,'My beloved has gone down to 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 browses among the lilies,'),(22006004,22,6,4,'You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, Lovely as Jerusalem, Awesome as an army with banners.'),(22006005,22,6,5,'Turn away your eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.'),(22006006,22,6,6,'Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which have come up from the washing; Of which every one has twins; None is bereaved among them.'),(22006007,22,6,7,'Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.'),(22006008,22,6,8,'There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, And virgins without number.'),(22006009,22,6,9,'My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother\'s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.'),(22006010,22,6,10,'Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Beautiful as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners?'),(22006011,22,6,11,'I went down into the nut tree grove, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, And the pomegranates were in flower.'),(22006012,22,6,12,'Without realizing it, My desire set me with my royal people\'s chariots.  Friends'),(22006013,22,6,13,'Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you.  Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, As at the dance of Mahanaim?'),(22007001,22,7,1,'How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince\'s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman.'),(22007002,22,7,2,'Your body is like a round goblet, No mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, Set about with lilies.'),(22007003,22,7,3,'Your two breasts are like two fawns, That are twins of a roe.'),(22007004,22,7,4,'Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.'),(22007005,22,7,5,'Your head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in its tresses.'),(22007006,22,7,6,'How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!'),(22007007,22,7,7,'This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.'),(22007008,22,7,8,'I said, \"I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.\" Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, The smell of your breath like apples,  Beloved'),(22007009,22,7,9,'Your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.'),(22007010,22,7,10,'I am my beloved\'s. His desire is toward me.'),(22007011,22,7,11,'Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.'),(22007012,22,7,12,'Let\'s go early up to the vineyards. Let\'s see whether the vine has budded, Its blossom is open, And the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.'),(22007013,22,7,13,'The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, Which I have stored up for you, my beloved.'),(22008001,22,8,1,'Oh that you were like my brother, Who sucked the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; Yes, and no one would despise me.'),(22008002,22,8,2,'I would lead you, bringing you into my mother\'s house, Who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.'),(22008003,22,8,3,'His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me.'),(22008004,22,8,4,'I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, That you not stir up, nor awaken love, Until it so desires.  Friends'),(22008005,22,8,5,'Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, Leaning on her beloved?  Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.'),(22008006,22,8,6,'Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh.'),(22008007,22,8,7,'Many waters can\'t quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, He would be utterly scorned.  Friends'),(22008008,22,8,8,'We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister In the day when she is to be spoken for?'),(22008009,22,8,9,'If she is a wall, We will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, We will enclose her with boards of cedar.  Beloved'),(22008010,22,8,10,'I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, Then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.'),(22008011,22,8,11,'Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.'),(22008012,22,8,12,'My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; Two hundred for those who tend its fruit.  Lover'),(22008013,22,8,13,'You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, Let me hear your voice!  Beloved'),(22008014,22,8,14,'Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!'),(23001001,23,1,1,'The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.'),(23001002,23,1,2,'Hear, heavens, And listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.'),(23001003,23,1,3,'The ox knows his owner, And the donkey his master\'s crib; But Israel doesn\'t know, My people don\'t consider.'),(23001004,23,1,4,'Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.'),(23001005,23,1,5,'Why should you be beaten more, That you 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 to the head there is no soundness in it: Wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven\'t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.'),(23001007,23,1,7,'Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, And it is desolate, As overthrown by strangers.'),(23001008,23,1,8,'The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, Like a hut in a field of melons, Like a besieged city.'),(23001009,23,1,9,'Unless Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, We would have been as Sodom; We would have been like Gomorrah.'),(23001010,23,1,10,'Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!'),(23001011,23,1,11,'\"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?,\" says Yahweh. \"I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed animals. I don\'t delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs, Or of male goats.'),(23001012,23,1,12,'When you come to appear before me, Who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?'),(23001013,23,1,13,'Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can\'t bear with evil assemblies.'),(23001014,23,1,14,'My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts; They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.'),(23001015,23,1,15,'When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.'),(23001016,23,1,16,'Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil.'),(23001017,23,1,17,'Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow.\"'),(23001018,23,1,18,'\"Come now, and let us reason together,\" says Yahweh: \"Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.'),(23001019,23,1,19,'If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;'),(23001020,23,1,20,'But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.\"'),(23001021,23,1,21,'How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.'),(23001022,23,1,22,'Your silver has become dross, Your wine mixed with water.'),(23001023,23,1,23,'Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don\'t judge the fatherless, Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.'),(23001024,23,1,24,'Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, The Mighty One of Israel, says: \"Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, And avenge myself of my enemies;'),(23001025,23,1,25,'And I will turn my hand on you, Thoroughly purge away your dross, And will take away all your tin.'),(23001026,23,1,26,'I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called \'The city of righteousness, A faithful town.\''),(23001027,23,1,27,'Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And her converts with righteousness.'),(23001028,23,1,28,'But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, And those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.'),(23001029,23,1,29,'For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.'),(23001030,23,1,30,'For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no water.'),(23001031,23,1,31,'The strong will be like tinder, And his work like a spark. They will both burn together, And no one will quench them.\"'),(23002001,23,2,1,'This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.'),(23002002,23,2,2,'It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh\'s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be raised above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.'),(23002003,23,2,3,'Many peoples shall go and say, \"Come, let\'s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, To the house of the God of Jacob; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion the law shall go forth, And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.'),(23002004,23,2,4,'He will judge between the nations, And will decide concerning many peoples; And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.'),(23002005,23,2,5,'House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.'),(23002006,23,2,6,'For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled from the east, With those who practice divination like the Philistines, And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.'),(23002007,23,2,7,'Their land is full of silver and gold, Neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, Neither is there any end of their chariots.'),(23002008,23,2,8,'Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.'),(23002009,23,2,9,'Man is brought low, And mankind is humbled; Therefore don\'t forgive them.'),(23002010,23,2,10,'Enter into the rock, And hide in the dust, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty.'),(23002011,23,2,11,'The lofty looks of man will be brought low, The haughtiness of men will be bowed down, And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.'),(23002012,23,2,12,'For there will be a day of Yahweh of Hosts for all that is proud and haughty, And for all that is lifted up; And it shall be brought low:'),(23002013,23,2,13,'For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, For all the oaks of Bashan,'),(23002014,23,2,14,'For all the high mountains, For all the hills that are lifted up,'),(23002015,23,2,15,'For every lofty tower, For every fortified wall,'),(23002016,23,2,16,'For all the ships of Tarshish, And for all pleasant imagery.'),(23002017,23,2,17,'The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.'),(23002018,23,2,18,'The idols shall utterly pass away.'),(23002019,23,2,19,'Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, And into the holes of the earth, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty, When he arises to shake the earth mightily.'),(23002020,23,2,20,'In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, And their idols of gold, Which have been made for themselves to worship, To the moles and to the bats;'),(23002021,23,2,21,'To go into the caverns of the rocks, And into the clefts of the ragged rocks, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty, When he arises to shake the earth mightily.'),(23002022,23,2,22,'Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?'),(23003001,23,3,1,'For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, The whole supply of bread, And the whole supply of water;'),(23003002,23,3,2,'The mighty man, The man of war, The judge, The prophet, The diviner, The elder,'),(23003003,23,3,3,'The captain of fifty, The honorable man, The counselor, The skilled craftsman, And the clever enchanter.'),(23003004,23,3,4,'I will give boys to be their princes, And children shall rule over them.'),(23003005,23,3,5,'The people will be oppressed, Everyone by another, And everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, And the base against the honorable.'),(23003006,23,3,6,'Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, \"You have clothing, you be our ruler, And let this ruin be under your hand.\"'),(23003007,23,3,7,'In that day he will cry out, saying, I will not be a healer; For in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.'),(23003008,23,3,8,'For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; Because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, To provoke the eyes of his glory.'),(23003009,23,3,9,'The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don\'t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.'),(23003010,23,3,10,'Tell the righteous \"Good!\" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.'),(23003011,23,3,11,'Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; For the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.'),(23003012,23,3,12,'As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.'),(23003013,23,3,13,'Yahweh stands up to contend, And stands to judge the peoples.'),(23003014,23,3,14,'Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, And their leaders: \"It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.'),(23003015,23,3,15,'What do you mean that you crush my people, And grind the face of the poor?\" says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.'),(23003016,23,3,16,'Moreover Yahweh said, \"Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, Walking to trip as they go, Jingling ornaments on their feet;'),(23003017,23,3,17,'Therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, And Yahweh will make their scalps bald.\"'),(23003018,23,3,18,'In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,'),(23003019,23,3,19,'the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,'),(23003020,23,3,20,'the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,'),(23003021,23,3,21,'the signet rings, the nose rings,'),(23003022,23,3,22,'the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses,'),(23003023,23,3,23,'the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.'),(23003024,23,3,24,'It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of well set hair, baldness; Instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty.'),(23003025,23,3,25,'Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty in the war.'),(23003026,23,3,26,'Her gates shall lament and mourn; And she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.'),(23004001,23,4,1,'Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, \"We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.\"'),(23004002,23,4,2,'In that day, Yahweh\'s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.'),(23004003,23,4,3,'It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;'),(23004004,23,4,4,'when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.'),(23004005,23,4,5,'Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.'),(23004006,23,4,6,'There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.'),(23005001,23,5,1,'Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.'),(23005002,23,5,2,'He dug it up, Gathered out its stones, Planted it with the choicest vine, Built a tower in its midst, And also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, But it yielded wild grapes.'),(23005003,23,5,3,'\"Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Please judge between me and my vineyard.'),(23005004,23,5,4,'What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?'),(23005005,23,5,5,'Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.'),(23005006,23,5,6,'I will lay it a wasteland. It won\'t be pruned nor hoed, But it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.\"'),(23005007,23,5,7,'For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.'),(23005008,23,5,8,'Woe to those who join house to house, Who lay field to field, until there is no room, And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!'),(23005009,23,5,9,'In my ears, Yahweh of Hosts says: \"Surely many houses will be desolate, Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.'),(23005010,23,5,10,'For ten acres{Literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.} of vineyard shall yield one bath,{1 bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons} And a homer{1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels} of seed shall yield an ephah.{1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)-- only one tenth of what was sown.}\"'),(23005011,23,5,11,'Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; Who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!'),(23005012,23,5,12,'The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; But they don\'t regard the work of Yahweh, Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.'),(23005013,23,5,13,'Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitudes are parched with thirst.'),(23005014,23,5,14,'Therefore Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} has enlarged its desire, And opened its mouth without measure; And their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.'),(23005015,23,5,15,'So man is brought low, Mankind is humbled, And the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;'),(23005016,23,5,16,'But Yahweh of Hosts is exalted in justice, And God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.'),(23005017,23,5,17,'Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.'),(23005018,23,5,18,'Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;'),(23005019,23,5,19,'Who say, \"Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, That we may know it!\"'),(23005020,23,5,20,'Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, And light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, And sweet for bitter!'),(23005021,23,5,21,'Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!'),(23005022,23,5,22,'Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, And champions at mixing strong drink;'),(23005023,23,5,23,'Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, But deny justice for the innocent!'),(23005024,23,5,24,'Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.'),(23005025,23,5,25,'Therefore Yahweh\'s anger burns against his people, And he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, And their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, But his hand is still stretched out.'),(23005026,23,5,26,'He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, And he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.'),(23005027,23,5,27,'None shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the belt of their loins be untied, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:'),(23005028,23,5,28,'Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent. Their horses\' hoofs will be like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind.'),(23005029,23,5,29,'Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, And seize their prey and carry it off, And there will be no one to deliver.'),(23005030,23,5,30,'They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.'),(23006001,23,6,1,'In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.'),(23006002,23,6,2,'Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.'),(23006003,23,6,3,'One called to another, and said, \"Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Hosts! The whole earth is full of his glory!\"'),(23006004,23,6,4,'The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.'),(23006005,23,6,5,'Then I said, \"Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts!\"'),(23006006,23,6,6,'Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.'),(23006007,23,6,7,'He touched my mouth with it, and said, \"Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.\"'),(23006008,23,6,8,'I heard the Lord\'s voice, saying, \"Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?\" Then I said, \"Here I am. Send me!\"'),(23006009,23,6,9,'He said, \"Go, and tell this people, \'You hear indeed, But don\'t understand; And you see indeed, But don\'t perceive.\''),(23006010,23,6,10,'Make the heart of this people fat; Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn again, and be healed.\"'),(23006011,23,6,11,'Then I said, \"Lord, how long?\" He answered, \"Until cities are waste without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the land becomes utterly waste,'),(23006012,23,6,12,'And Yahweh has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.'),(23006013,23,6,13,'If there are yet a tenth in it, It also shall in turn be eaten up: As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; So the holy seed is its stock.\"'),(23007001,23,7,1,'It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.'),(23007002,23,7,2,'It was told the house of David, saying, \"Syria is allied with Ephraim.\" His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.'),(23007003,23,7,3,'Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, \"Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller\'s field.'),(23007004,23,7,4,'Tell him, \'Be careful, and keep calm. Don\'t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.'),(23007005,23,7,5,'Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,'),(23007006,23,7,6,'\"Let\'s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let\'s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel.\"'),(23007007,23,7,7,'This is what the Lord Yahweh says: \"It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.\"'),(23007008,23,7,8,'For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;'),(23007009,23,7,9,'and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah\'s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.\'\"'),(23007010,23,7,10,'Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,'),(23007011,23,7,11,'\"Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.\"'),(23007012,23,7,12,'But Ahaz said, \"I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh.\"'),(23007013,23,7,13,'He said, \"Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?'),(23007014,23,7,14,'Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.{\"Immanuel\" means \"God with us.\"}'),(23007015,23,7,15,'He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.'),(23007016,23,7,16,'For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.'),(23007017,23,7,17,'Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father\'s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.'),(23007018,23,7,18,'It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.'),(23007019,23,7,19,'They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures.'),(23007020,23,7,20,'In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.'),(23007021,23,7,21,'It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;'),(23007022,23,7,22,'and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.'),(23007023,23,7,23,'It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.'),(23007024,23,7,24,'People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.'),(23007025,23,7,25,'All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.\"'),(23008001,23,8,1,'Yahweh said to me, \"Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man\'s pen, \'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;{\"Maher Shalal Hash Baz\" means \"quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil.\"}\''),(23008002,23,8,2,'and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.'),(23008003,23,8,3,'I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said Yahweh to me, Call his name Maher Shalal Hash Baz.'),(23008004,23,8,4,'For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.'),(23008005,23,8,5,'Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,'),(23008006,23,8,6,'Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah\'s son;'),(23008007,23,8,7,'now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;'),(23008008,23,8,8,'and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.'),(23008009,23,8,9,'Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!'),(23008010,23,8,10,'Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.'),(23008011,23,8,11,'For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,'),(23008012,23,8,12,'Don\'t you say, \"A conspiracy!\" concerning all about which this people shall say, \"A conspiracy!\" neither fear their fear, nor be in dread [of it].'),(23008013,23,8,13,'Yahweh of hosts, him shall you sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.'),(23008014,23,8,14,'He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(23008015,23,8,15,'Many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.'),(23008016,23,8,16,'Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.'),(23008017,23,8,17,'I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.'),(23008018,23,8,18,'Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.'),(23008019,23,8,19,'When they shall tell you, \"Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:\" shouldn\'t a people consult with their God? on behalf of the living [should they consult] with the dead?'),(23008020,23,8,20,'To the law and to the testimony! if they don\'t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.'),(23008021,23,8,21,'They shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:'),(23008022,23,8,22,'and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.'),(23009001,23,9,1,'But there shall be no gloom to her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time has he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.'),(23009002,23,9,2,'The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.'),(23009003,23,9,3,'You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.'),(23009004,23,9,4,'For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.'),(23009005,23,9,5,'For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.'),(23009006,23,9,6,'For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.'),(23009007,23,9,7,'Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.'),(23009008,23,9,8,'The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted on Israel.'),(23009009,23,9,9,'All the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,'),(23009010,23,9,10,'The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.'),(23009011,23,9,11,'Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,'),(23009012,23,9,12,'the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.'),(23009013,23,9,13,'Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Hosts.'),(23009014,23,9,14,'Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.'),(23009015,23,9,15,'The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.'),(23009016,23,9,16,'For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are destroyed.'),(23009017,23,9,17,'Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.'),(23009018,23,9,18,'For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.'),(23009019,23,9,19,'Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spares his brother.'),(23009020,23,9,20,'One shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:'),(23009021,23,9,21,'Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.'),(23010001,23,10,1,'Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness;'),(23010002,23,10,2,'to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!'),(23010003,23,10,3,'What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?'),(23010004,23,10,4,'They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.'),(23010005,23,10,5,'Ho Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!'),(23010006,23,10,6,'I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.'),(23010007,23,10,7,'However he doesn\'t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.'),(23010008,23,10,8,'For he says, Aren\'t my princes all of them kings?'),(23010009,23,10,9,'Isn\'t Calno as Carchemish? Isn\'t Hamath as Arpad? Isn\'t Samaria as Damascus?'),(23010010,23,10,10,'As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;'),(23010011,23,10,11,'shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?'),(23010012,23,10,12,'Therefore it shall happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.'),(23010013,23,10,13,'For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit [on thrones]:'),(23010014,23,10,14,'and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.'),(23010015,23,10,15,'Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.'),(23010016,23,10,16,'Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.'),(23010017,23,10,17,'The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.'),(23010018,23,10,18,'He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.'),(23010019,23,10,19,'The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.'),(23010020,23,10,20,'It shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and those who are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.'),(23010021,23,10,21,'A remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.'),(23010022,23,10,22,'For though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with righteousness.'),(23010023,23,10,23,'For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.'),(23010024,23,10,24,'Therefore thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, my people who dwell in Zion, don\'t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.'),(23010025,23,10,25,'For yet a very little while, and the indignation [against you] shall be accomplished, and my anger [shall be directed] to his destruction.'),(23010026,23,10,26,'Yahweh of Hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.'),(23010027,23,10,27,'It shall happen in that day, that his burden shall depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.'),(23010028,23,10,28,'He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he lays up his baggage;'),(23010029,23,10,29,'they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul is fled.'),(23010030,23,10,30,'Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!'),(23010031,23,10,31,'Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.'),(23010032,23,10,32,'This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.'),(23010033,23,10,33,'Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low.'),(23010034,23,10,34,'He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.'),(23011001,23,11,1,'There shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.'),(23011002,23,11,2,'The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.'),(23011003,23,11,3,'His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;'),(23011004,23,11,4,'but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked.'),(23011005,23,11,5,'Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.'),(23011006,23,11,6,'The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.'),(23011007,23,11,7,'The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.'),(23011008,23,11,8,'The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder\'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 Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.'),(23011010,23,11,10,'It shall happen in that day, that the root of Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the peoples, to him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.'),(23011011,23,11,11,'It shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.'),(23011012,23,11,12,'He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.'),(23011013,23,11,13,'The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and those who vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.'),(23011014,23,11,14,'They shall fly down on the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.'),(23011015,23,11,15,'Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will strike it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.'),(23011016,23,11,16,'There shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.'),(23012001,23,12,1,'In that day you will say, \"I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.'),(23012002,23,12,2,'Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.\"'),(23012003,23,12,3,'Therefore with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation.'),(23012004,23,12,4,'In that day you will say, \"Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!'),(23012005,23,12,5,'Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!'),(23012006,23,12,6,'Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel!\"'),(23013001,23,13,1,'The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.'),(23013002,23,13,2,'Set up an ensign on the bare mountain, lift up the voice to them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.'),(23013003,23,13,3,'I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.'),(23013004,23,13,4,'The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Hosts is mustering the host for the battle.'),(23013005,23,13,5,'They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.'),(23013006,23,13,6,'Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.'),(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 dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.'),(23013009,23,13,9,'Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it out of it.'),(23013010,23,13,10,'For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.'),(23013011,23,13,11,'I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.'),(23013012,23,13,12,'I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.'),(23013013,23,13,13,'Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.'),(23013014,23,13,14,'It shall happen, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.'),(23013015,23,13,15,'Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.'),(23013016,23,13,16,'Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.'),(23013017,23,13,17,'Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.'),(23013018,23,13,18,'[Their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.'),(23013019,23,13,19,'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 lived in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.'),(23013021,23,13,21,'But wild animals of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.'),(23013022,23,13,22,'Wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.'),(23014001,23,14,1,'For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the foreigner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.'),(23014002,23,14,2,'The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.'),(23014003,23,14,3,'It shall happen in the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,'),(23014004,23,14,4,'that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!'),(23014005,23,14,5,'Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers;'),(23014006,23,14,6,'who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.'),(23014007,23,14,7,'The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.'),(23014008,23,14,8,'Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you are laid low, no lumberjack is come up against us.'),(23014009,23,14,9,'Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.'),(23014010,23,14,10,'All they shall answer and tell you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like us?'),(23014011,23,14,11,'Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and worms cover you.'),(23014012,23,14,12,'How you are fallen from heaven, day-star, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!'),(23014013,23,14,13,'You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;'),(23014014,23,14,14,'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'),(23014015,23,14,15,'Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.'),(23014016,23,14,16,'Those who see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, [saying], \"Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;'),(23014017,23,14,17,'who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn\'t let loose his prisoners to their home?\"'),(23014018,23,14,18,'All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.'),(23014019,23,14,19,'But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.'),(23014020,23,14,20,'You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.'),(23014021,23,14,21,'Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.'),(23014022,23,14,22,'I will rise up against them, says Yahweh of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son\'s son, says Yahweh.'),(23014023,23,14,23,'I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(23014024,23,14,24,'Yahweh of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:'),(23014025,23,14,25,'that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.'),(23014026,23,14,26,'This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.'),(23014027,23,14,27,'For Yahweh of Hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?'),(23014028,23,14,28,'In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.'),(23014029,23,14,29,'Don\'t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent\'s root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.'),(23014030,23,14,30,'The firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be killed.'),(23014031,23,14,31,'Howl, gate; cry, city; you are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.'),(23014032,23,14,32,'What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.'),(23015001,23,15,1,'The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing.'),(23015002,23,15,2,'They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab wails over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.'),(23015003,23,15,3,'In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.'),(23015004,23,15,4,'Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles within him.'),(23015005,23,15,5,'My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.'),(23015006,23,15,6,'For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.'),(23015007,23,15,7,'Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.'),(23015008,23,15,8,'For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing of it to Eglaim, and the wailing of it to Beer-elim.'),(23015009,23,15,9,'For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on them of Moab that escape, and on the remnant of the land.'),(23016001,23,16,1,'Send you the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.'),(23016002,23,16,2,'For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.'),(23016003,23,16,3,'Give counsel, execute justice; make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; don\'t betray the fugitive.'),(23016004,23,16,4,'Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab, be a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.'),(23016005,23,16,5,'A throne shall be established in loving kindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.'),(23016006,23,16,6,'We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nothing.'),(23016007,23,16,7,'Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir Hareseth shall you mourn, utterly stricken.'),(23016008,23,16,8,'For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.'),(23016009,23,16,9,'Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.'),(23016010,23,16,10,'Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.'),(23016011,23,16,11,'Why my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.'),(23016012,23,16,12,'It shall happen, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.'),(23016013,23,16,13,'This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.'),(23016014,23,16,14,'But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.'),(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, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.'),(23017003,23,17,3,'The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(23017004,23,17,4,'It shall happen in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.'),(23017005,23,17,5,'It shall be as when the harvester gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears; yes, it shall be as when one gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim.'),(23017006,23,17,6,'Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, says Yahweh, the God of Israel.'),(23017007,23,17,7,'In that day shall men look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.'),(23017008,23,17,8,'They shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.'),(23017009,23,17,9,'In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.'),(23017010,23,17,10,'For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips.'),(23017011,23,17,11,'In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.'),(23017012,23,17,12,'Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!'),(23017013,23,17,13,'The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.'),(23017014,23,17,14,'At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.'),(23018001,23,18,1,'Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;'),(23018002,23,18,2,'that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, [saying], Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!'),(23018003,23,18,3,'All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, look; and when the trumpet is blown, listen.'),(23018004,23,18,4,'For thus has Yahweh said to me, I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.'),(23018005,23,18,5,'For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.'),(23018006,23,18,6,'They shall be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the animals of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer on them, and all the animals of the earth shall winter on them.'),(23018007,23,18,7,'In that time shall a present be brought to Yahweh of Hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.'),(23019001,23,19,1,'The burden of Egypt. Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.'),(23019002,23,19,2,'I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.'),(23019003,23,19,3,'The spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.'),(23019004,23,19,4,'I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.'),(23019005,23,19,5,'The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.'),(23019006,23,19,6,'The rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.'),(23019007,23,19,7,'The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.'),(23019008,23,19,8,'The fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters shall languish.'),(23019009,23,19,9,'Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, shall be confounded.'),(23019010,23,19,10,'The pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all those who work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.'),(23019011,23,19,11,'The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?'),(23019012,23,19,12,'Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.'),(23019013,23,19,13,'The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the corner-stone of her tribes.'),(23019014,23,19,14,'Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.'),(23019015,23,19,15,'Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.'),(23019016,23,19,16,'In that day shall the Egyptians be like women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Hosts, which he shakes over them.'),(23019017,23,19,17,'The land of Judah shall become a terror to Egypt; everyone to whom mention is made of it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Yahweh of Hosts, which he purposes against it.'),(23019018,23,19,18,'In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.'),(23019019,23,19,19,'In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border of it to Yahweh.'),(23019020,23,19,20,'It shall be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior, and a defender, and he will deliver them.'),(23019021,23,19,21,'Yahweh shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Yahweh in that day; yes, they shall worship with sacrifice and offering, and shall vow a vow to Yahweh, and shall perform it.'),(23019022,23,19,22,'Yahweh will strike Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return to Yahweh, 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 the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians.'),(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,'because Yahweh of Hosts has blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my 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 Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot.'),(23020003,23,20,3,'Yahweh said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;'),(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,'They shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.'),(23020006,23,20,6,'The inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?'),(23021001,23,21,1,'The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.'),(23021002,23,21,2,'A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease.'),(23021003,23,21,3,'Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I can\'t hear; I am dismayed so that I can\'t see.'),(23021004,23,21,4,'My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.'),(23021005,23,21,5,'They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.'),(23021006,23,21,6,'For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he sees:'),(23021007,23,21,7,'and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with much heed.'),(23021008,23,21,8,'He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;'),(23021009,23,21,9,'and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. He answered, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.'),(23021010,23,21,10,'You my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you.'),(23021011,23,21,11,'The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'),(23021012,23,21,12,'The watchman said, \"The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.\"'),(23021013,23,21,13,'The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.'),(23021014,23,21,14,'To him who was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.'),(23021015,23,21,15,'For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.'),(23021016,23,21,16,'For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;'),(23021017,23,21,17,'and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.'),(23022001,23,22,1,'The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?'),(23022002,23,22,2,'You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.'),(23022003,23,22,3,'All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off.'),(23022004,23,22,4,'Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; don\'t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.'),(23022005,23,22,5,'For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.'),(23022006,23,22,6,'Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.'),(23022007,23,22,7,'It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.'),(23022008,23,22,8,'He took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.'),(23022009,23,22,9,'You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool;'),(23022010,23,22,10,'and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall;'),(23022011,23,22,11,'you made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn\'t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.'),(23022012,23,22,12,'In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:'),(23022013,23,22,13,'and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.'),(23022014,23,22,14,'Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.'),(23022015,23,22,15,'Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, [and say],'),(23022016,23,22,16,'\"What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!\"'),(23022017,23,22,17,'Behold, Yahweh, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely.'),(23022018,23,22,18,'He will surely wind you round and round, [and toss you] like a ball into a large country; there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of your lord\'s house.'),(23022019,23,22,19,'I will thrust you from your office; and from your station shall you be pulled down.'),(23022020,23,22,20,'It shall happen in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:'),(23022021,23,22,21,'and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.'),(23022022,23,22,22,'The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.'),(23022023,23,22,23,'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,'They shall hang on him all the glory of his father\'s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.'),(23022025,23,22,25,'In that day, says Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off; for Yahweh has spoken it.'),(23023001,23,23,1,'The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.'),(23023002,23,23,2,'Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.'),(23023003,23,23,3,'On great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of nations.'),(23023004,23,23,4,'Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.'),(23023005,23,23,5,'When the report comes to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.'),(23023006,23,23,6,'Pass over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coast.'),(23023007,23,23,7,'Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?'),(23023008,23,23,8,'Who has purposed this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?'),(23023009,23,23,9,'Yahweh of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.'),(23023010,23,23,10,'Pass through your land as the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.'),(23023011,23,23,11,'He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms: Yahweh has given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds of it.'),(23023012,23,23,12,'He said, You shall no more rejoice, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall you have no rest.'),(23023013,23,23,13,'Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces of it; they made it a ruin.'),(23023014,23,23,14,'Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.'),(23023015,23,23,15,'It shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute.'),(23023016,23,23,16,'Take a harp, go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.'),(23023017,23,23,17,'It shall happen after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.'),(23023018,23,23,18,'Her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Yahweh: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.'),(23024001,23,24,1,'Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.'),(23024002,23,24,2,'It shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.'),(23024003,23,24,3,'The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.'),(23024004,23,24,4,'The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.'),(23024005,23,24,5,'The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.'),(23024006,23,24,6,'Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.'),(23024007,23,24,7,'The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.'),(23024008,23,24,8,'The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.'),(23024009,23,24,9,'They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.'),(23024010,23,24,10,'The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.'),(23024011,23,24,11,'There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.'),(23024012,23,24,12,'In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.'),(23024013,23,24,13,'For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.'),(23024014,23,24,14,'These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they cry aloud from the sea.'),(23024015,23,24,15,'Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea!'),(23024016,23,24,16,'From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.'),(23024017,23,24,17,'Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant of the earth.'),(23024018,23,24,18,'It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.'),(23024019,23,24,19,'The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn apart, the earth is shaken violently.'),(23024020,23,24,20,'The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.'),(23024021,23,24,21,'It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.'),(23024022,23,24,22,'They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.'),(23024023,23,24,23,'Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.'),(23025001,23,25,1,'Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.'),(23025002,23,25,2,'For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.'),(23025003,23,25,3,'Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of awesome nations shall fear you.'),(23025004,23,25,4,'For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall.'),(23025005,23,25,5,'As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall be brought low.'),(23025006,23,25,6,'In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts make to all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.'),(23025007,23,25,7,'He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.'),(23025008,23,25,8,'He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.'),(23025009,23,25,9,'It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.'),(23025010,23,25,10,'For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.'),(23025011,23,25,11,'He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it, as he who swims spreads forth [his hands] to swim; but [Yahweh] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.'),(23025012,23,25,12,'The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to 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 will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.'),(23026002,23,26,2,'Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.'),(23026003,23,26,3,'You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you.'),(23026004,23,26,4,'Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.'),(23026005,23,26,5,'For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.'),(23026006,23,26,6,'The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.'),(23026007,23,26,7,'The way of the just is uprightness: you that are upright do direct the path of the just.'),(23026008,23,26,8,'Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.'),(23026009,23,26,9,'With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.'),(23026010,23,26,10,'Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of Yahweh.'),(23026011,23,26,11,'Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don\'t see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the people, and be disappointed; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.'),(23026012,23,26,12,'Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us; for you have also worked all our works for us.'),(23026013,23,26,13,'Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.'),(23026014,23,26,14,'[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.'),(23026015,23,26,15,'You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.'),(23026016,23,26,16,'Yahweh, in trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer [when] your chastening was on them.'),(23026017,23,26,17,'Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.'),(23026018,23,26,18,'We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.'),(23026019,23,26,19,'Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.'),(23026020,23,26,20,'Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation be past.'),(23026021,23,26,21,'For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.'),(23027001,23,27,1,'In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.'),(23027002,23,27,2,'In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing you to it.'),(23027003,23,27,3,'I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.'),(23027004,23,27,4,'Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together.'),(23027005,23,27,5,'Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me.'),(23027006,23,27,6,'In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit.'),(23027007,23,27,7,'Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them?'),(23027008,23,27,8,'In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.'),(23027009,23,27,9,'Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.'),(23027010,23,27,10,'For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches of it.'),(23027011,23,27,11,'When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.'),(23027012,23,27,12,'It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel.'),(23027013,23,27,13,'It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.'),(23028001,23,28,1,'Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!'),(23028002,23,28,2,'Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.'),(23028003,23,28,3,'The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot:'),(23028004,23,28,4,'and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he who looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.'),(23028005,23,28,5,'In that day will Yahweh of Hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;'),(23028006,23,28,6,'and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.'),(23028007,23,28,7,'Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.'),(23028008,23,28,8,'For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].'),(23028009,23,28,9,'Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?'),(23028010,23,28,10,'For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.'),(23028011,23,28,11,'No, but by [men of] strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;'),(23028012,23,28,12,'to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him who is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.'),(23028013,23,28,13,'Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.'),(23028014,23,28,14,'Why hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:'),(23028015,23,28,15,'Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:'),(23028016,23,28,16,'therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure foundation: he who believes shall not be in haste.'),(23028017,23,28,17,'I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.'),(23028018,23,28,18,'Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.'),(23028019,23,28,19,'As often as it passes though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nothing but terror to understand the message.'),(23028020,23,28,20,'For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.'),(23028021,23,28,21,'For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.'),(23028022,23,28,22,'Now therefore don\'t you be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, on the whole earth.'),(23028023,23,28,23,'Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.'),(23028024,23,28,24,'Does he who plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?'),(23028025,23,28,25,'When he has leveled the surface of it, doesn\'t he cast abroad the dill, and scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?'),(23028026,23,28,26,'For his God does instruct him aright, [and] does teach him.'),(23028027,23,28,27,'For the dill are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about on the cumin; but the dill are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod.'),(23028028,23,28,28,'Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.'),(23028029,23,28,29,'This also comes forth from Yahweh of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.'),(23029001,23,29,1,'Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add you year to year; let the feasts come round:'),(23029002,23,29,2,'then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be to me as Ariel.'),(23029003,23,29,3,'I will encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against you.'),(23029004,23,29,4,'You shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust; and your voice shall be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.'),(23029005,23,29,5,'But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the awesome ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.'),(23029006,23,29,6,'She shall be visited of Yahweh of Hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.'),(23029007,23,29,7,'The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.'),(23029008,23,29,8,'It shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.'),(23029009,23,29,9,'Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.'),(23029010,23,29,10,'For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.'),(23029011,23,29,11,'All vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can\'t, for it is sealed:'),(23029012,23,29,12,'and the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned.'),(23029013,23,29,13,'The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];'),(23029014,23,29,14,'therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.'),(23029015,23,29,15,'Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?'),(23029016,23,29,16,'You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him who made it, He didn\'t make me; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?'),(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,'In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.'),(23029019,23,29,19,'The humble also shall increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.'),(23029020,23,29,20,'For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity are cut off;'),(23029021,23,29,21,'that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.'),(23029022,23,29,22,'Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.'),(23029023,23,29,23,'But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yes, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.'),(23029024,23,29,24,'They also who err in spirit shall come to understanding, and those who murmur shall receive instruction.'),(23030001,23,30,1,'Woe to the rebellious children, says Yahweh, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,'),(23030002,23,30,2,'that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!'),(23030003,23,30,3,'Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.'),(23030004,23,30,4,'For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.'),(23030005,23,30,5,'They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can\'t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.'),(23030006,23,30,6,'The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].'),(23030007,23,30,7,'For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.'),(23030008,23,30,8,'Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.'),(23030009,23,30,9,'For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;'),(23030010,23,30,10,'who tell the seers, \"Don\'t see;\" and to the prophets, \"Don\'t prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,'),(23030011,23,30,11,'get 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 says the Holy One of Israel, \"Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;'),(23030013,23,30,13,'therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.'),(23030014,23,30,14,'He shall break it as a potter\'s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.\"'),(23030015,23,30,15,'For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You would not:'),(23030016,23,30,16,'but you said, No, for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride on the swift; therefore shall those who pursue you be swift.'),(23030017,23,30,17,'One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall you flee: until you be left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.'),(23030018,23,30,18,'Therefore will Yahweh wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you: for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.'),(23030019,23,30,19,'For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer you.'),(23030020,23,30,20,'Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers;'),(23030021,23,30,21,'and your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it; when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.'),(23030022,23,30,22,'You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as an unclean thing; you shall tell it, Get you hence.'),(23030023,23,30,23,'He will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures;'),(23030024,23,30,24,'the oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.'),(23030025,23,30,25,'There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.'),(23030026,23,30,26,'Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.'),(23030027,23,30,27,'Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;'),(23030028,23,30,28,'and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.'),(23030029,23,30,29,'You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel.'),(23030030,23,30,30,'Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.'),(23030031,23,30,31,'For through the voice of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he strike [him].'),(23030032,23,30,32,'Every stroke of the appointed staff, which Yahweh shall lay on him, shall be with [the sound of] tambourines and harps; and in battles with the brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them.'),(23030033,23,30,33,'For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, does kindle it.'),(23031001,23,31,1,'Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don\'t look to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Yahweh!'),(23031002,23,31,2,'Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.'),(23031003,23,31,3,'Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.'),(23031004,23,31,4,'For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it.'),(23031005,23,31,5,'As birds hovering, so will Yahweh of Hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and preserve [it].'),(23031006,23,31,6,'Turn you to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.'),(23031007,23,31,7,'For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.'),(23031008,23,31,8,'The Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to forced labor.'),(23031009,23,31,9,'His rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.'),(23032001,23,32,1,'Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.'),(23032002,23,32,2,'A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.'),(23032003,23,32,3,'The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.'),(23032004,23,32,4,'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 fool shall be no more called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.'),(23032006,23,32,6,'For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.'),(23032007,23,32,7,'The instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.'),(23032008,23,32,8,'But the noble devises noble things; and in noble things shall he continue.'),(23032009,23,32,9,'Rise up, you women who are at ease, [and] hear my voice; you careless daughters, give ear to my speech.'),(23032010,23,32,10,'For days beyond a year shall you be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the harvest shall not come.'),(23032011,23,32,11,'Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins.'),(23032012,23,32,12,'They shall strike on the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.'),(23032013,23,32,13,'On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.'),(23032014,23,32,14,'For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;'),(23032015,23,32,15,'until the Spirit be poured on us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.'),(23032016,23,32,16,'Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.'),(23032017,23,32,17,'The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.'),(23032018,23,32,18,'My people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.'),(23032019,23,32,19,'But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.'),(23032020,23,32,20,'Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.'),(23033001,23,33,1,'Woe to you who destroy, and you weren\'t destroyed; and deal treacherously, and they didn\'t deal treacherously with you! When you have ceased to destroy, you shall be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with you.'),(23033002,23,33,2,'Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.'),(23033003,23,33,3,'At the noise of the thunder the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations are scattered.'),(23033004,23,33,4,'Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.'),(23033005,23,33,5,'Yahweh is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.'),(23033006,23,33,6,'There shall be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Yahweh is your treasure.'),(23033007,23,33,7,'Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.'),(23033008,23,33,8,'The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: [the enemy] has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he doesn\'t regard man.'),(23033009,23,33,9,'The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].'),(23033010,23,33,10,'Now will I arise, says Yahweh; now will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted.'),(23033011,23,33,11,'You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.'),(23033012,23,33,12,'The peoples shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.'),(23033013,23,33,13,'Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.'),(23033014,23,33,14,'The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?'),(23033015,23,33,15,'He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil:'),(23033016,23,33,16,'He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.'),(23033017,23,33,17,'Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a land that reaches afar.'),(23033018,23,33,18,'Your heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed [the tribute]? where is he who counted the towers?'),(23033019,23,33,19,'You shall not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can not comprehend, of a strange language that you can not understand.'),(23033020,23,33,20,'Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes of it shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords of it be broken.'),(23033021,23,33,21,'But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.'),(23033022,23,33,22,'For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us.'),(23033023,23,33,23,'Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.'),(23033024,23,33,24,'The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people who dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.'),(23034001,23,34,1,'Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples: let the earth hear, and the fullness of it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.'),(23034002,23,34,2,'For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.'),(23034003,23,34,3,'Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.'),(23034004,23,34,4,'All the host of the sky shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.'),(23034005,23,34,5,'For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky: behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, to judgment.'),(23034006,23,34,6,'The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.'),(23034007,23,34,7,'The wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.'),(23034008,23,34,8,'For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.'),(23034009,23,34,9,'The streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into sulfur, and the land of it shall become burning pitch.'),(23034010,23,34,10,'It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.'),(23034011,23,34,11,'But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.'),(23034012,23,34,12,'They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.'),(23034013,23,34,13,'Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.'),(23034014,23,34,14,'The wild animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.'),(23034015,23,34,15,'There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.'),(23034016,23,34,16,'Seek you out of the book of Yahweh, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it has commanded, and his Spirit, it has gathered them.'),(23034017,23,34,17,'He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.'),(23035001,23,35,1,'The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.'),(23035002,23,35,2,'It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Yahweh, the excellency of our God.'),(23035003,23,35,3,'Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.'),(23035004,23,35,4,'Tell those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, don\'t be afraid: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and save you.'),(23035005,23,35,5,'Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.'),(23035006,23,35,6,'Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the mute shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.'),(23035007,23,35,7,'The glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.'),(23035008,23,35,8,'A highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for for him who walks in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.'),(23035009,23,35,9,'No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous animal go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:'),(23035010,23,35,10,'and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.'),(23036001,23,36,1,'Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.'),(23036002,23,36,2,'The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a great army. He stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller\'s field.'),(23036003,23,36,3,'Then came forth to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.'),(23036004,23,36,4,'Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust?'),(23036005,23,36,5,'I say, [your] counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?'),(23036006,23,36,6,'Behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, even on Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.'),(23036007,23,36,7,'But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God: isn\'t that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?'),(23036008,23,36,8,'Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.'),(23036009,23,36,9,'How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master\'s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?'),(23036010,23,36,10,'Am I now come up without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'),(23036011,23,36,11,'Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Please speak, to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and don\'t speak to us in the Jews\' language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.'),(23036012,23,36,12,'But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? [has he] not [sent me] to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?'),(23036013,23,36,13,'Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews\' language, and said, Hear you the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.'),(23036014,23,36,14,'Thus says the king, Don\'t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you:'),(23036015,23,36,15,'neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'),(23036016,23,36,16,'Don\'t listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you everyone the waters of his own cistern;'),(23036017,23,36,17,'until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.'),(23036018,23,36,18,'Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?'),(23036019,23,36,19,'Where are the gods of Hamath and 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 Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'),(23036021,23,36,21,'But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king\'s commandment was, saying, Don\'t answer him.'),(23036022,23,36,22,'Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.'),(23037001,23,37,1,'It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.'),(23037002,23,37,2,'He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.'),(23037003,23,37,3,'They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.'),(23037004,23,37,4,'It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'),(23037005,23,37,5,'So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.'),(23037006,23,37,6,'Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don\'t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.'),(23037007,23,37,7,'Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, 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,'So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.'),(23037009,23,37,9,'He heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against you. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,'),(23037010,23,37,10,'Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don\'t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'),(23037011,23,37,11,'Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?'),(23037012,23,37,12,'Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?'),(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,'Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh.'),(23037015,23,37,15,'Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,'),(23037016,23,37,16,'Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, who sits [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.'),(23037017,23,37,17,'Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.'),(23037018,23,37,18,'Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,'),(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; therefore they have destroyed them.'),(23037020,23,37,20,'Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.'),(23037021,23,37,21,'Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,'),(23037022,23,37,22,'this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.'),(23037023,23,37,23,'Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.'),(23037024,23,37,24,'By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;'),(23037025,23,37,25,'I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'),(23037026,23,37,26,'Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be your to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.'),(23037027,23,37,27,'Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.'),(23037028,23,37,28,'But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.'),(23037029,23,37,29,'Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.'),(23037030,23,37,30,'This shall be the sign to you: you shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it.'),(23037031,23,37,31,'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 those who shall escape. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.'),(23037033,23,37,33,'Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.'),(23037034,23,37,34,'By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.'),(23037035,23,37,35,'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David\'s sake.'),(23037036,23,37,36,'The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.'),(23037037,23,37,37,'So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.'),(23037038,23,37,38,'It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.'),(23038001,23,38,1,'In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.'),(23038002,23,38,2,'Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh,'),(23038003,23,38,3,'and said, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.'),(23038004,23,38,4,'Then came the word of Yahweh to Isaiah, saying,'),(23038005,23,38,5,'Go, and tell Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.'),(23038006,23,38,6,'I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.'),(23038007,23,38,7,'This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken:'),(23038008,23,38,8,'behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.'),(23038009,23,38,9,'The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.'),(23038010,23,38,10,'I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.'),(23038011,23,38,11,'I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.'),(23038012,23,38,12,'My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd\'s tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.'),(23038013,23,38,13,'I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.'),(23038014,23,38,14,'Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.'),(23038015,23,38,15,'What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.'),(23038016,23,38,16,'Lord, by these things men live; Wholly therein is the life of my spirit: You restore me, and cause me to live.'),(23038017,23,38,17,'Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your back.'),(23038018,23,38,18,'For Sheol can\'t praise you, death can\'t celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can\'t hope for your truth.'),(23038019,23,38,19,'The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known your truth.'),(23038020,23,38,20,'Yahweh is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.'),(23038021,23,38,21,'Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover.'),(23038022,23,38,22,'Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh?'),(23039001,23,39,1,'At that time Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.'),(23039002,23,39,2,'Hezekiah was glad of them, and shown them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn\'t show them.'),(23039003,23,39,3,'Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country to me, even from Babylon.'),(23039004,23,39,4,'Then said he, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.'),(23039005,23,39,5,'Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh of Hosts:'),(23039006,23,39,6,'Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.'),(23039007,23,39,7,'Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'),(23039008,23,39,8,'Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.'),(23040001,23,40,1,'Comfort you, comfort you my people, says your God.'),(23040002,23,40,2,'Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh\'s hand double for all her sins.'),(23040003,23,40,3,'The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God.'),(23040004,23,40,4,'Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:'),(23040005,23,40,5,'and the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.'),(23040006,23,40,6,'The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field.'),(23040007,23,40,7,'The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.'),(23040008,23,40,8,'The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.'),(23040009,23,40,9,'You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain; you who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, don\'t be afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!'),(23040010,23,40,10,'Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.'),(23040011,23,40,11,'He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.'),(23040012,23,40,12,'Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?'),(23040013,23,40,13,'Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or being his counselor has taught him?'),(23040014,23,40,14,'With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shown to him the way of understanding?'),(23040015,23,40,15,'Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.'),(23040016,23,40,16,'Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the animals of it sufficient for a burnt offering.'),(23040017,23,40,17,'All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.'),(23040018,23,40,18,'To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?'),(23040019,23,40,19,'The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.'),(23040020,23,40,20,'He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.'),(23040021,23,40,21,'Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?'),(23040022,23,40,22,'[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;'),(23040023,23,40,23,'who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.'),(23040024,23,40,24,'Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.'),(23040025,23,40,25,'To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.'),(23040026,23,40,26,'Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.'),(23040027,23,40,27,'Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?'),(23040028,23,40,28,'Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn\'t faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.'),(23040029,23,40,29,'He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength.'),(23040030,23,40,30,'Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:'),(23040031,23,40,31,'but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.'),(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 come near together to judgment.'),(23041002,23,41,2,'Who has raised up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot? he gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.'),(23041003,23,41,3,'He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.'),(23041004,23,41,4,'Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.'),(23041005,23,41,5,'The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come.'),(23041006,23,41,6,'They help everyone his neighbor; and [every one] says to his brother, Be of good courage.'),(23041007,23,41,7,'So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.'),(23041008,23,41,8,'But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,'),(23041009,23,41,9,'you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the corners of it, and said to you, You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;'),(23041010,23,41,10,'Don\'t you be afraid, for I am with you; don\'t be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.'),(23041011,23,41,11,'Behold, all those who are incensed against you shall be disappointed and confounded: those who strive with you shall be as nothing, and shall perish.'),(23041012,23,41,12,'You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even those who contend with you: those who war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.'),(23041013,23,41,13,'For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Don\'t be afraid; I will help you.'),(23041014,23,41,14,'Don\'t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.'),(23041015,23,41,15,'Behold, I have made you [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.'),(23041016,23,41,16,'You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in Yahweh, you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.'),(23041017,23,41,17,'The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst; I, Yahweh, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.'),(23041018,23,41,18,'I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.'),(23041019,23,41,19,'I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together:'),(23041020,23,41,20,'that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.'),(23041021,23,41,21,'Produce your cause, says Yahweh; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.'),(23041022,23,41,22,'Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.'),(23041023,23,41,23,'Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.'),(23041024,23,41,24,'Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.'),(23041025,23,41,25,'I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun one who calls on my name: and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.'),(23041026,23,41,26,'Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, [He is] right? yes, there is none who declares, yes, there is none who shows, yes, there is none who hears your words.'),(23041027,23,41,27,'[I am the] first [who says] to Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good news.'),(23041028,23,41,28,'When I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.'),(23041029,23,41,29,'Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing; their molten images are wind and confusion.'),(23042001,23,42,1,'Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.'),(23042002,23,42,2,'He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.'),(23042003,23,42,3,'A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.'),(23042004,23,42,4,'He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.'),(23042005,23,42,5,'Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:'),(23042006,23,42,6,'I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;'),(23042007,23,42,7,'to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.'),(23042008,23,42,8,'I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to engraved images.'),(23042009,23,42,9,'Behold, the former things have happened, and new things do I declare. Before they spring forth I tell you of them.'),(23042010,23,42,10,'Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants of it.'),(23042011,23,42,11,'Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.'),(23042012,23,42,12,'Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.'),(23042013,23,42,13,'Yahweh will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up [his] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yes, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.'),(23042014,23,42,14,'I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.'),(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 will dry up the pools.'),(23042016,23,42,16,'I will bring the blind by a way that they don\'t know; in paths that they don\'t know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.'),(23042017,23,42,17,'They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.'),(23042018,23,42,18,'Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.'),(23042019,23,42,19,'Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as Yahweh\'s servant?'),(23042020,23,42,20,'You see many things, but don\'t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn\'t hear.'),(23042021,23,42,21,'It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness\' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.'),(23042022,23,42,22,'But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.'),(23042023,23,42,23,'Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come?'),(23042024,23,42,24,'Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Didn\'t Yahweh? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient to his law.'),(23042025,23,42,25,'Therefore he poured on him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he didn\'t know; and it burned him, yet he didn\'t lay it to heart.'),(23043001,23,43,1,'But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: Don\'t be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine.'),(23043002,23,43,2,'When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle on you.'),(23043003,23,43,3,'For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.'),(23043004,23,43,4,'Since you have been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved you; therefore will I give men in your place, and peoples instead of your life.'),(23043005,23,43,5,'Don\'t be afraid; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;'),(23043006,23,43,6,'I will tell the north, Give up; and to the south, Don\'t keep back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;'),(23043007,23,43,7,'everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.'),(23043008,23,43,8,'Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.'),(23043009,23,43,9,'Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.'),(23043010,23,43,10,'You are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.'),(23043011,23,43,11,'I, even I, am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.'),(23043012,23,43,12,'I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange [god] among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and I am God.'),(23043013,23,43,13,'Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?'),(23043014,23,43,14,'Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.'),(23043015,23,43,15,'I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.'),(23043016,23,43,16,'Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;'),(23043017,23,43,17,'who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick):'),(23043018,23,43,18,'Don\'t remember the former things, neither consider the things of old.'),(23043019,23,43,19,'Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.'),(23043020,23,43,20,'The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,'),(23043021,23,43,21,'the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.'),(23043022,23,43,22,'Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.'),(23043023,23,43,23,'You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.'),(23043024,23,43,24,'You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.'),(23043025,23,43,25,'I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.'),(23043026,23,43,26,'Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set you forth [your cause], that you may be justified.'),(23043027,23,43,27,'Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.'),(23043028,23,43,28,'Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.'),(23044001,23,44,1,'Yet now hear, Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I have chosen:'),(23044002,23,44,2,'Thus says Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you: Don\'t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.'),(23044003,23,44,3,'For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:'),(23044004,23,44,4,'and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.'),(23044005,23,44,5,'One shall say, I am Yahweh\'s; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand to Yahweh, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.'),(23044006,23,44,6,'Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.'),(23044007,23,44,7,'Who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and that shall happen, let them declare.'),(23044008,23,44,8,'Don\'t fear, neither be afraid: haven\'t I declared to you of old, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don\'t know any Rock.'),(23044009,23,44,9,'Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don\'t see, nor know: that they may be disappointed.'),(23044010,23,44,10,'Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?'),(23044011,23,44,11,'Behold, all his fellows shall be disappointed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.'),(23044012,23,44,12,'The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.'),(23044013,23,44,13,'The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.'),(23044014,23,44,14,'He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.'),(23044015,23,44,15,'Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.'),(23044016,23,44,16,'He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied; yes, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.'),(23044017,23,44,17,'The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.'),(23044018,23,44,18,'They don\'t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can\'t see; and their hearts, that they can\'t understand.'),(23044019,23,44,19,'None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?'),(23044020,23,44,20,'He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can\'t deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?'),(23044021,23,44,21,'Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: Israel, you shall not be forgotten by me.'),(23044022,23,44,22,'I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return to me; for I have redeemed you.'),(23044023,23,44,23,'Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it; shout, you lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.'),(23044024,23,44,24,'Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who stretches forth the heavens alone; who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?);'),(23044025,23,44,25,'who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;'),(23044026,23,44,26,'who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;'),(23044027,23,44,27,'who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;'),(23044028,23,44,28,'Who says of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; and of the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.'),(23045001,23,45,1,'Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:'),(23045002,23,45,2,'I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;'),(23045003,23,45,3,'and I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.'),(23045004,23,45,4,'For Jacob my servant\'s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.'),(23045005,23,45,5,'I am Yahweh, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known me;'),(23045006,23,45,6,'that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.'),(23045007,23,45,7,'I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.'),(23045008,23,45,8,'Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, Yahweh, have created it.'),(23045009,23,45,9,'Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, \"What are you making?\" or your work, \"He has no hands?\"'),(23045010,23,45,10,'Woe to him who says to a father, \"What have you become the father of?\" or to a woman, \"With what do you travail?\"'),(23045011,23,45,11,'Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command you me.'),(23045012,23,45,12,'I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.'),(23045013,23,45,13,'I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(23045014,23,45,14,'Thus says Yahweh: \"The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. They shall make supplication to you: \'Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no other god.'),(23045015,23,45,15,'Most assuredly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.\''),(23045016,23,45,16,'They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.'),(23045017,23,45,17,'[But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end.'),(23045018,23,45,18,'For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn\'t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is no one else.'),(23045019,23,45,19,'I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn\'t say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.'),(23045020,23,45,20,'Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can\'t save.'),(23045021,23,45,21,'Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? who has declared it of old? Haven\'t I, Yahweh? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; there is no one besides me.'),(23045022,23,45,22,'Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.'),(23045023,23,45,23,'By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.'),(23045024,23,45,24,'Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed.'),(23045025,23,45,25,'In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.'),(23046001,23,46,1,'Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the cattle: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [animal].'),(23046002,23,46,2,'They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.'),(23046003,23,46,3,'Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;'),(23046004,23,46,4,'and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.'),(23046005,23,46,5,'To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?'),(23046006,23,46,6,'Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.'),(23046007,23,46,7,'They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.'),(23046008,23,46,8,'Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors.'),(23046009,23,46,9,'Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;'),(23046010,23,46,10,'declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;'),(23046011,23,46,11,'calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.'),(23046012,23,46,12,'Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:'),(23046013,23,46,13,'I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.'),(23047001,23,47,1,'Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.'),(23047002,23,47,2,'Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.'),(23047003,23,47,3,'Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.'),(23047004,23,47,4,'Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.'),(23047005,23,47,5,'Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.'),(23047006,23,47,6,'I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.'),(23047007,23,47,7,'You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.'),(23047008,23,47,8,'Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:'),(23047009,23,47,9,'but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.'),(23047010,23,47,10,'For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.'),(23047011,23,47,11,'Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don\'t know.'),(23047012,23,47,12,'Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.'),(23047013,23,47,13,'You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.'),(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: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.'),(23047015,23,47,15,'Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.'),(23048001,23,48,1,'Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness'),(23048002,23,48,2,'(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Hosts is his name):'),(23048003,23,48,3,'I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I shown them: suddenly I did them, and they happened.'),(23048004,23,48,4,'Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;'),(23048005,23,48,5,'therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.'),(23048006,23,48,6,'You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.'),(23048007,23,48,7,'They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn\'t hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.'),(23048008,23,48,8,'Yes, you didn\'t hear; yes, you didn\'t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.'),(23048009,23,48,9,'For my name\'s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.'),(23048010,23,48,10,'Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.'),(23048011,23,48,11,'For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.'),(23048012,23,48,12,'Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.'),(23048013,23,48,13,'Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.'),(23048014,23,48,14,'Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.'),(23048015,23,48,15,'I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.'),(23048016,23,48,16,'Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit.'),(23048017,23,48,17,'Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.'),(23048018,23,48,18,'Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:'),(23048019,23,48,19,'your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.'),(23048020,23,48,20,'Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say you, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob.'),(23048021,23,48,21,'They didn\'t thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.'),(23048022,23,48,22,'There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.'),(23049001,23,49,1,'Listen, isles, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:'),(23049002,23,49,2,'and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:'),(23049003,23,49,3,'and he said to me, You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.'),(23049004,23,49,4,'But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.'),(23049005,23,49,5,'Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength);'),(23049006,23,49,6,'yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.'),(23049007,23,49,7,'Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.'),(23049008,23,49,8,'Thus says Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:'),(23049009,23,49,9,'saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.'),(23049010,23,49,10,'They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them.'),(23049011,23,49,11,'I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.'),(23049012,23,49,12,'Behold, these shall come from far; and, behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.'),(23049013,23,49,13,'Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.'),(23049014,23,49,14,'But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has 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? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.'),(23049016,23,49,16,'Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.'),(23049017,23,49,17,'Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.'),(23049018,23,49,18,'Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an ornament, and gird yourself with them, like a bride.'),(23049019,23,49,19,'For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now shall you be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.'),(23049020,23,49,20,'The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.'),(23049021,23,49,21,'Then shall you say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'),(23049022,23,49,22,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.'),(23049023,23,49,23,'Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.'),(23049024,23,49,24,'Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?'),(23049025,23,49,25,'But thus says Yahweh, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.'),(23049026,23,49,26,'I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.'),(23050001,23,50,1,'Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother\'s divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.'),(23050002,23,50,2,'Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can\'t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.'),(23050003,23,50,3,'I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.'),(23050004,23,50,4,'The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.'),(23050005,23,50,5,'The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.'),(23050006,23,50,6,'I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn\'t hide my face from shame and spitting.'),(23050007,23,50,7,'For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.'),(23050008,23,50,8,'He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.'),(23050009,23,50,9,'Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.'),(23050010,23,50,10,'Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.'),(23050011,23,50,11,'Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.'),(23051001,23,51,1,'Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.'),(23051002,23,51,2,'Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.'),(23051003,23,51,3,'For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.'),(23051004,23,51,4,'Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.'),(23051005,23,51,5,'My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.'),(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 wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.'),(23051007,23,51,7,'Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don\'t you fear the reproach of men, neither be you dismayed at their insults.'),(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 forever, and my salvation to all generations.'),(23051009,23,51,9,'Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn\'t it you who did cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?'),(23051010,23,51,10,'Isn\'t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?'),(23051011,23,51,11,'The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.'),(23051012,23,51,12,'I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;'),(23051013,23,51,13,'and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?'),(23051014,23,51,14,'The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.'),(23051015,23,51,15,'For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.'),(23051016,23,51,16,'I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, You are my people.'),(23051017,23,51,17,'Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.'),(23051018,23,51,18,'There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.'),(23051019,23,51,19,'These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?'),(23051020,23,51,20,'Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.'),(23051021,23,51,21,'Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:'),(23051022,23,51,22,'Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:'),(23051023,23,51,23,'and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.'),(23052001,23,52,1,'Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.'),(23052002,23,52,2,'Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.'),(23052003,23,52,3,'For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money.'),(23052004,23,52,4,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.'),(23052005,23,52,5,'Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.'),(23052006,23,52,6,'Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I.'),(23052007,23,52,7,'How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!'),(23052008,23,52,8,'The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.'),(23052009,23,52,9,'Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.'),(23052010,23,52,10,'Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.'),(23052011,23,52,11,'Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.'),(23052012,23,52,12,'For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.'),(23052013,23,52,13,'Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.'),(23052014,23,52,14,'Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),'),(23052015,23,52,15,'so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.'),(23053001,23,53,1,'Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?'),(23053002,23,53,2,'For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.'),(23053003,23,53,3,'He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn\'t respect him.'),(23053004,23,53,4,'Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.'),(23053005,23,53,5,'But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.'),(23053006,23,53,6,'All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.'),(23053007,23,53,7,'He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn\'t open his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn\'t open his mouth.'),(23053008,23,53,8,'By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the disobedience of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?'),(23053009,23,53,9,'They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.'),(23053010,23,53,10,'Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.'),(23053011,23,53,11,'He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.'),(23053012,23,53,12,'Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.'),(23054001,23,54,1,'Sing, barren, you who didn\'t bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says Yahweh.'),(23054002,23,54,2,'Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don\'t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.'),(23054003,23,54,3,'For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.'),(23054004,23,54,4,'Don\'t be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood shall you remember no more.'),(23054005,23,54,5,'For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.'),(23054006,23,54,6,'For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, says your God.'),(23054007,23,54,7,'For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.'),(23054008,23,54,8,'In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, says Yahweh your Redeemer.'),(23054009,23,54,9,'For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.'),(23054010,23,54,10,'For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh who has mercy on you.'),(23054011,23,54,11,'you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.'),(23054012,23,54,12,'I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of emeralds, and all your border of precious stones.'),(23054013,23,54,13,'All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.'),(23054014,23,54,14,'In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.'),(23054015,23,54,15,'Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you.'),(23054016,23,54,16,'Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.'),(23054017,23,54,17,'No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.'),(23055001,23,55,1,'Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.'),(23055002,23,55,2,'Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn\'t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.'),(23055003,23,55,3,'Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.'),(23055004,23,55,4,'Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.'),(23055005,23,55,5,'Behold, you shall call a nation that you don\'t know; and a nation that didn\'t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.'),(23055006,23,55,6,'Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on 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 to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on 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, says Yahweh.'),(23055009,23,55,9,'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.'),(23055010,23,55,10,'For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn\'t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;'),(23055011,23,55,11,'so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.'),(23055012,23,55,12,'For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.'),(23055013,23,55,13,'Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.'),(23056001,23,56,1,'Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.'),(23056002,23,56,2,'Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.'),(23056003,23,56,3,'Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.'),(23056004,23,56,4,'For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:'),(23056005,23,56,5,'To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.'),(23056006,23,56,6,'Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;'),(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 on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.'),(23056008,23,56,8,'The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I gather [others] to him, besides his own who are gathered.'),(23056009,23,56,9,'All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.'),(23056010,23,56,10,'His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can\'t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.'),(23056011,23,56,11,'Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can\'t understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.'),(23056012,23,56,12,'Come you, [say they], I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.'),(23057001,23,57,1,'The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].'),(23057002,23,57,2,'He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.'),(23057003,23,57,3,'But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.'),(23057004,23,57,4,'Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren\'t you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,'),(23057005,23,57,5,'you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?'),(23057006,23,57,6,'Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured a drink-offering, you have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?'),(23057007,23,57,7,'On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.'),(23057008,23,57,8,'Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have uncovered [yourself] to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.'),(23057009,23,57,9,'You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself even to Sheol.'),(23057010,23,57,10,'You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn\'t say, It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren\'t faint.'),(23057011,23,57,11,'Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven\'t I held my peace even of long time, and you don\'t fear me?'),(23057012,23,57,12,'I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.'),(23057013,23,57,13,'When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.'),(23057014,23,57,14,'He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.'),(23057015,23,57,15,'For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.'),(23057016,23,57,16,'For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.'),(23057017,23,57,17,'For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.'),(23057018,23,57,18,'I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.'),(23057019,23,57,19,'I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him.'),(23057020,23,57,20,'But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can\'t rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.'),(23057021,23,57,21,'There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.'),(23058001,23,58,1,'Cry aloud, don\'t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.'),(23058002,23,58,2,'Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn\'t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.'),(23058003,23,58,3,'Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don\'t see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.'),(23058004,23,58,4,'Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don\'t fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.'),(23058005,23,58,5,'Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?'),(23058006,23,58,6,'Isn\'t this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?'),(23058007,23,58,7,'Isn\'t it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?'),(23058008,23,58,8,'Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall by your rearward.'),(23058009,23,58,9,'Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;'),(23058010,23,58,10,'and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;'),(23058011,23,58,11,'and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don\'t fail.'),(23058012,23,58,12,'Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.'),(23058013,23,58,13,'If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:'),(23058014,23,58,14,'then shall you delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.'),(23059001,23,59,1,'Behold, Yahweh\'s hand is not shortened, that it can\'t save; neither his ear heavy, that it can\'t hear:'),(23059002,23,59,2,'but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.'),(23059003,23,59,3,'For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.'),(23059004,23,59,4,'None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.'),(23059005,23,59,5,'They hatch adders\' eggs, and weave the spider\'s web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.'),(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; desolation and destruction are in their paths.'),(23059008,23,59,8,'The way of peace they don\'t know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.'),(23059009,23,59,9,'Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.'),(23059010,23,59,10,'We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.'),(23059011,23,59,11,'We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.'),(23059012,23,59,12,'For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:'),(23059013,23,59,13,'transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.'),(23059014,23,59,14,'Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can\'t enter.'),(23059015,23,59,15,'Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.'),(23059016,23,59,16,'He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.'),(23059017,23,59,17,'He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.'),(23059018,23,59,18,'According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.'),(23059019,23,59,19,'So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.'),(23059020,23,59,20,'A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh.'),(23059021,23,59,21,'As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed\'s seed, says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever.'),(23060001,23,60,1,'Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you.'),(23060002,23,60,2,'For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.'),(23060003,23,60,3,'Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.'),(23060004,23,60,4,'Lift up your eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.'),(23060005,23,60,5,'Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.'),(23060006,23,60,6,'The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Yahweh.'),(23060007,23,60,7,'All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.'),(23060008,23,60,8,'Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?'),(23060009,23,60,9,'Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.'),(23060010,23,60,10,'Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.'),(23060011,23,60,11,'Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.'),(23060012,23,60,12,'For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.'),(23060013,23,60,13,'The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.'),(23060014,23,60,14,'The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'),(23060015,23,60,15,'Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.'),(23060016,23,60,16,'You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.'),(23060017,23,60,17,'For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.'),(23060018,23,60,18,'Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.'),(23060019,23,60,19,'The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.'),(23060020,23,60,20,'Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.'),(23060021,23,60,21,'Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.'),(23060022,23,60,22,'The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.'),(23061001,23,61,1,'The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound;'),(23061002,23,61,2,'to proclaim the year of Yahweh\'s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;'),(23061003,23,61,3,'to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.'),(23061004,23,61,4,'They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.'),(23061005,23,61,5,'Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.'),(23061006,23,61,6,'But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call you the ministers of our God: you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.'),(23061007,23,61,7,'Instead of your shame [you shall have] double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them.'),(23061008,23,61,8,'For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.'),(23061009,23,61,9,'Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.'),(23061010,23,61,10,'I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.'),(23061011,23,61,11,'For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.'),(23062001,23,62,1,'For Zion\'s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem\'s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.'),(23062002,23,62,2,'The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.'),(23062003,23,62,3,'You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.'),(23062004,23,62,4,'You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.'),(23062005,23,62,5,'For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.'),(23062006,23,62,6,'I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,'),(23062007,23,62,7,'and give him no rest, until he establish, and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.'),(23062008,23,62,8,'Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:'),(23062009,23,62,9,'but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.'),(23062010,23,62,10,'Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.'),(23062011,23,62,11,'Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.'),(23062012,23,62,12,'They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.'),(23063001,23,63,1,'Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.'),(23063002,23,63,2,'Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?'),(23063003,23,63,3,'I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.'),(23063004,23,63,4,'For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.'),(23063005,23,63,5,'I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.'),(23063006,23,63,6,'I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.'),(23063007,23,63,7,'I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh, [and] the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.'),(23063008,23,63,8,'For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely: so he was their Savior.'),(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: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.'),(23063011,23,63,11,'Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?'),(23063012,23,63,12,'who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?'),(23063013,23,63,13,'who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn\'t stumble?'),(23063014,23,63,14,'As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them to rest; so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.'),(23063015,23,63,15,'Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.'),(23063016,23,63,16,'For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn\'t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.'),(23063017,23,63,17,'O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants\' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.'),(23063018,23,63,18,'Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.'),(23063019,23,63,19,'We are become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.'),(23064001,23,64,1,'Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,'),(23064002,23,64,2,'as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!'),(23064003,23,64,3,'When you did terrible things which we didn\'t look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.'),(23064004,23,64,4,'For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.'),(23064005,23,64,5,'You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?'),(23064006,23,64,6,'For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.'),(23064007,23,64,7,'There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.'),(23064008,23,64,8,'But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.'),(23064009,23,64,9,'Don\'t be angry very sore, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.'),(23064010,23,64,10,'Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.'),(23064011,23,64,11,'Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.'),(23064012,23,64,12,'Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?'),(23065001,23,65,1,'I am inquired of by those who didn\'t ask; I am found by those who didn\'t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.'),(23065002,23,65,2,'I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;'),(23065003,23,65,3,'a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;'),(23065004,23,65,4,'who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig\'s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;'),(23065005,23,65,5,'who say, Stand by yourself, don\'t come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.'),(23065006,23,65,6,'Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,'),(23065007,23,65,7,'your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.'),(23065008,23,65,8,'Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don\'t destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants\' sake, that I may not destroy them all.'),(23065009,23,65,9,'I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.'),(23065010,23,65,10,'Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.'),(23065011,23,65,11,'But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;'),(23065012,23,65,12,'I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn\'t delight.'),(23065013,23,65,13,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed;'),(23065014,23,65,14,'behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.'),(23065015,23,65,15,'You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:'),(23065016,23,65,16,'so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.'),(23065017,23,65,17,'For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.'),(23065018,23,65,18,'But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.'),(23065019,23,65,19,'I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.'),(23065020,23,65,20,'There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.'),(23065021,23,65,21,'They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.'),(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 my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.'),(23065023,23,65,23,'They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.'),(23065024,23,65,24,'It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and 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 food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahweh.'),(23066001,23,66,1,'Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?'),(23066002,23,66,2,'For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.'),(23066003,23,66,3,'He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog\'s neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig\'s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:'),(23066004,23,66,4,'I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn\'t delight.'),(23066005,23,66,5,'Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name\'s sake, have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is those who shall be disappointed.'),(23066006,23,66,6,'A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense 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 has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.'),(23066009,23,66,9,'Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the womb]? says your God.'),(23066010,23,66,10,'Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;'),(23066011,23,66,11,'that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.'),(23066012,23,66,12,'For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you shall suck [of it]; you shall be borne on the side, and shall be dandled on the knees.'),(23066013,23,66,13,'As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.'),(23066014,23,66,14,'You shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.'),(23066015,23,66,15,'For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.'),(23066016,23,66,16,'For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.'),(23066017,23,66,17,'Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig\'s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, says Yahweh.'),(23066018,23,66,18,'For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.'),(23066019,23,66,19,'I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.'),(23066020,23,66,20,'They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.'),(23066021,23,66,21,'Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites, says Yahweh.'),(23066022,23,66,22,'For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says Yahweh, so shall your seed and your name remain.'),(23066023,23,66,23,'It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says Yahweh.'),(23066024,23,66,24,'They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.'),(24001001,24,1,1,'The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:'),(24001002,24,1,2,'to whom the word of Yahweh 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, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.'),(24001004,24,1,4,'Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(24001005,24,1,5,'Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.'),(24001006,24,1,6,'Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don\'t know how to speak; for I am a child.'),(24001007,24,1,7,'But Yahweh said to me, Don\'t say, I am a child; for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.'),(24001008,24,1,8,'Don\'t be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you, says Yahweh.'),(24001009,24,1,9,'Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth:'),(24001010,24,1,10,'behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.'),(24001011,24,1,11,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what see you? I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.'),(24001012,24,1,12,'Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.'),(24001013,24,1,13,'The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see you? I said, I see a boiling caldron; and the face of it is from the north.'),(24001014,24,1,14,'Then Yahweh said to me, Out of the north evil shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.'),(24001015,24,1,15,'For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, and against all the cities of Judah.'),(24001016,24,1,16,'I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.'),(24001017,24,1,17,'You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don\'t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.'),(24001018,24,1,18,'For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.'),(24001019,24,1,19,'They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you, says Yahweh, to deliver you.'),(24002001,24,2,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(24002002,24,2,2,'Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.'),(24002003,24,2,3,'Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh.'),(24002004,24,2,4,'Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:'),(24002005,24,2,5,'thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?'),(24002006,24,2,6,'Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'),(24002007,24,2,7,'I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.'),(24002008,24,2,8,'The priests didn\'t say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn\'t know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.'),(24002009,24,2,9,'Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children\'s children will I contend.'),(24002010,24,2,10,'For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.'),(24002011,24,2,11,'Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.'),(24002012,24,2,12,'Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says Yahweh.'),(24002013,24,2,13,'For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.'),(24002014,24,2,14,'Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?'),(24002015,24,2,15,'The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.'),(24002016,24,2,16,'The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.'),(24002017,24,2,17,'Haven\'t you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?'),(24002018,24,2,18,'Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?'),(24002019,24,2,19,'Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.'),(24002020,24,2,20,'For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.'),(24002021,24,2,21,'Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?'),(24002022,24,2,22,'For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(24002023,24,2,23,'How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;'),(24002024,24,2,24,'a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.'),(24002025,24,2,25,'Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.'),(24002026,24,2,26,'As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;'),(24002027,24,2,27,'who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.'),(24002028,24,2,28,'But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.'),(24002029,24,2,29,'Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh.'),(24002030,24,2,30,'In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.'),(24002031,24,2,31,'Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?'),(24002032,24,2,32,'Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.'),(24002033,24,2,33,'How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.'),(24002034,24,2,34,'Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.'),(24002035,24,2,35,'Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.'),(24002036,24,2,36,'Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.'),(24002037,24,2,37,'From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.'),(24003001,24,3,1,'They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man\'s, will he return to her again? Won\'t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.'),(24003002,24,3,2,'Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.'),(24003003,24,3,3,'Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute\'s forehead, you refused to be ashamed.'),(24003004,24,3,4,'Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'),(24003005,24,3,5,'Will he retain [his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.'),(24003006,24,3,6,'Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.'),(24003007,24,3,7,'I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn\'t return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.'),(24003008,24,3,8,'I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn\'t fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.'),(24003009,24,3,9,'It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.'),(24003010,24,3,10,'Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh.'),(24003011,24,3,11,'Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.'),(24003012,24,3,12,'Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keep [anger] forever.'),(24003013,24,3,13,'Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says Yahweh.'),(24003014,24,3,14,'Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:'),(24003015,24,3,15,'and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.'),(24003016,24,3,16,'It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.'),(24003017,24,3,17,'At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.'),(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 that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.'),(24003019,24,3,19,'But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.'),(24003020,24,3,20,'Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh.'),(24003021,24,3,21,'A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.'),(24003022,24,3,22,'Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.'),(24003023,24,3,23,'Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.'),(24003024,24,3,24,'But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.'),(24003025,24,3,25,'Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.'),(24004001,24,4,1,'If you will return, Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;'),(24004002,24,4,2,'and you shall swear, As Yahweh lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.'),(24004003,24,4,3,'For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and don\'t sow among thorns.'),(24004004,24,4,4,'Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.'),(24004005,24,4,5,'Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.'),(24004006,24,4,6,'Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don\'t stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.'),(24004007,24,4,7,'A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.'),(24004008,24,4,8,'For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn\'t turned back from us.'),(24004009,24,4,9,'It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.'),(24004010,24,4,10,'Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the life.'),(24004011,24,4,11,'At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;'),(24004012,24,4,12,'a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.'),(24004013,24,4,13,'Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.'),(24004014,24,4,14,'Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?'),(24004015,24,4,15,'For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:'),(24004016,24,4,16,'make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.'),(24004017,24,4,17,'As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has been rebellious against me, says Yahweh.'),(24004018,24,4,18,'Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.'),(24004019,24,4,19,'My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can\'t hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.'),(24004020,24,4,20,'Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] 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 are foolish, they don\'t know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.'),(24004023,24,4,23,'I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.'),(24004024,24,4,24,'I saw the mountains, and, behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.'),(24004025,24,4,25,'I saw, and, behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were fled.'),(24004026,24,4,26,'I saw, and, behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities of it were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] before his fierce anger.'),(24004027,24,4,27,'For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I 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 I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.'),(24004029,24,4,29,'Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.'),(24004030,24,4,30,'You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.'),(24004031,24,4,31,'For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.'),(24005001,24,5,1,'Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.'),(24005002,24,5,2,'Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely.'),(24005003,24,5,3,'O Yahweh, don\'t your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.'),(24005004,24,5,4,'Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don\'t know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:'),(24005005,24,5,5,'I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.'),(24005006,24,5,6,'Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.'),(24005007,24,5,7,'How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes\' houses.'),(24005008,24,5,8,'They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor\'s wife.'),(24005009,24,5,9,'Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?'),(24005010,24,5,10,'Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don\'t make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh\'s.'),(24005011,24,5,11,'For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Yahweh.'),(24005012,24,5,12,'They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither 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 to them.'),(24005014,24,5,14,'Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.'),(24005015,24,5,15,'Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don\'t know, neither understand what they say.'),(24005016,24,5,16,'Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.'),(24005017,24,5,17,'They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.'),(24005018,24,5,18,'But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full end with you.'),(24005019,24,5,19,'It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'),(24005020,24,5,20,'Declare you this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,'),(24005021,24,5,21,'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don\'t see; who have ears, and don\'t hear:'),(24005022,24,5,22,'Don\'t you fear me? says Yahweh: won\'t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can\'t pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can\'t prevail; though they roar, yet they can\'t pass over it.'),(24005023,24,5,23,'But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.'),(24005024,24,5,24,'Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'),(24005025,24,5,25,'Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.'),(24005026,24,5,26,'For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.'),(24005027,24,5,27,'As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.'),(24005028,24,5,28,'They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don\'t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don\'t judge.'),(24005029,24,5,29,'Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?'),(24005030,24,5,30,'A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land:'),(24005031,24,5,31,'the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?'),(24006001,24,6,1,'Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.'),(24006002,24,6,2,'The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.'),(24006003,24,6,3,'Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.'),(24006004,24,6,4,'Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.'),(24006005,24,6,5,'Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.'),(24006006,24,6,6,'For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.'),(24006007,24,6,7,'As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.'),(24006008,24,6,8,'Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.'),(24006009,24,6,9,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.'),(24006010,24,6,10,'To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can\'t listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.'),(24006011,24,6,11,'Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.'),(24006012,24,6,12,'Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.'),(24006013,24,6,13,'For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.'),(24006014,24,6,14,'They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.'),(24006015,24,6,15,'Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.'),(24006016,24,6,16,'Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].'),(24006017,24,6,17,'I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen.'),(24006018,24,6,18,'Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.'),(24006019,24,6,19,'Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.'),(24006020,24,6,20,'To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.'),(24006021,24,6,21,'Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.'),(24006022,24,6,22,'Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.'),(24006023,24,6,23,'They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.'),(24006024,24,6,24,'We have heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.'),(24006025,24,6,25,'Don\'t go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.'),(24006026,24,6,26,'Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.'),(24006027,24,6,27,'I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.'),(24006028,24,6,28,'They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.'),(24006029,24,6,29,'The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.'),(24006030,24,6,30,'Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them.'),(24007001,24,7,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,'),(24007002,24,7,2,'Stand in the gate of Yahweh\'s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.'),(24007003,24,7,3,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.'),(24007004,24,7,4,'Don\'t you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.'),(24007005,24,7,5,'For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;'),(24007006,24,7,6,'if you don\'t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don\'t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:'),(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 forevermore.'),(24007008,24,7,8,'Behold, you trust in lying words, that can\'t profit.'),(24007009,24,7,9,'Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,'),(24007010,24,7,10,'and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?'),(24007011,24,7,11,'Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.'),(24007012,24,7,12,'But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.'),(24007013,24,7,13,'Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn\'t hear; and I called you, but you didn\'t answer:'),(24007014,24,7,14,'therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.'),(24007015,24,7,15,'I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.'),(24007016,24,7,16,'Therefore don\'t you pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.'),(24007017,24,7,17,'Don\'t you see 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 the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.'),(24007019,24,7,19,'Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?'),(24007020,24,7,20,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.'),(24007021,24,7,21,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat you flesh.'),(24007022,24,7,22,'For I didn\'t speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:'),(24007023,24,7,23,'but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'),(24007024,24,7,24,'But they didn\'t listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.'),(24007025,24,7,25,'Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:'),(24007026,24,7,26,'yet they didn\'t listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.'),(24007027,24,7,27,'You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.'),(24007028,24,7,28,'You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.'),(24007029,24,7,29,'Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'),(24007030,24,7,30,'For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.'),(24007031,24,7,31,'They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn\'t command, neither came it into my mind.'),(24007032,24,7,32,'Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place [to bury].'),(24007033,24,7,33,'The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.'),(24007034,24,7,34,'Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.'),(24008001,24,8,1,'At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;'),(24008002,24,8,2,'and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.'),(24008003,24,8,3,'Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(24008004,24,8,4,'Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?'),(24008005,24,8,5,'Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.'),(24008006,24,8,6,'I listened and heard, but they didn\'t speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.'),(24008007,24,8,7,'Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don\'t know Yahweh\'s law.'),(24008008,24,8,8,'How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.'),(24008009,24,8,9,'The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?'),(24008010,24,8,10,'Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.'),(24008011,24,8,11,'They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.'),(24008012,24,8,12,'Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.'),(24008013,24,8,13,'I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.'),(24008014,24,8,14,'Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.'),(24008015,24,8,15,'We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!'),(24008016,24,8,16,'The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.'),(24008017,24,8,17,'For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.'),(24008018,24,8,18,'Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.'),(24008019,24,8,19,'Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn\'t Yahweh in Zion? Isn\'t her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?'),(24008020,24,8,20,'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'),(24008021,24,8,21,'For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.'),(24008022,24,8,22,'Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn\'t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?'),(24009001,24,9,1,'Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!'),(24009002,24,9,2,'Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.'),(24009003,24,9,3,'They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don\'t know me, says Yahweh.'),(24009004,24,9,4,'Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don\'t you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.'),(24009005,24,9,5,'They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.'),(24009006,24,9,6,'Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.'),(24009007,24,9,7,'Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?'),(24009008,24,9,8,'Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.'),(24009009,24,9,9,'Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?'),(24009010,24,9,10,'For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.'),(24009011,24,9,11,'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 the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?'),(24009013,24,9,13,'Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,'),(24009014,24,9,14,'but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;'),(24009015,24,9,15,'therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.'),(24009016,24,9,16,'I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.'),(24009017,24,9,17,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:'),(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 gush out with waters.'),(24009019,24,9,19,'For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'),(24009020,24,9,20,'Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.'),(24009021,24,9,21,'For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.'),(24009022,24,9,22,'Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].'),(24009023,24,9,23,'Thus says Yahweh, Don\'t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don\'t let the rich man glory in his riches;'),(24009024,24,9,24,'but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.'),(24009025,24,9,25,'Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:'),(24009026,24,9,26,'Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.'),(24010001,24,10,1,'Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!'),(24010002,24,10,2,'Thus says Yahweh, \"Don\'t learn the way of the nations, and don\'t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.'),(24010003,24,10,3,'For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.'),(24010004,24,10,4,'They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.'),(24010005,24,10,5,'They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don\'t speak: they must be carried, because they can\'t go. Don\'t be afraid of them; for they can\'t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.\"'),(24010006,24,10,6,'There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.'),(24010007,24,10,7,'Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.'),(24010008,24,10,8,'But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.'),(24010009,24,10,9,'There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.'),(24010010,24,10,10,'But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.'),(24010011,24,10,11,'Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.'),(24010012,24,10,12,'He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:'),(24010013,24,10,13,'when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.'),(24010014,24,10,14,'Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.'),(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 these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.'),(24010017,24,10,17,'Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege.'),(24010018,24,10,18,'For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it].'),(24010019,24,10,19,'Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.'),(24010020,24,10,20,'My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.'),(24010021,24,10,21,'For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.'),(24010022,24,10,22,'The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.'),(24010023,24,10,23,'Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.'),(24010024,24,10,24,'Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.'),(24010025,24,10,25,'Pour out your wrath on the nations that don\'t know you, and on the families that don\'t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.'),(24011001,24,11,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,'),(24011002,24,11,2,'Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;'),(24011003,24,11,3,'and say you to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who doesn\'t hear the words of this covenant,'),(24011004,24,11,4,'which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your God;'),(24011005,24,11,5,'that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh.'),(24011006,24,11,6,'Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words of this covenant, and do them.'),(24011007,24,11,7,'For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.'),(24011008,24,11,8,'Yet they didn\'t obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn\'t do them.'),(24011009,24,11,9,'Yahweh said to 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 are 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 says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.'),(24011012,24,11,12,'Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.'),(24011013,24,11,13,'For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.'),(24011014,24,11,14,'Therefore don\'t you pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.'),(24011015,24,11,15,'What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.'),(24011016,24,11,16,'Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.'),(24011017,24,11,17,'For Yahweh of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.'),(24011018,24,11,18,'Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you shown me their doings.'),(24011019,24,11,19,'But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn\'t know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.'),(24011020,24,11,20,'But, Yahweh of Hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.'),(24011021,24,11,21,'Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand;'),(24011022,24,11,22,'therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;'),(24011023,24,11,23,'and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.'),(24012001,24,12,1,'Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?'),(24012002,24,12,2,'You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.'),(24012003,24,12,3,'But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.'),(24012004,24,12,4,'How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.'),(24012005,24,12,5,'If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?'),(24012006,24,12,6,'For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don\'t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.'),(24012007,24,12,7,'I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.'),(24012008,24,12,8,'My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.'),(24012009,24,12,9,'Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.'),(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; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.'),(24012012,24,12,12,'Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.'),(24012013,24,12,13,'They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.'),(24012014,24,12,14,'Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.'),(24012015,24,12,15,'It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.'),(24012016,24,12,16,'It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.'),(24012017,24,12,17,'But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.'),(24013001,24,13,1,'Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put it on your loins, and don\'t put it in water.'),(24013002,24,13,2,'So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins.'),(24013003,24,13,3,'The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,'),(24013004,24,13,4,'Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.'),(24013005,24,13,5,'So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.'),(24013006,24,13,6,'It happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.'),(24013007,24,13,7,'Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.'),(24013008,24,13,8,'Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(24013009,24,13,9,'Thus says Yahweh, After this manner will I mar 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 are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.'),(24013011,24,13,11,'For as the belt cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.'),(24013012,24,13,12,'Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?'),(24013013,24,13,13,'Then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David\'s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.'),(24013014,24,13,14,'I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.'),(24013015,24,13,15,'Hear you, and give ear; don\'t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.'),(24013016,24,13,16,'Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.'),(24013017,24,13,17,'But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh\'s flock is taken captive.'),(24013018,24,13,18,'Say you to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory.'),(24013019,24,13,19,'The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.'),(24013020,24,13,20,'Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?'),(24013021,24,13,21,'What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?'),(24013022,24,13,22,'If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.'),(24013023,24,13,23,'Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.'),(24013024,24,13,24,'Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.'),(24013025,24,13,25,'This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.'),(24013026,24,13,26,'Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.'),(24013027,24,13,27,'I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?'),(24014001,24,14,1,'The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.'),(24014002,24,14,2,'Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.'),(24014003,24,14,3,'Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.'),(24014004,24,14,4,'Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.'),(24014005,24,14,5,'Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.'),(24014006,24,14,6,'The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.'),(24014007,24,14,7,'Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name\'s sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.'),(24014008,24,14,8,'You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?'),(24014009,24,14,9,'Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can\'t save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don\'t leave us.'),(24014010,24,14,10,'Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.'),(24014011,24,14,11,'Yahweh said to me, Don\'t pray for this people for [their] good.'),(24014012,24,14,12,'When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.'),(24014013,24,14,13,'Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.'),(24014014,24,14,14,'Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn\'t send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.'),(24014015,24,14,15,'Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn\'t send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.'),(24014016,24,14,16,'The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.'),(24014017,24,14,17,'You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.'),(24014018,24,14,18,'If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.'),(24014019,24,14,19,'Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!'),(24014020,24,14,20,'We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.'),(24014021,24,14,21,'Do not abhor [us], for your name\'s sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don\'t break your covenant with us.'),(24014022,24,14,22,'Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren\'t you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.'),(24015001,24,15,1,'Then said Yahweh to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.'),(24015002,24,15,2,'It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.'),(24015003,24,15,3,'I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.'),(24015004,24,15,4,'I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.'),(24015005,24,15,5,'For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?'),(24015006,24,15,6,'You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.'),(24015007,24,15,7,'I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn\'t return from their ways.'),(24015008,24,15,8,'Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.'),(24015009,24,15,9,'She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh.'),(24015010,24,15,10,'Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.'),(24015011,24,15,11,'Yahweh said, Most assuredly I will strengthen you for good; most assuredly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.'),(24015012,24,15,12,'Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?'),(24015013,24,15,13,'Your substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.'),(24015014,24,15,14,'I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land which you don\'t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.'),(24015015,24,15,15,'Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don\'t take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.'),(24015016,24,15,16,'Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of hosts.'),(24015017,24,15,17,'I didn\'t sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.'),(24015018,24,15,18,'Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?'),(24015019,24,15,19,'Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.'),(24015020,24,15,20,'I will make you to this people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh.'),(24015021,24,15,21,'I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.'),(24016001,24,16,1,'The word of Yahweh came also to me, saying,'),(24016002,24,16,2,'You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.'),(24016003,24,16,3,'For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of them in this land:'),(24016004,24,16,4,'They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.'),(24016005,24,16,5,'For thus says Yahweh, Don\'t enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies.'),(24016006,24,16,6,'Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;'),(24016007,24,16,7,'neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.'),(24016008,24,16,8,'You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.'),(24016009,24,16,9,'For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.'),(24016010,24,16,10,'It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?'),(24016011,24,16,11,'Then shall you tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;'),(24016012,24,16,12,'and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don\'t listen to me:'),(24016013,24,16,13,'therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.'),(24016014,24,16,14,'Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be said, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;'),(24016015,24,16,15,'but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.'),(24016016,24,16,16,'Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.'),(24016017,24,16,17,'For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.'),(24016018,24,16,18,'First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.'),(24016019,24,16,19,'Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.'),(24016020,24,16,20,'Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?'),(24016021,24,16,21,'Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Yahweh.'),(24017001,24,17,1,'The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;'),(24017002,24,17,2,'while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.'),(24017003,24,17,3,'My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.'),(24017004,24,17,4,'You, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don\'t know: for you have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever.'),(24017005,24,17,5,'Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.'),(24017006,24,17,6,'For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.'),(24017007,24,17,7,'Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is.'),(24017008,24,17,8,'For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.'),(24017009,24,17,9,'The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?'),(24017010,24,17,10,'I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.'),(24017011,24,17,11,'As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.'),(24017012,24,17,12,'A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.'),(24017013,24,17,13,'Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.'),(24017014,24,17,14,'Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.'),(24017015,24,17,15,'Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.'),(24017016,24,17,16,'As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.'),(24017017,24,17,17,'Don\'t be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.'),(24017018,24,17,18,'Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don\'t let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.'),(24017019,24,17,19,'Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;'),(24017020,24,17,20,'and tell them, Hear you the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:'),(24017021,24,17,21,'Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;'),(24017022,24,17,22,'neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.'),(24017023,24,17,23,'But they didn\'t listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.'),(24017024,24,17,24,'It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;'),(24017025,24,17,25,'then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever.'),(24017026,24,17,26,'They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh.'),(24017027,24,17,27,'But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.'),(24018001,24,18,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,'),(24018002,24,18,2,'Arise, and go down to the potter\'s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.'),(24018003,24,18,3,'Then I went down to the potter\'s house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels.'),(24018004,24,18,4,'When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.'),(24018005,24,18,5,'Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(24018006,24,18,6,'House of Israel, can\'t I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter\'s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.'),(24018007,24,18,7,'At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;'),(24018008,24,18,8,'if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.'),(24018009,24,18,9,'At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;'),(24018010,24,18,10,'if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.'),(24018011,24,18,11,'Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.'),(24018012,24,18,12,'But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.'),(24018013,24,18,13,'Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.'),(24018014,24,18,14,'Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?'),(24018015,24,18,15,'For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;'),(24018016,24,18,16,'to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.'),(24018017,24,18,17,'I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.'),(24018018,24,18,18,'Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.'),(24018019,24,18,19,'Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.'),(24018020,24,18,20,'Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.'),(24018021,24,18,21,'Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.'),(24018022,24,18,22,'Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.'),(24018023,24,18,23,'Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don\'t forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.'),(24019001,24,19,1,'Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter\'s earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;'),(24019002,24,19,2,'and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;'),(24019003,24,19,3,'and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.'),(24019004,24,19,4,'Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn\'t know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,'),(24019005,24,19,5,'and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn\'t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:'),(24019006,24,19,6,'therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.'),(24019007,24,19,7,'I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.'),(24019008,24,19,8,'I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.'),(24019009,24,19,9,'I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.'),(24019010,24,19,10,'Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,'),(24019011,24,19,11,'and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter\'s vessel, that can\'t be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury.'),(24019012,24,19,12,'Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth:'),(24019013,24,19,13,'and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.'),(24019014,24,19,14,'Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh\'s house, and said to all the people:'),(24019015,24,19,15,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.'),(24020001,24,20,1,'Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.'),(24020002,24,20,2,'Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.'),(24020003,24,20,3,'It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.'),(24020004,24,20,4,'For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.'),(24020005,24,20,5,'Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains of it, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.'),(24020006,24,20,6,'You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there shall you be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.'),(24020007,24,20,7,'Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.'),(24020008,24,20,8,'For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.'),(24020009,24,20,9,'If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can\'t [contain].'),(24020010,24,20,10,'For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.'),(24020011,24,20,11,'But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.'),(24020012,24,20,12,'But, Yahweh of Hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.'),(24020013,24,20,13,'Sing to Yahweh, praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.'),(24020014,24,20,14,'Cursed be the day in which I was born: don\'t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.'),(24020015,24,20,15,'Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad.'),(24020016,24,20,16,'Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn\'t repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;'),(24020017,24,20,17,'because he didn\'t kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.'),(24020018,24,20,18,'Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?'),(24021001,24,21,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,'),(24021002,24,21,2,'Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes war against us: peradventure Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.'),(24021003,24,21,3,'Then said Jeremiah to them, Thus shall you tell Zedekiah:'),(24021004,24,21,4,'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.'),(24021005,24,21,5,'I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.'),(24021006,24,21,6,'I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.'),(24021007,24,21,7,'Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.'),(24021008,24,21,8,'To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.'),(24021009,24,21,9,'He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.'),(24021010,24,21,10,'For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.'),(24021011,24,21,11,'Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear you the word of Yahweh:'),(24021012,24,21,12,'House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.'),(24021013,24,21,13,'Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?'),(24021014,24,21,14,'I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.'),(24022001,24,22,1,'Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,'),(24022002,24,22,2,'Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.'),(24022003,24,22,3,'Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.'),(24022004,24,22,4,'For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.'),(24022005,24,22,5,'But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.'),(24022006,24,22,6,'For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited.'),(24022007,24,22,7,'I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.'),(24022008,24,22,8,'Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?'),(24022009,24,22,9,'Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.'),(24022010,24,22,10,'Don\'t you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.'),(24022011,24,22,11,'For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more.'),(24022012,24,22,12,'But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.'),(24022013,24,22,13,'Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor\'s service without wages, and doesn\'t give him his hire;'),(24022014,24,22,14,'who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.'),(24022015,24,22,15,'Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn\'t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.'),(24022016,24,22,16,'He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn\'t this to know me? says Yahweh.'),(24022017,24,22,17,'But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.'),(24022018,24,22,18,'Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!'),(24022019,24,22,19,'He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.'),(24022020,24,22,20,'Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.'),(24022021,24,22,21,'I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn\'t obey my voice.'),(24022022,24,22,22,'The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.'),(24022023,24,22,23,'Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!'),(24022024,24,22,24,'As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;'),(24022025,24,22,25,'and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24022026,24,22,26,'I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you die.'),(24022027,24,22,27,'But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.'),(24022028,24,22,28,'Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don\'t know?'),(24022029,24,22,29,'O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.'),(24022030,24,22,30,'Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.'),(24023001,24,23,1,'Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.'),(24023002,24,23,2,'Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.'),(24023003,24,23,3,'I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.'),(24023004,24,23,4,'I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.'),(24023005,24,23,5,'Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.'),(24023006,24,23,6,'In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.'),(24023007,24,23,7,'Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;'),(24023008,24,23,8,'but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land.'),(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 has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.'),(24023010,24,23,10,'For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;'),(24023011,24,23,11,'for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.'),(24023012,24,23,12,'Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.'),(24023013,24,23,13,'I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.'),(24023014,24,23,14,'In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.'),(24023015,24,23,15,'Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.'),(24023016,24,23,16,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Don\'t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.'),(24023017,24,23,17,'They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.'),(24023018,24,23,18,'For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, and heard it?'),(24023019,24,23,19,'Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.'),(24023020,24,23,20,'The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.'),(24023021,24,23,21,'I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn\'t speak to them, yet they prophesied.'),(24023022,24,23,22,'But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.'),(24023023,24,23,23,'Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?'),(24023024,24,23,24,'Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don\'t I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.'),(24023025,24,23,25,'I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies 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 lies, even the 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 neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.'),(24023028,24,23,28,'The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.'),(24023029,24,23,29,'Isn\'t my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?'),(24023030,24,23,30,'Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.'),(24023031,24,23,31,'Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says.'),(24023032,24,23,32,'Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn\'t send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.'),(24023033,24,23,33,'When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.'),(24023034,24,23,34,'As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.'),(24023035,24,23,35,'Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?'),(24023036,24,23,36,'The burden of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every man\'s own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Hosts our God.'),(24023037,24,23,37,'Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken?'),(24023038,24,23,38,'But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;'),(24023039,24,23,39,'therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:'),(24023040,24,23,40,'and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'),(24024001,24,24,1,'Yahweh shown me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.'),(24024002,24,24,2,'One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.'),(24024003,24,24,3,'Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can\'t be eaten, they are so bad.'),(24024004,24,24,4,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(24024005,24,24,5,'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.'),(24024006,24,24,6,'For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.'),(24024007,24,24,7,'I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.'),(24024008,24,24,8,'As the bad figs, which can\'t be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,'),(24024009,24,24,9,'I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.'),(24024010,24,24,10,'I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.'),(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, king of Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon),'),(24025002,24,25,2,'which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to 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, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.'),(24025004,24,25,4,'Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear),'),(24025005,24,25,5,'saying, Return you now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;'),(24025006,24,25,6,'and don\'t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don\'t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.'),(24025007,24,25,7,'Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.'),(24025008,24,25,8,'Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Because you have not heard my words,'),(24025009,24,25,9,'behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.'),(24025010,24,25,10,'Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.'),(24025011,24,25,11,'This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.'),(24025012,24,25,12,'It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.'),(24025013,24,25,13,'I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.'),(24025014,24,25,14,'For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.'),(24025015,24,25,15,'For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.'),(24025016,24,25,16,'They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.'),(24025017,24,25,17,'Then took I the cup at Yahweh\'s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:'),(24025018,24,25,18,'[to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;'),(24025019,24,25,19,'Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;'),(24025020,24,25,20,'and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, 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 Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;'),(24025023,24,25,23,'Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners [of their hair] cut off;'),(24025024,24,25,24,'and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;'),(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 on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.'),(24025027,24,25,27,'You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.'),(24025028,24,25,28,'It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: You shall surely drink.'),(24025029,24,25,29,'For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(24025030,24,25,30,'Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.'),(24025031,24,25,31,'A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh.'),(24025032,24,25,32,'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.'),(24025033,24,25,33,'The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.'),(24025034,24,25,34,'Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.'),(24025035,24,25,35,'The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.'),(24025036,24,25,36,'A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.'),(24025037,24,25,37,'The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.'),(24025038,24,25,38,'He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.'),(24026001,24,26,1,'In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying,'),(24026002,24,26,2,'Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh\'s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh\'s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; don\'t diminish a word.'),(24026003,24,26,3,'It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.'),(24026004,24,26,4,'You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,'),(24026005,24,26,5,'to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;'),(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,'The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Yahweh.'),(24026008,24,26,8,'It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely die.'),(24026009,24,26,9,'Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.'),(24026010,24,26,10,'When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king\'s house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh\'s [house].'),(24026011,24,26,11,'Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.'),(24026012,24,26,12,'Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.'),(24026013,24,26,13,'Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you.'),(24026014,24,26,14,'But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.'),(24026015,24,26,15,'Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.'),(24026016,24,26,16,'Then said the princes and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.'),(24026017,24,26,17,'Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,'),(24026018,24,26,18,'Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.'),(24026019,24,26,19,'Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn\'t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.'),(24026020,24,26,20,'There was also a man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:'),(24026021,24,26,21,'and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:'),(24026022,24,26,22,'and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;'),(24026023,24,26,23,'and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.'),(24026024,24,26,24,'But 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, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,'),(24027002,24,27,2,'Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;'),(24027003,24,27,3,'and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;'),(24027004,24,27,4,'and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell your masters:'),(24027005,24,27,5,'I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.'),(24027006,24,27,6,'Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.'),(24027007,24,27,7,'All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son\'s son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.'),(24027008,24,27,8,'It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.'),(24027009,24,27,9,'But as for you, don\'t you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:'),(24027010,24,27,10,'for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.'),(24027011,24,27,11,'But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.'),(24027012,24,27,12,'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 you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?'),(24027014,24,27,14,'Don\'t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.'),(24027015,24,27,15,'For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.'),(24027016,24,27,16,'Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don\'t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh\'s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.'),(24027017,24,27,17,'Don\'t listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?'),(24027018,24,27,18,'But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don\'t go to Babylon.'),(24027019,24,27,19,'For thus says Yahweh of Hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,'),(24027020,24,27,20,'which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn\'t take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;'),(24027021,24,27,21,'yes, thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:'),(24027022,24,27,22,'They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.'),(24028001,24,28,1,'It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,'),(24028002,24,28,2,'Thus speaks Yahweh 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 Yahweh\'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, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'),(24028005,24,28,5,'Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of Yahweh,'),(24028006,24,28,6,'even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh\'s house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.'),(24028007,24,28,7,'Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:'),(24028008,24,28,8,'The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.'),(24028009,24,28,9,'The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.'),(24028010,24,28,10,'Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah\'s neck, and broke it.'),(24028011,24,28,11,'Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way.'),(24028012,24,28,12,'Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,'),(24028013,24,28,13,'Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place bars of iron.'),(24028014,24,28,14,'For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the animals of the field also.'),(24028015,24,28,15,'Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.'),(24028016,24,28,16,'Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.'),(24028017,24,28,17,'So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.'),(24029001,24,29,1,'Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,'),(24029002,24,29,2,'(after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem),'),(24029003,24,29,3,'by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,'),(24029004,24,29,4,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:'),(24029005,24,29,5,'Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.'),(24029006,24,29,6,'Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there, and don\'t be diminished.'),(24029007,24,29,7,'Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in the peace of it shall you have peace.'),(24029008,24,29,8,'For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Don\'t let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.'),(24029009,24,29,9,'For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh.'),(24029010,24,29,10,'For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.'),(24029011,24,29,11,'For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.'),(24029012,24,29,12,'You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.'),(24029013,24,29,13,'You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.'),(24029014,24,29,14,'I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.'),(24029015,24,29,15,'Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;'),(24029016,24,29,16,'thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven\'t gone forth with you into captivity;'),(24029017,24,29,17,'thus says Yahweh of Hosts; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can\'t be eaten, they are so bad.'),(24029018,24,29,18,'I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;'),(24029019,24,29,19,'because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.'),(24029020,24,29,20,'Hear you therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.'),(24029021,24,29,21,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes;'),(24029022,24,29,22,'and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;'),(24029023,24,29,23,'because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors\' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn\'t command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.'),(24029024,24,29,24,'Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,'),(24029025,24,29,25,'Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,'),(24029026,24,29,26,'Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.'),(24029027,24,29,27,'Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,'),(24029028,24,29,28,'because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?'),(24029029,24,29,29,'Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.'),(24029030,24,29,30,'Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24029031,24,29,31,'Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn\'t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;'),(24029032,24,29,32,'therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.'),(24030001,24,30,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,'),(24030002,24,30,2,'Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.'),(24030003,24,30,3,'For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.'),(24030004,24,30,4,'These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.'),(24030005,24,30,5,'For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.'),(24030006,24,30,6,'Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?'),(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,'It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;'),(24030009,24,30,9,'but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.'),(24030010,24,30,10,'Therefore don\'t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.'),(24030011,24,30,11,'For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.'),(24030012,24,30,12,'For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.'),(24030013,24,30,13,'There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.'),(24030014,24,30,14,'All your lovers have forgotten you; they don\'t seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.'),(24030015,24,30,15,'Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.'),(24030016,24,30,16,'Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.'),(24030017,24,30,17,'For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.'),(24030018,24,30,18,'Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob\'s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.'),(24030019,24,30,19,'Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.'),(24030020,24,30,20,'Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.'),(24030021,24,30,21,'Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.'),(24030022,24,30,22,'You shall be my people, and I will be your God.'),(24030023,24,30,23,'Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.'),(24030024,24,30,24,'The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it.'),(24031001,24,31,1,'At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.'),(24031002,24,31,2,'Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.'),(24031003,24,31,3,'Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.'),(24031004,24,31,4,'Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again shall you be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.'),(24031005,24,31,5,'Again shall you plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit of it].'),(24031006,24,31,6,'For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.'),(24031007,24,31,7,'For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'),(24031008,24,31,8,'Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.'),(24031009,24,31,9,'They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.'),(24031010,24,31,10,'Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.'),(24031011,24,31,11,'For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.'),(24031012,24,31,12,'They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.'),(24031013,24,31,13,'Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.'),(24031014,24,31,14,'I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.'),(24031015,24,31,15,'Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.'),(24031016,24,31,16,'Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.'),(24031017,24,31,17,'There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your] children shall come again to their own border.'),(24031018,24,31,18,'I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.'),(24031019,24,31,19,'Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.'),(24031020,24,31,20,'Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.'),(24031021,24,31,21,'Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.'),(24031022,24,31,22,'How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.'),(24031023,24,31,23,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.'),(24031024,24,31,24,'Judah and all the cities of it shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.'),(24031025,24,31,25,'For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.'),(24031026,24,31,26,'On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.'),(24031027,24,31,27,'Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.'),(24031028,24,31,28,'It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.'),(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,'But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.'),(24031031,24,31,31,'Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, 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 that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.'),(24031033,24,31,33,'But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:'),(24031034,24,31,34,'and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.'),(24031035,24,31,35,'Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name:'),(24031036,24,31,36,'If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.'),(24031037,24,31,37,'Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.'),(24031038,24,31,38,'Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.'),(24031039,24,31,39,'The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.'),(24031040,24,31,40,'The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.'),(24032001,24,32,1,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.'),(24032002,24,32,2,'Now at that time the king of Babylon\'s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet 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 do you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;'),(24032004,24,32,4,'and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes;'),(24032005,24,32,5,'and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper?'),(24032006,24,32,6,'Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(24032007,24,32,7,'Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.'),(24032008,24,32,8,'So Hanamel my uncle\'s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh.'),(24032009,24,32,9,'I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle\'s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.'),(24032010,24,32,10,'I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.'),(24032011,24,32,11,'So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;'),(24032012,24,32,12,'and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle\'s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.'),(24032013,24,32,13,'I charged Baruch before them, saying,'),(24032014,24,32,14,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.'),(24032015,24,32,15,'For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.'),(24032016,24,32,16,'Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,'),(24032017,24,32,17,'Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,'),(24032018,24,32,18,'who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Hosts is his name;'),(24032019,24,32,19,'great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:'),(24032020,24,32,20,'who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; and made you a name, as in this day;'),(24032021,24,32,21,'and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;'),(24032022,24,32,22,'and gave them this land, which you did swear to 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 didn\'t obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them.'),(24032024,24,32,24,'Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and, behold, you see it.'),(24032025,24,32,25,'You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24032026,24,32,26,'Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24032027,24,32,27,'Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?'),(24032028,24,32,28,'Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:'),(24032029,24,32,29,'and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.'),(24032030,24,32,30,'For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.'),(24032031,24,32,31,'For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face,'),(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,'They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.'),(24032034,24,32,34,'But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.'),(24032035,24,32,35,'They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] to Molech; which I didn\'t command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.'),(24032036,24,32,36,'Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:'),(24032037,24,32,37,'Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:'),(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 forever, 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 turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.'),(24032041,24,32,41,'Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.'),(24032042,24,32,42,'For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised them.'),(24032043,24,32,43,'Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24032044,24,32,44,'Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh.'),(24033001,24,33,1,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,'),(24033002,24,33,2,'Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name:'),(24033003,24,33,3,'Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don\'t know.'),(24033004,24,33,4,'For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword;'),(24033005,24,33,5,'while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:'),(24033006,24,33,6,'Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.'),(24033007,24,33,7,'I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.'),(24033008,24,33,8,'I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.'),(24033009,24,33,9,'[This city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.'),(24033010,24,33,10,'Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,'),(24033011,24,33,11,'the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.'),(24033012,24,33,12,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.'),(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 places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh.'),(24033014,24,33,14,'Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.'),(24033015,24,33,15,'In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.'),(24033016,24,33,16,'In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.'),(24033017,24,33,17,'For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;'),(24033018,24,33,18,'neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.'),(24033019,24,33,19,'The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24033020,24,33,20,'Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;'),(24033021,24,33,21,'then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.'),(24033022,24,33,22,'As the host of the sky can\'t be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.'),(24033023,24,33,23,'The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24033024,24,33,24,'Don\'t you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.'),(24033025,24,33,25,'Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;'),(24033026,24,33,26,'then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.'),(24034001,24,34,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:'),(24034002,24,34,2,'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:'),(24034003,24,34,3,'and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.'),(24034004,24,34,4,'Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword;'),(24034005,24,34,5,'you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.'),(24034006,24,34,6,'Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,'),(24034007,24,34,7,'when the king of Babylon\'s army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities.'),(24034008,24,34,8,'The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;'),(24034009,24,34,9,'that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.'),(24034010,24,34,10,'All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his man-servant, and everyone his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:'),(24034011,24,34,11,'but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.'),(24034012,24,34,12,'Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,'),(24034013,24,34,13,'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,'),(24034014,24,34,14,'At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn\'t listen to me, neither inclined their ear.'),(24034015,24,34,15,'You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:'),(24034016,24,34,16,'but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.'),(24034017,24,34,17,'Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.'),(24034018,24,34,18,'I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it;'),(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, who passed between the parts of the calf;'),(24034020,24,34,20,'I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.'),(24034021,24,34,21,'Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon\'s army, who have gone away from you.'),(24034022,24,34,22,'Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.'),(24035001,24,35,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,'),(24035002,24,35,2,'Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.'),(24035003,24,35,3,'Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;'),(24035004,24,35,4,'and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.'),(24035005,24,35,5,'I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine.'),(24035006,24,35,6,'But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever:'),(24035007,24,35,7,'neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.'),(24035008,24,35,8,'We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;'),(24035009,24,35,9,'nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:'),(24035010,24,35,10,'but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.'),(24035011,24,35,11,'But it happened, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.'),(24035012,24,35,12,'Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,'),(24035013,24,35,13,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh.'),(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 drink none, for they obey their father\'s commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.'),(24035015,24,35,15,'I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don\'t go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.'),(24035016,24,35,16,'Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me;'),(24035017,24,35,17,'therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.'),(24035018,24,35,18,'Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;'),(24035019,24,35,19,'therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever.'),(24036001,24,36,1,'It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,'),(24036002,24,36,2,'Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.'),(24036003,24,36,3,'It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.'),(24036004,24,36,4,'Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.'),(24036005,24,36,5,'Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can\'t go into the house of Yahweh:'),(24036006,24,36,6,'therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh\'s house on the fast-day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.'),(24036007,24,36,7,'It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people.'),(24036008,24,36,8,'Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of Yahweh in Yahweh\'s house.'),(24036009,24,36,9,'Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.'),(24036010,24,36,10,'Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh\'s house, in the ears of all the people.'),(24036011,24,36,11,'When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of Yahweh,'),(24036012,24,36,12,'he went down into the king\'s house, into the scribe\'s chamber: and, behold, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit], 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,'Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.'),(24036014,24,36,14,'Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.'),(24036015,24,36,15,'They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.'),(24036016,24,36,16,'Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.'),(24036017,24,36,17,'They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?'),(24036018,24,36,18,'Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.'),(24036019,24,36,19,'Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.'),(24036020,24,36,20,'They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.'),(24036021,24,36,21,'So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king.'),(24036022,24,36,22,'Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month: and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him.'),(24036023,24,36,23,'It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.'),(24036024,24,36,24,'They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who 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 scroll; but he would not hear them.'),(24036026,24,36,26,'The king commanded Jerahmeel the king\'s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.'),(24036027,24,36,27,'Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,'),(24036028,24,36,28,'Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.'),(24036029,24,36,29,'Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?'),(24036030,24,36,30,'Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on 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,'I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn\'t listen.'),(24036032,24,36,32,'Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many like words.'),(24037001,24,37,1,'Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.'),(24037002,24,37,2,'But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did listen to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.'),(24037003,24,37,3,'Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.'),(24037004,24,37,4,'Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.'),(24037005,24,37,5,'Pharaoh\'s army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem.'),(24037006,24,37,6,'Then came the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,'),(24037007,24,37,7,'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell the king of Judah, who sent you to 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,'The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.'),(24037009,24,37,9,'Thus says Yahweh, Don\'t deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.'),(24037010,24,37,10,'For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.'),(24037011,24,37,11,'It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh\'s army,'),(24037012,24,37,12,'then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.'),(24037013,24,37,13,'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 Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.'),(24037014,24,37,14,'Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he didn\'t listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.'),(24037015,24,37,15,'The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison 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-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;'),(24037017,24,37,17,'Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.'),(24037018,24,37,18,'Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?'),(24037019,24,37,19,'Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?'),(24037020,24,37,20,'Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to 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. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.'),(24038001,24,38,1,'Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,'),(24038002,24,38,2,'Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.'),(24038003,24,38,3,'Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.'),(24038004,24,38,4,'Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn\'t seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt.'),(24038005,24,38,5,'Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you.'),(24038006,24,38,6,'Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king\'s son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.'),(24038007,24,38,7,'Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king\'s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),'),(24038008,24,38,8,'Ebedmelech went forth out of the king\'s house, and spoke to the king, saying,'),(24038009,24,38,9,'My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.'),(24038010,24,38,10,'Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.'),(24038011,24,38,11,'So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.'),(24038012,24,38,12,'Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments under your armholes under the cords. Jeremiah did so.'),(24038013,24,38,13,'So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.'),(24038014,24,38,14,'Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third entry that is in the house of Yahweh: and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing; hide nothing from me.'),(24038015,24,38,15,'Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.'),(24038016,24,38,16,'So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.'),(24038017,24,38,17,'Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king of Babylon\'s princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house.'),(24038018,24,38,18,'But if you will 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 you shall not escape out of their hand.'),(24038019,24,38,19,'Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.'),(24038020,24,38,20,'But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.'),(24038021,24,38,21,'But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:'),(24038022,24,38,22,'behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah\'s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon\'s princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.'),(24038023,24,38,23,'They shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.'),(24038024,24,38,24,'Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not die.'),(24038025,24,38,25,'But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don\'t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you:'),(24038026,24,38,26,'then you shall tell 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,'Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.'),(24038028,24,38,28,'So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.'),(24039001,24,39,1,'It happened 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 besieged it;'),(24039002,24,39,2,'in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),'),(24039003,24,39,3,'that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal Sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.'),(24039004,24,39,4,'It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king\'s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.'),(24039005,24,39,5,'But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.'),(24039006,24,39,6,'Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah.'),(24039007,24,39,7,'Moreover he put out Zedekiah\'s eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.'),(24039008,24,39,8,'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,'Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.'),(24039010,24,39,10,'But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.'),(24039011,24,39,11,'Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,'),(24039012,24,39,12,'Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him even as he shall tell you.'),(24039013,24,39,13,'So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;'),(24039014,24,39,14,'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 carry him home: so he lived among the people.'),(24039015,24,39,15,'Now the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,'),(24039016,24,39,16,'Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.'),(24039017,24,39,17,'But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.'),(24039018,24,39,18,'For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in me, says Yahweh.'),(24040001,24,40,1,'The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.'),(24040002,24,40,2,'The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;'),(24040003,24,40,3,'and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke: because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come on you.'),(24040004,24,40,4,'Now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seem good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well to you; but if it seem ill to you to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.'),(24040005,24,40,5,'Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.'),(24040006,24,40,6,'Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.'),(24040007,24,40,7,'Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon;'),(24040008,24,40,8,'then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], 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 the Maacathite, they and their men.'),(24040009,24,40,9,'Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, Don\'t be afraid 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,'As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you, gather you wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.'),(24040011,24,40,11,'Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;'),(24040012,24,40,12,'then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.'),(24040013,24,40,13,'Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,'),(24040014,24,40,14,'and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn\'t believe them.'),(24040015,24,40,15,'Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?'),(24040016,24,40,16,'But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.'),(24041001,24,41,1,'Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.'),(24041002,24,41,2,'Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.'),(24041003,24,41,3,'Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, [to wit], with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.'),(24041004,24,41,4,'It happened 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, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.'),(24041006,24,41,6,'Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it happened, as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.'),(24041007,24,41,7,'It was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.'),(24041008,24,41,8,'But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don\'t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn\'t kill them among their brothers.'),(24041009,24,41,9,'Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was who which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.'),(24041010,24,41,10,'Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people who were in Mizpah, even the king\'s daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the 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,'But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,'),(24041012,24,41,12,'then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.'),(24041013,24,41,13,'Now it happened that, when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad.'),(24041014,24,41,14,'So all the people who 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 took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon:'),(24041017,24,41,17,'and they departed, and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,'),(24041018,24,41,18,'because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.'),(24042001,24,42,1,'Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,'),(24042002,24,42,2,'and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray you, our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us:'),(24042003,24,42,3,'that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.'),(24042004,24,42,4,'Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.'),(24042005,24,42,5,'Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don\'t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.'),(24042006,24,42,6,'Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.'),(24042007,24,42,7,'It happened after ten days, that the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah.'),(24042008,24,42,8,'Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,'),(24042009,24,42,9,'and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him:'),(24042010,24,42,10,'If you will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done to you.'),(24042011,24,42,11,'Don\'t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don\'t be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.'),(24042012,24,42,12,'I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.'),(24042013,24,42,13,'But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don\'t obey the voice of Yahweh 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 of bread; and there will we dwell:'),(24042015,24,42,15,'now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;'),(24042016,24,42,16,'then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.'),(24042017,24,42,17,'So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.'),(24042018,24,42,18,'For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.'),(24042019,24,42,19,'Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don\'t you go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to you this day.'),(24042020,24,42,20,'For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it:'),(24042021,24,42,21,'and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.'),(24042022,24,42,22,'Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to sojourn there.'),(24043001,24,43,1,'It happened that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even 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, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there;'),(24043003,24,43,3,'but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.'),(24043004,24,43,4,'So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn\'t obey the voice of Yahweh, to dwell 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, who were returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah;'),(24043006,24,43,6,'the men, and the women, and the children, and the king\'s daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;'),(24043007,24,43,7,'and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn\'t obey the voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes.'),(24043008,24,43,8,'Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,'),(24043009,24,43,9,'Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh\'s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;'),(24043010,24,43,10,'and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.'),(24043011,24,43,11,'He shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death [shall be given] to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.'),(24043012,24,43,12,'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 puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.'),(24043013,24,43,13,'He shall also break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, that 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 lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,'),(24044002,24,44,2,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells 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, [and] to serve other gods, that they didn\'t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.'),(24044004,24,44,4,'However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don\'t do this abominable thing that I hate.'),(24044005,24,44,5,'But they didn\'t listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.'),(24044006,24,44,6,'Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.'),(24044007,24,44,7,'Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why commit you [this] great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;'),(24044008,24,44,8,'in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?'),(24044009,24,44,9,'Have you 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 committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?'),(24044010,24,44,10,'They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.'),(24044011,24,44,11,'Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.'),(24044012,24,44,12,'I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.'),(24044013,24,44,13,'For I will punish those who 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,'so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save 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 assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,'),(24044016,24,44,16,'As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not listen to you.'),(24044017,24,44,17,'But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, 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; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.'),(24044018,24,44,18,'But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink-offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.'),(24044019,24,44,19,'When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?'),(24044020,24,44,20,'Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him who answer, saying,'),(24044021,24,44,21,'The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn\'t Yahweh remember them, and didn\'t it come into his mind?'),(24044022,24,44,22,'so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.'),(24044023,24,44,23,'Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened to you, as it is this day.'),(24044024,24,44,24,'Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt:'),(24044025,24,44,25,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.'),(24044026,24,44,26,'Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says Yahweh, 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 Yahweh lives.'),(24044027,24,44,27,'Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who 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,'Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.'),(24044029,24,44,29,'This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:'),(24044030,24,44,30,'Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.'),(24045001,24,45,1,'The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these word in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,'),(24045002,24,45,2,'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch:'),(24045003,24,45,3,'You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.'),(24045004,24,45,4,'Thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.'),(24045005,24,45,5,'Seek you great things for yourself? Don\'t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.'),(24046001,24,46,1,'The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.'),(24046002,24,46,2,'Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.'),(24046003,24,46,3,'Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.'),(24046004,24,46,4,'Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.'),(24046005,24,46,5,'Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don\'t look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.'),(24046006,24,46,6,'Don\'t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.'),(24046007,24,46,7,'Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?'),(24046008,24,46,8,'Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it.'),(24046009,24,46,9,'Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.'),(24046010,24,46,10,'For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.'),(24046011,24,46,11,'Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.'),(24046012,24,46,12,'The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.'),(24046013,24,46,13,'The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.'),(24046014,24,46,14,'Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured round about you.'),(24046015,24,46,15,'Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn\'t stand, because Yahweh did drive them.'),(24046016,24,46,16,'He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.'),(24046017,24,46,17,'They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.'),(24046018,24,46,18,'As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.'),(24046019,24,46,19,'You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.'),(24046020,24,46,20,'Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.'),(24046021,24,46,21,'Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn\'t stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.'),(24046022,24,46,22,'The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.'),(24046023,24,46,23,'They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can\'t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.'),(24046024,24,46,24,'The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.'),(24046025,24,46,25,'Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:'),(24046026,24,46,26,'and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.'),(24046027,24,46,27,'But don\'t be afraid you, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.'),(24046028,24,46,28,'Don\'t be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.'),(24047001,24,47,1,'The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza.'),(24047002,24,47,2,'Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.'),(24047003,24,47,3,'At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don\'t look back to their children for feebleness of hands;'),(24047004,24,47,4,'because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.'),(24047005,24,47,5,'Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?'),(24047006,24,47,6,'You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.'),(24047007,24,47,7,'How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there has he appointed it.'),(24048001,24,48,1,'Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.'),(24048002,24,48,2,'The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.'),(24048003,24,48,3,'The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation 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 with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.'),(24048006,24,48,6,'Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.'),(24048007,24,48,7,'For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.'),(24048008,24,48,8,'The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.'),(24048009,24,48,9,'Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.'),(24048010,24,48,10,'Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.'),(24048011,24,48,11,'Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.'),(24048012,24,48,12,'Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.'),(24048013,24,48,13,'Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.'),(24048014,24,48,14,'How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?'),(24048015,24,48,15,'Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Hosts.'),(24048016,24,48,16,'The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.'),(24048017,24,48,17,'All you who are round about him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!'),(24048018,24,48,18,'You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.'),(24048019,24,48,19,'Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?'),(24048020,24,48,20,'Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.'),(24048021,24,48,21,'Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath,'),(24048022,24,48,22,'and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim,'),(24048023,24,48,23,'and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,'),(24048024,24,48,24,'and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.'),(24048025,24,48,25,'The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh.'),(24048026,24,48,26,'Make you him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.'),(24048027,24,48,27,'For wasn\'t Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you wag the head.'),(24048028,24,48,28,'You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.'),(24048029,24,48,29,'We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.'),(24048030,24,48,30,'I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing.'),(24048031,24,48,31,'Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.'),(24048032,24,48,32,'With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.'),(24048033,24,48,33,'Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.'),(24048034,24,48,34,'From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.'),(24048035,24,48,35,'Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.'),(24048036,24,48,36,'Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.'),(24048037,24,48,37,'For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.'),(24048038,24,48,38,'On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets of it there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh.'),(24048039,24,48,39,'How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are round about him.'),(24048040,24,48,40,'For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.'),(24048041,24,48,41,'Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.'),(24048042,24,48,42,'Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.'),(24048043,24,48,43,'Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh.'),(24048044,24,48,44,'He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.'),(24048045,24,48,45,'Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.'),(24048046,24,48,46,'Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.'),(24048047,24,48,47,'Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.'),(24049001,24,49,1,'Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities of it?'),(24049002,24,49,2,'Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess him, says Yahweh.'),(24049003,24,49,3,'Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.'),(24049004,24,49,4,'Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?'),(24049005,24,49,5,'Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, from all who are round about you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives.'),(24049006,24,49,6,'But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, says Yahweh.'),(24049007,24,49,7,'Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?'),(24049008,24,49,8,'Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.'),(24049009,24,49,9,'If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn\'t they destroy until they had enough?'),(24049010,24,49,10,'But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.'),(24049011,24,49,11,'Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.'),(24049012,24,49,12,'For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn\'t pertain to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.'),(24049013,24,49,13,'For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities of it shall be perpetual wastes.'),(24049014,24,49,14,'I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.'),(24049015,24,49,15,'For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.'),(24049016,24,49,16,'As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.'),(24049017,24,49,17,'Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.'),(24049018,24,49,18,'As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.'),(24049019,24,49,19,'Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?'),(24049020,24,49,20,'Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.'),(24049021,24,49,21,'The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.'),(24049022,24,49,22,'Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.'),(24049023,24,49,23,'Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can\'t be quiet.'),(24049024,24,49,24,'Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.'),(24049025,24,49,25,'How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?'),(24049026,24,49,26,'Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(24049027,24,49,27,'I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.'),(24049028,24,49,28,'Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.'),(24049029,24,49,29,'Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!'),(24049030,24,49,30,'Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.'),(24049031,24,49,31,'Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone.'),(24049032,24,49,32,'Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.'),(24049033,24,49,33,'Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.'),(24049034,24,49,34,'The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,'),(24049035,24,49,35,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.'),(24049036,24,49,36,'On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.'),(24049037,24,49,37,'I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;'),(24049038,24,49,38,'and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes, says Yahweh.'),(24049039,24,49,39,'But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.'),(24050001,24,50,1,'The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.'),(24050002,24,50,2,'Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don\'t conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.'),(24050003,24,50,3,'For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal.'),(24050004,24,50,4,'In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.'),(24050005,24,50,5,'They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.'),(24050006,24,50,6,'My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place.'),(24050007,24,50,7,'All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.'),(24050008,24,50,8,'Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.'),(24050009,24,50,9,'For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.'),(24050010,24,50,10,'Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh.'),(24050011,24,50,11,'Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;'),(24050012,24,50,12,'your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.'),(24050013,24,50,13,'Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.'),(24050014,24,50,14,'Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.'),(24050015,24,50,15,'Shout against her round about: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.'),(24050016,24,50,16,'Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.'),(24050017,24,50,17,'Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.'),(24050018,24,50,18,'Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.'),(24050019,24,50,19,'I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.'),(24050020,24,50,20,'In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.'),(24050021,24,50,21,'Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.'),(24050022,24,50,22,'A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.'),(24050023,24,50,23,'How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!'),(24050024,24,50,24,'I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren\'t aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.'),(24050025,24,50,25,'Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, has a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.'),(24050026,24,50,26,'Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.'),(24050027,24,50,27,'Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.'),(24050028,24,50,28,'The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.'),(24050029,24,50,29,'Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.'),(24050030,24,50,30,'Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.'),(24050031,24,50,31,'Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.'),(24050032,24,50,32,'The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him.'),(24050033,24,50,33,'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.'),(24050034,24,50,34,'Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.'),(24050035,24,50,35,'A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.'),(24050036,24,50,36,'A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.'),(24050037,24,50,37,'A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.'),(24050038,24,50,38,'A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.'),(24050039,24,50,39,'Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.'),(24050040,24,50,40,'As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.'),(24050041,24,50,41,'Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.'),(24050042,24,50,42,'They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.'),(24050043,24,50,43,'The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.'),(24050044,24,50,44,'Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?'),(24050045,24,50,45,'Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.'),(24050046,24,50,46,'At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.'),(24051001,24,51,1,'Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.'),(24051002,24,51,2,'I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.'),(24051003,24,51,3,'Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don\'t you spare her young men; destroy you utterly all her host.'),(24051004,24,51,4,'They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.'),(24051005,24,51,5,'For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.'),(24051006,24,51,6,'Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don\'t be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh\'s vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.'),(24051007,24,51,7,'Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh\'s hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.'),(24051008,24,51,8,'Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.'),(24051009,24,51,9,'We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.'),(24051010,24,51,10,'Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.'),(24051011,24,51,11,'Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.'),(24051012,24,51,12,'Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.'),(24051013,24,51,13,'You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure of your covetousness.'),(24051014,24,51,14,'Yahweh of Hosts has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.'),(24051015,24,51,15,'He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:'),(24051016,24,51,16,'when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.'),(24051017,24,51,17,'Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.'),(24051018,24,51,18,'They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.'),(24051019,24,51,19,'The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.'),(24051020,24,51,20,'You are my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;'),(24051021,24,51,21,'and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;'),(24051022,24,51,22,'and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;'),(24051023,24,51,23,'and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.'),(24051024,24,51,24,'I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.'),(24051025,24,51,25,'Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroy all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.'),(24051026,24,51,26,'They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.'),(24051027,24,51,27,'Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.'),(24051028,24,51,28,'Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all the land of their dominion.'),(24051029,24,51,29,'The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.'),(24051030,24,51,30,'The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.'),(24051031,24,51,31,'One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:'),(24051032,24,51,32,'and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.'),(24051033,24,51,33,'For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.'),(24051034,24,51,34,'Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.'),(24051035,24,51,35,'The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.'),(24051036,24,51,36,'Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.'),(24051037,24,51,37,'Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.'),(24051038,24,51,38,'They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions\' cubs.'),(24051039,24,51,39,'When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.'),(24051040,24,51,40,'I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.'),(24051041,24,51,41,'How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!'),(24051042,24,51,42,'The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.'),(24051043,24,51,43,'Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.'),(24051044,24,51,44,'I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.'),(24051045,24,51,45,'My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.'),(24051046,24,51,46,'Don\'t let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come] news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.'),(24051047,24,51,47,'Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.'),(24051048,24,51,48,'Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh.'),(24051049,24,51,49,'As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.'),(24051050,24,51,50,'You who have escaped the sword, go you, don\'t stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.'),(24051051,24,51,51,'We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh\'s house.'),(24051052,24,51,52,'Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.'),(24051053,24,51,53,'Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.'),(24051054,24,51,54,'The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!'),(24051055,24,51,55,'For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:'),(24051056,24,51,56,'for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.'),(24051057,24,51,57,'I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Hosts.'),(24051058,24,51,58,'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.'),(24051059,24,51,59,'The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.'),(24051060,24,51,60,'Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.'),(24051061,24,51,61,'Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,'),(24051062,24,51,62,'and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.'),(24051063,24,51,63,'It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:'),(24051064,24,51,64,'and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.'),(24052001,24,52,1,'Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother\'s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.'),(24052002,24,52,2,'He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.'),(24052003,24,52,3,'For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.'),(24052004,24,52,4,'It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.'),(24052005,24,52,5,'So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.'),(24052006,24,52,6,'In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.'),(24052007,24,52,7,'Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king\'s garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.'),(24052008,24,52,8,'But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.'),(24052009,24,52,9,'Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.'),(24052010,24,52,10,'The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.'),(24052011,24,52,11,'He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.'),(24052012,24,52,12,'Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:'),(24052013,24,52,13,'and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king\'s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.'),(24052014,24,52,14,'All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.'),(24052015,24,52,15,'Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.'),(24052016,24,52,16,'But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.'),(24052017,24,52,17,'The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.'),(24052018,24,52,18,'The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.'),(24052019,24,52,19,'The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,-the captain of the guard took away.'),(24052020,24,52,20,'The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.'),(24052021,24,52,21,'As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow.'),(24052022,24,52,22,'A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.'),(24052023,24,52,23,'There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network round about.'),(24052024,24,52,24,'The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:'),(24052025,24,52,25,'and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king\'s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.'),(24052026,24,52,26,'Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.'),(24052027,24,52,27,'The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.'),(24052028,24,52,28,'This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;'),(24052029,24,52,29,'in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;'),(24052030,24,52,30,'in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.'),(24052031,24,52,31,'It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;'),(24052032,24,52,32,'and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,'),(24052033,24,52,33,'and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:'),(24052034,24,52,34,'and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.'),(25001001,25,1,1,'How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!'),(25001002,25,1,2,'She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.'),(25001003,25,1,3,'Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.'),(25001004,25,1,4,'The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.'),(25001005,25,1,5,'Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.'),(25001006,25,1,6,'From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, They are gone without strength before the pursuer.'),(25001007,25,1,7,'Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.'),(25001008,25,1,8,'Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.'),(25001009,25,1,9,'Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn\'t remember her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.'),(25001010,25,1,10,'The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: For she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom you did command that they should not enter into your assembly.'),(25001011,25,1,11,'All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: Look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.'),(25001012,25,1,12,'Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.'),(25001013,25,1,13,'From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.'),(25001014,25,1,14,'The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.'),(25001015,25,1,15,'The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.'),(25001016,25,1,16,'For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.'),(25001017,25,1,17,'Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.'),(25001018,25,1,18,'Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.'),(25001019,25,1,19,'I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.'),(25001020,25,1,20,'See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.'),(25001021,25,1,21,'They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.'),(25001022,25,1,22,'Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.'),(25002001,25,2,1,'How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn\'t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.'),(25002002,25,2,2,'The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and the princes of it.'),(25002003,25,2,3,'He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours round about.'),(25002004,25,2,4,'He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.'),(25002005,25,2,5,'The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.'),(25002006,25,2,6,'He has violently taken away his tent, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.'),(25002007,25,2,7,'The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.'),(25002008,25,2,8,'Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.'),(25002009,25,2,9,'Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.'),(25002010,25,2,10,'The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.'),(25002011,25,2,11,'My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.'),(25002012,25,2,12,'They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers\' bosom.'),(25002013,25,2,13,'What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?'),(25002014,25,2,14,'Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, But have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.'),(25002015,25,2,15,'All that pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?'),(25002016,25,2,16,'All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.'),(25002017,25,2,17,'Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.'),(25002018,25,2,18,'Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don\'t let the apple of your eye cease.'),(25002019,25,2,19,'Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.'),(25002020,25,2,20,'Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?'),(25002021,25,2,21,'The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.'),(25002022,25,2,22,'You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh\'s anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.'),(25003001,25,3,1,'I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.'),(25003002,25,3,2,'He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.'),(25003003,25,3,3,'Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.'),(25003004,25,3,4,'My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.'),(25003005,25,3,5,'He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.'),(25003006,25,3,6,'He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.'),(25003007,25,3,7,'He has walled me about, that I can\'t go forth; he has made my chain heavy.'),(25003008,25,3,8,'Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.'),(25003009,25,3,9,'He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.'),(25003010,25,3,10,'He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.'),(25003011,25,3,11,'He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.'),(25003012,25,3,12,'He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.'),(25003013,25,3,13,'He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.'),(25003014,25,3,14,'I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.'),(25003015,25,3,15,'He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.'),(25003016,25,3,16,'He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.'),(25003017,25,3,17,'You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.'),(25003018,25,3,18,'I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.'),(25003019,25,3,19,'Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.'),(25003020,25,3,20,'My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.'),(25003021,25,3,21,'This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.'),(25003022,25,3,22,'[It is of] Yahweh\'s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn\'t fail.'),(25003023,25,3,23,'They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.'),(25003024,25,3,24,'Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.'),(25003025,25,3,25,'Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.'),(25003026,25,3,26,'It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.'),(25003027,25,3,27,'It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.'),(25003028,25,3,28,'Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.'),(25003029,25,3,29,'Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.'),(25003030,25,3,30,'Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.'),(25003031,25,3,31,'For the Lord will not cast off forever.'),(25003032,25,3,32,'For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.'),(25003033,25,3,33,'For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.'),(25003034,25,3,34,'To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,'),(25003035,25,3,35,'To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,'),(25003036,25,3,36,'To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn\'t approve.'),(25003037,25,3,37,'Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn\'t command it?'),(25003038,25,3,38,'Doesn\'t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?'),(25003039,25,3,39,'Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?'),(25003040,25,3,40,'Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.'),(25003041,25,3,41,'Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.'),(25003042,25,3,42,'We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.'),(25003043,25,3,43,'You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.'),(25003044,25,3,44,'You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.'),(25003045,25,3,45,'You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.'),(25003046,25,3,46,'All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.'),(25003047,25,3,47,'Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.'),(25003048,25,3,48,'My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.'),(25003049,25,3,49,'My eye pours down, and doesn\'t cease, without any intermission,'),(25003050,25,3,50,'Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.'),(25003051,25,3,51,'My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.'),(25003052,25,3,52,'They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.'),(25003053,25,3,53,'They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.'),(25003054,25,3,54,'Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.'),(25003055,25,3,55,'I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.'),(25003056,25,3,56,'You heard my voice; don\'t hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.'),(25003057,25,3,57,'You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don\'t be afraid.'),(25003058,25,3,58,'Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.'),(25003059,25,3,59,'Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause.'),(25003060,25,3,60,'You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.'),(25003061,25,3,61,'You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,'),(25003062,25,3,62,'The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.'),(25003063,25,3,63,'See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.'),(25003064,25,3,64,'You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.'),(25003065,25,3,65,'You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.'),(25003066,25,3,66,'You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.'),(25004001,25,4,1,'How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.'),(25004002,25,4,2,'The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!'),(25004003,25,4,3,'Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.'),(25004004,25,4,4,'The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.'),(25004005,25,4,5,'Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.'),(25004006,25,4,6,'For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.'),(25004007,25,4,7,'Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.'),(25004008,25,4,8,'Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.'),(25004009,25,4,9,'Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.'),(25004010,25,4,10,'The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.'),(25004011,25,4,11,'Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations of it.'),(25004012,25,4,12,'The kings of the earth didn\'t believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.'),(25004013,25,4,13,'[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.'),(25004014,25,4,14,'They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can\'t touch their garments.'),(25004015,25,4,15,'Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don\'t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here].'),(25004016,25,4,16,'The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn\'t respect the persons of the priests, they didn\'t favor the elders.'),(25004017,25,4,17,'Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.'),(25004018,25,4,18,'They hunt our steps, so that we can\'t go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.'),(25004019,25,4,19,'Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.'),(25004020,25,4,20,'The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'),(25004021,25,4,21,'Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.'),(25004022,25,4,22,'The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.'),(25005001,25,5,1,'Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.'),(25005002,25,5,2,'Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.'),(25005003,25,5,3,'We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.'),(25005004,25,5,4,'We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.'),(25005005,25,5,5,'Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.'),(25005006,25,5,6,'We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.'),(25005007,25,5,7,'Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.'),(25005008,25,5,8,'Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.'),(25005009,25,5,9,'We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.'),(25005010,25,5,10,'Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.'),(25005011,25,5,11,'They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.');
