(20013003,20,13,3,'Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!'),(20013004,20,13,4,'The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.'),(20013005,20,13,5,'A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.'),(20013006,20,13,6,'Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.'),(20013007,20,13,7,'There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is\' abundant.'),(20013008,20,13,8,'The ransom of a man\'s life `are\' his riches, And the poor hath not heard rebuke.'),(20013009,20,13,9,'The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.'),(20013010,20,13,10,'A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled `is\' wisdom.'),(20013011,20,13,11,'Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.'),(20013012,20,13,12,'Hope prolonged is making the heart sick, And a tree of life `is\' the coming desire.'),(20013013,20,13,13,'Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.'),(20013014,20,13,14,'The law of the wise `is\' a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.'),(20013015,20,13,15,'Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous `is\' hard.'),(20013016,20,13,16,'Every prudent one dealeth with knowledge, And a fool spreadeth out folly.'),(20013017,20,13,17,'A wicked messenger falleth into evil, And a faithful ambassador is healing.'),(20013018,20,13,18,'Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.'),(20013019,20,13,19,'A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, And an abomination to fools `is\': Turn from evil.'),(20013020,20,13,20,'Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.'),(20013021,20,13,21,'Evil pursueth sinners, And good recompenseth the righteous.'),(20013022,20,13,22,'A good man causeth sons\' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous `is\' the sinner\'s wealth.'),(20013023,20,13,23,'Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.'),(20013024,20,13,24,'Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.'),(20013025,20,13,25,'The righteous is eating to the satiety of his soul, And the belly of the wicked lacketh!'),(20014001,20,14,1,'Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.'),(20014002,20,14,2,'Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted `in\' his ways is despising Him.'),(20014003,20,14,3,'In the mouth of a fool `is\' a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.'),(20014004,20,14,4,'Without oxen a stall `is\' clean, And great `is\' the increase by the power of the ox.'),(20014005,20,14,5,'A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.'),(20014006,20,14,6,'A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent `is\' easy.'),(20014007,20,14,7,'Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.'),(20014008,20,14,8,'The wisdom of the prudent `is\' to understand his way, And the folly of fools `is\' deceit.'),(20014009,20,14,9,'Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright -- a pleasing thing.'),(20014010,20,14,10,'The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.'),(20014011,20,14,11,'The house of the wicked is destroyed, And the tent of the upright flourisheth.'),(20014012,20,14,12,'There is a way -- right before a man, And its latter end `are\' ways of death.'),(20014013,20,14,13,'Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy `is\' affliction.'),(20014014,20,14,14,'From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man -- from his fruits.'),(20014015,20,14,15,'The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.'),(20014016,20,14,16,'The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.'),(20014017,20,14,17,'Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.'),(20014018,20,14,18,'The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned `with\' knowledge.'),(20014019,20,14,19,'The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.'),(20014020,20,14,20,'Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich `are\' many.'),(20014021,20,14,21,'Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness.'),(20014022,20,14,22,'Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth `are\' to those devising good,'),(20014023,20,14,23,'In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips `is\' only to want.'),(20014024,20,14,24,'The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools `is\' folly.'),(20014025,20,14,25,'A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.'),(20014026,20,14,26,'In the fear of Jehovah `is\' strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.'),(20014027,20,14,27,'The fear of Jehovah `is\' a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.'),(20014028,20,14,28,'In the multitude of a people `is\' the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.'),(20014029,20,14,29,'Whoso is slow to anger `is\' of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.'),(20014030,20,14,30,'A healed heart `is\' life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones `is\' envy.'),(20014031,20,14,31,'An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.'),(20014032,20,14,32,'In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is\' the righteous.'),(20014033,20,14,33,'In the heart of the intelligent wisdom doth rest. And in the midst of fools it is known.'),(20014034,20,14,34,'Righteousness exalteth a nation, And the goodliness of peoples `is\' a sin-offering.'),(20014035,20,14,35,'The favour of a king `is\' to a wise servant, And an object of his wrath is one causing shame!'),(20015001,20,15,1,'A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.'),(20015002,20,15,2,'The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.'),(20015003,20,15,3,'In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good.'),(20015004,20,15,4,'A healed tongue `is\' a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit.'),(20015005,20,15,5,'A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.'),(20015006,20,15,6,'`In\' the house of the righteous `is\' abundant strength, And in the increase of the wicked -- trouble.'),(20015007,20,15,7,'The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools `is\' not right.'),(20015008,20,15,8,'The sacrifice of the wicked `is\' an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright `is\' His delight.'),(20015009,20,15,9,'An abomination to Jehovah `is\' the way of the wicked, And whoso is pursuing righteousness He loveth.'),(20015010,20,15,10,'Chastisement `is\' grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.'),(20015011,20,15,11,'Sheol and destruction `are\' before Jehovah, Surely also the hearts of the sons of men.'),(20015012,20,15,12,'A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.'),(20015013,20,15,13,'A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.'),(20015014,20,15,14,'The heart of the intelligent seeketh knowledge, And the mouth of fools enjoyeth folly.'),(20015015,20,15,15,'All the days of the afflicted `are\' evil, And gladness of heart `is\' a perpetual banquet.'),(20015016,20,15,16,'Better `is\' a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.'),(20015017,20,15,17,'Better `is\' an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.'),(20015018,20,15,18,'A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.'),(20015019,20,15,19,'The way of the slothful `is\' as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up.'),(20015020,20,15,20,'A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.'),(20015021,20,15,21,'Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth `his\' going.'),(20015022,20,15,22,'Without counsel `is\' the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.'),(20015023,20,15,23,'Joy `is\' to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season -- how good!'),(20015024,20,15,24,'A path of life `is\' on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.'),(20015025,20,15,25,'The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.'),(20015026,20,15,26,'An abomination to Jehovah `are\' thoughts of wickedness, And pure `are\' sayings of pleasantness.'),(20015027,20,15,27,'A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.'),(20015028,20,15,28,'The heart of the righteous meditateth to answer, And the mouth of the wicked uttereth evil things.'),(20015029,20,15,29,'Far `is\' Jehovah from the wicked, And the prayer of the righteous He heareth.'),(20015030,20,15,30,'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart, A good report maketh fat the bone.'),(20015031,20,15,31,'An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.'),(20015032,20,15,32,'Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.'),(20015033,20,15,33,'The fear of Jehovah `is\' the instruction of wisdom, And before honour `is\' humility!'),(20016001,20,16,1,'Of man `are\' arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue.'),(20016002,20,16,2,'All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.'),(20016003,20,16,3,'Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,'),(20016004,20,16,4,'All things hath Jehovah wrought for Himself, And also the wicked `worketh\' for a day of evil.'),(20016005,20,16,5,'An abomination to Jehovah `is\' every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.'),(20016006,20,16,6,'In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.'),(20016007,20,16,7,'When a man\'s ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.'),(20016008,20,16,8,'Better `is\' a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.'),(20016009,20,16,9,'The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.'),(20016010,20,16,10,'An oath `is\' on the lips of a king, In judgment his mouth trespasseth not.'),(20016011,20,16,11,'A just beam and balances `are\' Jehovah\'s, His work `are\' all the stones of the bag.'),(20016012,20,16,12,'An abomination to kings `is\' doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.'),(20016013,20,16,13,'The delight of kings `are\' righteous lips, And whoso is speaking uprightly he loveth,'),(20016014,20,16,14,'The fury of a king `is\' messengers of death, And a wise man pacifieth it.'),(20016015,20,16,15,'In the light of a king\'s face `is\' life, And his good-will `is\' as a cloud of the latter rain.'),(20016016,20,16,16,'To get wisdom -- how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!'),(20016017,20,16,17,'A highway of the upright `is\', `Turn from evil,\' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.'),(20016018,20,16,18,'Before destruction `is\' pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.\''),(20016019,20,16,19,'Better is humility of spirit with the poor, Than to apportion spoil with the proud.'),(20016020,20,16,20,'The wise in any matter findeth good, And whoso is trusting in Jehovah, O his happiness.'),(20016021,20,16,21,'To the wise in heart is called, `Intelligent,\' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning.'),(20016022,20,16,22,'A fountain of life `is\' understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.'),(20016023,20,16,23,'The heart of the wise causeth his mouth to act wisely, And by his lips he increaseth learning,'),(20016024,20,16,24,'Sayings of pleasantness `are\' a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.'),(20016025,20,16,25,'There is a way right before a man, And its latter end -- ways of death.'),(20016026,20,16,26,'A labouring man hath laboured for himself, For his mouth hath caused `him\' to bend over it.'),(20016027,20,16,27,'A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips -- as a burning fire.'),(20016028,20,16,28,'A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.'),(20016029,20,16,29,'A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.'),(20016030,20,16,30,'Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.'),(20016031,20,16,31,'A crown of beauty `are\' grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.'),(20016032,20,16,32,'Better `is\' the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.'),(20016033,20,16,33,'Into the centre is the lot cast, And from Jehovah `is\' all its judgment!'),(20017001,20,17,1,'Better `is\' a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.'),(20017002,20,17,2,'A wise servant ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance.'),(20017003,20,17,3,'A refining pot `is\' for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts `is\' Jehovah.'),(20017004,20,17,4,'An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.'),(20017005,20,17,5,'Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.'),(20017006,20,17,6,'Sons\' sons `are\' the crown of old men, And the glory of sons `are\' their fathers.'),(20017007,20,17,7,'Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.'),(20017008,20,17,8,'A stone of grace `is\' the bribe in the eyes of its possessors, Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.'),(20017009,20,17,9,'Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.'),(20017010,20,17,10,'Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.'),(20017011,20,17,11,'An evil man seeketh only rebellion, And a fierce messenger is sent against him.'),(20017012,20,17,12,'The meeting of a bereaved bear by a man, And -- not a fool in his folly.'),(20017013,20,17,13,'Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not from his house.'),(20017014,20,17,14,'The beginning of contention `is\' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.'),(20017015,20,17,15,'Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these `are\' an abomination to Jehovah.'),(20017016,20,17,16,'Why `is\' this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?'),(20017017,20,17,17,'At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.'),(20017018,20,17,18,'A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.'),(20017019,20,17,19,'Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.'),(20017020,20,17,20,'The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.'),(20017021,20,17,21,'Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.'),(20017022,20,17,22,'A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.'),(20017023,20,17,23,'A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment.'),(20017024,20,17,24,'The face of the intelligent `is\' to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.'),(20017025,20,17,25,'A provocation to his father `is\' a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.'),(20017026,20,17,26,'Also, to fine the righteous is not good, To smite nobles for uprightness.'),(20017027,20,17,27,'One acquainted with knowledge is sparing his words, And the cool of temper `is\' a man of understanding.'),(20017028,20,17,28,'Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!'),(20018001,20,18,1,'For `an object of\' desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.'),(20018002,20,18,2,'A fool delighteth not in understanding, But -- in uncovering his heart.'),(20018003,20,18,3,'With the coming of the wicked come also hath contempt, And with shame -- reproach.'),(20018004,20,18,4,'Deep waters `are\' the words of a man\'s mouth, The fountain of wisdom `is\' a flowing brook.'),(20018005,20,18,5,'Acceptance of the face of the wicked `is\' not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.'),(20018006,20,18,6,'The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.'),(20018007,20,18,7,'The mouth of a fool `is\' ruin to him, And his lips `are\' the snare of his soul.'),(20018008,20,18,8,'The words of a tale-bearer `are\' as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down `to\' the inner parts of the heart.'),(20018009,20,18,9,'He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he `is\' to a destroyer.'),(20018010,20,18,10,'A tower of strength `is\' the name of Jehovah, Into it the righteous runneth, and is set on high.'),(20018011,20,18,11,'The wealth of the rich `is\' the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.'),(20018012,20,18,12,'Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour `is\' humility.'),(20018013,20,18,13,'Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.'),(20018014,20,18,14,'The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?'),(20018015,20,18,15,'The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.'),(20018016,20,18,16,'The gift of a man maketh room for him, And before the great it leadeth him.'),(20018017,20,18,17,'Righteous `is\' the first in his own cause, His neighbour cometh and hath searched him.'),(20018018,20,18,18,'The lot causeth contentions to cease, And between the mighty it separateth.'),(20018019,20,18,19,'A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.'),(20018020,20,18,20,'From the fruit of a man\'s mouth is his belly satisfied, `From the\' increase of his lips he is satisfied.'),(20018021,20,18,21,'Death and life `are\' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.'),(20018022,20,18,22,'`Whoso\' hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.'),(20018023,20,18,23,'`With\' supplications doth the poor speak, And the rich answereth fierce things.'),(20018024,20,18,24,'A man with friends `is\' to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!'),(20019001,20,19,1,'Better `is\' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse `in\' his lips, who `is\' a fool.'),(20019002,20,19,2,'Also, without knowledge the soul `is\' not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.'),(20019003,20,19,3,'The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.'),(20019004,20,19,4,'Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.'),(20019005,20,19,5,'A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.'),(20019006,20,19,6,'Many entreat the face of the noble, And all have made friendship to a man of gifts.'),(20019007,20,19,7,'All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!'),(20019008,20,19,8,'Whoso is getting heart is loving his soul, He is keeping understanding to find good.'),(20019009,20,19,9,'A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.'),(20019010,20,19,10,'Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.'),(20019011,20,19,11,'The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory `is\' to pass over transgression.'),(20019012,20,19,12,'The wrath of a king `is\' a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.'),(20019013,20,19,13,'A calamity to his father `is\' a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife `are\' a continual dropping.'),(20019014,20,19,14,'House and wealth `are\' the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah `is\' an understanding wife.'),(20019015,20,19,15,'Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.'),(20019016,20,19,16,'Whoso is keeping the command is keeping his soul, Whoso is despising His ways dieth.'),(20019017,20,19,17,'Whoso is lending `to\' Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.'),(20019018,20,19,18,'Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.'),(20019019,20,19,19,'A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.'),(20019020,20,19,20,'Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.'),(20019021,20,19,21,'Many `are\' the purposes in a man\'s heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.'),(20019022,20,19,22,'The desirableness of a man `is\' his kindness, And better `is\' the poor than a liar.'),(20019023,20,19,23,'The fear of Jehovah `is\' to life, And satisfied he remaineth -- he is not charged with evil.'),(20019024,20,19,24,'The slothful hath hidden his hand in a dish, Even unto his mouth he bringeth it not back.'),(20019025,20,19,25,'A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.'),(20019026,20,19,26,'Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.'),(20019027,20,19,27,'Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.'),(20019028,20,19,28,'A worthless witness scorneth judgment, And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.'),(20019029,20,19,29,'Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!'),(20020001,20,20,1,'Wine `is\' a scorner -- strong drink `is\' noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.'),(20020002,20,20,2,'The fear of a king `is\' a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.'),(20020003,20,20,3,'An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.'),(20020004,20,20,4,'Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.'),(20020005,20,20,5,'Counsel in the heart of a man `is\' deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.'),(20020006,20,20,6,'A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?'),(20020007,20,20,7,'The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!'),(20020008,20,20,8,'A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,'),(20020009,20,20,9,'Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?\''),(20020010,20,20,10,'A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them `are\' an abomination to Jehovah.'),(20020011,20,20,11,'Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.'),(20020012,20,20,12,'A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.'),(20020013,20,20,13,'Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied `with\' bread.'),(20020014,20,20,14,'`Bad, bad,\' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.'),(20020015,20,20,15,'Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, `are\' lips of knowledge.'),(20020016,20,20,16,'Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.'),(20020017,20,20,17,'Sweet to a man `is\' the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled `with\' gravel.'),(20020018,20,20,18,'Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.'),(20020019,20,20,19,'A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with\' his lips make not thyself surety.'),(20020020,20,20,20,'Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.'),(20020021,20,20,21,'An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.'),(20020022,20,20,22,'Do not say, `I recompense evil,\' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.'),(20020023,20,20,23,'An abomination to Jehovah `are\' a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit `are\' not good.'),(20020024,20,20,24,'From Jehovah `are\' the steps of a man, And man -- how understandeth he his way?'),(20020025,20,20,25,'A snare to a man `is\' he hath swallowed a holy thing, And after vows to make inquiry.'),(20020026,20,20,26,'A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.'),(20020027,20,20,27,'The breath of man `is\' a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart.'),(20020028,20,20,28,'Kindness and truth keep a king, And he hath supported by kindness his throne.'),(20020029,20,20,29,'The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.'),(20020030,20,20,30,'The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart!'),(20021001,20,21,1,'Rivulets of waters `is\' the heart of a king in the hand of Jehovah, Wherever He pleaseth He inclineth it.'),(20021002,20,21,2,'Every way of a man `is\' right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.'),(20021003,20,21,3,'To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.'),(20021004,20,21,4,'Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked `is\' sin.'),(20021005,20,21,5,'The purposes of the diligent `are\' only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.'),(20021006,20,21,6,'The making of treasures by a lying tongue, `Is\' a vanity driven away of those seeking death.'),(20021007,20,21,7,'The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.'),(20021008,20,21,8,'Froward `is\' the way of a man who is vile, And the pure -- upright `is\' his work.'),(20021009,20,21,9,'Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than `with\' a woman of contentions and a house of company.'),(20021010,20,21,10,'The soul of the wicked hath desired evil, Not gracious in his eyes is his neighbour.'),(20021011,20,21,11,'When the scorner is punished, the simple becometh wise, And in giving understanding to the wise He receiveth knowledge.'),(20021012,20,21,12,'The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.'),(20021013,20,21,13,'Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.'),(20021014,20,21,14,'A gift in secret pacifieth anger, And a bribe in the bosom strong fury.'),(20021015,20,21,15,'To do justice `is\' joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity.'),(20021016,20,21,16,'A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.'),(20021017,20,21,17,'Whoso `is\' loving mirth `is\' a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.'),(20021018,20,21,18,'The wicked `is\' an atonement for the righteous, And for the upright the treacherous dealer.'),(20021019,20,21,19,'Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than `with\' a woman of contentions and anger.'),(20021020,20,21,20,'A treasure to be desired, and oil, `Is\' in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.'),(20021021,20,21,21,'Whoso is pursuing righteousness and kindness, Findeth life, righteousness, and honour.'),(20021022,20,21,22,'A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.'),(20021023,20,21,23,'Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.'),(20021024,20,21,24,'Proud, haughty, scorner `is\' his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.'),(20021025,20,21,25,'The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.'),(20021026,20,21,26,'All the day desiring he hath desired, And the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.'),(20021027,20,21,27,'The sacrifice of the wicked `is\' abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.'),(20021028,20,21,28,'A false witness doth perish, And an attentive man for ever speaketh.'),(20021029,20,21,29,'A wicked man hath hardened by his face, And the upright -- he prepareth his way.'),(20021030,20,21,30,'There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.'),(20021031,20,21,31,'A horse is prepared for a day of battle, And the deliverance `is\' of Jehovah!'),(20022001,20,22,1,'A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace.'),(20022002,20,22,2,'Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all `is\' Jehovah.'),(20022003,20,22,3,'The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.'),(20022004,20,22,4,'The end of humility `is\' the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.'),(20022005,20,22,5,'Thorns -- snares `are\' in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.'),(20022006,20,22,6,'Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.'),(20022007,20,22,7,'The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant `is\' the borrower to the lender.'),(20022008,20,22,8,'Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.'),(20022009,20,22,9,'The good of eye -- he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.'),(20022010,20,22,10,'Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.'),(20022011,20,22,11,'Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace `are\' his lips, a king `is\' his friend.'),(20022012,20,22,12,'The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.'),(20022013,20,22,13,'The slothful hath said, `A lion `is\' without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.\''),(20022014,20,22,14,'A deep pit `is\' the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.'),(20022015,20,22,15,'Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.'),(20022016,20,22,16,'He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.'),(20022017,20,22,17,'Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,'),(20022018,20,22,18,'For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.'),(20022019,20,22,19,'That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou.'),(20022020,20,22,20,'Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?'),(20022021,20,22,21,'To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.'),(20022022,20,22,22,'Rob not the poor because he `is\' poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.'),(20022023,20,22,23,'For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.'),(20022024,20,22,24,'Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,'),(20022025,20,22,25,'Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.'),(20022026,20,22,26,'Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties `for\' burdens.'),(20022027,20,22,27,'If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?'),(20022028,20,22,28,'Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.'),(20022029,20,22,29,'Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men!'),(20023001,20,23,1,'When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which `is\' before thee,'),(20023002,20,23,2,'And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou `art\' a man of appetite.'),(20023003,20,23,3,'Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it `is\' lying food.'),(20023004,20,23,4,'Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.'),(20023005,20,23,5,'For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.'),(20023006,20,23,6,'Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,'),(20023007,20,23,7,'For as he hath thought in his soul, so `is\' he, `Eat and drink,\' saith he to thee, And his heart `is\' not with thee.'),(20023008,20,23,8,'Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that `are\' sweet.'),(20023009,20,23,9,'In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.'),(20023010,20,23,10,'Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,'),(20023011,20,23,11,'For their Redeemer `is\' strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.'),(20023012,20,23,12,'Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.'),(20023013,20,23,13,'Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.'),(20023014,20,23,14,'Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.'),(20023015,20,23,15,'My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,'),(20023016,20,23,16,'And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.'),(20023017,20,23,17,'Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But -- in the fear of Jehovah all the day.'),(20023018,20,23,18,'For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.'),(20023019,20,23,19,'Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,'),(20023020,20,23,20,'Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,'),(20023021,20,23,21,'For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.'),(20023022,20,23,22,'Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.'),(20023023,20,23,23,'Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,'),(20023024,20,23,24,'The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.'),(20023025,20,23,25,'Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.'),(20023026,20,23,26,'Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.'),(20023027,20,23,27,'For a harlot `is\' a deep ditch, And a strange woman `is\' a strait pit.'),(20023028,20,23,28,'She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.'),(20023029,20,23,29,'Who hath wo? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?'),(20023030,20,23,30,'Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.'),(20023031,20,23,31,'See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.'),(20023032,20,23,32,'Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.'),(20023033,20,23,33,'Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.'),(20023034,20,23,34,'And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.'),(20023035,20,23,35,'`They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!\''),(20024001,20,24,1,'Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them.'),(20024002,20,24,2,'For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.'),(20024003,20,24,3,'By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself.'),(20024004,20,24,4,'And by knowledge the inner parts are filled, `With\' all precious and pleasant wealth.'),(20024005,20,24,5,'Mighty `is\' the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power,'),(20024006,20,24,6,'For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance `is\' in a multitude of counsellors.'),(20024007,20,24,7,'Wisdom `is\' high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.'),(20024008,20,24,8,'Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.'),(20024009,20,24,9,'The thought of folly `is\' sin, And an abomination to man `is\' a scorner.'),(20024010,20,24,10,'Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,'),(20024011,20,24,11,'If `from\' delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back.'),(20024012,20,24,12,'When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.\' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.'),(20024013,20,24,13,'Eat my son, honey that `is\' good, And the honeycomb -- sweet to thy palate.'),(20024014,20,24,14,'So `is\' the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off.'),(20024015,20,24,15,'Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.'),(20024016,20,24,16,'For seven `times\' doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.'),(20024017,20,24,17,'In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,'),(20024018,20,24,18,'Lest Jehovah see, and `it be\' evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.'),(20024019,20,24,19,'Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked,'),(20024020,20,24,20,'For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.'),(20024021,20,24,21,'Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,'),(20024022,20,24,22,'For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both -- who knoweth!'),(20024023,20,24,23,'These also are for the wise: -- To discern faces in judgment is not good.'),(20024024,20,24,24,'Whoso is saying to the wicked, `Thou `art\' righteous,\' Peoples execrate him -- nations abhor him.'),(20024025,20,24,25,'And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing.'),(20024026,20,24,26,'Lips he kisseth who is returning straightforward words.'),(20024027,20,24,27,'Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.'),(20024028,20,24,28,'Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.'),(20024029,20,24,29,'Say not, `As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.\''),(20024030,20,24,30,'Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.'),(20024031,20,24,31,'And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.'),(20024032,20,24,32,'And I see -- I -- I do set my heart, I have seen -- I have received instruction,'),(20024033,20,24,33,'A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down.'),(20024034,20,24,34,'And thy poverty hath come `as\' a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!'),(20025001,20,25,1,'Also these are Proverbs of Solomon, that men of Hezekiah king of Judah transcribed: --'),(20025002,20,25,2,'The honour of God `is\' to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.'),(20025003,20,25,3,'The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, And the heart of kings -- `are\' unsearchable.'),(20025004,20,25,4,'Take away dross from silver, And a vessel for the refiner goeth forth,'),(20025005,20,25,5,'Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.'),(20025006,20,25,6,'Honour not thyself before a king, And in the place of the great stand not.'),(20025007,20,25,7,'For better `that\' he hath said to thee, `Come thou up hither,\' Than `that\' he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.'),(20025008,20,25,8,'Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?'),(20025009,20,25,9,'Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,'),(20025010,20,25,10,'Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.'),(20025011,20,25,11,'Apples of gold in imagery of silver, `Is\' the word spoken at its fit times.'),(20025012,20,25,12,'A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, `Is\' the wise reprover to an attentive ear.'),(20025013,20,25,13,'As a vessel of snow in a day of harvest, `So is\' a faithful ambassador to those sending him, And the soul of his masters he refresheth.'),(20025014,20,25,14,'Clouds and wind, and rain there is none, `Is\' a man boasting himself in a false gift.'),(20025015,20,25,15,'By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.'),(20025016,20,25,16,'Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated `with\' it, and hast vomited it.'),(20025017,20,25,17,'Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour\'s house, Lest he be satiated `with\' thee, and have hated thee.'),(20025018,20,25,18,'A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, `Is\' the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.'),(20025019,20,25,19,'A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, `Is\' the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.'),(20025020,20,25,20,'Whoso is taking away a garment in a cold day, `Is as\' vinegar on nitre, And a singer of songs on a sad heart.'),(20025021,20,25,21,'If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water.'),(20025022,20,25,22,'For coals thou art putting on his head, And Jehovah giveth recompense to thee.'),(20025023,20,25,23,'A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue -- indignant faces.'),(20025024,20,25,24,'Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than `with\' a woman of contentions, and a house of company.'),(20025025,20,25,25,'`As\' cold waters for a weary soul, So `is\' a good report from a far country.'),(20025026,20,25,26,'A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, `Is\' the righteous falling before the wicked.'),(20025027,20,25,27,'The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one\'s own honour -- honour.'),(20025028,20,25,28,'A city broken down without walls, `Is\' a man without restraint over his spirit!'),(20026001,20,26,1,'As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour `is\' not comely for a fool.'),(20026002,20,26,2,'As a bird by wandering, as a swallow by flying, So reviling without cause doth not come.'),(20026003,20,26,3,'A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.'),(20026004,20,26,4,'Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.'),(20026005,20,26,5,'Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.'),(20026006,20,26,6,'He is cutting off feet, he is drinking injury, Who is sending things by the hand of a fool.'),(20026007,20,26,7,'Weak have been the two legs of the lame, And a parable in the mouth of fools.'),(20026008,20,26,8,'As one who is binding a stone in a sling, So `is\' he who is giving honour to a fool.'),(20026009,20,26,9,'A thorn hath gone up into the hand of a drunkard, And a parable in the mouth of fools.'),(20026010,20,26,10,'Great `is\' the Former of all, And He is rewarding a fool, And is rewarding transgressors.'),(20026011,20,26,11,'As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.'),(20026012,20,26,12,'Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!'),(20026013,20,26,13,'The slothful hath said, `A lion `is\' in the way, A lion `is\' in the broad places.\''),(20026014,20,26,14,'The door turneth round on its hinge, And the slothful on his bed.'),(20026015,20,26,15,'The slothful hath hid his hand in a dish, He is weary of bringing it back to his mouth.'),(20026016,20,26,16,'Wiser `is\' the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven `men\' returning a reason.'),(20026017,20,26,17,'Laying hold on the ears of a dog, `Is\' a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.'),(20026018,20,26,18,'As `one\' pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,'),(20026019,20,26,19,'So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?\''),(20026020,20,26,20,'Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,'),(20026021,20,26,21,'Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.'),(20026022,20,26,22,'The words of a tale-bearer `are\' as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down `to\' the inner parts of the heart.'),(20026023,20,26,23,'Silver of dross spread over potsherd, `Are\' burning lips and an evil heart.'),(20026024,20,26,24,'By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,'),(20026025,20,26,25,'When his voice is gracious trust not in him, For seven abominations `are\' in his heart.'),(20026026,20,26,26,'Hatred is covered by deceit, Revealed is its wickedness in an assembly.'),(20026027,20,26,27,'Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.'),(20026028,20,26,28,'A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!'),(20027001,20,27,1,'Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.'),(20027002,20,27,2,'Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.'),(20027003,20,27,3,'A stone `is\' heavy, and the sand `is\' heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both.'),(20027004,20,27,4,'Fury `is\' fierce, and anger `is\' overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?'),(20027005,20,27,5,'Better `is\' open reproof than hidden love.'),(20027006,20,27,6,'Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.'),(20027007,20,27,7,'A satiated soul treadeth down a honeycomb, And `to\' a hungry soul every bitter thing `is\' sweet.'),(20027008,20,27,8,'As a bird wandering from her nest, So `is\' a man wandering from his place.'),(20027009,20,27,9,'Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one\'s friend -- from counsel of the soul.'),(20027010,20,27,10,'Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better `is\' a near neighbour than a brother afar off.'),(20027011,20,27,11,'Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.'),(20027012,20,27,12,'The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.'),(20027013,20,27,13,'Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.'),(20027014,20,27,14,'Whoso is saluting his friend with a loud voice, In the morning rising early, A light thing it is reckoned to him.'),(20027015,20,27,15,'A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,'),(20027016,20,27,16,'Whoso is hiding her hath hidden the wind, And the ointment of his right hand calleth out.'),(20027017,20,27,17,'Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.'),(20027018,20,27,18,'The keeper of a fig-tree eateth its fruit, And the preserver of his master is honoured.'),(20027019,20,27,19,'As `in\' water the face `is\' to face, So the heart of man to man.'),(20027020,20,27,20,'Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.'),(20027021,20,27,21,'A refining pot `is\' for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.'),(20027022,20,27,22,'If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.'),(20027023,20,27,23,'Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,'),(20027024,20,27,24,'For riches `are\' not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.'),(20027025,20,27,25,'Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains.'),(20027026,20,27,26,'Lambs `are\' for thy clothing, And the price of the field `are\' he-goats,'),(20027027,20,27,27,'And a sufficiency of goats\' milk `is\' for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!'),(20028001,20,28,1,'The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.'),(20028002,20,28,2,'By the transgression of a land many `are\' its heads. And by an intelligent man, Who knoweth right -- it is prolonged.'),(20028003,20,28,3,'A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, `Is\' a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.'),(20028004,20,28,4,'Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.'),(20028005,20,28,5,'Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.'),(20028006,20,28,6,'Better `is\' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.'),(20028007,20,28,7,'Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.'),(20028008,20,28,8,'Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.'),(20028009,20,28,9,'Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer `is\' an abomination.'),(20028010,20,28,10,'Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.'),(20028011,20,28,11,'A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.'),(20028012,20,28,12,'In the exulting of the righteous the glory `is\' abundant, And in the rising of the wicked man is apprehensive.'),(20028013,20,28,13,'Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.'),(20028014,20,28,14,'O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.'),(20028015,20,28,15,'A growling lion, and a ranging bear, `Is\' the wicked ruler over a poor people.'),(20028016,20,28,16,'A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.'),(20028017,20,28,17,'A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.'),(20028018,20,28,18,'Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.'),(20028019,20,28,19,'Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied `with\' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled `with\' poverty.'),(20028020,20,28,20,'A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.'),(20028021,20,28,21,'To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.'),(20028022,20,28,22,'Troubled for wealth `is\' the man `with\' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.'),(20028023,20,28,23,'Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.'),(20028024,20,28,24,'Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,\' A companion he is to a destroyer.'),(20028025,20,28,25,'Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.'),(20028026,20,28,26,'Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.'),(20028027,20,28,27,'Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.'),(20028028,20,28,28,'In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!'),(20029001,20,29,1,'A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.'),(20029002,20,29,2,'In the multiplying of the righteous the people rejoice, And in the ruling of the wicked the people sigh.'),(20029003,20,29,3,'A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.'),(20029004,20,29,4,'A king by judgment establisheth a land, And one receiving gifts throweth it down.'),(20029005,20,29,5,'A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.'),(20029006,20,29,6,'In the transgression of the evil `is\' a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice.'),(20029007,20,29,7,'The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.'),(20029008,20,29,8,'Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.'),(20029009,20,29,9,'A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.'),(20029010,20,29,10,'Men of blood hate the perfect, And the upright seek his soul.'),(20029011,20,29,11,'A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.'),(20029012,20,29,12,'A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers `are\' wicked.'),(20029013,20,29,13,'The poor and the man of frauds have met together, Jehovah is enlightening the eyes of them both.'),(20029014,20,29,14,'a king that is judging truly the poor, His throne for ever is established.'),(20029015,20,29,15,'A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.'),(20029016,20,29,16,'In the multiplying of the wicked transgression multiplieth, And the righteous on their fall do look.'),(20029017,20,29,17,'Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.'),(20029018,20,29,18,'Without a Vision is a people made naked, And whoso is keeping the law, O his happiness!'),(20029019,20,29,19,'By words a servant is not instructed though he understand, And there is nothing answering.'),(20029020,20,29,20,'Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.'),(20029021,20,29,21,'Whoso is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, `At\' his latter end also he is continuator.'),(20029022,20,29,22,'An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.'),(20029023,20,29,23,'The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.'),(20029024,20,29,24,'Whoso is sharing with a thief is hating his own soul, Execration he heareth, and telleth not.'),(20029025,20,29,25,'Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.'),(20029026,20,29,26,'Many are seeking the face of a ruler, And from Jehovah `is\' the judgment of each.'),(20029027,20,29,27,'An abomination to the righteous `is\' the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked `is\' the upright in the way!'),(20030001,20,30,1,'Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: -- I have wearied myself `for\' God, I have wearied myself `for\' God, and am consumed.'),(20030002,20,30,2,'For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.'),(20030003,20,30,3,'Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.'),(20030004,20,30,4,'Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What `is\' His name? and what His son\'s name? Surely thou knowest!'),(20030005,20,30,5,'Every saying of God `is\' tried, A shield He `is\' to those trusting in Him.'),(20030006,20,30,6,'Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.'),(20030007,20,30,7,'Two things I have asked from Thee, Withhold not from me before I die.'),(20030008,20,30,8,'Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,'),(20030009,20,30,9,'Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who `is\' Jehovah?\' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.'),(20030010,20,30,10,'Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.'),(20030011,20,30,11,'A generation `is\', that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.'),(20030012,20,30,12,'A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.'),(20030013,20,30,13,'A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.'),(20030014,20,30,14,'A generation -- swords `are\' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among\' men.'),(20030015,20,30,15,'To the leech `are\' two daughters, `Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said `Sufficiency;\''),(20030016,20,30,16,'Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth -- it `is\' not satisfied `with\' water, And fire -- it hath not said, `Sufficiency,\''),(20030017,20,30,17,'An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.'),(20030018,20,30,18,'Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:'),(20030019,20,30,19,'The way of the eagle in the heavens, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man in youth.'),(20030020,20,30,20,'So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.\''),(20030021,20,30,21,'For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four -- it is not able to bear:'),(20030022,20,30,22,'For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,'),(20030023,20,30,23,'For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.'),(20030024,20,30,24,'Four `are\' little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:'),(20030025,20,30,25,'The ants `are\' a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,'),(20030026,20,30,26,'Conies `are\' a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,'),(20030027,20,30,27,'A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out -- each one shouting,'),(20030028,20,30,28,'A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king.'),(20030029,20,30,29,'Three there are going well, Yea, four are good in going:'),(20030030,20,30,30,'An old lion -- mighty among beasts, That turneth not back from the face of any,'),(20030031,20,30,31,'A girt one of the loins, or a he-goat, And a king -- no rising up with him.'),(20030032,20,30,32,'If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!'),(20030033,20,30,33,'For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife!'),(20031001,20,31,1,'Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him:'),(20031002,20,31,2,'`What, my son? and what, son of my womb? And what, son of my vows?'),(20031003,20,31,3,'Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.'),(20031004,20,31,4,'Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.'),(20031005,20,31,5,'Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.'),(20031006,20,31,6,'Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,'),(20031007,20,31,7,'He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.'),(20031008,20,31,8,'Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.'),(20031009,20,31,9,'Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!\''),(20031010,20,31,10,'A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies `is\' her price.'),(20031011,20,31,11,'The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not.'),(20031012,20,31,12,'She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life.'),(20031013,20,31,13,'She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh `with\' her hands.'),(20031014,20,31,14,'She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread.'),(20031015,20,31,15,'Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels.'),(20031016,20,31,16,'She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.'),(20031017,20,31,17,'She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms.'),(20031018,20,31,18,'She hath perceived when her merchandise `is\' good, Her lamp is not extinguished in the night.'),(20031019,20,31,19,'Her hands she hath sent forth on a spindle, And her hands have held a distaff.'),(20031020,20,31,20,'Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy.'),(20031021,20,31,21,'She is not afraid of her household from snow, For all her household are clothed `with\' scarlet.'),(20031022,20,31,22,'Ornamental coverings she hath made for herself, Silk and purple `are\' her clothing.'),(20031023,20,31,23,'Known in the gates is her husband, In his sitting with elders of the land.'),(20031024,20,31,24,'Linen garments she hath made, and selleth, And a girdle she hath given to the merchant.'),(20031025,20,31,25,'Strength and honour `are\' her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day.'),(20031026,20,31,26,'Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness `is\' on her tongue.'),(20031027,20,31,27,'She `is\' watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.'),(20031028,20,31,28,'Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,'),(20031029,20,31,29,'`Many `are\' the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.\''),(20031030,20,31,30,'The grace `is\' false, and the beauty `is\' vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.'),(20031031,20,31,31,'Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!'),(21001001,21,1,1,'Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:'),(21001002,21,1,2,'Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is\' vanity.'),(21001003,21,1,3,'What advantage `is\' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?'),(21001004,21,1,4,'A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.'),(21001005,21,1,5,'Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.'),(21001006,21,1,6,'Going unto the south, and turning round unto the north, turning round, turning round, the wind is going, and by its circuits the wind hath returned.'),(21001007,21,1,7,'All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.'),(21001008,21,1,8,'All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.'),(21001009,21,1,9,'What `is\' that which hath been? it `is\' that which is, and what `is\' that which hath been done? it `is\' that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.'),(21001010,21,1,10,'There is a thing of which `one\' saith: `See this, it `is\' new!\' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!'),(21001011,21,1,11,'There is not a remembrance of former `generations\'; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.'),(21001012,21,1,12,'I, a preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.'),(21001013,21,1,13,'And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is\' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.'),(21001014,21,1,14,'I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is\' vanity and vexation of spirit!'),(21001015,21,1,15,'A crooked thing `one\' is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.'),(21001016,21,1,16,'I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.'),(21001017,21,1,17,'And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is\' vexation of spirit;'),(21001018,21,1,18,'for, in abundance of wisdom `is\' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.\''),(21002001,21,2,1,'I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;\' and lo, even it `is\' vanity.'),(21002002,21,2,2,'Of laughter I said, `Foolish!\' and of mirth, `What `is\' this it is doing?\''),(21002003,21,2,3,'I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is\' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.'),(21002004,21,2,4,'I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.'),(21002005,21,2,5,'I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.'),(21002006,21,2,6,'I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.'),(21002007,21,2,7,'I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.'),(21002008,21,2,8,'I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man -- a wife and wives.'),(21002009,21,2,9,'And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.'),(21002010,21,2,10,'And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,'),(21002011,21,2,11,'and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is\' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!'),(21002012,21,2,12,'And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is\' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is\' already -- they have done it!'),(21002013,21,2,13,'And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.'),(21002014,21,2,14,'The wise! -- his eyes `are\' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;'),(21002015,21,2,15,'and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?\' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is\' vanity:'),(21002016,21,2,16,'That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is\' already, `in\' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!'),(21002017,21,2,17,'And I have hated life, for sad to me `is\' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is\' vanity and vexation of spirit.'),(21002018,21,2,18,'And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.'),(21002019,21,2,19,'And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is\' vanity.'),(21002020,21,2,20,'And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.'),(21002021,21,2,21,'For there is a man whose labour `is\' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is\' vanity and a great evil.'),(21002022,21,2,22,'For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?'),(21002023,21,2,23,'For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is\' vanity.'),(21002024,21,2,24,'There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is\' from the hand of God.'),(21002025,21,2,25,'For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?'),(21002026,21,2,26,'For to a man who `is\' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is\' vanity and vexation of spirit.'),(21003001,21,3,1,'To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:'),(21003002,21,3,2,'A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.'),(21003003,21,3,3,'A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.'),(21003004,21,3,4,'A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.'),(21003005,21,3,5,'A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.'),(21003006,21,3,6,'A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.'),(21003007,21,3,7,'A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.'),(21003008,21,3,8,'A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.'),(21003009,21,3,9,'What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?'),(21003010,21,3,10,'I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.'),(21003011,21,3,11,'The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.'),(21003012,21,3,12,'I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,'),(21003013,21,3,13,'yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it `is\' a gift of God.'),(21003014,21,3,14,'I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.'),(21003015,21,3,15,'What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which `is\' to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.'),(21003016,21,3,16,'And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there `is\' the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there `is\' the wicked.'),(21003017,21,3,17,'I said in my heart, `The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time `is\' to every matter and for every work there.\''),(21003018,21,3,18,'I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves `are\' beasts.'),(21003019,21,3,19,'For an event `is to\' the sons of man, and an event `is to\' the beasts, even one event `is\' to them; as the death of this, so `is\' the death of that; and one spirit `is\' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is\' vanity.'),(21003020,21,3,20,'The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.'),(21003021,21,3,21,'Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?'),(21003022,21,3,22,'And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is\' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?'),(21004001,21,4,1,'And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors `is\' power, and they have no comforter.'),(21004002,21,4,2,'And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.'),(21004003,21,4,3,'And better than both of them `is\' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.'),(21004004,21,4,4,'And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is\' vanity and vexation of spirit.'),(21004005,21,4,5,'The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:'),(21004006,21,4,6,'`Better `is\' a handful `with\' quietness, than two handfuls `with\' labour and vexation of spirit.\''),(21004007,21,4,7,'And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:'),(21004008,21,4,8,'There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not\', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?\' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.'),(21004009,21,4,9,'The two `are\' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.'),(21004010,21,4,10,'For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!'),(21004011,21,4,11,'Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?'),(21004012,21,4,12,'And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.'),(21004013,21,4,13,'Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.'),(21004014,21,4,14,'For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.'),(21004015,21,4,15,'I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;'),(21004016,21,4,16,'there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.'),(21005001,21,5,1,'Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.'),(21005002,21,5,2,'Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.'),(21005003,21,5,3,'For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.'),(21005004,21,5,4,'When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest -- complete.'),(21005005,21,5,5,'Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete.'),(21005006,21,5,6,'Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it `is\' an error,\' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?'),(21005007,21,5,7,'For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.'),(21005008,21,5,8,'If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones `are\' over them.'),(21005009,21,5,9,'And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.'),(21005010,21,5,10,'Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with\' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with\' increase. Even this `is\' vanity.'),(21005011,21,5,11,'In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit `is\' to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?'),(21005012,21,5,12,'Sweet `is\' the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.'),(21005013,21,5,13,'There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.'),(21005014,21,5,14,'And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!'),(21005015,21,5,15,'As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand.'),(21005016,21,5,16,'And this also `is\' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is\' to him who laboureth for wind?'),(21005017,21,5,17,'Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.'),(21005018,21,5,18,'Lo, that which I have seen: `It is\' good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one\'s labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it `is\' his portion.'),(21005019,21,5,19,'Every man also to whom God hath given wealth and riches, and hath given him power to eat of it, and to accept his portion, and to rejoice in his labour, this is a gift of God.'),(21005020,21,5,20,'For he doth not much remember the days of his life, for God is answering through the joy of his heart.'),(21006001,21,6,1,'There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is\' great on man:'),(21006002,21,6,2,'A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this `is\' vanity, and it `is\' an evil disease.'),(21006003,21,6,3,'If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is\' the untimely birth.\''),(21006004,21,6,4,'For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,'),(21006005,21,6,5,'Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.'),(21006006,21,6,6,'And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?'),(21006007,21,6,7,'All the labour of man `is\' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.'),(21006008,21,6,8,'For what advantage `is\' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?'),(21006009,21,6,9,'Better `is\' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is\' vanity and vexation of spirit.'),(21006010,21,6,10,'What `is\' that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it `is\' man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.'),(21006011,21,6,11,'For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is\' to man?'),(21006012,21,6,12,'For who knoweth what `is\' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?'),(21007001,21,7,1,'Better `is\' a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.'),(21007002,21,7,2,'Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it\' unto his heart.'),(21007003,21,7,3,'Better `is\' sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.'),(21007004,21,7,4,'The heart of the wise `is\' in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.'),(21007005,21,7,5,'Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than `for\' a man to hear a song of fools,'),(21007006,21,7,6,'For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So `is\' the laughter of a fool, even this `is\' vanity.'),(21007007,21,7,7,'Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.'),(21007008,21,7,8,'Better `is\' the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better `is\' the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.'),(21007009,21,7,9,'Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.'),(21007010,21,7,10,'Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?\' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.'),(21007011,21,7,11,'Wisdom `is\' good with an inheritance, And an advantage `it is\' to those beholding the sun.'),(21007012,21,7,12,'For wisdom `is\' a defense, money `is\' a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom `is\', She reviveth her possessors.'),(21007013,21,7,13,'See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?'),(21007014,21,7,14,'In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.'),(21007015,21,7,15,'The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself\' in his wrong.'),(21007016,21,7,16,'Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?'),(21007017,21,7,17,'Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?'),(21007018,21,7,18,'`It is\' good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.'),(21007019,21,7,19,'The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.'),(21007020,21,7,20,'Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.'),(21007021,21,7,21,'Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.'),(21007022,21,7,22,'For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.'),(21007023,21,7,23,'All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,\' and it `is\' far from me.'),(21007024,21,7,24,'Far off `is\' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?'),(21007025,21,7,25,'I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.'),(21007026,21,7,26,'And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is\' nets and snares, her hands `are\' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.'),(21007027,21,7,27,'See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason'),(21007028,21,7,28,'(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.'),(21007029,21,7,29,'See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.'),(21008001,21,8,1,'Who `is\' as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.'),(21008002,21,8,2,'I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God.'),(21008003,21,8,3,'Be not troubled at his presence, thou mayest go, stand not in an evil thing, for all that he pleaseth he doth.'),(21008004,21,8,4,'Where the word of a king `is\' power `is\', and who saith to him, `What dost thou?\''),(21008005,21,8,5,'Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.'),(21008006,21,8,6,'For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.'),(21008007,21,8,7,'For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?'),(21008008,21,8,8,'There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.'),(21008009,21,8,9,'All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.'),(21008010,21,8,10,'And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also `is\' vanity.'),(21008011,21,8,11,'Because sentence hath not been done `on\' an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.'),(21008012,21,8,12,'Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred `times\', and prolonging `himself\' for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.'),(21008013,21,8,13,'And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.'),(21008014,21,8,14,'There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also `is\' vanity.'),(21008015,21,8,15,'And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.'),(21008016,21,8,16,'When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),'),(21008017,21,8,17,'then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.'),(21009001,21,9,1,'But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are\' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is\' before them.'),(21009002,21,9,2,'The whole `is\' as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as `is\' the good, so `is\' the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.'),(21009003,21,9,3,'This `is\' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is\' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is\' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.'),(21009004,21,9,4,'But `to\' him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it `is\' better than to the dead lion.'),(21009005,21,9,5,'For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.'),(21009006,21,9,6,'Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.'),(21009007,21,9,7,'Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.'),(21009008,21,9,8,'At all times let thy garments be white, and let not perfume be lacking on thy head.'),(21009009,21,9,9,'See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it `is\' thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.'),(21009010,21,9,10,'All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.'),(21009011,21,9,11,'I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift `is\' the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.'),(21009012,21,9,12,'For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are\' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.'),(21009013,21,9,13,'This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.'),(21009014,21,9,14,'A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;'),(21009015,21,9,15,'and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!'),(21009016,21,9,16,'And I said, `Better `is\' wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.\' --'),(21009017,21,9,17,'The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools.'),(21009018,21,9,18,'Better `is\' wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!'),(21010001,21,10,1,'Dead flies cause a perfumer\'s perfume To send forth a stink; The precious by reason of wisdom -- By reason of honour -- a little folly!'),(21010002,21,10,2,'The heart of the wise `is\' at his right hand, And the heart of a fool at his left.'),(21010003,21,10,3,'And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, `He `is\' a fool.\''),(21010004,21,10,4,'If the spirit of the ruler go up against thee, Thy place leave not, For yielding quieteth great sinners.'),(21010005,21,10,5,'There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler,'),(21010006,21,10,6,'He hath set the fool in many high places, And the rich in a low place do sit.'),(21010007,21,10,7,'I have seen servants on horses, And princes walking as servants on the earth.'),(21010008,21,10,8,'Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.'),(21010009,21,10,9,'Whoso is removing stones is grieved by them, Whoso is cleaving trees endangered by them.'),(21010010,21,10,10,'If the iron hath been blunt, And he the face hath not sharpened, Then doth he increase strength, And wisdom `is\' advantageous to make right.'),(21010011,21,10,11,'If the serpent biteth without enchantment, Then there is no advantage to a master of the tongue.'),(21010012,21,10,12,'Words of the mouth of the wise `are\' gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.'),(21010013,21,10,13,'The beginning of the words of his mouth `is\' folly, And the latter end of his mouth `Is\' mischievous madness.'),(21010014,21,10,14,'And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?\''),(21010015,21,10,15,'The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.'),(21010016,21,10,16,'Wo to thee, O land, when thy king `is\' a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.'),(21010017,21,10,17,'Happy art thou, O land, When thy king `is\' a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.'),(21010018,21,10,18,'By slothfulness is the wall brought low, And by idleness of the hands doth the house drop.'),(21010019,21,10,19,'For mirth they are making a feast, And wine maketh life joyful, And the silver answereth with all.'),(21010020,21,10,20,'Even in thy mind a king revile not, And in the inner parts of thy bed-chamber Revile not the rich: For a fowl of the heavens causeth the voice to go, And a possessor of wings declareth the word.'),(21011001,21,11,1,'Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.'),(21011002,21,11,2,'Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.'),(21011003,21,11,3,'If the thick clouds are full of rain, On the earth they empty `themselves\'; And if a tree doth fall in the south or to the north, The place where the tree falleth, there it is.'),(21011004,21,11,4,'Whoso is observing the wind soweth not, And whoso is looking on the thick clouds reapeth not.'),(21011005,21,11,5,'As thou knowest not what `is\' the way of the spirit, How -- bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.'),(21011006,21,11,6,'In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike `are\' good.'),(21011007,21,11,7,'Sweet also `is\' the light, And good for the eyes to see the sun.'),(21011008,21,11,8,'But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is\' vanity.'),(21011009,21,11,9,'Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.'),(21011010,21,11,10,'And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age `are\' vanity!'),(21012001,21,12,1,'Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.\''),(21012002,21,12,2,'While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.'),(21012003,21,12,3,'In the day that keepers of the house tremble, And men of strength have bowed themselves, And grinders have ceased, because they have become few. And those looking out at the windows have become dim,'),(21012004,21,12,4,'And doors have been shut in the street. When the noise of the grinding is low, And `one\' riseth at the voice of the bird, And all daughters of song are bowed down.'),(21012005,21,12,5,'Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.'),(21012006,21,12,6,'While that the silver cord is not removed, And the golden bowl broken, And the pitcher broken by the fountain, And the wheel broken at the well.'),(21012007,21,12,7,'And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.'),(21012008,21,12,8,'Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is\' vanity.'),(21012009,21,12,9,'And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out -- he made right many similes.'),(21012010,21,12,10,'The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written `by\' the upright, words of truth.'),(21012011,21,12,11,'Words of the wise `are\' as goads, and as fences planted `by\' the masters of collections, they have been given by one shepherd.'),(21012012,21,12,12,'And further, from these, my son, be warned; the making of many books hath no end, and much study `is\' a weariness of the flesh.'),(21012013,21,12,13,'The end of the whole matter let us hear: -- `Fear God, and keep His commands, for this `is\' the whole of man.'),(21012014,21,12,14,'For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.\''),(22001001,22,1,1,'The Song of Songs, that `is\' Solomon\'s.'),(22001002,22,1,2,'Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better `are\' thy loves than wine.'),(22001003,22,1,3,'For fragrance `are\' thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!'),(22001004,22,1,4,'Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!'),(22001005,22,1,5,'Dark `am\' I, and comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.'),(22001006,22,1,6,'Fear me not, because I `am\' very dark, Because the sun hath scorched me, The sons of my mother were angry with me, They made me keeper of the vineyards, My vineyard -- my own -- I have not kept.'),(22001007,22,1,7,'Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?'),(22001008,22,1,8,'If thou knowest not, O fair among women, Get thee forth by the traces of the flock, And feed thy kids by the shepherds\' dwellings!'),(22001009,22,1,9,'To my joyous one in chariots of Pharaoh, I have compared thee, my friend,'),(22001010,22,1,10,'Comely have been thy cheeks with garlands, Thy neck with chains.'),(22001011,22,1,11,'Garlands of gold we do make for thee, With studs of silver!'),(22001012,22,1,12,'While the king `is\' in his circle, My spikenard hath given its fragrance.'),(22001013,22,1,13,'A bundle of myrrh `is\' my beloved to me, Between my breasts it lodgeth.'),(22001014,22,1,14,'A cluster of cypress `is\' my beloved to me, In the vineyards of En-Gedi!'),(22001015,22,1,15,'Lo, thou `art\' fair, my friend, Lo, thou `art\' fair, thine eyes `are\' doves!'),(22001016,22,1,16,'Lo, thou `art\' fair, my love, yea, pleasant, Yea, our couch `is\' green,'),(22001017,22,1,17,'The beams of our houses `are\' cedars, Our rafters `are\' firs, I `am\' a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!'),(22002001,22,2,1,'As a lily among the thorns,'),(22002002,22,2,2,'So `is\' my friend among the daughters!'),(22002003,22,2,3,'As a citron among trees of the forest, So `is\' my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit `is\' sweet to my palate.'),(22002004,22,2,4,'He hath brought me in unto a house of wine, And his banner over me `is\' love,'),(22002005,22,2,5,'Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I `am\' sick with love.'),(22002006,22,2,6,'His left hand `is\' under my head, And his right doth embrace me.'),(22002007,22,2,7,'I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!'),(22002008,22,2,8,'The voice of my beloved! lo, this -- he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.'),(22002009,22,2,9,'My beloved `is\' like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this -- he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.'),(22002010,22,2,10,'My beloved hath answered and said to me, `Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,'),(22002011,22,2,11,'For lo, the winter hath passed by, The rain hath passed away -- it hath gone.'),(22002012,22,2,12,'The flowers have appeared in the earth, The time of the singing hath come, And the voice of the turtle was heard in our land,'),(22002013,22,2,13,'The fig-tree hath ripened her green figs, And the sweet-smelling vines have given forth fragrance, Rise, come, my friend, my fair one, yea, come away.'),(22002014,22,2,14,'My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice `is\' sweet, and thy appearance comely.'),(22002015,22,2,15,'Seize ye for us foxes, Little foxes -- destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.'),(22002016,22,2,16,'My beloved `is\' mine, and I `am\' his, Who is delighting among the lilies,'),(22002017,22,2,17,'Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, Turn, be like, my beloved, To a roe, or to a young one of the harts, On the mountains of separation!'),(22003001,22,3,1,'On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!'),(22003002,22,3,2,'-- Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! -- I sought him, and I found him not.'),(22003003,22,3,3,'The watchmen have found me, (Who are going round about the city), `Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?\''),(22003004,22,3,4,'But a little I passed on from them, Till I found him whom my soul hath loved! I seized him, and let him not go, Till I brought him in unto the house of my mother -- And the chamber of her that conceived me.'),(22003005,22,3,5,'I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!'),(22003006,22,3,6,'Who `is\' this coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed `with\' myrrh and frankincense, From every powder of the merchant?'),(22003007,22,3,7,'Lo, his couch, that `is\' Solomon\'s, Sixty mighty ones `are\' around it, Of the mighty of Israel,'),(22003008,22,3,8,'All of them holding sword, taught of battle, Each his sword by his thigh, for fear at night.'),(22003009,22,3,9,'A palanquin king Solomon made for himself, Of the wood of Lebanon,'),(22003010,22,3,10,'Its pillars he made of silver, Its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, Its midst lined `with\' love, By the daughters of Jerusalem.'),(22003011,22,3,11,'Go forth, and look, ye daughters of Zion, On king Solomon, with the crown, With which his mother crowned him, In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the joy of his heart!'),(22004001,22,4,1,'Lo, thou `art\' fair, my friend, lo, thou `art\' fair, Thine eyes `are\' doves behind thy veil, Thy hair as a row of the goats That have shone from mount Gilead,'),(22004002,22,4,2,'Thy teeth as a row of the shorn ones That have come up from the washing, For all of them are forming twins, And a bereaved one is not among them.'),(22004003,22,4,3,'As a thread of scarlet `are\' thy lips, And thy speech `is\' comely, As the work of the pomegranate `is\' thy temple behind thy veil,'),(22004004,22,4,4,'As the tower of David `is\' thy neck, built for an armoury, The chief of the shields are hung on it, All shields of the mighty.'),(22004005,22,4,5,'Thy two breasts `are\' as two fawns, Twins of a roe, that are feeding among lilies.'),(22004006,22,4,6,'Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, I will get me unto the mountain of myrrh, And unto the hill of frankincense.'),(22004007,22,4,7,'Thou `art\' all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,'),(22004008,22,4,8,'Come from Lebanon, come thou in. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Shenir and Hermon, From the habitations of lions, From the mountains of leopards.'),(22004009,22,4,9,'Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.'),(22004010,22,4,10,'How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.'),(22004011,22,4,11,'Thy lips drop honey, O spouse, Honey and milk `are\' under thy tongue, And the fragrance of thy garments `Is\' as the fragrance of Lebanon.'),(22004012,22,4,12,'A garden shut up `is\' my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.'),(22004013,22,4,13,'Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits,'),(22004014,22,4,14,'Cypresses with nard -- nard and saffron, Cane and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices.'),(22004015,22,4,15,'A fount of gardens, a well of living waters, And flowings from Lebanon!'),(22004016,22,4,16,'Awake, O north wind, and come, O south, Cause my garden to breathe forth, its spices let flow, Let my beloved come to his garden, And eat its pleasant fruits!'),(22005001,22,5,1,'I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!'),(22005002,22,5,2,'I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled `with\' dew, My locks `with\' drops of the night.\''),(22005003,22,5,3,'I have put off my coat, how do I put it on? I have washed my feet, how do I defile them?'),(22005004,22,5,4,'My beloved sent his hand from the net-work, And my bowels were moved for him.'),(22005005,22,5,5,'I rose to open to my beloved, And my hands dropped myrrh, Yea, my fingers flowing myrrh, On the handles of the lock.'),(22005006,22,5,6,'I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.'),(22005007,22,5,7,'The watchmen who go round about the city, Found me, smote me, wounded me, Keepers of the walls lifted up my veil from off me.'),(22005008,22,5,8,'I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved -- What do ye tell him? that I `am\' sick with love!'),(22005009,22,5,9,'What `is\' thy beloved above `any\' beloved, O fair among women? What `is\' thy beloved above `any\' beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?'),(22005010,22,5,10,'My beloved `is\' clear and ruddy, Conspicuous above a myriad!'),(22005011,22,5,11,'His head `is\' pure gold -- fine gold, His locks flowing, dark as a raven,'),(22005012,22,5,12,'His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.'),(22005013,22,5,13,'His cheeks as a bed of the spice, towers of perfumes, His lips `are\' lilies, dropping flowing myrrh,'),(22005014,22,5,14,'His hands rings of gold, set with beryl, His heart bright ivory, covered with sapphires,'),(22005015,22,5,15,'His limbs pillars of marble, Founded on sockets of fine gold, His appearance as Lebanon, choice as the cedars.'),(22005016,22,5,16,'His mouth is sweetness -- and all of him desirable, This `is\' my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!'),(22006001,22,6,1,'Whither hath thy beloved gone, O fair among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned, And we seek him with thee?'),(22006002,22,6,2,'My beloved went down to his garden, To the beds of the spice, To delight himself in the gardens, and to gather lilies.'),(22006003,22,6,3,'I `am\' my beloved\'s, and my beloved `is\' mine, Who is delighting himself among the lilies.'),(22006004,22,6,4,'Fair `art\' thou, my friend, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts.'),(22006005,22,6,5,'Turn round thine eyes from before me, Because they have made me proud. Thy hair `is\' as a row of the goats, That have shone from Gilead,'),(22006006,22,6,6,'Thy teeth as a row of the lambs, That have come up from the washing, Because all of them are forming twins, And a bereaved one is not among them.'),(22006007,22,6,7,'As the work of the pomegranate `is\' thy temple behind thy veil.'),(22006008,22,6,8,'Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.'),(22006009,22,6,9,'One is my dove, my perfect one, One she `is\' of her mother, The choice one she `is\' of her that bare her, Daughters saw, and pronounce her happy, Queens and concubines, and they praise her.'),(22006010,22,6,10,'`Who `is\' this that is looking forth as morning, Fair as the moon -- clear as the sun, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts?\''),(22006011,22,6,11,'Unto a garden of nuts I went down, To look on the buds of the valley, To see whither the vine had flourished, The pomegranates had blossomed --'),(22006012,22,6,12,'I knew not my soul, It made me -- chariots of my people Nadib.'),(22006013,22,6,13,'Return, return, O Shulammith! Return, return, and we look upon thee. What do ye see in Shulammith?'),(22007001,22,7,1,'As the chorus of `Mahanaim.\' How beautiful were thy feet with sandals, O daughter of Nadib. The turnings of thy sides `are\' as ornaments, Work of the hands of an artificer.'),(22007002,22,7,2,'Thy waist `is\' a basin of roundness, It lacketh not the mixture, Thy body a heap of wheat, fenced with lilies,'),(22007003,22,7,3,'Thy two breasts as two young ones, twins of a roe,'),(22007004,22,7,4,'Thy neck as a tower of the ivory, Thine eyes pools in Heshbon, near the gate of Bath-Rabbim, Thy face as a tower of Lebanon looking to Damascus,'),(22007005,22,7,5,'Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!'),(22007006,22,7,6,'How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.'),(22007007,22,7,7,'This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.'),(22007008,22,7,8,'I said, `Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons,'),(22007009,22,7,9,'And thy palate as the good wine --\' Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!'),(22007010,22,7,10,'I `am\' my beloved\'s, and on me `is\' his desire.'),(22007011,22,7,11,'Come, my beloved, we go forth to the field,'),(22007012,22,7,12,'We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves;'),(22007013,22,7,13,'The mandrakes have given fragrance, And at our openings all pleasant things, New, yea, old, my beloved, I laid up for thee!'),(22008001,22,8,1,'Who doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,'),(22008002,22,8,2,'I lead thee, I bring thee in unto my mother\'s house, She doth teach me, I cause thee to drink of the perfumed wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate,'),(22008003,22,8,3,'His left hand `is\' under my head, And his right doth embrace me.'),(22008004,22,8,4,'I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!'),(22008005,22,8,5,'Who `is\' this coming from the wilderness, Hasting herself for her beloved? Under the citron-tree I have waked thee, There did thy mother pledge thee, There she gave a pledge `that\' bare thee.'),(22008006,22,8,6,'Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings `are\' burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!'),(22008007,22,8,7,'Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down -- they tread upon it.'),(22008008,22,8,8,'We have a little sister, and breasts she hath not, What do we do for our sister, In the day that it is told of her?'),(22008009,22,8,9,'If she is a wall, we build by her a palace of silver. And if she is a door, We fashion by her board-work of cedar.'),(22008010,22,8,10,'I `am\' a wall, and my breasts as towers, Then I have been in his eyes as one finding peace.'),(22008011,22,8,11,'Solomon hath a vineyard in Baal-Hamon, He hath given the vineyard to keepers, Each bringeth for its fruit a thousand silverlings;'),(22008012,22,8,12,'My vineyard -- my own -- is before me, The thousand `is\' for thee, O Solomon. And the two hundred for those keeping its fruit. O dweller in gardens!'),(22008013,22,8,13,'The companions are attending to thy voice, Cause me to hear. Flee, my beloved, and be like to a roe,'),(22008014,22,8,14,'Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!'),(23001001,23,1,1,'The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.'),(23001002,23,1,2,'Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they -- they transgressed against Me.'),(23001003,23,1,3,'An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.'),(23001004,23,1,4,'Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy `with\' iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons -- corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward.'),(23001005,23,1,5,'Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is\' sick.'),(23001006,23,1,6,'From the sole of the foot -- unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.'),(23001007,23,1,7,'Your land `is\' a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!'),(23001008,23,1,8,'And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers -- as a city besieged.'),(23001009,23,1,9,'Unless Jehovah of Hosts had left to us a remnant, Shortly -- as Sodom we had been, To Gomorrah we had been like!'),(23001010,23,1,10,'Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,'),(23001011,23,1,11,'`Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated `with\' burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.'),(23001012,23,1,12,'When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts?'),(23001013,23,1,13,'Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an abomination it `is\' to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint!'),(23001014,23,1,14,'Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.'),(23001015,23,1,15,'And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.'),(23001016,23,1,16,'Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.'),(23001017,23,1,17,'Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for\' the widow.'),(23001018,23,1,18,'Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!'),(23001019,23,1,19,'If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,'),(23001020,23,1,20,'And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, `By\' the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.'),(23001021,23,1,21,'How hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it `with\' judgment, Righteousness lodgeth in it -- now murderers.'),(23001022,23,1,22,'Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.'),(23001023,23,1,23,'Thy princes `are\' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.'),(23001024,23,1,24,'Therefore -- the affirmation of the Lord -- Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,'),(23001025,23,1,25,'And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,'),(23001026,23,1,26,'And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, `A city of righteousness -- a faithful city.\''),(23001027,23,1,27,'Zion in judgment is redeemed, And her captivity in righteousness.'),(23001028,23,1,28,'And the destruction of transgressors and sinners `is\' together, And those forsaking Jehovah are consumed.'),(23001029,23,1,29,'For `men\' are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen.'),(23001030,23,1,30,'For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.'),(23001031,23,1,31,'And the strong hath been for tow, And his work for a spark, And burned have both of them together, And there is none quenching!'),(23002001,23,2,1,'The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem:'),(23002002,23,2,2,'And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, Established is the mount of Jehovah\'s house, Above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the heights, And flowed unto it have all the nations.'),(23002003,23,2,3,'And gone have many peoples and said, `Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.'),(23002004,23,2,4,'And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more -- war.'),(23002005,23,2,5,'O house of Jacob, come, And we walk in the light of Jehovah.\''),(23002006,23,2,6,'For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And `are\' sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands.'),(23002007,23,2,7,'And its land is full of silver and gold, And there is no end to its treasures, And its land is full of horses, And there is no end to its chariots,'),(23002008,23,2,8,'And its land is full of idols, To the work of its hands it boweth itself, To that which its fingers have made,'),(23002009,23,2,9,'And the low boweth down, and the high is humbled, And Thou acceptest them not.'),(23002010,23,2,10,'Enter into a rock, and be hidden in dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency.'),(23002011,23,2,11,'The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.'),(23002012,23,2,12,'For a day `is\' to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,'),(23002013,23,2,13,'And for all cedars of Lebanon, The high and the exalted ones, And for all oaks of Bashan,'),(23002014,23,2,14,'And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted heights,'),(23002015,23,2,15,'And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,'),(23002016,23,2,16,'And for all ships of Tarshish, And for all desirable pictures.'),(23002017,23,2,17,'And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.'),(23002018,23,2,18,'And the idols -- they completely pass away.'),(23002019,23,2,19,'And `men\' have entered into caverns of rocks, And into caves of dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.'),(23002020,23,2,20,'In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,'),(23002021,23,2,21,'To enter into cavities of the rocks, And into clefts of the high places, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.'),(23002022,23,2,22,'Cease for you from man, Whose breath `is\' in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?'),(23003001,23,3,1,'For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.'),(23003002,23,3,2,'Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,'),(23003003,23,3,3,'Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.'),(23003004,23,3,4,'And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.'),(23003005,23,3,5,'And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.'),(23003006,23,3,6,'When one layeth hold on his brother, `Of\' the house of his father, `by\' the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin `is\' under thy hand.\''),(23003007,23,3,7,'He lifteth up, in that day, saying: `I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.\''),(23003008,23,3,8,'For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings `are\' against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.'),(23003009,23,3,9,'The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.'),(23003010,23,3,10,'Say ye to the righteous, that `it is\' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.'),(23003011,23,3,11,'Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.'),(23003012,23,3,12,'My people -- its exactors `are\' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.'),(23003013,23,3,13,'Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples.'),(23003014,23,3,14,'Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor `is\' in your houses.'),(23003015,23,3,15,'What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.\' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:'),(23003016,23,3,16,'`Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving `with\' the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,'),(23003017,23,3,17,'The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth.'),(23003018,23,3,18,'In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons,'),(23003019,23,3,19,'Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,'),(23003020,23,3,20,'Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,'),(23003021,23,3,21,'Of the seals, and of the nose-rings,'),(23003022,23,3,22,'Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses,'),(23003023,23,3,23,'Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails,'),(23003024,23,3,24,'And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.'),(23003025,23,3,25,'For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.'),(23003026,23,3,26,'And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!'),(23004001,23,4,1,'And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, `Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.\''),(23004002,23,4,2,'In that day is the Shoot of Jehovah for desire and for honour, And the fruit of the earth For excellence and for beauty to the escaped of Israel.'),(23004003,23,4,3,'And it hath been, he who is left in Zion, And he who is remaining in Jerusalem, `Holy\' is said of him, Of every one who is written for life in Jerusalem.'),(23004004,23,4,4,'If the Lord hath washed away The filth of daughters of Zion, And the blood of Jerusalem purgeth from her midst, By the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.'),(23004005,23,4,5,'Then hath Jehovah prepared Over every fixed place of Mount Zion, And over her convocations, A cloud by day, and smoke, And the shining of a flaming fire by night, That, over all honour a safe-guard,'),(23004006,23,4,6,'And a covering may be, For a shadow by day from drought, And for a refuge, and for a hiding place, From inundation and from rain!'),(23005001,23,5,1,'Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,'),(23005002,23,5,2,'And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it `with\' a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!'),(23005003,23,5,3,'And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.'),(23005004,23,5,4,'What -- to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!'),(23005005,23,5,5,'And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.'),(23005006,23,5,6,'And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.'),(23005007,23,5,7,'Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts `Is\' the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.'),(23005008,23,5,8,'Wo `to\' those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!'),(23005009,23,5,9,'By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!'),(23005010,23,5,10,'For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.'),(23005011,23,5,11,'Wo `to\' those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!'),(23005012,23,5,12,'And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.'),(23005013,23,5,13,'Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.'),(23005014,23,5,14,'Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one -- into her.'),(23005015,23,5,15,'And bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, And the eyes of the haughty become low,'),(23005016,23,5,16,'And Jehovah of Hosts is high in judgment, And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,'),(23005017,23,5,17,'And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.'),(23005018,23,5,18,'Wo `to\' those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as `with\' thick ropes of the cart -- sin.'),(23005019,23,5,19,'Who are saying, `Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.\''),(23005020,23,5,20,'Wo `to\' those saying to evil `good,\' And to good `evil,\' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.'),(23005021,23,5,21,'Wo `to\' the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own faces -- intelligent!'),(23005022,23,5,22,'Wo `to\' the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.'),(23005023,23,5,23,'Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.'),(23005024,23,5,24,'Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.'),(23005025,23,5,25,'Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among His people, And He stretcheth out His hand against it, And smiteth it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcase is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!'),(23005026,23,5,26,'And He lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And lo, with haste, swift it cometh.'),(23005027,23,5,27,'There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It doth not slumber, nor sleep, Nor opened hath been the girdle of its loins, Nor drawn away the latchet of its sandals.'),(23005028,23,5,28,'Whose arrows `are\' sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!'),(23005029,23,5,29,'Its roaring `is\' like a lioness, It roareth like young lions, And it howleth, and seizeth prey, And carrieth away safely, and there is none delivering.'),(23005030,23,5,30,'And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!'),(23006001,23,6,1,'In the year of the death of king Uzziah -- I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple.'),(23006002,23,6,2,'Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two `each\' covereth its face, and with two `each\' covereth its feet, and with two `each\' flieth.'),(23006003,23,6,3,'And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, `is\' Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth `is\' His glory.\''),(23006004,23,6,4,'And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.'),(23006005,23,6,5,'And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips `am\' I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.\''),(23006006,23,6,6,'And flee unto me doth one of the seraphs, and in his hand a burning coal, (with tongs he hath taken `it\' from off the altar,)'),(23006007,23,6,7,'and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: `Lo, this hath stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity, And thy sin is covered.\''),(23006008,23,6,8,'And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: `Whom do I send? and who doth go for Us?\' And I say, `Here `am\' I, send me.\''),(23006009,23,6,9,'And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.'),(23006010,23,6,10,'Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.\''),(23006011,23,6,11,'And I say, `Till when, O Lord?\' And He saith, `Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted -- a desolation,'),(23006012,23,6,12,'And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great `is\' the forsaken part in the heart of the land.'),(23006013,23,6,13,'And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed `is\' its substance!\''),(23007001,23,7,1,'And it cometh to pass in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, gone up hath Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to battle against it, and he is not able to fight against it.'),(23007002,23,7,2,'And it is declared to the house of David, saying, `Aram hath been led towards Ephraim,\' And his heart and the heart of his people is moved, like the moving of trees of a forest by the presence of wind.'),(23007003,23,7,3,'And Jehovah saith unto Isaiah, `Go forth, I pray thee, to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-Jashub thy son, unto the end of the conduit of the upper pool, unto the highway of the fuller\'s field,'),(23007004,23,7,4,'and thou hast said unto him: `Take heed, and be quiet, fear not, And let not thy heart be timid, Because of these two tails of smoking brands, For the fierceness of the anger of Rezin and Aram, And the son of Remaliah.'),(23007005,23,7,5,'Because that Aram counselled against thee evil, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying:'),(23007006,23,7,6,'We go up into Judah, and we vex it, And we rend it unto ourselves, And we cause a king to reign in its midst -- The son of Tabeal.'),(23007007,23,7,7,'Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it be!'),(23007008,23,7,8,'For the head of Aram `is\' Damascus, And the head of Damascus `is\' Rezin, And within sixty and five years Is Ephraim broken from `being\' a people.'),(23007009,23,7,9,'And the head of Ephraim `is\' Samaria, And the head of Samaria `is\' the son of Remaliah. If ye do not give credence, Surely ye are not stedfast.\''),(23007010,23,7,10,'And Jehovah addeth to speak unto Ahaz, saying:'),(23007011,23,7,11,'`Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the request, or make `it\' high upwards.\''),(23007012,23,7,12,'And Ahaz saith, `I do not ask nor try Jehovah.\''),(23007013,23,7,13,'And he saith, `Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God?'),(23007014,23,7,14,'Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,'),(23007015,23,7,15,'Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.'),(23007016,23,7,16,'For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.'),(23007017,23,7,17,'Jehovah bringeth on thee, and on thy people, And on the house of thy father, Days that have not come, Even from the day of the turning aside of Ephraim from Judah, By the king of Asshur.'),(23007018,23,7,18,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah doth hiss for a fly that `is\' in the extremity of the brooks of Egypt, And for a bee that `is\' in the land of Asshur.'),(23007019,23,7,19,'And they have come, and rested all of them in the desolate valleys, And in holes of the rocks, and on all the thorns, And on all the commendable things.'),(23007020,23,7,20,'In that day doth the Lord shave, By a razor that is hired beyond the river, By the king of Asshur, The head, and the hair of the feet, Yea, also the beard it consumeth.'),(23007021,23,7,21,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, A man keepeth alive a heifer of the herd, And two of the flock,'),(23007022,23,7,22,'And it hath come to pass, From the abundance of the yielding of milk he eateth butter, For butter and honey doth every one eat Who is left in the heart of the land.'),(23007023,23,7,23,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns.'),(23007024,23,7,24,'With arrows and with bow he cometh thither, Because all the land is brier and thorn.'),(23007025,23,7,25,'And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!\''),(23008001,23,8,1,'And Jehovah saith unto me, `Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a graving tool of man, To haste spoil, enjoy prey.\''),(23008002,23,8,2,'And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.'),(23008003,23,8,3,'And I draw near unto the prophetess, and she conceiveth, and beareth a son; and Jehovah saith unto me, `Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,'),(23008004,23,8,4,'for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.\''),(23008005,23,8,5,'And Jehovah addeth to speak unto me again, saying:'),(23008006,23,8,6,'`Because that this people hath refused The waters of Shiloah that go softly, And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,'),(23008007,23,8,7,'Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur, and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams, And hath gone on over all its banks.'),(23008008,23,8,8,'And it hath passed on into Judah, It hath overflown and passed over, Unto the neck it cometh, And the stretching out of its wings Hath been the fulness of the breadth of thy land, O Emmanu-El!'),(23008009,23,8,9,'Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.'),(23008010,23,8,10,'Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!\''),(23008011,23,8,11,'For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,'),(23008012,23,8,12,'`Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful.'),(23008013,23,8,13,'Jehovah of Hosts -- Him ye do sanctify, And He `is\' your Fear, and He your Dread,'),(23008014,23,8,14,'And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(23008015,23,8,15,'And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.'),(23008016,23,8,16,'Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among My disciples.'),(23008017,23,8,17,'And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.'),(23008018,23,8,18,'Lo, I, and the children whom Jehovah hath given to me, `Are\' for signs and for wonders in Israel, From Jehovah of Hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion.'),(23008019,23,8,19,'And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? -- For the living unto the dead!'),(23008020,23,8,20,'To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.\''),(23008021,23,8,21,'-- And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.'),(23008022,23,8,22,'And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!'),(23009001,23,9,1,'As the former time made light The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, So the latter hath honoured the way of the sea, Beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.'),(23009002,23,9,2,'The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.'),(23009003,23,9,3,'Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As `men\' rejoice in their apportioning spoil.'),(23009004,23,9,4,'Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as `in\' the day of Midian.'),(23009005,23,9,5,'For every battle of a warrior `is\' with rushing, and raiment rolled in blood, And it hath been for burning -- fuel of fire.'),(23009006,23,9,6,'For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.'),(23009007,23,9,7,'To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.'),(23009008,23,9,8,'A word hath the Lord sent into Jacob, And it hath fallen in Israel.'),(23009009,23,9,9,'And the people have known -- all of it, Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria, In pride and in greatness of heart, saying,'),(23009010,23,9,10,'`Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.\''),(23009011,23,9,11,'And Jehovah setteth the adversaries of Rezin on high above him, And his enemies he joineth together,'),(23009012,23,9,12,'Aram from before, and Philistia from behind, And they devour Israel with the whole mouth. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.'),(23009013,23,9,13,'And the people hath not turned back unto Him who is smiting it, And Jehovah of Hosts they have not sought.'),(23009014,23,9,14,'And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,'),(23009015,23,9,15,'Elder, and accepted of face, he `is\' the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he `is\' the tail.'),(23009016,23,9,16,'And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.'),(23009017,23,9,17,'Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one `is\' profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.'),(23009018,23,9,18,'For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!'),(23009019,23,9,19,'In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts Hath the land been consumed, And the people is as fuel of fire; A man on his brother hath no pity,'),(23009020,23,9,20,'And cutteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, And he devoureth on the left, And they have not been satisfied, Each the flesh of his own arm they devour.'),(23009021,23,9,21,'Manasseh -- Ephraim, and Ephraim -- Manasseh, Together they `are\' against Judah, With all this not turned back hath His anger. And still His hand is stretched out!'),(23010001,23,10,1,'Wo `to\' those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.'),(23010002,23,10,2,'To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.'),(23010003,23,10,3,'And what do ye at a day of inspection? And at desolation? -- from afar it cometh. Near whom do ye flee for help? And where do ye leave your honour?'),(23010004,23,10,4,'Without Me it hath bowed down In the place of a bound one, And in the place of the slain they fall. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.'),(23010005,23,10,5,'Wo `to\' Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand `is\' Mine indignation.'),(23010006,23,10,6,'Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.'),(23010007,23,10,7,'And he -- he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For -- to destroy `is\' in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.'),(23010008,23,10,8,'For he saith, `Are not my princes altogether kings?'),(23010009,23,10,9,'Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?'),(23010010,23,10,10,'As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, `Greater\' than Jerusalem and than Samaria,'),(23010011,23,10,11,'Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?'),(23010012,23,10,12,'And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.'),(23010013,23,10,13,'For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,'),(23010014,23,10,14,'And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I -- I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.\''),(23010015,23,10,15,'-- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!'),(23010016,23,10,16,'Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.'),(23010017,23,10,17,'And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day.'),(23010018,23,10,18,'And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the fainting of a standard-bearer.'),(23010019,23,10,19,'And the rest of the trees of his forest `are\' few, And a youth doth write them.'),(23010020,23,10,20,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, The remnant of Israel, And the escaped of the house of Jacob, Do not add any more to lean on its smiter, And have leant on Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, in truth.'),(23010021,23,10,21,'A remnant returneth -- a remnant of Jacob, Unto the Mighty God.'),(23010022,23,10,22,'For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, A remnant doth return of it, A consumption determined, Overflowing `with\' righteousness.'),(23010023,23,10,23,'For a consumption that is determined, The Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is making in the midst of all the land.'),(23010024,23,10,24,'Therefore, thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, `Be not afraid, my people, inhabiting Zion, because of Asshur, With a rod he doth smite thee, And his staff lifteth up against thee, in the way of Egypt.'),(23010025,23,10,25,'For yet a very little, And the indignation hath been completed, And Mine anger by their wearing out.'),(23010026,23,10,26,'And awaking for him is Jehovah of Hosts, A scourge like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb, And his rod `is\' over the sea, And he hath lifted it in the way of Egypt.'),(23010027,23,10,27,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, Turned is his burden from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And destroyed hath been the yoke, because of prosperity.'),(23010028,23,10,28,'He hath come in against Aiath, He hath passed over into Migron, At Michmash he looketh after his vessels.'),(23010029,23,10,29,'They have gone over the passage, Geba they have made a lodging place, Trembled hath Rama, Gibeah of Saul fled.'),(23010030,23,10,30,'Cry aloud `with\' thy voice, daughter of Gallim, Give attention, Laish! answer her, Anathoth.'),(23010031,23,10,31,'Fled away hath Madmenah, The inhabitants of the high places have hardened themselves.'),(23010032,23,10,32,'Yet to-day in Nob to remain, Wave its hand doth the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.'),(23010033,23,10,33,'Lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is lopping a branch with violence, And the high of stature are cut down, And the lofty are become low,'),(23010034,23,10,34,'And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!'),(23011001,23,11,1,'And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful.'),(23011002,23,11,2,'Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah.'),(23011003,23,11,3,'To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth.'),(23011004,23,11,4,'And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.'),(23011005,23,11,5,'And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness -- the girdle of his reins.'),(23011006,23,11,6,'And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling `are\' together, And a little youth is leader over them.'),(23011007,23,11,7,'And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their young ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw.'),(23011008,23,11,8,'And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, And on the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put his hand.'),(23011009,23,11,9,'Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters are covering the sea.'),(23011010,23,11,10,'And there hath been, in that day, A root of Jesse that is standing for an ensign of peoples, Unto him do nations seek, And his rest hath been -- honour!'),(23011011,23,11,11,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, The Lord addeth a second time his power, To get the remnant of His people that is left, From Asshur, and from Egypt, And from Pathros, and from Cush, And from Elam, and from Shinar, And from Hamath, and from isles of the sea,'),(23011012,23,11,12,'And He hath lifted up an ensign to nations, And gathereth the driven away of Israel, And the scattered of Judah He assembleth, From the four wings of the earth.'),(23011013,23,11,13,'And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy Judah, And Judah doth not distress Ephraim.'),(23011014,23,11,14,'And they have flown on the shoulder of the Philistines westward, Together they spoil the sons of the east, Edom and Moab sending forth their hand, And sons of Ammon obeying them.'),(23011015,23,11,15,'And Jehovah hath devoted to destruction The tongue of the sea of Egypt, And hath waved His hand over the river, In the terror of his wind, And hath smitten it at the seven streams, And hath caused `men\' to tread `it\' with shoes.'),(23011016,23,11,16,'And there hath been a highway, For the remnant of His people that is left, from Asshur, As there was for Israel in the day of his coming up out of the land of Egypt!'),(23012001,23,12,1,'And thou hast said in that day: `I thank thee, O Jehovah, Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me.'),(23012002,23,12,2,'Lo, God `is\' my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song `is\' Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.'),(23012003,23,12,3,'And ye have drawn waters with joy Out of the fountains of salvation,'),(23012004,23,12,4,'And ye have said in that day, Give ye praise to Jehovah, call in His name. Make known among the peoples His acts. Make mention that set on high is His name.'),(23012005,23,12,5,'Praise ye Jehovah, for excellence He hath done, Known is this in all the earth.'),(23012006,23,12,6,'Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy midst `is\' the Holy One of Israel!\''),(23013001,23,13,1,'The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen:'),(23013002,23,13,2,'`On a high mountain lift ye up an ensign, Raise the voice to them, wave the hand, And they go in to the openings of nobles.'),(23013003,23,13,3,'I have given charge to My sanctified ones, Also I have called My mighty ones for Mine anger, Those rejoicing at Mine excellency.\''),(23013004,23,13,4,'A voice of a multitude in the mountains, A likeness of a numerous people, A voice of noise from the kingdoms of nations who are gathered, Jehovah of Hosts inspecting a host of battle!'),(23013005,23,13,5,'They are coming in from a land afar off, From the end of the heavens, Jehovah and the instruments of His indignation, To destroy all the land.'),(23013006,23,13,6,'Howl ye, for near `is\' the day of Jehovah, As destruction from the Mighty it cometh.'),(23013007,23,13,7,'Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt.'),(23013008,23,13,8,'And they have been troubled, Pains and pangs they take, As a travailing woman they are pained, A man at his friend they marvel, The appearance of flames -- their faces!'),(23013009,23,13,9,'Lo, the day of Jehovah doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its sinning ones He destroyeth from it.'),(23013010,23,13,10,'For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.'),(23013011,23,13,11,'And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.'),(23013012,23,13,12,'I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.'),(23013013,23,13,13,'Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, And the earth doth shake from its place, In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, And in a day of the heat of his anger.'),(23013014,23,13,14,'And it hath been, as a roe driven away, And as a flock that hath no gatherer, Each unto his people -- they turn, And each unto his land -- they flee.'),(23013015,23,13,15,'Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword.'),(23013016,23,13,16,'And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.'),(23013017,23,13,17,'Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver esteem not, And gold -- they delight not in it.'),(23013018,23,13,18,'And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.'),(23013019,23,13,19,'And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, The glory, the excellency of the Chaldeans, Hath been as overthrown by God, With Sodom and with Gomorrah.'),(23013020,23,13,20,'She doth not sit for ever, Nor continueth unto many generations, Nor doth Arab pitch tent there, And shepherds lie not down there.'),(23013021,23,13,21,'And Ziim have lain down there, And full have been their houses of howlings, And dwelt there have daughters of an ostrich, And goats do skip there.'),(23013022,23,13,22,'And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come `is\' her time, And her days are not drawn out!'),(23014001,23,14,1,'Because Jehovah loveth Jacob, And hath fixed again on Israel, And given them rest on their own land, And joined hath been the sojourner to them, And they have been admitted to the house of Jacob.'),(23014002,23,14,2,'And peoples have taken them, And have brought them in unto their place, And the house of Israel have inherited them, On the land of Jehovah, For men-servants and for maid-servants, And they have been captors of their captors, And have ruled over their exactors.'),(23014003,23,14,3,'And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah\'s giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,'),(23014004,23,14,4,'That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,'),(23014005,23,14,5,'Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.'),(23014006,23,14,6,'He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!'),(23014007,23,14,7,'At rest -- quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth `into\' singing.'),(23014008,23,14,8,'Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon -- `saying\': Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us.'),(23014009,23,14,9,'Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.'),(23014010,23,14,10,'All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!'),(23014011,23,14,11,'Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.'),(23014012,23,14,12,'How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.'),(23014013,23,14,13,'And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.'),(23014014,23,14,14,'I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.'),(23014015,23,14,15,'Only -- unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.'),(23014016,23,14,16,'Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?'),(23014017,23,14,17,'He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.'),(23014018,23,14,18,'All kings of nations -- all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house,'),(23014019,23,14,19,'And -- thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.'),(23014020,23,14,20,'Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.'),(23014021,23,14,21,'Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world `with\' cities.'),(23014022,23,14,22,'And I have risen up against them, (The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts,) And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, Name and remnant, and continuator and successor, The affirmation of Jehovah.'),(23014023,23,14,23,'And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!'),(23014024,23,14,24,'Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts, saying, `As I thought -- so hath it not been? And as I counselled -- it standeth;'),(23014025,23,14,25,'To break Asshur in My land, And on My mountains I tread him down, And turned from off them hath his yoke, Yea, his burden from off their shoulder turneth aside.'),(23014026,23,14,26,'This `is\' the counsel that is counselled for all the earth, And this `is\' the hand that is stretched out for all the nations.'),(23014027,23,14,27,'For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?\''),(23014028,23,14,28,'In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:'),(23014029,23,14,29,'Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent cometh out a viper, And its fruit `is\' a flying saraph.'),(23014030,23,14,30,'And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.'),(23014031,23,14,31,'Howl, O gate; cry, O city, Melted art thou, Philistia, all of thee, For from the north smoke hath come, And there is none alone in his set places.'),(23014032,23,14,32,'And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? `That Jehovah hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people trust!\''),(23015001,23,15,1,'The burden of Moab. Because in a night destroyed was Ar of Moab -- It hath been cut off, Because in a night destroyed was Kir of Moab -- It hath been cut off.'),(23015002,23,15,2,'He hath gone up to Bajith and Dibon, The high places -- to weep, On Nebo and on Medeba Moab howleth, On all its heads `is\' baldness, every beard cut off.'),(23015003,23,15,3,'In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth -- going down with weeping.'),(23015004,23,15,4,'And cry doth Heshbon and Elealeh, Unto Jahaz heard hath been their voice, Therefore the armed ones of Moab do shout, His life hath been grievous to him.'),(23015005,23,15,5,'My heart `is\' toward Moab, Cry do her fugitives unto Zoar, a heifer of the third `year\', For -- the ascent of Luhith -- With weeping he goeth up in it, For, in the way of Horonaim, A cry of destruction they wake up.'),(23015006,23,15,6,'For, the waters of Nimrim are desolations, For, withered hath been the hay, Finished hath been the tender grass, A green thing there hath not been.'),(23015007,23,15,7,'Therefore the abundance he made, and their store, Unto the brook of the willows they carry.'),(23015008,23,15,8,'For gone round hath the cry the border of Moab, Unto Eglaim `is\' its howling, And to Beer-Elim `is\' its howling.'),(23015009,23,15,9,'For the waters of Dimon have been full of blood, For I set on Dimon additions, For the escaped of Moab a lion, And for the remnant of Adamah!'),(23016001,23,16,1,'Send ye a lamb `to\' the ruler of the land, From Selah in the wilderness, Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.'),(23016002,23,16,2,'And it hath come to pass, As a wandering bird, a nest cast out, Are daughters of Moab, `at\' fords of Arnon.'),(23016003,23,16,3,'Bring ye in counsel, do judgment, Make as night thy shadow in the midst of noon, Hide outcasts, the wanderer reveal not.'),(23016004,23,16,4,'Sojourn in thee do My outcasts, O Moab, Be a secret hiding-place to them, From the face of a destroyer, For ceased hath the extortioner, Finished hath been a destroyer, Consumed the treaders down out of the land.'),(23016005,23,16,5,'And established in kindness is the throne, And `one\' hath sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.'),(23016006,23,16,6,'We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right `are\' his devices.'),(23016007,23,16,7,'Therefore howl doth Moab for Moab, all of it doth howl, For the grape-cakes of Kir-Hareseth it meditateth, Surely they are smitten.'),(23016008,23,16,8,'Because fields of Heshbon languish, The vine of Sibmah, Lords of nations did beat her choice vines, Unto Jazer they have come, They have wandered in a wilderness, Her plants have spread themselves, They have passed over a sea.'),(23016009,23,16,9,'Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer, The vine of Sibmah, I water thee `with\' my tear, O Heshbon and Elealeh, For -- for thy summer fruits, and for thy harvest, The shouting hath fallen.'),(23016010,23,16,10,'And removed have been gladness and joy from the fruitful field, And in vineyards they sing not, nor shout, Wine in the presses treadeth not the treader, Shouting I have caused to cease.'),(23016011,23,16,11,'Therefore my bowels for Moab as a harp do sound, And mine inward parts for Kir-Haresh.'),(23016012,23,16,12,'And it hath come to pass, when it hath been seen, That weary hath been Moab on the high place, And he hath come unto his sanctuary to pray, And is not able.'),(23016013,23,16,13,'This `is\' the word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moab from that time,'),(23016014,23,16,14,'And now hath Jehovah spoken, saying, `In three years, as years of an hireling, Lightly esteemed is the honour of Moab, With all the great multitude, And the remnant `is\' little, small, not mighty!\''),(23017001,23,17,1,'The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from `being\' a city, And it hath been a heap -- a ruin.'),(23017002,23,17,2,'Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.'),(23017003,23,17,3,'And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the sons of Israel, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!'),(23017004,23,17,4,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, Wax poor doth the honour of Jacob, And the fatness of his flesh doth wax lean.'),(23017005,23,17,5,'And it hath come to pass, As the gathering by the reaper of the standing corn, And his arm the ears reapeth, And it hath come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the valley of Rephaim,'),(23017006,23,17,6,'And left in him have been gleanings, As the compassing of an olive, Two -- three berries on the top of a branch, Four -- five on the fruitful boughs, The affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel!'),(23017007,23,17,7,'In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to the Holy One of Israel look,'),(23017008,23,17,8,'And he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not -- the shrines and the images.'),(23017009,23,17,9,'In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.'),(23017010,23,17,10,'Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,'),(23017011,23,17,11,'In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap `is\' the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.'),(23017012,23,17,12,'Wo `to\' the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And `to\' the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.'),(23017013,23,17,13,'Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.'),(23017014,23,17,14,'At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is\' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!'),(23018001,23,18,1,'Ho, land shadowed `with\' wings, That `is\' beyond the rivers of Cush,'),(23018002,23,18,2,'That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, -- Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.'),(23018003,23,18,3,'All ye inhabitants of the world, And ye dwellers of earth, At the lifting up of an ensign on hills ye look, And at the blowing of a trumpet ye hear.'),(23018004,23,18,4,'For thus said Jehovah unto me, `I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.'),(23018005,23,18,5,'For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath `one\' cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.'),(23018006,23,18,6,'They are left together to the ravenous fowl of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, And summered on them hath the ravenous fowl, And every beast of the earth wintereth on them.'),(23018007,23,18,7,'At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts -- mount Zion!\''),(23019001,23,19,1,'The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst.'),(23019002,23,19,2,'And I armed Egyptians against Egyptians, And they fought, each against his brother, And each against his neighbour, City against city, kingdom against kingdom.'),(23019003,23,19,3,'And emptied out hath been in its midst the spirit of Egypt. And its counsel I swallow up, And they have sought unto the idols, And unto the charmers, And unto those having familiar spirits, And unto the wizards.'),(23019004,23,19,4,'And I have delivered the Egyptians Into the hand of a hard lord, And a strong king doth rule over them, An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.'),(23019005,23,19,5,'And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.'),(23019006,23,19,6,'And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.'),(23019007,23,19,7,'Exposed things by the brook, by the edge of the brook, And every sown thing of the brook, hath withered, It hath been driven away, and is not.'),(23019008,23,19,8,'And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.'),(23019009,23,19,9,'And ashamed have been makers of fine flax, And weavers of net-works.'),(23019010,23,19,10,'And its foundations have been smitten, All making wages `are\' afflicted in soul.'),(23019011,23,19,11,'Only, fools `are\' the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?\''),(23019012,23,19,12,'Where `are\' they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt!'),(23019013,23,19,13,'Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes.'),(23019014,23,19,14,'Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.'),(23019015,23,19,15,'And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.'),(23019016,23,19,16,'In that day is Egypt like women, And it hath mourned, and been afraid, Because of the waving of the hand of Jehovah of Hosts, That He is waving over it.'),(23019017,23,19,17,'And the land of Judah hath been to Egypt for a cause of staggering, Every one who doth mention it, for himself feareth, Because of the counsel of Jehovah of Hosts, That He is counselling against it.'),(23019018,23,19,18,'In that day there are five cities in the land of Egypt, Speaking the lip of Canaan, And swearing to Jehovah of Hosts, `The city of destruction,\' is said of one.'),(23019019,23,19,19,'In that day there is an altar to Jehovah In the midst of the land of Egypt, And a standing pillar near its border to Jehovah,'),(23019020,23,19,20,'And it hath been for a sign and for a testimony, To Jehovah of Hosts in the land of Egypt, For they cry unto Jehovah from the face of oppressors, And He sendeth to them a saviour, Even a great one, and hath delivered them.'),(23019021,23,19,21,'And known hath been Jehovah to Egypt, And the Egyptians have known Jehovah in that day, And done sacrifice and present, And vowed a vow to Jehovah, and completed `it\'.'),(23019022,23,19,22,'And Jehovah hath smitten Egypt, smiting and healing, And they have turned back unto Jehovah, And He hath been entreated of them, And hath healed them.'),(23019023,23,19,23,'In that day is a highway out of Egypt to Asshur, And come in have the Assyrians to Egypt, And the Egyptians into Asshur, And the Egyptians have served with the Assyrians.'),(23019024,23,19,24,'In that day is Israel third, After Egypt, and after Asshur, A blessing in the heart of the earth.'),(23019025,23,19,25,'In that Jehovah of Hosts did bless it, saying, `Blessed `is\' My people -- Egypt, And the work of My hands -- Asshur, And Mine inheritance -- Israel!\''),(23020001,23,20,1,'In the year of the coming in of Tartan to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Asshur sendeth him, and he fighteth against Ashdod, and captureth it,'),(23020002,23,20,2,'at that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, `Go, and thou hast loosed the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thy sandal thou dost draw from off thy foot,\' and he doth so, going naked and barefoot.'),(23020003,23,20,3,'And Jehovah saith, `As My servant Isaiah hath gone naked and barefoot three years, a sign and a wonder for Egypt and for Cush,'),(23020004,23,20,4,'so doth the king of Asshur lead the captivity of Egypt, and the removal of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with seat uncovered -- the nakedness of Egypt;'),(23020005,23,20,5,'and they have been affrighted and ashamed of Cush their confidence, and of Egypt their beauty,'),(23020006,23,20,6,'and the inhabitant of this isle hath said in that day -- Lo, thus `is\' our trust, Whither we have fled for help, To be delivered from the king of Asshur, And how do we escape -- we?\''),(23021001,23,21,1,'The burden of the wilderness of the sea. `Like hurricanes in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath come, From a fearful land.'),(23021002,23,21,2,'A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.'),(23021003,23,21,3,'Therefore filled have been my loins `with\' great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.'),(23021004,23,21,4,'Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,'),(23021005,23,21,5,'Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,'),(23021006,23,21,6,'For thus said the Lord unto me: `Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.\''),(23021007,23,21,7,'And he hath seen a chariot -- a couple of horsemen, The rider of an ass, the rider of a camel, And he hath given attention -- He hath increased attention!'),(23021008,23,21,8,'And he crieth -- a lion, `On a watch-tower my lord, I am standing continually by day, And on my ward I am stationed whole nights.'),(23021009,23,21,9,'And lo, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of horsemen.\' And he answereth and saith: `Fallen, fallen hath Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods He hath broken to the earth.'),(23021010,23,21,10,'O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!\''),(23021011,23,21,11,'The burden of Dumah. Unto me is `one\' calling from Seir `Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?\''),(23021012,23,21,12,'The watchman hath said, `Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.\''),(23021013,23,21,13,'The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O travellers of Dedanim.'),(23021014,23,21,14,'To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive.'),(23021015,23,21,15,'For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle.'),(23021016,23,21,16,'For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.'),(23021017,23,21,17,'And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!\''),(23022001,23,22,1,'The burden of the Valley of Vision. What -- to thee, now, that thou hast gone up, All of thee -- to the roofs?'),(23022002,23,22,2,'Full of stirs -- a noisy city -- an exulting city, Thy pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle.'),(23022003,23,22,3,'All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off they have fled.'),(23022004,23,22,4,'Therefore I said, `Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.\''),(23022005,23,22,5,'For a day of noise, and of treading down, And of perplexity, `is\' to the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In the valley of vision, digging down a wall, And crying unto the mountain.'),(23022006,23,22,6,'And Elam hath borne a quiver, In a chariot of men -- horsemen, And Kir hath exposed a shield.'),(23022007,23,22,7,'And it cometh to pass, The choice of thy valleys have been full of chariots, And the horsemen place themselves diligently at the gate.'),(23022008,23,22,8,'And one removeth the covering of Judah, And thou lookest in that day Unto the armour of the house of the forest,'),(23022009,23,22,9,'And the breaches of the city of David ye have seen, For they have become many, And ye gather the waters of the lower pool,'),(23022010,23,22,10,'And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break down the houses to fence the wall.'),(23022011,23,22,11,'And a ditch ye made between the two walls, For the waters of the old pool, And ye have not looked unto its Maker, And its Framer of old ye have not seen.'),(23022012,23,22,12,'And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,'),(23022013,23,22,13,'And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'),(23022014,23,22,14,'And revealed it hath been in mine ears, `By\' Jehovah of Hosts: Not pardoned is this iniquity to you, Till ye die, said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.'),(23022015,23,22,15,'Thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts: `Go, enter in unto this steward, Unto Shebna, who `is\' over the house:'),(23022016,23,22,16,'What -- to thee here? And who -- to thee here? That thou hast hewn out to thee here -- a sepulchre? Hewing on high his sepulchre, Graving in a rock a dwelling for himself.'),(23022017,23,22,17,'Lo, Jehovah is casting thee up and down, A casting up and down, O mighty one,'),(23022018,23,22,18,'And thy coverer covering, wrapping round, Wrappeth thee round, O babbler, On a land broad of sides -- there thou diest, And there the chariots of thine honour `Are\' the shame of the house of thy lord.'),(23022019,23,22,19,'And I have thrust thee from thy station, And from thine office he throweth thee down.'),(23022020,23,22,20,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, That I have called to my servant, To Eliakim son of Hilkiah.'),(23022021,23,22,21,'And I have clothed him with thy coat, And with thy girdle I strengthen him, And thy garment I give into his hand, And he hath been for a father to the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And to the house of Judah.'),(23022022,23,22,22,'And I have placed the key Of the house of David on his shoulder, And he hath opened, and none is shutting, And hath shut, and none is opening.'),(23022023,23,22,23,'And I have fixed him a nail in a stedfast place, And he hath been for a throne of honour To the house of his father.'),(23022024,23,22,24,'And they have hanged on him All the honour of the house of his father, The offspring and the issue, All vessels of small quality, From vessels of basins to all vessels of flagons.'),(23022025,23,22,25,'In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Moved is the nail that is fixed In a stedfast place, Yea, it hath been cut down, and hath fallen, And cut off hath been the burden that `is\' on it, For Jehovah hath spoken!\''),(23023001,23,23,1,'The Burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For it hath been destroyed, Without house, without entrance, From the land of Chittim it was revealed to them.'),(23023002,23,23,2,'Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle, Trader of Zidon, passing the sea, they filled thee.'),(23023003,23,23,3,'And in many waters `is\' the seed of Sihor, The harvest of the brook `is\' her increase, And she is a mart of nations.'),(23023004,23,23,4,'Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea spake, The strength of the sea, saying: `I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, Nor have I nourished young men, `nor\' brought up virgins.\''),(23023005,23,23,5,'As `at\' the report of Egypt they are pained, So `at\' the report of Tyre.'),(23023006,23,23,6,'Pass over to Tarshish, howl, ye inhabitants of the isle,'),(23023007,23,23,7,'Is this your exulting one? From the days of old `is\' her antiquity, Carry her do her own feet afar off to sojourn.'),(23023008,23,23,8,'Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders `are\' princes, Her merchants the honoured of earth?\''),(23023009,23,23,9,'Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.'),(23023010,23,23,10,'Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.'),(23023011,23,23,11,'His hand He hath stretched out over the sea, He hath caused kingdoms to tremble, Jehovah hath charged concerning the merchant one, To destroy her strong places.'),(23023012,23,23,12,'And He saith, `Thou dost not add any more to exult, O oppressed one, virgin daughter of Zidon, To Chittim arise, pass over, Even there -- there is no rest for thee.\''),(23023013,23,23,13,'Lo, the land of the Chaldeans -- this people was not, Asshur founded it for the Ziim, They raised its watch-towers, They lifted up her palaces, -- He hath appointed her for a ruin!'),(23023014,23,23,14,'Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your strength hath been destroyed.'),(23023015,23,23,15,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, That forgotten is Tyre seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot.'),(23023016,23,23,16,'Take a harp, go round the city, O forgotten harlot, play well, Multiply song that thou mayest be remembered.'),(23023017,23,23,17,'And it hath come to pass, At the end of seventy years Jehovah inspecteth Tyre, And she hath repented of her gift, That she committed fornication With all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.'),(23023018,23,23,18,'And her merchandise and her gift have been holy to Jehovah, Not treasured up nor stored, For to those sitting before Jehovah is her merchandise, To eat to satiety, and for a lasting covering!'),(23024001,23,24,1,'Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned `it on\' its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.'),(23024002,23,24,2,'And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting `it\' on himself.'),(23024003,23,24,3,'Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word:'),(23024004,23,24,4,'Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.'),(23024005,23,24,5,'And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.'),(23024006,23,24,6,'Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.'),(23024007,23,24,7,'Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.'),(23024008,23,24,8,'Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.'),(23024009,23,24,9,'With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.'),(23024010,23,24,10,'It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.'),(23024011,23,24,11,'A cry over the wine `is\' in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.'),(23024012,23,24,12,'Left in the city `is\' desolation, And `with\' wasting is the gate smitten.'),(23024013,23,24,13,'When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when harvest hath been finished,'),(23024014,23,24,14,'They -- they lift up their voice, They sing of the excellency of Jehovah, They have cried aloud from the sea.'),(23024015,23,24,15,'Therefore in prosperity honour ye Jehovah, In isles of the sea, the name of Jehovah, God of Israel.'),(23024016,23,24,16,'From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, `Leanness `is\' to me, Leanness `is\' to me, wo `is\' to me.\' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.'),(23024017,23,24,17,'Fear, and a snare, and a gin, `Are\' on thee, O inhabitant of the land.'),(23024018,23,24,18,'And it hath come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear Doth fall into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the gin, For windows on high have been opened, And shaken are foundations of the land.'),(23024019,23,24,19,'Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.'),(23024020,23,24,20,'Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to rise.'),(23024021,23,24,21,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah layeth a charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on the kings of the land on the land.'),(23024022,23,24,22,'And they have been gathered -- A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.'),(23024023,23,24,23,'And confounded hath been the moon, And ashamed hath been the sun, For reigned hath Jehovah of Hosts In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And over-against His elders -- honour!'),(23025001,23,25,1,'O Jehovah, my God `art\' Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old, stedfastness, O stedfast One.'),(23025002,23,25,2,'For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from `being\' a city, To the age it is not built.'),(23025003,23,25,3,'Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.'),(23025004,23,25,4,'For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible `is\' as a storm -- a wall.'),(23025005,23,25,5,'As heat in a dry place, The noise of strangers Thou humblest, Heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, The singing of the terrible is humbled.'),(23025006,23,25,6,'And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.'),(23025007,23,25,7,'And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.'),(23025008,23,25,8,'He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.'),(23025009,23,25,9,'And `one\' hath said in that day, `Lo, this `is\' our God, We waited for Him, and He saveth us, This `is\' Jehovah, we have waited for Him, We joy and rejoice in His salvation.\''),(23025010,23,25,10,'For rest doth the hand of Jehovah on this mountain, And trodden down is Moab under Him, As trodden down is straw on a dunghill.'),(23025011,23,25,11,'And he spread out his hands in its midst, As spread out doth the swimmer to swim; And He hath humbled his excellency With the machinations of his hands.'),(23025012,23,25,12,'And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down -- He hath made low, He hath caused `it\' to come to the earth, -- unto dust.'),(23026001,23,26,1,'In that day sung is this song in the land of Judah: `We have a strong city, Salvation He doth make walls and bulwark.'),(23026002,23,26,2,'Open ye the gates, that enter may a righteous nation, Preserving stedfastness.'),(23026003,23,26,3,'An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace -- peace! For in Thee it is confident.'),(23026004,23,26,4,'Trust ye in Jehovah for ever, For in Jah Jehovah `is\' a rock of ages,'),(23026005,23,26,5,'For He bowed down the dwellers on high, A city set on high He maketh low, He maketh it low unto the earth, He causeth it to come unto the dust,'),(23026006,23,26,6,'Tread it down doth a foot, Feet of the poor -- steps of the weak.'),(23026007,23,26,7,'The path for the righteous `is\' uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.'),(23026008,23,26,8,'Also, `in\' the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited `for\' Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance `Is\' the desire of the soul.'),(23026009,23,26,9,'`With\' my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, `with\' my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments `are\' on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.'),(23026010,23,26,10,'The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth perversely, And seeth not the excellency of Jehovah.'),(23026011,23,26,11,'O Jehovah, high `is\' Thy hand -- they see not, They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire -- Thine adversaries, consumeth them.'),(23026012,23,26,12,'O Jehovah, Thou appointest peace to us, For, all our works also Thou hast wrought for us.'),(23026013,23,26,13,'O Jehovah our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only, by Thee we make mention of Thy name.'),(23026014,23,26,14,'Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.'),(23026015,23,26,15,'Thou hast added to the nation, O Jehovah, Thou hast added to the nation, Thou hast been honoured, Thou hast put far off all the ends of earth.'),(23026016,23,26,16,'O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement `is\' on them.'),(23026017,23,26,17,'When a pregnant woman cometh near to the birth, She is pained -- she crieth in her pangs, So we have been from Thy face, O Jehovah.'),(23026018,23,26,18,'We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.'),(23026019,23,26,19,'`Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs `is\' thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.'),(23026020,23,26,20,'Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.'),(23026021,23,26,21,'For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!\''),(23027001,23,27,1,'In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that `is\' in the sea.'),(23027002,23,27,2,'In that day, `A desirable vineyard,\' respond ye to her,'),(23027003,23,27,3,'I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!'),(23027004,23,27,4,'Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.'),(23027005,23,27,5,'Or -- he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.'),(23027006,23,27,6,'Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world `with\' increase.'),(23027007,23,27,7,'As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the slaying of his slain doth He slay?'),(23027008,23,27,8,'In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,'),(23027009,23,27,9,'Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this `is\' all the fruit -- To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not -- shrines and images.'),(23027010,23,27,10,'For the fenced city `is\' alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.'),(23027011,23,27,11,'In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it `is\' not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.'),(23027012,23,27,12,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, Beat out doth Jehovah from the branch of the river, Unto the stream of Egypt, And ye are gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.'),(23027013,23,27,13,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed themselves to Jehovah, In the holy mount -- in Jerusalem!'),(23028001,23,28,1,'Wo `to\' the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, That `is\' on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine.'),(23028002,23,28,2,'Lo, a mighty and strong one `is\' to the Lord, As a storm of hail -- a destructive shower, As an inundation of mighty waters overflowing, He cast down to the earth with the hand.'),(23028003,23,28,3,'By feet trodden down is the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,'),(23028004,23,28,4,'And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory That `is\' on the head of the fat valley, Hath been as its first-fruit before summer, That its beholder seeth, While it `is\' yet in his hand he swalloweth it.'),(23028005,23,28,5,'In that day is Jehovah of Hosts For a crown of beauty, and for a diadem of glory, To the remnant of His people.'),(23028006,23,28,6,'And for a spirit of judgment To him who is sitting in the judgment, And for might `to\' those turning back the battle to the gate.'),(23028007,23,28,7,'And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially.'),(23028008,23,28,8,'For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth -- without place!'),(23028009,23,28,9,'By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,'),(23028010,23,28,10,'For rule `is\' on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,'),(23028011,23,28,11,'For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.'),(23028012,23,28,12,'Unto whom He hath said, `This `is\' the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this -- the refreshing:\' And they have not been willing to hear,'),(23028013,23,28,13,'And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.'),(23028014,23,28,14,'Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that `is\' in Jerusalem.'),(23028015,23,28,15,'Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.\''),(23028016,23,28,16,'Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone -- a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.'),(23028017,23,28,17,'And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow.'),(23028018,23,28,18,'And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.'),(23028019,23,28,19,'From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it hath been only a trembling to consider the report.'),(23028020,23,28,20,'For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one\'s self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one\'s self up in.'),(23028021,23,28,21,'For as `at\' mount Perazim rise doth Jehovah, As `at\' the valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work -- strange `is\' His work, And to do His deed -- strange `is\' His deed.\''),(23028022,23,28,22,'And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have heard, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, `Is\' for all the land.'),(23028023,23,28,23,'Give ear, and hear my voice, Attend, and hear my saying:'),(23028024,23,28,24,'The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!'),(23028025,23,28,25,'Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie `in\' its own border?'),(23028026,23,28,26,'And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.'),(23028027,23,28,27,'For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches, And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod.'),(23028028,23,28,28,'Bread-`corn\' is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh it, Nor crushed `it\' hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small.'),(23028029,23,28,29,'Even this from Jehovah of Hosts hath gone out, He hath made counsel wonderful, He hath made wisdom great!'),(23029001,23,29,1,'Wo `to\' Ariel, Ariel, The city of the encampment of David! Add year to year, let festivals go round.'),(23029002,23,29,2,'And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.'),(23029003,23,29,3,'And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee -- a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.'),(23029004,23,29,4,'And thou hast been low, From the earth thou speakest, And from the dust makest thy saying low, And thy voice hath been from the earth, As one having a familiar spirit, And from the dust thy saying whisperest,'),(23029005,23,29,5,'And as small dust hath been The multitude of those scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the terrible, And it hath been at an instant -- suddenly.'),(23029006,23,29,6,'By Jehovah of Hosts thou art inspected, With thunder, and with an earthquake, And great noise, hurricane, and whirlwind, And flame of devouring fire.'),(23029007,23,29,7,'And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.'),(23029008,23,29,8,'And it hath been, as when the hungry dreameth, And lo, he is eating, And he hath waked, and empty `is\' his soul, And as when the thirsty dreameth, And lo, he is drinking, and he hath waked, And lo, he is weary, and his soul is longing, So is the multitude of all the nations Who are warring against mount Zion.'),(23029009,23,29,9,'Tarry and wonder, look ye, yea, look, Be drunk, and not with wine, Stagger, and not with strong drink.'),(23029010,23,29,10,'For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the seers -- He covered.'),(23029011,23,29,11,'And the vision of the whole is to you, As words of the sealed book, That they give unto one knowing books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,\' And he hath said, `I am not able, for it `is\' sealed;\''),(23029012,23,29,12,'And the book is given to him who hath not known books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,\' And he hath said, `I have not known books.\''),(23029013,23,29,13,'And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!'),(23029014,23,29,14,'Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.\''),(23029015,23,29,15,'Wo `to\' those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?\''),(23029016,23,29,16,'Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, `He hath not made me?\' And the framed thing said of its framer, `He did not understand?\''),(23029017,23,29,17,'Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?'),(23029018,23,29,18,'And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.'),(23029019,23,29,19,'And the humble have added joy in Jehovah, And the poor among men In the Holy One of Israel rejoice.'),(23029020,23,29,20,'For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,'),(23029021,23,29,21,'Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.'),(23029022,23,29,22,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Who ransomed Abraham, Concerning the house of Jacob: `Not now ashamed is Jacob, Nor now doth his face become pale,'),(23029023,23,29,23,'For in his seeing his children, The work of My hand, in his midst, They sanctify My name, And have sanctified the Holy One of Jacob, And the God of Israel they declare fearful.'),(23029024,23,29,24,'And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And murmurers learn doctrine!\''),(23030001,23,30,1,'Wo `to\' apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.'),(23030002,23,30,2,'Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.'),(23030003,23,30,3,'And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,'),(23030004,23,30,4,'For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.'),(23030005,23,30,5,'All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!'),(23030006,23,30,6,'The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence `are\' viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures, Unto a people not profitable.'),(23030007,23,30,7,'Yea, Egyptians `are\' vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: `Their strength `is\' to sit still.\''),(23030008,23,30,8,'No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,'),(23030009,23,30,9,'That a rebellious people `is\' this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.'),(23030010,23,30,10,'Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,\' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,'),(23030011,23,30,11,'Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.\''),(23030012,23,30,12,'Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,'),(23030013,23,30,13,'Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.'),(23030014,23,30,14,'And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters\' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.'),(23030015,23,30,15,'For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.'),(23030016,23,30,16,'And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.'),(23030017,23,30,17,'One thousand because of the rebuke of one, Because of the rebuke of five ye flee, Till ye have been surely left as a pole On the top of the mountain, And as an ensign on the height.'),(23030018,23,30,18,'And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment `is\' Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.'),(23030019,23,30,19,'For the people in Zion dwell in Jerusalem, Weep thou not, weeping, Pitying, He pitieth thee at the voice of thy cry, When He heareth He answereth thee.'),(23030020,23,30,20,'And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,'),(23030021,23,30,21,'And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This `is\' the way, go ye in it,\' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.'),(23030022,23,30,22,'And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, `Go out,\' thou sayest to it.'),(23030023,23,30,23,'And He hath given rain `for\' thy seed, With which thou dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day an enlarged pasture.'),(23030024,23,30,24,'And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.'),(23030025,23,30,25,'And there hath been on every high mount, And on every exalted hill, Rivulets -- streams of waters, In a day of much slaughter, in the falling of towers.'),(23030026,23,30,26,'And the light of the moon hath been as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun is sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day of Jehovah\'s binding up the breach of His people, When the stroke of its wound He healeth.'),(23030027,23,30,27,'Lo, the name of Jehovah is coming from far, Burning is His anger, and great the flame, His lips have been full of indignation, And His tongue `is\' as a devouring fire.'),(23030028,23,30,28,'And His breath `is\' as an overflowing stream, Unto the neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a bridle causing to err, `Is\' on the jaws of the peoples.'),(23030029,23,30,29,'Singing is to you as in a night sanctified for a festival, And joy of heart as he who is going with a pipe, To go in to the mountain of Jehovah, Unto the rock of Israel.'),(23030030,23,30,30,'And caused to be heard hath Jehovah The honour of His voice, And the coming down of His arm He doth shew with the raging of anger, And the flame of a consuming fire, Scattering, and inundation, and hailstone.'),(23030031,23,30,31,'For from the voice of Jehovah broken down `is\' Asshur, With a rod He smiteth.'),(23030032,23,30,32,'And every passage of the settled staff, That Jehovah causeth to rest on him, Hath been with tabrets, and with harps, And in battles of shaking he hath fought with it.'),(23030033,23,30,33,'For, arranged from former time is Tophet, Even it for the king is prepared, He hath made deep, He hath made large, Its pile `is\' fire and much wood, The breath of Jehovah, As a stream of brim stone, is burning in it!'),(23031001,23,31,1,'Wo `to\' those going down to Egypt for help, And on horses lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen, because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And Jehovah have not sought.'),(23031002,23,31,2,'And He also `is\' wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of evil doers, And against the help of workers of iniquity.'),(23031003,23,31,3,'And the Egyptians `are men\', and not God, And their horses `are\' flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.'),(23031004,23,31,4,'For thus said Jehovah unto me: `As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.'),(23031005,23,31,5,'As birds flying, so doth Jehovah of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.\''),(23031006,23,31,6,'Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostacy.'),(23031007,23,31,7,'For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you -- a sin.'),(23031008,23,31,8,'And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword -- not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.'),(23031009,23,31,9,'And `to\' his rock from fear he passeth on, And affrighted by the ensign have been his princes -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Who hath a light in Zion, And who hath a furnace in Jerusalem!'),(23032001,23,32,1,'Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule.'),(23032002,23,32,2,'And each hath been as a hiding-place `from\' wind, And as a secret hiding-place `from\' inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.'),(23032003,23,32,3,'And not dazzled are the eyes of beholders, And the ears of hearers do attend.'),(23032004,23,32,4,'And the heart of those hastened Understandeth to know, And the tongue of stammerers hasteth to speak clearly.'),(23032005,23,32,5,'A fool is no more called `noble,\' And to a miser it is not said, `rich;\''),(23032006,23,32,6,'For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.'),(23032007,23,32,7,'And the miser -- his instruments `are\' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.'),(23032008,23,32,8,'And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.'),(23032009,23,32,9,'Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear `to\' my saying,'),(23032010,23,32,10,'Days and a year ye are troubled, O confident ones, For consumed hath been harvest, The gathering cometh not.'),(23032011,23,32,11,'Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,'),(23032012,23,32,12,'For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.'),(23032013,23,32,13,'Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,'),(23032014,23,32,14,'Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the age, A joy of wild asses -- a pasture of herds;'),(23032015,23,32,15,'Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned.'),(23032016,23,32,16,'And dwelt in the wilderness hath judgment, And righteousness in the fruitful field remaineth.'),(23032017,23,32,17,'And a work of the righteousness hath been peace, And a service of the righteousness -- Keeping quiet and confidence unto the age.'),(23032018,23,32,18,'And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.'),(23032019,23,32,19,'And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.'),(23032020,23,32,20,'Happy `are\' ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!'),(23033001,23,33,1,'Wo, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.'),(23033002,23,33,2,'O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.'),(23033003,23,33,3,'From the voice of a multitude fled have peoples, From thine exaltation scattered have been nations.'),(23033004,23,33,4,'And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.'),(23033005,23,33,5,'Set on high is Jehovah, for He is dwelling on high, He filled Zion `with\' judgment and righteousness,'),(23033006,23,33,6,'And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah -- it `is\' His treasure.'),(23033007,23,33,7,'Lo, `Their Ariel,\' they have cried without, Messengers of peace do weep bitterly.'),(23033008,23,33,8,'Desolated have been highways, Ceased hath he who passeth along the path, He hath broken covenant, He hath despised enemies, He hath not esteemed a man.'),(23033009,23,33,9,'Mourned, languished hath the land, Confounded hath been Lebanon, Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking are Bashan and Carmel.'),(23033010,23,33,10,'Now, do I arise, saith Jehovah, Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.'),(23033011,23,33,11,'Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! -- fire devoureth you.'),(23033012,23,33,12,'And peoples have been `as\' burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.'),(23033013,23,33,13,'Hear, ye far off, that which I have done, And know, ye near ones, My might.'),(23033014,23,33,14,'Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling the profane: Who doth dwell for us -- consuming fire, Who doth dwell for us -- burnings of the age?'),(23033015,23,33,15,'Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,'),(23033016,23,33,16,'He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock `are\' his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.'),(23033017,23,33,17,'A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.'),(23033018,23,33,18,'Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where `is\' he who is counting? Where `is\' he who is weighing? Where `is\' he who is counting the towers?'),(23033019,23,33,19,'The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.'),(23033020,23,33,20,'See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, A tent not taken down, Not removed are its pins for ever, And none of its cords are broken.'),(23033021,23,33,21,'But there mighty `is\' Jehovah for us, A place of rivers -- streams broad of sides, No ship with oars doth go into it, And a mighty ship doth not pass over it.'),(23033022,23,33,22,'For Jehovah our judge, Jehovah our lawgiver, Jehovah our king -- He doth save us.'),(23033023,23,33,23,'Left have been thy ropes, They strengthen not rightly their mast, They have not spread out a sail, Then apportioned hath been a prey of much spoil, The lame have taken spoil.'),(23033024,23,33,24,'Nor doth an inhabitant say, `I was sick,\' The people that is dwelling in it, is forgiven of iniquity!'),(23034001,23,34,1,'Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and all its productions.'),(23034002,23,34,2,'For wrath `is\' to Jehovah against all the nations, And fury against all their host, He hath devoted them to destruction, He hath given them to slaughter.'),(23034003,23,34,3,'And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from their blood.'),(23034004,23,34,4,'And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a fig-tree.'),(23034005,23,34,5,'For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.'),(23034006,23,34,6,'A sword `is\' to Jehovah -- it hath been full of blood, It hath been made fat with fatness, With blood of lambs and he-goats. With fat of kidneys of rams, For a sacrifice `is\' to Jehovah in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.'),(23034007,23,34,7,'And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.'),(23034008,23,34,8,'(For a day of vengeance `is\' to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion\'s strife,)'),(23034009,23,34,9,'And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.'),(23034010,23,34,10,'By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.'),(23034011,23,34,11,'And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.'),(23034012,23,34,12,'`To\' the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.'),(23034013,23,34,13,'And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble `are\' in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.'),(23034014,23,34,14,'And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.'),(23034015,23,34,15,'There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.'),(23034016,23,34,16,'Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth -- it hath commanded, And His spirit -- He hath gathered them.'),(23034017,23,34,17,'And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned `it\' to them by line, Unto the age they possess it, To all generations they dwell in it!'),(23035001,23,35,1,'They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose,'),(23035002,23,35,2,'Flourishing it doth flourish, and rejoice, Yea, `with\' joy and singing, The honour of Lebanon hath been given to it, The beauty of Carmel and Sharon, They -- they see the honour of Jehovah, The majesty of our God.'),(23035003,23,35,3,'Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.'),(23035004,23,35,4,'Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.\''),(23035005,23,35,5,'Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,'),(23035006,23,35,6,'Then leap as a hart doth the lame, And sing doth the tongue of the dumb, For broken up in a wilderness have been waters, And streams in a desert.'),(23035007,23,35,7,'And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.'),(23035008,23,35,8,'And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness\' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself `is\' by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.'),(23035009,23,35,9,'No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,'),(23035010,23,35,10,'And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!'),(23036001,23,36,1,'And it cometh to pass, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, come up hath Sennacherib king of Asshur against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them.'),(23036002,23,36,2,'And the king of Asshur sendeth Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, unto the king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, and he standeth by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller\'s field,'),(23036003,23,36,3,'and go forth unto him doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who `is\' over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer.'),(23036004,23,36,4,'And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What `is\' this confidence in which thou hast confided?'),(23036005,23,36,5,'I have said: Only, a word of the lips! counsel and might `are\' for battle: now, on whom hast thou trusted, that thou hast rebelled against me?'),(23036006,23,36,6,'`Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed -- on Egypt -- which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it -- so `is\' Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.'),(23036007,23,36,7,'`And dost thou say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted? is it not He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar ye do bow yourselves?'),(23036008,23,36,8,'`And now, negotiate, I pray thee, with my lord the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art able to put for thee riders on them.'),(23036009,23,36,9,'And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?'),(23036010,23,36,10,'And now, without Jehovah have I come up against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up unto this land, and thou hast destroyed it.\''),(23036011,23,36,11,'And Eliakim saith -- and Shebna and Joah -- unto Rabshakeh, `Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants `in\' Aramaean, for we are understanding; and do not speak unto us `in\' Jewish, in the ears of the people who `are\' on the wall.\''),(23036012,23,36,12,'And Rabshakeh saith, `Unto thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men -- those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water with you?\''),(23036013,23,36,13,'And Rabshakeh standeth and calleth with a great voice `in\' Jewish, and saith, `Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Asshur:'),(23036014,23,36,14,'Thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you;'),(23036015,23,36,15,'and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto Jehovah, saying, Jehovah doth certainly deliver us, this city is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.'),(23036016,23,36,16,'`Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur, Make ye with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and eat ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye each the waters of his own well,'),(23036017,23,36,17,'till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;'),(23036018,23,36,18,'lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?'),(23036019,23,36,19,'Where `are\' the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?'),(23036020,23,36,20,'Who among all the gods of these lands `are\' they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?\''),(23036021,23,36,21,'And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.\''),(23036022,23,36,22,'And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who `is\' over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.'),(23037001,23,37,1,'And it cometh to pass, at the king Hezekiah\'s hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of Jehovah,'),(23037002,23,37,2,'and sendeth Eliakim, who `is\' over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, unto Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet,'),(23037003,23,37,3,'and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, `is\' this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.'),(23037004,23,37,4,'`It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.\''),(23037005,23,37,5,'And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,'),(23037006,23,37,6,'and Isaiah saith unto them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord, Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.'),(23037007,23,37,7,'Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back unto his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.\''),(23037008,23,37,8,'And Rabshakeh turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.'),(23037009,23,37,9,'And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, `He hath come out to fight with thee;\' and he heareth, and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,'),(23037010,23,37,10,'`Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.'),(23037011,23,37,11,'Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands -- to devote them -- and thou art delivered!'),(23037012,23,37,12,'Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who `are\' 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, Hena, and Ivvah?\''),(23037014,23,37,14,'And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and Hezekiah goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.'),(23037015,23,37,15,'And Hezekiah prayeth unto Jehovah, saying,'),(23037016,23,37,16,'`Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou `art\' God Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all kingdoms of the earth, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.'),(23037017,23,37,17,'Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God.'),(23037018,23,37,18,'`Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land,'),(23037019,23,37,19,'so as to put their gods into fire -- for they `are\' no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they destroy them.'),(23037020,23,37,20,'And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou `art\' Jehovah, Thyself alone.\''),(23037021,23,37,21,'And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed unto me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur --'),(23037022,23,37,22,'this `is\' the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: Trampled on thee, laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion, Behind thee shaken the head hath the daughter of Jerusalem.'),(23037023,23,37,23,'Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.'),(23037024,23,37,24,'By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.'),(23037025,23,37,25,'I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.'),(23037026,23,37,26,'Hast thou not heard from afar? -- it I did, From days of old -- that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities,'),(23037027,23,37,27,'And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.'),(23037028,23,37,28,'And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.'),(23037029,23,37,29,'Because of thy anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And I have caused thee to turn back In the way in which thou camest.'),(23037030,23,37,30,'-- And this to thee `is\' the sign, Food of the year `is\' self-sown grain, And in the second year the spontaneous growth, And in the third year, sow ye and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.'),(23037031,23,37,31,'And it hath continued -- the escaped Of the house of Judah that hath been left -- To take root beneath, And it hath made fruit upward.'),(23037032,23,37,32,'For from Jerusalem goeth forth a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.'),(23037033,23,37,33,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it `with\' shield, Nor doth he pour out against it a mount.'),(23037034,23,37,34,'In the way that he came, in it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, An affirmation of Jehovah,'),(23037035,23,37,35,'And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.\''),(23037036,23,37,36,'And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and `men\' rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them `are\' dead corpses.'),(23037037,23,37,37,'And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh.'),(23037038,23,37,38,'And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.'),(23038001,23,38,1,'In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou `art\' dying, and dost not live.\''),(23038002,23,38,2,'And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,'),(23038003,23,38,3,'and saith, `I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which `is\' good in thine eyes I have done;\' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.'),(23038004,23,38,4,'And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,'),(23038005,23,38,5,'Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, `I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,'),(23038006,23,38,6,'and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.'),(23038007,23,38,7,'And this `is\' to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.'),(23038008,23,38,8,'Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:\' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.'),(23038009,23,38,9,'A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:'),(23038010,23,38,10,'`I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.'),(23038011,23,38,11,'I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.'),(23038012,23,38,12,'My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd\'s tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.'),(23038013,23,38,13,'I have set `Him\' till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.'),(23038014,23,38,14,'As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression `is\' on me, be my surety.'),(23038015,23,38,15,'-- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.'),(23038016,23,38,16,'Lord, by these do `men\' live, And by all in them `is\' the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,'),(23038017,23,38,17,'Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.'),(23038018,23,38,18,'For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.'),(23038019,23,38,19,'The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.'),(23038020,23,38,20,'Like myself to-day -- a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah -- to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.\''),(23038021,23,38,21,'And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.\''),(23038022,23,38,22,'And Hezekiah saith, `What `is\' the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!\''),(23039001,23,39,1,'At that time hath Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah, when he heareth that he hath been sick, and is become strong.'),(23039002,23,39,2,'And Hezekiah rejoiceth over them, and sheweth them the house of his spices, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good ointment, and all the house of his vessels, and all that hath been found in his treasures; there hath not been a thing in his house, and in all his dominion, that Hezekiah hath not shewed them.'),(23039003,23,39,3,'And Isaiah the prophet cometh in unto king Hezekiah, and saith unto him, `What said these men? and whence come they unto thee?\' And Hezekiah saith, `From a land afar off they have come unto me -- from Babylon.\''),(23039004,23,39,4,'And he saith, `What saw they in thy house?\' and Hezekiah saith, `All that `is\' in my house they saw; there hath not been a thing that I have not shewed them among my treasures.\''),(23039005,23,39,5,'And Isaiah saith unto Hezekiah, `Hear a word of Jehovah of Hosts:'),(23039006,23,39,6,'Lo, days are coming, and borne hath been all that `is\' in thy house, and that thy fathers have treasured up till this day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Jehovah;'),(23039007,23,39,7,'and of thy sons who come forth from thee, whom thou begettest, they take, and they have been eunuchs in a palace of the king of Babylon.\''),(23039008,23,39,8,'And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `Good `is\' the word of Jehovah that thou hast spoken;\' and he saith, `Because there is peace and truth in my days.\''),(23040001,23,40,1,'Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God.'),(23040002,23,40,2,'Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her punishment, That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.'),(23040003,23,40,3,'A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.'),(23040004,23,40,4,'Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.'),(23040005,23,40,5,'And revealed hath been the honour of Jehovah, And seen `it\' have all flesh together, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.'),(23040006,23,40,6,'A voice is saying, `Call,\' And he said, `What do I call?\' All flesh `is\' grass, and all its goodliness `is\' As a flower of the field:'),(23040007,23,40,7,'Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people `is\' grass;'),(23040008,23,40,8,'Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.'),(23040009,23,40,9,'On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, `Lo, your God.\''),(23040010,23,40,10,'Lo, the Lord Jehovah with strength cometh, And His arm is ruling for Him, Lo, His hire `is\' with Him, and His wage before Him.'),(23040011,23,40,11,'As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth `them\': Suckling ones He leadeth.'),(23040012,23,40,12,'Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?'),(23040013,23,40,13,'Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, `being\' His counsellor, doth teach Him!'),(23040014,23,40,14,'With whom consulted He, That he causeth Him to understand? And teacheth Him in the path of judgment, And teacheth Him knowledge? And the way of understanding causeth Him to know?'),(23040015,23,40,15,'Lo, nations as a drop from a bucket, And as small dust of the balance, have been reckoned, Lo, isles as a small thing He taketh up.'),(23040016,23,40,16,'And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering.'),(23040017,23,40,17,'All the nations `are\' as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.'),(23040018,23,40,18,'And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?'),(23040019,23,40,19,'The graven image poured out hath a artizan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.'),(23040020,23,40,20,'He who is poor `by\' heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artizan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image -- not moved.'),(23040021,23,40,21,'Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood `From\' the foundations of the earth?'),(23040022,23,40,22,'He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants `are\' as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.'),(23040023,23,40,23,'He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;'),(23040024,23,40,24,'Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.'),(23040025,23,40,25,'And unto whom do ye liken Me, And `am\' I equal? saith the Holy One.'),(23040026,23,40,26,'Lift up on high your eyes, And see -- who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And `he is\' strong in power) not one is lacking.'),(23040027,23,40,27,'Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? `My way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment passeth over.\''),(23040028,23,40,28,'Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age -- Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.'),(23040029,23,40,29,'He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.'),(23040030,23,40,30,'Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,'),(23040031,23,40,31,'But those expecting Jehovah pass `to\' power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!'),(23041001,23,41,1,'Keep silent towards Me, O isles, And the peoples pass on `to\' power, They come nigh, then they speak, `Together -- to judgment we draw near.\''),(23041002,23,41,2,'Who stirred up from the east a righteous one? He calleth him to His foot, He giveth before him nations, And kings He causeth him to rule, He giveth `them\' as dust `to\' his sword, As driven stubble `to\' his bow.'),(23041003,23,41,3,'He pursueth them, he passeth over in safety A path with his feet he entereth not.'),(23041004,23,41,4,'Who hath wrought and done, Calling the generations from the first? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last I `am\' He.'),(23041005,23,41,5,'Seen have isles and fear, ends of the earth tremble, They have drawn near, yea, they come.'),(23041006,23,41,6,'Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, `Be strong.\''),(23041007,23,41,7,'And strengthen doth an artizan the refiner, A smoother `with\' a hammer, Him who is beating `on\' an anvil, Saying, `For joining it `is\' good,\' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!'),(23041008,23,41,8,'-- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,'),(23041009,23,41,9,'Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou `art\', I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.'),(23041010,23,41,10,'Be not afraid, for with thee I `am\', Look not around, for I `am\' thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.'),(23041011,23,41,11,'Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive with thee.'),(23041012,23,41,12,'Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee.'),(23041013,23,41,13,'For I, Jehovah thy God, Am strengthening thy right hand, He who is saying to thee, `Fear not, I have helped thee.\''),(23041014,23,41,14,'Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.'),(23041015,23,41,15,'Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.'),(23041016,23,41,16,'Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.'),(23041017,23,41,17,'The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.'),(23041018,23,41,18,'I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water.'),(23041019,23,41,19,'I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together.'),(23041020,23,41,20,'So that they see, and know, And regard, and act wisely together, For the hand of Jehovah hath done this, And the Holy One of Israel hath prepared it.'),(23041021,23,41,21,'Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob.'),(23041022,23,41,22,'They bring nigh, and declare to us that which doth happen, The first things -- what they `are\' declare ye, And we set our heart, and know their latter end, Or the coming things cause us to hear.'),(23041023,23,41,23,'Declare the things that are coming hereafter, And we know that ye `are\' gods, Yea, ye may do good or do evil, And we look around and see `it\' together.'),(23041024,23,41,24,'Lo, ye `are\' of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you.'),(23041025,23,41,25,'I have stirred up `one\' from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in `on\' prefects as `on\' clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire.'),(23041026,23,41,26,'Who hath declared from the first, and we know? And beforetime, and we say, `Righteous?\' yea, there is none declaring, Yea, there is none proclaiming, Yea, there is none hearing your sayings.'),(23041027,23,41,27,'First to Zion, Behold, behold them, And to Jerusalem one proclaiming tidings I give,'),(23041028,23,41,28,'And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:'),(23041029,23,41,29,'`Lo, all of them `are\' vanity, Nought `are\' their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!\''),(23042001,23,42,1,'Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.'),(23042002,23,42,2,'He doth not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard, in the street.'),(23042003,23,42,3,'A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.'),(23042004,23,42,4,'He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.'),(23042005,23,42,5,'Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.'),(23042006,23,42,6,'I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.'),(23042007,23,42,7,'To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.'),(23042008,23,42,8,'I `am\' Jehovah, this `is\' My name, And Mine honour to another I give not, Nor My praise to graven images.'),(23042009,23,42,9,'The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.'),(23042010,23,42,10,'Sing to Jehovah a new song, His praise from the end of the earth, Ye who are going down to the sea, and its fulness, Isles, and their inhabitants.'),(23042011,23,42,11,'The wilderness and its cities do lift up `the voice\', The villages Kedar doth inhabit, Sing do the inhabitants of Sela, From the top of mountains they cry.'),(23042012,23,42,12,'They ascribe to Jehovah honour, And His praise in the isles they declare.'),(23042013,23,42,13,'Jehovah as a mighty one goeth forth. As a man of war He stirreth up zeal, He crieth, yea, He shrieketh, Against His enemies He showeth Himself mighty.'),(23042014,23,42,14,'I have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain myself, As a travailing woman I cry out, I desolate and swallow up together.'),(23042015,23,42,15,'I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.'),(23042016,23,42,16,'And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These `are\' the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.'),(23042017,23,42,17,'Removed backward -- utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, `Ye `are\' our gods.\''),(23042018,23,42,18,'Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.'),(23042019,23,42,19,'Who `is\' blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who `is\' blind as he who is at peace, Yea, blind, as the servant of Jehovah?'),(23042020,23,42,20,'Seeing many things, and thou observest not, Opening ears, and he heareth not.'),(23042021,23,42,21,'Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.'),(23042022,23,42,22,'And this `is\' a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes -- all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, `Restore.\''),(23042023,23,42,23,'Who among you giveth ear `to\' this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.'),(23042024,23,42,24,'Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not Jehovah -- He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.'),(23042025,23,42,25,'And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to heart!'),(23043001,23,43,1,'And now, thus said Jehovah, Thy Creator, O Jacob, and thy Fashioner, O Israel, Be not afraid, for I have redeemed thee, I have called on thy name -- thou `art\' Mine.'),(23043002,23,43,2,'When thou passest into waters, I `am\' with thee, And into floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire, thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee.'),(23043003,23,43,3,'For I -- Jehovah thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour, I have appointed Egypt thine atonement, Cush and Seba in thy stead.'),(23043004,23,43,4,'Since thou wast precious in Mine eyes, Thou wast honoured, and I have loved thee, And I appoint men in thy stead, And peoples instead of thy life.'),(23043005,23,43,5,'Be not afraid, for I `am\' with thee, From the east I bring in thy seed, And from the west I gather thee.'),(23043006,23,43,6,'I am saying to the north, `Give up,\' And to the south, `Restrain not.\' Bring in My sons from afar, And My daughters from the end of the earth.'),(23043007,23,43,7,'Every one who is called by My name, Even for My honour I have created him, I have formed him, yea, I have made him.'),(23043008,23,43,8,'He brought out a blind people who have eyes, And deaf ones who have ears.'),(23043009,23,43,9,'All the nations have been gathered together, And the peoples are assembled, Who among them declareth this, And former things causeth us to hear? They give their witnesses, And they are declared righteous, And they hear and say, `Truth.\''),(23043010,23,43,10,'Ye `are\' My witnesses, an affirmation of Jehovah, And My servant whom I have chosen, So that ye know and give credence to Me, And understand that I `am\' He, Before Me there was no God formed, And after Me there is none.'),(23043011,23,43,11,'I -- I `am\' Jehovah, And besides Me there is no saviour.'),(23043012,23,43,12,'I -- I declared, and saved, and proclaimed, And there is no stranger with you, And ye `are\' My witnesses, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I `am\' God.'),(23043013,23,43,13,'Even from the day I `am\' He, And there is no deliverer from My hand, I work, and who doth turn it back?'),(23043014,23,43,14,'Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: `For your sake I have sent to Babylon, And caused bars to descend -- all of them, And the Chaldeans, whose song `is\' in the ships.'),(23043015,23,43,15,'I `am\' Jehovah, your Holy One, Creator of Israel, your King.\''),(23043016,23,43,16,'Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving in the sea a way, And in the strong waters a path.'),(23043017,23,43,17,'Who is bringing forth chariot and horse, A force, even a strong one: `Together they lie down -- they rise not, They have been extinguished, As flax they have been quenched.\''),(23043018,23,43,18,'Remember not former things, And ancient things consider not.'),(23043019,23,43,19,'Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods.'),(23043020,23,43,20,'Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people -- My chosen.'),(23043021,23,43,21,'This people I have formed for Myself, My praise they recount.'),(23043022,23,43,22,'And Me thou hast not called, O Jacob, For thou hast been wearied of me, O Israel,'),(23043023,23,43,23,'Thou hast not brought in to Me, The lamb of thy burnt-offerings, And `with\' thy sacrifices thou hast not honoured Me, I have not caused thee to serve with a present, Nor wearied thee with frankincense.'),(23043024,23,43,24,'Thou hast not bought for Me with money sweet cane, And `with\' the fat of thy sacrifices hast not filled Me, Only -- thou hast caused Me to serve with thy sins, Thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities.'),(23043025,23,43,25,'I -- I `am\' He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember.'),(23043026,23,43,26,'Cause me to remember -- we are judged together, Declare thou that thou mayest be justified.'),(23043027,23,43,27,'Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me,'),(23043028,23,43,28,'And I pollute princes of the sanctuary, And I give Jacob to destruction, and Israel to revilings!'),(23044001,23,44,1,'And now, hear, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have fixed on:'),(23044002,23,44,2,'Thus said Jehovah, thy Maker, and thy Former, From the womb He doth help thee; Fear not, my servant Jacob, And Jeshurun, whom I have fixed on.'),(23044003,23,44,3,'For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring.'),(23044004,23,44,4,'And they have sprung up as among grass, As willows by streams of water.'),(23044005,23,44,5,'This `one\' saith, For Jehovah I `am\', And this calleth `himself\' by the name of Jacob, And this `one\' writeth `with\' his hand, `For Jehovah,\' and by the name of Israel surnameth himself.'),(23044006,23,44,6,'Thus said Jehovah, king of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: `I `am\' the first, and I the last, And besides Me there is no God.'),(23044007,23,44,7,'And who as I, doth call and declare it, And arrange it for Me, Since My placing the people of antiquity, And things that are coming, And those that do come, declare they to them?'),(23044008,23,44,8,'Fear not, nor be afraid, Have I not from that time caused thee to hear, and declared? And ye `are\' My witnesses, Is there a God besides Me? yea, there is none, A Rock I have not known.'),(23044009,23,44,9,'Framers of a graven image `are\' all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they `are\', They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.'),(23044010,23,44,10,'Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?'),(23044011,23,44,11,'Lo, all his companions are ashamed, As to artizans -- they `are\' of men, All of them gather together, they stand up, They fear, they are ashamed together.'),(23044012,23,44,12,'He hath wrought iron `with\' an axe, And hath wrought with coals, And with hammers doth form it, And doth work it by his powerful arm, Yea, he is hungry, and there is no power, He doth not drink water, and he is wearied.'),(23044013,23,44,13,'He hath wrought `with\' wood, He hath stretched out a rule, He doth mark it out with a line, He maketh it with carving tools, And with a compass he marketh it out, And maketh it according to the form of a man, According to the beauty of a man, To remain in the house.'),(23044014,23,44,14,'Cutting down to himself cedars, He taketh also a cypress, and an oak, And he strengtheneth `it\' for himself Among the trees of a forest, He hath planted an ash, and the shower doth nourish `it\'.'),(23044015,23,44,15,'And it hath been for man to burn, And he taketh of them, and becometh warm, Yea, he kindleth `it\', and hath baked bread, Yea, he maketh a god, and boweth himself, He hath made it a graven image, And he falleth down to it.'),(23044016,23,44,16,'Half of it he hath burnt in the fire, By `this\' half of it he eateth flesh, He roasteth a roasting, and is satisfied, Yea, he is warm, and saith: `Aha, I have become warm, I have enjoyed the light.'),(23044017,23,44,17,'And its remnant for a god he hath made -- For his graven image, He falleth down to it, and worshippeth, And prayeth unto it, and he saith, `Deliver me, for my god thou `art\'.\''),(23044018,23,44,18,'They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.'),(23044019,23,44,19,'And none doth turn `it\' back unto his heart, Nor hath knowledge nor understanding to say, `Half of it I have burned in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.\''),(23044020,23,44,20,'Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?\''),(23044021,23,44,21,'Remember these, O Jacob, and Israel, For My servant thou `art\', I formed thee, a servant to Me thou `art\', O Israel, thou dost not forget Me.'),(23044022,23,44,22,'I have blotted out, as `by\' a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as `by\' a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.'),(23044023,23,44,23,'Sing, O heavens, for Jehovah hath wrought, Shout, O lower parts of earth, Break forth, O mountains, with singing, Forest, and every tree in it, For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, And in Israel He doth beautify Himself.'),(23044024,23,44,24,'Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the womb: `I `am\' Jehovah, doing all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth -- who `is\' with Me?'),(23044025,23,44,25,'Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish.'),(23044026,23,44,26,'Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His messengers it perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is inhabited, And of cities of Judah, They shall be built, and her wastes I raise up,'),(23044027,23,44,27,'Who is saying to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers I cause to dry up,'),(23044028,23,44,28,'Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, And all my delight He doth perfect, So as to say of Jerusalem, Thou art built, And of the temple, Thou art founded.'),(23045001,23,45,1,'Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut:'),(23045002,23,45,2,'`I go before thee, and crooked places make straight, Two-leaved doors of brass I shiver, And bars of iron I cut asunder,'),(23045003,23,45,3,'And have given to thee treasures of darkness, Even treasures of secret places, So that thou knowest that I, Jehovah, Who am calling on thy name -- `am\' the God of Israel.'),(23045004,23,45,4,'For the sake of my servant Jacob, And of Israel My chosen, I call also thee by thy name, I surname thee, And thou hast not known Me.'),(23045005,23,45,5,'I `am\' Jehovah, and there is none else, Except Me there is no God, I gird thee, and thou hast not known Me.'),(23045006,23,45,6,'So that they know from the rising of the sun, And from the west, that there is none besides Me, I `am\' Jehovah, and there is none else,'),(23045007,23,45,7,'Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I `am\' Jehovah, doing all these things.\''),(23045008,23,45,8,'Drop, ye heavens, from above, And clouds do cause righteousness to flow, Earth openeth, and they are fruitful, Salvation and righteousness spring up together, I, Jehovah, have prepared it.'),(23045009,23,45,9,'Wo `to\' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?\' And thy work, `He hath no hands?\''),(23045010,23,45,10,'Wo `to\' him who is saying to a father, `What dost thou beget?\' Or to a wife, `What dost thou bring forth?'),(23045011,23,45,11,'Thus said Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, and his Former: Ask Me of the things coming concerning My sons, Yea, concerning the work of My hands, ye command Me.\''),(23045012,23,45,12,'I made earth, and man on it prepared, I -- My hands stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.'),(23045013,23,45,13,'I have stirred him up in righteousness, And all his ways I make straight, He doth build My city, and My captivity doth send out, Not for price, nor for bribe, said Jehovah of Hosts.'),(23045014,23,45,14,'Thus said Jehovah, `The labour of Egypt, And the merchandise of Cush, And of the Sebaim -- men of measure, Unto thee pass over, and thine they are, After thee they go, in fetters they pass over, And unto thee they bow themselves, Unto thee they pray: Only in thee `is\' God, And there is none else, no `other\' God.'),(23045015,23,45,15,'Surely Thou `art\' a God hiding Thyself, God of Israel -- Saviour!'),(23045016,23,45,16,'They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.'),(23045017,23,45,17,'Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!'),(23045018,23,45,18,'For thus said Jehovah, Creator of heaven, He is God, Former of earth, and its Maker, He established it -- not empty He prepared it, For inhabiting He formed it: `I `am\' Jehovah, and there is none else.'),(23045019,23,45,19,'Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I `am\' Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.'),(23045020,23,45,20,'Be gathered, and come in, Come nigh together, ye escaped of the nations, They have not known, Who are lifting up the wood of their graven image, And praying unto a god `that\' saveth not.'),(23045021,23,45,21,'Declare ye, and bring near, Yea, they take counsel together, Who hath proclaimed this from of old? From that time hath declared it? Is it not I -- Jehovah? And there is no other god besides Me, A God righteous and saving, there is none save Me.'),(23045022,23,45,22,'Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I `am\' God, and there is none else.'),(23045023,23,45,23,'By Myself I have sworn, Gone out from my mouth in righteousness hath a word, And it turneth not back, That to Me, bow doth every knee, every tongue swear.'),(23045024,23,45,24,'Only in Jehovah, said hath one, Have I righteousness and strength, Unto Him he cometh in, And ashamed are all those displeased with Him.'),(23045025,23,45,25,'In Jehovah are all the seed of Israel justified, And they boast themselves.\''),(23046001,23,46,1,'Bowed down hath Bel, stooping is Nebo, Their idols have been for the beast and for cattle, Your burdens are loaded, a burden to the weary.'),(23046002,23,46,2,'They have stooped, they have bowed together, They have not been able to deliver the burden, And themselves into captivity have gone.'),(23046003,23,46,3,'Hearken unto Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of Israel, Who are borne from the belly, Who are carried from the womb,'),(23046004,23,46,4,'Even to old age I `am\' He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.'),(23046005,23,46,5,'To whom do ye liken Me, and make equal? And compare Me, that we may be like?'),(23046006,23,46,6,'-- They are pouring out gold from a bag, And silver on the beam they weigh, They hire a refiner, and he maketh it a god, They fall down, yea, they bow themselves.'),(23046007,23,46,7,'They lift him up on the shoulder, They carry him, and cause him to rest in his place, And he standeth, from his place he moveth not, Yea, one crieth unto him, and he answereth not, From his adversity he saveth him not.'),(23046008,23,46,8,'Remember this, and shew yourselves men, Turn `it\' back, O transgressors, to the heart.'),(23046009,23,46,9,'Remember former things of old, For I `am\' Mighty, and there is none else, God -- and there is none like Me.'),(23046010,23,46,10,'Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.\''),(23046011,23,46,11,'Calling from the east a ravenous bird, From a far land the man of My counsel, Yea, I have spoken, yea, I bring it in, I have formed `it\', yea, I do it.'),(23046012,23,46,12,'Hearken unto Me, ye mighty in heart, Who are far from righteousness.'),(23046013,23,46,13,'I have brought near My righteousness, It is not far off, And My salvation -- it doth not tarry, And I have given in Zion salvation, To Israel My glory!'),(23047001,23,47,1,'Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, `O tender and delicate one.\''),(23047002,23,47,2,'Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.'),(23047003,23,47,3,'Revealed is thy nakedness, yea, seen is thy reproach, Vengeance I take, and I meet not a man.'),(23047004,23,47,4,'Our redeemer `is\' Jehovah of Hosts, His name `is\' the Holy One of Israel.'),(23047005,23,47,5,'Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, `Mistress of kingdoms.\''),(23047006,23,47,6,'I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,'),(23047007,23,47,7,'And thou sayest, `To the age I am mistress,\' While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.'),(23047008,23,47,8,'And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently -- Who is saying in her heart, `I `am\', and none else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.\''),(23047009,23,47,9,'And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in one day, childlessness and widowhood, According to their perfection they have come upon thee, In the multitude of thy sorceries, In the exceeding might of thy charms.'),(23047010,23,47,10,'And thou art confident in thy wickedness, Thou hast said, `There is none seeing me,\' Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It is turning thee back, And thou sayest in thy heart, `I `am\', and none else.\''),(23047011,23,47,11,'And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou knowest not.'),(23047012,23,47,12,'Stand, I pray thee, in thy charms, And in the multitude of thy sorceries, In which thou hast laboured from thy youth, It may be thou art able to profit, It may be thou dost terrify!'),(23047013,23,47,13,'Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months, From those things that come on thee!'),(23047014,23,47,14,'Lo, they have been as stubble! Fire hath burned them, They deliver not themselves from the power of the flame, There is not a coal to warm them, a light to sit before it.'),(23047015,23,47,15,'So have they been to thee with whom thou hast laboured, Thy merchants from thy youth, Each to his passage they have wandered, Thy saviour is not!'),(23048001,23,48,1,'Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And from the waters of Judah came out, Who are swearing by the name of Jehovah, And of the God of Israel make mention, Not in truth nor in righteousness.'),(23048002,23,48,2,'For from the Holy City they have been called, And on the God of Israel been supported, Jehovah of Hosts `is\' His name.'),(23048003,23,48,3,'The former things from that time I declared, And from my mouth they have gone forth, And I proclaim them, Suddenly I have done, and it cometh.'),(23048004,23,48,4,'From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,'),(23048005,23,48,5,'And I declare to thee from that time, Before it cometh I have caused thee to hear, Lest thou say, `Mine idol hath done them, And my graven image, And my molten image did command them.'),(23048006,23,48,6,'Thou hast heard, see the whole of it, And ye, do ye not declare? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, And things reserved that ye knew not.'),(23048007,23,48,7,'Now they have been produced and not from that time, Yea, before the day, and thou hast not heard them, Lest thou say, `Lo, I have known them.\''),(23048008,23,48,8,'Yea, thou hast not heard, Yea, thou hast not known, Yea, from that time not opened hath thine ear, For I have known thou dealest treacherously, And `Transgressor from the belly,\' One is crying to thee.'),(23048009,23,48,9,'For My name\'s sake I defer Mine anger, And My praise I restrain for thee, So as not to cut thee off.'),(23048010,23,48,10,'Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.'),(23048011,23,48,11,'For My sake, for Mine own sake, I do `it\', For how is it polluted? And Mine honour to another I give not.'),(23048012,23,48,12,'Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I `am\' He, I `am\' first, and I `am\' last;'),(23048013,23,48,13,'Also, My hand hath founded earth, And My right hand stretched out the heavens, I am calling unto them, they stand together.'),(23048014,23,48,14,'Be gathered all of you, and hear, Who among them did declare these things? Jehovah hath loved him, He doth His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm `is on\' the Chaldeans.'),(23048015,23,48,15,'I -- I have spoken, yea, I have called him, I have brought him in, And he hath made prosperous his way.'),(23048016,23,48,16,'Come ye near unto me, hear this, Not from the beginning in secret spake I, From the time of its being, there `am\' I, And now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and His Spirit.'),(23048017,23,48,17,'Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I `am\' Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.'),(23048018,23,48,18,'O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,'),(23048019,23,48,19,'And as sand is thy seed, And the offspring of thy bowels as its gravel, Not cut off nor destroyed his name before Me.'),(23048020,23,48,20,'Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, With a voice of singing declare, Cause ye this to be heard, Bring it forth unto the end of the earth, Say, Redeemed hath Jehovah His servant Jacob.'),(23048021,23,48,21,'And they have not thirsted in waste places, He hath caused them to go on, Waters from a rock he hath caused to flow to them, Yea, he cleaveth a rock, and flow do waters.'),(23048022,23,48,22,'There is no peace, said Jehovah, to the wicked!'),(23049001,23,49,1,'Hearken, O isles, unto me, And attend, O peoples, from afar, Jehovah from the womb hath called me, From the bowels of my mother He hath made mention of my name.'),(23049002,23,49,2,'And he maketh my mouth as a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He hath hid me, And He maketh me for a clear arrow, In His quiver He hath hid me.'),(23049003,23,49,3,'And He saith to me, `My servant Thou art, O Israel, In whom I beautify Myself.\''),(23049004,23,49,4,'And I said, `For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment `is\' with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.'),(23049005,23,49,5,'And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God hath been my strength.)'),(23049006,23,49,6,'And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.\''),(23049007,23,49,7,'Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant of rulers: `Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship, For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and He chooseth thee.\''),(23049008,23,49,8,'Thus said Jehovah: `In a time of good pleasure I answered thee, And in a day of salvation I helped thee, And I keep thee, and give thee, For a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, To cause to inherit desolate inheritances.'),(23049009,23,49,9,'To say to the bound, Go out, To those in darkness, Be uncovered. On the ways they feed, And in all high places is their pasture.'),(23049010,23,49,10,'They do not hunger, nor thirst, Nor smite them doth mirage and sun, For He who is pitying them doth lead them, And by fountains of waters doth tend them.'),(23049011,23,49,11,'And I have made all My mountains for a way, And My highways are lifted up.'),(23049012,23,49,12,'Lo, these from afar come in, And lo, these from the north, and from the sea, And these from the land of Sinim.'),(23049013,23,49,13,'Sing, O heavens, and joy, O earth, And break forth, O mountains, with singing, For comforted hath Jehovah His people, And His afflicted ones He doth pity.'),(23049014,23,49,14,'And Zion saith, `Jehovah hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me.\''),(23049015,23,49,15,'Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.'),(23049016,23,49,16,'Lo, on the palms of the hand I have graven thee, Thy walls `are\' before Me continually.'),(23049017,23,49,17,'Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.'),(23049018,23,49,18,'Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have been gathered, They have come to thee. I live, an affirmation of Jehovah! Surely all of them as an ornament thou puttest on, And thou bindest them on like a bride.'),(23049019,23,49,19,'Because thy wastes, and thy desolate places, And the land of thy ruins, Surely now are straitened because of inhabitants, And far off have been those consuming thee.'),(23049020,23,49,20,'Again do the sons of thy bereavement say in thine ears: `The place is too strait for me, Come nigh to me -- and I dwell.\''),(23049021,23,49,21,'And thou hast said in thy heart: `Who hath begotten for me -- these? And I bereaved and gloomy, A captive, and turned aside, And these -- who hath nourished? Lo, I -- I was left by myself, these -- whence `are\' they?'),(23049022,23,49,22,'Thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I lift up unto nations My hand, And unto peoples I raise up Mine ensign, And they have brought thy sons in the bosom, And thy daughters on the shoulder are carried.'),(23049023,23,49,23,'And kings have been thy nursing fathers, And their princesses thy nursing mothers; Face to the earth -- they bow down to thee, And the dust of thy feet they lick up, And thou hast known that I `am\' Jehovah, That those expecting Me are not ashamed.'),(23049024,23,49,24,'Is prey taken from the mighty? And the captive of the righteous delivered?'),(23049025,23,49,25,'For thus said Jehovah: Even the captive of the mighty is taken, And the prey of the terrible is delivered, And with thy striver I strive, and thy sons I save.'),(23049026,23,49,26,'And I have caused thine oppressors to eat their own flesh, And as new wine they drink their own blood, And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Thy saviour, and thy redeemer, `Am\' the Mighty One of Jacob!\''),(23050001,23,50,1,'Thus said Jehovah: `Where `is\' this -- the bill of your mother\'s divorce, Whom I sent away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Lo, for your iniquities ye have been sold, And for your transgressions Hath your mother been sent away.'),(23050002,23,50,2,'Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst.'),(23050003,23,50,3,'I clothe the heavens `with\' blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.'),(23050004,23,50,4,'The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary `by\' a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.'),(23050005,23,50,5,'The Lord Jehovah opened for me the ear, And I rebelled not -- backward I moved not.'),(23050006,23,50,6,'My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.'),(23050007,23,50,7,'And the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Therefore I have not been ashamed, Therefore I have set my face as a flint, And I know that I am not ashamed.'),(23050008,23,50,8,'Near `is\' He who is justifying me, Who doth contend with me? We stand together, who `is\' mine opponent? Let him come nigh unto me.'),(23050009,23,50,9,'Lo, the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Who `is\' he that declareth me wicked? Lo, all of them as a garment wear out, A moth doth eat them.'),(23050010,23,50,10,'Who `is\' among you, fearing Jehovah, Hearkening to the voice of His servant, That hath walked in dark places, And there is no brightness for him? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And lean upon his God.'),(23050011,23,50,11,'Lo, all ye kindling a fire, girding on sparks, Walk ye in the light of your fire, And in the sparks ye have caused to burn, From my hand hath this been to you, In grief ye lie down!'),(23051001,23,51,1,'Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged.'),(23051002,23,51,2,'Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah -- she bringeth you forth, For -- one -- I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.'),(23051003,23,51,3,'For Jehovah hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her wastes, And He setteth her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of Jehovah, Joy, yea, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.'),(23051004,23,51,4,'Attend unto Me, O My people, And, O My nation, unto Me give ear. For a law from Me goeth out, And My judgment to the light, Peoples I do cause to rest.'),(23051005,23,51,5,'Near `is\' My righteousness, Gone out hath My salvation and Mine arms, Peoples they judge, on Me isles do wait, Yea, on Mine arm they do wait with hope.'),(23051006,23,51,6,'Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.'),(23051007,23,51,7,'Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart `is\' My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,'),(23051008,23,51,8,'For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.'),(23051009,23,51,9,'Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as `in\' days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon!'),(23051010,23,51,10,'Art not Thou it that is drying up a sea, Waters of a great deep? That hath made deep places of a sea A way for the passing of the redeemed?'),(23051011,23,51,11,'And the ransomed of Jehovah turn back, And they have come to Zion with singing, And joy age-during `is\' on their head, Gladness and joy they attain, Fled away have sorrow and sighing,'),(23051012,23,51,12,'I -- I `am\' He -- your comforter, Who `art\' thou -- and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man -- grass he is made!'),(23051013,23,51,13,'And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he hath prepared to destroy. And where `is\' the fury of the oppressor?'),(23051014,23,51,14,'Hastened hath a wanderer to be loosed, And he doth not die at the pit, And his bread is not lacking.'),(23051015,23,51,15,'And I `am\' Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts `is\' His name.'),(23051016,23,51,16,'And I put My words in thy mouth, And with the shadow of My hand have covered thee, To plant the heavens, and to found earth, And to say to Zion, `My people `art\' thou.\''),(23051017,23,51,17,'Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.'),(23051018,23,51,18,'There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.'),(23051019,23,51,19,'These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort thee?'),(23051020,23,51,20,'Thy sons have been wrapt up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox `in\' a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.'),(23051021,23,51,21,'Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,'),(23051022,23,51,22,'Thus said thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God, He pleadeth `for\' his people: `Lo, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, The goblet, the cup of My fury, Thou dost not add to drink it any more.'),(23051023,23,51,23,'And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting thee, Who have said to thy soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And thou makest as the earth thy body, And as the street to those passing by!\''),(23052001,23,52,1,'Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem -- the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean.'),(23052002,23,52,2,'Shake thyself from dust, arise, sit, O Jerusalem, Bands of thy neck have loosed themselves, O captive, daughter of Zion.'),(23052003,23,52,3,'For thus said Jehovah: `For nought ye have been sold, And not by money are ye redeemed.\''),(23052004,23,52,4,'For thus said the Lord Jehovah: `To Egypt My people went down at first to sojourn there, And Asshur -- for nought he hath oppressed it.'),(23052005,23,52,5,'And now, what -- to Me here, An affirmation of Jehovah, That taken is My people for nought? Its rulers cause howling, -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And continually all the day My name is despised.'),(23052006,23,52,6,'Therefore doth My people know My name, Therefore, in that day, Surely I `am\' He who is speaking, behold Me.\''),(23052007,23,52,7,'How comely on the mountains, Have been the feet of one proclaiming tidings, Sounding peace, proclaiming good tidings, Sounding salvation, Saying to Zion, `Reigned hath thy God.\''),(23052008,23,52,8,'The voice of thy watchmen! They have lifted up the voice, together they cry aloud, Because eye to eye they see, in Jehovah\'s turning back `to\' Zion.'),(23052009,23,52,9,'Break forth, sing together, O wastes of Jerusalem, For Jehovah hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem.'),(23052010,23,52,10,'Jehovah hath made bare His holy arm Before the eyes of all the nations, And seen have all the ends of the earth, The salvation of our God.'),(23052011,23,52,11,'Turn aside, turn aside, go out thence, The unclean touch not, go out from her midst, Be ye pure, who are bearing the weapons of Jehovah.'),(23052012,23,52,12,'For not in haste do ye go out, Yea, with flight ye go not on, For going before you `is\' Jehovah, And gathering you `is\' the God of Israel!'),(23052013,23,52,13,'Lo, My servant doth act wisely, He is high, and hath been lifted up, And hath been very high.'),(23052014,23,52,14,'As astonished at thee have been many, (So marred by man his appearance, And his form by sons of men.)'),(23052015,23,52,15,'So doth he sprinkle many nations. Concerning him kings shut their mouth, For that which was not recounted to them they have seen, And that which they had not heard they have understood!'),(23053001,23,53,1,'Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed?'),(23053002,23,53,2,'Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He hath no form, nor honour, when we observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him.'),(23053003,23,53,3,'He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.'),(23053004,23,53,4,'Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains -- he hath carried them, And we -- we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.'),(23053005,23,53,5,'And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace `is\' on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.'),(23053006,23,53,6,'All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.'),(23053007,23,53,7,'It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.'),(23053008,23,53,8,'By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,'),(23053009,23,53,9,'And it appointeth with the wicked his grave, And with the rich `are\' his high places, Because he hath done no violence, Nor `is\' deceit in his mouth.'),(23053010,23,53,10,'And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed -- he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper.'),(23053011,23,53,11,'Of the labour of his soul he seeth -- he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.'),(23053012,23,53,12,'Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with the mighty he apportioneth spoil, Because that he exposed to death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.'),(23054001,23,54,1,'Sing, O barren, she hath not borne! Break forth with singing, and cry aloud, She hath not brought forth! For more `are\' the sons of the desolate, Than the sons of the married one, said Jehovah.'),(23054002,23,54,2,'Enlarge the place of thy tent, And the curtains of thy tabernacles they stretch out, Restrain not -- lengthen thy cords, And thy pins make strong.'),(23054003,23,54,3,'For right and left thou breakest forth, And thy seed doth nations possess,'),(23054004,23,54,4,'And desolate cities they cause to be inhabited. Fear not, for thou art not ashamed, Nor blush, for thou art not confounded, For the shame of thy youth thou forgettest, And the reproach of thy widowhood Thou dost not remember any more.'),(23054005,23,54,5,'For thy Maker `is\' thy husband, Jehovah of Hosts `is\' His name, And thy Redeemer `is\' the Holy One of Israel, `God of all the earth,\' He is called.'),(23054006,23,54,6,'For, as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Called thee hath Jehovah, Even a youthful wife when she is refused, said thy God.'),(23054007,23,54,7,'In a small moment I have forsaken thee, And in great mercies I do gather thee,'),(23054008,23,54,8,'In overflowing wrath I hid my face `for\' a moment from thee, And in kindness age-during I have loved thee, Said thy Redeemer -- Jehovah!'),(23054009,23,54,9,'For, the waters of Noah `is\' this to Me, In that I have sworn -- the waters of Noah Do not pass again over the earth -- So I have sworn, Wrath is not upon thee, Nor rebuke against thee.'),(23054010,23,54,10,'For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace removeth not, Said hath thy loving one -- Jehovah.'),(23054011,23,54,11,'O afflicted, storm-tossed, not comforted, Lo, I am laying with cement thy stones, And have founded thee with sapphires,'),(23054012,23,54,12,'And have made of agate thy pinnacles, And thy gates of carbuncle stones, And all thy border of stones of delight,'),(23054013,23,54,13,'And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant `is\' the peace of thy sons.'),(23054014,23,54,14,'In righteousness thou establishest thyself, Be far from oppression, for thou fearest not, And from ruin, for it cometh not near unto thee.'),(23054015,23,54,15,'Lo, he doth diligently assemble without My desire, Who hath assembled near thee? By thee he falleth!'),(23054016,23,54,16,'Lo, I -- I have prepared an artizan, Blowing on a fire of coals, And bringing out an instrument for his work, And I have prepared a destroyer to destroy.'),(23054017,23,54,17,'No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This `is\' the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!'),(23055001,23,55,1,'Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk.'),(23055002,23,55,2,'Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.'),(23055003,23,55,3,'Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.'),(23055004,23,55,4,'Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and commander to peoples.'),(23055005,23,55,5,'Lo, a nation thou knowest not, thou callest, And a nation who know thee not unto thee do run, For the sake of Jehovah thy God, And for the Holy One of Israel, Because He hath beautified thee.'),(23055006,23,55,6,'Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,'),(23055007,23,55,7,'Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.'),(23055008,23,55,8,'For not My thoughts `are\' your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,'),(23055009,23,55,9,'For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.'),(23055010,23,55,10,'For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,'),(23055011,23,55,11,'So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that `for\' which I sent it.'),(23055012,23,55,12,'For with joy ye go forth, And with peace ye are brought in, The mountains and the hills Break forth before you `with\' singing, And all trees of the field clap the hand.'),(23055013,23,55,13,'Instead of the thorn come up doth fir, Instead of the brier come up doth myrtle, And it hath been to Jehovah for a name, For a sign age-during -- it is not cut off!'),(23056001,23,56,1,'Thus said Jehovah: `Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness, For near `is\' My salvation to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.\''),(23056002,23,56,2,'O the happiness of a man who doth this, And of a son of man who keepeth hold on it, Keeping the sabbath from polluting it, And keeping his hand from doing any evil.'),(23056003,23,56,3,'Nor speak let a son of the stranger, Who is joined unto Jehovah, saying: `Jehovah doth certainly separate me from His people.\' Nor say let the eunuch, `Lo, I am a tree dried up,\''),(23056004,23,56,4,'For thus said Jehovah of the eunuchs, Who do keep My sabbaths, And have fixed on that which I desired, And are keeping hold on My covenant:'),(23056005,23,56,5,'I have given to them in My house, And within My walls a station and a name, Better than sons and than daughters, A name age-during I give to him That is not cut off.'),(23056006,23,56,6,'And sons of the stranger, who are joined to Jehovah, To serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, To be to Him for servants, Every keeper of the sabbath from polluting it, And those keeping hold on My covenant.'),(23056007,23,56,7,'I have brought them unto My holy mountain, And caused them to rejoice in My house of prayer, Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices `Are\' for a pleasing thing on Mine altar, For My house, `A house of prayer,\' Is called for all the peoples.'),(23056008,23,56,8,'An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Who is gathering the outcasts of Israel: `Again I gather to him -- to his gathered ones.\''),(23056009,23,56,9,'Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in the forest.'),(23056010,23,56,10,'Blind `are\' his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them `are\' dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.'),(23056011,23,56,11,'And the dogs `are\' strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they `are\' shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:'),(23056012,23,56,12,'`Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding abundant!\''),(23057001,23,57,1,'The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying `it\' to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one.'),(23057002,23,57,2,'He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, `Each\' is going straightforward.'),(23057003,23,57,3,'And ye, come near hither, O sons of a sorceress, seed of an adulterer, Even thou dost commit whoredom.'),(23057004,23,57,4,'Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?'),(23057005,23,57,5,'Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.'),(23057006,23,57,6,'Among the smooth things of a brook `is\' thy portion, They -- they `are\' thy lot, Also to them thou hast poured out an oblation, Thou hast caused a present to ascend, For these things am I comforted?'),(23057007,23,57,7,'On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.'),(23057008,23,57,8,'And behind the door, and the post, Thou hast set up thy memorial, For from Me thou hast removed, and goest up, Thou hast enlarged thy couch, And dost covenant for thyself among them, Thou hast loved their couch, the station thou sawest,'),(23057009,23,57,9,'And goest joyfully to the king in ointment, And dost multiply thy perfumes, And sendest thine ambassadors afar off, And humblest thyself unto Sheol.'),(23057010,23,57,10,'In the greatness of thy way thou hast laboured, Thou hast not said, `It is desperate.\' The life of thy hand thou hast found, Therefore thou hast not been sick.'),(23057011,23,57,11,'And of whom hast thou been afraid, and fearest, That thou liest, and Me hast not remembered? Thou hast not laid `it\' to thy heart, Am not I silent, even from of old? And Me thou fearest not?'),(23057012,23,57,12,'I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.'),(23057013,23,57,13,'When thou criest, let thy gatherings deliver thee, And all of them carry away doth wind, Take away doth vanity, And whoso is trusting in Me inheriteth the land, And doth possess My holy mountain.'),(23057014,23,57,14,'And he hath said, `Raise up, raise up, prepare a way, Lift a stumbling-block out of the way of My people.\''),(23057015,23,57,15,'For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy `is\' His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,\''),(23057016,23,57,16,'For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth, For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have made.'),(23057017,23,57,17,'For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding -- and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart.'),(23057018,23,57,18,'His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.'),(23057019,23,57,19,'Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,\' to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah.'),(23057020,23,57,20,'And the wicked `are\' as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire.'),(23057021,23,57,21,'There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!'),(23058001,23,58,1,'Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins;'),(23058002,23,58,2,'Seeing -- Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire:'),(23058003,23,58,3,'`Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.\' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.'),(23058004,23,58,4,'Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as `to\'-day, To sound in the high place your voice.'),(23058005,23,58,5,'Like this is the fast that I choose? The day of a man\'s afflicting his soul? To bow as a reed his head, And sackcloth and ashes spread out? This dost thou call a fast, And a desirable day -- to Jehovah?'),(23058006,23,58,6,'Is not this the fast that I chose -- To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?'),(23058007,23,58,7,'Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?'),(23058008,23,58,8,'Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee.'),(23058009,23,58,9,'Then thou callest, and Jehovah answereth, Thou criest, and He saith, `Behold Me.\' If thou turn aside from thy midst the yoke, The sending forth of the finger, And the speaking of vanity,'),(23058010,23,58,10,'And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness `is\' as noon.'),(23058011,23,58,11,'And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters lie not.'),(23058012,23,58,12,'And they have built out of thee the wastes of old, The foundations of many generations thou raisest up, And one calleth thee, `Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to rest in.\''),(23058013,23,58,13,'If thou dost turn from the sabbath thy foot, Doing thine own pleasure on My holy day, And hast cried to the sabbath, `A delight,\' To the holy of Jehovah, `Honoured,\' And hast honoured it, without doing thine own ways, Without finding thine own pleasure, And speaking a word.'),(23058014,23,58,14,'Then dost thou delight thyself on Jehovah, And I have caused thee to ride on high places of earth, And have caused thee to eat the inheritance of Jacob thy father, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken!'),(23059001,23,59,1,'Lo, the hand of Jehovah Hath not been shortened from saving, Nor heavy his ear from hearing.'),(23059002,23,59,2,'But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.'),(23059003,23,59,3,'For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.'),(23059004,23,59,4,'There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.'),(23059005,23,59,5,'Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.'),(23059006,23,59,6,'Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works `are\' works of iniquity, And a deed of violence `is\' in their hands.'),(23059007,23,59,7,'Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are\' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are\' in their highways.'),(23059008,23,59,8,'A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.'),(23059009,23,59,9,'Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,'),(23059010,23,59,10,'We feel like the blind `for\' the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.'),(23059011,23,59,11,'We make a noise as bears -- all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation -- it hath been far from us.'),(23059012,23,59,12,'For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions `are\' with us, And our iniquities -- we have known them.'),(23059013,23,59,13,'Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.'),(23059014,23,59,14,'And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,'),(23059015,23,59,15,'And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.'),(23059016,23,59,16,'And He seeth that there is no man, And is astonished that there is no intercessor, And His own arm giveth salvation to Him, And His righteousness -- it sustained Him.'),(23059017,23,59,17,'And He putteth on righteousness as a breastplate, And an helmet of salvation on His head, And He putteth on garments of vengeance `for\' clothing, And is covered, as `with\' an upper-robe, `with\' zeal.'),(23059018,23,59,18,'According to deeds -- so He repayeth. Fury to His adversaries, `their\' deed to His enemies, To the isles `their\' deed He repayeth.'),(23059019,23,59,19,'And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, And from the rising of the sun -- His honour, When come in as a flood doth an adversary, The Spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign against him.'),(23059020,23,59,20,'And come to Zion hath a redeemer, Even to captives of transgression in Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(23059021,23,59,21,'And I -- this `is\' My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that `is\' on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed\'s seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!'),(23060001,23,60,1,'Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee.'),(23060002,23,60,2,'For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen.'),(23060003,23,60,3,'And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.'),(23060004,23,60,4,'Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have been gathered, they have come to thee, Thy sons from afar do come, And thy daughters on the side are supported.'),(23060005,23,60,5,'Then thou seest, and hast become bright, And thine heart hath been afraid and enlarged, For turn unto thee doth the multitude of the sea, The forces of nations do come to thee.'),(23060006,23,60,6,'A company of camels covereth thee, Dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, All of them from Sheba do come, Gold and frankincense they bear, And of the praises of Jehovah they proclaim the tidings.'),(23060007,23,60,7,'All the flock of Kedar are gathered to thee, The rams of Nebaioth do serve thee, They ascend for acceptance Mine altar, And the house of My beauty I beautify.'),(23060008,23,60,8,'Who `are\' these -- as a thick cloud they fly, And as doves unto their windows?'),(23060009,23,60,9,'Surely for Me isles do wait, And ships of Tarshish first, To bring thy sons from afar, Their silver and their gold with them, To the name of Jehovah thy God, And to the Holy One of Israel, Because He hath beautified thee.'),(23060010,23,60,10,'And sons of a stranger have built thy walls, And their kings do serve thee, For in My wrath I have smitten thee, And in My good pleasure I have pitied thee.'),(23060011,23,60,11,'And opened have thy gates continually, By day and by night they are not shut, To bring unto thee the force of nations, Even their kings are led.'),(23060012,23,60,12,'For the nation and the kingdom that do not serve thee perish, Yea, the nations are utterly wasted.'),(23060013,23,60,13,'The honour of Lebanon unto thee doth come, Fir, pine, and box together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary, And the place of My feet I make honourable.'),(23060014,23,60,14,'And come unto thee, bowing down, Have sons of those afflicting thee, And bowed themselves to the soles of thy feet Have all despising thee, And they have cried to thee: `City of Jehovah, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.\''),(23060015,23,60,15,'Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, And none passing through, I have made thee for an excellency age-during, A joy of generation and generation.'),(23060016,23,60,16,'And thou hast sucked the milk of nations, Yea, the breast of kings thou suckest, And thou hast known that I, Jehovah, Thy Saviour, and Thy Redeemer, `Am\' the Mighty One of Jacob.'),(23060017,23,60,17,'Instead of the brass I bring in gold, And instead of the iron I bring in silver, And instead of the wood brass, And instead of the stone iron, And I have made thy inspection peace, And thy exactors righteousness.'),(23060018,23,60,18,'Violence is not heard any more in thy land, Spoiling and destruction in thy borders, And thou hast called `Salvation\' thy walls, And thy gates, `Praise.\''),(23060019,23,60,19,'To thee no more is the sun for a light by day, And for brightness the moon giveth not light to thee, And Jehovah hath become to thee A light age-during, and thy God thy beauty.'),(23060020,23,60,20,'Thy sun goeth no more in, And thy moon is not removed, For Jehovah becometh to thee a light age-during. And the days of thy mourning have been completed.'),(23060021,23,60,21,'And thy people `are\' all of them righteous, To the age they possess the earth, A branch of My planting, A work of My hands, to be beautified.'),(23060022,23,60,22,'The little one doth become a chief, And the small one a mighty nation, I, Jehovah, in its own time do hasten it!'),(23061001,23,61,1,'The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah `is\' on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.'),(23061002,23,61,2,'To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners.'),(23061003,23,61,3,'To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.\''),(23061004,23,61,4,'And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities, The desolations of generation and generation.'),(23061005,23,61,5,'And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner `are\' your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.'),(23061006,23,61,6,'And ye are called `Priests of Jehovah,\' `Ministers of our God,\' is said of you, The strength of nations ye consume, And in their honour ye do boast yourselves.'),(23061007,23,61,7,'Instead of your shame and confusion, A second time they sing of their portion, Therefore in their land A second time do they take possession, Joy age-during `is\' for them.'),(23061008,23,61,8,'For I `am\' Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.'),(23061009,23,61,9,'And known among nations hath been their seed, And their offspring in the midst of the peoples, All their beholders acknowledge them, For they `are\' a seed Jehovah hath blessed.'),(23061010,23,61,10,'I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.'),(23061011,23,61,11,'For, as the earth bringeth forth her shoots, And as a garden causeth its sown things to shoot up, So the Lord Jehovah causeth righteousness and praise To shoot up before all the nations!'),(23062001,23,62,1,'For Zion\'s sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem\'s sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burneth.'),(23062002,23,62,2,'And nations have seen thy righteousness, And all kings thine honour, And He is giving to thee a new name, That the mouth of Jehovah doth define.'),(23062003,23,62,3,'And thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, And a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God,'),(23062004,23,62,4,'It is not said of thee any more, `Forsaken!\' And of thy land it is not said any more, `Desolate,\' For to thee is cried, `My delight `is\' in her,\' And to thy land, `Married,\' For Jehovah hath delighted in thee, And thy land is married.'),(23062005,23,62,5,'For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.'),(23062006,23,62,6,'`On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.\' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,'),(23062007,23,62,7,'And give not silence to Him, Till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem A praise in the earth.'),(23062008,23,62,8,'Sworn hath Jehovah by His right hand, Even by the arm of His strength: `I give not thy corn any more `as\' food for thine enemies, Nor do sons of a stranger drink thy new wine, For which thou hast laboured.'),(23062009,23,62,9,'For, those gathering it do eat it, and have praised Jehovah, And those collecting it do drink it in My holy courts.\''),(23062010,23,62,10,'Pass ye on, pass on through the gates, Prepare ye the way of the people, Raise up, raise up the highway, clear it from stones, Lift up an ensign over the peoples.'),(23062011,23,62,11,'Lo, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth: `Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Lo, thy salvation hath come,\' Lo, his hire `is\' with him, and his wage before him.'),(23062012,23,62,12,'And they have cried to them, `People of the Holy One, Redeemed of Jehovah,\' Yea, to thee is called, `Sought out one, a city not forsaken!\''),(23063001,23,63,1,'`Who `is\' this coming from Edom? With dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is honourable in his clothing, Travelling in the abundance of his power?\' -- `I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.\''),(23063002,23,63,2,'`Wherefore `is\' thy clothing red? And thy garments as treading in a wine fat?\''),(23063003,23,63,3,'-- `A wine-press I have trodden by myself, And of the peoples there is no one with me, And I tread them in mine anger, And I trample them in my fury, Sprinkled is their strength on my garments, And all my clothing I have polluted.'),(23063004,23,63,4,'For the day of vengeance `is\' in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath come.'),(23063005,23,63,5,'And I look attentively, and there is none helping, And I am astonished that there is none supporting, And give salvation to me doth mine own arm. And my wrath -- it hath supported me.'),(23063006,23,63,6,'And I tread down peoples in mine anger, And I make them drunk in my fury, And I bring down to earth their strength.'),(23063007,23,63,7,'The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts.'),(23063008,23,63,8,'And He saith, Only My people they `are\', Sons -- they lie not, and He is to them for a saviour.'),(23063009,23,63,9,'In all their distress `He is\' no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old.'),(23063010,23,63,10,'And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them.'),(23063011,23,63,11,'And He remembereth the days of old, Moses -- his people. Where `is\' He who is bringing them up from the sea, The shepherd of his flock? Where `is\' He who is putting in its midst His Holy Spirit?'),(23063012,23,63,12,'Leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of His glory, Cleaving waters from before them, To make to Himself a name age-during.'),(23063013,23,63,13,'Leading them through the depths, As a horse in a plain they stumble not.'),(23063014,23,63,14,'As a beast into a valley goeth down, The Spirit of Jehovah causeth him to rest, So hast Thou led Thy people, To make to Thyself a glorious name.'),(23063015,23,63,15,'Look attentively from the heavens, And see from Thy holy and beauteous habitation, Where `is\' Thy zeal and Thy might? The multitude of Thy bowels and Thy mercies Towards me have refrained themselves.'),(23063016,23,63,16,'For Thou `art\' our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, `art\' our Father, Our redeemer from the age, `is\' Thy name.'),(23063017,23,63,17,'Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants\' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.'),(23063018,23,63,18,'For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.'),(23063019,23,63,19,'We have been from of old, Thou hast not ruled over them, Not called is Thy name upon them!'),(23064001,23,64,1,'Didst Thou not rend the heavens? Thou didst come down, From thy presence did mountains flow,'),(23064002,23,64,2,'(As fire kindleth stubble -- Fire causeth water to boil,) To make known Thy name to Thine adversaries, From Thy presence do nations tremble.'),(23064003,23,64,3,'In Thy doing fearful things -- we expect not, Thou didst come down, From Thy presence did mountains flow.'),(23064004,23,64,4,'Even from antiquity `men\' have not heard, They have not given ear, Eye hath not seen a God save Thee, He doth work for those waiting for Him.'),(23064005,23,64,5,'Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them `is\' continuance, and we are saved.'),(23064006,23,64,6,'And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.'),(23064007,23,64,7,'And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And thou meltest us away by our iniquities.'),(23064008,23,64,8,'And now, O Jehovah, thou `art\' our Father, We `are\' the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.'),(23064009,23,64,9,'Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people `are\' we all.'),(23064010,23,64,10,'Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.'),(23064011,23,64,11,'Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste.'),(23064012,23,64,12,'For these dost Thou refrain Thyself, Jehovah? Thou art silent, and dost afflict us very sore!\''),(23065001,23,65,1,'I have been inquired of by those who asked not, I have been found by those who sought Me not, I have said, `Behold Me, behold Me,\' Unto a nation not calling in My name.'),(23065002,23,65,2,'I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.'),(23065003,23,65,3,'The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:'),(23065004,23,65,4,'Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things -- their vessels.'),(23065005,23,65,5,'Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.\' These `are\' a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.'),(23065006,23,65,6,'Lo, it is written before Me: `I am not silent, but have recompensed; And I have recompensed into their bosom,'),(23065007,23,65,7,'Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, Who have made perfume on the mountains, And on the heights have reproached Me, And I have measured their former work into their bosom.\''),(23065008,23,65,8,'Thus said Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one hath said, `Destroy it not for a blessing `is\' in it,\' So I do for My servants\' sake, not to destroy the whole.'),(23065009,23,65,9,'And I have brought out from Jacob a seed, And from Judah a possessor of My mount, And possess it do My chosen ones, And My servants do dwell there.'),(23065010,23,65,10,'And Sharon hath been for the habitation of a flock, And the valley of Achor for the lying down of a herd, For My people who have sought Me.'),(23065011,23,65,11,'And ye `are\' those forsaking Jehovah, Who are forgetting My holy mountain, Who are setting in array for Gad a table, And who are filling for Meni a mixture.'),(23065012,23,65,12,'And I have numbered you for the sword, And all of you for slaughter bow down, Because I called, and ye have not answered, I have spoken, and ye have not hearkened, And ye do the evil thing in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.'),(23065013,23,65,13,'Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, My servants do eat, and ye do hunger, Lo, My servants do drink, and ye do thirst, Lo, My servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed,'),(23065014,23,65,14,'Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl.'),(23065015,23,65,15,'And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His servants He giveth another name.'),(23065016,23,65,16,'So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Doth bless himself In the God of faithfulness, And he who is swearing in the earth, Doth swear by the God of faithfulness, Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because they have been hid from Mine eyes.'),(23065017,23,65,17,'For, lo, I am creating new heavens, and a new earth, And the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the heart.'),(23065018,23,65,18,'But joy ye, and rejoice for ever, that I `am\' Creator, For, lo, I am creating Jerusalem a rejoicing, And her people a joy.'),(23065019,23,65,19,'And I have rejoiced in Jerusalem, And have joyed in My people, And not heard in her any more Is the voice of weeping, and the voice of crying.'),(23065020,23,65,20,'There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.'),(23065021,23,65,21,'And they have built houses, and inhabited, And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit.'),(23065022,23,65,22,'They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant, and another eat, For as the days of a tree `are\' the days of My people, And the work of their hands wear out do My chosen ones.'),(23065023,23,65,23,'They labour not for a vain thing, Nor do they bring forth for trouble, For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah `are\' they, And their offspring with them.'),(23065024,23,65,24,'And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.'),(23065025,23,65,25,'Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth straw, As to the serpent -- dust `is\' its food, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!'),(23066001,23,66,1,'Thus said Jehovah: The heavens `are\' My throne, And the earth My footstool, Where `is\' this -- the house that ye build for Me? And where `is\' this -- the place -- My rest?'),(23066002,23,66,2,'And all these My hand hath made, And all these things are, An affirmation of Jehovah! And unto this one I look attentively, Unto the humble and bruised in spirit, And who is trembling at My word.'),(23066003,23,66,3,'Whoso slaughtereth the ox smiteth a man, Whoso sacrificeth the lamb beheadeth a dog, Whoso is bringing up a present -- The blood of a sow, Whoso is making mention of frankincense, Is blessing iniquity. Yea, they have fixed on their own ways, And in their abominations their soul hath delighted.'),(23066004,23,66,4,'I also -- I fix on their vexations, And their fears I bring in to them, Because I have called, and there is none answering, I spake, and they have not hearkened, And they do the evil things in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.'),(23066005,23,66,5,'Hear a word of Jehovah, Ye who are trembling unto His word, Said have your brethren who are hating you, Who are driving you out, for My name\'s sake: `Honoured is Jehovah, and we look on your joy,\' But they are ashamed.'),(23066006,23,66,6,'A voice of noise `is\' from the city, a voice from the temple, The voice of Jehovah, giving recompence to His enemies.'),(23066007,23,66,7,'Before she is pained she hath brought forth, Before a pang cometh to her, She hath delivered a male.'),(23066008,23,66,8,'Who hath heard anything like this? Who hath seen anything like these? Is earth caused to bring forth in one day? Born is a nation at once? For she hath been pained, Zion also hath borne her sons.'),(23066009,23,66,9,'`Do I bring to the birth, And not cause to bring forth?\' saith Jehovah, `Am not I He who is causing to beget? I have also restrained,\' said thy God.'),(23066010,23,66,10,'Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, And be glad in her, all ye loving her, Rejoice ye with her for joy, All ye are mourning for her,'),(23066011,23,66,11,'So that ye suck, and have been satisfied, From the breast of her consolations, So that ye wring out, and have delighted yourselves From the abundance of her honour.'),(23066012,23,66,12,'For thus said Jehovah: `Lo, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, And as an overflowing stream the honour of nations, And ye have sucked, on the side ye are carried, And on the knees ye are dandled.'),(23066013,23,66,13,'As one whom his mother comforteth, so do I comfort you, Yea, in Jerusalem ye are comforted.'),(23066014,23,66,14,'And ye have seen, and rejoiced hath your heart, And your bones as tender grass do flourish, And the hand of Jehovah hath been known unto His servants, And He hath been indignant with His enemies.'),(23066015,23,66,15,'For, lo, Jehovah in fire cometh, And as a hurricane His chariots, To refresh in fury His anger, And His rebuke in flames of fire.'),(23066016,23,66,16,'For by fire and by His sword, Doth Jehovah do judgment with all flesh. And many have been Jehovah\'s pierced ones.\''),(23066017,23,66,17,'Those sanctifying and cleansing themselves at the gardens, After Ahad in the midst, Eating flesh of the sow, And of the abomination, and of the mouse, Together are consumed, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(23066018,23,66,18,'And I -- their works and their thoughts, I come to gather all the nations and tongues, And they have come and seen My honour.'),(23066019,23,66,19,'And I have set among them a sign, And have sent out of them those escaping unto the nations, (Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, drawing bow, Tubal and Javan, the isles that are far off,) Who have not heard My fame, nor seen Mine honour, And they have declared Mine honour among nations.'),(23066020,23,66,20,'And they have brought all your brethren out of all the nations, A present to Jehovah, On horses, and on chariot, and on litters, And on mules, and on dromedaries, Unto My holy mountain Jerusalem, said Jehovah, As the sons of Israel bring the present in a clean vessel, Into the house of Jehovah.'),(23066021,23,66,21,'And also of them I take for priests, For Levites, said Jehovah.'),(23066022,23,66,22,'For, as the new heavens and the new earth that I am making, Are standing before Me, An affirmation of Jehovah! So remain doth your seed and your name.'),(23066023,23,66,23,'And it hath been from month to month, And from sabbath to sabbath, Come do all flesh to bow themselves before Me, Said Jehovah.'),(23066024,23,66,24,'And they have gone forth, And looked on the carcases of the men Who are transgressing against me, For their worm dieth not, And their fire is not quenched, And they have been an abhorrence to all flesh!'),(24001001,24,1,1,'Words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests who `are\' in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin,'),(24001002,24,1,2,'unto whom the word of Jehovah hath been in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,'),(24001003,24,1,3,'and it is in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, till the completion of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, till the removal of Jerusalem in the fifth month.'),(24001004,24,1,4,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,'),(24001005,24,1,5,'`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.\''),(24001006,24,1,6,'And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah! lo, I have not known -- to speak, for I `am\' a youth.\''),(24001007,24,1,7,'And Jehovah saith unto me, `Do not say, I `am\' a youth, for to all to whom I send thee thou goest, and all that I command thee thou speakest.'),(24001008,24,1,8,'Be not afraid of their faces, for with thee `am\' I to deliver thee, -- an affirmation of Jehovah.\''),(24001009,24,1,9,'And Jehovah putteth forth His hand, and striketh against my mouth, and Jehovah saith unto me, `Lo, I have put my words in thy mouth.'),(24001010,24,1,10,'See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.\''),(24001011,24,1,11,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `What art thou seeing, Jeremiah?\' And I say, `A rod of an almond tree I am seeing.\''),(24001012,24,1,12,'And Jehovah saith unto me, `Thou hast well seen: for I am watching over My word to do it.\''),(24001013,24,1,13,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto me a second time, saying, `What art thou seeing?\' And I say, `A blown pot I am seeing, and its face `is\' from the north.\''),(24001014,24,1,14,'And Jehovah saith unto me, `From the north is the evil loosed against all inhabitants of the land.'),(24001015,24,1,15,'For, lo, I am calling for all families of the kingdoms of the north, -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and they have come, and put each his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem, and by its walls round about, and by all cities of Judah.'),(24001016,24,1,16,'And I have spoken My judgments with them concerning all their evil, in that they have forsaken Me, and make perfume to other gods, and bow themselves to the works of their own hands.'),(24001017,24,1,17,'`And thou, thou dost gird up thy loins, and hast arisen, and spoken unto them all that I command thee: be not affrighted because of them, lest I affright thee before them.'),(24001018,24,1,18,'And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land;'),(24001019,24,1,19,'and they have fought against thee, and they prevail not against thee; for with thee `am\' I, -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- to deliver thee.'),(24002001,24,2,1,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,'),(24002002,24,2,2,'`Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown.'),(24002003,24,2,3,'Holy `is\' Israel to Jehovah, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil cometh in unto them, an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24002004,24,2,4,'Hear a word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, And all ye families of the house of Israel.'),(24002005,24,2,5,'Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,'),(24002006,24,2,6,'And have not said, Where `is\' Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land -- none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?\''),(24002007,24,2,7,'Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And ye come in and defile My land, And Mine inheritance have made an abomination.'),(24002008,24,2,8,'The priests have not said, `Where `is\' Jehovah?\' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.'),(24002009,24,2,9,'Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons\' sons I plead.'),(24002010,24,2,10,'For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there hath been like this:'),(24002011,24,2,11,'Hath a nation changed gods? (And they `are\' no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.'),(24002012,24,2,12,'Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24002013,24,2,13,'For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.'),(24002014,24,2,14,'A servant `is\' Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?'),(24002015,24,2,15,'Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant.'),(24002016,24,2,16,'Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee -- the crown of the head!'),(24002017,24,2,17,'Dost thou not do this to thyself? `By\' thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?'),(24002018,24,2,18,'And now, what -- to thee in the way of Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? And what -- to thee in the way of Asshur, To drink the waters of the River?'),(24002019,24,2,19,'Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing `Is\' thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.'),(24002020,24,2,20,'For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, `I do not serve,\' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.'),(24002021,24,2,21,'And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?'),(24002022,24,2,22,'But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'),(24002023,24,2,23,'How sayest thou, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?\' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,'),(24002024,24,2,24,'A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.'),(24002025,24,2,25,'Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, `It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.\''),(24002026,24,2,26,'As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,'),(24002027,24,2,27,'Saying to wood, `My father `art\' thou!\' And to a stone, `Thou hast brought me forth,\' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, `Arise Thou, and save us.\''),(24002028,24,2,28,'And where `are\' thy gods, that thou hast made to thyself? Let them arise, if they may save thee, In the time of thy vexation, For -- the number of thy cities have been thy gods, O Judah,'),(24002029,24,2,29,'Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24002030,24,2,30,'In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.'),(24002031,24,2,31,'O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, `We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.\''),(24002032,24,2,32,'Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.'),(24002033,24,2,33,'What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.'),(24002034,24,2,34,'Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.'),(24002035,24,2,35,'And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?\' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.\''),(24002036,24,2,36,'What? thou art very vile to repeat thy way, Even of Egypt thou art ashamed, As thou hast been ashamed of Asshur,'),(24002037,24,2,37,'Also from this thou goest out, And thy hands on thy head, For Jehovah hath kicked at thy confidences, And thou dost not give prosperity to them!'),(24003001,24,3,1,'Saying, `Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24003002,24,3,2,'Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.'),(24003003,24,3,3,'And withheld are showers, and gathered rain hath not been. The forehead of a whorish woman thou hast, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.'),(24003004,24,3,4,'Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, `My father, Thou `art\' the leader of my youth?'),(24003005,24,3,5,'Doth He keep to the age? watch for ever?\' Lo, these things thou hast spoken, And thou dost the evil things, and prevailest.'),(24003006,24,3,6,'And Jehovah saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, `Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there.'),(24003007,24,3,7,'And I say, after her doing all these, Unto Me thou dost turn back, and she hath not turned back, and see `it\' doth her treacherous sister Judah.'),(24003008,24,3,8,'And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication -- she also.'),(24003009,24,3,9,'And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.'),(24003010,24,3,10,'And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Jehovah.\''),(24003011,24,3,11,'And Jehovah saith unto me: `Justified herself hath backsliding Israel, More than treacherous Judah.'),(24003012,24,3,12,'Go, and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north, and hast said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I `am\' kind, an affirmation of Jehovah, I watch not to the age.'),(24003013,24,3,13,'Only, know thine iniquity, For against Jehovah thy God thou hast transgressed, And thou dost scatter thy ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And to My voice thou hast not hearkened, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24003014,24,3,14,'Turn back, O backsliding sons, An affirmation of Jehovah. For I have ruled over you, And taken you one of a city, and two of a family, And have brought you to Zion,'),(24003015,24,3,15,'And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.'),(24003016,24,3,16,'And it hath come to pass, when ye are multiplied, And have been fruitful in the land, In those days -- an affirmation of Jehovah, They say not any more, `The ark of the covenant of Jehovah,\' Nor doth it go up on the heart, Nor do they remember concerning it, Nor do they inspect, nor is it made again.'),(24003017,24,3,17,'At that time they cry to Jerusalem, `O throne of Jehovah,\' And gathered unto her hath been all the nations, For the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem, Nor do they go any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.'),(24003018,24,3,18,'In those days do the house of Judah Go unto the house of Israel, And they come together from the land of the south, unto the land That I caused your fathers to inherit.'),(24003019,24,3,19,'And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father -- ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.'),(24003020,24,3,20,'But -- a woman hath deceived her friend, So ye have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24003021,24,3,21,'A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.'),(24003022,24,3,22,'Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou `art\' Jehovah our God.'),(24003023,24,3,23,'Surely in vain from the heights, The multitude of mountains -- Surely in Jehovah our God `is\' the salvation of Israel.'),(24003024,24,3,24,'And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.'),(24003025,24,3,25,'We have lain down in our shame, and cover us doth our confusion, For against Jehovah our God we have sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, Nor have we hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God!'),(24004001,24,4,1,'If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.'),(24004002,24,4,2,'And thou hast sworn -- Jehovah liveth, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves.'),(24004003,24,4,3,'For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.'),(24004004,24,4,4,'Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.'),(24004005,24,4,5,'Declare in Judah, and in Jerusalem sound, And say ye, `Blow a trumpet in the land,\' Call ye fully, and say ye: `Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced city.\''),(24004006,24,4,6,'Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.'),(24004007,24,4,7,'Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.'),(24004008,24,4,8,'For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.'),(24004009,24,4,9,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah: `Perish doth the heart of the king, And the heart of the princes, And astonished have been the priests, And the prophets do wonder.\''),(24004010,24,4,10,'And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, Surely thou hast entirely forgotten this people and Jerusalem, saying, Peace is for you, And struck hath a sword unto the soul!\''),(24004011,24,4,11,'At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: `A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,\' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)'),(24004012,24,4,12,'A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them.'),(24004013,24,4,13,'Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Wo to us, for we have been spoiled.'),(24004014,24,4,14,'Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?'),(24004015,24,4,15,'For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim.'),(24004016,24,4,16,'Make ye mention to the nations, Lo, sound ye to Jerusalem: `Besiegers are coming from the land afar off, And they give forth against cities of Judah their voice.'),(24004017,24,4,17,'As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of Jehovah.\''),(24004018,24,4,18,'Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This `is\' thy vexation, for `it is\' bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.'),(24004019,24,4,19,'My bowels, my bowels! I am pained `at\' the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!'),(24004020,24,4,20,'Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment -- my curtains.'),(24004021,24,4,21,'Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?'),(24004022,24,4,22,'For my people `are\' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are\' they, yea, they `are\' not intelligent, Wise `are\' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.'),(24004023,24,4,23,'I looked `to\' the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.'),(24004024,24,4,24,'I have looked `to\' the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.'),(24004025,24,4,25,'I have looked, and lo, man is not, And all fowls of the heavens have fled.'),(24004026,24,4,26,'I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place `is\' a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.'),(24004027,24,4,27,'For thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.'),(24004028,24,4,28,'For this doth the land mourn, And black have been the heavens above, because I have spoken -- I have purposed, And I have not repented, Nor do I turn back from it.'),(24004029,24,4,29,'From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.'),(24004030,24,4,30,'And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself `with\' ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.'),(24004031,24,4,31,'For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard, Distress, as of one bringing forth a first-born, The voice of the daughter of Zion, She bewaileth herself, she spreadeth out her hands, `Wo to me now, for weary is my soul of slayers!\''),(24005001,24,5,1,'Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.'),(24005002,24,5,2,'And if they say, `Jehovah liveth,\' Surely to a falsehood they swear.'),(24005003,24,5,3,'Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.'),(24005004,24,5,4,'And I -- I said, `Surely these `are\' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.'),(24005005,24,5,5,'I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.\' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.'),(24005006,24,5,6,'Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.'),(24005007,24,5,7,'For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together.'),(24005008,24,5,8,'Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.'),(24005009,24,5,9,'For these do I not lay a charge? An affirmation of Jehovah, And on a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?'),(24005010,24,5,10,'Go ye up on her walls, and destroy, And a completion make not, Turn aside her branches, for they `are\' not Jehovah\'s,'),(24005011,24,5,11,'For dealt treacherously against Me have the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24005012,24,5,12,'They have lied against Jehovah, And they say, ``It is\' not He, Nor come in against us doth evil, Yea, sword and famine we do not see.'),(24005013,24,5,13,'And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,\' -- thus it is done by them.'),(24005014,24,5,14,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, Because of your speaking this word, Lo, I am making My words in thy mouth become fire, And this people wood, and it hath devoured them.'),(24005015,24,5,15,'Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation -- strong it `is\', a nation -- from of old it `is\', A nation -- thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.'),(24005016,24,5,16,'Its quiver `is\' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.'),(24005017,24,5,17,'And it hath consumed thy harvest and thy bread, They consume thy sons, and thy daughters, It consumeth thy flock, and thy herd, It consumeth thy vine, and thy fig-tree, It maketh poor thy fenced cities, In which thou art trusting -- by the sword.'),(24005018,24,5,18,'And even in those days, an affirmation of Jehovah, I do not make you a completion.'),(24005019,24,5,19,'And it hath come to pass, when ye say, `For what hath Jehovah our God done to us all these?\' That thou hast said unto them, `As ye have forsaken Me, And serve the gods of a foreigner in your land, So do ye serve strangers in a land not yours.'),(24005020,24,5,20,'Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, And sound ye it in Judah, saying,'),(24005021,24,5,21,'Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.'),(24005022,24,5,22,'Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.'),(24005023,24,5,23,'And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.'),(24005024,24,5,24,'And they have not said in their heart, `Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.\''),(24005025,24,5,25,'Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.'),(24005026,24,5,26,'For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.'),(24005027,24,5,27,'As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.'),(24005028,24,5,28,'They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.'),(24005029,24,5,29,'For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?'),(24005030,24,5,30,'An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.'),(24005031,24,5,31,'The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved `it\' so, And what do they at its latter end?'),(24006001,24,6,1,'Strengthen yourselves, sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem, And in Tekoa blow ye a trumpet, And over Beth-Haccerem lift ye up a flame, For evil hath been seen from the north, And great destruction.'),(24006002,24,6,2,'The comely and the delicate one I have cut off, The daughter of Zion.'),(24006003,24,6,3,'Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each `in\' his own station.'),(24006004,24,6,4,'Sanctify ye against her the battle, Rise, and we go up at noon. Wo to us, for turned hath the day, For stretched out are the shades of evening,'),(24006005,24,6,5,'`Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.\''),(24006006,24,6,6,'For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Cut down her wood, And pour out against Jerusalem a mount, She `is\' the city to be inspected, Wholly -- she is oppression in her midst.'),(24006007,24,6,7,'As the digging of a well, is `for\' its waters, So she hath digged `for\' her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually `are\' sickness and smiting.'),(24006008,24,6,8,'Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.'),(24006009,24,6,9,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They surely glean, as a vine, the remnant of Israel, Put back thy hand, as a gatherer to the baskets.'),(24006010,24,6,10,'To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear `is\' uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.'),(24006011,24,6,11,'And with the fury of Jehovah I have been filled, (I have been weary of containing,) To pour `it\' on the suckling in the street, And on the assembly of youths together, For even husband with wife are captured, An elder with one full of days,'),(24006012,24,6,12,'And their houses have been turned to others, Fields and wives together, For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24006013,24,6,13,'For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely,'),(24006014,24,6,14,'And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, `Peace, peace!\' and there is no peace.'),(24006015,24,6,15,'They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah.'),(24006016,24,6,16,'Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where `is\' this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.\''),(24006017,24,6,17,'And I have raised up for you watchmen, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet. And they say, `We do not attend.\''),(24006018,24,6,18,'Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O company, That which `is\' upon them.'),(24006019,24,6,19,'Hear, O earth, lo, I am bringing evil on this people, The fruit of their devices, For to My words they gave no attention, And My law -- they kick against it.'),(24006020,24,6,20,'Why `is\' this to Me? frankincense from Sheba cometh, And the sweet cane from a land afar off, Your burnt-offerings `are\' not for acceptance, And your sacrifices have not been sweet to Me.'),(24006021,24,6,21,'Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I do give to this people stumbling blocks, And stumbled against them have fathers and sons together, The neighbour and his friend do perish.'),(24006022,24,6,22,'Thus said Jehovah: Lo, a people hath come from a north country, And a great nation is stirred up from the sides of the earth.'),(24006023,24,6,23,'Bow and javelin they take hold of, Fierce it `is\', and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea doth sound, And on horses they ride, set in array as a man of war, Against thee, O daughter of Zion.'),(24006024,24,6,24,'`We have heard its sound, feeble have been our hands, Distress hath seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.'),(24006025,24,6,25,'Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear `is\' round about.'),(24006026,24,6,26,'O daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.'),(24006027,24,6,27,'A watch-tower I have given thee, Among My people a fortress, And thou knowest, and hast tried their way.'),(24006028,24,6,28,'All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously -- brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.'),(24006029,24,6,29,'The bellows have been burnt, By fire hath the lead been consumed, In vain hath a refiner refined, And the wicked have not been drawn away.'),(24006030,24,6,30,'`Silver rejected,\' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!'),(24007001,24,7,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24007002,24,7,2,'Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah, and thou hast proclaimed there this word, and hast said, Hear a word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, who are coming in at these gates, to bow before Jehovah:'),(24007003,24,7,3,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Amend your ways, and your doings, And I cause you to dwell in this place.'),(24007004,24,7,4,'Do not trust for yourselves Unto the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah `are\' they!'),(24007005,24,7,5,'For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour,'),(24007006,24,7,6,'Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,'),(24007007,24,7,7,'Then I have caused you to dwell in this place, In the land that I gave to your fathers, From age even unto age.'),(24007008,24,7,8,'Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.'),(24007009,24,7,9,'Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not.'),(24007010,24,7,10,'And ye have come in and stood before Me, In this house on which My name is called, And have said, `We have been delivered,\' In order to do all these abominations.'),(24007011,24,7,11,'A den of burglars hath this house, On which My name is called, been in your eyes? Even I, lo, I have seen, an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24007012,24,7,12,'But go ye, I pray you, Unto My place that `is\' in Shiloh, Where I caused My name to dwell at first, And see that which I have done to it, For the wickedness of My people Israel.'),(24007013,24,7,13,'And now, because of your doing all these works, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I speak unto you, rising early and speaking, And ye have not hearkened, And I call you, and ye have not answered,'),(24007014,24,7,14,'I also to the house on which My name is called, In which ye are trusting, And to the place that I gave to you, and to your fathers, Have done, as I have done to Shiloh.'),(24007015,24,7,15,'And I have cast you from before My face, As I have cast out all your brethren, The whole seed of Ephraim.'),(24007016,24,7,16,'And thou dost not pray for this people, Nor lift up for them crying and prayer, Nor intercede with Me, for I hear thee not.'),(24007017,24,7,17,'Art thou not seeing what they are doing In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem?'),(24007018,24,7,18,'The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out libations to other gods, So as to provoke Me to anger.'),(24007019,24,7,19,'Me are they provoking to anger? an affirmation of Jehovah, Is it not themselves, For the shame of their own faces?'),(24007020,24,7,20,'Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, Mine anger and My fury is poured out on this place, On man, and beast, and on tree of the field, And on fruit of the ground, And it hath burned, and it is not quenched.'),(24007021,24,7,21,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh.'),(24007022,24,7,22,'For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice,'),(24007023,24,7,23,'But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye -- ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.'),(24007024,24,7,24,'And they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, In the stubbornness, of their evil heart, And are for backward, and not for forward.'),(24007025,24,7,25,'Even from the day when your fathers Went out of the land of Egypt till this day, I send to you all my servants the prophets, Daily rising early and sending,'),(24007026,24,7,26,'And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.'),(24007027,24,7,27,'And thou hast spoken unto them all these words, And they do not hearken to thee, And thou hast called unto them, And they do not answer thee.'),(24007028,24,7,28,'And thou hast said unto them: This `is\' the nation that hath not hearkened, To the voice of Jehovah its God, Nor have they accepted instruction, Perished hath stedfastness, Yea, it hath been cut off from their mouth.'),(24007029,24,7,29,'Cut off thy crown, and cast `it\' away, And lift up on high places lamentation, For Jehovah hath rejected, And He leaveth the generation of His wrath.'),(24007030,24,7,30,'For the sons of Judah Have done the evil thing in Mine eyes, An affirmation of Jehovah, They have set their abominations in the house On which My name is called -- to defile it,'),(24007031,24,7,31,'And have built the high places of Tophet, That `are\' in the valley of the son of Hinnom, To burn their sons and their daughters with fire, Which I did not command, Nor did it come up on My heart.'),(24007032,24,7,32,'Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And it is not said any more, `The Tophet,\' And `Valley of the son of Hinnom,\' But `Valley of the slaughter,\' And they have buried in Tophet -- without place.'),(24007033,24,7,33,'And the carcase of this people hath been for food To a fowl of the heavens, and to a beast of the earth, And there is none troubling.'),(24007034,24,7,34,'And I have caused to cease from cities of Judah, And from streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, For the land doth become a desolation!'),(24008001,24,8,1,'At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, They bring the bones of the kings of Judah, And the bones of its princes, And the bones of the priests, And the bones of the prophets, And the bones of inhabitants of Jerusalem, Out of their graves,'),(24008002,24,8,2,'And have spread them to sun, and to moon, And to all the host of the heavens, that they have loved, And that they have served, And that they have walked after, And that they have sought, And to which they have bowed themselves, They are not gathered, nor buried, They are for dung on the face of the ground.'),(24008003,24,8,3,'And chosen is death rather than life By all the remnant who are left of this evil family, In all the remaining places, whither I have driven them, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.'),(24008004,24,8,4,'And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return?'),(24008005,24,8,5,'Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back -- a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.'),(24008006,24,8,6,'I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man hath repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one hath turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle.'),(24008007,24,8,7,'Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And -- My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.'),(24008008,24,8,8,'How do ye say, We `are\' wise, And the law of Jehovah `is\' with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes.'),(24008009,24,8,9,'Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?'),(24008010,24,8,10,'Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely.'),(24008011,24,8,11,'And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! and there is no peace.'),(24008012,24,8,12,'They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, And blushing they have not known, Therefore, they do fall among falling ones, In the time of their inspection they stumble, said Jehovah.'),(24008013,24,8,13,'I utterly consume them, an affirmation of Jehovah, There are no grapes in the vine, Yea, there are no figs in the fig-tree, And the leaf hath faded, And the strength they have passeth from them.'),(24008014,24,8,14,'Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.'),(24008015,24,8,15,'Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.'),(24008016,24,8,16,'From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.'),(24008017,24,8,17,'For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24008018,24,8,18,'My refreshing for me `is\' sorrow, For me my heart `is\' sick.'),(24008019,24,8,19,'Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?'),(24008020,24,8,20,'Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.'),(24008021,24,8,21,'For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.'),(24008022,24,8,22,'Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?'),(24009001,24,9,1,'Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.'),(24009002,24,9,2,'Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them `are\' adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.'),(24009003,24,9,3,'And they bend their tongue, their bow `is\' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!'),(24009004,24,9,4,'Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,'),(24009005,24,9,5,'And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.'),(24009006,24,9,6,'thy dwelling `is\' in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24009007,24,9,7,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?'),(24009008,24,9,8,'A slaughtering arrow `is\' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,'),(24009009,24,9,9,'For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this doth not My soul avenge itself?'),(24009010,24,9,10,'For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, And for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, For they have been burnt up without any passing over, Nor have they heard the voice of cattle, From the fowl of the heavens unto the beast they have fled, they have gone.'),(24009011,24,9,11,'And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.'),(24009012,24,9,12,'Who `is\' the wise man? and he understandeth this, And he to whom the mouth of Jehovah spake? And he doth declare it, For what hath the land perished? It hath been burnt up as a wilderness, Without any passing through.'),(24009013,24,9,13,'And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,'),(24009014,24,9,14,'And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,'),(24009015,24,9,15,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them -- this people -- to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,'),(24009016,24,9,16,'And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them.'),(24009017,24,9,17,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,'),(24009018,24,9,18,'And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.'),(24009019,24,9,19,'For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.'),(24009020,24,9,20,'But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.'),(24009021,24,9,21,'For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.'),(24009022,24,9,22,'Speak thus -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.'),(24009023,24,9,23,'Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,'),(24009024,24,9,24,'But -- in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I `am\' Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24009025,24,9,25,'Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin,'),(24009026,24,9,26,'On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the corner `of the beard\', Who are dwelling in the wilderness, For all the nations `are\' uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel `are\' uncircumcised in heart!'),(24010001,24,10,1,'Hear ye the word, O house of Israel, That Jehovah hath spoken for you.'),(24010002,24,10,2,'Thus said Jehovah: Unto the way of the nations accustom not yourselves, And by the signs of the heavens be not affrighted, For the nations are affrighted by them.'),(24010003,24,10,3,'For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,'),(24010004,24,10,4,'With silver and with gold they beautify it, With nails and with hammers they fix it, And it doth not stumble.'),(24010005,24,10,5,'As a palm they `are\' stiff, and they speak not, They are surely borne, for they step not, Be not afraid of them, for they do no evil, Yea, also to do good is not in them.'),(24010006,24,10,6,'Because there is none like Thee, O Jehovah, Great `art\' Thou, and great Thy name in might.'),(24010007,24,10,7,'Who doth not fear Thee, king of the nations? For to Thee it is becoming, For among all the wise of the nations, And in all their kingdom there is none like Thee.'),(24010008,24,10,8,'And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is\' the tree itself.'),(24010009,24,10,9,'Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artizan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple `is\' their clothing, Work of the skilful -- all of them.'),(24010010,24,10,10,'And Jehovah `is\' a God of truth, He `is\' a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.'),(24010011,24,10,11,'Thus do ye say to them, The gods Who the heavens and earth have not made, They do perish from the earth, And from under these heavens.'),(24010012,24,10,12,'The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,'),(24010013,24,10,13,'At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters `is\' in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And bringeth out wind from His treasures.'),(24010014,24,10,14,'Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false `is\' his molten image. And there is no breath in them.'),(24010015,24,10,15,'Vanity `are\' they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.'),(24010016,24,10,16,'Not like these `is\' the Portion of Jacob, For framer of all things `is\' He, And Israel `is\' the rod of His inheritance, Jehovah of Hosts `is\' His name.'),(24010017,24,10,17,'Gather from the land thy merchandise, O dweller in the bulwark,'),(24010018,24,10,18,'For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, And have been an adversary to them, So that they are found out.'),(24010019,24,10,19,'Wo to me for my breaking, Grievious hath been my smiting, And I said, Only, this `is\' my sickness, and I bear it.'),(24010020,24,10,20,'My tent hath been spoiled, And all my cords have been broken, My sons have gone out from me, and they are not, There is none stretching out any more my tent, And raising up my curtains.'),(24010021,24,10,21,'For the shepherds have become brutish, And Jehovah they have not sought, Therefore they have not acted wisely, And all their flock is scattered.'),(24010022,24,10,22,'A voice of a report, lo, it hath come, Even a great shaking from the north country, To make the cities of Judah a desolation, A habitation of dragons.'),(24010023,24,10,23,'I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man `is\' his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.'),(24010024,24,10,24,'Chastise me, O Jehovah, only in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou make me small.'),(24010025,24,10,25,'Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!'),(24011001,24,11,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying:'),(24011002,24,11,2,'`Hear ye the words of this covenant, and ye have spoken unto the men of Judah, and unto the inhabitants of Jerusalem,'),(24011003,24,11,3,'and thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel: Cursed `is\' the man who doth not obey the words of this covenant,'),(24011004,24,11,4,'That I commanded your fathers, In the day of My bringing them out from the land of Egypt, Out of the iron furnace, saying, Hearken to My voice, and ye have done them, According to all that I command you, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I am to you for God,'),(24011005,24,11,5,'In order to establish the oath that I have sworn to your fathers, To give to them a land flowing with milk and honey, as this day. And I answer and say, `Amen, O Jehovah.\''),(24011006,24,11,6,'And Jehovah saith unto me, `Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words of this covenant, And ye have done them.'),(24011007,24,11,7,'For I certainly testified against your fathers, In the day of My bringing them up out of the land of Egypt -- till this day, Rising early and testifying, saying, Hearken to My voice,'),(24011008,24,11,8,'And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they walk each in the stubbornness of their evil heart, And I bring on them all the words of this covenant, That I commanded to do, and they did not.\''),(24011009,24,11,9,'And Jehovah saith unto me: `A conspiracy is found in the men of Judah, And in the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(24011010,24,11,10,'They have turned back to the iniquities of their first fathers, Who refused to hear My words, And they have gone after other gods to serve them, The house of Israel, and the house of Judah, Have made void My covenant, that I made with their fathers.'),(24011011,24,11,11,'Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.'),(24011012,24,11,12,'And the cities of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem have gone, And they have cried unto the gods, To whom they are making perfume, And they give no deliverance at all to them, In the time of their vexation.'),(24011013,24,11,13,'For -- the number of thy cities have been thy gods, O Judah, And -- the number of the streets of Jerusalem Ye have placed altars to a shameful thing, Altars to make perfume to Baal.'),(24011014,24,11,14,'And thou, thou dost not pray for this people, Nor dost thou lift up for them cry and prayer, For I do not hearken in the time of their calling unto Me for their vexation.'),(24011015,24,11,15,'What -- to My beloved in My house, Her doing wickedness with many, And the holy flesh do pass over from thee? When thou dost evil, then thou exultest.'),(24011016,24,11,16,'`An olive, green, fair, of goodly fruit,\' Hath Jehovah called thy name, At the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire against it, And broken have been its thin branches.'),(24011017,24,11,17,'And Jehovah of Hosts, who is planting thee, Hath spoken evil concerning thee, For the evil of the house of Israel, and of the house of Judah, That they have done to themselves, To provoke Me to anger, to make perfume to Baal.'),(24011018,24,11,18,'And, O Jehovah, cause me to know, and I know, Then Thou hast showed me their doings.'),(24011019,24,11,19,'And I `am\' as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.'),(24011020,24,11,20,'And O Jehovah of Hosts, judging righteousness, Trying reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance against them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause.\''),(24011021,24,11,21,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, who are seeking thy life, saying: Do not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, And thou dost not die by our hands.'),(24011022,24,11,22,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: `Lo, I am seeing after them, The chosen ones die by sword, Their sons and their daughters die by famine,'),(24011023,24,11,23,'And they have no remnant, For I bring evil unto the men of Anathoth, The year of their inspection!\''),(24012001,24,12,1,'Righteous `art\' Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.'),(24012002,24,12,2,'Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root, They go on, yea, they have made fruit, Near `art\' Thou in their mouth, And far off from their reins.'),(24012003,24,12,3,'And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known me, Thou seest me, and hast tried my heart with Thee, Draw them away as sheep to slaughter, And separate them for a day of slaughter.'),(24012004,24,12,4,'Till when doth the earth mourn, And the herb of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of those dwelling in it, Consumed have been beast and fowl, Because they said, `He doth not see our latter end.\''),(24012005,24,12,5,'For -- with footmen thou hast run, And they weary thee, And how dost thou fret thyself with horses! Even in the land of peace, `In which\' thou art confident -- And how dost thou in the rising of Jordan!'),(24012006,24,12,6,'For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, Even they dealt treacherously against thee, Even they -- they called after thee fully, Trust not in them, when they speak to thee good things.'),(24012007,24,12,7,'I have forsaken My house, I have left Mine inheritance, I have given the beloved of My soul Into the hand of her enemies.'),(24012008,24,12,8,'Mine inheritance hath been to Me as a lion in a forest, She gave forth against Me with her voice, Therefore I have hated her.'),(24012009,24,12,9,'A speckled fowl `is\' Mine inheritance to Me? Is the fowl round about against her? Come, assemble, every beast of the field, Come ye for food.'),(24012010,24,12,10,'Many shepherds did destroy My vineyard, They have trodden down My portion, They have made My desirable portion Become a wilderness -- a desolation.'),(24012011,24,12,11,'He hath made it become a desolation, The desolation hath mourned unto Me, Desolated hath been all the land, But there is no one laying it to heart.'),(24012012,24,12,12,'On all high places in the plain have spoilers come in, For the sword of Jehovah is consuming, From the end of the land even unto the end of the land, There is no peace to any flesh.'),(24012013,24,12,13,'They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.'),(24012014,24,12,14,'Thus said Jehovah concerning all my evil neighbours, who are striking against the inheritance that I caused my people -- Israel -- to inherit: `Lo, I am plucking them from off their ground, And the house of Judah I pluck out of their midst.'),(24012015,24,12,15,'And it hath been, after My plucking them out, I turn back, and have pitied them, And I have brought them back, Each to his inheritance, and each to his land.'),(24012016,24,12,16,'And it hath come to pass, If they learn well the ways of My people, To swear by My name, `Jehovah liveth,\' As they taught My people to swear by Baal, Then they have been built up in the midst of My people.'),(24012017,24,12,17,'And if they do not hearken, Then I have plucked up that nation, Plucking up and destroying, An affirmation of Jehovah!\''),(24013001,24,13,1,'Thus said Jehovah unto me, `Go, and thou hast got for thee a girdle of linen, and hast placed it on thy loins, and into water thou dost not cause it to enter:\''),(24013002,24,13,2,'and I get the girdle, according to the word of Jehovah, and I place `it\' on my loins.'),(24013003,24,13,3,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto me a second time, saying,'),(24013004,24,13,4,'`Take the girdle that thou hast got, that `is\' on thy loins, and rise, go to Phrat, and hide it there in a hole of the rock;'),(24013005,24,13,5,'and I go and hide it by Phrat, as Jehovah commanded me.'),(24013006,24,13,6,'And it cometh to pass, at the end of many days, that Jehovah saith unto me, `Rise, go to Phrat, and take thence the girdle, that I commanded thee to hide there;\''),(24013007,24,13,7,'and I go to Phrat, and dig, and take the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and lo, the girdle hath been marred, it is not profitable for anything.'),(24013008,24,13,8,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Thus said Jehovah:'),(24013009,24,13,9,'Thus do I mar the excellency of Judah, And the great excellency of Jerusalem.'),(24013010,24,13,10,'This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, And go after other gods to serve them, And to bow themselves to them, Yea it is -- as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything.'),(24013011,24,13,11,'For, as the girdle cleaveth unto the loins of a man, So I caused to cleave unto Me The whole house of Israel, And the whole house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah, To be to Me for a people, and for a name, And for praise, and for beauty, And they have not hearkened.'),(24013012,24,13,12,'And thou hast said unto them this word, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, `Every bottle is full of wine,\' And they have said unto thee: `Do we not certainly know that every bottle is full of wine?\''),(24013013,24,13,13,'And thou hast said unto them, `Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am filling all the inhabitants of this land, And the kings who sit for David on his throne, And the priests, and the prophets, And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, `With\' drunkenness,'),(24013014,24,13,14,'And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them.'),(24013015,24,13,15,'Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken.'),(24013016,24,13,16,'Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it\' for thick darkness.'),(24013017,24,13,17,'And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.'),(24013018,24,13,18,'Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.'),(24013019,24,13,19,'The cities of the south have been shut up, And there is none opening, Judah hath been removed -- all of her, She hath been removed completely --'),(24013020,24,13,20,'Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where `is\' the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?'),(24013021,24,13,21,'What dost thou say, when He looketh after thee? And thou -- thou hast taught them `to be\' over thee -- leaders for head? Do not pangs seize thee as a travailing woman?'),(24013022,24,13,22,'And when thou dost say in thy heart, `Wherefore have these met me?\' For the abundance of thine iniquity Have thy skirts been uncovered, Have thy heels suffered violence.'),(24013023,24,13,23,'Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.'),(24013024,24,13,24,'And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.'),(24013025,24,13,25,'This `is\' thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.'),(24013026,24,13,26,'I also have made bare thy skirts before thy face, And thy shame hath been seen.'),(24013027,24,13,27,'Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, The wickedness of thy whoredom, on heights in a field, I have seen thine abominations. Wo to thee, O Jerusalem, Thou art not cleansed, after when `is it\' again?'),(24014001,24,14,1,'That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah concerning the matters of the dearths:'),(24014002,24,14,2,'Mourned hath Judah, and her gates have languished, They have mourned to the earth, And the cry of Jerusalem hath gone up.'),(24014003,24,14,3,'And their honourable ones have sent their little ones to the water, They have come unto ditches, They have not found water, They have turned back -- their vessels empty! They have been ashamed, And have blushed and covered their head.'),(24014004,24,14,4,'Because the ground hath been broken, For there hath been no rain in the land, Ashamed have been husbandmen, They have covered their head.'),(24014005,24,14,5,'For even the hind in the field hath brought forth -- to forsake `it!\' For there hath been no grass.'),(24014006,24,14,6,'And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.'),(24014007,24,14,7,'Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name\'s sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.'),(24014008,24,14,8,'O Hope of Israel -- its saviour in time of trouble, Why art Thou as a sojourner in the land? And as a traveller turned aside to lodge?'),(24014009,24,14,9,'Why art Thou as one dumb? As a mighty one not able to save? And Thou `art\' in our midst, O Jehovah, And Thy name over us is called, leave us not.'),(24014010,24,14,10,'Thus said Jehovah concerning this people: Well they have loved to wander, Their feet they have not restrained, And Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin.'),(24014011,24,14,11,'And Jehovah saith unto me: Thou dost not pray for this people for good,'),(24014012,24,14,12,'When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.'),(24014013,24,14,13,'And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, Lo, the prophets are saying to them: Ye do not see a sword, yea, famine is not to you, For true peace I give to you in this place.\''),(24014014,24,14,14,'And Jehovah saith unto me: Falsehood the prophets are prophesying in My name, I did not send them, nor command them, Nor have I spoken unto them: A false vision, and divination, and vanity, And the deceit of their own heart, they are prophesying to you.'),(24014015,24,14,15,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, and I have not sent them, and they are saying, Sword and famine is not in this land: By sword and by famine are these prophets consumed.'),(24014016,24,14,16,'And the people to whom they are prophesying, Are cast into out-places of Jerusalem, Because of the famine, and of the sword, And they have none burying them, Them, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, And I have poured out upon them this evil.'),(24014017,24,14,17,'And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, `with\' a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.'),(24014018,24,14,18,'If I have gone forth to the field, Then, lo, the pierced of the sword! And if I have entered the city, Then, lo, the diseased of famine! For both prophet and priest have gone up and down Unto a land that they knew not.'),(24014019,24,14,19,'Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.'),(24014020,24,14,20,'We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.'),(24014021,24,14,21,'Do not despise, for Thy name\'s sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.'),(24014022,24,14,22,'Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these!'),(24015001,24,15,1,'And Jehovah saith unto me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people, Send from before My face, and they go out.'),(24015002,24,15,2,'And it hath come to pass, when they say to thee, Whither do we go out? that thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah: Those who `are\' for death -- to death, And those who are for the sword, to the sword, And those who are for famine, to famine, And those who are for captivity, to captivity.'),(24015003,24,15,3,'And I have appointed over them four kinds, an affirmation of Jehovah, The sword to slay, and the dogs to drag, And the fowl of the heavens, And the beast of the earth, to consume and to devour.'),(24015004,24,15,4,'And I have given them for a trembling To all kingdoms of the earth, Because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah, For that which he did in Jerusalem.'),(24015005,24,15,5,'For who hath pity on thee, O Jerusalem? And who doth bemoan for thee? And who turneth aside to ask of thy welfare?'),(24015006,24,15,6,'Thou -- thou hast left Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Backward thou goest, And I stretch out My hand against thee, And I destroy thee, I have been weary of repenting,'),(24015007,24,15,7,'And I scatter them with a fan, in the gates the land, I bereaved, I have destroyed My people, From their ways they turned not back.'),(24015008,24,15,8,'Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them -- against the mother -- A young man -- a spoiler -- at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.'),(24015009,24,15,9,'Languished hath the bearer of seven, She hath breathed out her spirit, Gone in hath her sun while yet day, It hath been ashamed and confounded, And their residue to the sword I give up before their enemies, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24015010,24,15,10,'Wo to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me -- All of them are reviling me.'),(24015011,24,15,11,'Jehovah said, Did I not direct thee for good? Did not I intercede for thee in a time of evil, And in a time of adversity, with the enemy?'),(24015012,24,15,12,'Doth one break iron -- northern iron, and brass?'),(24015013,24,15,13,'Thy strength and thy treasures For a prey I do give -- not for price, Even for all thy sins, and in all thy borders.'),(24015014,24,15,14,'And I have caused thine enemies To pass over into the land -- Thou hast not known, For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, Against you it doth burn.'),(24015015,24,15,15,'Thou, Thou hast known, O Jehovah, Remember me, and inspect me, And take vengeance for me of my pursuers, In Thy long-suffering take me not away, Know -- I have borne for Thee reproach.'),(24015016,24,15,16,'Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.'),(24015017,24,15,17,'I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of thy hand, -- Alone I have sat, For `with\' indignation Thou hast filled me.'),(24015018,24,15,18,'Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.'),(24015019,24,15,19,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah: If thou turnest back, then I bring thee back, Before Me thou dost stand, And if thou bringest out the precious from the vile, As My mouth thou art! They -- they turn back unto thee, And thou dost not turn back unto them.'),(24015020,24,15,20,'And I have made thee to this people For a wall -- brazen -- fenced, And they have fought against thee, And they do not prevail against thee, For with thee `am\' I to save thee, And to deliver thee -- an affirmation of Jehovah,'),(24015021,24,15,21,'And I have delivered thee from the hand of evil doers, And I have ransomed thee From the hand of the terrible!'),(24016001,24,16,1,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:'),(24016002,24,16,2,'Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.'),(24016003,24,16,3,'For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:'),(24016004,24,16,4,'Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.'),(24016005,24,16,5,'For thus said Jehovah: Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, For I have removed My peace from this people, An affirmation of Jehovah, The kindness and the mercies.'),(24016006,24,16,6,'And died have great and small in this land, They are not buried, and none lament for them, Nor doth any cut himself, nor become bald for them.'),(24016007,24,16,7,'Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, To comfort him concerning the dead, Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother.'),(24016008,24,16,8,'A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink,'),(24016009,24,16,9,'For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing to cease from this place, Before your eyes, and in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.'),(24016010,24,16,10,'And it hath come to pass when thou declarest to this people all these words, and they have said unto thee, `For what hath Jehovah spoken against us all this great evil? yea, what `is\' our iniquity, and what our sin, that we have sinned against Jehovah our God?\''),(24016011,24,16,11,'Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept,'),(24016012,24,16,12,'Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.'),(24016013,24,16,13,'And I have cast you from off this land, On to a land that ye have not known, Ye and your fathers, And ye have served there other gods by day and by night, Where I do not give to you grace.'),(24016014,24,16,14,'Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And it is not said any more: `Jehovah liveth, who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,\''),(24016015,24,16,15,'But, `Jehovah liveth, who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of the north, And out of all the lands whither He drove them,\' And I have brought them back to their land, That I gave to their fathers.'),(24016016,24,16,16,'Lo, I am sending for many fishers, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have fished them, And after this I send for many hunters, And they have hunted them from off every mountain, And from off every hill, and from holes of the rocks.'),(24016017,24,16,17,'For Mine eyes `are\' upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.'),(24016018,24,16,18,'And I have recompensed a first -- A second time -- their iniquity and their sin, Because of their polluting My land, With the carcase of their detestable things, Yea, their abominable things have filled Mine inheritance.'),(24016019,24,16,19,'O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.'),(24016020,24,16,20,'Doth man make for himself gods, And they -- no gods?'),(24016021,24,16,21,'Therefore, lo, I am causing them to know at this time, I cause them to know My hand and My might, And they have known that My name `is\' Jehovah!'),(24017001,24,17,1,'The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,'),(24017002,24,17,2,'As their sons remember their altars and their shrines, By the green tree, by the high hills.'),(24017003,24,17,3,'O My mountain in the field -- thy strength, All thy treasures -- for a prey I give, Thy high places for sin in all thy borders.'),(24017004,24,17,4,'And thou hast let go -- even through thyself, Of thine inheritance that I gave to thee, And I have caused thee to serve thine enemies, In a land that thou hast not known, For a fire ye have kindled in Mine anger, Unto the age it doth burn.'),(24017005,24,17,5,'Thus said Jehovah: Cursed `is\' the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.'),(24017006,24,17,6,'And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.'),(24017007,24,17,7,'Blessed `is\' the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah.'),(24017008,24,17,8,'And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.'),(24017009,24,17,9,'Crooked `is\' the heart above all things, And it `is\' incurable -- who doth know it?'),(24017010,24,17,10,'I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.'),(24017011,24,17,11,'A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is\' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.'),(24017012,24,17,12,'A throne of honour on high from the beginning, The place of our sanctuary,'),(24017013,24,17,13,'The hope of Israel `is\' Jehovah, All forsaking Thee are ashamed, And `My apostates\' in the earth are written, For they have forsaken Jehovah, A fountain of living waters.'),(24017014,24,17,14,'Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise `art\' Thou.'),(24017015,24,17,15,'Lo, they are saying unto me: `Where `is\' the word of Jehovah? pray, let it come.\''),(24017016,24,17,16,'And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou -- Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,'),(24017017,24,17,17,'Be not Thou to me for a terror, My hope `art\' Thou in a day of evil.'),(24017018,24,17,18,'Let my pursuers be ashamed, and let not me be ashamed -- me! Let them be affrighted, and let not me be affrighted -- me! Bring in on them a day of evil, And a second time `with\' destruction destroy them.'),(24017019,24,17,19,'Thus said Jehovah unto me: `Go, and thou hast stood in the gate of the sons of the people, by which kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all gates of Jerusalem,'),(24017020,24,17,20,'and thou hast said unto them: Hear a word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are coming in by these gates,'),(24017021,24,17,21,'Thus said Jehovah, Take ye heed to yourselves, And ye bear not a burden on the day of rest, Nor have ye brought `it\' in by the gates of Jerusalem.'),(24017022,24,17,22,'Nor do ye take out a burden from your houses on the day of rest, Yea, any work ye do not do, And ye have sanctified the day of rest, As I have commanded your fathers.'),(24017023,24,17,23,'And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction.'),(24017024,24,17,24,'And it hath been, if ye certainly hearken unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, So as not to bring in a burden By the gates of this city on the day of rest, And to sanctify the day of rest, So as not to do in it any work --'),(24017025,24,17,25,'Then entered by the gates of this city have kings and princes, Sitting on the throne of David, Riding in a chariot, and on horses, They, and their princes, the man of Judah, And inhabitants of Jerusalem, And this city hath remained to the age.'),(24017026,24,17,26,'And they have come in from cities of Judah, And from suburbs of Jerusalem, And from the land of Benjamin, And from the low country, And from the hill-country, and from the south, Bringing in burnt-offering, and sacrifice, And present, and frankincense, And bringing praise `to\' the house of Jehovah.'),(24017027,24,17,27,'And if ye do not hearken unto me to sanctify the day of rest, And so as not to bear a burden, And to come in at the gates of Jerusalem on the day of rest, Then I have kindled a fire in its gates, And it hath consumed the high places of Jerusalem, And it is not quenched!\''),(24018001,24,18,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24018002,24,18,2,'Rise, and thou hast gone down `to\' the potter\'s house, and there I cause thee to hear My words;'),(24018003,24,18,3,'and I go down `to\' the potter\'s house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones,'),(24018004,24,18,4,'and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.'),(24018005,24,18,5,'And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying:'),(24018006,24,18,6,'As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So `are\' ye in My hand, O house of Israel.'),(24018007,24,18,7,'The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,'),(24018008,24,18,8,'And that nation hath turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have repented of the evil that I thought to do to it.'),(24018009,24,18,9,'And the moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant,'),(24018010,24,18,10,'And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.'),(24018011,24,18,11,'And now, speak, I pray thee, unto men of Judah, And against inhabitants of Jerusalem, Saying: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am framing against you evil, And devising against you a device, Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way And amen your ways and your doings.'),(24018012,24,18,12,'And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.'),(24018013,24,18,13,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ask, I pray you, among the nations, Who hath heard like these? A very horrible thing hath the virgin of Israel done.'),(24018014,24,18,14,'Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?'),(24018015,24,18,15,'But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,'),(24018016,24,18,16,'To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.'),(24018017,24,18,17,'As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.\''),(24018018,24,18,18,'And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.'),(24018019,24,18,19,'Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me.'),(24018020,24,18,20,'Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.'),(24018021,24,18,21,'Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,'),(24018022,24,18,22,'A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.'),(24018023,24,18,23,'And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me `is\' for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!'),(24019001,24,19,1,'Thus said Jehovah, `Go, and thou hast got a potter\'s earthen vessel, and of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests,'),(24019002,24,19,2,'and thou hast gone forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, that `is\' at the opening of the gate of the pottery, and hast proclaimed there the words that I speak unto thee,'),(24019003,24,19,3,'and hast said, Hear a word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: `Lo, I am bringing in evil on this place, at which the ears of every one who is hearing it do tingle,'),(24019004,24,19,4,'because that they have forsaken Me, and make known this place, and make perfume in it to other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place `with\' innocent blood,'),(24019005,24,19,5,'and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offerings to Baal, that I commanded not, nor spake of, nor did it come up on My heart.'),(24019006,24,19,6,'`Therefore, lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and this place is not called any more, Tophet, and Valley of the son of Hinnom, but, Valley of slaughter.'),(24019007,24,19,7,'And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,'),(24019008,24,19,8,'and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.'),(24019009,24,19,9,'And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.'),(24019010,24,19,10,'`And thou hast broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with thee,'),(24019011,24,19,11,'and hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Thus do I break this people and this city, as one breaketh the potter\'s vessel, that is not able to be repaired again, and in Tophet they bury -- without place to bury;'),(24019012,24,19,12,'so I do to this place -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;'),(24019013,24,19,13,'and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, have been -- as the place of Tophet -- defiled, even all the houses on whose roofs they have made perfume to all the host of the heavens, so as to pour out oblations to other gods.\''),(24019014,24,19,14,'And Jeremiah cometh in from Tophet, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy, and he standeth in the court of the house of Jehovah, and he saith unto all the people:'),(24019015,24,19,15,'`Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in unto this city, and on all its cities, all the evil that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck -- not to hear My words!\''),(24020001,24,20,1,'And Pashhur son of Immer the priest -- who also `is\' overseer, leader in the house of Jehovah -- heareth Jeremiah prophesying these things,'),(24020002,24,20,2,'and Pashhur smiteth Jeremiah the prophet, and putteth him unto the stocks, that `are\' by the high gate of Benjamin, that `is\' by the house of Jehovah.'),(24020003,24,20,3,'and it cometh to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur bringeth out Jeremiah from the stocks, and Jeremiah saith unto him, `Not Pashhur hath Jehovah called thy name, but -- Magor-Missabib.'),(24020004,24,20,4,'For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am making thee for a fear to thyself, And to all loving thee, And they have fallen by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes are beholding, And all Judah I give into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath removed them to Babylon, And he hath smitten them with the sword.'),(24020005,24,20,5,'And I have given all the strength of this city, And all its labour, and all its precious things, Yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah I do give into the hand of their enemies, And they have spoiled them, and taken them, And have brought them into Babylon.'),(24020006,24,20,6,'And thou, Pashhur, and all dwelling in thy house, Do go into captivity. and Babylon thou dost enter, And there thou diest, and there thou art buried, Thou and all loving thee, To whom thou hast prophesied falsely.\''),(24020007,24,20,7,'Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me,'),(24020008,24,20,8,'Because from the time I speak I cry out, `Violence and destruction,\' I cry, For the word of Jehovah hath been to me For reproach and for derision all the day.'),(24020009,24,20,9,'And I said, `I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,\' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able.'),(24020010,24,20,10,'For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear `is\' round about: `Declare, and we declare it,\' All mine allies are watching `for\' my halting, `Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.\''),(24020011,24,20,11,'And Jehovah `is\' with me, as a terrible mighty one, Therefore my persecutors stumble and prevail not, They have been exceedingly ashamed, For they have not acted wisely, Confusion age-during is not forgotten.'),(24020012,24,20,12,'And, O Jehovah of Hosts, trier of the righteous, Beholder of reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance out of them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause.'),(24020013,24,20,13,'Sing ye to Jehovah, praise Jehovah, For He hath delivered the soul of the needy From the hand of evil doers.'),(24020014,24,20,14,'Cursed `is\' the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!'),(24020015,24,20,15,'Cursed `is\' the man who bore tidings `to\' my father, saying, `Born to thee hath been a child -- a male,\' Making him very glad!'),(24020016,24,20,16,'Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon.'),(24020017,24,20,17,'Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.'),(24020018,24,20,18,'Why `is\' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!'),(24021001,24,21,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the king Zedekiah\'s sending unto him Pashhur son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,'),(24021002,24,21,2,'`Inquire, we pray thee, for us at Jehovah, for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath fought against us; perhaps Jehovah doth deal with us according to all His wonders, and doth cause him to go up from off us.\''),(24021003,24,21,3,'And Jeremiah saith unto them, `Thus do ye say unto Zedekiah,'),(24021004,24,21,4,'Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel: Lo, I am turning round the weapons of battle That `are\' in your hand, With which ye do fight the king of Babylon, And the Chaldeans, who are laying siege against you, At the outside of the wall, And I have gathered them into the midst of this city,'),(24021005,24,21,5,'And I -- I have fought against you, With a stretched-out hand, and with a strong arm, And in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath,'),(24021006,24,21,6,'And I have smitten the inhabitants of this city, Both man and beast, By a great pestilence do they die.'),(24021007,24,21,7,'And after this -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I give Zedekiah king of Judah, And his servants, and the people, And those 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 seeking their life, And he hath smitten them by the mouth of the sword, He hath no pity on them, Nor doth he spare, nor hath he mercy.'),(24021008,24,21,8,'And unto this people thou dost say, Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am setting before you the way of life, And the way of death!'),(24021009,24,21,9,'Whoso is abiding in this city -- dieth, By sword, and by famine, and by pestilence, And whoso is going forth, And hath fallen unto the Chaldeans, Who are laying siege against you -- liveth, And his life hath been to him for a spoil.'),(24021010,24,21,10,'For I have set My face against this city for evil, And not for good -- an affirmation of Jehovah. Into the hand of the king of Babylon it is given, And he hath burned it with fire.'),(24021011,24,21,11,'And as to the house of the king of Judah, Hear ye a word of Jehovah;'),(24021012,24,21,12,'O house of David, thus said Jehovah: Decide ye judgment at morning, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, Lest My fury go forth as fire, And hath burned, and none is quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.'),(24021013,24,21,13,'Lo, I `am\' against thee -- an affirmation of Jehovah, O inhabitant of the valley, rock of the plain, Who are saying, Who cometh down against us? And who cometh into our habitations?'),(24021014,24,21,14,'And I have laid a charge against you, According to the fruit of your doings, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have kindled a fire in its forest, And it hath consumed -- all its suburbs!'),(24022001,24,22,1,'Thus said Jehovah, `Go down `to\' the house of the king of Judah, and thou hast spoken there this word, and hast said,'),(24022002,24,22,2,'Hear a word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, who art sitting on the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people, who are coming in at these gates,'),(24022003,24,22,3,'Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.'),(24022004,24,22,4,'For, if ye certainly do this thing, Then come in by the gates of this house Have kings sitting for David on his throne, Riding on chariot, and on horses, He, and his servants, and his people.'),(24022005,24,22,5,'And if ye do not hear these words, By myself I have sworn -- an affirmation of Jehovah, That this house is for a desolation.'),(24022006,24,22,6,'For thus said Jehovah, Concerning the house of the king of Judah: Gilead `art\' thou to Me -- head of Lebanon, If not -- I make thee a wilderness, Cities not inhabited.'),(24022007,24,22,7,'And I have separated for thee destroyers, Each with his weapons, And they have cut down the choice of thy cedars, And have cast them on the fire.'),(24022008,24,22,8,'And many nations have passed by this city, And they have said, each to his neighbour, For what hath Jehovah done thus to this great city?'),(24022009,24,22,9,'And they have said, `Because that they have forsaken The covenant of Jehovah their God, And bow themselves to other gods, and serve them.\''),(24022010,24,22,10,'Ye do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep ye sore for the traveller, For he doth not return again, Nor hath he seen the land of his birth.'),(24022011,24,22,11,'For thus said Jehovah concerning Shallum son of Josiah king of Judah, who is reigning instead of Josiah his father, who hath gone forth from this place: He doth not turn back hither again;'),(24022012,24,22,12,'For in the place whither they have removed him he dieth, And this land he doth not see again.'),(24022013,24,22,13,'Wo to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.'),(24022014,24,22,14,'Who is saying, `I build for myself a large house, And airy upper chambers,\' And he hath cut out for himself its windows, Ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermillion.'),(24022015,24,22,15,'Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father -- did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then `it is\' well with him.'),(24022016,24,22,16,'He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then `it is\' well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24022017,24,22,17,'But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.'),(24022018,24,22,18,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: They do not lament for him, Ah, my brother, and Ah, sister, They do not lament for him, Ah, lord, and Ah, his honour.'),(24022019,24,22,19,'The burial of an ass -- he is buried, Dragged and cast out thence to the gates of Jerusalem.'),(24022020,24,22,20,'Go up to Lebanon, and cry, And in Bashan give forth thy voice, And cry from Abarim, For destroyed have been all loving thee.'),(24022021,24,22,21,'I have spoken unto thee in thine ease, Thou hast said, `I do not hearken,\' This `is\' thy way from thy youth, For thou hast not hearkened to My voice.'),(24022022,24,22,22,'All thy friends consume doth wind, And thy lovers into captivity do go, Surely then thou art ashamed, And hast blushed for all thy wickedness.'),(24022023,24,22,23,'O dweller in Lebanon, making a nest among cedars, How gracious hast thou been when pangs come to thee, Pain -- as of a travailing woman.'),(24022024,24,22,24,'I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah Were a seal on My right hand, Surely thence I draw thee away,'),(24022025,24,22,25,'And I have given thee into the hand of those seeking thy life, And into hands of which thou art afraid, Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24022026,24,22,26,'And I have cast thee, And thy mother who bore thee, unto another country, Where ye were not born, and there do ye die.'),(24022027,24,22,27,'And to the land whither they are lifting up their soul to return, Thither they do not return.'),(24022028,24,22,28,'A grief -- a despised broken thing -- is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?'),(24022029,24,22,29,'Earth, earth, earth, hear a word of Jehovah,'),(24022030,24,22,30,'Thus said Jehovah: Write ye this man childless, A man -- he doth not prosper in his days, For none of his seed doth prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling again in Judah!'),(24023001,24,23,1,'Wo to shepherds destroying, And scattering the flock of My pasture, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24023002,24,23,2,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Against the shepherds who feed My people, Ye have scattered My flock, and drive them away, And have not inspected them, Lo, I am charging on you the evil of your doings, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24023003,24,23,3,'And I do gather the remnant of My flock Out of all the lands whither I drove them, And have brought them back unto their fold, And they have been fruitful, and multiplied.'),(24023004,24,23,4,'And I have raised for them shepherds, And they have fed them, And they fear no more, nor are affrighted, Nor are they lacking -- an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24023005,24,23,5,'Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth.'),(24023006,24,23,6,'In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwelleth confidently, And this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him, `Our Righteousness.\''),(24023007,24,23,7,'Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they do not say any more, Jehovah liveth who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'),(24023008,24,23,8,'But -- Jehovah liveth, who brought up, And who brought in, the seed of the house of Israel, From the land of the north, And from all the lands whither I drove them, And they have dwelt on their own ground!'),(24023009,24,23,9,'In reference to the prophets: Broken hath been my heart in my midst, Fluttered have all my bones, I have been as a man -- a drunkard, And as a man -- wine hath passed over him, Because of Jehovah, and of His holy words.'),(24023010,24,23,10,'For of adulterers hath the land been full, For because of these hath the land mourned, Dried up hath been the pleasant places of the wilderness, And their course is evil, and their might -- not right.'),(24023011,24,23,11,'For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24023012,24,23,12,'Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24023013,24,23,13,'And in prophets of Samaria I have seen folly, They have prophesied by Baal, And cause my people -- Israel -- to err.'),(24023014,24,23,14,'And in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing, Committing adultery, and walking falsely, Yea, they strengthened the hands of evil doers, So that they have not turned back Each from his wickedness, They have been to me -- all of them -- as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah.'),(24023015,24,23,15,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, concerning the prophets: Lo, I am causing them to eat wormwood, And have caused them to drink water of gall, For, from prophets of Jerusalem Hath profanity gone forth to all the land.'),(24023016,24,23,16,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Ye do not hearken unto the words Of the prophets who are prophesying to you, They are making you vain things, A vision of their own heart they speak, Not from the mouth of Jehovah.'),(24023017,24,23,17,'Saying diligently to those despising The word of Jehovah: Peace is for you, And `to\' every one walking in the stubbornness of his heart they have said: Evil doth not come in unto you.'),(24023018,24,23,18,'For who hath stood in the counsel of Jehovah, And seeth and heareth His word? Who hath regarded My word, and hearkeneth?'),(24023019,24,23,19,'Lo, a whirlwind of Jehovah -- Fury hath gone out, even a piercing whirlwind, On the head of the wicked it stayeth.'),(24023020,24,23,20,'The anger of Jehovah doth not turn back Till His doing, and till His establishing, The thoughts of His heart, In the latter end of the days ye attend to it With understanding.'),(24023021,24,23,21,'I have not sent the prophets, and they have run, I have not spoken unto them, and they have prophesied.'),(24023022,24,23,22,'But -- if they stood in My counsel, Then they cause My people to hear My words, And they turn them back from their evil way, And from the evil of their doings.'),(24023023,24,23,23,'A God near `am\' I -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And not a God afar off?'),(24023024,24,23,24,'Is any one hidden in secret places, And I see him not? an affirmation of Jehovah, Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24023025,24,23,25,'I have heard that which the prophets said, Who prophesy in My name falsehood, saying, `I have dreamed, I have dreamed.\''),(24023026,24,23,26,'Till when is it in the heart of the prophets? The prophets of falsehood, Yea, prophets of the deceit of their heart,'),(24023027,24,23,27,'Who are devising to cause My people To forget My name by their dreams, That they recount each to his neighbour, As their fathers forgot my name for Baal.'),(24023028,24,23,28,'The prophet with whom `is\' a dream, Let him recount the dream, And he with whom `is\' My word, Let him truly speak My word. What -- to the straw with the corn? An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24023029,24,23,29,'Is it not thus? My word `is\' as a fire, An affirmation of Jehovah. And as a hammer -- it breaketh in pieces a rock.'),(24023030,24,23,30,'Therefore, lo, I `am\' against the prophets, An affirmation of Jehovah, Stealing My words each from his neighbour.'),(24023031,24,23,31,'Lo, I `am\' against the prophets, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are making smooth their tongue, And they affirm -- an affirmation.'),(24023032,24,23,32,'Lo, I `am\' against the prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I -- I have not sent them, Nor have I commanded them, And they are not at all profitable to this people, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24023033,24,23,33,'And when this people, or the prophet, Or a priest, doth ask thee, saying, What `is\' the burden of Jehovah? Then thou hast said unto them: Ye `are\' the burden, and I have left you, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24023034,24,23,34,'And the prophet, and the priest, and the people, That saith, The burden of Jehovah, I have seen after that man, and after his house.'),(24023035,24,23,35,'Thus do ye say each unto his neighbour, And each unto his brother: What hath Jehovah answered? And what hath Jehovah spoken?'),(24023036,24,23,36,'And the burden of Jehovah ye do not mention any more, For the burden to each is -- His word, And ye have overturned the words of the living God, Jehovah of Hosts, our God.'),(24023037,24,23,37,'Thus dost thou say unto the prophet What hath Jehovah answered thee? And what hath Jehovah spoken?'),(24023038,24,23,38,'And if the burden of Jehovah ye say, Therefore thus said Jehovah: Because of your saying this word, The burden of Jehovah, And I do send unto you, saying, Ye do not say, The burden of Jehovah.'),(24023039,24,23,39,'Therefore, lo, I -- I have taken you utterly away, And I have sent you out, And the city that I gave to you, And to your fathers, from before My face,'),(24023040,24,23,40,'And I have put on you reproach age-during, And shame age-during that is not forgotten!'),(24024001,24,24,1,'Jehovah hath shewed me, and lo, two baskets of figs, appointed before the temple of Jehovah, -- after the removing by Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, of Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the heads of Judah, and the artizan, and the smith, from Jerusalem, when he bringeth them into Babylon --'),(24024002,24,24,2,'In the one basket `are\' figs very good, like the first-ripe figs, and in the other basket `are\' figs very bad, that are not eaten for badness.'),(24024003,24,24,3,'And Jehovah saith unto me, `What art thou seeing, Jeremiah?\' and I say, `Figs, the good figs `are\' very good, and the bad `are\' very bad, that are not eaten for badness.\''),(24024004,24,24,4,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:'),(24024005,24,24,5,'Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Like these good figs so do I acknowledge The removed of Judah -- that I sent from this place, `To\' the land of the Chaldeans -- for good.'),(24024006,24,24,6,'And I have set Mine eyes on them for good, And have brought them back to this land, And built them up, and I throw not down, And have planted them, and pluck not up.'),(24024007,24,24,7,'And have given to them a heart to know Me, For I `am\' Jehovah, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, For they turned back unto Me with all their heart.'),(24024008,24,24,8,'And like the bad figs, that are not eaten for badness, Surely thus said Jehovah: So do I make Zedekiah king of Judah, And his heads, and the remnant of Jerusalem, Who are left in this land, And who are dwelling in the land of Egypt,'),(24024009,24,24,9,'And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.'),(24024010,24,24,10,'And I have sent against them the sword, The famine and the pestilence, Till their consumption from off the ground, That I gave to them and to their fathers!'),(24025001,24,25,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, -- it `is\' the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, --'),(24025002,24,25,2,'Which Jeremiah the prophet hath spoken concerning all the people of Judah, even unto all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:'),(24025003,24,25,3,'`From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, and unto this day -- this three and twentieth year -- hath the word of Jehovah been unto me, and I speak unto you, rising early and speaking, and ye have not hearkened;'),(24025004,24,25,4,'And Jehovah hath sent unto you all His servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear, saying:'),(24025005,24,25,5,'`Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell on the ground that Jehovah hath given to you and to your fathers from age unto age,'),(24025006,24,25,6,'And ye do not go after other gods to serve them, and to bow yourselves to them, nor do ye provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I do no evil to you;'),(24025007,24,25,7,'And ye have not hearkened unto Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- so as to provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands for evil to you.'),(24025008,24,25,8,'`Therefore thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Because that ye have not obeyed My words,'),(24025009,24,25,9,'Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes age-during.'),(24025010,24,25,10,'And I have destroyed from them the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of joy, voice of bridegroom and voice of bride, noise of millstones, and the light of lamps.'),(24025011,24,25,11,'And all this land hath been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.'),(24025012,24,25,12,'`And it hath come to pass, at the fulness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for desolations age-during.'),(24025013,24,25,13,'And I have brought in on that land all My words that I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, that Jeremiah hath prophesied concerning all the nations.'),(24025014,24,25,14,'For laid service on them -- also them -- have many nations and great kings, and I have given recompence to them according to their doing, and according to the work of their hands.'),(24025015,24,25,15,'`For thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and thou hast caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending thee;'),(24025016,24,25,16,'And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.'),(24025017,24,25,17,'`And I take the cup out of the hand of Jehovah, and cause all the nations to drink unto whom Jehovah sent me:'),(24025018,24,25,18,'Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as `at\' this day.'),(24025019,24,25,19,'Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, And his heads, and all his people,'),(24025020,24,25,20,'And all the mixed people, And all the kings of the land of Uz, And all the kings of the land of the Philistines, And Ashkelon, and Gazzah, and Ekron, And the remnant of Ashdod,'),(24025021,24,25,21,'Edom, and Moab, and the sons of Ammon,'),(24025022,24,25,22,'And all the kings of Tyre, And all the kings of Zidon, And the kings of the isle that `is\' beyond the sea,'),(24025023,24,25,23,'Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, And all cutting the corners `of the beard\','),(24025024,24,25,24,'And all the kings of Arabia, And all the kings of the mixed people, Who are dwelling in the wilderness,'),(24025025,24,25,25,'And all the kings of Zimri, And all the kings of Elam, And all the kings of Media,'),(24025026,24,25,26,'And all the kings of the north, The near and the far off, one unto another, And all the kingdoms of the earth, That `are\' on the face of the ground, And king Sheshach drinketh after them.'),(24025027,24,25,27,'And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts God of Israel, Drink ye, yea drink abundantly, And vomit, and fall, and rise not, Because of the sword that I am sending among you.'),(24025028,24,25,28,'And it hath come to pass, When they refuse to receive the cup out of thy hand to drink, That thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Ye do certainly drink.'),(24025029,24,25,29,'For lo, in the city over which My name is called, I am beginning to do evil, And ye -- ye are entirely acquitted! Ye are not acquitted, for a sword I am proclaiming, For all inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.'),(24025030,24,25,30,'And thou, thou dost prophesy unto them all these words, and hast said unto them: Jehovah from the high place doth roar, And from His holy habitation giveth forth His voice, He surely roareth for His habitation, A shout as of treaders down, God answereth all the inhabitants of the land,'),(24025031,24,25,31,'Wasting hath come unto the end of the earth, For a controversy hath Jehovah with nations, He hath executed judgment for all flesh, The wicked! He hath given them to the sword, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24025032,24,25,32,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, evil is going out from nation to nation, And a great whirlwind is stirred up from the sides of the earth.'),(24025033,24,25,33,'And the pierced of Jehovah have been in that day, From the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth, They are not lamented, nor gathered, nor buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are.'),(24025034,24,25,34,'Howl, ye shepherds, and cry, And roll yourselves, ye honourable of the flock, For full have been your days, For slaughtering, and `for\' your scatterings, And ye have fallen as a desirable vessel.'),(24025035,24,25,35,'And perished hath refuge from the shepherds, And escape from the honourable of the flock.'),(24025036,24,25,36,'A voice `is\' of the cry of the shepherds, And a howling of the honourable of the flock, For Jehovah is spoiling their pasture.'),(24025037,24,25,37,'And the peaceable habitations have been cut down, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.'),(24025038,24,25,38,'He hath forsaken, as a young lion, His covert, Surely their land hath become a desolation, Because of the oppressing fierceness, And because of the fierceness of His anger!'),(24026001,24,26,1,'In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, hath this word been from Jehovah, saying:'),(24026002,24,26,2,'`Thus said Jehovah, Stand thou in the court of the house of Jehovah, and thou hast spoken unto all `those of\' the cities of Judah who are coming in to bow themselves in the house of Jehovah, all the words that I have commanded thee to speak unto them, thou dost not diminish a word.'),(24026003,24,26,3,'If so be they hearken, and turn back each from his evil way, then I have repented concerning the evil that I am thinking of doing to them, because of the evil of their doings.'),(24026004,24,26,4,'`And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, If ye do not hearken unto Me, to walk in My law, that I set before you,'),(24026005,24,26,5,'To hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I am sending unto you, yea, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened,'),(24026006,24,26,6,'Then I have given up this house as Shiloh, and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth.\''),(24026007,24,26,7,'And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, hear Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah,'),(24026008,24,26,8,'And it cometh to pass, at the completion of Jeremiah\'s speaking all that Jehovah hath commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests, and the prophets, and all the people catch him, saying, Thou dost surely die,'),(24026009,24,26,9,'Wherefore hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, `As Shiloh this house shall be, and this city is wasted, without inhabitant?\' and all the people are assembled unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.'),(24026010,24,26,10,'And the heads of Judah hear these things, and they go up from the house of the king `to\' the house of Jehovah, and sit in the opening of the new gate of Jehovah.'),(24026011,24,26,11,'And the priests and the prophets speak unto the heads, and unto all the people, saying, `Judgment of death `is\' for this man, for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.\''),(24026012,24,26,12,'And Jeremiah speaketh unto all the heads, and unto all the people, saying, `Jehovah sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and concerning this city, all the words that ye have heard;'),(24026013,24,26,13,'And now, amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God, and Jehovah doth repent concerning the evil that He hath spoken against you.'),(24026014,24,26,14,'`And I, lo, I `am\' in your hand, do to me as is good and as is right in your eyes;'),(24026015,24,26,15,'Only, know ye certainly, that if ye are putting me to death, surely innocent blood ye are putting on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly hath Jehovah sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.\''),(24026016,24,26,16,'And the heads and all the people say unto the priests and unto the prophets, `There is not for this man a judgment of death, for in the name of Jehovah our God he hath spoken unto us.\''),(24026017,24,26,17,'And certain of the elders of the land rise up, and speak unto all the assembly of the people, saying,'),(24026018,24,26,18,'`Micah the Morashtite hath been prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he saith unto all the people of Judah, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Zion is a plowed field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mountain of the house is for high places of a forest.'),(24026019,24,26,19,'`Put him at all to death did Hezekiah king of Judah, and all Judah? Did he not fear Jehovah? yea, he appeaseth the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah repenteth concerning the evil that He spake against them; and we are doing great evil against our souls.'),(24026020,24,26,20,'`And also there hath been a man prophesying in the name of Jehovah, Urijah son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath-Jearim, and he prophesieth against this city, and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah,'),(24026021,24,26,21,'And the king Jehoiakim, and all his mighty ones, and all the heads, hear his words, and the king seeketh to put him to death, and Urijah heareth, and feareth, and fleeth, and goeth in to Egypt.'),(24026022,24,26,22,'And the king Jehoiakim sendeth men to Egypt -- Elnathan son of Achbor, and men with him unto Egypt --'),(24026023,24,26,23,'And they bring out Urijah from Egypt, and bring him in unto the king Jehoiakim, and he smiteth him with a sword, and casteth his corpse unto the graves of the sons of the people.\''),(24026024,24,26,24,'Only, the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan hath been with Jeremiah so as not to give him up into the hand of the people to put him to death.'),(24027001,24,27,1,'In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, hath this word been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24027002,24,27,2,'`Thus said Jehovah unto me, Make to thee bands and yokes,'),(24027003,24,27,3,'And thou hast put them on thy neck, and hast sent them unto the king of Edom, and unto the king of Moab, and unto the king of the sons of Ammon, and unto the king of Tyre, and unto the king of Zidon, by the hand of messengers who are coming in to Jerusalem, unto Zedekiah king of Judah;'),(24027004,24,27,4,'And thou hast commanded them for their lords, saying, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel,'),(24027005,24,27,5,'Thus do ye say unto your lords, I -- I have made the earth with man, and the cattle that `are\' on the face of the earth, by My great power, and by My stretched-out arm, and I have given it to whom it hath been right in Mine eyes.'),(24027006,24,27,6,'`And now, I -- I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and also the beast of the field I have given to him to serve him;'),(24027007,24,27,7,'And served him have all the nations, and his son, and his son\'s son, till the coming in of the time of his land, also it; and done service for him have many nations and great kings.'),(24027008,24,27,8,'And it hath come to pass, the nation and the kingdom that do not serve him -- Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon -- and that which putteth not its neck into the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, I lay a charge on that nation -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- till I consume them by his hand.'),(24027009,24,27,9,'`And ye, ye do not hearken unto your prophets, and unto your diviners, and unto your dreamers, and unto your observers of clouds, and unto your sorcerers who are speaking unto you, saying, Ye do not serve the king of Babylon, --'),(24027010,24,27,10,'For falsehood they are prophesying to you, so as to remove you far from off your ground, and I have driven you out, and ye have perished.'),(24027011,24,27,11,'And the nation that causeth its neck to enter into the yoke of the king of Babylon, and hath served him -- I have left it on its ground -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and it hath tilled it, and dwelt in it.\''),(24027012,24,27,12,'And unto Zedekiah king of Judah I have spoken according to all these words, saying, `Cause your necks to enter into the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.'),(24027013,24,27,13,'Why do ye die, thou and thy people, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the nation that doth not serve the king of Babylon?'),(24027014,24,27,14,'`And ye do not hearken unto the words of the prophets who are speaking unto you, saying, Ye do not serve the king of Babylon, -- for falsehood they are prophesying to you.'),(24027015,24,27,15,'For I have not sent them -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and they are prophesying in My name falsely, so as to drive you out, and ye have perished, ye, and the prophets who are prophesying to you.\''),(24027016,24,27,16,'And unto the priests, and unto all this people, I have spoken, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, Ye do not hearken unto the words of your prophets, who are prophesying to you, saying, Lo, the vessels of the house of Jehovah are brought back from Babylon now in haste, for falsehood they are prophesying to you.'),(24027017,24,27,17,'Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?'),(24027018,24,27,18,'`And, if they be prophets, and if a word of Jehovah be with them, let them intercede, I pray you, with Jehovah of Hosts, so that the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and `in\' the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, have not gone into Babylon.'),(24027019,24,27,19,'For thus said Jehovah of Hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,'),(24027020,24,27,20,'That Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath not taken, in his removing Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon with all the freemen of Judah and Jerusalem,'),(24027021,24,27,21,'Surely thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left of the house of Jehovah, and of the house of the king of Judah, and `in\' Jerusalem:'),(24027022,24,27,22,'To Babylon they are brought, and there they are till the day of My inspecting them -- an affirmation of Jehovah; then I have brought them up, and have brought them back unto this place.\''),(24028001,24,28,1,'And it cometh to pass, in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, spoken unto me hath Hananiah son of Azur the prophet, who `is\' of Gibeon, in the house of Jehovah, before the eyes of the priests, and all the people, saying,'),(24028002,24,28,2,'`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon;'),(24028003,24,28,3,'Within two years of days I am bringing back unto this place all the vessels of the house of Jehovah that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath taken from this place, and doth carry to Babylon,'),(24028004,24,28,4,'And Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the removed of Judah, who are entering Babylon, I am bringing back unto this place -- an affirmation of Jehovah; for I do break the yoke of the king of Babylon.\''),(24028005,24,28,5,'And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto Hananiah the prophet, before the eyes of the priests, and before the eyes of all the people who are standing in the house of Jehovah,'),(24028006,24,28,6,'Yea, Jeremiah the prophet saith, `Amen! so may Jehovah do; Jehovah establish thy words that thou hast prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the house of Jehovah and all the removal from Babylon, unto this place.'),(24028007,24,28,7,'`Only, hear, I pray thee, this word that I am speaking in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people.'),(24028008,24,28,8,'The prophets who have been before me, and before thee, from of old, even they prophesy concerning many lands, and concerning great kingdoms, of battle, and of evil, and of pestilence.'),(24028009,24,28,9,'The prophet who doth prophesy of peace -- by the coming in of the word of the prophet, known is the prophet that Jehovah hath truly sent him.\''),(24028010,24,28,10,'And Hananiah the prophet taketh the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and breaketh it,'),(24028011,24,28,11,'And Hananiah speaketh before the eyes of all the people, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, Thus I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, within two years of days, from off the neck of all the nations;\' and Jeremiah the prophet goeth on his way.'),(24028012,24,28,12,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah after the breaking, by Hananiah the prophet, of the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, saying,'),(24028013,24,28,13,'`Go, and thou hast spoken unto Hananiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Yokes of wood thou hast broken, and I have made instead of them yokes of iron;'),(24028014,24,28,14,'For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, A yoke of iron I have put on the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they have served him, and also the beast of the field I have given to him.\''),(24028015,24,28,15,'And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto Hananiah the prophet, `Hear, I pray thee, O Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, and thou hast caused this people to trust on falsehood.'),(24028016,24,28,16,'Therefore thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am casting thee from off the face of the ground; this year thou diest, for apostacy thou hast spoken concerning Jehovah.\''),(24028017,24,28,17,'And Hananiah the prophet dieth in that year, in the seventh month.'),(24029001,24,29,1,'And these `are\' words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the remnant of the elders of the removal, and unto the priests, and unto the prophets, and unto all the people -- whom Nebuchadnezzar removed from Jerusalem to Babylon,'),(24029002,24,29,2,'After the going forth of Jeconiah the king, and the mistress, and the officers, heads of Judah and Jerusalem, and the artificer, and the smith, from Jerusalem --'),(24029003,24,29,3,'By the hand of Eleasah son of Shaphan, and Gemariah son of Hilkijah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon -- to Babylon, saying,'),(24029004,24,29,4,'`Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, to all the removal that I removed from Jerusalem to Babylon,'),(24029005,24,29,5,'Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit;'),(24029006,24,29,6,'Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few;'),(24029007,24,29,7,'And seek the peace of the city whither I have removed you, and pray for it unto Jehovah, for in its peace ye have peace.'),(24029008,24,29,8,'`For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Let not your prophets who `are\' in your midst, and your diviners, lift you up, nor hearken ye unto their dreams, thay ye are causing `them\' to dream;'),(24029009,24,29,9,'For with falsehood they are prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24029010,24,29,10,'`For thus said Jehovah, Surely at the fulness of Babylon -- seventy years -- I inspect you, and have established towards you My good word, to bring you back unto this place.'),(24029011,24,29,11,'For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you -- an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.'),(24029012,24,29,12,'`And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,'),(24029013,24,29,13,'And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;'),(24029014,24,29,14,'And I have been found of you -- an affirmation of Jehovah; and I have turned back `to\' your captivity, and have gathered you out of all the nations, and out of all the places whither I have driven you -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and I have brought you back unto the place whence I removed you.'),(24029015,24,29,15,'`Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,'),(24029016,24,29,16,'Surely thus said Jehovah concerning the king who is sitting on the throne of David, and concerning all the people that is dwelling in this city, your brethren who went not forth with you in the removal;'),(24029017,24,29,17,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Lo, I am sending among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I have given them up as figs that `are\' vile, that are not eaten for badness.'),(24029018,24,29,18,'And I have pursued after them with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and have given them for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for a reproach among all the nations whither I have driven them,'),(24029019,24,29,19,'Because that they have not hearkened unto My words -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- that I sent unto them by My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye hearkened not -- an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24029020,24,29,20,'`And ye, hear ye a word of Jehovah, all ye of the captivity that I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon,'),(24029021,24,29,21,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in My name falsehood: Lo, I am giving them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he hath smitten them before your eyes,'),(24029022,24,29,22,'And taken from them hath been a reviling by all the removed of Judah that `are\' in Babylon, saying, Jehovah doth set thee as Zedekiah, and as Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted with fire;'),(24029023,24,29,23,'Because that they have done folly in Israel, and commit adultery with the wives of their neighbours, and speak a word in My name falsely that I have not commanded them, and I `am\' He who knoweth and a witness -- an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24029024,24,29,24,'`And unto Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou dost speak, saying,'),(24029025,24,29,25,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, saying, Because that thou hast sent in thy name letters unto all the people who `are\' in Jerusalem, and unto Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, and unto all the priests, saying,'),(24029026,24,29,26,'Jehovah hath made thee priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for there being inspectors of the house of Jehovah, for every one mad and making himself a prophet, and thou hast put him unto the torture and unto the stocks.'),(24029027,24,29,27,'And now, why hast thou not pushed against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is making himself a prophet to you?'),(24029028,24,29,28,'Because that he hath sent unto us to Babylon, saying, It `is\' long, build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit.\''),(24029029,24,29,29,'And Zephaniah the priest readeth this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.'),(24029030,24,29,30,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,'),(24029031,24,29,31,'`Send unto all the removal, saying, Thus said Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I -- I have not sent him, and he doth cause you to trust on falsehood,'),(24029032,24,29,32,'Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am seeing after Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and after his seed, he hath none dwelling in the midst of this people, nor doth he look on the good that I am doing to My people -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- for apostacy he hath spoken against Jehovah.\''),(24030001,24,30,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,'),(24030002,24,30,2,'`Thus spake Jehovah, God of Israel, saying, Write for thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee on a book.'),(24030003,24,30,3,'For, lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and I have turned back `to\' the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, said Jehovah, and I have caused them to turn back unto the land that I gave to their fathers, and they do possess it.\''),(24030004,24,30,4,'And these `are\' the words that Jehovah hath spoken concerning Israel and concerning Judah:'),(24030005,24,30,5,'Surely thus said Jehovah: A voice of trembling we have heard, Fear -- and there is no peace.'),(24030006,24,30,6,'Ask, I pray you, and see, is a male bringing forth? Wherefore have I seen every man, His hands on his loins, as a travailing woman, And all faces have been turned to paleness?'),(24030007,24,30,7,'Wo! for great `is\' that day, without any like it, Yea, a time of adversity it `is\' to Jacob, Yet out of it he is saved.'),(24030008,24,30,8,'And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, I break his yoke from off thy neck, And thy bands I draw away, And lay no more service on him do strangers.'),(24030009,24,30,9,'And they have served Jehovah their God, And David their king whom I raise up to them.'),(24030010,24,30,10,'And thou, be not afraid, My servant Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah, Nor be affrighted, O Israel, For, lo, I am saving thee from afar, And thy seed from the land of their captivity, And Jacob hath turned back and rested, And is quiet, and there is none troubling.'),(24030011,24,30,11,'For with thee `am\' I, An affirmation of Jehovah -- to save thee, For I make an end of all the nations Whither I have scattered thee, Only, of thee I do not make an end, And I have chastised thee in judgment, And do not entirely acquit thee.'),(24030012,24,30,12,'For thus said Jehovah: Incurable is thy breach, grievous thy stroke,'),(24030013,24,30,13,'There is none judging thy cause to bind up, Healing medicines there are none for thee.'),(24030014,24,30,14,'all loving thee have forgotten thee, Thee they do not seek, For with the stroke of an enemy I smote thee, The chastisement of a fierce one, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins!'),(24030015,24,30,15,'What! -- thou criest concerning thy breach! Incurable `is\' thy pain, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins! I have done these to thee.'),(24030016,24,30,16,'Therefore all consuming thee are consumed, And all thine adversaries -- all of them -- Into captivity do go, And thy spoilers have been for a spoil, And all thy plunderers I give up to plunder.'),(24030017,24,30,17,'For I increase health to thee, And from thy strokes I do heal thee, An affirmation of Jehovah, For `Outcast\' they have called to thee, `Zion it `is\', there is none seeking for her.\''),(24030018,24,30,18,'Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I turn back `to\' the captivity of the tents of Jacob, And his dwelling places I pity, And the city hath been built on its heap, And the palace according to its ordinance remaineth.'),(24030019,24,30,19,'And gone forth from them hath thanksgiving, And the voice of playful ones, And I have multiplied them and they are not few, And made them honourable, and they are not small.'),(24030020,24,30,20,'And his sons have been as aforetime, And his company before Me is established, And I have seen after all his oppressors.'),(24030021,24,30,21,'And his honourable one hath been of himself, And his ruler from his midst goeth forth, And I have caused him to draw near, And he hath drawn nigh unto Me, For who `is\' he who hath pledged his heart To draw nigh unto Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24030022,24,30,22,'And ye have been to Me for a people, And I am to you for God.'),(24030023,24,30,23,'Lo, a whirlwind of Jehovah -- Fury hath gone forth -- a cutting whirlwind, On the head of the wicked it stayeth.'),(24030024,24,30,24,'The fierceness of the anger of Jehovah Doth not turn back till His doing, Yea, till His establishing the devices of His heart, In the latter end of the days we consider it!'),(24031001,24,31,1,'At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, I am for God to all families of Israel, And they -- they are to Me for a people.'),(24031002,24,31,2,'Thus said Jehovah: Found grace in the wilderness Hath a people remaining from the sword Going to cause it to rest -- Israel.'),(24031003,24,31,3,'From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee `with\' kindness.'),(24031004,24,31,4,'Again do I build thee, And thou hast been built, O virgin of Israel, Again thou puttest on thy tabrets, And hast gone out in the chorus of the playful.'),(24031005,24,31,5,'Again thou dost plant vineyards In mountains of Samaria, Planters have planted, and made common.'),(24031006,24,31,6,'For there is a day, Cried have watchmen on mount Ephraim, `Rise, and we go up to Zion, unto Jehovah our God;'),(24031007,24,31,7,'For thus said Jehovah: Sing, O ye to Jacob, `with\' joy, And cry aloud at the head of the nations, Sound ye, praise ye, and say, Save, O Jehovah, thy people, the remnant of Israel.'),(24031008,24,31,8,'Lo, I am bringing them in from the north country, And have gathered them from the sides of the earth, Among them `are\' blind and lame, Conceiving and travailing one -- together, A great assembly -- they turn back hither.'),(24031009,24,31,9,'With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born `is\' he.'),(24031010,24,31,10,'Hear a word of Jehovah, O nations, And declare ye among isles afar off, and say: He who is scattering Israel doth gather him, And hath kept him as a shepherd `doth\' his flock,'),(24031011,24,31,11,'For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, And redeemed him from a hand stronger than he.'),(24031012,24,31,12,'And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Jehovah, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul hath been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more.'),(24031013,24,31,13,'Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,'),(24031014,24,31,14,'And satisfied the soul of the priests `with\' fatness, And My people with My goodness are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24031015,24,31,15,'Thus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.'),(24031016,24,31,16,'Thus said Jehovah: Withhold thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears, For there is a reward for thy work, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have turned back from the land of the enemy.'),(24031017,24,31,17,'And there is hope for thy latter end, An affirmation of Jehovah, And the sons have turned back `to\' their border.'),(24031018,24,31,18,'I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art\' Jehovah my God.'),(24031019,24,31,19,'For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth.'),(24031020,24,31,20,'A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24031021,24,31,21,'Set up for thee signs, make for thee heaps, Set thy heart to the highway, the way thou wentest, Turn back, O virgin of Israel, Turn back unto these thy cities.'),(24031022,24,31,22,'Till when dost thou withdraw thyself, O backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath prepared a new thing in the land, Woman doth compass man.'),(24031023,24,31,23,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Still they say this word in the land of Judah, And in its cities, In My turning back `to\' their captivity, Jehovah doth bless thee, habitation of righteousness, Mountain of holiness.'),(24031024,24,31,24,'And dwelt in Judah have husbandmen, and in all its cities together, And they have journeyed in order.'),(24031025,24,31,25,'For I have satiated the weary soul, And every grieved soul I have filled.\''),(24031026,24,31,26,'On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.'),(24031027,24,31,27,'Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sown the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, With seed of man, and seed of beast.'),(24031028,24,31,28,'And it hath been, as I watched over them to pluck up, And to break down, and to throw down, And to destroy, and to afflict; So do I watch over them to build, and to plant, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24031029,24,31,29,'In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons\' teeth are blunted.'),(24031030,24,31,30,'But -- each for his own iniquity doth die, Every man who is eating the unripe fruit, Blunted are his teeth.'),(24031031,24,31,31,'Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have made with the house of Israel And with the house of Judah a new covenant,'),(24031032,24,31,32,'Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day of My laying hold on their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt, In that they made void My covenant, And I ruled over them -- an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24031033,24,31,33,'For this `is\' the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.'),(24031034,24,31,34,'And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.'),(24031035,24,31,35,'Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving the sun for a light by day, The statutes of moon and stars for a light by night, Quieting the sea when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts `is\' His name:'),(24031036,24,31,36,'If these statutes depart from before Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, Even the seed of Israel doth cease From being a nation before Me all the days.'),(24031037,24,31,37,'Thus said Jehovah: If the heavens above be measured, And the foundations of earth below searched, Even I kick against all the seed of Israel, For all that they have done, An affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24031038,24,31,38,'Lo, days `are coming\', an affirmation of Jehovah, And the city hath been built to Jehovah, From the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the corner.'),(24031039,24,31,39,'And gone out again hath the measuring line Over-against it, unto the height of Gareb, And it hath compassed to Goah.'),(24031040,24,31,40,'And all the valley of the carcases and of the ashes, And all the fields unto the brook Kidron, Unto the corner of the horse-gate eastward, `Are\' holy to Jehovah, it is not plucked up, Nor is it thrown down any more to the age!'),(24032001,24,32,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah -- it `is\' the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar,'),(24032002,24,32,2,'And then the forces of the king of Babylon are laying siege against Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet hath been shut up in the court of the prison that `is\' in the house of the king of Judah,'),(24032003,24,32,3,'Where Zedekiah king of Judah hath shut him up, saying, `Wherefore art thou prophesying, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he hath captured it;'),(24032004,24,32,4,'And Zedekiah king of Judah doth not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but is certainly given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and his mouth hath spoken with his mouth, and his eyes see his eyes,'),(24032005,24,32,5,'And `to\' Babylon he leadeth Zedekiah, and there he is till My inspecting him, -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- because ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye do not prosper.\''),(24032006,24,32,6,'And Jeremiah saith, `A word of Jehovah hath been unto me saying,'),(24032007,24,32,7,'Lo, Hanameel son of Shallum, thine uncle, is coming unto thee, saying, Buy for thee my field that `is\' in Anathoth, for thine `is\' the right of redemption -- to buy.'),(24032008,24,32,8,'And Hanameel, my uncle\'s son, cometh in unto me, according to the word of Jehovah, unto the court of the prison, and saith unto me, `Buy, I pray thee, my field that `is\' in Anathoth, that `is\' in the land of Benjamin, for thine `is\' the right of possession, and thine of redemption -- buy for thee.\' And I know that it `is\' the word of Jehovah,'),(24032009,24,32,9,'And I buy the field, that `is\' in Anathoth, from Hanameel, my uncle\'s son, and I weigh to him the money -- seventeen shekels of silver.'),(24032010,24,32,10,'And I write in a book, and seal, and cause witnesses to testify, and weigh the silver in balances;'),(24032011,24,32,11,'And I take the purchase-book, the sealed one, according to law and custom, and the open one.'),(24032012,24,32,12,'And I give the purchase-book unto Baruch son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, before the eyes of Hanameel, my uncle\'s son, and before the eyes of the witnesses, those writing in the purchase-book, before the eyes of all the Jews who are sitting in the court of the prison.'),(24032013,24,32,13,'And I charge Baruch before their eyes, saying,'),(24032014,24,32,14,'`Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Take these books, this purchase-book, both the sealed one and the open one, and thou hast put them in an earthen vessel, that they may remain many days;'),(24032015,24,32,15,'For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Again are houses and fields and vineyards bought in this land.\''),(24032016,24,32,16,'And I pray unto Jehovah -- after my giving the purchase-book unto Baruch son of Neriah -- saying,'),(24032017,24,32,17,'`Ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm; there is nothing too wonderful for Thee:'),(24032018,24,32,18,'Doing kindness to thousands, and recompensing iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their sons after them; God, the great, the mighty, Jehovah of Hosts `is\' His name,'),(24032019,24,32,19,'Great in counsel, and mighty in act, in that Thine eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of Adam, to give to each according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:'),(24032020,24,32,20,'In that thou hast done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt unto this day, and in Israel, and among men, and Thou dost make for Thee a name as `at\' this day.'),(24032021,24,32,21,'`And Thou bringest forth Thy people Israel from the land of Egypt, with signs and with wonders, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great fear,'),(24032022,24,32,22,'And thou givest to them this land that thou didst swear to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey,'),(24032023,24,32,23,'And they come in, and possess it, and they have not hearkened to Thy voice, and in Thy law have not walked, all that which Thou didst lay a charge on them to do they have not done, and Thou dost proclaim `to\' them all this evil.'),(24032024,24,32,24,'`Lo, the mounts -- they have come in to the city to capture it, and the city hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence; and that which Thou hast spoken hath come to pass, and lo, Thou art seeing;'),(24032025,24,32,25,'Yet Thou hast said unto me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy for thee the field with money, and cause witnesses to testify -- and the city hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans!\''),(24032026,24,32,26,'And the word of Jehovah is unto Jeremiah, saying:'),(24032027,24,32,27,'`Lo, I `am\' Jehovah, God of all flesh: For Me is anything too wonderful?'),(24032028,24,32,28,'`Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he hath captured it;'),(24032029,24,32,29,'And come in have the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city, and they have set this city on fire, and have burned it, and the houses on whose roofs they made perfume to Baal, and poured out libations to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger.'),(24032030,24,32,30,'For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been only doing evil in Mine eyes, from their youth; for the sons of Israel are only provoking Me with the work of their hands -- an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24032031,24,32,31,'`For a cause of Mine anger, and a cause of My fury, hath this city been to Me, even from the day that they built it, and unto this day -- to turn it aside from before My face,'),(24032032,24,32,32,'Because of all the evil of the sons of Israel, and of the sons of Judah that they have done, so as to provoke Me -- they, their kings, their heads, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(24032033,24,32,33,'And they turn unto Me the neck, and not the face, and teaching them, rising early and teaching, and they are not hearkening to accept instruction.'),(24032034,24,32,34,'`And they set their abominations in the house over which My name is called, so as to defile it;'),(24032035,24,32,35,'And they build the high places of Baal, that `are\' in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come up on my heart to do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.'),(24032036,24,32,36,'`And now, therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, concerning this city, of which ye are saying, It hath been given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence,'),(24032037,24,32,37,'Lo, I am gathering them out of all the lands whither I have driven them in Mine anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath, and I have brought them back unto this place, and have caused them to dwell confidently;'),(24032038,24,32,38,'and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God;'),(24032039,24,32,39,'and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:'),(24032040,24,32,40,'and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;'),(24032041,24,32,41,'and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My soul.'),(24032042,24,32,42,'`For thus said Jehovah: As I brought in unto this people all this great evil, so I am bringing in on them all the good that I am speaking concerning them;'),(24032043,24,32,43,'and bought hath been the field in this land of which ye are saying, A desolation it `is\', without man and beast, it hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'),(24032044,24,32,44,'Fields with money they buy, so as to write in a book, and to seal, and to cause witnesses to testify, in the land of Benjamin, and in suburbs of Jerusalem, and in cities of Judah, and in cities of the hill-country, and in cities of the low country, and in cities of the south, for I turn back their captivity -- an affirmation of Jehovah.\''),(24033001,24,33,1,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah a second time -- and he `is\' yet detained in the court of the prison -- saying:'),(24033002,24,33,2,'Thus said Jehovah its maker, Jehovah its former, at establishing it, Jehovah `is\' His name:'),(24033003,24,33,3,'Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things -- thou hast not known them.'),(24033004,24,33,4,'For thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that are broken down for the mounts, and for the tool;'),(24033005,24,33,5,'they are coming in to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the carcases of men, whom I have smitten in Mine anger, and in My fury, and `for\' whom I have hidden My face from this city, because of all their evil:'),(24033006,24,33,6,'Lo, I am increasing to it health and cure, And have healed them, and revealed to them The abundance of peace and truth.'),(24033007,24,33,7,'And I have turned back the captivity of Judah, And the captivity of Israel, And I have built them as at the first,'),(24033008,24,33,8,'And cleansed them from all their iniquity, That they have sinned against Me, And I have pardoned all their iniquities, That they have sinned against Me, And that they transgressed against Me.'),(24033009,24,33,9,'And it hath been to Me for a name of joy, For praise, and for beauty, to all nations of the earth, Who hear of all the good that I am doing them, And they have feared, And they have trembled for all the good, And for all the peace, that I am doing to it.'),(24033010,24,33,10,'Thus said Jehovah: Again heard in this place of which ye are saying, Waste it `is\', without man and without beast, In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, That are desolated, without man, And without inhabitant, and without beast,'),(24033011,24,33,11,'Is a voice of joy and a voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, The voice of those saying, Thank Jehovah of Hosts, for Jehovah `is\' good, For His kindness `is\' to the age, Who are bringing in thanksgiving to the house of Jehovah, For I turn back the captivity of the land, As at the first, said Jehovah.'),(24033012,24,33,12,'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again there is in this place -- that is waste, Without man and beast, And in all its cities -- a habitation of shepherds, Causing the flock to lie down.'),(24033013,24,33,13,'In the cities of the hill-country, In the cities of the low country, And in the cities of the south, And in the land of Benjamin, And in the suburbs of Jerusalem, And in the cities of Judah, Again doth the flock pass by under the hands of the numberer, said Jehovah.'),(24033014,24,33,14,'Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have established the good word That I spake unto the house of Israel, And concerning the house of Judah.'),(24033015,24,33,15,'In those days, and at that time, I cause to shoot up to David a shoot of righteousness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness in the earth.'),(24033016,24,33,16,'In those days is Judah saved, And Jerusalem doth dwell confidently, And this `is\' he whom Jehovah proclaimeth to her: `Our Righteousness.\''),(24033017,24,33,17,'For thus said Jehovah: `Not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel,'),(24033018,24,33,18,'And to the priests -- the Levites, Not cut off from before Me is one, Causing a burnt-offering to ascend, And perfuming a present, and making sacrifice -- all the days.\''),(24033019,24,33,19,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,'),(24033020,24,33,20,'`Thus said Jehovah: If ye do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,'),(24033021,24,33,21,'Also My covenant is broken with David My servant, So that he hath not a son reigning on his throne, And with the Levites the priests, My ministers.'),(24033022,24,33,22,'As the host of the heavens is not numbered, Nor the sand of the sea measured, So I multiply the seed of David My servant, And the Levites My ministers.\''),(24033023,24,33,23,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying:'),(24033024,24,33,24,'`Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise -- So that they are no more a people before them!'),(24033025,24,33,25,'Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant `is\' not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed --'),(24033026,24,33,26,'Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back `to\' their captivity, and have pitied them.\''),(24034001,24,34,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah -- and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his force, and all kingdoms of the land of the dominion of his hand, and all the peoples are fighting against Jerusalem, and against all its cities -- saying:'),(24034002,24,34,2,'`Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel: Go, and thou hast spoken unto Zedekiah king of Judah, and hast said unto him, Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he hath burned it with fire,'),(24034003,24,34,3,'and thou, thou dost not escape out of his hand, for thou art certainly caught, and into his hand thou art given, and thine eyes see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth with thy mouth speaketh, and Babylon thou enterest.'),(24034004,24,34,4,'`Only, hear a word of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah, Thus said Jehovah unto thee: Thou dost not die by sword,'),(24034005,24,34,5,'in peace thou diest, and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings who have been before thee, so they make a burning for thee; and Ah, lord, they lament for thee, for the word I have spoken -- an affirmation of Jehovah.\''),(24034006,24,34,6,'And Jeremiah the prophet speaketh unto Zedekiah king of Judah all these words in Jerusalem,'),(24034007,24,34,7,'and the forces of the king of Babylon are fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that are left -- against Lachish, and against Azekah, for these have been left among the cities of Judah, cities of fortresses.'),(24034008,24,34,8,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after the making by the king Zedekiah of a covenant with all the people who `are\' in Jerusalem, to proclaim to them liberty,'),(24034009,24,34,9,'to send out each his man-servant, and each his maid-servant -- the Hebrew and the Hebrewess -- free, so as not to lay service on them, any on a Jew his brother;'),(24034010,24,34,10,'and hearken do all the heads, and all the people who have come in to the covenant to send forth each his man-servant and each his maid-servant free, so as not to lay service on them any more, yea, they hearken, and send them away;'),(24034011,24,34,11,'and they turn afterwards, and cause the men-servants and the maid-servants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for men-servants and for maid-servants.'),(24034012,24,34,12,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying:'),(24034013,24,34,13,'`Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I -- I made a covenant with your fathers in the day of My bringing them forth from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants, saying,'),(24034014,24,34,14,'At the end of seven years ye do send forth each his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, yea, thou hast sent him forth free from thee: and your fathers hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear.'),(24034015,24,34,15,'`And ye turn back, ye to-day, and ye do that which is right in Mine eyes, to proclaim liberty each to his neighbour, and ye make a covenant before Me in the house over which My name is called.'),(24034016,24,34,16,'And -- ye turn back, and pollute My name, and ye cause each his man-servant and each his maid-servant, whom he had sent forth free, (at their pleasure,) to return, and ye subdue them to be to you for men-servants and for maid-servants.'),(24034017,24,34,17,'`Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto Me to proclaim freedom, each to his brother, and each to his neighbour; lo, I am proclaiming to you liberty -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- unto the sword, unto the pestilence, and unto the famine, and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth.'),(24034018,24,34,18,'`And I have given the men who are transgressing My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before Me, by the calf, that they have cut in two, and pass through between its pieces --'),(24034019,24,34,19,'heads of Judah, and heads of Jerusalem, the officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land those passing through between the pieces of the calf --'),(24034020,24,34,20,'yea, I have given them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and their carcase hath been for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth.'),(24034021,24,34,21,'`And Zedekiah king of Judah, and his heads, I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and into the hand of the forces of the king of Babylon, that are going up from off you.'),(24034022,24,34,22,'Lo, I am commanding -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and have brought them back unto this city, and they have fought against it, and captured it, and burned it with fire, and the cities of Judah I do make a desolation -- without inhabitant.\''),(24035001,24,35,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying:'),(24035002,24,35,2,'`Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and thou hast spoken with them, and brought them into the house of Jehovah, unto one of the chambers, and caused them to drink wine.\''),(24035003,24,35,3,'And I take Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and all the house of the Rechabites,'),(24035004,24,35,4,'and bring them into the house of Jehovah, unto the chamber of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God, that `is\' near to the chamber of the princes, that `is\' above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold;'),(24035005,24,35,5,'and I put before the sons of the house of the Rechabites goblets full of wine, and cups, and I say unto them, Drink ye wine.'),(24035006,24,35,6,'And they say, `We do not drink wine: for Jonadab son of Rechab, our father, charged us, saying, Ye do not drink wine, ye and your sons -- unto the age;'),(24035007,24,35,7,'and a house ye do not build, and seed ye do not sow, and a vineyard ye do not plant, nor have ye any; for in tents do ye dwell all your days, that ye may live many days on the face of the ground whither ye are sojourning.'),(24035008,24,35,8,'`And we hearken to the voice of Jonadab son of Rechab, our father, to all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters;'),(24035009,24,35,9,'nor to build houses for our dwelling; and vineyard, and field, and seed, we have none;'),(24035010,24,35,10,'and we dwell in tents, and we hearken, and we do according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us;'),(24035011,24,35,11,'and it cometh to pass, in the coming up of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon unto the land, that we say, Come, and we enter Jerusalem, because of the force of the Chaldeans, and because of the force of Aram -- and we dwell in Jerusalem.\''),(24035012,24,35,12,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying: `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel:'),(24035013,24,35,13,'`Go, and thou hast said to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Do ye not receive instruction? -- to hearken unto My words -- an affirmation of Jehovah.'),(24035014,24,35,14,'Performed have been the words of Jonadab son of Rechab, when he commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk unto this day, for they have obeyed the command of their father; and I -- I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking, and ye have not hearkened unto Me.'),(24035015,24,35,15,'And I send unto you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and amend your doings, yea, ye do not walk after other gods, to serve them, and dwell ye on the ground that I have given to you and to your fathers; and ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto Me.'),(24035016,24,35,16,'`Because the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab have performed the command of their father, that he commanded them, and this people have not hearkened unto Me,'),(24035017,24,35,17,'therefore thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in unto Judah, and unto all inhabitants of Jerusalem, all the evil that I have spoken against them, because I have spoken unto them, and they have not hearkened, yea, I call to them, and they have not answered.\''),(24035018,24,35,18,'And to the house of the Rechabites said Jeremiah: `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Because that ye have hearkened unto the command of Jonadab your father, and ye observe all his commands, and do according to all that he commanded you;'),(24035019,24,35,19,'therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Of Jonadab son of Rechab one standing before me is not cut off all the days.\''),(24036001,24,36,1,'And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying:'),(24036002,24,36,2,'`Take to thee a roll of a book, and thou hast written on it all the words that I have spoken unto thee concerning Israel, and concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day;'),(24036003,24,36,3,'if so be the house of Israel do hear all the evil that I am thinking of doing to them, so that they turn back each from is evil way, and I have been propitious to their iniquity, and to their sin.\''),(24036004,24,36,4,'And Jeremiah calleth Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch writeth from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, that He hath spoken unto him, on a roll of a book.'),(24036005,24,36,5,'And Jeremiah commandeth Baruch, saying, `I am restrained, I am not able to enter the house of Jehovah;'),(24036006,24,36,6,'but thou hast entered -- and thou hast read in the roll that thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah, in the ears of the people, in the house of Jehovah, in the day of the fast, and also in the ears of all Judah who are coming in from their cities thou dost read them;'),(24036007,24,36,7,'if so be their supplication doth fall before Jehovah, and they turn back each from his evil way, for great `is\' the anger and the fury that Jehovah hath spoken concerning this people.\''),(24036008,24,36,8,'And Baruch son of Neriah doth according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, to read in the book the words of Jehovah in the house of Jehovah.'),(24036009,24,36,9,'And it cometh to pass, in the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, proclaimed a fast before Jehovah have all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who are coming in from cities of Judah to Jerusalem;'),(24036010,24,36,10,'and Baruch readeth in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the opening of the new gate of the house of Jehovah, in the ears of all the people.'),(24036011,24,36,11,'And Michaiah son of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, heareth all the words of Jehovah from off the book,'),(24036012,24,36,12,'and he goeth down `to\' the house of the king, unto the chamber of the scribe, and lo, there are all the heads sitting: Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan son of Acbor, and Gemariah son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the heads.'),(24036013,24,36,13,'And declare to them doth Micaiah all the words that he hath heard, when Baruch readeth in the book in the ears of the people;'),(24036014,24,36,14,'and all the heads send unto Baruch, Jehudi son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, saying, `The roll in which thou hast read in the ears of the people take in thy hand, and come.\' And Baruch son of Neriah taketh the roll in his hand and cometh in unto them,'),(24036015,24,36,15,'and they say unto him, `Sit down, we pray thee, and read it in our ears,\' and Baruch readeth in their ears,'),(24036016,24,36,16,'and it cometh to pass, when they hear all the words, they have been afraid one at another, and say unto Baruch, `We do surely declare to the king all these words.\''),(24036017,24,36,17,'And they asked Baruch, saying, `Declare, we pray thee, to us, how didst thou write all these words -- from his mouth?\''),(24036018,24,36,18,'And Baruch saith to them, `From his mouth, he pronounceth unto me all these words, and I am writing on the book with ink.\''),(24036019,24,36,19,'And the heads say unto Baruch, `Go, be hidden, thou and Jeremiah, and let no one know where ye `are\'.\''),(24036020,24,36,20,'And they go in unto the king, to the court, and the roll they have laid up in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they declare in the ears of the king all the words.'),(24036021,24,36,21,'And the king sendeth Jehudi to take the roll, and he taketh it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and Jehudi readeth it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the heads who are standing by the king;'),(24036022,24,36,22,'and the king is sitting in the winter-house, in the ninth month, and the stove before him is burning,'),(24036023,24,36,23,'and it cometh to pass, when Jehudi readeth three or four leaves, he cutteth it out with the scribe\'s knife, and hath cast unto the fire, that `is\' on the stove, till the consumption of all the roll by the fire that `is\' on the stove.'),(24036024,24,36,24,'And the king and all his servants who are hearing all these words have not been afraid, nor rent their garments.'),(24036025,24,36,25,'And also Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah have interceded with the king not to burn the roll, and he hath not hearkened unto them.'),(24036026,24,36,26,'And the king commandeth Jerahmeel son of Hammelek, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Jehovah doth hide them.'),(24036027,24,36,27,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah -- after the king\'s burning the roll, even the words that Baruch hath written from the mouth of Jeremiah -- saying:'),(24036028,24,36,28,'`Turn, take to thee another roll, and write on it all the former words that were on the first roll, that Jehoiakim king of Judah burnt,'),(24036029,24,36,29,'and unto Jehoiakim king of Judah thou dost say: Thus said Jehovah, Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Wherefore hast thou written on it, saying, The king of Babylon surely cometh in, and hath destroyed this land, and caused to cease from it man and beast?'),(24036030,24,36,30,'`Therefore, thus said Jehovah, concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He hath none sitting on the throne of David, and his carcase is cast out to heat by day, and to cold by night;'),(24036031,24,36,31,'and I have charged on him, and on his seed, and on his servants, their iniquity; and I have brought in on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto the men of Judah, all the evil that I have spoken unto them, and they hearkened not.\''),(24036032,24,36,32,'And Jeremiah hath taken another roll, and giveth it unto Baruch son of Neriah the scribe, and he writeth on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah hath burnt in the fire; and again there were added unto them many words like these.'),(24037001,24,37,1,'And reign doth king Zedekiah son of Josiah instead of Coniah son of Jehoiakim whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had caused to reign in the land of Judah,'),(24037002,24,37,2,'and he hath not hearkened, he, and his servants, and the people of the land, unto the words of Jehovah, that He spake by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet.'),(24037003,24,37,3,'And Zedekiah the king sendeth Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, unto Jeremiah the prophet, saying, `Pray, we beseech thee, for us unto Jehovah our God.\''),(24037004,24,37,4,'And Jeremiah is coming in and going out in the midst of the people, (and they have not put him in the prison-house),'),(24037005,24,37,5,'and the force of Pharaoh hath come out of Egypt, and the Chaldeans, who are laying siege against Jerusalem, hear their report, and go up from off Jerusalem.'),(24037006,24,37,6,'And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the prophet, saying:'),(24037007,24,37,7,'`Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Thus do ye say unto the king of Judah, who is sending you unto Me, to seek Me: Lo, the force of Pharaoh that is coming out to you for help hath turned back to its land, to Egypt,'),(24037008,24,37,8,'and the Chaldeans have turned back, and fought against this city, and captured it, and burnt it with fire.'),(24037009,24,37,9,'`Thus said Jehovah: Lift not up your souls saying, The Chaldeans surely go from off us, for they do not go;'),(24037010,24,37,10,'for though ye had smitten all the force of the Chaldeans who are fighting with you, and there were left of them wounded men -- each in his tent -- they rise, and have burnt this city with fire.\''),(24037011,24,37,11,'And it hath come to pass, in the going up of the force of the Chaldeans from off Jerusalem, because of the force of Pharaoh,'),(24037012,24,37,12,'that Jeremiah goeth out from Jerusalem to go `to\' the land of Benjamin, to receive a portion thence in the midst of the people.'),(24037013,24,37,13,'And it cometh to pass, he is at the gate of Benjamin, and there `is\' a master of the ward -- and his name is Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah -- and he catcheth Jeremiah the prophet, saying, `Unto the Chaldeans thou art falling.\''),(24037014,24,37,14,'And Jeremiah saith, `Falsehood -- I am not falling unto the Chaldeans;\' and he hath not hearkened unto him, and Irijah layeth hold on Jeremiah, and bringeth him in unto the heads,'),(24037015,24,37,15,'and the heads are wroth against Jeremiah, and have smitten him, and put him in the prison-house -- the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it they had made for a prison-house.'),(24037016,24,37,16,'When Jeremiah hath entered into the house of the dungeon, and unto the cells, then Jeremiah dwelleth there many days,'),(24037017,24,37,17,'and the king Zedekiah sendeth, and taketh him, and the king asketh him in his house in secret, and saith, `Is there a word from Jehovah?\' And Jeremiah saith, `There is,\' and he saith, `Into the hand of the king of Babylon thou art given.\''),(24037018,24,37,18,'And Jeremiah saith unto the king Zedekiah, `What have I sinned against thee, and against thy servants, and against this people, that ye have given me unto a prison-house?'),(24037019,24,37,19,'And where `are\' your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon doth not come in against you, and against this land?'),(24037020,24,37,20,'And now, hearken, I pray thee, my lord, O king, let my supplication fall, I pray thee, before thee, and cause me not to return `to\' the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I die not there.\''),(24037021,24,37,21,'And the king Zedekiah commandeth, and they commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, also to give to him a cake of bread daily from the bakers\' street, till the consumption of all the bread of the city, and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison.'),(24038001,24,38,1,'And Shephatiah son of Mattan, and Gedaliah son of Pashhur, and Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchiah, hear the words that Jeremiah is speaking unto all the people, saying,'),(24038002,24,38,2,'`Thus said Jehovah: He who is remaining in this city dieth, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, and he who is going forth unto the Chaldeans liveth, and his soul hath been to him for a prey, and he liveth.'),(24038003,24,38,3,'Thus said Jehovah: This city is certainly given into the hand of the force of the king of Babylon, and he hath captured it.\''),(24038004,24,38,4,'And the heads say unto the king, `Let, we pray thee, this man be put to death, because that he is making feeble the hands of the men of war, who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking unto them according to these words, for this man is not seeking for the peace of this people, but for its evil.\''),(24038005,24,38,5,'And the king Zedekiah saith, `Lo, he `is\' in your hand: for the king is not able for you `in\' anything.\''),(24038006,24,38,6,'And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that `is\' in the court of the prison, and they send down Jeremiah with cords; and in the pit there is no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sinketh in the mire.'),(24038007,24,38,7,'And Ebed-Melech the Cushite, a eunuch who `is\' in the king\'s house, heareth that they have put Jeremiah into the pit; and the king is sitting at the gate of Benjamin,'),(24038008,24,38,8,'and Ebed-Melech goeth forth from the king\'s house, and speaketh unto the king, saying,'),(24038009,24,38,9,'`My lord, O king, these men have done evil `in\' all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit, and he dieth in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.\''),(24038010,24,38,10,'And the king commandeth Ebed-Melech the Cushite, saying, `Take with thee from this thirty men, and thou hast brought up Jeremiah the prophet from the pit, before he dieth.\''),(24038011,24,38,11,'And Ebed-Melech taketh the men with him, and entereth the house of the king, unto the place of the treasury, and taketh thence worn-out clouts, and worn-out rags, and sendeth them unto Jeremiah unto the pit by cords.'),(24038012,24,38,12,'And Ebed-Melech the Cushite saith unto Jeremiah, `Put, I pray thee, the worn-out clouts and rags under thine arm-holes, at the place of the cords,\' and Jeremiah doth so,'),(24038013,24,38,13,'and they draw out Jeremiah with cords, and bring him up out of the pit, and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison.'),(24038014,24,38,14,'And the king Zedekiah sendeth, and taketh Jeremiah the prophet unto him, unto the third entrance that `is\' in the house of Jehovah, and the king saith unto Jeremiah, `I am asking thee a thing, do not hide from me anything.\''),(24038015,24,38,15,'And Jeremiah saith unto Zedekiah, `When I declare to thee, dost thou not surely put me to death? and when I counsel thee, thou dost not hearken unto me.\''),(24038016,24,38,16,'And the king Zedekiah sweareth unto Jeremiah in secret, saying, `Jehovah liveth, He who made for us this soul, I do not put thee to death, nor give thee unto the hand of these men who are seeking thy soul.\''),(24038017,24,38,17,'And Jeremiah saith unto Zedekiah, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel: If thou dost certainly go forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon, then hath thy soul lived, and this city is not burned with fire, yea, thou hast lived, thou and thy house.'),(24038018,24,38,18,'And if thou dost not go forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon, then hath this city been given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they have burnt it with fire, and thou dost not escape from their hand.\''),(24038019,24,38,19,'And the king Zedekiah saith unto Jeremiah, `I am fearing the Jews who have fallen unto the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand, and they have insulted me.\''),(24038020,24,38,20,'And Jeremiah saith, `They do not give thee up; hearken, I pray thee, to the voice of Jehovah, to that which I am speaking unto thee, and it is well for thee, and thy soul doth live.'),(24038021,24,38,21,'`And if thou art refusing to go forth, this `is\' the thing that Jehovah hath shewn me:'),(24038022,24,38,22,'That, lo, all the women who have been left in the house of the king of Judah are brought forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon, and lo, they are saying: Persuaded thee, and prevailed against thee, Have thine allies, Sunk into mire have thy feet, They have been turned backward.'),(24038023,24,38,23,'`And all thy wives, and thy sons, are brought forth unto the Chaldeans, and thou dost not escape from their hand, for by the hand of the king of Babylon thou art caught, and this city is burnt with fire.\''),(24038024,24,38,24,'And Zedekiah saith unto Jeremiah, `Let no man know of these words, and thou dost not die;'),(24038025,24,38,25,'and when the heads hear that I have spoken with thee, and they have come in unto thee, and have said unto thee, Declare to us, we pray thee, what thou didst speak unto the king, do not hide `it\' from us, and we do not put thee to death, and what the king spake unto thee,'),(24038026,24,38,26,'then thou hast said unto them, I am causing my supplication to fall before the king, not to cause me to return to the house of Jonathan, to die there.\''),(24038027,24,38,27,'And all the heads come in unto Jeremiah, and ask him, and he declareth to them according to all these words that the king commanded, and they keep silent from him, for the matter was not heard;'),(24038028,24,38,28,'and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison till the day that Jerusalem hath been captured, and he was `there\' when Jerusalem was captured.'),(24039001,24,39,1,'In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, come hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his force unto Jerusalem, and they lay siege against it;'),(24039002,24,39,2,'in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, hath the city been broken up;'),(24039003,24,39,3,'and come in do all the heads of the king of Babylon, and they sit at the middle gate, Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, chief of the eunuchs, Nergal-Sharezer, chief of the Mages, and all the rest of the heads of the king of Babylon.'),(24039004,24,39,4,'And it cometh to pass, when Zedekiah king of Judah, and all the men of war, have seen them, that they flee and go forth by night from the city, the way of the king\'s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and he goeth forth the way of the plain.'),(24039005,24,39,5,'And the forces of the Chaldeans pursue after them, and overtake Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and they take him, and bring him up unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he speaketh with him -- judgments.'),(24039006,24,39,6,'And the king of Babylon slaughtereth the sons of Zedekiah, in Riblah, before his eyes, yea, all the freemen of Judah hath the king of Babylon slaughtered.'),(24039007,24,39,7,'And the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and he bindeth him with brazen fetters, to bring him in to Babylon.'),(24039008,24,39,8,'And the house of the king, and the house of the people, have the Chaldeans burnt with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem they have broken down.'),(24039009,24,39,9,'And the remnant of the people who are left in the city, and those falling who have fallen to him, and the remnant of the people who are left, hath Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, removed `to\' Babylon.'),(24039010,24,39,10,'And of the poor people, who have nothing, hath Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, left in the land of Judah, and he giveth to them vineyards and fields on the same day.'),(24039011,24,39,11,'And Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon giveth a charge concerning Jeremiah, by the hand of Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, saying,'),(24039012,24,39,12,'`Take him, and place thine eyes upon him, and do no evil thing to him, but as he speaketh unto thee, so do with him.\''),(24039013,24,39,13,'And Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners sendeth, and Nebushazban, chief of the eunuchs, and Nergal-Sharezer, chief of the Mages, and all the chiefs of the king of Babylon;'),(24039014,24,39,14,'yea, they send and take Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and give him unto Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, to carry him home, and he dwelleth in the midst of the people.'),(24039015,24,39,15,'And unto Jeremiah hath a word of Jehovah been -- in his being detained in the court of the prison -- saying:'),(24039016,24,39,16,'`Go, and thou hast spoken to Ebed-Melech the Cushite, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in My words unto this city for evil, and not for good, and they have been before thee in that day.'),(24039017,24,39,17,'And I have delivered thee in that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and thou art not given into the hand of the men of whose face thou art afraid,'),(24039018,24,39,18,'for I do certainly deliver thee, and by sword thou fallest not, and thy life hath been to thee for a spoil, for thou hast trusted in Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.\''),(24040001,24,40,1,'The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, hath sent him from Ramah, in his taking him -- and he a prisoner in chains -- in the midst of all the removal of Jerusalem and of Judah, who are removed to Babylon.'),(24040002,24,40,2,'And the chief of the executioners taketh Jeremiah, and saith unto him, `Jehovah thy God hath spoken this evil concerning this place,'),(24040003,24,40,3,'and Jehovah bringeth `it\' in, and doth as He spake, because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not hearkened to His voice, even this thing hath been to you.'),(24040004,24,40,4,'`And now, lo, I have loosed thee to-day from the chains that `are\' on thy hand; if good in thine eyes to come with me `to\' Babylon, come, and I keep mine eye upon thee: and if evil in thine eyes to come with me to Babylon, forbear; see, all the land `is\' before thee, whither `it be\' good, and whither `it be\' right in thine eyes to go -- go.\' --'),(24040005,24,40,5,'and while he doth not reply -- `Or turn back unto Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath appointed over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him in the midst of the people, or whithersoever it is right in thine eyes to go -- go.\' And the chief of the executioners giveth to him for the way, and a gift, and sendeth him away,'),(24040006,24,40,6,'and Jeremiah cometh in unto Gedaliah son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelleth with him, in the midst of the people who are left in the land.'),(24040007,24,40,7,'And all the heads of the forces that `are\' in the field hear, they and their men, that the king of Babylon hath appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land, and that he hath charged him `with\' men, and women, and infants, and of the poor of the land, of those who have not been removed to Babylon;'),(24040008,24,40,8,'and they come in unto Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan sons of Kareah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maachathite, they and their men.'),(24040009,24,40,9,'And swear to them doth Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, and to their men, saying, `Be not afraid of serving the Chaldeans, abide in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it is well for you;'),(24040010,24,40,10,'and I, lo, I am dwelling in Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who are come in unto us, and ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruit, and oil, and put in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.\''),(24040011,24,40,11,'And also all the Jews who `are\' in Moab, and among the sons of Ammon, and in Edom, and who `are\' in all the lands, have heard that the king of Babylon hath given a remnant to Judah, and that he hath appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan,'),(24040012,24,40,12,'and all the Jews from all the places whither they have been driven, turn back and enter the land of Judah, unto Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and they gather wine and summer fruit -- very much.'),(24040013,24,40,13,'And Johanan son of Kareah, and all the heads of the forces that `are\' in the field, have come in unto Gedaliah to Mizpah,'),(24040014,24,40,14,'and they say unto him, `Dost thou really know that Baalis king of the sons of Ammon hath sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to smite thy soul?\' And Gedaliah son of Ahikam hath not given to them credence.'),(24040015,24,40,15,'And Johanan son of Kareah hath spoken unto Gedaliah in secret, in Mizpah, saying, `Let me go, I pray thee, and I smite Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one doth know; why doth he smite thy soul? and scattered have been all Judah who are gathered unto thee, and perished hath the remnant of Judah.\''),(24040016,24,40,16,'And Gedaliah son of Ahikam saith unto Johanan son of Kareah, `Thou dost not do this thing, for falsehood thou art speaking concerning Ishmael.\'');
