Jeremiah 8 Cross References - ACV

¹ At that time, says LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves. ² And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered, nor be buried. They shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. ³ And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says LORD of hosts. ⁴ Moreover thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall he turn away, and not return? ⁵ Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return. ⁶ I hearkened and heard, but they did not speak aright. No man repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turns to his course as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. ⁷ Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD. ⁸ How can ye say, We are wise, and the law of LORD is with us? But behold, the false pen of the scribes has wrought falsely. ⁹ The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of LORD, and what manner of wisdom is in them? ¹⁰ Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. ¹¹ And they have lightly healed the hurt of the daughter of my people, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace. ¹² Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says LORD. ¹³ I will utterly consume them, says LORD. There shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade, and things I have given them shall pass away from them. ¹⁴ Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against LORD. ¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! ¹⁶ The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles. For they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein. ¹⁷ For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says LORD. ¹⁸ Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. ¹⁹ Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities? ²⁰ The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. ²¹ For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold on me. ²² Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

² And he cried against the altar by the word of LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus says LORD: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. And upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones they shall burn upon thee.

¹⁶ And as Josiah turned himself, he noticed the sepulchers that were there in the mount. And he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

²⁰ And he killed all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.

⁴ And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence, and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. ⁵ And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

³² Therefore, behold, the days come, says LORD, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. For they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury. ³³ And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth, and none shall frighten them away. ³⁴ Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.

⁵ And I will lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

¹ The hand of LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

¹ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

¹⁹ And lest thou lift up thine eyes to heaven, and when thou see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which LORD thy God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

³ and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

³⁶ Therefore they came back, and told him. And he said, This is the word of LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel, ³⁷ and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

¹⁶ And they forsook all the commandments of LORD their God, and made for them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

³ For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. And he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of LORD.

⁵ And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

³ For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down. And he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of LORD, of which LORD said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of LORD.

¹⁰ who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

³ If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

²² Speak, Thus says LORD: The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather.

⁴ They shall die grievous deaths. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground. And they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine. And their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

¹⁹ He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

³⁰ Therefore thus says LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David. And his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that has gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. ¹⁸ But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. ¹⁹ And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?

¹⁶ And he brought me into the inner court of LORD's house. And, behold, at the door of the temple of LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of LORD, and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

⁵ and those who worship the host of heaven upon the housetops, and those who worship, who swear to LORD and swear by Malcam,

¹⁷ And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against LORD, and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.

⁴² But God turned, and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

¹ And it shall come to pass, when all these things have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shall call them to mind among all the nations, where LORD thy God has driven thee,

⁴ If any of thine outcasts be in the outermost parts of heaven, from there LORD thy God will gather thee, and from there he will fetch thee.

⁴ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, ²¹ who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures, ²² who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?

¹⁵ so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than these my bones. ¹⁶ I loathe my life. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to thee, making him very glad. ¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which LORD overthrew, and did not relent. And let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime, ¹⁷ because he did not kill me from the womb, and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. ¹⁸ Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

³ And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

⁸ but, As LORD lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. And they shall dwell in their own land.

¹⁴ And I will be found by you, says LORD, and I will turn again your captivity. And I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says LORD, and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.

²⁸ inasmuch as he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, It is long. Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?

³⁶ And now therefore thus says LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, of which ye say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: ³⁷ Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation. And I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.

¹² then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits.

⁷ O Lord, righteousness belongs to thee, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where thou have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

³ Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

⁶ And in those days men will seek death, and will, no, not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

³⁸ whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house,

¹⁶ For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

²² I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed thee.

⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹ They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again? Will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou have played the harlot with many lovers. Yet return again to me, says LORD.

²² Return, ye backsliding sons, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we have come to thee, for thou are LORD our God.

¹ If thou will return, O Israel, says LORD, if thou will return to me, and if thou will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then thou shall not be removed.

¹⁴ In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing. They commit adultery, and walk in lies. And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They have all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

³ It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them, that they may return every man from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

²³ Have I any pleasure in the death of a wicked man? says the lord LORD, and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

¹ Come, and let us return to LORD, for he has torn, and he will heal us. He has smitten, and he will bind us up.

¹⁰ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Yet they have not returned to LORD their God, nor sought him for all this.

¹ O Israel, return to LORD thy God, for thou have fallen by thine iniquity.

² The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise. She is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

⁸ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy. When I fall, I shall arise. When I sit in darkness, LORD will be a light to me.

¹³ Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of LORD has spoken it.

¹⁰ who say to the seers, Do not see, and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things. Speak to us smooth things. Prophesy deceits.

²⁰ He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

³² Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

¹¹ And LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. ¹² Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, says LORD, I will not look in anger upon you, for I am merciful, says LORD. I will not keep anger forever. ¹³ Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou have transgressed against LORD thy God, and have scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, says LORD. ¹⁴ Return, O backsliding sons, says LORD, for I am a husband to you. And I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

³ O LORD, do not thine eyes look upon truth? Thou have stricken them, but they were not grieved. Thou have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grown rich.

²⁴ But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. ²⁵ Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. ²⁶ Yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

⁶ Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.

¹⁶ For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

⁷ And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to him who is on high, none at all will exalt him.

¹¹ But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

⁴⁰ And ye will not come to me, so that ye may have life.

²¹ but examine all things. Hold firm the good.

⁹ Whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and marvels of deceit, ¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, in return for which, they did not accept the love of the truth in order for them to be saved. ¹¹ And because of this God will send them the force of a delusion, for them to believe a lie, ¹² so that they might be condemned-all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.

²⁵ Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,

²⁵ But hold firm what ye have until I come.

² I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.

²⁷ He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me. ²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.

¹⁹ Have thou given the horse his might? Have thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane? ²⁰ Have thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome. ²¹ He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men. ²² He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed. Neither does he turn back from the sword. ²³ The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin. ²⁴ He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage, nor does he believe that it is the voice of the trumpet. ²⁵ As often as the trumpet sounds he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

² LORD looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

¹⁸ And therefore LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you. And therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you, for LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

¹⁶ And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him. And his righteousness, it upheld him.

²⁴ a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs up the wind in her desire. In her time of estrus who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month they shall find her. ²⁵ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst. But thou said, It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

¹ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her.

²⁸ Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

³⁰ And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

² The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

⁵ Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

⁷ Thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

¹⁶ Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name.

¹⁷ But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger. ¹⁸ After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight. ¹⁹ I am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me as one of thy hired men.

⁹ The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance.

²⁰ And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they would not worship the demons, and the golden and silver and brass and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise. ⁷ Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

¹² The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, but Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

¹² And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.

⁴ Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God. ⁵ I will go to the great men, and will speak to them, for they know the way of LORD, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

¹² But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

²⁰ He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

⁶ Son's sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

¹ Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness, ² to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

¹² I wrote for him the multitude of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.

⁶ And he will, no, not honor his father or mother. And ye have annulled the command of God because of your tradition.

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin, but now ye say, We see, therefore your sin remains.

²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

¹⁷ Behold, thou are called a Jew, and rely upon the law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know his will, and approve the things that are significant, being instructed out of the law. ¹⁹ And thou have confidence in thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the childlike, having in the law the essence of knowledge and truth, ²¹ thou therefore who teach another, do thou not teach thyself? Thou who preach not to steal, do thou steal? ²² Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples? ²³ Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law. ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written. ²⁵ For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ If therefore a man of uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered circumcision? ²⁷ And the man of natural uncircumcision who fulfills the law, will judge thee, a transgressor of law through a document and circumcision. ²⁸ For he is not a Jew in what is visible, nor is circumcision in what is visible, in flesh, ²⁹ but he is a Jew in what is hidden, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit not a document, whose praise is not from men but from God.

¹⁸ Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness, ²⁰ and again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

⁶ Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

⁷ The law of LORD is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of LORD is sure, making a simple man wise.

⁹⁸ Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the aged because I have kept thy precepts.

²⁰ Seek to the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

¹¹ The rulers of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How will ye say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise men, the son of ancient kings?

¹⁵ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says LORD.

¹⁹ Hear, O earth: Behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened to my words. And as for my law, they have rejected it.

⁷ Of Edom. Thus says LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

²⁶ Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor. And they shall seek a vision of the prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

¹⁸ For the message of the cross is of course foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding. ²⁰ Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. ²² And because Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdom, ²³ but we proclaim Christ crucified, it is truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness. ²⁴ But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent. ²⁷ But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful. ²⁸ And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are, ²⁹ so that no flesh may boast before God.

¹⁵ And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

³⁰ Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it. ³¹ Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shall not eat of it. Thy donkey shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee. Thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shall have none to save thee. ³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand.

⁷ And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine. They stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in judgment.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. ¹² Come ye, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as this day, great beyond measure.

³¹ The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will ye do in the end thereof?

¹² And their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together. For I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says LORD. ¹³ For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness. And from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

¹¹ For both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house I have found their wickedness, says LORD. ¹² Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They shall be driven on, and fall in it. For I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says LORD. ¹³ And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. ¹⁴ In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing. They commit adultery, and walk in lies. And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They have all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore thus says LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land. ¹⁶ Thus says LORD of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of LORD. ¹⁷ They say continually to those who despise me, LORD has said, Ye shall have peace. And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.

²⁵ I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. ²⁶ How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

³² because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and of the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their rulers, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹³ It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

²⁷ Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. ²⁸ And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the lord LORD, when LORD has not spoken.

³¹ And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people. And they hear thy words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

¹¹ Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

⁵ Thus says LORD concerning the prophets who make my people to err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace. And he who does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

¹³ And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine of it.

⁷ For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,

¹¹ who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

¹ But false prophets also developed among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their wantonness, because of whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed. ³ And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

⁶ Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.

¹³ And the messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak thou good.

¹⁴ They have also lightly healed the hurt of my people, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

¹⁴ Then LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit of their own heart. ¹⁵ Therefore thus says LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I did not send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

⁹ But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon. ¹⁰ For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

³ Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of LORD's house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon. ⁴ And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. ⁵ Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of LORD, ⁶ even the prophet Jeremiah said, Truly! LORD do so. LORD perform thy words which thou have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of LORD's house, and all those of the captivity, from Babylon to this place. ⁷ Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people: ⁸ The prophets who have been before me and before thee of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. ⁹ The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then the prophet shall be known that LORD has truly sent him.

¹⁴ Thy prophets have seen false and foolish visions for thee. And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity, but have seen for thee false oracles and causes of banishment.

¹⁰ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there is no peace, and when a man builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered mortar, ¹¹ say to those who daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall. There shall be an overflowing shower, and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall rend it. ¹² Lo, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which ye have daubed it? ¹³ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my wrath, and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. ¹⁴ So I will break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be uncovered. And it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst of it. And ye shall know that I am LORD. ¹⁵ Thus I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who have daubed it with untempered mortar. And I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who daubed it, ¹⁶ namely, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the lord LORD.

²² Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.

¹¹ If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.

³⁵ Vengeance is for me, and recompense at the time when their foot shall slide. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

¹ Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual.

⁷ Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

⁹ The show of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.

¹³ Yet the people have not turned to him who smote them, nor have they sought LORD of hosts. ¹⁴ Therefore LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. ¹⁵ The elder and the honorable man, he is the head. And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. ¹⁶ For those who lead this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed. ¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, nor will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows. For everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

² And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest, as with the servant, so with his master, as with the maid, so with her mistress, as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the creditor, so with the debtor, as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

³ Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. Yet thou have a harlot's forehead; thou refused to be ashamed.

²⁵ There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst thereof. ²⁶ Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, nor have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. ²⁷ Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. ²⁸ And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the lord LORD, when LORD has not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yea, they have vexed the poor and needy man, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully. ³⁰ And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. ³¹ Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says the lord LORD.

⁵ And thou shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night. And I will destroy thy mother. ⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

⁹ Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke. I have made known that which shall surely be among the tribes of Israel.

⁵ LORD in the midst of her is righteous. He will not do iniquity. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust man knows no shame.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.

²⁰ and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

³⁹ Thou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm shall eat them. ⁴⁰ Thou shall have olive trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shall not anoint thyself with the oil, for thine olive shall drop off. ⁴¹ Thou shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine, for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper. ⁴ The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes? ⁵ And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down. ⁶ And I will lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

²¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, that LORD will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. ²² And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison. And after many days they shall be visited.

¹⁷ And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat. They shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds. They shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees. They shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou trust, with the sword.

⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green, and shall not be worried in the year of drought, nor shall cease from yielding fruit.

¹⁹ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Because ye have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem ²⁰ as they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it. So I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. ²¹ Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst of it.

³ And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says the lord LORD: Set on the caldron. Set it on, and also pour water into it. ⁴ Gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. ⁵ Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the caldron. Make it boil well, yea, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it. ⁶ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot has fallen upon it. ⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it upon the bare rock. She did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust. ⁸ That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered. ⁹ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. ¹⁰ Heap on the wood; make the fire hot. Boil the flesh well, and make the broth thick. And let the bones be burned. ¹¹ Then set it empty upon the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

⁸ For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. ⁹ Therefore I will take back my grain in the time of it, and my new wine in the season of it, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

⁷ He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree. He has made it clean bare, and cast it away. The branches of it are made white.

¹⁰ The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. ¹¹ Be confounded, O ye husbandmen. Wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field is perished. ¹² The vine is withered, and the fig tree languishes. The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered. For joy has withered away from the sons of men.

¹⁷ For though the fig tree shall not flourish, nor shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls;

¹¹ And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.

¹⁷ I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands, yet ye turned not to me, says LORD.

¹⁹ And having seen a fig tree, one on the way, he came to it, and found nothing on it, except leaves only. And he says to it, Let fruit no longer be produced from thee into the age. And immediately the fig tree dried out.

⁶ And he spoke this parable. A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. ⁷ And he said to the vine workman, Behold, three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none. Cut it down, why also waste the ground? ⁸ And having answered, he says to him, Sir, allow it this year also until I may dig around it and cast manure. ⁹ Although surely it should bear fruit, and if not, in the coming year thou will cut it down.

¹¹ For the sun rose up with the burning heat, and withered the grass. And the flower of it fell, and the beauty of its appearance perished. So also the rich man will fade away among his pursuits.

³ Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in those who come near me. And I will be glorified before all the people. And Aaron remained silent.

¹⁸ And the priest shall set the woman before LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. And the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causes the curse. ¹⁹ And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say to the woman, If no man has lain with thee, and if thou have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causes the curse. ²⁰ But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou are defiled, and some man has lain with thee besides thy husband, ²¹ then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when LORD makes thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell. ²² And this water that causes the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Truly, Truly. ²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness. ²⁴ And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse shall enter into her bitter.

¹⁸ Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations. Lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,

³² For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

⁶ And David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom. Take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.

³ Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we sit here until we die? ⁴ If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we shall live, and if they kill us, we shall but die.

² I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good, and my sorrow was stirred.

²¹ They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

⁵ Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem, and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land. Cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. ⁶ Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety, do not stay. For I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

¹⁵ Therefore thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

²⁰ We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.

¹⁵ Therefore thus says LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.

¹¹ But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians. So we dwell at Jerusalem.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. ²⁸ Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.

¹⁰ And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No, then he shall say, Hold thy peace, for we may not make mention of the name of LORD.

²⁰ But LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.

¹³ Be silent, all flesh, before LORD, for he has arisen out of his holy habitation.

³⁴ they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall. And having tasted it, he would not drink.

¹⁰ Then I said, Ah, lord LORD! Surely thou have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace, whereas the sword reaches to the life.

¹¹ And they have lightly healed the hurt of the daughter of my people, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

¹⁹ Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

²² Then the horse hoofs stamped by reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

²⁹ And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born to Israel. However the name of the city was Laish at first.

¹ Then all the sons of Israel went out. And the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to LORD at Mizpah.

¹ The earth is LORD's, and the fullness thereof, the world, and those who dwell therein.

¹⁵ For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: ¹⁶ Make ye mention to the nations. Behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.

²³ They lay hold on bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses. Each one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion.

²⁵ Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name. For they have devoured Jacob. Yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

³ at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels. The fathers do not look back to their sons for feebleness of hands,

⁴ He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes. ⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein.

² The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep uttered its voice, and lifted up its hands on high.

²⁶ for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.

²⁸ But if any man says to you, This is a sacrifice to an idol, do not eat for the sake of that man who informed, and the conscience, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.

⁶ And LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and many people of Israel died.

²⁴ to be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. And I will send upon them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear, ⁵ which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.

¹¹ If the serpent bites before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

²⁹ Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken. For out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

¹⁹ As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

³ And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails. For their tails are similar to serpents, having heads, and by them they injure.

¹³ When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint. ¹⁴ Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions,

⁴ Therefore I said, Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

²⁴ We have heard the report of it. Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

¹⁹ Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous, but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it. ²⁰ My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My sons have gone forth from me, and they are not. There is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. ²¹ For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. ²² The voice of news. Behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

¹⁶ For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My sons are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed. ¹⁷ Zion spreads forth her hands. There is none to comfort her. LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are round about him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,

¹⁶ And, behold, someone in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have turned upon me, and I retain no strength. ¹⁷ For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, straightaway there remained no strength in me, nor was there breath left in me.

¹⁶ I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

¹⁶ They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. With abominations they provoked him to anger. ¹⁷ They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they knew not, to new gods that came up of late, which your fathers did not dread. ¹⁸ Thou are unmindful of the Rock that begot thee, and have forgotten God who gave thee birth. ¹⁹ And LORD saw, and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. ²⁰ And he said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be. For they are a very perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness. ²¹ They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities, and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

²¹ Blessed be LORD out of Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise ye LORD.

¹⁰ LORD will reign forever, thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise ye LORD.

² Let Israel rejoice in him who made him. Let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King.

⁴ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have gone away backward.

⁶ Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

⁵ They come from a far country, from the outermost part of heaven, even LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

²² For LORD is our judge. LORD is our lawgiver. LORD is our king, he will save us.

³ Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say? And from where did they come to thee? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country to me, even from Babylon.

¹ Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion. Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

¹⁶ Make ye mention to the nations. Behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. ¹⁷ They are as keepers of a field against her round about, because she has been rebellious against me, says LORD.

³⁰ And thou, when thou are made desolate, what will thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet, though thou deck thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlarge thine eyes with paint, in vain thou make thyself fair. Thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life. ³¹ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.

⁵ Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return. ⁶ I hearkened and heard, but they did not speak aright. No man repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turns to his course as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

¹⁶ I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

⁶ For there shall be a day that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion to LORD our God.

³² And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of LORD shall be saved. For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as LORD has said, and among the remnant those whom LORD calls.

²¹ And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed. For LORD dwells in Zion.

¹⁷ But in mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

¹ To the agent of the congregation in Ephesus write, These things says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

⁵ He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

¹ Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to the bridegroom's gathering. ² And five of them were wise, and five were foolish, ³ foolish women, who, having taken their lamps, took no olive oil with them. ⁴ But the wise took olive oil in their vessels with their lamps. ⁵ Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. ⁶ But at midnight a shout occurred, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go ye forth for his gathering. ⁷ Then all those virgins were roused, and put their lamps in order. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us from your olive oil, because our lamps are going out. ⁹ But the wise answered, saying, Perhaps there may not be enough for us and you. But go ye rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And the prepared entered in with him for the wedding festivities, and the door was shut. ¹¹ But afterward the other virgins also came, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹² But having answered, he said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.

²⁵ From the time the house-ruler has risen up, and has closed the door, and ye begin to stand outside, and to knock the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and having answered, he will say to you, I know not where ye are from,

⁴⁴ And they will raze thee and thy children within thee. And they will not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knew not the time of thy visitation.

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if ye hear his voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of the trial in the wilderness, ⁹ where your fathers challenged me, tested me, and saw my works forty years. ¹⁰ Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways. ¹¹ So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest. ¹² Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God. ¹³ But exhort each other during each day, while it is called Today, lest any of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end, ¹⁵ while it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

³ And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?

³ For there those who led us captive required of us songs, and those who wasted us, mirth, saying, Sing for us one of the songs of Zion. ⁴ How shall we sing LORD's song in a foreign land? ⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. ⁶ Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee, if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

⁵ I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. ⁶ Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me. They made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept.

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart. My heart is disquieted in me. I cannot hold my peace, because thou have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

¹ Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁷ And thou shall say this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

¹⁶ As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee, nor have I desired the woeful day. Thou know. That which came out of my lips was before thy face.

⁶ At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have grown pale.

¹⁰ She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.

⁴¹ And when he came near, having seen the city, he wept over it,

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit, ² that great distress is in me, and unceasing sorrow in my heart. ³ For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,

²⁵ And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

¹¹ And their father Israel said to them, If it be so now, do this: Take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and myrrh, nuts, and almonds.

⁵ Why will ye still be stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ⁶ From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes. They have not been closed nor bound up nor soothed with oil.

¹² For thus says LORD, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous. ¹³ There is none to plead thy cause, that thou may be bound up; thou have no healing medicines. ¹⁴ All who love thee have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased. ¹⁵ Why do thou cry for thy hurt? Thy pain is incurable, for the greatness of thine iniquity. Because thy sins were increased, I have done these things to thee. ¹⁶ Therefore all those who devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And those who despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all who prey upon thee I will give for a prey. ¹⁷ For I will restore health to thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, says LORD, because they have called thee an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

¹¹ Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain do thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.

⁸ Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Wail for her. Take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

¹¹ And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners? ¹² But Jesus having heard it, he said to them, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who fare badly.

³¹ And having answered, Jesus said to them, Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those faring badly. ³² I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.

⁴³ And a woman being with an issue of blood for twelve years, who, although she spent her entire living on physicians, was unable to be healed by any,