Lamentations 3 Cross References - ACV

¹ I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. ² He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. ³ Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day. ⁴ He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. ⁵ He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail. ⁶ He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead. ⁷ He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰ He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places. ¹¹ He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. ¹² He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. ¹⁴ I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. ¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood. ¹⁶ He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. ¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD. ¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰ My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. ²¹ This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope: ²² It is of LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail. ²³ They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. ²⁴ LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him. ²⁵ LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. ²⁶ It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of LORD. 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. ²⁹ Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. ³⁰ Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach. ³¹ For the Lord will not cast off forever. ³² For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. ³³ For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons of men. ³⁴ To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, ³⁵ to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, ³⁶ to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve. ³⁷ Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it? ³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good? ³⁹ Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? ⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. ⁴² We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned. ⁴³ Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied. ⁴⁴ Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. ⁴⁵ Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. ⁴⁶ All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. ⁴⁷ Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction. ⁴⁸ My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. ⁴⁹ My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission, ⁵⁰ till LORD looks down, and beholds from heaven. ⁵¹ My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. ⁵² They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. ⁵³ They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. ⁵⁴ Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off. ⁵⁵ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon. ⁵⁶ Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. ⁵⁷ Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not. ⁵⁸ O Lord, thou have pleaded the causes of my soul. Thou have redeemed my life. ⁵⁹ O LORD, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause. ⁶⁰ Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. ⁶¹ Thou have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their devices against me, ⁶² the lips of those who rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. ⁶³ Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song. ⁶⁴ Thou will render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. ⁶⁵ Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them. ⁶⁶ Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of LORD.

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

²⁰ Thou, who have shown us many and great troubles, will revive us again, and will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

⁷ Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded. ¹⁶ Thy fierce wrath has gone over me. Thy terrors have cut me off.

³ He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

¹⁷ I did not sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor did I rejoice. I sat alone because of thy hand, for thou have filled me with indignation. ¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?

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?

⁶ Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all ye who pass by? Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought upon me. Therewith LORD has afflicted in the day of his fierce anger. ¹³ From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all the day. ¹⁴ The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up upon my neck. He has made my strength to fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

²⁹ and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

⁹ Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us. We look for light, but behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

²³ I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.

¹⁶ Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

¹ How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth, and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

⁵³ They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. ⁵⁴ Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off. ⁵⁵ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.

¹⁸ Woe to you who desire the day of LORD! Why would ye have the day of LORD? It is darkness, and not light. 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. ²⁰ Shall not the day of LORD be darkness, and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in it?

⁶ And the agents who did not keep their own principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept reserved in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

²⁰ LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

²⁵ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin.

²⁵ Therefore the anger of LORD is kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has smitten them. And the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

⁴ He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary, and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion. ⁵ The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah. ⁶ And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. LORD has caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and the priest. ⁷ The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

⁸ And thou have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face. ⁹ He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

⁹ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, yea, my soul and my body. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou have broken may rejoice.

³ For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

¹³ I quieted myself until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will thou make an end of me.

¹⁷ Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

⁸ He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

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

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 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.

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.

⁷ He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.

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

⁵ cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand. ⁶ Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

³ For the enemy has persecuted my soul. He has smitten my life down to the ground. He has made me to dwell in dark places as those who have been long dead.

⁷ Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

⁸ Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

⁴ And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which are upon thy hand. If it seem good to thee to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well to thee, but if it seems ill to thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear. Behold, all the land is before thee, where it seems good and right to thee to go, there go.

¹⁴ The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up upon my neck. He has made my strength to fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.

⁵ Our pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

¹² And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem.

⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

²⁰ I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.

² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.

⁴ O LORD God of hosts, how long will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

⁴⁴ Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

² O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear? I cry out to thee of violence, and thou will not save.

⁴⁶ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a great voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me?

²⁸ and his breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. And a bridle that causes to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.

¹⁷ O LORD, why do thou make us to err from thy ways, and harden our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

¹¹ He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.

⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert. He lies in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net.

¹² He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

¹⁴ For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away, I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

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.

⁷ Therefore I am to them as a lion. As a leopard I will watch by the way. ⁸ I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild beast shall tear them.

⁷ But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company.

¹² I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground.

²² Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

⁶ Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them; a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

⁸ Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

¹⁰ For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through, nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone. ¹¹ And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

⁸ And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

⁴³ And fields shall be bought in this land, of which ye say, It is desolate, without man or beast. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

²⁰ Thou are my battle-axe and weapons of war. And with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms, ²¹ and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and his rider, ²² and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides in it, and with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the youth, and with thee I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin,

¹³ From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

⁴⁰ And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things. And as iron that crushes all these, it shall break in pieces and crush. ⁴¹ And whereas thou saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom. But there shall be of the strength of the iron in it, inasmuch as thou saw the iron mixed with miry clay. ⁴² And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. ⁴³ And whereas thou saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not cling one to another, even as iron does not mix with clay. ⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

²³ Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.

³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

¹⁹ And they cast dust on their heads, and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, Alas, alas, the great city in which all who had ships in the sea became rich from her luxuriance! Because in one hour she was devastated.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

¹² If a man does not repent, he will whet his sword. He has bent his bow, and made it ready. ¹³ He has also prepared for him the instruments of death. He makes his arrows fiery.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely.

⁴ He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary, and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion.

²³ I will heap evils upon them. I will spend my arrows upon them,

²⁸ The arrow cannot make him flee. Sling-stones are turned into stubble with him.

² And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burnt? ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox goes up he shall break down their stone wall. ⁴ Hear, O our God, for we are despised, and so turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity,

¹ But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. ² Yea, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished. ³ They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation. ⁴ They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food. ⁵ They are driven forth from the midst of men. They cry out after them as after a thief, ⁶ so that they dwell in frightful valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks. ⁷ Among the bushes they bray, under the nettles they are gathered together. ⁸ They are sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land. ⁹ And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people. ⁷ All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying,

¹⁵ But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not. They tore me, and ceased not. ¹⁶ Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹³ Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.

¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. ¹² Those who sit in the gate talk of me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

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.

⁷ O LORD, thou have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Thou are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all the day; everyone mocks me.

²⁷ For was not Israel a derision to thee? Was he found among thieves? For as often as thou speak of him, thou wag the head.

⁶³ Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song.

³⁹ And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, ⁴⁰ and saying, Thou who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou are the Son of God, come down from the cross. ⁴¹ And likewise also the chief priests, ridiculing with the scholars, and elders, and Pharisees, said, ⁴² He saved others, he cannot save himself. If he is the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him. ⁴³ He trusted in God, let him rescue him now, if he wants him, for he said, I am the Son of God. ⁴⁴ And also the robbers who were crucified with him reviled him the same way.

⁹ For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to agents and to men. ¹⁰ We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable. ¹¹ As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless. ¹² And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; ¹³ being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

²⁰ And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

¹⁸ He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

³ Thou have shown thy people hard things. Thou have made us to drink the wine of staggering.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of LORD the cup of his wrath. Thou have drunk the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. ¹⁸ There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth, nor is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons that she has brought up. ¹⁹ These two things have befallen thee (Who shall bemoan thee?): Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. How shall I comfort thee? ²⁰ Thy sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of LORD, the rebuke of thy God. ²¹ Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine. ²² Thus says thy lord LORD, and thy God who pleads the cause of his people: Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. Thou shall no more drink it again.

¹⁵ For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. ¹⁶ And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. ¹⁷ Then I took the cup at LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom LORD had sent me: ¹⁸ Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of it, and the rulers of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day,

²⁷ And thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

⁸ And he took a potsherd for him to scrape himself with it, and he sat among the ashes.

¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

⁷ Arise, O LORD. Save me, O my God. For thou have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone. Thou have broken the teeth of the wicked.

⁶ Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

¹⁷ Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

²⁶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes. Make thee mourning, as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation. For the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

⁶ And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

⁹ Or what man is there of you, who, if his son may ask for bread, will give him a stone,

¹¹ And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent?

³⁰ and there shall arise after them seven years of famine. And all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land.

⁷ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from the wicked, for they seek not thy statutes.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.

¹⁰ For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, nor shall my covenant of peace be removed, says LORD who has mercy on thee.

¹¹ We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

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!

⁵ For thus says LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, nor go to lament, nor bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says LORD, even loving kindness and tender mercies.

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.

¹⁰ For before those days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast, nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men each one against his neighbor.

¹ And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel, so I shall escape out of his hand.

¹¹ What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?

¹⁵ where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

²² As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes. Nevertheless thou heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.

¹¹ I said in my haste, All men are liars.

¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off.

³² Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, let not all the travail seem little before thee, that has come upon us, on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

⁴⁷ O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants, how I bear in my bosom all the mighty peoples,

¹ LORD, remember for David all his affliction,

⁵ He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.

¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.

⁶ Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.

⁵ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. ⁶ O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

¹¹ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

⁵ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

²⁵ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground.

⁸ LORD opens the eyes of the blind. LORD raises up those who are bowed down. LORD loves the righteous.

⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever? And will he be favorable no more? ⁸ Has his loving kindness entirely gone forever? Does his promise fail for evermore? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. ¹⁰ And I said, This is my infirmity, the change of the right hand of the Most High. ¹¹ I will make mention of the deeds of LORD, for I will remember thy wonders of old.

⁸¹ My soul faints for thy salvation. I hope in thy word.

⁷ O Israel, hope in LORD, for with LORD there is loving kindness, and with him is plentiful redemption.

²⁴ LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him. ²⁵ LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. ²⁶ It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of LORD. 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. ²⁹ Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

³ For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hastens toward the end, and shall not lie. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.

⁸ And now for a little moment grace has been shown from LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. ⁹ For we are bondmen, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

¹³ And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant, ¹⁴ shall we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples who do these abominations? Would thou not be angry with us till thou had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? ¹⁵ O LORD, the God of Israel, thou are righteous, for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness, for none can stand before thee because of this.

³¹ Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them, for thou are a gracious and merciful God.

⁸ Has his loving kindness entirely gone forever? Does his promise fail for evermore?

³⁸ But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and destroyed not. Yea, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

¹⁵ But thou, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

⁴⁵ And he remembered his covenant for them, and relented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

⁸ But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken to me. They did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. ⁹ But I worked for my name's sake (that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them) in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

¹³ But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. And they greatly profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. ¹⁴ But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

²¹ But the sons rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. ²² Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.

¹⁸ Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. ¹⁹ He will again have compassion upon us. He will tread our iniquities under foot, and thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

⁶ For I, LORD, do not change. Therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

⁵⁰ And his mercy is for generations of generations to those who fear him.

⁶ And LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, LORD, LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

⁵ For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy is in the morning.

⁵ Thy loving kindness, O LORD, is in the heavens, thy faithfulness to the skies.

¹ I will sing of the loving kindness of LORD forever. With my mouth I will make known thy faithfulness to all generations. ² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.

³³ but my loving kindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps truth forever,

² O LORD, be gracious to us, we have waited for thee. Be thou our arm every morning, also our salvation in the time of trouble.

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.

² in hope of eternal life, which the non-lying God promised before times eternal,

¹⁸ So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

²³ Let us hold firm the affirmation of the hope unwavering, for he who promised is faithful.

⁶ And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters. But David strengthened himself in LORD his God.

²⁰ And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them, for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated by them because they put their trust in him.

¹⁵ Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

⁵ LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Thou maintain my lot.

²⁴ Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye who hope in LORD.

¹⁸ Behold, the eye of LORD is upon those who fear him, upon those who hope in his loving kindness,

⁸ Trust in him at all times, ye people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

¹² O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in thee.

⁵⁷ LORD is my portion; I have said that I would observe thy words.

⁵ I cried to thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.

¹⁶ The portion of Jacob is not like these. For he is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.

¹⁹ The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.

²¹ This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:

¹² And again, Isaiah says, There will be the root of Jesse, and he who arises to reign over Gentiles. In him Gentiles will hope.

²¹ men who, because of him, believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, in order for your faith and hope to be in God;

¹⁸ I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found by thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

² And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. LORD is with you while ye are with him. And if ye seek him, he will be found of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

³ Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set thy heart to seek God.

¹⁹ who sets his heart to seek God, LORD, the God of his fathers, though he be not according to the purification of the sanctuary.

²¹ And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise LORD who seek after him. Let your heart live forever.

⁸ Good and upright is LORD. Therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

⁸ My heart said to thee, I have sought thy face. O LORD, I will seek thy face.

¹⁴ Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD.

⁷ Rest in LORD, and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

³⁴ Wait for LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to inherit the land. When sinners are cut off, thou shall see it.

⁷ And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in thee.

¹ I waited patiently for LORD, and he inclined to me, and heard my cry. ² He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. ³ And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in LORD. ⁴ Blessed is the man who makes LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. ⁵ Many, O LORD my God, are the wonderful works which thou have done, and thy thoughts which are toward us. They cannot be set in order to thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

¹ Hear my cry, O God. Attend to my prayer.

⁵ For thou, O God, have heard my vows. Thou have given me the heritage of those who fear thy name.

³² The meek have seen it, and are glad. Ye who seek after God, let your heart live.

³ Glory ye in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek LORD rejoice.

² Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart.

⁵ I wait for LORD. My soul waits, and in his word do I hope, ⁶ my soul for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning.

⁹ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is LORD. We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

⁹ With my soul I have desired thee in the night. Yea, with my spirit within me I will seek thee earnestly. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

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.

³¹ But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

⁶ Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.

⁴ For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides thee, what he has prepared for him who waits for him.

²⁶ It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of LORD.

¹² Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.

⁷ But as for me, I will look to LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. 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.

⁸ Therefore wait ye for me, says LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey. For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger. For all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

¹⁰ and to await his Son from the heavens whom he raised from the dead-Jesus-who rescues us from the coming wrath.

⁷ Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until it receives the early and latter rain.

¹³ And Moses said to the people, Fear ye not. Stand still, and see the salvation of LORD, which he will work for you today, for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever.

¹⁷ Ye shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Fear not, nor be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, for LORD is with you.

⁹ I will give thee thanks forever, because thou have done it. And I will hope in thy name in the presence of thy sanctified, for it is good.

⁶ With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to thee. I will give thanks to thy name, O LORD, for it is good.

²⁸ But it is good for me to draw near to God. I have made the lord LORD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.

¹ It is a good thing to give thanks to LORD, and to sing praises to thy name, O Most High,

¹⁶⁶ I have hoped for thy salvation, O LORD, and have done thy commandments.

¹⁷⁴ I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD, and thy law is my delight.

⁵ I wait for LORD. My soul waits, and in his word do I hope,

⁷ For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

¹⁵ For thus said the lord LORD, the Holy One of Israel, Ye shall be saved in returning and rest. Your strength shall be in quietness and in confidence. And ye would not,

¹⁸ But to be zealous of is always good in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁴ For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

³⁵ Therefore do not throw off your boldness, which has great recompense of reward.

¹³ Therefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope entirely for the grace brought to you at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chasten, O LORD, and teach out of thy law,

⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn thy statutes.

¹ Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them,

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is befitting, and my burden is light.

⁵ And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of the Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him? ⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives. ⁷ Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸ And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons. ⁹ Besides, we indeed have had chastisers-the fathers of our flesh-and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live? ¹⁰ For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. ¹² Therefore lift up the drooping hands, and the feeble knees,

⁹ I was mute. I opened not my mouth, because thou did it.

⁷ I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.

¹⁷ I did not sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor did I rejoice. I sat alone because of thy hand, for thou have filled me with indignation.

¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust upon their heads. They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

¹² And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

⁴ Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

⁵ I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee. ⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

¹⁷ And there is hope for thy latter end, says LORD, and thy sons shall come again to their own border.

⁶³ that thou may remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou have done, says the lord LORD.

¹⁴ Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to LORD your God?

⁹ Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we not perish?

³ Seek ye LORD, all ye meek of the earth who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. It may be ye will be hid in the day of LORD's anger.

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.

¹³ But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man.

¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.

¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

⁹ For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach thee have fallen upon me.

²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

⁶ I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.

¹ Now thou shall gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

³⁹ But I say to you, not to resist what is troublesome, but whoever will strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and struck him with a fist. And some slapped him,

²⁹ To him who strikes thee on the cheek offer the other also, and from him who takes away thy cloak, also do not withhold thy coat.

²⁰ For ye tolerate it if some man enslaves you, if some man devours you, if some man seizes you, if some man lifts himself up, if some man strikes you on the face.

²² For LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased LORD to make you a people to himself.

⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever? And will he be favorable no more?

¹⁴ For LORD will not cast off his people, nor will he forsake his inheritance.

⁸ LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. ⁹ He will not always chide, nor will he keep it forever. ¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

⁷ For a small moment I have forsaken thee, but with great mercies I will gather thee. ⁸ In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on thee, says LORD thy Redeemer. ⁹ For this is as the waters of Noah to me. For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with thee, nor rebuke thee. ¹⁰ For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, nor shall my covenant of peace be removed, says LORD who has mercy on thee.

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

³⁷ Thus says LORD: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says LORD.

⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. And I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

²⁴ Consider thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which LORD chose, he has cast them off? Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

¹⁸ Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

¹ I say therefore, did God thrust away his people? May it not happen! For I also am an Israelite from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God did not thrust away his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture tells by Elijah? How he encounters God about Israel. ³ Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and they have torn down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life. ⁴ But what does the divine response say to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed a knee to Baal. ⁵ So then also at this present time there has become a remnant according to the selection of grace. ⁶ And if it is by grace, it is no longer from works, otherwise grace becomes no longer grace. But if it is from works it is no longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work.

²³ And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

⁷ And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

¹⁶ And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served LORD. And his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

²³ But LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither did he cast them from his presence as yet.

¹¹ For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

⁴³ Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. ⁴⁴ Nevertheless he regarded their distress when he heard their cry. ⁴⁵ And he remembered his covenant for them, and relented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says LORD.

²² It is of LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.

⁸ How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I cast thee off, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me. My compassions are kindled together.

²⁰ And having risen, he went to his father. But while he was still distant, afar off, his father saw him and felt compassion. And having ran, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much.

²¹ For LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

³² For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the lord LORD, therefore turn yourselves back, and live.

¹¹ Say to them, As I live, says the lord LORD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

⁹ Besides, we indeed have had chastisers-the fathers of our flesh-and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live? ¹⁰ For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness.

³³ For LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his prisoners.

¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee. According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those who are appointed to death,

²⁰ to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,

¹⁷ who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home?

⁹ saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare heights.

²² Thus says thy lord LORD, and thy God who pleads the cause of his people: Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. Thou shall no more drink it again. ²³ And I will put it into the hand of those who afflict thee, who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over, and thou have laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.

³³ Thus says LORD of hosts: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah are oppressed together, and all who took them captive hold them firm; they refuse to let them go. ³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong. LORD of hosts is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

³³ For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. ³⁴ Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out. ³⁵ The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, the inhabitant of Zion shall say. And, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, Jerusalem shall say. ³⁶ Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee. And I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

¹¹ As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water. ¹² Turn you back to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will render double to thee.

²⁷ And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased LORD.

¹⁵ Yea, truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

³ Thus says LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness. And deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong. Do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

¹³ Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

⁹ For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. ¹⁰ LORD brings the counsel of the nations to naught. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. ¹¹ The counsel of LORD stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

⁹ A man's heart devises his way, but LORD directs his steps.

²¹ There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of LORD, that shall stand.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,

³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are thou doing?

¹⁵ For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate.

¹¹ in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will,

¹³ Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain- ¹⁴ men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away- ¹⁵ in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.

¹⁰ But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

⁷ But God is the judge. He put one down, and lifts another up.

²⁶ Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice is from LORD.

⁷ I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am LORD who does all these things.

⁴² For thus says LORD: Just as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

⁶ Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall evil befall a city, and LORD has not done it?

⁵ but he did not have respect to Cain and to his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. ⁶ And LORD said to Cain, Why are thou angry? And why has thy countenance fallen? ⁷ If thou do well, shall thou not be accepted? And if thou do not well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire shall be for thee, and thou shall rule over it.

¹³ And Cain said to LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ¹⁴ Behold, thou have driven me out this day from the face of the ground, and I shall be hid from thy face, and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. And it shall come to pass, that whoever finds me shall slay me.

⁴¹ I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity,

⁴³ The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. And they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

¹¹ And Moses said to LORD, Why have thou dealt ill with thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou lay the burden of all this people upon me?

⁴¹ But on the morrow all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of LORD.

¹² And the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

⁶ And Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust upon their heads. ⁷ And Joshua said, Alas, O lord LORD, why have thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? Would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan! ⁸ Oh, Lord, what shall I say after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! ⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will encompass us around, and cut off our name from the earth, and what will thou do for thy great name? ¹⁰ And LORD said to Joshua, Get thee up. Why are thou thus fallen upon thy face? ¹¹ Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken from what was set apart, and have also stolen, and also dissembled. And they have even put it among their own stuff. ¹² Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies because they have become accursed. I will not be with you any more unless ye destroy what was set apart from among you. ¹³ Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow. For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, There is what has been set apart in the midst of thee, O Israel. Thou cannot stand before thine enemies until ye take away the devoted thing from among you.

⁷ And the anger of LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error, and he died there by the ark of God. ⁸ And David was displeased, because LORD had broken forth upon Uzzah. And he called that place Perez-uzzah, to this day.

¹³ And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? Get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him, No, for LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

³² But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from before him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, Do ye see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

¹³ And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

⁶ and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of thee less than thine iniquity deserves.

³ The foolishness of a man subverts his way, and his heart rages against LORD.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back. ¹⁸ For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. ¹⁹ The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.

²⁰ Thy sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

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.

³ For thou cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me. All thy waves and thy billows passed over me. ⁴ And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes. Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. ⁹ And God said to Jonah, Do thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

⁹ And the men were scorched with great heat. And the men blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory.

³⁰ When thou are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon thee, in the latter days thou shall return to LORD thy God, and hearken to his voice.

¹² And said to them, Ye are the heads of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brothers, that ye may bring up the ark of LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. ¹³ For because ye did not at the first, LORD our God made a breach upon us, because we did not seek him according to the ordinance.

⁶ So the posts went with the letters from the king and his rulers throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye sons of Israel, turn again to LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you who escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

⁹ For if ye turn again to LORD, your brothers and your sons shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land. For LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return to him.

¹³ If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him, ¹⁴ if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents. ¹⁵ Surely then thou shall lift up thy face without spot. Yea, thou shall be steadfast, and shall not fear.

³¹ For has any said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more. ³² Teach thou me that which I do not see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

⁴ Stand in awe, and sin not. Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

⁵⁹ I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts, ²⁴ and see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.

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.

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

⁶ Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

¹ O Israel, return to LORD thy God, for thou have fallen by thine iniquity. ² Take with you words, and return to LORD. Say to him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good. So we will render as bullocks the offering of our lips. ³ Assyria shall not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

¹² Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. ¹³ And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents of the evil.

⁵ Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. ⁶ Ye have sown much, and bring in little. Ye eat, but ye have not enough. Ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink. Ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm. And he who earns wages earns wages to put into a bag with holes. ⁷ Thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. ⁸ Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house. And I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says LORD. ⁹ Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

³ Therefore say thou to them, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return to me, says LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. ⁴ Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD.

²⁰ but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

²⁸ But let a man examine himself, and let him so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

³¹ But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

⁵ Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are test-failing something.

¹ To thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

² Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

⁴ So I will bless thee while I live. I will lift up my hands in thy name.

⁴ Rejoice the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

² Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

⁶ I spread forth my hands to thee. My soul is as a weary land for thee. Selah. ⁷ Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning, for in thee do I trust. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to thee.

⁸ Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.

⁴ and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.

²⁶ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them again to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

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.

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.

⁷ How can I pardon thee? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by those who are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses. ⁸ They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife. ⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says LORD. And shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁸ LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.

¹³ In thy filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed thee and thou were not cleansed, thou shall not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.

⁵ we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances, ⁶ nor have we hearkened to thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 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. ⁸ O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. ⁹ To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him, ¹⁰ nor have we obeyed the voice of LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. ¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. For we have sinned against him. ¹² And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of LORD our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in thy truth. ¹⁴ Therefore LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it upon us, for LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. ¹⁷ Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

¹⁹ that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

¹⁵ So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.

¹ How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth, and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. ² The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. In his wrath he has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and the rulers thereof.

¹⁷ LORD has done that which he purposed. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. And he has caused the enemy to rejoice over thee. He has exalted the horn of thine adversaries.

²¹ The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. Thou have slain them in the day of thine anger. Thou have slaughtered, and not pitied.

⁶⁶ Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of LORD.

⁹ And my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. I will bring upon thee according to thy ways. And thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I, LORD, do smite.

¹⁸ Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.

¹⁰ And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.

² Clouds and darkness are round about him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

¹¹ And LORD said to me, Pray not for this people for good.

¹ Then LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

¹³ And it has come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said LORD of hosts.

¹³ And LORD will make thee the head, and not the tail. And thou shall only be above, and thou shall not be beneath, if thou shall hearken to the commandments of LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do,

³⁷ And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away.

⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, and thou shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and thou shall be the tail.

¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

¹⁴ I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

¹⁴ They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, so that men cannot touch their garments. ¹⁵ Depart ye, they cried to them. Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here.

¹³ being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

⁷ But against any of the sons of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast, that ye may know how that LORD makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

⁹ And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them. ¹⁰ They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face. ¹¹ For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me. And they have cast off the bridle before me.

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people. ⁷ All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying, ⁸ He trusted on LORD. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.

¹³ Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us. ¹⁴ Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁰ Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the nations in our sight.

¹⁶ All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

³⁸ Then two robbers are crucified with him, one at the right hand and one at the left. ³⁹ And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, ⁴⁰ and saying, Thou who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou are the Son of God, come down from the cross. ⁴¹ And likewise also the chief priests, ridiculing with the scholars, and elders, and Pharisees, said, ⁴² He saved others, he cannot save himself. If he is the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him. ⁴³ He trusted in God, let him rescue him now, if he wants him, for he said, I am the Son of God. ⁴⁴ And also the robbers who were crucified with him reviled him the same way. ⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour darkness developed over all the land until the ninth hour.

¹⁷ Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. ¹⁸ And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

¹⁹ These two things have befallen thee (Who shall bemoan thee?): Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. How shall I comfort thee?

⁴³ Fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, says LORD. ⁴⁴ He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says LORD.

⁴ The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

¹ How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth, and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. ² The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. In his wrath he has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and the rulers thereof. ³ In fierce anger he has cut off all the horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. And he has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire which devours round about. ⁴ He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary, and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion. ⁵ The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah. ⁶ And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. LORD has caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and the priest. ⁷ The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly. ⁸ LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. And he has made the rampart and wall to lament, they languish together. ⁹ Her gates are sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her rulers are among the nations where the law is not. Yea, her prophets find no vision from LORD.

³⁵ For it will come like a trap upon all those who sit upon the face of all the earth.

¹³⁶ Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe thy law.

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!

¹⁸ And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

¹⁷ But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.

¹¹ My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

¹⁸ Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give thyself no respite. Let not the apple of thine eye cease.

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,

² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not. My soul refused to be comforted.

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.

¹⁴ Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and, behold, and visit this vine, ¹⁵ and the stock which thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou made strong for thyself. ¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down. They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁹ For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven LORD beheld the earth, ²⁰ to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,

⁶ I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never keep silent day nor night. Ye who are LORD's reminders, take ye no rest, ⁷ and give him no rest, till he establishes, and till he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory. Where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? The yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.

¹ Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,

²⁰ See, O LORD, and behold to whom thou have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

¹ Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.

¹⁶ O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people have become a reproach to all who are round about us. ¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. ¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hear. Open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name. For we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sake. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, hearken and do. Defer not, for thine own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, if the young man be not with me? Lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

³ And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire. And their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive. ⁴ Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

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. ²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains in a moment. ²¹ How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

²² Therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,

¹⁶ And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour their wickedness upon them.

¹⁸ If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.

⁹ And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. And they shall eat each one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.

¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

⁴¹ And when he came near, having seen the city, he wept over it, ⁴² saying, If thou knew, even thou, indeed even in this thy day, the things for thy peace. But now they are hidden from thine eyes. ⁴³ Because the days will come upon thee, and thine enemies will build a barricade around thee, and will surround thee, and enclose thee on every side. 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.

¹⁰ Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that LORD had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave. And some bade me kill thee, but I spared thee. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is LORD's anointed. ¹¹ Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not. Know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou hunt after my life to take it. ¹² LORD judge between me and thee, and LORD avenge me of thee, but my hand shall not be upon thee. ¹³ As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness, but my hand shall not be upon thee. ¹⁴ After whom is the king of Israel come out? After whom do thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea. ¹⁵ LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

²⁸ Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid. For LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of LORD, and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days. ²⁹ And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with LORD thy God. And the souls of thine enemies, them he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

¹⁸ And he said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand? ¹⁹ Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be LORD who has stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering, but if it be the sons of men, cursed be they before LORD. For they have driven me out this day that I should not cling to the inheritance of LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods. ²⁰ Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when a man hunts a partridge in the mountains.

¹ In LORD I take refuge. How will ye say to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain.

⁷ For without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

¹⁹ Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.

⁴ Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. That which I took not away I have to restore.

³ They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

¹⁶¹ Rulers have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.

¹⁵ And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison. ¹⁶ When Jeremiah came into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

¹⁸ Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, How have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

⁴ Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death, inasmuch as he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this man seeks not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. ⁵ And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand, for the king is not he who can do anything against you. ⁶ Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

²⁵ But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.

¹⁶ When Jeremiah came into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

²⁰ And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king. Let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee, that thou not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

⁹ My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the dungeon. And he is likely to die in the place where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.

¹⁷ And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den. And the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

⁶⁰ and laid it in his own new sepulcher, which he hewed out in the rock. And having rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, he departed.

⁶⁶ And having gone, they made the tomb secure, with the security having sealed the stone.

¹¹ My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. ¹² They change the night into day. The light, they say, is near to the darkness. ¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, ¹⁴ if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister, ¹⁵ where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? ¹⁶ It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.

⁴ The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.

¹ Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul. ² I sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

¹⁵ Let not the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep swallow me up. And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

⁴ then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul, ⁵ then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

¹⁰ I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years. ¹¹ I said, I shall not see LORD, even LORD in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. ¹² My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night thou will make an end of me. ¹³ I quieted myself until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will thou make an end of me.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.

³ For thou cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me. All thy waves and thy billows passed over me. ⁴ And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes. Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. ⁵ The waters encompassed me around, even to the soul. The deep was round about me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁸ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive. ⁹ But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead. ¹⁰ Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

¹¹ Therefore LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

⁵ The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me. ⁶ In my distress I called upon LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.

¹ I waited patiently for LORD, and he inclined to me, and heard my cry. ² He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD. In an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy loving kindness, answer me in the truth of thy salvation. ¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. ¹⁵ Let not the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep swallow me up. And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. ¹⁶ Answer me, O LORD, for thy loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou to me, ¹⁷ and hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily. ¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

³ The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow. ⁴ Then I called upon the name of LORD. O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

¹ Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O LORD. ² Lord, hear my voice. Let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

³ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, thou knew my path. In the way in which I walk they have hidden a snare for me. ⁴ Look on my right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul. ⁵ I cried to thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I. ⁷ Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks to thy name. The righteous shall encompass me around, for thou will deal bountifully with me.

² And he said, I called because of my affliction to LORD, and he answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and thou heard my voice.

²⁴ who, having received such an order, threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks. ²⁵ Now toward midnight Paul and Silas, while praying, were singing praises to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. ²⁶ And suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so as for the foundations of the prison to shake. And immediately all the doors were opened, and the bonds of all the men were unfastened. ²⁷ And the jailor, who became awake and who saw the prison doors opened, having drawn out a sword was going to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to have fled. ²⁸ But Paul cried out in a great voice, saying, Do nothing harmful to thyself, for we are all here.

¹³ And he prayed to him. And he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that LORD he was God.

¹⁹ Also his prayer, and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

²⁸ so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted.

⁴ I cry to LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

⁸ Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity, for LORD has heard the voice of my weeping. ⁹ LORD has heard my supplication. LORD will receive my prayer.

⁶ This poor man cried, and LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

¹ Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my supplication.

¹⁹ But truly God has heard. He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

¹³ But to thee, O LORD, I have cried, and in the morning my prayer shall come before thee. ¹⁴ LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?

¹ I love LORD because he hears my voice and my supplications. ² Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call as long as I live.

⁵ Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says LORD, the God of David thy father. I have heard thy prayer. I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.

²⁶ And likewise also the Spirit helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we would pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

¹⁸ LORD is near to all those who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

¹⁰ Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

¹⁴ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel. I will help thee, says LORD, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

¹ But now thus says LORD who created thee, O Jacob, and he who formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name, Thou are mine. ² When thou pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. When thou walk through the fire, thou shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle upon thee.

⁹ Then thou shall call, and LORD will answer, thou shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take the yoke away from the midst of thee, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly,

¹⁷ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them.

⁹ And the Lord spoke to Paul by a vision at night, Fear not, but speak, and be not silent,

²⁴ saying, Fear not, Paul. Thou must stand before Caesar, and lo, God has granted thee all those sailing with thee.

⁸ Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last,

¹⁰ Fear none of the things that thou are going to suffer. Behold, the devil is indeed going to cast some of you into prison, so that ye may be tried, and ye will have tribulation ten days. Become thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

¹⁶ the agent who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

³⁹ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil, and the evil-doing of Nabal LORD has returned upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

²² LORD redeems the soul of his servants, and none of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.

²³ My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to thee, and my soul, which thou have redeemed.

⁴ who redeems thy life from destruction, who crowns thee with loving kindness and tender mercies,

³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong. LORD of hosts is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

³⁶ Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee. And I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

⁴² Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.

⁴ For thou have maintained my right and my cause. Thou sit in the throne judging righteously.

¹ Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in LORD without wavering.

¹ Strive thou, O LORD, with those who strive with me. Fight thou against those who fight against me.

²³ Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my Lord.

¹ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered. ²⁰ But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them, for to thee I have revealed my case. ²¹ Therefore thus says LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek thy life, saying, Thou shall not prophesy in the name of LORD, that thou not die by our hand.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, yet every one of them curses me.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. ¹⁹ Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of those who contend with me. ²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them. ²¹ Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword, and let their wives become childless, and widows, and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle. ²² Let a cry be heard from their houses when thou shall bring a troop suddenly upon them, for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. ²³ Yet, LORD, thou know all their counsel against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee. Deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

⁷ O LORD, thou have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Thou are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all the day; everyone mocks me. ⁸ For as often as I speak, I cry out. I cry, Violence and destruction! Because the word of LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day. ⁹ And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot. ¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

¹ And Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. ² But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, hearkened to the words of LORD, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. ³ And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to LORD our God for us. ⁴ Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people, for they had not put him into prison. ⁵ And Pharaoh's army came forth out of Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke away from Jerusalem. ⁶ Then the word of LORD came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, ⁷ Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. ⁸ And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and they shall take it, and burn it with fire. ⁹ Thus says LORD: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us. For they shall not depart. ¹⁰ For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yea they would rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. ¹¹ And it came to pass that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken away from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, ¹² then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there in the midst of the people. ¹³ And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou are falling away to the Chaldeans. ¹⁴ Then Jeremiah said, It is false. I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he did not hearken to him. So Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the rulers. ¹⁵ And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison. ¹⁶ When Jeremiah came into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, ¹⁷ then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him. And the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is. He also said, Thou shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. ¹⁸ Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, How have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison? ¹⁹ Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? ²⁰ And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king. Let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee, that thou not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. ²¹ Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. And they gave him a loaf of bread daily out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

²³ Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously.

¹⁴ Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits himself to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered. ²⁰ But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them, for to thee I have revealed my case.

⁵⁹ O LORD, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that a foolish people has blasphemed thy name.

³⁰ Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.

⁸ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

⁷ Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for they say, Who hears?

¹² for the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips. Let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.

³ They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent. Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

³ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the lord LORD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people,

⁹ And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.

² Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off.

⁴ Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them after the operation of their hands. Render to them their recompense,

²⁰ But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them, for to thee I have revealed my case.

²⁹ Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her round about; let none thereof escape. Recompense her according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been proud against LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did many evil things to me. May the Lord repay him according to his works,

¹⁰ And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?

⁶ Render to her as she also rendered to you, and double to her two-fold according to her works. In the cup that she mixed, mix two-fold for her.

³⁰ But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as at this day.

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Truly. ¹⁶ Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Truly. ¹⁷ Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Truly. ¹⁸ Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Truly. ¹⁹ Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁰ Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²¹ Cursed be he who lies with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²² Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²³ Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁴ Cursed be he who smites his neighbor in secret. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁵ Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent man. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁶ Cursed is every man who does not continue in all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Truly.

¹⁷ Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him. ¹⁸ He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.

¹⁰ Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and be healed.

²² If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Maranatha.

²⁴ And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shall make their name to perish from under heaven. There shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

¹⁹ Therefore it shall be, when LORD thy God has given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Thou shall not forget.

²⁷ And LORD did not say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

³ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained,

⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery, and the agent of LORD pursuing them.

¹⁵ If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of thy sons.

¹⁶ The heavens are the heavens of LORD, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

¹ Thus says LORD, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What manner of house will ye build to me, and what place shall be my rest?

¹¹ Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

⁴³ Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.