Jeremiah 10 Cross References - CAB

¹ Hear the word of the Lord, which He has spoken to you, O house of Israel. ² Thus says the Lord: Learn not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, falling on their faces. ³ For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image. ⁴ They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails; ⁵ they will set them up that they may not move. ⁶ It is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver ⁷ (TEXT OMITTED) ⁸ (TEXT OMITTED) ⁹ brought from Tarshish, gold will come from Uphaz, and the work of goldsmiths. They are all the works of craftsmen, they will clothe themselves with blue and scarlet. ¹⁰ They must certainly be borne, for they cannot ride of themselves. Fear them not, for they cannot do any evil, and there is no good in them. ¹¹ Thus shall you say to them: Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky. ¹² It is the Lord that made the earth by His strength, who set up the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out the sky, ¹³ and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth. He made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of His treasures. ¹⁴ Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish. ¹⁶ Such is not the portion of Jacob; for He that formed all things, He is his inheritance; the Lord is His name. ¹⁷ He has gathered your substance from without the lodged in choice vessels. ¹⁸ For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that your plague may be discovered. ¹⁹ Alas for your ruin! Your plague is grievous. And I said, Surely this is your wound, and it has overtaken you. ²⁰ Your tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all your curtains have been torn asunder. My children and my cattle are no more; there is no longer any place for my tent, nor place for my curtains. ²¹ For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and the sheep have been scattered. ²² Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, and a resting place for ostriches. ²³ I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going. ²⁴ Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgment; and not in wrath, lest You make us few in number. ²⁵ Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that have not known You, and upon the families that have not called upon Your name; for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.

¹⁹ And Micaiah said, Not so, it is not I: hear the word of the Lord: I saw the God of Israel sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven stood about Him on His right hand and on His left.

⁷ Hear, My people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you; I am God, your God.

¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; attend to the law of God, you people of Gomorrah.

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you afflicted men, and you princes of this people that is in Jerusalem.

⁴ Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.

¹⁵ Hear, and give ear, and be not proud; for the Lord has spoken. ¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and you shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness. ¹⁷ But if you will not hear it, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.

² and you shall say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sit on the throne of David; you, your house, your people, and those that go in at these gates.

¹⁵ then hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord:

¹ Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

¹⁶ And now hear the word of the Lord: You say, Do not prophesy to Israel, and do not raise a tumult against the house of Jacob.

¹³ Because of this we also give thanks to God unceasingly, so that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received not the word of men, but just as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

²⁹ "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." '

³ You shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which you dwelt: and according to the devices of the land of Canaan, into which I bring you, you shall not do; and you shall not walk in their ordinances.

²³ And walk not in the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you; for they have done all these things, and I have abhorred them:

³⁰ take heed to yourself that you seek not to follow them after they are destroyed before you, saying, How do these nations act towards their gods? I will do likewise. ³¹ You shall not do so to your God; for they have sacrificed to their gods the abominations of the Lord which He hates, for they burn their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods.

¹² Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited. ¹³ You are wearied in your counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver you, let them that see the stars tell you what is about to come upon you. ¹⁴ Behold, they all shall be burned up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because you have coals of fire, sit upon them;

³² And it shall not be as you say, We will be as the nations, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.

²⁵ "And there shall be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, as the sea and the waves roar, ²⁶ men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming upon the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. ²⁷ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ²⁸ Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near."

³⁰ And you shall keep My ordinances, that you may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time; and you shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your God.

²⁶ And they took the bull and dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning till noon, and said, hear us, O Baal, hear us. And there was no voice, neither was there hearing, and they ran up and down on the alter which they had made. ²⁷ And it was noon, and Elijah the Tishbite mocked them, and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is meditating, or else perhaps he is engaged in business, or perhaps he is asleep, and needs to be awakened. ²⁸ And they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves according to their custom with knives and lancets until the blood gushed out upon them.

¹⁹ Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, guilded it over, and made it a similitude? ²⁰ For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely inquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved. ²¹ Will you not know? Will you not hear? Has it not been told to you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the earth? ²² It is He that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; He that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in; ²³ He that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing. ²⁴ For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground; He has blown upon them, and they have withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks. ²⁵ Now then to whom have you compared Me, that I may be exalted? Says the Holy One. ²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? Even He that brings forth His host by number; He shall call them all by name by means of His great glory, and by the power of His might; nothing has escaped you. ²⁷ For do not say, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, O Israel, saying, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away my judgment, and has departed? ²⁸ And now, have you not known? Have you not heard? The eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of His understanding. ²⁹ He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering. ³⁰ For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless; ³¹ but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

⁹ But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that engraved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed ¹⁰ that form a god, and all that engrave worthless things; ¹¹ and all by whom they were made have withered; yes, let all the deaf be gathered from among men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together; ¹² For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an ax, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm; and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water. ¹³ The artificer, having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house. ¹⁴ He cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted, even a pine tree, and the rain made it grow, ¹⁵ that it might be for men to burn; and having taken part of it he warms himself; yes, they burn part of it, and bake loaves on it; and of the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them. ¹⁶ Half of it he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied, and having warmed himself he says, I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and have seen the fire. ¹⁷ And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships and prays, saying, Deliver me; for you are my god. ¹⁸ They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart. ¹⁹ And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on its coals and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it. ²⁰ Know that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul; see, you will not say, There is a lie in my right hand.

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, you that escape from the nations. They that set up wood, even their graven image, have no knowledge, nor do they who pray to gods that do not save.

⁵ Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in Me, that they have revolted far from Me, and gone after vanities, and have become vain?

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⁴ They have made kings for themselves, but not by Me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to Me: of their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed. ⁵ Cast off your calf, O Samaria; My anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel? ⁶ Seeing the workman made it, and it is not God; for your calf, O Samaria, was a deceiver.

¹⁸ What profit is the graven image, that they have graven it? One has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols. ¹⁹ Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake, arise; and to the stone, Arise! For it is an image, and this is a casting of gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.

⁷ But when you pray, do not babble like the heathen, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

²¹ Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

¹⁸ knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,

⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

¹⁵ The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

¹⁹ Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, guilded it over, and made it a similitude? ²⁰ For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely inquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved.

⁶ everyone judging for his neighbor and that to assist his brother; and one will say, ⁷ The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, and forges also; sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined; they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

¹² For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an ax, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm; and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.

⁷ They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move; and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.

⁵ They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see; ⁶ they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell; ⁷ they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot speak through their throat. ⁸ Let those that make them become like them, and all who trust in them.

¹⁶ They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see; ¹⁷ they have ears, but they cannot hear; for there is no breath in their mouth. ¹⁸ Let those who make them be made like them; and all those who trust in them.

²³ tell us, declare to us the things that are coming on at the last time, and we shall know that you are gods; do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time ²⁴ where you are, and where your works are; they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.

⁹ But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that engraved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed ¹⁰ that form a god, and all that engrave worthless things;

¹ Bel has fallen, Nebo is broken to pieces, their graven images have gone to the wild beasts and the cattle; you take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and at the same time helpless man;

¹⁹ Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake, arise; and to the stone, Arise! For it is an image, and this is a casting of gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.

⁴ Therefore concerning the eating of the things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

² You know that when you were Gentiles, how you were led, being carried away to these speechless idols.

¹⁴ And he deceives my own people who dwell on the earth by the signs which were given to him to do before the Beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound--and came to life! -from the sword. ¹⁵ And it was granted to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

¹⁰ And he said, Tomorrow. Therefore he said, As you have said, that you may know, that there is no other God but the Lord.

¹⁴ For at this present time I will send forth all My plagues into your heart, and the heart of your servants and of your people; that you may know that there is not another such as I in all the earth.

¹¹ Who is like You among the gods, O Lord? Who is like You? Glorified in holiness, marvelous in glories, doing wonders.

³¹ For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies are void of understanding.

²⁶ There is not any such as the God of the beloved; He who rides upon the heaven is your helper, and the Magnificent One of the firmament.

²² that he may magnify You, O my Lord; for there is none like You, and there is no God but You among all of whom we have heard with our ears.

¹⁴ And I looked, and arose, and said to the nobles, and to the captains, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them; remember our great and terrible God, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

³² And now, O our God, the powerful, the great, the mighty, and the terrible, keeping Your covenant and Your mercy, let not all this trouble seem little in Your sight which has come upon us, and our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and upon all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria even to this day.

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like You? Delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yea, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

¹ A Psalm of praise for the sons of Korah on the second day of the week. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain.

⁸ There is none like You, O Lord, among the gods; and there are no works like Your works. ⁹ All nations whom You have made shall come and shall worship before You, O Lord; and shall glorify Your name. ¹⁰ For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are the great God.

⁶ For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? And who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God? ⁷ God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about Him. ⁸ O Lord God of hosts, who is like You? You are mighty, O Lord, and Your truth is round about You.

⁴ For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

³ The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and there is no end to His greatness.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is His strength; and His understanding is infinite.

⁶ Exalt and rejoice, you that dwell in Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

¹⁸ To whom have you compared the Lord? And with what likeness have you compared Him?

²⁵ Now then to whom have you compared Me, that I may be exalted? Says the Holy One.

⁵ To whom have you compared Me? See and consider, you that go astray.

⁹ and remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is none besides Me,

¹⁸ Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God;

³ how great and mighty they are; His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His power to all generations.

³⁴ And at the end of the time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised Him that lives forever, and gave Him glory; for His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom lasts to all generations.

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun, even to the going down thereof, My name has been glorified among the Gentiles; and in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure offering: for My name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord Almighty.

²³ and we do not find another His equal in strength: as for Him that judges justly, do you not think that He listens? ²⁴ Therefore men shall fear Him, and the wise also in heart shall fear Him.

²⁸ For the kingdom is the Lord's; and He is the governor of the nations.

¹¹ And all kings shall worship Him; all the Gentiles shall serve Him.

⁷ For You are to be feared; and who shall withstand You, because of Your anger?

⁹ All nations whom You have made shall come and shall worship before You, O Lord; and shall glorify Your name.

⁶ For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? And who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God?

⁴ And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war anymore.

²² Will you not fear Me? Says the Lord; and will you not fear before Me, who has set the sand as a boundary for the sea, as a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it. Yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.

⁶ It is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver

¹¹ And many nations shall flee for refuge to the Lord in that day, and they shall be for a people to Him, and they shall dwell in the midst of you; and you shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent Me to you.

⁵ But I will show you whom you should fear: fear Him who after He kills, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!

¹⁹ For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the prudent I will annul." ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!"

⁴ Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, because Your righteous judgments have been manifested."

⁸ Let those that make them become like them, and all who trust in them.

¹⁸ Let those who make them be made like them; and all those who trust in them.

²⁹ For these are your makers, as you think, and they that cause you to err in vain.

¹⁹ And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on its coals and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.

²⁷ They said to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have begotten me; and they have turned their backs to Me, and not their faces. Yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.

²² For the princes of My people have not known Me, they are foolish and unwise children. They are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have not known.

¹⁴ Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

¹⁷ Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for they have cast false gods; there is no breath in them. ¹⁸ They are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹² They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of harlotry, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

¹⁸ What profit is the graven image, that they have graven it? One has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.

² For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.

²¹ Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools,

²² For Solomon had a ship of Tarshish in the sea with the ships of Hiram; one ship came to the king every three years out of Tarshish, laden with gold and silver, and wrought stones, and hewn stones. This was the arrangement of the provision which King Solomon fetched to build the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, and the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; to fortify the City of David, and Assyria, and Migdol, and Gezer, and Beth Horon the upper, and Jethermath, and all the cities of the chariots, and all the cities of the horsemen, and the fortification of Solomon which he purposed to build in Jerusalem and in all the land, so that none of the people should rule over him that was left of the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, who were not of the children of Israel, their descendants who had been left with him in the land, whom the children of Israel could not utterly destroy. And Solomon made them tributaries until this day. But of the children of Israel Solomon made nothing, for they were the warriors, and his servants and rulers, and captains of the third order, and the captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.

¹⁹ Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, guilded it over, and made it a similitude?

¹² The Carthaginians were your merchants because of the abundance of all your strength; they furnished your market with silver, gold, iron, tin and lead.

⁵ And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girt with gold of Ophaz.

²⁶ For what man is there, who has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and shall live?

⁴ As for God, His works are true, and all His ways are judgment: God is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness in Him; just and holy is the Lord.

⁴ O Lord, in Your going forth on Seir, when You went forth out of the land of Edom, the earth quaked and the heaven dropped the dew, and the clouds dropped water.

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³⁶ Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and the uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them! Shall I not go and kill him, and remove this day this reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one, who has defied the army of the living God?

³⁹ And all the people fell upon their faces, and said, Truly the Lord is God! He is God!

³ And Israel has been a long time without the true God, and without a priest to expound the truth, and without the law.

⁶ Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.

¹⁶ The Lord shall reign forever, even forever and ever: you Gentiles shall perish out His land.

⁷ Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

⁵ Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

² My soul has thirsted for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?

¹¹ The Lord God will give a word to them that preach it in a great company.

¹⁸ The voice of Your thunder was abroad, and around Your lightnings appeared to the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

² My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh have exalted in the living God.

¹¹ Who knows the power of Your wrath?

² Your throne is prepared of old; You are from everlasting.

⁴ His lightnings light the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

⁵ For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures from generation to generation.

³² who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble; who touches the mountains, and they smoke.

⁷ The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in His words, and holy in all His works.

⁶ who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things in them; who keeps truth forever;

⁴ May the Lord your God hear the words of Rabshakeh, which the king of the Assyrians has sent, to reproach the living God, even to reproach with the words which the Lord your God has heard; therefore you shall pray to your Lord for these that are left.

¹⁷ Incline Your ear, O Lord, hearken, O Lord; open Your eyes, O Lord, look, O Lord; and behold the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

¹⁵ Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;

³⁶ And the burden of the Lord you shall mention no more; for his own word shall be a man's burden.

²⁶ This decree has been set forth by me in every dominion of my kingdom, that men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for He is the living and eternal God, and His kingdom shall not be destroyed, and His dominion is forever.

¹⁴ And to Him was given the dominion, and the honor, and the kingdom; and all nations, tribes, and languages, shall serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom shall not be destroyed.

¹¹ And the Lord shall utter His voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for the execution of His words is mighty; for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be able to resist it?

⁴ And the mountains shall be shaken under Him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a steep place.

⁶ Who shall stand before His anger? And who shall withstand in the anger of His wrath? His wrath brings to nought kingdoms, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.

⁶ the earth stood at His feet and trembled: He beheld, and the nations melted away: the mountains were violently burst through, the everlasting hills melted at His everlasting going forth.

¹⁰ The nations shall see You and be in pain, as You divided the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.

² And who will abide the day of His coming? Or who will withstand at His appearing? For He is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers.

¹⁶ And Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

⁶³ But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, "I adjure You by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!"

⁵¹ And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were split, ⁵² and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had passed away were raised;

³ And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

¹⁵ and saying, "Men! Why are you doing these things? We men are of the same nature as you, preaching the gospel to you, that you must turn from these useless things to turn to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them,

⁹ For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

¹⁷ Now to the King of the Ages, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who provides all things richly for us to enjoy,

³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true; and we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and He who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled. And no place was found for them.

⁵ For all the gods of the heathen are demons; but the Lord made the heavens.

¹⁸ And they shall hide all idols made with hands,

¹⁵ They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁸ They are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

⁶⁶ You will persecute them in anger, and will consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.

¹¹ The Lord shall appear against them, and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth; and they shall worship Him everyone from his place, even all the islands of the nations.

² And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.

² And he seized the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole world, and he bound him for a thousand years;

¹ In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so. ⁷ And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament. ⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day. ⁹ And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared.

⁸ Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.

⁷ He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and He hangs the earth upon nothing;

⁴ Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me now, if you have knowledge. ⁵ Who set the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched a line upon it? ⁶ On what are its rings fastened? And who is He that laid the cornerstone upon it? ⁷ When the stars were made, all My angels praised Me with a loud voice.

² He has founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the rivers.

⁶ By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

⁶⁹ And He built His sanctuary as the place of unicorns; He founded it forever on the earth.

¹ For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was first inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; He has clothed Himself with honor; the Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength; for He has established the world, which shall not be moved.

² who cover Yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain.

²⁴ How great are Your works, O Lord! In wisdom have You done them all; the earth is filled with Your creation.

⁹⁰ Your truth endures to all generations; You have founded the earth, and it abides.

⁵ To Him who made the heavens by understanding; for His mercy endures forever. ⁶ To Him who established the earth on the waters; for His mercy endures forever.

⁵ Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God: ⁶ who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things in them; who keeps truth forever;

⁴ Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the Lord; for He spoke, and they were made; He commanded, and they were created.

¹⁹ God by wisdom founded the earth, and by understanding He prepared the heavens.

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? Who has gathered the winds in His bosom? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? What is His name? Or what is the name of His children?

²² It is He that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; He that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in;

⁵ Thus says the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people in it, and spirit to them that tread on it;

²⁴ Thus says the Lord that redeems you, and who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord that performs all things; I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

¹² I have made the earth, and man upon it; with My hand I have established the heavens; I have given commandment to all the stars.

¹⁸ Thus says the Lord that made the heaven, this God that created the earth, and made it; He marked it out, He made it not in vain, but formed it to be inhabited; I am the Lord, and there is no other.

¹³ My hand also has founded the earth, and My right hand has fixed the sky; I will call them, and they shall stand together.

⁸ Thus says the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I have formed you, and given you for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages;

¹³ and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth. He made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of His treasures.

¹⁷ O great Lord! You have made the heaven and the earth by Your great power, and with Your high and lofty arm; nothing can be hidden from You.

¹⁵ The Lord made the earth by His power, preparing the world by His wisdom, by His understanding He stretched out the heaven. ¹⁶ At His voice He makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth. He makes the lightning for rain, and brings light out of His treasuries. ¹⁷ Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for they have cast false gods; there is no breath in them. ¹⁸ They are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitation they shall perish. ¹⁹ Not such is Jacob's portion; for He that formed all things, He is his inheritance; the Lord is His name.

¹ The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel. Thus says the Lord, that stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

³ All things came to be through Him, and without Him nothing came to be which has come to be.

¹⁶ because by Him all things were created, those in the heavens and those on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail; and the fire ran along upon the ground, and the Lord rained hail on all the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, and He shall send thunder and rain. And know and see, that your wickedness is great which you have done before the Lord, having asked for yourselves a king. ¹⁸ And Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunders and rain in that day. And all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel.

⁴¹ And Elijah said to Ahab, Go up, and eat and drink, for there is a sound of the coming of rain.

⁴⁵ And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab wept, and went to Jezreel. ⁴⁶ And the hand of the Lord was upon Elijah, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to Jezreel.

²⁷ And the drops of rain are numbered by Him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud. ²⁸ The ancient heavens shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: ^(36:28A) He has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. ^(36:28B) Yet by all these things your understanding is not astonished, neither is your mind disturbed in your body. ²⁹ And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, or the measure of His tabernacle; ³⁰ behold, He will stretch His bow against him, and He covers the bottom of the sea. ³¹ For by them He will judge the nations: He will give food to him that has strength. ³² He has hidden the light in His hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing cloud. ³³ The Lord will declare concerning this to His friend: but there is a portion also for unrighteousness.

² Hear a report by the anger of the Lord's wrath, and a discourse shall come out of His mouth. ³ His dominion is under the whole heaven, and His light is at the extremities of the earth. ⁴ After Him shall be a cry with a loud voice; He shall thunder with the voice of His excellency, yet He shall not cause men to pass away, for one shall hear His voice. ⁵ The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with His voice: for He has done great things which we knew not;

²² But have you gone to the treasures of snow? And have you seen the treasures of hail?

²⁵ And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders; ²⁶ to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land, ²⁷ and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

³⁴ And will you call a cloud by your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain? ³⁵ And will you send lightnings, and they shall go? And shall they say to you, What is your pleasure?

¹³ The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice.

³ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of glory has thundered; the Lord is upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ And He will beat them small, even Lebanon itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn. ⁷ The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; the Lord will shake the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of the Lord strengthens the deer, and will uncover the thickets; and in His temple everyone speaks of His glory. ¹⁰ The Lord will dwell on the waterflood; and the Lord will sit as king forever.

³³ Sing to God that rides on the heaven of heavens, eastward: lo, He will utter a mighty sound with His voice.

⁷ Who brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; He has made lightnings for the rain; He brings the winds out of His treasures.

¹⁷ they have ears, but they cannot hear; for there is no breath in their mouth.

⁸ who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who causes grass to spring up on the mountains, and green herb for the service of men;

¹ Ask of the Lord rain in its season, the early and the latter rain. The Lord has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to everyone grass in the field.

² The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

⁶ A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this.

⁸ Understand now, you simple among the people; and you fools, at length be wise.

⁷ Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; worship Him, all you His angels.

⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

² For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men.

¹⁷ But they are turned back; be utterly ashamed, you that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, You are our gods.

¹¹ and all by whom they were made have withered; yes, let all the deaf be gathered from among men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together;

¹⁶ All that are opposed to Him shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall walk in shame; you isles, keep a feast to Me.

⁷ They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move; and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble. ⁸ Therefore remember these things, and groan; repent, you that have gone astray, return in your heart;

²² Professing to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.

²¹ They have provoked Me to jealousy by that which is not God, they have exasperated Me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are not a nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.

²¹ And turn not aside after the gods that are nothing, who will do nothing, and will not deliver you, because they are nothing.

¹⁸ And they shall hide all idols made with hands, ¹⁹ having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of His might, when He shall arise to strike mightily the earth. ²⁰ For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made, in order to worship vanities and bats; ²¹ to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of His might, when He shall arise to strike mightily the earth.

²⁴ where you are, and where your works are; they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.

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¹⁹ Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of My people from a land afar off. Is not the Lord in Zion? Is there not a king there? Because they have provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.

¹¹ Thus shall you say to them: Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.

²² Is there anyone among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? And will the sky yield His fullness at their bidding? Are not You He? We will even wait on You, O Lord, for You have made all these things.

^{8 (2:9)} Those that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.

³ Let man and cattle be cut off; let the birds of the air and the fish of the sea be cut off; and the ungodly shall fail, and I will take away the transgressors from the face of the land, says the Lord. ⁴ And I will stretch out My hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will remove the names of Baal out of this place, and the names of the priests;

⁵ And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.

⁹ And His people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of His inheritance.

⁵ The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: You are He that restores my inheritance to me. ⁶ The lines have fallen to me in the best places; yea, I have a most excellent heritage.

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

² Remember Your congregation which You have purchased from the beginning; You ransomed the rod of Your inheritance, this Mount Zion where You have dwelt.

⁵⁷ You are my portion, O Lord; I said that I would keep Your law.

⁴ For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, and Israel for His peculiar treasure.

⁵ I cried unto You, O Lord, and said, You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

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⁷ I am He that prepared light, and formed darkness; who makes peace, and creates calamity; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.

⁴ Your deliverer is the Lord of hosts, the Holy One of Israel is His name.

⁶ I have been provoked with My people; you have defiled My inheritance; I gave them into your hand, but you did not extend mercy to them; you made the yoke of the aged man very heavy,

¹⁵ for I am your God, that troubles the sea, and causes its waves to roar; the Lord of hosts is My name.

⁵ For it is the Lord that made you; the Lord of hosts is His name; and He that delivered you, He is the God of Israel, and shall be called so by the whole earth.

¹² It is the Lord that made the earth by His strength, who set up the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out the sky,

³⁵ Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and makes a roaring in the sea, so that its waves roar: the Lord Almighty is His name:

³⁴ But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is His name. He will enter into judgment with His adversaries, that He may destroy the earth;

¹⁹ Not such is Jacob's portion; for He that formed all things, He is his inheritance; the Lord is His name.

²⁴ The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for Him.

¹ Strengthen yourselves, you children of Benjamin, to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a signal over Beth Haccerem; for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming.

¹³ Behold, I am against you that dwell in the valley of Sor; in the plain country, even against them that say, Who shall alarm us? Or who shall enter into our dwellings?

³ You therefore, son of man, prepare yourself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and you shall be led into captivity from your place into another place in their sight; that they may see that they are a provoking house. ⁴ And you shall carry forth your baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes; and you shall go forth at evening, as a captive goes forth, in their sight. ⁵ Dig for yourself into the wall of the house, and you shall pass through it in their sight. ⁶ You shall be lifted up on men's shoulders, and shall go forth in secret; you shall cover your face, and shall not see the ground, because I have made you a sign to the house of Israel. ⁷ And I did thus according to all that He commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and I went out secretly; I was taken up on men's shoulders before them. ⁸ And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying, ⁹ Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to you, What are you doing? ¹⁰ Say to them, Thus says the Lord God, the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them: ¹¹ say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him; they shall go into banishment and captivity. ¹² And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig, so that he may go forth thereby; he shall cover his face, so that he may not be seen by anyone, and he himself shall not see the ground.

¹⁰ Arise, and depart; for this is not your rest because of uncleanness: you have been utterly destroyed;

¹⁵ "Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand),

⁶³ And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you; and you shall be quickly removed from the land, into which you go to inherit it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord your God shall scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which you knew not, nor your fathers.

²⁹ And if a man shall rise up persecuting you and seeking your life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and you shall whirl the life of your enemies as in the midst of a sling.

¹ And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before My face, My soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth. ² And it shall be, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.

¹³ Therefore I will cast you off from this good land into a land which neither you nor your fathers have known. And you shall serve their other gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.

²⁰ And the Lord's wrath shall return no more, until He has accomplished it, and until He has established it, according to the purpose of His heart. At the end of the days they shall understand it.

¹⁰ And they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken.

⁶ But do you receive My words and My ordinances, all that I command by My Spirit to My servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers? And they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has He done to us.

⁹ I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for You are He that made me.

¹⁰ And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High.

¹⁷ And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away His face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in Him.

¹⁹ I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart. My soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn. I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction.

³¹ For I have heard your groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, saying, Woe is me, for my soul faints because of the slain!

²¹ For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.

¹ Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? Then would I weep for this my people day and night, even for the slain of the daughter of my people.

¹⁷ And you shall speak this word to them: Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease; for the daughter of My people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.

¹³ O Lord, the hope of Israel, let all that have left You be ashamed, let them that have revolted be written on the earth, because they have forsaken the fountain of life, the Lord.

² ( { α}) BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they have become her enemies.

¹² ( { μ}) LAMED. All you that pass by the way, turn, and see if there is sorrow likened to my sorrow, which has happened to me. The Lord who spoke by me has afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger. ¹³ ( { ξ}) MEM. He has sent fire from His lofty habitation, He has brought it into my bones: He has spread a net for my feet, He has turned me back: He has made me desolate and mourning all the day. ¹⁴ ( { π}) NUN. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck. My strength has failed, for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand. ¹⁵ ( { ρ}) SAMECH. The Lord has cut off all my strong men from the midst of me: He has summoned against me a time for crushing my choice men: the Lord has trodden a wine press for the virgin daughter of Judah: for these things I weep. ¹⁶ ( { ς}) AIN. My eye has poured out water, because He that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me. My sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed. ¹⁷ ( { τ}) PHE. Zion has spread out her hand, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, his oppressors are round about him: Jerusalem has become among them as a removed woman. ¹⁸ ( { φ}) TSADE. The Lord is righteous, for I have provoked His mouth. Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my grief: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity. ¹⁹ ( { χ}) KOPH. I called my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders failed in the city, for they sought meat that they might restore their souls, and found it not. ²⁰ ( { ψ}) RHECHS. Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted; my belly is troubled, and my heart is turned within me; for I have been grievously rebellious; abroad the sword has bereaved me, even as death at home. ²¹ ( { ω}) CHSEN. Hear, I pray you, for I groan: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my afflictions and rejoiced, because You have done it: You have brought on the day, You have called the time: they have become like to me. ²² ( { ϊ}) THAU. Let all their wickedness come before Your face, and strip them, as they have made a gleaning for all my sins: for my groans are many, and my heart is grieved.

¹¹ ( { λ}) CHAPH. My eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city. ¹² ( { μ}) LAMED. They said to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? While they fainted like wounded men in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother's bosom. ¹³ ( { ξ}) MEM. What shall I testify to you, or what shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? Who shall save and comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For the cup of your destruction is enlarged — who shall heal you? ¹⁴ ( { π}) NUN. Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions, and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn back your captivity; but they have seen for you vain burdens, and worthless visions. ¹⁵ ( { ρ}) SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth? ¹⁶ ( { ς}) AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up; surely this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it. ¹⁷ ( { τ}) PHE. The Lord has done that which He purposed; He has accomplished His word, even the things which He commanded from the ancient days; He has thrown down, and has not spared, and He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, He has exalted the horn of him that afflicted you. ¹⁸ ( { φ}) TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, You walls of Zion, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eyes cease. ¹⁹ ( { χ}) KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord, lift up your hands to Him for the life of your infants, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets. ²⁰ ( { ψ}) RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom You have gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? The cook has made a gathering: shall the infants nursing at the breasts be slain? Will You slay the priest and prophet in the sanctuary of the Lord? ²¹ ( { ω}) CHSEN. The child and old man have lain down in the street; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity; You have slain them with the sword and with famine; in the day of Your wrath You have mangled them, You have not spared. ²² ( { ϊ}) THAU. He has called my sojourners round about to a solemn day, and there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord any one that escaped, or was left; whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all my enemies.

¹⁸ Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord. ¹⁹ ( { ζ}) ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; ²⁰ and my soul shall meditate with me. ²¹ This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.

³⁹ ( { ξ}) MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin? ⁴⁰ ( { π}) NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.

⁴⁸ My eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against Him, until He make good my cause: He also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.

⁸ The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: your eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

⁷ When the ungodly is overthrown, he vanishes away, but the houses of the just remain.

²⁰ For your sons whom you have lost shall say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; make room for me that I may dwell. ²¹ And you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these? Whereas I was childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? And I was left alone; but from where did these come to me? ²² Thus says the Lord, even the Lord, Behold, I lift up My hand to the nations, and I will lift up My signal to the islands; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and shall bear your daughters on their shoulders.

¹⁶ I will put My words into your mouth, and I will shelter you under the shadow of My hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth; and the Lord shall say to Zion, You are My people.

² Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your curtains; fix the pins, spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pins;

²⁰ For all the land is distressed. Suddenly my tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been torn in two.

¹⁵ A voice was heard in Ramah, that of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing — Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.

⁵ ( { δ}) HE. Her oppressors have become the head, and her enemies have prospered; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her sins. Her young children have gone into captivity before the face of the oppressor.

⁴ ( { γ}) DALETH. He has bent His bow as an opposing enemy; He has strengthened His right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion; He has poured forth His anger as fire. ⁵ ( { δ}) HE. The Lord has become as an enemy; He has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, He has overwhelmed her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Judah. ⁶ ( { ε}) VAU. And He has scattered His tabernacle as a vine, He has marred His feast; the Lord has forgotten the feast and the Sabbath which He appointed in Zion, and in the fury of His wrath has vexed the king, priest, and prince.

¹⁰ See how they are all blinded; they have not known; they are dumb dogs that will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber. ¹¹ Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding; all have followed their own ways, each according to his will. ¹² (TEXT OMITTED)

⁸ The priest said not, Where is the Lord? And they that held by the law knew Me not: the shepherds also sinned against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

³¹ the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands, and My people have loved it! And what will you do for the future?

⁹ The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?

¹⁰ Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have defiled My portion, they have made My desirable portion a trackless wilderness.

¹ Woe to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of their pasture! ² Therefore thus says the Lord against them that tend My people: You have scattered My sheep, and driven them out, and you have not visited them: behold, I will take vengeance upon you according to your evil practices.

⁹ My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken. I have become as a broken down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of His glory. ¹⁰ For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course has become evil, and so also their strength. ¹¹ For priest and prophet are defiled, and I have seen their iniquities in My house. ¹² Therefore let their way be slippery and dark to them, and they shall be tripped up and fall in it; for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation. ¹³ And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led My people Israel astray. ¹⁴ Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way. They have all become to Me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth into all the land. ¹⁶ Thus says the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the words of the prophets, for they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord. ¹⁷ They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to everyone that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon you. ¹⁸ For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen His word? Who has hearkened, and heard? ¹⁹ Behold, there is an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come violently upon the ungodly. ²⁰ And the Lord's wrath shall return no more, until He has accomplished it, and until He has established it, according to the purpose of His heart. At the end of the days they shall understand it. ²¹ I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither did I speak to them, yet they prophesied. ²² But if they had stood in My counsel, and if they had hearkened to My words, then would they have turned My people from their evil practices. ²³ I am a God close at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off. ²⁴ Shall anyone hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord. ²⁵ I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in My name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision. ²⁶ How long shall these things be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart? ²⁷ Who devise that men may forget My law by their dreams, which they have told everyone to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name in the worship of Baal. ²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and he in whom is My word spoken to him, let him tell My word truly. What is the chaff to the wheat? So are My words, says the Lord. ²⁹ Behold, are not My words as fire? Says the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock? ³⁰ Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, says the Lord God, that steal My words everyone from his neighbor. ³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere words, and slumber their sleep. ³² Therefore behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them truly, and have caused My people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not. Therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.

³² And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall be destroyed; and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads; I will bring on their overthrow from all sides, says the Lord.

¹⁷ Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out. The king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.

²⁵ whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and your widows are multiplied in the midst of you. ²⁶ Her priests also have set at nought My law, and profaned My holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them. ²⁷ Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain. ²⁸ And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus says the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken. ²⁹ That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger. ³⁰ And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before Me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found him not.

² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: O shepherds of Israel, do shepherds feed themselves? Do not the shepherds feed the sheep? ³ Behold, you feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat, but you feed not My sheep. ⁴ The weak one you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not cherished, and the bruised you have not bound up, and the stray one you have not turned back, and the lost you have not sought; and the strong you have wearied with labor. ⁵ And My sheep were scattered, because there were no shepherds: and they became meat to all the wild beasts of the field. ⁶ And My sheep were scattered on every mountain, and on every high hill; yea, they were scattered on the face of the earth, and there was none to seek them out, nor to bring them back. ⁷ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: ⁸ As I live, says the Lord God, surely because My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out My sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not My sheep, ⁹ for this cause, O shepherds, ¹⁰ thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My sheep at their hands, and will turn them back that they shall not feed My sheep, and the shepherds shall no longer feed them; and I will deliver My sheep out of their mouth, and they shall no longer be meat for them.

¹² As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and clouds, in the midst of the sheep that are separated, so will I seek out My sheep, and I will bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of clouds and darkness.

³ My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I will visit the lambs; and the Lord God Almighty shall visit His flock, the house of Judah, and He shall make them as His royal horse in war.

⁷ Awake, O sword, against My shepherds, and against the man who is My citizen, says the Lord Almighty; strike the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring My hand upon the little ones.

¹² But a hired hand, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. ¹³ But the hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and is not concerned about the sheep.

¹⁵ For behold, I call together all the kingdoms of the earth from the north, says the Lord. And they shall come, and shall set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls round about her, and against all the cities of Judah.

⁶ Gather up your wares and flee to Zion. Hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, and great destruction.

¹⁵ Behold, I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language you shall not understand.

²² Thus says the Lord, Behold, a people come from the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.

¹¹ And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Judah, so that they shall not be inhabited.

⁶ Wherefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own. ⁷ He is terrible and infamous; his judgment shall proceed of himself, and his dignity shall come out of himself. ⁸ And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle that hastens to eat. ⁹ Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.

³ and hated Esau and laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?

⁵ Direct my steps in Your paths, that my steps slip not.

²³ The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the Lord; and He will take pleasure in his way.

¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to Your word, and revive me; and make me not ashamed of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate on Your statutes continually.

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²⁴ A man's steps are directed by the Lord: how then can a mortal understand His ways?

¹⁸ Thus I also have been deserted of all, and I am ruined, and have become an outcast.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of David among the Hymns for the eighth. O Lord, rebuke me not in Your wrath, neither chasten me in Your anger.

¹ A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath day. O Lord, rebuke me not in Your wrath, neither chasten me in Your anger.

²³ He that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

¹¹ Behold, all your adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not; and all your opponents shall perish. ¹² You shall seek them, and you shall not find the men who shall insolently rage against you; for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against you shall not be.

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² O Lord, I have heard Your report, and was afraid: I considered Your works, and was amazed: You shall be known between the two living creatures, You shall be acknowledged when the years draw nigh; You shall be manifested when the time is come; when my soul is troubled, You will in wrath remember mercy.

²¹ These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

⁴ Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? They have not called upon the Lord.

² When evildoers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and my enemies, they fainted and fell.

⁶ Pour out Your wrath upon the heathen that have not known You, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon Your name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.

²² I have not now called you, O Jacob; neither have I made you weary, O Israel.

⁷ And there is none that calls upon Your name, or that remembers to take hold of You; for You have turned Your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.

¹⁶ We shall hear the neighing of His swift horses out of Dan. The whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of His horses; and He shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.

⁷ All that found them consumed them. Their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord. He that gathered their fathers had a pasture of righteousness.

³⁴ He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies. ³⁵ My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Zion say; and my blood shall be upon the Chaldeans dwelling there, shall Jerusalem say.

²² ( { ϊ}) THAU. He has called my sojourners round about to a solemn day, and there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord any one that escaped, or was left; whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all my enemies.

⁶ For thus says the Lord: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with your foot, and heartily rejoiced against the land of Israel; ⁷ therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy you from among the peoples, and I will completely cut you off from out of the countries; and you shall know that I am the Lord. ⁸ Thus says the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the houses of Israel and Judah like all the other nations?

⁵ Because you have been a perpetual enemy, and have lied in wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last: ⁶ Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, verily you have sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. ⁷ And I will make Mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off of it both men and cattle; ⁸ and I will fill your hills and your valleys with the slain, and in all your plains there shall fall in you men slain with the sword. ⁹ I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited anymore; and you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁰ Because you said, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there.

¹⁰ Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. ¹¹ From the day that you stood in opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were as one of them. ¹² And you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day of strangers; nor should you have rejoiced against the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have boasted in the day of their affliction. ¹³ Neither should you have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet should you have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor should you have attacked their host in the day of their perishing. ¹⁴ Neither should you have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither should you have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction. ¹⁵ For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as you have done, so shall it be done to you: your recompense shall be returned on your own head. ¹⁶ For as you have drunk upon My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.

⁶ and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

⁸ Therefore wait upon Me, says the Lord, until the day when I rise up for a witness: because My judgment shall be on the gatherings of the nations, to draw to Me kings, to pour out upon them all My fierce anger: for the whole earth shall be consumed with the fire of My jealousy.

¹⁵ And I am very angry with the heathen that combine to attack her: for as I indeed was a little angry, but they combined to attack her for evil.

²⁵ O righteous Father! Indeed the world did not know You, yet I knew You; and these knew that You sent Me.

²³ for as I passed by and considered the objects of your worship, I found also an altar on which it had been inscribed: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, Him whom being ignorant of you worship, this One I announce to you:

³⁴ Awake to righteousness, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

⁵ not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

⁸ in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.