Lamentations 4 Cross References - LITV

¹ How the gold dims, the good gold is changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. ² The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold. How they are counted as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hand! ³ Even the jackals draw out the breast; they suckle their young. But the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. ⁴ The tongue of the nursling cleaves to his palate in thirst. The young children ask bread, but there is no breaking for them. ⁵ Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those reared on scarlet embrace dunghills. ⁶ And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is heaped more than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were spun on her. ⁷ Her Nazarites were purer than snow, whiter than milk; they were redder of bone than corals; their cuttings as azure-blue, as lapis lazuli. ⁸ Their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, it has become like wood. ⁹ Better are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger, those who flow away, pierced because the produce of my fields failed . ¹⁰ The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became food to them in the ruin of the daughter of my people. ¹¹ Jehovah has fulfilled His fury; He has poured out His fierce anger and has kindled a fire in Zion; and it has devoured its foundations. ¹² The kings of the earth and all the world's inhabitants would not have believed that the foe and the hater would go into the gates of Jerusalem. ¹³ Because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the righteous in her midst, ¹⁴ they reeled blind in the streets. They are defiled with blood, so that not any are able to touch their garments. ¹⁵ They cried out to them, Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart! Touch not! Indeed they fled and reeled. They said among the nations, They will not continue to live there. ¹⁶ The face of Jehovah has shared them out; He will not continue to look on them. They did not lift up the face of the priests, they did not favor the elders. ¹⁷ While we are, our eyes fail for our vain help. In our watching, we have watched for a nation; it does not save. ¹⁸ They hunted our steps from going in our open places. Our end came near, our days were fulfilled, for our end had come. ¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they hotly pursued us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness. ²⁰ The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was captured in their pits; of whom we said, In his shadow we will live among the nations. ²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz, The cup also shall pass through to you; you shall be drunken and stripped naked. ²² Your perversity is complete, daughter of Zion; He will not continue to exile you. He will visit your perversity, daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.

⁹ And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; yea, he burned every great house with fire. ¹⁰ And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the chief of the executioners broke down the wall of Jerusalem all around.

²¹ Oh how the faithful city has become a harlot! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it. But now, murderers!

¹² Oh shining star, son of the morning, how you have fallen from the heavens! You weakening the nations, you are cut down to the ground.

¹³ And he burned the house of Jehovah and the king's house. And he burned all the houses of Jerusalem with fire, and all the houses of the great ones.

¹⁹ Rise up, cry out in the night at the head of the watches; pour out your heart like waters before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the life of your children faint with hunger at the head of every open place.

¹⁹ They shall throw their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be an impure thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah. They shall not satisfy their soul, and they shall not fill their bowels, for their iniquity has become a stumbling-block for them . ²⁰ And the beauty of His ornament, He set it in majesty. But they made it the images of their abominations, and of their hateful things. Therefore, I have put it to them as an impure thing. ²¹ And I will also give it into the hand of the strangers for a prize, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil. And they shall defile it. ²² I also will turn My face from them, and they shall defile My hidden place . And violent ones shall enter into it and defile it.

² But Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, There will not at all be left one stone on a stone which in no way will not be thrown down.

² And answering, Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon a stone which shall not be thrown down.

⁵ And as some were speaking about the temple, that it had been adorned with beautiful stones and gifts, He said, ⁶ As to these things that you see, days will come in which a stone will not be left on a stone, which will not be thrown down.

¹⁴ And its smashing is as the smashing of a potter's vessel; when broken in pieces, he has no pity; for in its breaking there is not found a shard to carry fire from the hearth, nor to skim water from a well.

¹⁸ No guide is for her among all the sons she has borne; and none takes her by the hand of all the sons she made to grow.

¹¹ and shall say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts, Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks the potter's vessel that cannot be restored again. And they shall bury in Tophet, since no place is left to bury.

²⁸ Is this man Coniah a despised, broken jar, or a vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they hurled, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they do not know?

²¹ Young and old lie on the ground of the plazas. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed in the day of Your anger. You have killed, You have not pitied.

¹² Rulers were hanged by their hands; the faces of the elders were not honored.

¹³ For I have bent Judah for Me as a bow; I filled it with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you as the sword of a mighty man.

²¹ Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, out of the one lump to make one vessel to honor, and one to dishonor? Jer. 18:6 ²² But if God, desiring to show forth wrath, and to make His power known, endured in much long-suffering vessels of wrath having been fitted out for destruction, ²³ and that He make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He before prepared for glory,

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not from us;

²⁰ But in a great house not only are there vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honor and some to dishonor.

²⁹ And you shall eat of the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat of the flesh of your daughters.

⁵² And he shall lay siege to you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls in which you are trusting come down, in all your land; yea, he shall lay siege to you in all your gates, in all your land which Jehovah your God has given to you. ⁵³ And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom Jehovah your God has given to you, in the siege, and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you. ⁵⁴ The man who is tender and very delicate among you, and his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons which he has left; ⁵⁵ so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons that he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him in the siege, and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter; ⁵⁷ and against her fetus which comes out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she shall bear. For she shall eat them in secret, for the lack of everything in the siege and in the anguish with which the enemy shall distress you within your gates.

²⁶ And it happened. the king of Israel was passing by on the wall. And a woman cried to him, saying, Save, my lord, O king. ²⁷ And he said, If Jehovah does not save you, from where shall I save you? Out of the threshing floor, or out of the winevat? ²⁸ And the king said to her, What ails you? And she said, This woman said to me, Give your son and we will eat him today; and tomorrow we will eat my son. ²⁹ And we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him. But she hid her son.

¹³ The wing of the ostriches flap joyously, though not like the stork's pinions for flight. ¹⁴ For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them warm on the dust; ¹⁵ and forgets that a foot may crush it, or the beast of the field may trample it; ¹⁶ she treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her suckling child, from pitying the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will surely not forget you.

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

²⁰ Behold, O Jehovah, and look! To whom have you done this? Should women eat their fruit, children of tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the holy place of the Lord?

¹⁰ The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became food to them in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

¹⁰ Therefore, the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments against you, and I will scatter the whole remnant of you into every wind.

²⁸ And turning to them, Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep over Me, but weep over yourselves and over your children. ²⁹ For behold, days will come in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that did not bear, and breasts that did not suckle.

³¹ without discernment, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful,

²⁴ I will send on them exhaustion by famine, and depletion by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and My tongue clings to My jaws;

⁶ let my tongue cleave to my palate, if I do not remember you, if I do not bring up Jerusalem above the head of my joy.

¹¹ All her people sigh from seeking bread. They gave their desirable things for food to revive the soul. See, O Jehovah, and look on me, for I have become vile.

¹¹ And my eyes are at an end with tears, my inward parts ferment; my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people; in the fainting of children and sucklings in the city's plazas. ¹² They say to their mothers, Where are grain and wine? In their fainting, they are like the wounded in the plazas of the city, in their pouring out their lives to their mothers' bosom.

⁹ Or what man of you is there, if his son should ask a loaf of him, will he give him a stone? ¹⁰ And if he should ask a fish, will he give him a snake? ¹¹ Therefore, if you, being evil. know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those that ask Him?

⁵⁴ The man who is tender and very delicate among you, and his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons which he has left; ⁵⁵ so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons that he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him in the siege, and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter;

²⁴ Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with scarlet delights, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.

⁸ They are wet with the showers of hills, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter.

²¹ She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

¹⁶ And Jehovah says, Because the daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and make a tinkling with their feet; ¹⁷ So Jehovah will make the crown of the daughter of Zion scabby; and Jehovah will lay their secret parts bare. ¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of the ankle bracelets, and the headbands, and the crescents, ¹⁹ the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils; ²⁰ the headdresses, and the leg ornaments, and the sashes, and the houses of the soul, and the amulets; ²¹ the rings and nose jewels; ²² the festal apparel and the outer garments; and the mantles, and the purses; ²³ the mirrors and the fine linen; and the turbans and the veils. ²⁴ And it shall be, instead of a smell of perfume, there shall be an odor of decay. And instead of a sash, a rope. And instead of well set hair, baldness. And instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; burning instead of beauty. ²⁵ Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. ²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall sit bare on the ground.

⁶ On account of this a curse has devoured the land; and they who live in it are held guilty. For this the dwellers of the land are consumed, and few men are left. ⁷ The new wine has failed; the vine droops; all the merry-hearted sigh. ⁸ The joy of timbrels ceases; the noise of those who revel ends; the joy of the harp ceases. ⁹ They shall not drink wine with a song; fermented drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. ¹⁰ The city of shame is broken down; every house is shut, that no one may enter. ¹¹ A crying over the wine is in the streets; all joy is darkened; the gladness in the land is carried away. ¹² Desolation is remaining in the city, and a ruin; the gate is battered.

⁹ O women who are at ease, rise up. Hear my voice; confident daughters, listen to my word. ¹⁰ You will shake for days on a year, confident women; for the vintage fails; the harvest will not come. ¹¹ Tremble, women at ease; shake, confident women; strip and make yourselves bare, and bind on sackcloth on your loins; ¹² be wailing over breasts, over pleasant fields, over the fruitful vine. ¹³ Thorns and briers shall spring up on the land of My people; even over all the houses of joy in the jubilant city, ¹⁴ because the palace is forsaken; the crowd of the city is forsaken; mound and tower are instead caves, until forever; a joy of wild asses; pasture for flocks;

² I will destroy the daughter of Zion, the beautiful and tender one. ³ The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents on her all around. They shall each one feed in his hand.

²¹ For death has come into our windows, entering into our fortified palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the plazas. ²² Speak, So says Jehovah, Even the bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the swath after the reaper, and no one shall gather them .

³ You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near, ⁴ who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves on their couches; and those eating the lambs from the flock, and bull calves from the midst of the stall; ⁵ those chanting with the mouth of the harp; they invent instruments of song for themselves like David; ⁶ who drink bowls of wine, and they anoint with the best of oils; but they are not grieved for the breaking of Joseph! ⁷ So now they shall go into exile with the first of the exiles, and the feast of those who stretch themselves shall cease.

²⁵ But what did you go out to see? A man who had been dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those in splendid clothing and being in luxury are in king's palaces.

¹⁶ And he longed to fill his stomach from the husks which the pigs ate, but no one gave to him.

¹⁹ And there was a certain rich man; and he was accustomed to don a purple robe and fine linen, making merry in luxury day by day.

⁶ But she who lives in self-pleasure has died while living.

⁷ By what things she glorified herself, and luxuriated, by so much give back to her torment and mourning. Because she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all. ⁸ Because of this, in one day her plagues shall come: death, and mourning, and famine; and she will be consumed with fire, for the Lord God judging her is strong. ⁹ And the kings of the earth will weep for her, and will wail over her, those having fornicated and having luxuriated with her, when they see the smoke of her burning;

²⁵ And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all those living in the cities, and the produce of the ground.

⁹ Except Jehovah of hosts had left a remnant for us, a few, we would be as Sodom; we would be as Gomorrah. ¹⁰ Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom. Listen to the law of our God, people of Gomorrah.

⁹ Better are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger, those who flow away, pierced because the produce of my fields failed .

⁴⁸ As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, your sister Sodom, she and her daughters, have not done as you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters. Also, she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ Also, they were haughty and did abomination before My face, so I turned them away as I saw fit .

¹² And He has confirmed His words which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judge us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under the whole heavens it has not been done as it has been done to Jerusalem.

²³ And you, Capernaum, who "have been exalted to the heaven, you will be thrown down to Hades." For if the powerful acts happening in you had taken place in Sodom, it would remain until today. Isa. 14:13, 15 ²⁴ But I say to you, It will be more bearable for the land of Sodom in Judgment day than for you.

²¹ For there will be great affliction, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

¹² And I say to you that it shall be more bearable for Sodom in that day than for that city!

⁴⁷ But that slave knowing the will of his Lord, and not preparing, nor doing according to His will, will be beaten with many stripes .

² Speak to the sons of Israel and you shall say to them, When a man or woman shall vow the special vow of a Nazarite, to be separated to Jehovah: ³ He shall separate from wine and fermented drink; he shall not drink vinegar of wine or vinegar of fermented drink; he shall not drink any juice of the grapes; and he shall not eat dry or moist grapes. ⁴ All the days of his separation he shall not eat from all that is made of the vine, from pressed grapes, even to the stem. ⁵ All the days of the vow of his separation, a razor shall not pass over his head; he shall be holy until all the days are fulfilled which he has separated to Jehovah. He shall allow the locks of the hair of his head to grow long. ⁶ All the days of his separation to Jehovah he shall not go near a dead person. ⁷ He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, at their death; because his separation to his God is on his head. ⁸ All the days of his separation he shall be holy to Jehovah. ⁹ And of any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day he shall shave it. ¹⁰ And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. ¹¹ And the priest shall prepare one for a sin offering, and one for a burnt offering, and shall atone for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall dedicate his head on that day. ¹² And he shall separate to Jehovah the days of his consecration, and shall bring a he lamb of the first year for a guilt offering. But the former days shall be void, for his separation was defiled. ¹³ And this is the law of the Nazarite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, bring him in to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, ¹⁴ and he shall offer his offering to Jehovah, one he lamb of the first year, a perfect one, for a burnt offering; and one she lamb, a yearling, a perfect one, for a sin offering; and one ram, a perfect one, for a peace offering; ¹⁵ and a basket of unleavened cakes of flour, cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their food offering, and their drink offerings. ¹⁶ And the priest shall bring them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering. ¹⁷ And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offering to Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened cakes. And the priest shall offer its food offering and its drink offering. ¹⁸ And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation and shall put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. ¹⁹ And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder from the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the palms of the Nazarite after he has shaved his separation. ²⁰ And the priest shall wave them, a wave offering before Jehovah. It is holy to the priest, besides the breast of the wave offering, and besides the leg of the heave offering. And afterward the Nazarite shall drink wine. ²¹ This is the law of the Nazarite who vows his offering to Jehovah for his separation, besides that which his hand may get. According to his vow which he vows, so he shall do by the law of his separation.

⁵ For, behold, you are pregnant and bearing a son. And a razor shall not go on his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

⁷ And He said to me, Behold, you are pregnant and will bear a son. And now do not drink wine or fermented drink, and do not eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, until the day of his death.

¹⁷ that he told her all his heart, and said to her, No razor has come on my head, for I am a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I were shaved, my strength would go away from me, and I would be weak, and be like any one of men.

¹² And he sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and good form. And Jehovah said, Rise up, anoint him, for this is he.

⁷ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

¹² so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters like corner-stones hewn like a palace building;

¹⁰ My Beloved is bright and ruddy, standing out among ten thousand.

¹⁵ And at the end of ten days their faces looked better and fatter of flesh than all the boys who were eating the king's food.

¹¹ And I raised up from your sons for prophets, and for Nazarites from your young men. Is this not even so, O sons of Israel? declares Jehovah. ¹² But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.

¹⁵ For he shall be great in the eyes of the Lord, and he shall not drink wine or strong drink. And he will be filled of the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

¹⁹ And they went, both of them, until they came into Bethlehem. And it happened as they came into Bethlehem, all the city was moved at them. And they said, Is this Naomi? ²⁰ And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.

¹² And when they lifted up their eyes from a distance and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice and wept then. And each one tore his robe. And they sprinkled dust on their heads toward the heavens.

²⁰ My bone clings on my skin and on my flesh; and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

¹⁷ The night pierces my bones on me, and my gnawings never lie down. ¹⁸ By the great force of my disease my garment is disfigured; it chokes me like the mouth of my coat. ¹⁹ He has cast me into the mire; and I have become like dust and ashes.

³⁰ My skin is blackened on me, and my bones are burned with heat.

²¹ His flesh wastes away from his sight; and his hones laid bare, they were not seen.

⁴ For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your anger; nor peace in my bones because of my sin.

³ For my days are finished in smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is stricken and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ Because of the voice of my sighing, my bones cleave to my flesh.

¹¹ My days are like a shadow stretched out, and I wither like grass.

⁸³ For I am like a wineskin in the smoke; I do not forget Your statutes.

¹⁴ Just as many were astonished over You, so much was the disfigurement from man, His appearance and His form from sons of mankind.

¹ How the gold dims, the good gold is changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. ² The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold. How they are counted as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hand!

¹⁰ Our skin is burned black like an oven, because of the fever heat of famine.

⁶ Before their face, the people shall be pained; all faces collect heat.

¹⁰ She is empty, even waste, even devastated. And the heart is melted, and the knees knocking; and trembling is in all the loins; and all of their faces collect heat.

³⁹ And of those who are left of you, they shall putrefy in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, they shall putrefy with them.

⁴ They shall die of deadly diseases; they shall not be mourned nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth. And they shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

²³ And your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You shall not wail nor weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities, and each man groan to his brother.

¹⁰ And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, This you have spoken, saying, Surely our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we are rotting in them, even then shall we live?

⁴⁸ Streams of water go out of my eye for the ruin of the daughter of my people.

³ Even the jackals draw out the breast; they suckle their young. But the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

²¹ They made Me jealous with a no-god; they made Me angry by their vanities; and I shall make them jealous by a no-people; by a foolish nation I shall make them angry. ²² For a fire has been kindled in My anger, and it burns to the lowest Sheol, and consumes the earth and its produce; and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. ²³ I will heap evils on them; I will use up My arrows on them. ²⁴ I will send on them exhaustion by famine, and depletion by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts, with the venom of crawling things of the dust. ²⁵ The sword shall bereave from without, and terror from within, both the young man and the virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.

¹¹ And I am full of the fury of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in. Pour it out on the child in the street and on the circle of the young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the elder with fullness of days. ¹² And their houses shall be turned to others, fields and wives together. For I will stretch out My hand on the inhabitants of the land, declares Jehovah.

²⁰ So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, My anger and My fury will be cured out on this place, on man and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and will not be put out.

⁹ Shall I not visit them for these things ? says Jehovah. Or shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this? ¹⁰ I will take up a weeping and a wailing for the mountains and a mourning for the pastures of the wilderness. For they are burned up, without a man passing through. Yea, they do not hear the voice of cattle. From the fowl of the heavens and to the beast, they have fled; they are gone. ¹¹ And I will make Jerusalem ruins, a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.

¹⁴ And I will smash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, declares Jehovah; I will not pity nor spare nor have compassion, to keep them from their destruction.

¹⁵ So Jehovah says this concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I did not send them; yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. 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 none will bury them, either them, their wives, or their sons, or their daughters. For I will pour evil on them.

¹ Then Jehovah said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul could not be toward this people. Send them out from before My face; yea, let them go out. ² And it will be, if they say to you, Where shall we go? Then you will tell them, So says Jehovah, Those who are for death, go to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity. ³ And I will set over them four kinds, says Jehovah: the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the heaven and the beast of the earth to devour and destroy. ⁴ And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah; for what he did in Jerusalem.

²⁷ But if you will not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy, and not to carry a burden and enter at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in her gates. And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem; yea, it shall not be put out.

³ And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem. So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil on this place by which all who hear it will have tingling ears. ⁴ Because they have forsaken Me, and have made this place known, and have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents. ⁵ They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I never commanded nor spoke, nor did it come into My heart. ⁶ So, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that this place shall be no more called Tophet, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but Valley of Slaughter. ⁷ And I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place. And I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. And I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the heavens, and for the animals of the earth. ⁸ And I will make this city a waste and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be amazed and shall hiss because of all its plagues. ⁹ And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. And they shall each one eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life shall distress them. ¹⁰ And you shall break the jar before the eyes of the men who go with you, ¹¹ and shall say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts, Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks the potter's vessel that cannot be restored again. And they shall bury in Tophet, since no place is left to bury.

¹⁴ But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Jehovah. And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.

¹⁹ Behold, the tempest of Jehovah has gone forth in fury, even a whirling tempest. It will whirl on the head of the wicked. ²⁰ The anger of Jehovah shall not turn back until He has executed, and until He has set up the purposes of His heart. In latter days you shall understand it perfectly.

⁸ And like the bad figs which cannot be eaten from badness, so says Jehovah: So I shall make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt; ⁹ I will even make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them. ¹⁰ And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague among them until they are destroyed from on the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

⁸ Jehovah willed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out a line. He has not withdrawn His hand from swallowing; and He made rampart and wall lament; they languish together.

¹⁷ Jehovah has done what He purposed; He fulfilled His word which He commanded from days of antiquity. He has dashed and not pitied. And He made the hater to rejoice over you; He raised the horn of your foes.

²² Your perversity is complete, daughter of Zion; He will not continue to exile you. He will visit your perversity, daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.

⁴⁷ And say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of Jehovah. So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will eat up every moist tree and every dry tree among you. The glowing of the flame shall not be put out, and by it shall be scorched all the faces from the Negeb to the north. ⁴⁸ And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be put out.

³¹ So I have poured out on them My disgust. With the fire of My wrath I consumed them. I have given their way on their heads, states the Lord Jehovah.

⁶ But My words and My statutes which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they returned and said, As Jehovah of hosts purposes to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has done with us.

²² For these are days of vengeance when all things that have been written are to be fulfilled.

²⁴ Yes, all the nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land? For what is the heat of this great anger? ²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they did not know, and who had not given to them any portion. ²⁷ And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. ²⁸ And Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger and wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it this day.

⁸ As to this house, which is high, everyone passing by it shall be astonished and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house? ⁹ And they shall say, Because they have forsaken Jehovah their God, who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold on other gods and bowed themselves to them and served them. On account of this Jehovah has brought in upon them all this evil.

⁴ For, lo, the kings met together; they passed by together; ⁵ they saw, so they marveled; they were troubled and fled away. ⁶ Trembling and pain seized them there, like a woman in labor.

¹³ Behold, I am against you, O dweller of the valley, rock of the plain, says Jehovah, those who say, Who can come down against us? Or, Who can enter our dwellings?

²⁰ For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds. And you said, I will not transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a harlot.

³¹ The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their hands; and My people love it so. And what will you do at the end of it?

¹³ For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them cuts off a profit. And from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

¹⁴ And Jehovah said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I did not send them and I have not commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a false vision, and a worthless divination, and the deceit of their heart.

¹¹ For both prophet and priest are ungodly; yea, I have found their evil in My house, says Jehovah. ¹² So their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness; they shall be driven out and fall by it. For I will bring evil on them, the year of their judgment, says Jehovah. ¹³ And I have seen frivolity among the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal and caused My people Israel to go astray. ¹⁴ I have also seen a horrible thing among the prophets of Jerusalem; they commit adultery and walk in falsehood. And they make the hands of evildoers strong, so that not a man returns from his evil. They are all of them like Sodom to Me, and her inhabitants like Gomorrah. ¹⁵ So Jehovah of Hosts says this concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water, for ungodliness has gone forth from the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land. ¹⁶ So says Jehovah of hosts, do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they make you vain; they speak a vision of their own heart, not out of the mouth of Jehovah. ¹⁷ They say to those who despise Me, Jehovah has said, You shall have peace. And they say to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, Evil shall not come on you. ¹⁸ For who has stood in the counsel of Jehovah, and has seen and heard His word? Who has listened to His word and heard? ¹⁹ Behold, the tempest of Jehovah has gone forth in fury, even a whirling tempest. It will whirl on the head of the wicked. ²⁰ The anger of Jehovah shall not turn back until He has executed, and until He has set up the purposes of His heart. In latter days you shall understand it perfectly. ²¹ I have not sent the prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

⁸ And it happened when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, You shall surely die. ⁹ Why have you prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be wasted, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.

¹⁴ Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you; and they have not revealed your iniquity, to turn back your captivity. Yea, they visioned for you burdens of falsehood and seductions.

²⁶ Her priests have violated My law and have profaned My holy things. They have not divided between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and clean they have not taught. And they have hidden their eyes from the sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. ²⁷ Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, in order to gain unjust gain. ²⁸ And her prophets have daubed themselves with lime, seeing empty visions, and divining lies to them, saying, So says the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah has not spoken.

¹¹ Her leaders judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver; yet they will lean on Jehovah, saying, is not Jehovah among us? No evil shall come on us! ¹² Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house into high places of the forest.

³ Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw bones for the morning. ⁴ Her prophets are proud, men of deceit; her priests have profaned the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law.

³¹ So you witness to yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

³³ Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How shall you escape the judgment of Hell? ³⁴ Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets and wise ones and scribes. And some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will persecute from city to city; ³⁵ so that should come on you all the righteous blood poured out on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah whom you murdered between the Holy Place and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her. How often I desired to gather your children in the way a bird gathers her chicks under her wings! And you did not desire it.

⁴⁷ Woe to you! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ So you bear witness and consent to the works of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ And because of this, the wisdom of God said, I will send prophets and apostles to them, and they will kill and drive out some of them, ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets which has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel until the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the House. Yea, I say to you, it will be required from this generation.

⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become betrayers and murderers,

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out, and not pleasing God, and being contrary to all men, ¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the nations in order that they be saved, to fill up their sins always. But the wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

¹⁶ And whoever in the open field touches one that has been pierced with a sword, or one that has died of himself, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

³³ And you shall not pollute the land in which you are, for blood pollutes the land. And no ransom is to be taken for the land for blood which is shed in it, except for the blood of him who sheds it;

²⁸ Jehovah shall strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart. ²⁹ And you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness. And you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be always oppressed and plundered all the days; and there will be no one to save.

¹⁵ And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Yea, when you multiply prayer, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

¹⁰ for Jehovah has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes. He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers. ¹¹ And the whole vision to you is like the words of a sealed hook which they give to one knowing books, saying, Please read this. Then he says, I am not able, for it is sealed. ¹² And the hook is given to one who does not know books, saying, Please read this. Then he says, I do not know books.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind; they all do not know; they are all dumb dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber;

⁹ For this reason justice is far from us; and righteousness does not overtake us. We wait for light, but, behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom. ¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight, in deserted places like the dead. ¹¹ We all of us roar like bears, and we moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

³⁴ Also on your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; you did not find them breaking in, but on all these.

² Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery increase. And blood touches against blood.

⁶ So a night shall be for you apart from vision; and darkness apart from divining. And the sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. ⁷ And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners shall blush, all of them; yea, they shall cover over their mustache, for there is no answer from God.

¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.

¹⁸ having been darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the hardness of their heart,

⁴⁵ And the leper who has the plague in him, his garments shall be torn, and his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover the upper lip; and he shall call out, Unclean! Unclean! ⁴⁶ And the days that the plague shall be in him, he is unclean; he shall live alone, he is unclean; his dwelling shall be at the outside of the camp.

⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.

³³ And I will scatter you among nations, and shall draw out the sword after you, and your land shall become a waste, and your cities shall be a desolation. ³⁴ Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths, all the days of the desolation. And you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall enjoy rest, and shall enjoy its sabbaths. ³⁵ It shall rest all the days of the desolation, that which it has not rested in your sabbaths while you lived on it. ³⁶ And those who are left of you, I shall also bring a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they shall fall when no one pursues. ³⁷ And they shall stumble upon one another, as if it were before the sword, when no one pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. ³⁸ And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. ³⁹ And of those who are left of you, they shall putrefy in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, they shall putrefy with them.

²⁵ Jehovah shall cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a trembling to all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁶⁴ And Jehovah shall scatter you among all people, from one end of the earth even to the other, and you shall serve other gods there, wood and stone, which you have not known, nor your fathers. ⁶⁵ And among these nations you shall find no ease, nor shall the sole of your foot have rest. But Jehovah shall give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind.

²⁶ I said, I will dash them to pieces; I will make their memory cease from among men;

¹⁸ And the chief of the executioners took Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the gate; ¹⁹ and he took out of the city a certain eunuch who was appointed over the men of war, and five men of those who saw the king's face, found in the city, and the chief scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land found in the city. ²⁰ And Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners took them and made them go to the king of Babylon, to Riblah. ²¹ And the king of Babylon struck them, and killed them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he exiled Judah from its land.

¹⁷ And He caused the king of the Chaldeans to go up against them; and he killed their choice ones by the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity on the young man and the virgin, the old man and the very aged; He gave all into his hand.

⁴⁴ And He looked on their affliction when He heard their shout;

¹⁴ And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. ¹⁵ The elder and the exalted of face; he is the head. And the prophet who teaches lies; he is the tail. ¹⁶ For this people's leaders led them astray, and its guided ones are swallowed up.

⁴ And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah; for what he did in Jerusalem.

⁹ I will even make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them.

⁹ not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day of My taking hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

⁷ And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates River, all owned by the king of Egypt.

⁵ And they shall be afraid and ashamed of their hope Ethiopia, and of their glory Egypt.

¹ Woe to rebellious sons, declares Jehovah, to make counsel, but not from Me; and to weave a covering web, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin on sin; ² who set out to go down to Egypt, but have not asked at My mouth, to take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt. ³ And the stronghold of Pharaoh shall become a shame to you; and relying on the shadow of Egypt shall be a disgrace. ⁴ For his rulers were in Zoan, and his ambassadors reached to Hanes. ⁵ Every one is ashamed over a people who do not profit them; they are not for a help, and not for profiting, but for a shame; yea, also for a reproach. ⁶ The burden of the beasts of the south: Into the land of trouble and constraint. The lioness and the lion are from them; the viper and fiery flying serpent. They carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people who cannot profit them . ⁷ And Egypt; vainly and emptily they help. So I have called to this: Their strength is to sit still.

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and lean on horses, and trust on chariotry, because it is great; and in horsemen because they are very strong! But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Jehovah. ² And He also is wise, and brings evil, and will not turn aside His words, but will rise against the house of evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. ³ And Egypt is a man, and not God. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And Jehovah stretches out His hand, and both he who helps shall fall, and he who is helped shall fall; and they shall all cease together.

¹⁸ And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

³⁶ Why do you go about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

²⁰ Harvest has passed; the summer has ended, and we are not delivered.

⁷ So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, You shall say this to the king of Judah who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come out 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 will capture it and burn it with fire. ⁹ So says Jehovah, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans will surely leave us, for they shall not leave. ¹⁰ For though you had stricken the entire army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, yet they would rise up, each man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

⁷ In the days of her affliction and her wandering, Jerusalem remembers all her desirable things from previous days, when her people fell into the hand of the foe; and there is no ally for her. The foes saw her; they laughed at her annihilations.

¹⁹ I called for my lovers; they deceived me. My priests and my elders expired in the city, while they sought food for them to bring back their life.

⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. ⁷ When they seized you by your hand, you broke and tore off all their shoulder. And when they leaned on you, you shattered and made all their loins stand.

¹⁶ And it shall not be any more as confidence for the house of Israel, recalling the iniquity of their turning after them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁴ After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After a flea?

⁴ then the city was broken up, and by night all the men of war went by way of the gate, between the two walls by the king's garden; and the Chaldeans were against the city all around; and the king went the way toward the Arabah. ⁵ And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

¹⁶ And if it rise, You would hunt me as a lion; and again You show Yourself wonderful in me.

¹¹ Do not let a man of tongue be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man, thrust upon thrust.

¹² Then Jehovah said to me, You have seen well; for I will watch over My word to perform it.

¹⁶ Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Jehovah. And they shall fish them. And after this I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them, from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

⁴ And it happened when Zedekiah, king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and went out from the city by night, the way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went the way of the Arabah. ⁵ But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the Arabah of Jericho. And they took him and brought him up to Nebu-chadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he spoke judgment on him.

³³ For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain floor, it is time to tread her. Yet a little while, and the time of her harvest will come.

⁷ Then the city was breached, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden. And the Chaldeans lay all around the city. And they went by the way of the Arabah. ⁸ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the Arabah of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him. ⁹ And they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgments against him.

⁵² My haters have hunted me like a bird without cause.

² And you, son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land. ³ The end is now on you, and I will send My anger on you and will judge you according to your ways and will lay on you all your abominations. ⁴ And My eye shall not spare you, and I will not have pity. But I will lay your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in your midst, and you shall know that I am Jehovah. ⁵ So says the Lord Jehovah: An evil! An only evil! Behold, it has come! ⁶ An end has come, the end has come! It has awakened against you, behold, it has come! ⁷ The encirclement has come to you, O dwellers of the land. The time has come, the day of tumult is near, and not a shout of the hills. ⁸ I will soon pour out My fury on you and fulfill My anger on you. And I will judge you according to your ways and will put on you all your abominations. ⁹ And My eye shall not spare, and I will not have pity; I will put on you according to your ways and your abominations that are in your midst. And you shall know that I am Jehovah who strikes. ¹⁰ Behold the day! Behold, it has come, the encirclement has gone out, the rod has blossomed, and pride has budded. ¹¹ Violence has risen for a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, even none of their multitude, and none of their riches, and none eminent among them. ¹² The time has come, the day has arrived. Do not let the buyer rejoice, and do not let the sellers mourn, for wrath is on all her multitude.

²² Son of man, what is this proverb to you on the land of Israel, saying, The days are long, and every vision shall perish? ²³ Therefore, tell them, So says the Lord Jehovah: I will make this proverb cease, and they shall not use it again in Israel. However, say to them, The days draw near, and the matter of every vision.

²⁷ Son of man, behold, the house of Israel is saying, The vision that he is seeing is for many days, and he prophesies for times far off.

² And He said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. And Jehovah said to me, The end has come on My people Israel; I will not again pass over him any more.

⁴⁹ Jehovah shall raise a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you will not understand,

²⁶ And He will lift up a banner to distant nations, and will hiss to them from the ends of the earth; and, behold, it shall come with swift speed! ²⁷ None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none will slumber nor sleep; nor shall the waist cloth of their loins be opened, nor the thong of their sandals broken; ²⁸ whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hooves shall appear as flint, and their wheels like a hurricane.

¹⁶ For you said, No! For we will flee on horseback. On account of this you shall flee. Also, you say, We will ride on swift ones. On account of this, those who pursue you shall be swift. ¹⁷ One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one. You shall flee from the rebuke of five, until you are left like a pole on the top of the mountain, and like a sign on a hill.

¹³ Behold, he shall come up like clouds, and his chariots like a tempest. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plundered!

¹ Put a horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have broken My covenant and have sinned against My law.

¹⁴ And refuge shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his power, nor shall the mighty deliver his life,

¹ I saw the Lord standing by the altar. And He said, Strike the capital of the door, and the thresholds will shake; and break them on the head of all of them. And I will kill the last of them with the sword. Not one of them who flees will flee, and not a fugitive of them will escape. ² And if they dig through into Sheol, from there My hand will take them. And if they go up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down. ³ And if they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And if they hide from My eyes in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and he will bite them.

⁸ His horses also are swifter than leopards and are fiercer than the evening wolves. And their horsemen spread themselves; yea, their horsemen come from afar; they shall fly as the eagle hurrying to eat.

²⁷ For as the lightning comes forth from the east and shines as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of man. ²⁸ For wherever the dead body may be, there the eagles will be gathered.

⁷ And Jehovah God formed the man out of dust from the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

³⁰ And now when I come to your servant, my father, and the youth is not with us and his soul being bound to his soul,

³ Behold, I am here! Testify against me before Jehovah and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I offended? Whom have I abused, and from whose hand have I taken a bribe that I might hide my eyes with it; and I will give back to you.

⁵ And he said to them, Jehovah is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.

⁶ And it happened as they came in, that he saw Eliab, and said, Surely His anointed is before Jehovah.

⁶ And he said to his men, Far be it from me, by Jehovah. I shall not do this thing to my lord, to the anointed of Jehovah, to put out my hand against him. For he is the anointed of Jehovah.

¹⁰ See, this day your eyes have seen how Jehovah has delivered you today into my hand in the cave. And one said to kill you, but I had pity on you. And I said, I shall not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of Jehovah.

⁹ And David said to Abishai, Do not destroy him. For who shall put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah and be guiltless?

¹⁶ This thing which you have done is not good. As Jehovah lives, you also are sons of death, in that you have not watched over your lord, over the anointed of Jehovah. And now, see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water which was at his head-place?

¹⁴ And David said to him, Why were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the anointed of Jehovah?

²¹ Mountains of Gilboa, let not dew or rain be on you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, not being anointed with oil.

³ And the people said, You shall not go out, for if we flee they will not set their heart on us even if half of us die; for now you are like ten thousand to us. And now it is better that you be a helper for us from the city.

²¹ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the anointed of Jehovah?

²⁰ I have found My servant David; I have anointed him with My holy oil. ²¹ My hand shall be fixed with him; and My arm shall make him strong.

⁵ But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the Arabah of Jericho. And they took him and brought him up to Nebu-chadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he spoke judgment on him.

⁸ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the Arabah of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him.

⁹ Her gates have sunk in the ground; He has dispersed and shattered her bars. Her kings and her rulers are among the nations. The law is not. Also her prophets have not found a vision from Jehovah.

¹³ And I will spread My net on him, and he shall be taken in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he will not see it, and he shall die there.

¹⁸ And he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and he has done all these things.

⁴ And the nations heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him in chains to the land of Egypt. ⁵ And when she saw that she had waited, and her hope had been lost, then she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion. ⁶ And he went about among the lions. He became a young lion and learned to tear the prey; he ate men. ⁷ And he knew his widows, and he laid their cities waste, and the land and its fullness were desolated from the sound of his roaring. ⁸ Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

²⁸ These were the sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran.

¹⁹ For Jehovah had humbled Judah because of Ahaz the king of Israel, for he loosed immorality in Judah, and dealt treacherously against Jehovah.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, his name was Job. And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and turning away from evil.

³ They take shrewd counsel against Your people; they plot against Your hidden ones. ⁴ They have said, Come, and we will cut them off from being a nation; and, The name of Israel will not be recalled again. ⁵ For they plotted to together with one heart; they have cut a covenant against You; ⁶ even the tents of Edom, and of the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁸ Also Assyria has joined with them; they were an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah. ⁹ Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the torrent Kishon. ¹⁰ At Endor they were destroyed; they became dung for the ground. ¹¹ Make their nobles as Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; ¹² who said, Let us take possession of God's pastures for ourselves.

⁷ O Jehovah, remember for the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said, Make it bare! Make it bare even to its foundation!

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. And make your heart glad in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

¹ Nations, come near to hear; and peoples, listen! Let the earth hear, and its fullness, the world and all its offspring. ² For the wrath of Jehovah is on all the nations, and fury on all their army; He has devoted them; He gave them to slaughter. ³ And their slain shall be thrown out; and the stench from their carcasses shall rise; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. ⁴ And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll. Then all their host shall droop, as a leaf drooping from the vine, and as the drooping from a fig tree. ⁵ For My sword is drenched in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment. ⁶ A sword is to Jehovah; it is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ And wild oxen shall come down with them, and bullocks with strong bulls; and their land is drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. ⁸ For the day of vengeance is to Jehovah, the year of repayments for Zion's cause. ⁹ And its torrents shall be turned to pitch, and its dust to brimstone; and its land shall become burning pitch. ¹⁰ It shall not be put out night or day; its smoke shall rise forever. From generation to generation, it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and forever. ¹¹ But the owl and the hedgehog shall possess it; and the eared owl and the raven shall live in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of shame, and the stones of emptiness. ¹² They shall call its nobles to a kingdom, but none shall be there; and all her rulers shall be nothing. ¹³ And thorns shall grow in her palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a home for jackals, a court for daughters of ostriches. ¹⁴ The desert creatures shall also meet with the howlers; and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. The screech owl shall also settle there, and find a place of rest for herself. ¹⁵ The snake shall nest there, and shall lay, and hatch, and shall gather in her shadow. Vultures shall also be gathered together, each with its mate. ¹⁶ Search and read from the Book of Jehovah; not one of these misses, each not lacking her mate; for He has commanded my mouth, and by His Spirit He has assembled them. ¹⁷ And He has made fall a lot for them, and His hand divided it to them by line. They shall possess it until forever, from generation to generation they shall live in it.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah, this One adorned in His clothing, bending in His great power? It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save! ² Why is Your clothing red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? ³ I have trodden the winepress, I alone, and no man of the peoples was with Me. And I will tread them in My anger, and trample them in My fury; and their juice shall be spattered on My garments; and I will pollute all My clothes. ⁴ For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. ⁵ And I looked, and no one was helping. And I wondered that no one was upholding. Then My own arm saved for Me, and My fury upheld Me. ⁶ And I trod down the people in My anger, and made them drunk in My fury. And I poured their juice to the earth.

¹⁵ For so says Jehovah, the God of Israel, to me. Take the wine cup of this wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I shall send you to drink it. ¹⁶ And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be maddened, because of the sword that I will send among them. ¹⁷ Then I took the cup from Jehovah's hand and made all the nations drink, those to whom Jehovah had sent me: ¹⁸ Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and their kings, and their rulers, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; ¹⁹ Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants, and his rulers, and all his people; ²⁰ and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Askelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, ²¹ Edom, and Moab, and the sons of Ammon, ²² and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the coastal kings beyond the sea, ²³ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who cut the corners of their beards, ²⁴ and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the desert, ²⁵ and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media, ²⁶ and all the kings of the north, far and near, each one to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. ²⁷ So you shall say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and do not rise up, because of the sword which I will send among you. ²⁸ And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts, You shall certainly drink. ²⁹ For, behold, I begin to bring evil on the city on which is called My name, and shall you be found entirely without guilt? You shall not be without guilt. For I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Jehovah of Hosts.

¹² For so says Jehovah: Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have surely drunk. And are you to be entirely acquitted? You shall not be acquitted, but you shall surely drink.

⁶ For so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped the hand, and you stamped the foot, and rejoiced with all your spite in your soul against the land of Israel;

⁸ So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations.

¹² So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom has acted by taking vengeance against the house of Judah, and they are very guilty and are avenged on them, ¹³ so the Lord Jehovah says this: I will stretch My hand on Edom and will cut off from it man and beast, and I will lay it waste. From Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I will put My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. And they shall do in Edom as is My anger and as is My fury. And they shall know My vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah.

² Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is shattered, the doors of the peoples; she has turned to me, I shall be filled, she is laid waste.

³ And say to it, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch My hand against you, and I will make you a ruin and a waste. ⁴ I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be a ruin. And they shall know that I am Jehovah. ⁵ Because there was to you never-ending enmity, and you poured out the sons of Israel to the hands of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end. ⁶ Therefore, As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely for blood I appoint you, and blood shall pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, so blood shall pursue you. ⁷ And I will make Mount Seir a ruin and a waste, and cut off from it the one passing through, and the one returning. ⁸ And I will fill his mountains with his slain. In your hills and in your valleys, and in your every torrent, the slain by the sword shall fall in them. ⁹ I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

¹¹ so, As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will act by your anger and by envy which you have done out of your hatred against them, and I will be known among them when I have judged you. ¹² And you shall know that I am Jehovah. I have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, Desolation! They are given to us for food! ¹³ And you magnified with your mouth against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard. ¹⁴ So says the Lord Jehovah: As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a ruin. ¹⁵ As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, so I will do to you. You shall be a ruin, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it! And they shall know that I am Jehovah.

¹¹ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he pursued his brother with the sword, and corrupted his compassions, and his anger tore continually, and he kept it, his wrath, forever.

¹ The vision of Obadiah: So says the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom: We have heard a message from Jehovah, and a messenger is sent among the nations; rise up, and let us rise up against her for battle.

¹⁰ Shame shall cover you from the violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever. ¹¹ On the day of your standing on the other side, on the day that the strangers take his force captive, and foreigners enter his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. ¹² But you should not have looked on the day of your brother, on the day of his alienation; nor should you have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have enlarged your mouth in the day of distress. ¹³ You should not have entered into My people's gate on the day of his calamity; also you should not have looked on his evil on the day of his calamity, nor should you have sent out against his force in the day of his calamity. ¹⁴ Nor should you have stood on the crossways to cut off those of him who escaped, nor should you have shut up his survivors in the day of distress. ¹⁵ For the day of Jehovah is near on all the nations: As you have done, it shall be done to you; your reward shall return on your head! ¹⁶ For as you have drunk on My holy mount, so all the nations shall continually drink. Yea, they shall drink and shall swallow; and they will be as if they had not been.

¹¹ Pass over to them, O dweller of Shaphir, in nakedness of shame. The dweller of Zaanan has not gone out; the mourning of Bethezel shall take from you its place of standing.

² I have loved you, says Jehovah. But you say, In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau the brother to Jacob? Yet Jehovah declares, I loved Jacob, ³ and I have hated Esau and have made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness. ⁴ If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the ruined places; so says Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will tear down. And they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is indignant until forever.

¹⁵ Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is the one watching and keeping his garments, that he does not walk naked, and they may see his shame.

² Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem; yea, cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has taken from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.

¹ Awake! Awake! Put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For never again shall uncircumcised and unclean ones come to you.

¹⁸ Violence shall not still be heard in your land, or wasting and ruin within your borders; but you shall call your walls, Salvation, and your gates, Praise.

⁴⁰ And I will cut an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do good to them. But I will put My fear in their heart, that they shall not depart from Me.

⁸ And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity which they have sinned against Me; and I will pardon all their iniquities which they have sinned against Me, and which they have rebelled against Me.

²⁷ But you, do not fear, O My servant Jacob; and do not be afraid, O Israel. For, behold, I am saving you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their exile. And Jacob shall return and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make afraid. ²⁸ You shall not fear, O Jacob My servant, says Jehovah, for I am with you. For I will make a full end of all the nations there where I have driven you. But I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you justly, and by no means will I leave you unpunished.

²⁰ In those days, and at that time, states Jehovah, the iniquity of Israel shall not be sought for, and it is not; and the sins of Judah, and they will not be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

⁶ And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is heaped more than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were spun on her.

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz, The cup also shall pass through to you; you shall be drunken and stripped naked.

²⁸ And when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forever, the nations shall know that I, Jehovah, sanctify Israel.

⁴ If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the ruined places; so says Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will tear down. And they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is indignant until forever.