Jeremiah 10 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O house of Israel: ² Thus hath said the Lord, Do not habituate yourselves on the way of the nations, and at the signs of the heavens be ye not dismayed; although the nations should be dismayed at them. ³ For the statutes of these people concern what is vanity; for it is but a tree which a man hath cut out of a forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. ⁴ With silver and with gold do they ornament it; with nails and with hammers do they fasten it, that it move not from its place. ⁵ As a wrought-out palm-like column are they, and cannot speak; they must needs be borne, because they cannot step along. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do any harm, so also to do any good is not in them. ⁶ Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord: thou alone art great, and great is thy name in might. ⁷ Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, they say there is none like unto thee. ⁸ But at once shall they be shown to be brutish and foolish: it is a doctrine of vanities, it concerneth but wood. ⁹ The beaten out silver is brought from Tharshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple is their clothing; the work of skilful men are they all. ¹⁰ But the Lord God is the truth, he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall quake, and nations cannot endure his indignation. ¹¹ Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, shall perish away from the earth, and from under these heavens. ¹² He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens. ¹³ At the sound when he giveth a multitude of waters in the heavens, and causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; when he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures: ¹⁴ Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein. ¹⁵ They are vanity, the work of deception; in the time of their punishment shall they vanish. ¹⁶ Not like these is the portion of Jacob; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name. ¹⁷ Gather up thy wares from the ground, O inhabitress of the beleaguered city. ¹⁸ For thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will cast forth as with a sling the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will enclose them, in order that they may find them. ¹⁹ Woe is me for my breach! my wound is painful; but I thought, This is but pain, and I shall be able to bear it. ²⁰ But now my tent is laid waste, and all my cords are torn asunder; my children are gone away from me, and they are not here; there is no one to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. ²¹ For the shepherds were brutish, and the Lord had they not sought; therefore have they not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. ²² Behold, the noise of the report is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to render the cities of Judah desolate, a dwelling for monsters. ²³ I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in his own power: it is not in man that passeth away to direct his own steps. ²⁴ Correct me, O Lord, but with justice; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. ²⁵ Pour out thy fury over the nations that know thee not, and over the families that have not called on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his dwelling desolate.

¹⁹ And he said, Therefore hear thou the word of the Lord, I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right and on his left.

⁷ “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I.

¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom: give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem.

⁴ Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel.

¹⁵ Hear ye, and bend your ear: be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken. ¹⁶ Give unto the Lord your God glory, before he cause darkness, and before your feet strike upon the mountains of twilight, and where, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and change it into gross darkness. ¹⁷ But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places because of your pride; and my eye shall weep sorely, and run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is driven away captive.

² And thou shalt say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:

¹⁵ And now therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Judah, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, If ye will indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go thither to sojourn there:

¹ Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel; for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; because there is no truth, nor kindness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

¹⁶ And now hear thou the word of the Lord, Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and preach not against the house of Isaac.

³ After the doings of the Land of Egypt, wherein ye have dwelt, shall ye not do; and after the doings of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you, shall ye not do; and in their customs shall ye not walk.

²³ And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I cast out before you; for all these things they committed, and therefore I felt loathing for them.

³⁰ Then take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after they have been destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. ³¹ Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God; for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burnt in the fire to their gods.

¹² Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; peradventure thou mayest be able to profit, peradventure thou mayest withstand. ¹³ Thou art wearied with the multitude of thy counsels. Do let now those that divide off the heavens, that look at the stars, that announce coming events at new moons, stand up, and save thee from the things that are to come over thee. ¹⁴ Behold, they are become as stubble; the fire burneth them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: not a coal shall be left to warm at, no blaze to sit before it.

³² And that which cometh up into your mind shall not at all come to pass, namely, that ye say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the other countries, to serve wood and stone.

³⁰ Therefore shall ye keep my charge, so that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye do not defile yourselves therewith: I am the Lord your God.

²⁶ And they took the bullock which he had given to them, and they prepared it; and they called on the name of Ba’al from morning even until noon, saying, O Ba’al, answer us; but there was no voice, nor any answer: and they danced about the altar which had been made. ²⁷ And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked at them, and said, Call with a loud voice; for he is a god; either he is holding council, or he is busy in some pursuit, or he is on a journey; or peradventure he sleepeth, and may thus awaken. ²⁸ And they called with a loud voice and cut themselves after their custom with knives and spears, till the blood gushed out over them.

¹⁹ The graven image the artificer hath cast and the goldsmith hath overspread it with gold, and fabricated on it silver chains. ²⁰ He that is skilled in the choice chooseth a wood that will not rot; he seeketh unto himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. ²¹ Know ye not? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not paid attention to the foundations of the earth? ²² It is he that dwelleth above the circle of the earth, while its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretched out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; ²³ That bringeth princes to naught; rendering the judges of the earth as vanity. ²⁴ Yes, they were not yet planted; yea, they were not yet sown; yea, their stem had not yet taken root in the earth: when he but breathed upon them, and they withered, and the storm-wind carrieth them away as stubble. ²⁵ To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to? saith the Holy One. ²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these? he that bringeth out their host by number; that calleth them all by name; from the Mighty One not one escapeth. ²⁷ Why wilt thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the Lord, and my cause hath passed from the cognizance of my God? ²⁸ Dost thou not know? hast thou not heard? The God of everlasting is the Lord, is the Creator of the ends of the earth; he will not be faint and weary; unsearchable is his understanding. ²⁹ He giveth to the faint strength; and to the powerless he imparteth much might. ³⁰ Though youths should grow faint and be weary, and young men should utterly stumble: ³¹ Yet they that wait upon the Lord shall acquire new strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk, and not become faint.

⁹ The makers of graven images are all vanity; and their costly idols cannot profit; and they are their own witnesses, that they see not and know not, in order that they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who hath formed a god, or cast an image that profiteth nothing? ¹¹ Behold, all his associates shall be ashamed, for the workmen themselves are but men: let them all be gathered, let them stand up, they shall be terrified, they shall be ashamed together. ¹² The iron-smith maketh an axe and worketh it in the coals, and with hammers he fashioneth it, and worketh it with his powerful arm; he also, when he is hungry, loseth his strength: when he drinketh no water, he becometh faint. ¹³ The worker in wood stretcheth out the rule; he marketh it out with chalk; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, after the beauty of a child of earth, that it may dwell in a house. ¹⁴ He felleth for himself cedars, and taketh cypress and oak, and he chooseth for himself the strongest among the trees of the forest; he planteth an ash, and the rain causeth it to grow. ¹⁵ Then doth it serve a man for burning; and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; he also heateth therewith, and baketh bread; he also worketh out a god, and boweth himself; he maketh of it an image, and kneeleth down thereto. ¹⁶ The half thereof hath he burnt in fire; with the half thereof will he eat flesh; he will roast food, and be satisfied; he will also warm himself, and say, Aha, I am warm, I have felt the fire: ¹⁷ And the residue thereof hath he made into a god, his graven image; he kneeleth down unto it, and boweth himself, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for my god art thou. ¹⁸ They know not, they understand not; for their eyes are daubed over, that they cannot see; their hearts, that they cannot understand. ¹⁹ And he layeth it not to heart, and hath no knowledge, no understanding, to say, The half thereof have I burnt in fire; and I have also baked upon its coals bread; I now will roast flesh, and eat it: and shall I make of its residue an abomination, before a block of wood shall I kneel? ²⁰ He pursueth ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, and will not say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye escaped fugitives of the nations! They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

⁵ Thus hath said the Lord, What fault did your fathers find in me, that they went away far from me, and walked after vanity, and became vain?

⁸ But at once shall they be shown to be brutish and foolish: it is a doctrine of vanities, it concerneth but wood.

⁴ They set up kings, but not my advice: they chose princes and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made themselves idols so that they will be cut off. ⁵ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath caused thy rejection; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be that they cannot cleanse themselves? ⁶ For whom Israel did also that idol spring; an artisan made it, and no God is it: so then shall it become broken in splinters—that calf of Samaria.

¹⁸ What profiteth the graven image that its maker hath graven it? the molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? that the maker of his image trusteth therein, while making dumb idols? ¹⁹ Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! Rouse up to the dumb stone. Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and no breath whatever is in its bosom.

⁴ Their idols are sliver and gold, the work of the hands of man.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of the hands of men.

¹⁹ The graven image the artificer hath cast and the goldsmith hath overspread it with gold, and fabricated on it silver chains. ²⁰ He that is skilled in the choice chooseth a wood that will not rot; he seeketh unto himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

⁶ They help one another; and each one saith to his brother, Be strong! ⁷ So the smith encouraged the melter, he that smootheth with the hammer him that striketh on the anvil; saying of the solder, It is good; and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

¹² The iron-smith maketh an axe and worketh it in the coals, and with hammers he fashioneth it, and worketh it with his powerful arm; he also, when he is hungry, loseth his strength: when he drinketh no water, he becometh faint.

⁷ They carry him, upon the shoulder they bear him, and set up him in his spot, and he remaineth standing, from his place he doth not move: yea, though one should cry unto him, he cannot answer, out of his trouble he cannot help him.

⁵ A mouth they have, but speak not; eyes they have, but see not; ⁶ Ears they have, but hear not; a nose they have, but smell not. ⁷ They have hands, but they touch not; they have feet, but they walk not: nor do they give any utterance by their throat. ⁸ Like them are those that make them, every one that trusteth in them.

¹⁶ Mouths they have, but they speak not; eyes they have, but they see not; ¹⁷ Ears they have, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouth. ¹⁸ Like them are those that make them, every one that trusteth in them.

²³ Tell the events that are to happen hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be astonished, and see it together. ²⁴ Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work less than a breath: he that is an abomination alone chooseth you.

⁹ The makers of graven images are all vanity; and their costly idols cannot profit; and they are their own witnesses, that they see not and know not, in order that they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who hath formed a god, or cast an image that profiteth nothing?

¹ Bel is bowed down, Nebo sinketh, their idols are delivered unto the beasts, and unto the cattle; those which were once carried by you are now laden up a burden to the weary beasts.

¹⁹ Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! Rouse up to the dumb stone. Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and no breath whatever is in its bosom.

^{10 (8:6)} And he said, For tomorrow; and he said, Be it according to thy word; in order that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.

¹⁴ For at this time I send all my plagues against thy heart, and against thy servants, and against thy people; in order that thou mayest know that there is none like me on all the earth.

¹¹ Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the mighty? who is like unto thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

³¹ For not as our Rock is their rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

²⁶ There is none like unto the God of Yeshurun, who rideth to help thee upon the heavens, and in his excellency upon the skies.

²² Therefore art thou great, O Eternal God; for there is none like thee, and there is no God beside thee, in accordance with all that we have heard with our ears.

^{14 (4:8)} And I looked about, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them: think on the Lord, the great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

³² And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest the covenant and kindness, let not be esteemed as little before thee all the hardship that hath befallen us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

¹⁰ All my bones will say, Lord, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?

¹ A song and psalm by the sons of Korach. ^(48:2) Great is the Lord, and highly praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

⁸ There is none like unto thee among the Gods, O Lord; and there is nothing like thy works. ⁹ All the nations whom thou hast made shall come and bow themselves down before thee, O Lord; and they shall ascribe honor unto thy name. ¹⁰ For great art thou, and doing wondrous things: thou art God by thyself alone.

^{6 (89:7)} For who in the sky can be compared unto the Lord? who can be likened unto the Lord among the sons of the mighty? ^{7 (89:8)} God is greatly terrific in the secret council of the holy ones and fear-inspiring over all that are about him. ^{8 (89:9)} O Lord God of hosts, who is powerful, like thee, Eternal! and thy faithfulness is round about thee.

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

³ Great is the Lord, and greatly praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and abundant in power: his understanding is immeasurable.

⁶ Call aloud and shout, inhabitress of Zion; for great is in the midst of thee the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁸ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

²⁵ To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to? saith the Holy One.

⁵ To whom will ye liken and assimilate me, and compare me, that we may be like?

⁹ Remember the former things of olden times; for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is nothing like me.

¹⁸ Thou exercisest kindness unto the thousandth generation, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers unto the bosom of their children after them; thou art the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts is his name;

^{3 (3:33)} His signs—how great are they! and his wonders—how mighty are they! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his rule is over every generation.

^{34 (4:31)} But at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes unto heaven, and my understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and glorified the Everliving, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and whose kingdom is over every generation;

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even unto his going down my name is great among the nations; and in every place incense is burnt and there is offered unto my name, even a pure offering; for great is my name among the nations, saith the Lord of hosts.

²³ The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, excellent in power, and in justice, and abounding in righteousness, will not afflict: ²⁴ Therefore do men fear him; he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

^{28 (22:29)} For the kingdom is the Lord’s, and he governeth the nations.

¹¹ Yea, there shall bow down before him all kings: all nations shall serve him.

^{7 (76:8)} Thou—thou art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thy anger is kindled?

⁹ All the nations whom thou hast made shall come and bow themselves down before thee, O Lord; and they shall ascribe honor unto thy name.

^{6 (89:7)} For who in the sky can be compared unto the Lord? who can be likened unto the Lord among the sons of the mighty?

⁴ And he will judge among the nations, and decide for many people; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall not learn any more war.

²² Will ye not fear me? saith the Lord; will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand as a bound for the sea by an everlasting law, which it can never pass over? and though the waves thereof be upheaved, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

⁶ Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord: thou alone art great, and great is thy name in might.

^{11 (2:15)} And many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day, and they shall be unto me for a people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

⁸ Like them are those that make them, every one that trusteth in them.

¹⁸ Like them are those that make them, every one that trusteth in them.

²⁹ Behold, they all are naught; their works are nothing: wind and vanity are their molten images.

¹⁹ And he layeth it not to heart, and hath no knowledge, no understanding, to say, The half thereof have I burnt in fire; and I have also baked upon its coals bread; I now will roast flesh, and eat it: and shall I make of its residue an abomination, before a block of wood shall I kneel?

²⁷ Who say to the wood, Thou art my father; and to the stone, Thou hast brought us forth; for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their misfortune will they say, Arise, and save us.

²² “Because my people is foolish, me have they not known; sottish children are they, and they have not any understanding: wise are they to do evil, but how to do good they do not know.”

¹⁴ Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein.

¹⁷ Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein. ¹⁸ They are vanity, the work of deception: in the time of their punishment shall they vanish.

¹² My people ask counsel of their stick of wood, and their staff shall tell them the future: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they are gone astray unfaithful to their God.

¹⁸ What profiteth the graven image that its maker hath graven it? the molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? that the maker of his image trusteth therein, while making dumb idols?

² For the Theraphim speak vanity, and the diviners foresee a lie, and those that have dreams speak what is false, with nought do they comfort: therefore do they move about like a flock, they bleat, because they have no shepherd.

²² For the king had a Tharshish-ship at sea with the ship of Hiram: once in three years the Tharshish-ship used to come home, laden with gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

¹⁹ The graven image the artificer hath cast and the goldsmith hath overspread it with gold, and fabricated on it silver chains.

¹² Tharshish was thy merchant through the abundance of all kind of wealth: with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they supplied thy markets.

⁵ I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold there was a certain man clothed in linen, and his loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz;

^{26 (5:23)} For where is there any flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, like us, and hath remained alive?

⁴ He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are just: the God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

⁴ Lord, at thy going forth out of Seir, at thy marching along out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, also the heavens dropped, also the clouds dropped water.

²⁶ And David said to the men that stood by him, thus, What shall be done to the man that may smite yon Philistine, and take away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the arrays of the living God?

³⁶ Both the lion and the bear did thy servant smite: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall become as one of them; because he hath defied the arrays of the living God.

³⁹ And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces; and they said, the Lord—he is the God; the Lord—he is the God.

³ And many days had elapsed for Israel, they being without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

⁶ Who shaketh the earth loose out of her place, that her pillars tremble;

¹⁶ The Lord is King for ever and ever: nations are perished out of his land.

^{7 (18:8)} Then shook and trembled the earth; and the foundations of the mountains were moved; and they were shaken, because he was wroth.

^{5 (31:6)} Into thy hand do I commit my spirit: thou redeemest me, O Lord, the God of truth.

^{2 (42:3)} My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I go again and be seen in the presence of God?

^{11 (68:12)} The Lord gave happy tidings; they are published by the female messengers, a numerous host.

^{18 (77:19)} The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; lightnings gave light to the world; the earth trembled and quaked,

^{2 (84:3)} My soul desired, yea, it also longed for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh shout with joy unto the living God.

¹¹ Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee?

² Firmly established is thy throne from the beginning: from everlasting art thou God.

⁴ His lightnings give light to the world: the earth seeth it, and trembleth.

⁵ For the Lord is good; to eternity endureth his kindness; and unto the latest generation his truth.

³² He who looketh down on the earth, and she trembleth; who toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.

⁷ At the presence of the Lord tremble, O earth, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all eternities, and thy dominion subsisteth throughout all generations.

⁶ Who hath made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

⁴ Perhaps the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to blaspheme the living God, and who hath reproached with the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is still found here.

¹⁷ Bend down, O Lord, thy ear, and hear; open, O Lord, thy eye, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to blaspheme the living God.

¹⁵ For thus hath said the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, In the high and holy place do I dwell, yet also with the contrite and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

³⁶ But “A message of the Lord” shall ye not mention any more; for the message cometh indeed to the man of his prophetic word; but ye pervert the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.

^{26 (6:27)} From me is it decreed, That in all the dominion of my kingdom men shall tremble and have fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and endureth for ever, and it is his kingdom which will not be destroyed, and his dominion will be unto the end of things.

¹⁴ And there were given him dominion, and dignity, and government, and all people, nations, and languages had to serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom is one which shall never be destroyed.

¹¹ And the Lord uttereth his voice before his army; for very numerous is his camp; for strong is he that executeth his word; for great is the day of the Lord and very terrible; and who is able to endure it?

⁴ And the mountains shall melt beneath him, and the valleys shall cleave in twain, like wax melteth before the fire, like water poured out on a declivity.

⁶ Before his indignation who can stand? and who can subsist before the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down by him.

⁶ He stood forward, and made the earth tremble; he looked and dispersed nations; and there burst asunder the everlasting mountains; there sunk the perpetual hills: the ways of the world are his.

¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, they trembled; the flowing waters passed along: the deep issued forth its voice, the height lifted up its hands.

² But who can sustain the day of his coming? and who can stand when he appeareth? for he is like the fire of the melter, and like the lye of the washers:

⁵ For all the gods of the nations are idols; but the Lord hath made the heavens.

¹⁸ And the idols will he utterly abolish.

¹⁵ They are vanity, the work of deception; in the time of their punishment shall they vanish.

¹⁸ They are vanity, the work of deception: in the time of their punishment shall they vanish.

⁶⁶ Pursue them in anger and destroy from under the heavens of the Lord.

¹¹ Terrible will the Lord appear over them; for he will cause to vanish all the gods of the earth; and then shall prostrate themselves before him, every one from its place, all the isles of the nations.

² And it shall come to pass on that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall not be remembered any more: and also the prophets and the unclean spirit will I remove out of the land.

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

⁶ And God said, Let there be an expansion in the midst of the waters, and let it divide between waters and waters. ⁷ And God made the expansion, and divided between the waters which were under the expansion and the waters which were above the expansion: and it was so. ⁸ And God called the expansion Heaven. And it was evening and it was morning, the second day. ⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land be visible: and it was so.

⁸ Who spread out the heavens by himself alone, and treadeth upon the hillocks of the sea;

⁷ He stretched out the north over empty space; he suspended the earth on nothing;

⁴ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell it, if thou hast any understanding of it. ⁵ Who fixed her measurements, if thou knowest it? or who stretched the measuring-line over her? ⁶ Upon what are her foundation-pillars placed at rest? or who laid her corner-stone: ⁷ When altogether sang the morning stars in gladness, and shouted for joy all the sons of God?

² For upon seas hath he founded it, and upon rivers hath he established it.

⁶ By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

⁶⁹ And he built like high mountains his sanctuary, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

¹ The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with excellency; the Lord is clothed, he hath girded himself with strength: therefore also the world is firmly established, that it cannot be moved.

² Thou art he who wrappeth himself in light as with a garment; who stretcheth out the heavens like a curtain;

²⁴ How manifold are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

⁹⁰ Unto all generations endureth thy faithfulness: thou hast established the earth, and she standeth.

⁵ To him that made the heavens with understanding; for to eternity endureth his kindness. ⁶ To him that stretched out the earth above the waters; for to eternity endureth his kindness.

⁵ But happy is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is on the Lord his God; ⁶ Who hath made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

⁴ Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the Lord; for he commanded and they were created.

¹⁹ The Lord hath through wisdom founded the earth: he hath established the heavens through understanding.

⁴ Who was it that ascended into heaven, and came down again? who gathered the wind in his fists? who bound the waters in a garment? who set up all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou knowest it?”

²² It is he that dwelleth above the circle of the earth, while its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretched out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

⁵ Thus hath said God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and the things which come out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to those that walk thereon:

²⁴ Thus hath said the Lord, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that hath made all things; that hath stretched forth the heavens by myself alone; that hath spread abroad the earth from my own self;

¹² When I myself have made the earth, and created man upon it; when I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and I have ordained all their host.

¹⁸ For thus hath said the Lord the creator of the heavens; he, the God that formed the earth and made it; he that hath established it,—not for naught did he create it, to be inhabited did he form it: I am the Lord; and there is no one else.

¹³ My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned out the heavens: I call unto them, they stand forward together.

⁸ Thus hath said the Lord, In the time of favor have I answered thee, and on the day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and I will appoint thee as a people of my covenant to raise up the land, to divide out desolate heritages;

¹³ At the sound when he giveth a multitude of waters in the heavens, and causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; when he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures:

¹⁷ Ah Lord Eternal! behold, it is thou that hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm; nothing is too wonderful for thee;

¹⁵ He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens. ¹⁶ At the sound when he giveth a multitude of waters in the heavens, and causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; when he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures: ¹⁷ Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein. ¹⁸ They are vanity, the work of deception: in the time of their punishment shall they vanish. ¹⁹ Not like these is the portion of Jacob; for He is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.

¹ The prophecy of the word of the Lord concerning Israel, Saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:

²³ And Moses stretched forth his staff toward heaven; and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran down to the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ Is there not wheat-harvest today? I will call unto the Lord, and he will send thunders and rain; and ye will thus perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done, in the eyes of the Lord, to ask for yourselves a king. ¹⁸ And Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunders and rain on that day: and all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel.

⁴¹ And Elijah said unto Achab, Go up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

⁴⁵ And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heavens were blackened with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Achab rode, and went to Yizre’el. ⁴⁶ And the inspiration of the Lord came over Elijah, and he girded up his loins; and he ran before Achab up to the entrance of Yizre’el.

²⁷ For he taketh away drops of water, which are purified into rain in his mist: ²⁸ These drop down out of the skies; they distil upon the multitude of men. ²⁹ But what man can understand the outspreadings of the clouds? the tumult of his tabernacle? ³⁰ Behold, he spreadeth out over it his light, and covereth up the roots of the sea. ³¹ For by means of them he judgeth nations, he giveth food in superfluity. ³² His hands he covereth with light; and he commandeth it to strike the one who striveth against him. ³³ The noise of his storm telleth of it, yea, the cattle also, of the rising tempest.

² Hear, O hear, the rattling of his thunder, and the storm’s roar that goeth out of his mouth. ³ Under the whole heavens he letteth it loose, and his lightning over the ends of the earth. ⁴ Behind it roareth the thunder; he thundereth with his majestic voice; and he holdeth them not back when his voice is heard. ⁵ God thundereth with his marvelous voice: he doth great things, which we cannot comprehend.

²² Didst thou ever enter into the treasuries of the snow? or canst thou see the treasuries of the hail,

²⁵ Who hath divided off watercourses for the overflowing rain, and a way for the lightning that is followed by thunders, ²⁶ To bring rain on a land, void of men; on a wilderness wherein no son of earth is found; ²⁷ To satisfy waste and desolate lands; and to promote the growth of the tender grass?

³⁴ Canst thou lift up to the clouds thy voice, that the abundance of waters may cover thee? ³⁵ Canst thou send out lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here are we?

^{13 (18:14)} And the Lord thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered forth his voice, with hail-stones and coals of fire.

³ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of glory thundereth, the Lord—upon mighty waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord resoundeth with power; the voice of the Lord resoundeth with majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord breaketh in pieces the cedars; yea, the Lord shivereth the cedars of Lebanon; ⁶ And he maketh them skip like a calf; Lebanon and Siryon like young reems. ⁷ The voice of the Lord heweth out flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of the Lord causeth the hinds to start, and maketh bare forests: and in his temple every thing speaketh of his glory. ¹⁰ The Lord sat enthroned at the flood: and the Lord will sit as King for ever.

^{33 (68:34)} To him who rideth over the highest heavens, of ancient days: hear! he sendeth forth his voice, the voice of might.

⁷ He causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with the rain; he bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

¹⁷ Ears they have, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouth.

⁸ Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who causeth grass to grow upon the mountains;

¹ Ask from the Lord rain at the time of the latter rain, from the Lord who maketh lightning-clouds: and he will give unto them showers of rain, to every herb in the field.

² The Lord looketh down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be one intelligent, one who seeketh for God.

^{6 (92:7)} A brutish man knoweth it not, and a fool cannot understand this.

⁸ Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye become intelligent!

⁷ Made ashamed shall be all that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: unto him bow down all the gods.

⁴ Their idols are sliver and gold, the work of the hands of man.

² “Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a common man.

¹⁷ They shall be turned back, they shall be ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to molten idols, Ye are our gods.

¹¹ Behold, all his associates shall be ashamed, for the workmen themselves are but men: let them all be gathered, let them stand up, they shall be terrified, they shall be ashamed together.

¹⁶ They are ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: together shall they go to confusion that are makers of idols.

⁷ They carry him, upon the shoulder they bear him, and set up him in his spot, and he remaineth standing, from his place he doth not move: yea, though one should cry unto him, he cannot answer, out of his trouble he cannot help him. ⁸ Remember this, and take courage: take it again to heart, O ye transgressors.

²¹ They have moved me to wrath with things that are not god; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I too will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a worthless nation.

²¹ And turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; because they are vain.

¹⁸ And the idols will he utterly abolish. ¹⁹ And men shall enter into the caverns of rocks, and into the rifts of the earth, because of the dread of the Lord, and because of the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to terrify the earth. ²⁰ On that day shall a man cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which have been made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats; ²¹ To enter into the clefts of the rocks, and into the hollows of the cliffs, because of the dread of the Lord, and because of the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to terrify the earth.

²⁴ Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work less than a breath: he that is an abomination alone chooseth you.

¹² They should have been ashamed, because they had committed abomination; but they neither felt the least shame, nor did they know how to blush: therefore shall they fall among those that fall; at the time of their punishment shall they stumble, saith the Lord.

¹⁹ Behold I hear the voice of the complaint of the daughter of my people coming out of a far-off land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? is her king no more in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with the vanities of the stranger?”

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

²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations those that bestow rain? or can the heavens give forth showers? Behold, thou art this, O Lord our God, and we will hope in thee; for thou hast done all these things.

^{8 (2:9)} They that guard false vanities forsake the source of their kindness.

³ I will remove man and beast; I will remove the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks together with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the earth, saith the Lord. ⁴ And I will stretch out my hand over Judah, and over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Ba’al from this place, the name of his ministers with his priests;

⁵ Now therefore, if you will truly obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be unto me a peculiar treasure above all nations; for all the earth is mine:

⁹ For the portion of the Lord is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

⁵ Thou, O Lord, art the portion of my inheritance, and my cup; thou hast drawn my lot. ⁶ My possessions are fallen in agreeable places: yea, my heritage is pleasant to me.

²⁶ Though my flesh and my heart should fall; yet the rock of my heart, and my portion will be God for ever.

² Remember thy congregation, which thou didst acquire of old; which thou didst redeem as the tribe of thy inheritance: this mount Zion, whereon thou hast dwelt.

⁵⁷ CHETH. My portion is the Lord, have I said, that I might observe thy words.

⁴ For Jacob hath the Lord chosen unto himself, Israel, as his peculiar treasure.

^{5 (142:6)} I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of life.

⁴ Every thing hath the Lord wrought for its destined end; yes, even the wicked for the day of unhappiness.

⁷ Forming the light, and creating darkness; making peace, and creating evil: I the Lord do all these things.

⁴ Our redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

⁶ I was wroth over my people, I defiled my inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: yet thou didst grant them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou laid very heavily thy yoke.

¹⁵ For I am the Lord thy God, who stirreth up the sea that its waves roar: the Lord of hosts is his name.

⁵ For thy husband is thy Maker, the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, “The God of all the earth,” shall he be called.

¹² He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.

^{35 (31:34)} Thus hath said the Lord, who bestoweth the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea that its waves roar—The Lord of hosts is his name:

³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong; The Lord of hosts is his name: he will surely contend in their cause, in order that he may give rest to the land, and make the inhabitants of Babylon tremble.

¹⁹ Not like these is the portion of Jacob; for He is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.

²⁴ The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I wait for him.

¹ Assemble, O ye children of Benjamin, to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and in Tekoa, blow the cornet, and on Beth-hakkerem set up a fire signal; for evil is seen coming out of the north, and great havoc.

¹³ Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitress of the valley, about the rock of the plain, saith the Lord; who say, Who shall descend down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

³ But thou, O son of man, prepare for thyself vessels for going into exile, and wander away by day before their eyes; and thou shalt wander away from thy place to another place before their eyes: perhaps they may become aware that they are a rebellious family. ⁴ Then shalt thou carry forth thy vessels, like vessels of exile, by day before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth at evening before their eyes, as they do that go forth into exile. ⁵ Before their eyes break a hole through the wall, and carry them through it. ⁶ Before their eyes shalt thou bear them upon thy shoulders, in the dark shalt thou carry them forth: thy face shalt thou cover, that thou mayest not see the ground; for as a token have I set thee unto the house of Israel. ⁷ And I did so as I had been commanded; my vessels I carried forth by day, like vessels of exile, and in the evening I broke a hole for myself through the wall with my hand: in the dark I brought them forth, and I bore them upon my shoulder before their eyes. ⁸ And the word of the Lord came unto me in the morning, saying, ⁹ Son of man, have not the house of Israel, the rebellious family, said unto thee, What doest thou? ¹⁰ Say thou unto them, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, For the prince in Jerusalem is the doom, and for all the house of Israel, and those that are in the midst of them. ¹¹ Say, I am your token; just as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: into exile, into captivity, shall they wander. ¹² And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth; through the wall shall they break a hole to carry things through it: his face shall he cover up, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.

¹⁰ Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a grievous destruction.

⁶³ And it shall come to pass, that, as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so will the Lord rejoice over you to bring you to nought, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord will scatter thee among all the nations, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there wilt thou serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

²⁹ And though a man is risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: yet will the soul of my Lord be bound in the bond of life with the Lord thy God; and the soul of thy enemies will he hurl away, as out of the middle of the sling.

¹ And the Lord said unto me, If Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my favor would still not be toward this people: send them away out of my sight, that they may go forth. ² And it shall come to pass, if they should say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth, that thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath said the Lord, Such as are destined to death, to death; and such as are destined to the sword, to the sword; and such as are destined to famine, to famine; and such as are destined to captivity, to captivity.

¹³ Therefore will I hurl you out of this land into the land of which ye had no knowledge, neither ye nor your fathers; and ye will serve there other gods by day and by night; so that I will not grant you any favor.

²⁰ The anger of the Lord will not return, until he have executed, and until he have fulfilled the purposes of his heart: in the end of days shall ye understand this fully.

¹⁰ And they shall know that I am the Lord: not for naught have I spoken that I would do unto them this evil.

⁶ But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, behold, they did overtake your fathers: and then they returned and said, Just as the Lord of hosts had purposed to do unto us, in accordance with our ways, and in accordance with our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

^{9 (39:10)} I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou hadst done it.

^{10 (77:11)} And I said, This shall be my entreaty, for the years of the right hand of the Most High.

¹⁷ And I will wait for the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope for him.

¹⁹ My bowels, my bowels! I am shaken, at the very chambers of my heart; my heart beateth tumultuously in me; I cannot remain silent; because the sound of the cornet hast thou heard, O my soul, the alarm of war.

³¹ For a voice as of a woman in travail have I heard, the anguish as of one that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that groaneth, that spreadeth out her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! for my soul succumbeth to the murderers.”

²¹ Because of the breach of the daughter of my people am I broken: I am grieved; astonishment hath taken fast hold on me.

^{1 (8:23)} Oh that one would make my head water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people!

¹⁷ But thou shalt say unto them this word. My eyes shall run down with tears night and day, and they shall not cease; for with a great breach is the virgin-daughter of my people broken, with a very painful blow.

¹³ Hope of Israel, O Lord, all that forsake thee shall be made ashamed, and the backsliders among me shall be written down on the earth; because they have forsaken the fountain of living waters, the Lord.

² She weepeth sorely in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; she hath none to comfort her among all her lovers; all her friends have dealt treacherously toward her, they are become her enemies.

¹² “I adjure you, all that pass this way, behold, and see if there be any pain like unto my pain, which hath been inflicted on me, wherewith the Lord hath aggrieved me on the day of his fierce anger. ¹³ From on high hath he sent a fire into my bones, and breaketh them one by one: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath caused me to return backward; he hath made me desolate, sick all the day. ¹⁴ Bound fast is the yoke of my transgressions by his hand,—they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to stumble: the Lord hath given me up into the hands of those against whom I am not able to rise up. ¹⁵ The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me; he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: a winepress hath the Lord trodden over the virgin, the daughter of Judah. ¹⁶ For these things do I weep; my eye, my eye runneth down with water; because far from me is the comforter that should refresh my soul: my children are in misery, because the enemy hath prevailed.” ¹⁷ Zion spreadeth forth her hands, without one to comfort her; the Lord hath given a charge concerning Jacob to all his adversaries round about him: Jerusalem is become as an unclean woman among them. ¹⁸ “Righteous is the Lord; for against his orders have I rebelled: oh do hear, all ye people, and see my pain! my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. ¹⁹ I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders perished in the city; for they sought food for themselves to refresh their soul. ²⁰ See, O Lord! how I am in distress; my bowels are heated; my heart is turned round within me; because I have grievously rebelled: abroad bereaveth the sword, at home, like the pestilence. ²¹ They hear how greatly I sigh, yet there is none to comfort me; all my enemies have heard of my misfortune, they are glad that thou hast done it: oh that thou wouldst bring the day which thou hast proclaimed against me, that they may become like me. ²² Let all their wickedness come before thee, and do unto them as thou hast done unto me because of all my transgressions; for many are my sighs, and my heart is sick.”

¹¹ My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are heated, my liver is poured upon the earth because of the breach of the daughter of my people; because babes and sucklings faint away in the streets of the town. ¹² To their mothers they say, Where is corn and wine? when they faint away like the deadly wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out on the bosom of their mother. ¹³ What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I compare unto thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I find equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for great like the sea is thy breach; who can bring healing to thee? ¹⁴ Thy prophets foresaw for thee vain and deceptive things; and they did not lay open thy iniquity, to cause thy backsliders to return: but they foresaw for thee prophecies of falsehood and seduction. ¹⁵ All that pass by this way clap their hands on account of thee; they hiss and shake their head over the daughter of Jerusalem: saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty. The joy for all the earth? ¹⁶ All thy enemies open wide their mouth against thee; they hiss and gnash their teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up: ah, truly this is the day that we hoped for; we have found, we have seen it. ¹⁷ The Lord hath done what he had resolved; he hath accomplished his word which he had ordained already in the days of old; he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied; and he hath caused to rejoice over thee thy enemy, he hath raised on high the horn of thy adversaries. ¹⁸ Their heart crieth unto the Lord, O thou wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a stream day and night; allow thyself no rest; let not the apple of thy eye be still. ¹⁹ Arise, complain aloud in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out like water thy heart before the face of the Lord: lift up toward him thy hands because of the life of thy babes, that faint away for hunger at the corner of all the streets. ²⁰ See, O Lord, and behold! to whom hast thou ever done the like? Shall women, then, eat their own fruit, the babes they have tenderly nursed? or shall there be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord the priest and the prophet? ²¹ There lie down on the ground in the streets the lad and the ancient: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain on the day of thy anger; thou hast slaughtered, thou hast not pitied. ²² Thou hast called, as it were on a festive day, my evil neighbors from round about; and there was not on the day of the Lord’s anger one that escaped or remained: those that I had tenderly nursed and reared up my enemy brought to their end.

¹⁸ And I said, Lost is my strength, my expectation also from the Lord. ¹⁹ Remembering my affliction and the cause of my complaint, wormwood and poison. ²⁰ Remembering this continually my soul is bowed down deeply within me. ²¹ Yet this answer will I give to my heart: therefore will I wait in confidence.

³⁹ Wherefore should a living man complain? let every man complain because of his sins. ⁴⁰ Let us search through and investigate our ways, and let us return to the Lord.

⁴⁸ With streams of water runneth my eye down, because of the breach of the daughter of my people.

⁹ The indignation of the Lord will I bear, because I have sinned against him; until that he plead my cause, and execute justice for me: when he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

⁸ The eye of him that seeth me now will not behold me again: thou fixest thy eyes upon me, and I am no more.

⁷ The wicked are suddenly overthrown, and are no more; but the house of the righteous will endure.

²⁰ Yet again will say before thy ears the children of whom thou wast deprived, The place is too narrow for me; make room for me that I may dwell. ²¹ And thou wilt say in thy heart, Who hath born me these, seeing I was bereft of my children, and was solitary, an exile, and outcast? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left entirely alone; these, where have they been? ²² Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold, I will lift up to the nations my hand, and to the people will I raise up high my standard; and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon shoulders.

¹⁶ And I have placed my words in thy mouth, and with the shadow of my hand have I covered thee: to plant the heavens, and to lay the foundations of the earth, and to say to Zion, Thou art my people.

² Enlarge the space of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations,—spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

²⁰ Ruin upon ruin is called out; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents wasted, and in a moment, my curtains.

^{15 (31:14)} Thus hath said the Lord, A voice is heard in Ramah, groaning, weeping, and bitter lamentation; Rachel is weeping for her children: she refuseth to be comforted for her children because they are not here.

⁵ Her adversaries are become chiefs, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath caused her to grieve because of the multitude of her transgressions: her babes are gone into captivity before the adversary.

⁴ He bent his bow like an enemy; he held out his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion did he pour out like fire his fury. ⁵ The Lord became like an enemy; he destroyed Israel, he destroyed all her palaces, he ruined her strong-holds, and he increased in the midst of the daughter of Judah groaning and wailing. ⁶ And he violently wasted, as if it were a garden, his tabernacle; he destroyed his place of assembly: yea, the Lord hath caused to be forgotten in Zion the solemn feast and the day of rest, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger both king and priest.

¹⁰ His watchmen are all of them blind, they know nothing; they all are dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreamers, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ But the dogs are of a greedy disposition, they know not how to be satisfied; and those are shepherds that know how to understand: they all turn to their own way, every one after his gain, from all quarters. ¹² Come ye, I will fetch wine, and let us swallow abundantly of strong drink; and like this day shall it be tomorrow, excellent and in very great abundance.

⁸ The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied in the name of Ba’al, and after things that cannot profit did they walk.

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

⁹ The wise men are ashamed, they are discouraged and caught, lo, the word of the Lord have they rejected; and what wisdom have they now?

¹⁰ Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden under foot my field, they have rendered my pleasant field a desolate wilderness.

¹ Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the flocks of my pasture! saith the Lord. ² Therefore thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel concerning the shepherds that feed my people, Ye have scattered my flocks, and driven them away, and have not taken care of them: now, behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.

⁹ To the prophets—Broken is my heart within me; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a person whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of his holy words. ¹⁰ For of adulterers is the land full; for because of false swearing mourneth the land, dried up are the pastures in the wilderness; because their course was for evil, and their strength was for injustice. ¹¹ For both prophet and priest are hypocrites: yea, in my own house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord. ¹² Therefore shall their way be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness; they shall be pushed forward, and fall thereon; for I will bring upon them evil, the year of their punishment, saith the Lord. ¹³ And on the prophets of Samaria have I seen absurdity: they prophesied by Ba’al, and misled my people Israel. ¹⁴ But on the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing; they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that not one of these doth return from his wickedness: they are become unto me all of them as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore thus hath said the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets, Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poison-water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is hypocrisy gone forth over all the land. ¹⁶ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you, they bring you unto vanity: a vision of their own heart do they ever speak, not out of the mouth of the Lord. ¹⁷ They say indeed unto those that incense me, The Lord hath spoken, Peace shall ye have; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart, they said, There shall come no evil upon you. ¹⁸ For who hath stood in the secret counsel of the Lord, that he could perceive and hear his word? who hath listened to his word and heard it? ¹⁹ Behold, the storm-wind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, yea, a whirling storm: upon the head of the wicked shall it fall grievously. ²⁰ The anger of the Lord will not return, until he have executed, and until he have fulfilled the purposes of his heart: in the end of days shall ye understand this fully. ²¹ I had not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I had not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. ²² But if they had stood in my secret counsel, they should have announced my words to my people, and have caused them to turn back from their evil way, and from the wrongfulness of their doings. ²³ Am I a God for those near at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God for those who are afar off? ²⁴ If a man should hide himself in secret places should I not then see him? saith the Lord. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? saith the Lord. ²⁵ I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy falsely in my name, saying, I have dreamt, I have dreamt. ²⁶ How long shall it be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy falsehood? yea, the prophets of the deceit of their own heart,— ²⁷ How long do they think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they relate every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for the sake of Ba’al? ²⁸ The prophet that hath had a dream, let him relate his dream; and he that hath received my word, let him speak my word of truth. What hath the straw to do with the corn? saith the Lord. ²⁹ Is not thus my word, like the fire? saith the Lord, and like a hammer that shivereth the rock? ³⁰ Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbor. ³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their own word, and say, The Lord saith. ³² Behold, I am against those that prophesy with false dreams, saith the Lord, and do relate them, and mislead my people by their falsehoods, and by their vain boasting: while I have not sent them, nor commanded them; and they cannot bring the least profit to this people, saith the Lord.

³² And their camels shall become a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto all winds those that have the hair cut round; and from all sides will I bring their calamity, saith the Lord.

¹⁷ A scattered lamb is Israel; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him; and this last one broke his bones, even Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon.

²⁵ The banded troop of her prophets in the midst of her is like a roaring lion that teareth in pieces the prey: souls do they devour; wealth and precious things do they take away; the number of her widows do they increase in the midst of her. ²⁶ Her priests violate my law, and profane my holy things: between the holy and profane do they make no distinction, and the difference between the unclean and the clean do they not make known, and from the violation of my sabbaths do they turn away their eyes, so that I am profaned among them. ²⁷ Her princes in her midst are like wolves that tear in pieces the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, in order to obtain selfish gain. ²⁸ And her prophets plastered for them with unadhesive mortar, foreseeing falsehood, and divining unto them lies, saying, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal; when the Lord had not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land are guilty of extortion, and practise robbery, and the poor and the needy they defraud: and they extort from the stranger with injustice. ³⁰ And I seek now among them for a man, that could erect a fence, and stand in the breach before me in behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it; but I find none.

² Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say unto them, unto the shepherds, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Woe to the shepherds of Israel who do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? ³ The fat ye eat, and with the wool ye clothe yourselves, those that are well fed ye slaughter; but the flock ye feed not. ⁴ The diseased have ye not strengthened, and the sick have ye not healed, and that which had a limb broken have ye not bound up, and the strayed have ye not brought back again, and what was lost have ye not sought for; but with force have ye ruled them and with rigor. ⁵ And they were scattered for want of a shepherd; and they became food unto all the beasts of the field, and they were scattered. ⁶ My sheep have to wander about on all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, over all the face of the land are my flock scattered, and there is none that inquireth and none that seeketh after them. ⁷ Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord, ⁸ As I live, saith the Lord Eternal, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became food unto every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not inquire for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and my flock they fed not: ⁹ Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord, ¹⁰ Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold, I will be against the shepherds, and I will require my flock from their hand, and I will stop them from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more: and I will deliver my flock out of their mouth, that they may not serve them for food.

¹² As a shepherd searcheth for his flock on the day that he is among his flocks that are scattered: so will I search for my flocks; and I will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered on the day of clouds and tempestuous darkness.

³ Against the shepherds is my anger kindled, and on the he-goats will I inflict punishment; for the Lord of hosts thinketh of his flock, the house of Judah, and maketh them as his elegant horse in the battle.

⁷ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man whom I have associated with me, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; but I will turn my hand toward the feeble ones.

¹⁵ For, lo, I will call unto all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all its walls round about, and upon those of all the cities of Judah.

⁶ Set up the standard toward Zion; save yourselves by flight, stay not; for evil do I bring from the north, and a great destruction.

¹⁵ Lo, I will bring over you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is a most ancient nation, a nation whose language thou wilt not know, and thou wilt not understand what they speak.

²² Thus hath said the Lord, Behold, a people is coming from the north country, and a great nation shall wake up from the farthest ends of the earth.

^{11 (9:10)} And I will change Jerusalem into heaps of ruins, a dwelling for monsters: and the cities of Judah will I make desolate, without an inhabitant.

⁶ For, lo, I will raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation, that march to the wide spaces of the earth to conquer dwelling-places that are not theirs. ⁷ Terrible and dreadful are they: from themselves go forth their judicial laws and their dignity. ⁸ And swifter than leopards are their horses, and fiercer than the evening wolves; and their horsemen spread themselves abroad: and their horsemen will come from afar; they will fly like the eagle hastening to eat. ⁹ They all will come for violence: the front of their faces is like the east wind, and they gather captives as the sand.

³ And Esau I hated; and I rendered his mountains a desert, and his heritage a dwelling for the monsters of the wilderness.

⁵ My steps held firmly to thy tracks, and my footsteps did not slip.

²³ By the Lord are the steps of the righteous man established; and he findeth pleasure in his course of life.

¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to thy promise, that I may live, and let me not be made ashamed of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Support me that I may be placed in safety, and I will direct my regard unto thy statutes continually.

¹ Unto man belong the resolves of the heart; but from the Lord cometh the expression of the tongue.

²⁴ From the Lord are the steps of man ordained; but man—how can he understand his own way?

¹⁸ The paths of their course wind themselves along; they go in the wilderness and are lost.

¹ To the chief musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, a psalm of David. ^(6:2) O Lord, correct me not in thy anger, and chastise me not in thy wrath.

¹ A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. ^(38:2) O Lord, correct me not in thy wrath, nor chastise me in thy fury.

²³ That bringeth princes to naught; rendering the judges of the earth as vanity.

¹¹ Behold, ashamed and confounded shall be all that were incensed against thee; they shall be as naught and perish—the men that strive with thee. ¹² Thou wilt seek them, and shalt not find them, the men that contend with thee; they shall be as naught and as nothing, the men that make war against thee.

¹¹ For with thee am I, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, yet of thee will I not make a full end; but I will correct thee in moderation, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

² O Lord, I have heard thy fame, and was afraid: O Lord, thy work—in the midst of the years of sorrow revive thou it, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

²¹ Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.

⁴ Is there no knowledge in all the workers of wickedness? who eat up my people as they eat bread; while they do not call on the Lord.

² When evil-doers come near against me to eat up my flesh, my assailants and my enemies at me: then do they stumble and fall.

⁶ Pour out thy fury over the nations that acknowledge thee not, and over the kingdoms that have not called on thy name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.

²² But on me hast thou not called, O Jacob; for thou art become weary of me, O Israel.

^{7 (64:6)} And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth himself up to lay hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast let us melt away, through the force of our iniquities.

¹⁶ From Dan was heard the snorting of his horses; at the sound of the neighing of his war-steeds trembleth the whole land: and they are come, and devour the land, and all that filleth it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

⁷ All that found them devoured them; and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of righteousness, and the hope of their fathers, the Lord.

³⁴ “Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon devoured me, he crushed me, he set me down as an empty vessel, he swallowed me up like a huge serpent, he filled his belly with my delicacies: he drove me out. ³⁵ the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” will the inhabitress of Zion say; and “My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” will Jerusalem say.

²² Thou hast called, as it were on a festive day, my evil neighbors from round about; and there was not on the day of the Lord’s anger one that escaped or remained: those that I had tenderly nursed and reared up my enemy brought to their end.

⁶ For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Whereas thou didst clap thy hands, and stamp with thy feet, and rejoice with all thy derision in the soul over the land of Israel: ⁷ Therefore, behold, will I stretch out my hand over thee, and will give thee up for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries; I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. ⁸ Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Because Moab and Se’ir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations:

⁵ Because thou hast had an undying hatred, and didst surrender the children of Israel to the power of the sword, at the time of their calamity, at the time of the iniquity of the end: ⁶ Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Eternal, I will surely let thy blood flow, and blood shall pursue thee; since thou didst not hate blood-shedding, so shall blood pursue thee. ⁷ Thus will I change the mountain of Se’ir into a desolate land and a waste, and I will cut off from it him that travelleth forward and backward. ⁸ And I will fill his mountains with his slain: as regardeth thy hills, and thy valleys, and all thy ravines, in them shall fall those that are slain by the sword. ⁹ Into perpetual desolations will I change thee, and thy cities shall not be restored: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁰ Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall indeed be mine, and we will take possession thereof; whereas the Lord was there:

¹⁰ Because of thy violence against thy brother Jacob shall shame cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. ¹¹ On the day that thou stoodest on the other side, on the day that strangers carried away captive his army, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots over Jerusalem, also thou wast as any one of them. ¹² But thou shouldst not have looked on pleased at the day of thy brother, on the day that he was delivered up to strangers; neither shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction; nor should thou have spoken proudly on the day of distress. ¹³ Thou shouldst not have entered into the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; yea, thou too shouldst not have looked pleased on their affliction on the day of their calamity; nor have laid hands on their army on the day of their calamity; ¹⁴ Neither shouldst thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldst thou have delivered up those of his that did remain on the day of distress. ¹⁵ For near is the day of the Lord over all the nations: as thou hast done, shall it be done unto thee; thy deeds shall return upon thy own head. ¹⁶ For as ye have drunk upon my holy mount, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and they shall reel about, and they shall be as though they had not been.

⁶ And those that are turned away from following the Lord; and those that have not sought for the Lord, and have not inquired of him.

⁸ Therefore wait but for me, saith the Lord, for the day that I rise up to the prey; for my judgment cometh to gather the nations, for me to assemble the kingdoms, to pour over them my indignation, all the fierceness of my anger; for through the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.

¹⁵ And with a great anger will I be angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little angry with Zion, and they helped forward the mischief.