# verses

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Lift up your hands by night <n>[[Or, ]] to the holy places. </n> in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord.<pb/>


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<t>(135) Alleluia. </t><pb/>Praise you° the name of the Lord; praise the Lord, <i>you° his</i> servants,<pb/>


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<t>(136) Alleluia. </t><pb/>Give thanks to the Lord: for he is good: for his mercy <i>endures</i> for ever.<pb/>


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<t>(137) <n>[[Alex. ]] omits. </n> For David, <i>a Psalm</i> of Jeremias. </t><pb/>By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and wept when we remembered Sion.<pb/>


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We hung our <n>[[Gr. ]] organs, [[or, ]] instruments. </n> harps on the willows in the midst of it.<pb/>


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For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; and they that had carried us away <i>asked</i> a hymn, <i>saying</i>, Sing us <i>one</i> of the songs of Sion.<pb/>


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May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember you; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.<pb/>


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Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase <i>it</i>, <n>[[Gr. ]] empty, empty. </n> rase <i>it</i>, even to its foundations.<pb/>


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Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed <i>shall he be</i> who shall reward you as you have rewarded us.<pb/>


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<t>(138) A Psalm for David, of Aggaeus and Zacharias. </t><pb/>I will give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; and I will sing psalms to you before the angels; for you have heard all the words of my mouth.<pb/>


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I will worship toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name, on account of your mercy and your truth; for you have magnified your holy name above every thing.<pb/>


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In whatever day I shall call upon you, hear me speedily; you shall abundantly provide me with your power in my soul.<pb/>


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Let all the kings of the earth, o Lord, give thanks to you; for they have heard all the words of your mouth.<pb/>


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For the Lord is high, and <i>yet</i> regards the lowly; and he knows high things from afar off.<pb/>


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Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, you will quicken me; you have stretched forth your hands against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand has saved me.<pb/>


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<t>(139) For the end, a Psalm of David. <n>[[Alex. ]] + of Zacharias in the dispersion. </n> </t><pb/>O Lord, you have proved me, and known me.<pb/>


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You know my down-sitting and my up-rising: you understand my thoughts <n>[[Gr. ]] from afar. </n> long before.<pb/>


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You have traced my path and my <n>[[q.d. ]] of rushes, [[lit. ]] rush. </n> bed, and have foreseen all my ways.<pb/>


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The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t <i>attain</i> to it.<pb/>


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<t>(140) For the end, a Psalm of David. </t><pb/>Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man.<pb/>


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They have sharpened their tongue as <i>the tongue</i> of a serpent;  the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.<pb/>


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Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner; rescue me from unjust men; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.<pb/>


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The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes <i>for</i> snares for my feet; they set a stumbling block for me near the path. Pause.<pb/>


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Deliver me not, O Lord, to the sinner, <n></n> according to my desire: they have devised <i>mischief</i> against me; forsake me not, lest they should be exalted. Pause.<pb/>


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Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and you shall cast them down in afflictions: they shall not bear up <i>under them</i>.<pb/>


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A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.<pb/>


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I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the <n>[[Gr. ]] singular. </n> poor, and the right of the needy ones.<pb/>


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<t>(141) A Psalm of David. </t><pb/>O Lord, I have cried to you; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to you.<pb/>


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Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; the lifting up of my hands <i>as</i> an evening sacrifice.<pb/>


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Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a <n>[[Lit. ]] a door of fortification. </n> strong door about by lips.<pb/>


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Incline not my heart to evil things, to <n>[[Gr. ]] pretend pretences. </n> employ pretexts <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> for sins, with me who work iniquity: and <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n>I will not. let me not unite with their choice ones.<pb/>


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The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their <n>[[q.d. ]] lest I be injured by them. </n> pleasures.<pb/>


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Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.<pb/>


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As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the <i>mouth of</i> the grave.<pb/>


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Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.<pb/>


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<t>(142) <i>A Psalm</i> of instruction for David, when he was in the cave, —a Prayer. </t><pb/>I cried to the Lord with my voice; with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.<pb/>


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When my spirit was fainting within me, then you knew my paths; in the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me.<pb/>


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I looked on <i>my</i> right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul.<pb/>


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Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I.<pb/>


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<t>(143) A Psalm of David, when his son pursued him. </t><pb/>O Lord, attend to my prayer: listen to my supplication in your truth; hear me in your righteousness.<pb/>


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And enter not into judgment with your servant, for in your sight shall no <i>man</i> living be justified.<pb/>


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For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark <i>place</i>, as those that have been long dead.<pb/>


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I remembered the days of old; and I meditated on all your doings: <i>yes</i>, I meditated on the works of your hands.<pb/>


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Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; turn not away your face from me, else I shall be like to them that go down to the pit.


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<t>(144) <i>A Psalm</i> of David concerning Goliad. </t><pb/>Blessed <i>be</i> the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, <i>and</i> my fingers for war.<pb/>


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My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.<pb/>


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Lord, what is man, that you are made known to him? or the son of man, that you take account of him?<pb/>


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Send lightning, and you shall scatter them: send forth your arrows, and you shall discomfit them.<pb/>


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Send forth your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great <n>[[Gr. ]] many. </n> waters, out of the hand of strange children;<pb/>


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<i>Even</i> to him who gives <n>[[Or, ]] victory. </n> salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.<pb/>


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Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;<pb/>


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whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.


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<t>(145) David's <i>Psalm of</i> praise. </t><pb/>I will exalt you, my God, my king; and I will bless your name <n>[[Lit. ]] to the age, and to the age of the age. </n> for ever and ever.<pb/>


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Every day will I bless you, and I will praise your name <n>[[Lit. ]] to the age, and to the age of the age. </n> for ever and ever.<pb/>


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They shall utter the memory of the abundance of your goodness, and shall exult in your righteousness.<pb/>


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Your kingdom is <n>[[Gr. ]] a kingdom of all ages. </n> an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion <i>endures</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] in every generation and generation. </n> through all generations. The Lord is faithful in his words, and holy in all his works.<pb/>


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His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.<pb/>


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who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:<pb/>


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the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers;<pb/>


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<t>(147) Alleluia, <i>a Psalm</i> of Aggaeus and Zacharias. </t><pb/>Praise you° the Lord: for psalmody is a good thing; let praise be sweetly sung to our God.<pb/>


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who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who causes grass to spring up on the mountains, [<n>See Ps 103 (104) 14. </n><i>and green herb for the service of men;]</i><pb/>


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He will not take pleasure in the strength of a horse; neither is he well-pleased with the legs of a man.


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<t>Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggaeus and Zacharias. <n>In the original text, the following verses are numbered 12 to 20. </n> </t><pb/>Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Sion.<pb/>


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He makes your borders peaceful, and fills you with the <n>[[Lit. ]] fat of wheat. </n> flour of wheat.<pb/>


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He shall send out his word, and melt them: he shall blow <i>with</i> his wind, and the waters shall flow.<pb/>


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<t>Alleluia, <i>a Psalm</i> of Aggaeus and Zacharias. </t><pb/>Praise you° the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the highest.<pb/>


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Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.<pb/>


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He has established them for ever, even for ever and ever: he has made an ordinance, and it shall not pass away.<pb/>


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let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name only is exalted; his praise is above the earth and heaven,<pb/>


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and he shall exalt the horn of his people, <n>[[Or, ]] who is the praise of. </n> <i>there is</i> a hymn for all his saints, <i>even</i> of the children of Israel, a people who draw near to him.


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<t>Alleluia. </t><pb/>Sing to the Lord a new song: his praise is in the assembly of the saints.<pb/>


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The <n>[[Gr. ]] exaltations, [[q.d. ]] extollings.</n> high praises of God shall be in their throat, and two-edged swords in their hands;<pb/>


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Praise him on <i>account of</i> his mighty acts: praise him according to his abundant greatness.<pb/>


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to receive also <n>Gr. turnings, q.d. knotty words. See Heb. </n> hard saying, and to understand true justice, and <i>how</i> to direct judgment;


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that he might give subtlety to the simple, and to the young man <n>Or, discretion. </n> discernment and understanding.


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The fear of the Lord is the <n>Or, sum, or, top. </n> beginning of wisdom; and <i>there is</i> good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nothing wisdom and instruction.


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If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:


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but do you cast in your lot with us, and let us all provide a common purse, and let us have one pouch:


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go not in the way with them, but turn aside your foot from their paths: <n>For ver16, see Appendix </n>


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<n>this verse is not in the text. The Alexandrine text is shown here </n> <i>For their feet run to do evil, and are swift to shed blood. </i>


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For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.


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These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.


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And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says,


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So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs.


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therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against <i>you</i> when ruin comes upon you:


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yes when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and <i>your</i> overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.


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For it shall be that when you° call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find <i>me</i>.


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Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.


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For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.


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But he that hearkens to me shall dwell in <n>Gr. hope. See Ps 16. </n> confidence, and shall rest securely from all evil.<pb/>


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your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son.


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Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment; and shall direct <n>Lit. all good a les. </n> all your course aright.


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to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. <i>My</i> son, let not evil counsel overtake you,


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For she has fixed her house near death, and <i>guided</i> her wheels near Hades with the <n>See Heb. </n> giants.


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None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the <n>Singular variation from Heb. </n> years of life.


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For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness <n>Gr. smooth. </n> easy.


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The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.<pb/>


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so shall you find favor: <n>Alex. + 'and write them on the table of your heart.' </n> and do you <n>See Rom 12. 17. </n> provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.


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In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly <n>Gr. divide. See 2 Tim 2. 13. </n> direct your paths.


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that your storehouses may be completely filled with corn, and that your presses may burst forth with wine.


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<n>Heb 12. 5, 6. </n> <i>My</i> son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when you are rebuked of him:


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And she is more valuable than precious stones: no evil thing shall resist her: she is well known to all that approach her, and no precious thing is equal to her in value.


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For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue.


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She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is <i>a</i> secure <i>help</i> to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.


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<i>My</i> son, let <i>them</i> not <n>See Heb 2. 1. </n> pass from <i>you</i>, but keep my counsel and understanding:


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that your soul may live, and that there may be grace round your neck; and it shall be health to your flesh, and safety to your bones:


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For if you <n>Gr. sit down. </n> rest, you shall be undismayed; and if you sleep, you shall slumber sweetly.


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And you shall not be afraid of alarm coming upon you, neither of approaching attacks of ungodly men.


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Say not, Come back another time, to-morrow I will give; while you are able to do <i>him</i> good: for you know not what the next day will bring forth.


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who spoke and instructed me, <i>saying</i>, Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep <i>our</i> commandments, forget them not:


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and do not neglect the speech of my mouth. <n>See Appendix - Alexandrian codex has: “Get wisdom, get understanding, forget not, nor decline from the words of my mouth.” </n>


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<n>Lit. dig a trench about her, see Heb. </n> Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you;


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Hear, <i>my</i> son, and receive my words; and the years of your life shall be increased, that the resources of your life may be many.


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For I teach you the ways of wisdom; and I cause you to go in right <n>Gr. wheel-tracks, see chap 2. 18. Heb 12. 13. </n> paths.


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But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day <n>Gr. order itself aright. </n> be fully come.


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For they are life to those that find them, and <n>Or, healing. </n> health to all <i>their</i> flesh.


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Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away your foot from an evil way: <n>Heb. omits. </n> <i>for God knows the ways on the right hand, but those on the left are crooked:</i> and he will make your ways straight, and will guide your steps in peace.<pb/>


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that you may keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives you a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;


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but afterwards you will find her <n>Gr. a more bitter thing. </n> more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.


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For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established.


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<n>Alex. omits 'not.' </n> I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply my ear.


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Let <i>your</i> loving hart and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times; for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased.


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Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.<pb/>


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<i>My</i> son, do what I command you, and deliver yourself; for on your friend's account you are come into the power of evil <i>men</i>: faint not, but stir up even your friend for whom you are become surety.


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he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labors kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: though weak in <n>Gr. strength. </n> body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom.


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You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short <i>time</i>, and you fold your arms over your breast a little.


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Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.


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And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.


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An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and <n>Gr sends forth judgments. </n> brings on quarrels between brethren.


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Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be you caught by your eyes, neither be captivated with her eyelids.


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For the value of a harlot is as much as of one loaf; and a woman hunts for the precious souls of men.


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So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.


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It is not to be wondered at if one should be taken stealing, for he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul:


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but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods.


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He will not forego <i>his</i> enmity for any ransom: neither will he be reconciled for many gifts.<pb/>


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<i>My</i> son, keep my words, and hide with you my commandments. <i>My</i> son, honor the Lord, and you shall be strong; and fear none but him:


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keep my commandments, and you shall live; and <i>keep</i> my words as the pupils of <i>your</i> eyes.


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that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering words.


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For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,


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and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.


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For at one time she wanders without, and at <i>another</i> time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.


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So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from <i>the right path</i>.


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And he followed her, being gently led on, and <i>that</i> as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:


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O you° simple, <n>For the use of ἄκατος and πανοῦργος in this book, see Appendix in which the following appears: Proverbs 8. 5 — It is frequently the case in Proverbs that ἄκατος is used in a bad sense, and πανοῦργος in a good one. For ἄκατος see chap 1. 4, 22; 8. 5; 14. 15; 21. 11. For πανοῦργος, 12. 16; 13. 1, 16; 14. 8, 15, 18; 15. 5; 21. 11; 22. 3; 27. 12; 28. 2. </n> understand subtlety, and you° that are untaught, imbibe knowledge.


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Listen to me; for I will speak solemn <i>truths</i>; and will produce right <i>sayings</i> from my lips.


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The fear of the Lord hates unrighteousness, and insolence, and pride, and the ways of wicked men; and I hate the perverse ways of bad men.


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<i>It is</i> better to have my fruit than <i>to have</i> gold and precious stones; and my produce is better than choice silver.


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that I may divide substance to them that love me, and may fill their treasures with good things. If I declare to you the things that daily happen, I will remember <i>also</i> to recount the things of old.


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He established me <n>Gr. before the age. </n> before time <i>was</i> in the beginning, before he made the earth:


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The Lord made countries and uninhabited <i>tracks</i>, and the highest inhabited parts of the world.


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When he prepared the heaven, I was present with him; and when he <n>Or, marked out. </n> prepared his throne upon the winds:


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<n>See Appendix in which the Alexandrine text has: When he set to the sea its bound, and the waters shall not pass his [note: Gr. mouth.] </n> decree. and when he strengthened the foundations of the earth:


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I was by him, <n>Or, arranging all things. </n> suiting <i>myself to him</i>, I was that wherein he took delight; and daily I rejoiced in his presence continually.


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Now then, <i>my</i> son, hear me: blessed is the man who shall listen to me, and the mortal who shall keep my ways; <n>appendix has Alexandrine text as: “And blessed are they that keep my ways.” </n>


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<n>not in Codex Vaticanus, but Alexandrine codex has this text </n> <i>Hear wisdom and be wise, and <n>More lit., do not separate yourselves from it. </n> be not strangers to it. </i>


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But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls: and they that hate me love death.<pb/>


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Leave folly, that you° may reign for ever; and seek <n>Alex. + 'that you° may live.' </n> wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.


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He that reproves evil <i>men</i> shall get dishonor to himself; and he that rebukes an ungodly <i>man</i> shall disgrace himself.


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Rebuke not evil <i>men</i>, lest they should hate you: rebuke a wise <i>man</i>, and he will love you.


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Give an opportunity to a wise <i>man</i>, and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more <i>instruction</i>.


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The fear of the Lord is the <n>Or, summit. </n> beginning of wisdom, and the counsel of saints is understanding: for to know the law is <i>the character</i> of a sound mind.


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Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. <n>Heb. — to beginning of verse 13. </n> He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a <i>land</i> appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.


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<i>saying</i>, Whoso is most senseless of you, let him turn aside to me; and I exhort those that lack prudence, saying,


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But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell. But hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix your eye upon her: for thus shall you go through strange water; but do you abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain, that you may live long, and years of life may be added to you.<pb/>


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Poverty brings a man low: but the hands of the vigorous make rich. A son who is instructed shall be wise, and shall use the fool for a servant.


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The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but untimely grief shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.


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A wise man in heart will receive commandments; but he that is unguarded in his lips shall be overthrown in his perverseness.


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He that winks with his eyes deceitfully, procures griefs for men; but he that reproves boldly is a peacemaker.


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<i>There is</i> a fountain of life in the hand of a righteous man; but destruction shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.


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He that brings forth wisdom from his lips smites the <n>Lit. heartless man, Hebraism. </n> fool with a rod.


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The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the righteous; it enriches <i>him</i>, and grief of heart shall not be added to <i>it</i>.


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When the storm passes by, the ungodly vanishes away; but the righteous turns aside and escapes for ever.


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As a sour grape is hurtful to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so iniquity hurts those that practise it.


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The fear of the Lord is a strong hold of the saints: but ruin <i>comes</i> to them that work wickedness.


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Wherever pride enters, there will be also disgrace: but the mouth of the lowly meditates wisdom. <n>See Appendix </n>


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<n>the Alexandrine text reads: “The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the overthrow of the rebellious shall spoil them.” </n> When a just man dies he <n>Comp. Heb. </n> leaves regret: but the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy.


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<n>there is no verse 4. The Alexandrine text has this. </n> <i>Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death. </i>


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Righteousness <n>Gr. right divides. </n> traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing.


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The righteousness of upright men delivers them: but transgressors are caught in their own destruction.


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In the mouth of ungodly men is a snare to citizens: but the understanding of righteous men is prosperous.


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In the prosperity of righteous men a city prospers: <n>See Appendix which gives the Alexandrine text as: “[note - Part of verse 10.]— but at the destruction of the wicked there is exultation.” </n> but by the mouth of ungodly men it is overthrown.


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<n>there is no verse 11, but the Alexandrine text reads. </n> <i>At the blessing of the upright a city shall be exalted. </i>


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A double-tongued man discloses the <i>secret</i> counsels of an assembly: but he that is <n>See chap 20.27. </n> faithful in spirit conceals matters.


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They that have no <n>Or, governance. </n> guidance fall like leaves: but in much counsel there is safety.


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A gracious wife <n>Gr. raises. </n> brings glory to her husband: but a woman hating righteousness is a theme of dishonor. The slothful come to lack: but the <n>Gr. manly. </n> diligent support themselves with wealth.


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Perverse ways are an abomination to the Lord: but all they that are blameless in their ways are acceptable to him.


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He that unjustly strikes hands shall not be unpunished: but he that sows righteousness he shall receive a faithful reward.


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There are <i>some</i> who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are <i>some</i> also who gather, <i>yet</i> have less. <n>Gr. diminished. </n>


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May he that hoards corn leave it to the nation: but blessing be on the head of him that gives <i>it</i>.


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He that devises good <i>counsels</i> seeks good favor: but <i>as for</i> him that seeks after evil, <i>evil</i> shall overtake him.


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He that trusts in wealth shall fall; but he that helps righteous men shall rise. <n>See 1 Tim 5.8. </n>


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He that deals not graciously with his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise man.


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Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life; but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.


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<n>See 1 Pet. </n> If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?<pb/>


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<n>Or. better is he, etc. </n> He that has found favor with the Lord <i>is made</i> better; but a transgressor shall be passed over in silence.


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A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but as a worm in wood, so a bad woman destroys her husband.


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The mouth of an understanding <i>man</i> is praised by a man; but he that is dull of heart is had in derision.


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He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonor in his own strong holds.


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For the sin of <i>his</i> lips a sinner falls into snare; but a righteous man escapes from them. He whose looks are gentle shall be pitied, but he that contends in the gates will afflict souls.


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The soul of a man shall be filled with good from the fruits of his mouth; and the recompence of his lips shall be given to him.


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<i>There is</i> deceit in the heart of him that imagines evil; but they that love peace shall rejoice.


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A just arbitrator shall be his own friend; but mischief shall pursue sinners; and the way of ungodly men shall lead them astray.


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A deceitful man shall catch no game; but a <n>Gr. pure. </n> blameless man is a precious possession.


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In the ways of righteousness is life; but the ways of those that remember injuries <i>lead</i> to death.<pb/>


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A good <i>man</i> shall eat of the fruits of righteousness: but the lives of transgressors shall perish before their time.


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He that keeps his own mouth keeps his own life: but he that is hasty with his lips shall bring terror upon himself.


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There are <i>some</i> who, having nothing, enrich themselves: and there are <i>some</i> who bring themselves down in <i>the midst of</i> much wealth.


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A man's own wealth is the ransom of his life: but the poor <n>Or, comes not in for. </n> endures not threatening.


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The righteous always have light: but the light of the ungodly is quenched. Crafty souls go astray in sins: but just men pity, and are merciful.


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Wealth gotten hastily with iniquity is diminished: but he that gathers for himself with godliness shall be increased. The righteous is merciful, and lends.


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Better is he that begins to help heartily, than he that promises and leads <i>another</i> to hope: for a good desire is a tree of life.


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He that slights a matter shall be slighted of it: but he that fears the commandment has health <i>of soul</i>. To a crafty son there shall be nothing good: but a wise servant shall have prosperous doings, and his way shall be directed aright.


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Sound discretion gives favor, and to know the law is the part of a sound understanding: but the ways of scorners tend to destruction.


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A good man shall inherit children's children; and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.


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Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean; but where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent.


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You shall seek wisdom with bad men, and shall not find it; but discretion is easily available with the prudent.


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The houses of transgressors <n>Gr. shall owe. See Job 6.21. </n> will need purification; but the houses of the just are acceptable.


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<i>If</i> a man's <n>Or, heart be sensitive. </n> mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride.


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The houses of ungodly men shall be utterly destroyed; but the tabernacles of them that walk uprightly shall stand.


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There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it <n>Gr. come. </n> reach to the depths of hell.


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A <n>Lit. bold-hearted. </n> stout-hearted <i>man</i> shall be filled with his own ways; and a good man with his own thoughts.


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A wise man fears, and departs from evil; but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor.


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They that go astray devise evils: but the good devise mercy and truth. The framers of evil do not understand mercy and truth: but compassion and faithfulness are with the framers of good.


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With every one <i>who is</i> careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in lack.


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The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; and it causes <i>men</i> to turn aside from the snare of death.


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The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but <n>Comp. Heb. </n> he who is secure in his own holiness is just.


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An understanding servant is acceptable to a king; and by his good behavior he removes disgrace.<pb/>


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Anger slays even wise men; yet a submissive answer turns away wrath: but a grievous word stirs up anger.


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<n>Gr. the healing of the tongue. </n> The wholesome tongue is a tree of life, and he that keeps it shall be filled with <n>Gr. spirit. </n> understanding.


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A fool scorns his father's instruction; but he that keeps his commandments is more prudent. In abounding righteousness is great strength: but the ungodly shall <n>Gr. with the roots wholly torn up. </n> utterly perish from the earth.


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The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him.


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The ways of an ungodly <i>man</i> are an abomination to the Lord; but he loves those that follow after righteousness.


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The instruction of the simple is known by them that pass by; but they that hate reproofs die disgracefully.


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An uninstructed person will not love those that reprove him; neither will he associate with the wise.


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When the heart rejoices the countenance is cheerful; but when it is in sorrow, <i>the countenance</i> is sad.


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Better is a small portion with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without the fear <i>of the Lord</i>.


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Better is an entertainment of herbs with friendliness and kindness, than a feast of calves, with enmity.


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A passionate man stirs up strife; but <i>he that is</i> slow to anger appeases even a <n>Gr. future. </n> rising one. A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs <i>them</i> up.


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A bad man will by no means <n>Or, obey. </n> attend to counsel; neither will he say anything seasonable, or good for the common <i>weal</i>.


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A receiver of bribes destroys himself; but he that hates the receiving of bribes is safe. <i>By alms and by faithful dealings <n>Observe, this is not in the Heb. nor any such doctrine. </n> sins are purged away;</i> but by the fear of the Lord every one departs from evil.


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The hearts of the righteous meditate faithfulness; but the mouth of the ungodly answers evil things. The ways of righteous men are acceptable with the Lord; and through them even enemies become friends.


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The son of a king is in the light of life; and they that are in favor with him are as a cloud of latter rain.


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The <n>Or, Abodes. Comp. Heb. See Lu 13. 35. </n> brood of wisdom is more to be chosen than gold, and the brood of prudence more to be chosen than silver.


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The paths of life turn aside from evil; and the ways of righteousness are length of life. He that receives instruction shall be in prosperity; and he that regards reproofs shall be made wise. He that keeps his ways, preserves his own soul; and he that loves his life will spare his mouth.


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Better is a meek-spirited <i>man</i> with <n>Or, affliction. </n> lowliness, than one who divides spoils with the proud.


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<i>Men</i> call the wise and understanding evil: but they that are pleasing in speech shall hear more.


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The heart of the wise will discern the <i>things which proceed</i> from his own mouth; and on his lips he will wear knowledge.


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But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.


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A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.


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And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, and marks out with his lips all evil: he is a furnace of wickedness.


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A man slow to anger is better than a strong <i>man</i>; and he that governs <i>his</i> temper better than he that takes a city.


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All <i>evils</i> come upon the ungodly into <i>their</i> bosoms; but all righteous things <i>come</i> of the Lord.<pb/>


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Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house <i>full</i> of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife.


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He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: but he that has compassion shall find mercy.


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Children's children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.


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He that conceals injuries seeks love; but he that hates to hide <i>them</i> separates friends and <n>Comp. Heb. </n> kindred.


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Why has the fool wealth? for a senseless man will not be able to purchase wisdom. He that exalts his own house seeks ruin; and he that turns aside from instruction shall fall into mischief.


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Have you a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.


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A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, <i>as he</i> also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.


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and the hard-hearted man <n>Or, meets not with good men. </n> comes not in for good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;


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and the heart of a fool is grief to its possessor. A father rejoices not over an uninstructed son; but a wise son gladdens his mother.


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The ways of a man who unjustly receives gifts in <i>his</i> bosom do not prosper; and an ungodly man perverts the ways of righteousness.


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The countenance of a wise man is sensible; but the eyes of a fool <i>go</i> to the ends of the earth.


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<i>It is</i> not right to punish a righteous man, nor <i>is it</i> holy to plot against righteous princes.


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Wisdom shall be imputed to a fool who asks after wisdom: and he who holds his peace shall seem to be sensible.<pb/>


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A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses; but at all times he will be liable to reproach.


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When an ungodly man comes into a depth of evils, he despises <i>them</i>; but dishonor and reproach come upon him.


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<i>It is</i> not good to accept the person of the ungodly, nor <i>is it</i> holy to pervert justice in judgment.


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The name of the Lord is of great strength; and the righteous <n>Gr. having run. </n> running to it are exalted.


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The heart of the sensible <i>man</i> purchases discretion; and the ears of the wise seek understanding.


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A righteous man accuses himself at the beginning of his speech, but <n>Comp. Mark 14. ult. and margin, with 2 Tim 4. 14-17. </n> when he has entered upon the attack, the adversary is reproved.


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A brother helped by a brother is as a strong and high city; and is <i>as</i> strong as a <i>well</i>-founded palace.


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A man fills his belly with the fruits of his mouth; and he shall be satisfied with the fruits of his lips.


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Every one who hates <i>his</i> poor brother shall also be far from friendship. Good understanding will draw near to them that know it, and a sensible man will find it. He that does much harm perfects mischief; and he that used provoking words shall not escape.


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Delight does not suit a fool, nor <i>is it seemly</i> if a servant should begin to rule with haughtiness.


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A merciful man is longsuffering; and his <n>Gr. boasting comes upon. </n> triumph overtakes transgressors.


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A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows <i>paid out</i> of the hire of a harlot are not pure.


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Fathers divide house and substance to <i>their</i> children: but a wife is suited to a man by the Lord.


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<n>Or, keeps down. </n> Cowardice possesses the effeminate <i>man</i>; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.


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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; and he will recompense to him according to his gift.


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The fear of the Lord is life to a man: <n>Or, 'but he that is without fear (sc. of the Lord) shall dwell' etc. </n> and he shall lodge without fear in places where knowledge is not seen.


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When a pestilent character is scourged, a simple man is made wiser: and if you reprove a wise man, he will understand discretion.


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He that dishonors his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.


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He that becomes surety for a foolish child will despise the ordinance: and the mouth of ungodly men shall drink down judgment.


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Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: but every fool is entangled with them.


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The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul.


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<i>It is</i> a glory to a man to turn aside from railing; but every fool is entangled with such matters.


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A large and small weight, and <n>Gr. double. </n> various measures, are even both of them unclean before the Lord; and <i>so is</i> he that makes them.


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A youth <i>when in company</i> with a godly man, will be restrained in his devices, and <i>then</i> his way will be straight.


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The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.


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It is a snare to a man hastily to consecrate some of his own property: for <i>in that case</i> repentance comes after vowing.


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The <n>Comp. chap 11. 13. </n> spirit of man is a light of the Lord, who searches the inmost parts of the belly.


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Bruises and contusions befall bad men; and plagues <i>shall come</i> in the inward parts of <i>their</i> belly.<pb/>


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As a rush of water, so is the king's heart in God's hand: he turns it wherever he may desire to point out.


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<i>It is</i> better to dwell in a corner <n>Gr. in the open air. </n> on the house-top, than in plastered <i>rooms</i> with unrighteousness, and in an open house.


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When an intemperate man is punished the simple becomes wiser: and a wise man understanding will receive knowledge.


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A righteous man understands the hearts of the ungodly: and despises the ungodly for their wickedness.


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He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear <i>him</i>.


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<i>It is</i> the joy of the righteous to do judgment: but a holy <i>man</i> is abominable with evil-doers.


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A man that wanders out of the way of righteousness, shall rest in the congregation of <n>Heb. Rephaim. see Appendix. Note on II. Kings (II. Sam.) 5. 18. </n> giants.


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and a transgressor is the <n>Gr. `off-scouring;' perhaps `ransom,' q. d. that which cleans. </n> abomination of a righteous man.


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<i>It is</i> better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.


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A bold and self-willed and insolent <i>man</i> is called a pest: and he that remembers injuries is a transgressor.


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An ungodly man entertains evil desires all the day: but the righteous is unsparingly merciful and compassionate.


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The sacrifices of the ungodly are abomination to the Lord, for they offer them wickedly. <n>Or, unlawfully. </n>


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An ungodly man <n>See Alex. ungodly. </n> impudently withstands with his face; but the upright man himself understands his ways.


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An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, but fools pass by and are punished.


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He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. <n>See 2 Cor 9. 7. Compare Heb. </n> God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but <i>a man</i> shall fully prove the folly of his works.


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He that has pity on the poor shall himself be maintained; for he has given of his own bread to the poor. He that gives liberally secures victory an honor; but he takes away the life of them that possesses <i>them</i>.


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Cast out a pestilent person from the council, and strife shall go out with him; for when he sits in the council he dishonors all.


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The Lord loves holy hearts, and all blameless persons are acceptable with him: a king rules with his lips.


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The sluggard makes excuses, and says, <i>There is</i> a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.


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The mouth of a transgressor is a deep pit; and he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them; but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.


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Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are <i>then</i> far from him.


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He that oppresses the poor, increases his own substance, yet gives to the rich so as to make it less.


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that you may know that they are good: and if you lay them to heart, they shall also gladden you on your lips.


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And do you too repeatedly record them for yourself on the table of your heart, for counsel and knowledge.


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I therefore teach you truth, and knowledge good to hear; that you may answer words of truth to them that <n>See 1 Peter 3. 15. </n> question you.


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It is fit that an observant man and <i>one</i> diligent in his business should attend on kings, and not attend on slothful men.<pb/>


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and apply your hand, knowing that it behoves you to prepare such <i>meats</i>: but if you are very insatiable,


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If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.


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so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to yourself, nor eat your morsel with him:


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for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.


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Who <i>has</i> woe? who trouble? who <i>has</i> quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who <i>has</i> bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?


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Are not those of them that stay long at wine? <i>are</i> not <i>those</i> of them that haunt <i>the places</i> where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse <i>with them</i> <n>Gr. in public walks. </n> openly.


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For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle.


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But at last <i>such a one</i> stretches himself out as one struck by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.


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And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?<pb/>


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Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the wise: the wise turn not aside from the mouth of the Lord,


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Deliver them that are led away to death, and redeem them that are appointed to be slain; spare not <i>your help</i>.


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But if you should say, I know not this man; know that the Lord knows the hearts of all; and he that formed breath for all, he knows all things, who renders to every man according to his works.


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Thus shall you perceive wisdom in your soul: for if you find it, your end shall be good, and hope shall not fail you.


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Bring not an ungodly man into the dwelling of the righteous: neither be deceived by the feeding of the belly.


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For a righteous man will fall seven times, and rise <i>again</i>: but the ungodly shall be without strength in troubles.


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For the Lord will see <i>it</i>, and it will not please him, and he will turn away his wrath from him.


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For they will suddenly punish the ungodly, and who can know the vengeance <i>inflicted</i> by both? <n>Heb. omits to the end. </n> [A son that keeps the commandment shall <n>Lit. be outside of. </n> escape destruction; for <i>such an one</i> has fully received it. Let no falsehood be spoken by the king from the tongue; yes, let no falsehood proceed from his tongue. The king's tongue is a sword, and not one of flesh; and whoever shall be given up to <i>it</i> shall be destroyed: for if his wrath should be provoked, he destroys men with cords, and devours men's bones, and burns them up as a flame, so that they are not <i>even</i> fit to be eaten by the young eagles. <i>My</i> son, reverence my words, and receive them, and repent.]


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And this thing I say to you that are wise <i>for you</i> to learn: It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.


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He that says of the ungodly, He is righteous, shall be cursed by peoples, and hateful among the nations.


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Prepare your works for <i>your</i> going forth, and prepare yourself for the field; and come after me, and you shall rebuild your house.


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Say not, As he has treated me, so will I treat him, and I will avenge myself on him for that wherein he has injured me.


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If you let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; <n>Gr. grass. </n> and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down.


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<i>The sluggard says, </i>I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across <i>my</i> breast.


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These are the <n>Possibly genuine, q. d. beyond doubt. </n> miscellaneous instructions of Solomon, which the friends of Ezekias king of Judea copied out.


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for <i>it is</i> better for you that it should be said, Come up to me, than that <i>one</i> should humble you in the presence of the prince; speak of that which your eyes have seen.


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lest your friend continue to reproach you, so your quarrel and enmity shall not depart, but shall be to you like death. Favour and friendship set <i>a man</i> free, which do you keep for yourself, lest you be made liable to reproach; but take heed to your ways peaceably.


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As a fall of snow in the time of harvest is good against heat, so a faithful messenger <i>refreshes</i> those that send him; for he helps the souls of his employers.


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As winds and clouds and rains are most evident <i>objects</i>, so is he that boasts of a false gift.


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<i>As</i> a club, and a dagger, and a pointed arrow, so also is a man who bears false witness against his friend.


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As vinegar is bad for a sore, so trouble befalling the body afflicts the heart. As a moth in a garment, and a worm in wood, so the grief of a man hurts the heart.


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for so doing you shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward you <i>with</i> good.


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As if one should stop a well, and corrupt a spring of water, so <i>is it</i> unseemly for a righteous man to fall before an ungodly man.


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As a city whose walls are broken down, and which is unfortified, so is a man who does anything without counsel.<pb/>


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<n>Great variation from Hebrew here. </n> All the flesh of fools endures much hardship; for their fury is brought to nothing.


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As when a dog goes to his own vomit, and becomes abominable, so is fool who returns in his wickedness to his own sin. [There is a shame that brings sin: and there is a shame <i>that is</i> glory and grace.]


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I have seen a man who seemed <n>Gr. by. </n> to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.


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A sluggard when sent on a journey says, <i>There is</i> a lion in the ways, and <i>there are</i> murderers in the streets.


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A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who <n>Compare Heb. </n> most satisfactorily brings back a message.


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As those who need correction put forth <i>fair</i> words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;


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so are all that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are discovered, say, I did it in jest.


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The words of cunning knaves are soft; but they strike <i>even</i> to the inmost parts of the bowels.


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Though <i>your</i> enemy entreat you with a loud voice, consent not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.


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He that hides enmity frames deceit: but being easily discerned, exposes his own sins in the public assemblies.


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He that digs a pit for his neighbor shall fall into it: and he that rolls a stone, rolls it upon himself.


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As when a bird flies down from its own nest, so a man is brought into bondage whenever he estranges himself from his own place.


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Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; and when you are in distress go not into your brother's house: better is a friend <i>that is</i> near than a brother living far off.


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Whosoever shall bless a friend in the morning with a loud voice, shall seem to differ nothing from one who curses <i>him</i>.


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On a stormy day drops <i>of rain</i> drive a man out of his house; so also does a railing woman <i>drive a man</i> out of his own house.


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He that plants a fig tree shall eat the fruits of it: so he that waits on his own master shall be honored.


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Hell and destruction are not filled; so also are the eyes of men insatiable. <n>Heb. omits to ver 21. </n> <i>He that fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord; and the uninstructed do not restrain their tongue.</i>


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Fire is the trial for silver and gold; and a man is tried by the mouth of them that praise him. The heart of the transgressor seeks after mischiefs; but an upright heart seeks knowledge.


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Though you scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, you will <i>still</i> in no wise remove his folly from him.


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For a man <i>has</i> not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation.


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that you may have <i>wool of</i> sheep for clothing: pay attention to the land, that you may have lambs.


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<i>My</i> son, you have from me words very useful for your life, and for the life of your servants.<pb/>


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By reason of the sins of ungodly men quarrels arise; but a wise man will <n>Gr. quench. </n> quell them.


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so they that forsake the law praise ungodliness; but they that love the law fortify themselves with a wall.


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Evil men will not understand judgment: but they that seek the Lord will understand <n>Gr. in everything. </n> everything.


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He that increases his wealth by usuries and <i>unjust</i> gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.


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He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even he has <n>Or, abhorred his prayer. </n> made his prayer abominable.


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He that causes upright men to err in an evil way, himself shall fall into destruction: transgressor also shall pass by prosperity, but shall not enter into it.


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By reason of the help of righteous men great glory arises: but in the places of the ungodly men are caught.


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He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper: but he that blames <i>himself</i> shall be loved.


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Blessed is the man who religiously fears <n>Gr. all things. </n> always: but the hard of heart shall fall into mischiefs.


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A king in need of revenues is a great oppressor: but he that hates injustice shall live a long time.


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He that becomes surety for a man charged with murder shall be an exile, and not in safety. Chasten your son, and he shall love you, and give honor to your soul: he shall not obey a sinful nation.


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He that walks justly is assisted: but he that walks in crooked ways shall be entangled <i>therein</i>.


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He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with <n>Gr. plural. </n> bread: but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.


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He that reverences not the persons of the just is not good: such a one will sell a man for a morsel of bread.


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An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.


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<n>Mark 7. 11. </n> He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he sins not; the same is partaker with an ungodly man.


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He that gives to the poor shall not be in lack: but he that turns away his eye <i>from him</i> shall be in great distress.


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In the places of ungodly <i>men</i> the righteous <n>Gr. groan. </n> mourn: but in their destruction the righteous shall be multiplied.<pb/>


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A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man: for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.


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A righteous man knows how to judge for the poor: but the ungodly understands not knowledge; and the poor man has not an understanding mind.


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When a king judges the poor in truth, his throne shall be established <n>Heb. 'for ever.' See Amos 1. 11; Mich 7. 18; in the Greek. </n> for a testimony.


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There shall be no interpreter to a sinful nation: but he that observes the law is <n>Or, 'most blessed.' </n> blessed.


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A stubborn servant will not be reproved by words: for even if he understands, still he will not obey.


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He that shares with a thief, hates his own soul: and if any having heard an oath uttered tell not of it,


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<i>they</i> fearing and reverencing men <i>unreasonably</i> have been overthrown, but he that trusts in the Lord shall rejoice. Ungodliness causes a man to stumble: but he that trusts in <n>Possibly, 'in the Lord.' See 2 Pet 2. 1. </n> his master shall be safe.


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A righteous man is an abomination to an unrighteous man, and the direct way is an abomination to the sinner.<pb/>


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Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his <n>Or, fold of his robe. </n> bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children?


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Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth <i>or</i> poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient:


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lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear <i>vainly</i> by the name of God.


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Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master, lest he curse you, and you be utterly destroyed.


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A wicked generation have swords <i>for</i> teeth and jaw teeth <i>as</i> knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.


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The horse-leech had three dearly beloved daughters: and these three did not satisfy her; and the fourth was not contented so as to say, Enough.


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The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.


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The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.


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the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.


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Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing <n>Gr. out of place. </n> amiss.


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or if a maidservant should cast out her own mistress; and if a hateful woman should marry a good man.


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And the eft, which supports itself by <i>its</i> hands, and is easily taken, dwells in the fortresses of kings.


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A lion's whelp, stronger than <i>all other</i> beasts, which turns not away, nor fears <i>any</i> beast;


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and a cock walking in boldly among the hens, and the goat leading the herd; and a king publicly speaking before a nation.


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Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if you wing <i>one's</i> nostrils there shall come out blood: so if you extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes.<pb/>


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What will you keep, my son, what? the words of God. My firstborn son, I speak to you: what? son of my womb? what? <n>The usual punctuation has been altered. </n> son of my vows?


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Give not your wealth to women, nor your mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel.


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Her husband is not anxious about those at home when he tarries anywhere abroad: for all <n>Gr. those with her. </n> her household are clothed.


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She makes for her husband <n>Comp. Heb. and A.V. </n> clothes of double texture, and garments for herself of fine linen and scarlet.


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And her husband becomes a distinguished <i>person</i> in the gates, when he sits in council with the old inhabitants of the land.


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She makes fine linens, and sells girdles to the Chananites: she opens her mouth heedfully and with propriety, and controls her tongue.


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And <i>her</i> kindness to them sets up her children for them, and they grow rich, and her husband praises her.


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Many daughters have obtained wealth, many have wrought valiantly; but you have exceeded, you have surpassed all.


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Charms are false, and woman's beauty is vain: for it is a wise woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear of the Lord.


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arising there it proceeds southward, and goes round toward the north. The wind goes round and round, and the wind returns to its circuits.


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All the rivers run into the sea; and yet the sea is not filled: to the place whence the rivers come, there they return again.


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All things are full of labor; a man will not be able to speak <i>of them</i>: neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.


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What is that which has been? the very thing which shall be: and what is that which has been done? the very thing which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.


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<i>Who is he</i> that shall speak and say, Behold, this is new? it has already been in the ages that have passed before us.


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There is no memorial to the first things; neither to the things that have been last shall their memorial be with them that shall at the last <i>time</i>.


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And I applied my heart to seek out and examine by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven, for God has given to the sons of men an evil trouble to be troubled therewith.


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I [*]saw all the works that were wrought under the sun; and, [*]saw, all were vanity and waywardness of spirit.


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I spoke in my heart, saying, Behold, I am increased, and have acquired wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem: also I applied my heart to know wisdom and knowledge.


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And my heart knew much—wisdom, and knowledge, parables and understanding: I perceived that this also is waywardness of spirit.


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For in the abundance of wisdom is abundance of knowledge; and he that increases knowledge will increase sorrow.<pb/>


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I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove you with mirth, and behold you good: and, behold, this is also vanity.


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And I examined whether my heart would excite my flesh as <i>with</i> wine, (though my heart guided <i>me</i> in wisdom,) and <i>I desired</i> to lay hold of mirth, until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, which they should do under the sun all the days of their life.


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I got servants and maidens, and servants were born to me in the house: also I had abundant possession of flocks and herds, beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem.


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Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold also, and the peculiar treasures of kings and provinces: I procured me singing men and singing women, and delights of the sons of men, a butler and female cupbearers.


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So I became great, and advanced beyond all that were before in Jerusalem: also my wisdom was established to me.


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And whatever my eyes desired, I withheld not from them, I withheld not my heart from all my mirth: for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my portion of all my labor.


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And I looked on all my works which my hands had wrought, and on my labor which I laboured to perform: and behold, all was vanity and waywardness of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun.


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Then I looked on to see wisdom, and madness, and folly: for who is the man who will follow after counsel, in all things where in he employs it?


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The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I perceived, even I, that one event shall happen to them all.


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And I said in my heart, As the event of the fool is, so shall it be to me, even to me: and to what purpose have I gained wisdom? I said moreover in my heart, This is also vanity, because the fool speaks of his abundance.


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For there is no remembrance of the wise man with the fool for ever; forasmuch as now <i>in</i> the coming days all things are forgotten: and how shall the wise man die with the fool?


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So I hated life; because the work that was wrought under the sun was evil before me: for all is vanity and waywardness of spirit.


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And I hated the whole of my labor which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.


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And who knows whether he will be a wise <i>man</i> or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labor in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also vanity.


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For there is <i>such</i> a man that his labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in fortitude; <i>yet</i> this man shall give his portion to one who has not laboured therein. This is also vanity and great evil.


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For it happens to a man in all his labor, and in the purpose of his heart wherein he labors under the sun.


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For all his days <i>are days</i> of sorrows, and vexation of spirit is his; in the night also his heart rests not. This is also vanity.


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A man has nothing <i>really</i> good to eat, and to drink, and to show his soul <i>as</i> good in his trouble. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.


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For <i>God</i> has given to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but he has given to the sinner trouble, to add and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God; for this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.<pb/>


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a time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to abstain from embracing;


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All the things which he has made are beautiful in his time: he has also set the whole world in their heart, that man might not find out the work which God has wrought from the beginning even to the end.


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I know that there is no good in them, except <i>for a man</i> to rejoice, and to do good in his life.


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Also <i>in the case of</i> every man who shall eat and drink, and see good in all his labor, <i>this</i> is a gift of God.


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I know that whatever things God has done, they shall be for ever: it is impossible to add to it, and it is impossible to take away from it: and God has done <i>it</i>, that <i>men</i> may fear before him.


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That which has been is now; and whatever things <i>are appointed</i> to be have already been; and God will seek out that which is past.


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And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there was the ungodly one; and the place of righteousness, there was the godly one.


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And I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the ungodly: for there is a time there for every action and for every work.


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I said in my heart, concerning the speech of the sons of man, God will judge them, and that to show that they are beasts.


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Also to them is the event of the sons of man, and the event of the brute; one event befalls them: as is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; and there is one breath to all: and what has the man more than the brute? nothing; for all is vanity.


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And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man, whether it goes upward? and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?


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And I saw that there was no good, but that wherein a man shall rejoice in his works, for it is his portion, for who shall bring him to see any thing of that which shall be after him?<pb/>


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So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun: and behold the tear of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter:


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and I praised all the dead that had already died more than the living, as many as are alive until now.


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Better also than both these is he who has not yet been, who has not seen all the evil work that is done under the sun.


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And I saw all labor, and all the diligent work, that this is a man's envy from his neighbor. This is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.


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There is one <i>alone</i>, and there is not a second; yes, he has neither son nor brother: yet there is no end to all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with wealth; and for whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? this is also vanity, and an evil trouble.


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For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls, and there is not a second to lift him up.


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And if one should prevail against <i>him</i>, the two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord shall not be quickly broken.


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Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who knows not how to take heed any longer.


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For he shall come forth out of the house of the prisoners to reign, because <i>he</i> also that was in his kingdom has become poor.


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I [*]saw all the living who were walking under the sun, with the second youth who shall stand up in each one's place.


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There is no end to all the people, to all who were before them: and the last shall not rejoice in him: for this also is vanity and waywardness of spirit.<pb/>


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Be not hasty with your mouth, and let not your heart be swift to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven above, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.


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Whenever you shall vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for <i>he has</i> no pleasure in fools: pay you therefore whatever you shall have vowed.


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Suffer not your mouth to lead your flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, It was an error: lest God be angry at your voice, and destroy the works of your hands.


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If you should see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter: for <i>there is</i> a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.


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He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also vanity.


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In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: and what virtue has the owner, but the right of beholding <i>it</i> with his eyes?


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The sleep of a servant is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but to one who is satiated with wealth, there is none that suffers him to sleep.


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There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, <i>namely</i>, wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.


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And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: and <i>the man</i> begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.


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As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, he shall return back as he came, and he shall receive nothing for his labor, that it should go <i>with him</i> in his hand.


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And this is also an evil infirmity: for as he came, so also shall he return: and what is his gain, for which he vainly labors?


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Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing <i>for a man</i> to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor in which he may labor under the sun, <i>all</i> the number of the days of his life which God has given to him: for it is his portion.


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Yes, and <i>as for</i> every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.


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a man to whom God shall give wealth, and substance, and honor, and he wants nothing for his soul of all things that he shall desire, yet God shall not give him power to eat of it, for a stranger shall devour it: this is vanity, and an evil infirmity.


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If a man beget a hundred <i>children</i>, and live many years, yes, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet <i>if</i> his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.


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Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known rest: there is <i>no more rest</i> to this one than another.


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Though he has lived to the return of a thousand years, yet he has seen no good: do not all go to one place?


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For <i>what</i> advantage has the wise man over the fool, since <i>even</i> the poor knows how to walk in the direction of life?


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The sight of the eyes is better than that which wanders in soul: this is also vanity, and waywardness of spirit.


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If anything has been, its name has already been called: and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is stronger than he.


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What advantage has a man? for who knows <i>what is</i> good for a man in his life, <i>during</i> the number of the life of the days of his vanity? and he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?


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<i>It is</i> better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the banquet house: since this is the end of every man; and the living man will apply good <i>warning</i> to his heart.


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Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart will be made better.


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The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.


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Say not, What has happened, that the former days were better than these? for you do not enquire in wisdom concerning this.


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Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and <i>there is</i> an advantage <i>by it</i> to them that see the sun.


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For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver: and the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom will give life to him that has it.


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In the day of prosperity live joyfully, and consider in the day of adversity: consider, <i>I say</i>, God also has caused the one to agree with the other for <i>this</i> reason, that man should find nothing after him.


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I have seen all things in the days of my vanity: there is a just man perishing in his justice, and there is an ungodly man remaining in his wickedness.


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It is well for you to hold fast by this; also by this defile not your hand: for to them that fear God all things shall come forth <i>well</i>.


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Also take no heed to all the words which ungodly men shall speak; lest you hear your servant cursing you.


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For many times he shall trespass against you, and repeatedly shall he afflict your heart; for thus also have you cursed others.


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I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account <i>of things</i>, and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.


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And I find her <i>to be</i>, and I will pronounce <i>to be</i> more bitter than death the woman which is a snare, and her heart nets, <i>who has</i> a band in her hands: <i>he that is</i> good in the sight of God shall be delivered from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.


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Behold, this have I found, said the Preacher, <i>seeking</i> by one at a time to find out the account,


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which my soul sought after, but I found not: for I have found one man of a thousand; but a woman in all these I have not found.<pb/>


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Who knows the wise? and who knows the interpretation of a saying? A man's wisdom will lighten his countenance; but a man of shameless countenance will be hated.


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Be not hasty; you shall go forth out of his presence: stand not in an evil matter; for he will do whatever he shall please,


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He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: and the heart of the wise knows the time of judgment.


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There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.


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So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things wherein man has power over man to afflict him.


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And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and <i>that</i> out of the holy place: and they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus: this also is vanity.


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Because there is no contradiction made on the part of those who do evil quickly, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully determined in them to do evil.


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He that has sinned has done evil from that time, and long from beforehand: nevertheless I know, that it is well with them that fear God, that they may fear before him:


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but it shall not be well with the ungodly, and he shall not prolong his days, <i>which are</i> as a shadow; forasmuch as he fears not before God.


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There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous persons to whom it happens according to the doing of the ungodly; and there are ungodly men, to whom it happens according to the doing of the just: I said, This is also vanity.


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Then I praised mirth, because there is no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry: and this shall attend him in his labor all the days of his life, which God has given him under the sun.


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Whereupon I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was wrought upon the earth: for there is that neither by day nor night sees sleep with his eyes.


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And I [*]saw all the works of God, that a man shall not be able to discover the work which is wrought under the sun; whatever things a man shall endeavor to seek, however a man may labor to seek it, yet he shall not find it; yes, how much soever a wise man may speak of knowing it, he shall not be able to find it: for I applied all this to my heart, and my heart has seen all this.<pb/>


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<i>I saw</i> that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yes, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, <i>though</i> all are before their face.


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Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.


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There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that <i>they go</i> to the dead.


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for who is he that has fellowship with all the living? there is hope <i>of him</i>: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.


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For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost.


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also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yes, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.


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Go, eat your bread with mirth, and drink your wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted your works.


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And see life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which are given you under the sun: for that is your portion in your life, and in your labor wherein you labor under the sun.


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Whatsoever your hand shall find to do, do with all your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades wither you go.


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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet wealth to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of knowledge; for time and chance will happen to them all.


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For surely man also knows not his time: as fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as birds that are caught in a snare; even thus the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.


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<i>suppose there were</i> a little city, and few men in it; and there should come against it a great king, and surround it, and build great mounds against it;


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and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man.


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And I said Wisdom is better than power: yet the wisdom of the poor man is set at nothing, and his words not listened to.


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Pestilent flies will corrupt a preparation of sweet ointment: <i>and</i> a little wisdom is more precious than great glory of folly.


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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, leave not your place; for soothing will put an end to great offenses.


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If the axe-head should fall off, then the man troubles his countenance, and he must put forth more strength: and <i>in that case</i> skill is of no advantage to a man.


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If a serpent bite when there is no <i>charmer's</i> whisper, then there is no advantage to the charmer.


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A fool moreover multiplies words: man knows not what has been, nor what will be: who shall tell him what will come after him?


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Blessed are you, O land, whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes shall eat seasonably, for strength, and shall not be ashamed.


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By slothful neglect a building will be brought low: and by idleness of the hands the house will fall to pieces.


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Men prepare bread for laughter, and wine and oil that the living should rejoice: but to money all things will humbly yield obedience.


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Even in your conscience, curse not the king; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry your voice, and that which has wings shall report your speech.<pb/>


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Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.


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If the clouds be filled with rain, they pour <i>it</i> out upon the earth: and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.


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Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones <i>are hid</i> in the womb of a pregnant <i>woman</i>, so you shall not know the works of God, <i>even</i> all things whatever he shall do.


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In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening let not your hand be slack: for you know not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.


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For even if a man should live many years, <i>and</i> rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.


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Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.


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Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.<pb/>


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And remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of evil come, and the years overtake <i>you</i> in which you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.


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While the sun and light are not darkened, nor the moon and the stars; nor the clouds return after the rain:


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in the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the mighty men shall become bent, and the grinding <i>women</i> cease because they have become few, and the <i>women</i> looking out at the windows be dark;


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and they shall shut the doors in the marketplace, because of the weakness of the voice of her that grinds <i>at the mill</i>; and he shall rise up at the voice of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song shall be brought low;


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and they shall look up, and fears <i>shall be</i> in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market:


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before the silver cord be <i>let go</i>, or the choice gold be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel run down to the cistern;


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<i>before</i> the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.


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And because the Preacher was wise above <i>others, so it was</i> that he taught mankind excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables.


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The Preacher sought diligently to find out acceptable words, and a correct writing, <i>even</i> words of truth.


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The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails firmly fastened, which have been given from one shepherd by agreement.


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And moreover, my son, guard yourself by means of them: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.


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Hear the end of the matter, the sum: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole man.


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For God will bring every work into judgment, with everything that has been overlooked, whether <i>it be</i> good, or whether <i>it be</i> evil.


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And the smell of your ointments is better than all spices: your name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love you.


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They have drawn you: we will run after you, for the smell of your ointments: the king has brought me into his closet: let us rejoice and be glad in you; we will love your breasts more than wine: righteousness loves you.


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I am black, but beautiful, you° daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.


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Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavourably upon me: my mother's sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard.


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Tell me, <i>you</i> whom my soul loves, where you tend your flock, where you cause <i>them</i> to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of your companions.


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If you know not yourself, you fair one among women, go you forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed your kids by the shepherd's tents.


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As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.


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I have charged you, you° daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that you° do not rouse or wake <i>my</i> love, until he please.


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My kinsman is like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Baethel: behold, he is behind our wall, looking through the windows, peeping through the lattices.


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The flowers are seen in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the turtle-dove has been heard in our land.


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The fig tree has put forth its young figs, the vines put forth the tender grape, they yield a smell: arise, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove; yes, come.


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<i>You are</i> my dove, in the shelter of the rock, near the wall: show me your face, and cause me to hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is beautiful.


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Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, turn, my kinsman, be you like to a roe or young hart on the mountains of the ravines.<pb/>


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By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he listened not to me.


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I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the marketplaces, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.


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The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. <i>I said</i>, Have you° seen him whom my soul loves?


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<i>It was</i> as a little <i>while</i> after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.


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I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that you° rouse not nor awake <i>my</i> love, until he please.


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Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?


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They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man <i>has</i> his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.


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He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet, in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.


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Go forth, you° daughters of Sion, and behold king Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him, in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.<pb/>


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Behold, you are fair, my companion; behold, you are fair; your eyes are doves, beside your veil: your hair is as flocks of goats, that have appeared from Galaad.


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Your teeth are as flocks of shorn <i>sheep</i>, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them.


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Your lips are as a thread of scarlet, and your speech is comely: like the rind of a pomegranate is your cheek without your veil.


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Your neck is as the tower of David, that was built for an armory: a thousand shields hang upon it, <i>and</i> all darts of mighty men.


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Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.


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Come from Libanus, <i>my</i> bride, come from Libanus: you shall come and pass from the top of Faith, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.


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My sister, <i>my</i> spouse, you have ravished my heart; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.


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How beautiful are your breasts, my sister, my spouse! how much more beautiful are your breasts than wine, and the smell of your garments than all spices!


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Your lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is as the smell of Libanus.


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Your shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard:


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spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:


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Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; and blow through my garden, and let my spices flow out.<pb/>


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Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, <i>my</i> spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yes, brethren, drink abundantly.


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I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, <i>saying</i>, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.


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I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.


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I opened to my kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.


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The watchman that go their rounds in the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.


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I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you° should find my kinsman, what are you° to say to him? That I am wounded with love.


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What is your kinsman <i>more</i> than <i>another</i> kinsman, O you beautiful among women? what is your kinsman <i>more</i> than <i>another</i> kinsman, that you have so charged us?


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His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.


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His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.<pb/>


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My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed <i>his flock</i> in the gardens, and to gather lilies.


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You are fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as <i>armies</i> set in array.


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Turn away your eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: your hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad.


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Your teeth are as flocks of shorn <i>sheep</i>, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: your lips are as a thread of scarlet, and your speech is comely.


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My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the <i>only</i> one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yes, and the concubines, and they will praise her.


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Who is this that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, choice as the sun, terrible as <i>armies</i> set in array?


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I went down to the garden of nuts, to look at the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine flowered, <i>if</i> the pomegranates blossomed.


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There I will give you my breasts: my soul knew <i>it</i> not: it made me as the chariots of Aminadab.


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Your steps are beautiful in shoes, O daughter of the prince: the joints of <i>your</i> thighs are like chains, the work of the craftsman.


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Your navel is <i>as</i> a turned bowl, not lacking liquor; your belly is <i>as</i> a heap of wheat set about with lilies.


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Your neck is as an ivory tower; your eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of many: your nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus.


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Your head upon you is as Carmel, and the curls of your hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.


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This is your greatness in your delights: you were made like a palm tree, and your breasts to cluster.


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I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall your breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose of apples;


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Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, <i>if</i> the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give you my breasts.


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The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors <i>are</i> all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept <i>them</i> for you.<pb/>


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I would that you, O my kinsman, were he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found you without, I would kiss you; yes, they should not despise me.


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I would take you, I would bring you into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make you to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.


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I have charged you, you° daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that you° stir not up, nor awake <i>my</i> love, until he please.


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Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised you up under an apple tree; there your mother brought you forth; there she that bore you brought you forth.


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Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, <i>even</i> the flames thereof.


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Much water will not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not drown it; if a man would give all his substance for love, <i>men</i> would utterly despise it.


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Our sister is little, and has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister, in the day wherein she shall be spoken for?


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If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.


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Solomon had a vineyard in Beelamon; he let his vineyard to keepers; every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand <i>pieces</i> of silver.


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My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon <i>shall have</i> a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.


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The vision which Esaias the son of Amos saw, which he saw against Juda, and against Jerusalem, in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over Judea.


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Hear, O heaven, and listen, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, <i>saying</i>, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have <n>[[Or, ]] 'set me at nothing.' </n> rebelled against me.


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The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.


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Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: you° have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.


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Why should you° be struck <i>any</i> more, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.


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From the feet to the head, there is no soundness in them; neither wound, nor bruise, nor festering ulcer <i>are healed</i>: it is not possible to apply a plaister, nor oil, nor bandages.


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Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.


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The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.


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And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been made like Gomorrha.


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Of what <i>value</i> to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? says the Lord: I am full of whole burnt offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats:


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neither shall you° come <i>with these</i> to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? You° shall no more tread my court.


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Though you° bring fine flour, <i>it is</i> vain; incense is an abomination to me; I can’t bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day;


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<i>your</i> fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: you° have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.


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When you° stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and though you° make many supplications, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.


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Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before my eyes; cease from your iniquities;


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learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.


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And come, let us reason together, says the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make <i>them</i> white as wool.


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but if you° be not willing, nor listen to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.


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How has the faithful city Sion, <i>once</i> full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.


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Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty <i>men</i> of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against my adversaries, and I will execute judgment on my enemies.


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And I will bring my hand upon you, and purge you <n>[[Gr. ]] to pureness. </n> completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from you all transgressors.


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And I will establish your judges as before, and your counselors as at the beginning: and afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city of Sion.


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And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be utterly consumed.


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For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.


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And their strength shall be as a thread of tow, and their works as sparks, and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burnt up together, and there shall be none to quench <i>them</i>.<pb/>


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For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be <n>[[Or, ]] conspicuous. </n> glorious, and the house of God <i>shall be</i> on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.


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And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.


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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.


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For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the <i>land</i> of the <n>[[Or, ]] aliens, see [[Appendix ]] which has: “ISAIAH 2. 6. — Philistines. The LXX. generally render by Φιλιστεὶμ or Φυλιστιὶμ till about the middle of Judges, after which the word almost always used is ἀλλόφυλοι. In this there was probably some accommodation of sound to tense. </n> Philistines, and many strange children were born to them.


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For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of chariots.


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And the land is filled with abominations, <i>even</i> the works of their hands; and they have worshipped <i>the works</i> which their fingers made.


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Now therefore enter you° into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.


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For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.


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For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;


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And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.


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having carried <i>them</i> into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and <n>See ver 10. </n> by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.


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For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made <i>in order</i> to worship vanities and bats;


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Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judea the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water,


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the great and mighty man, the warrior and the judge, and the prophet, and the counsellor, and the elder,


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the captain of fifty also, and the honorable counsellor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer.


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And the people shall fall, man upon man, and <i>every</i> man upon his neighbor: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honorable.


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For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father's household, saying, You have raiment, be you our ruler, and let my meat be under you.


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And he shall answer in that day, and say, I will not be your ruler; for I have no bread in my house, nor raiment: I will not be the ruler of this people.


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For Jerusalem is <n>[[Or, ]] forsaken, [[or, ]] let go. </n> ruined, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues <i>have spoken</i> with iniquity, disobedient <i>as they are</i> towards the Lord.


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Therefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.


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Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works.


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O my people, your exactors <n>[[Gr. ]] glean you. </n> strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.


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The Lord himself shall enter into judgment with the elders of the people, and with their rulers: but why have you° set my vineyard on fire, and <i>why is</i> the spoil of the poor in your houses?


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Thus says the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:


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therefore the Lord will humble the chief daughters of Sion, and the Lord will expose their form in that day;


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and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents,


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and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand,


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and the ear-rings, and the garments with scarlet borders, and the garments with purple grounds, and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses, and those made of fine linen, and the purple <i>ones</i>, and the scarlet <i>ones</i>, and the fine linen, interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings for couches.


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And there shall be instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle, you shall gird yourself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, you shall have baldness on account of your works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, you shall gird yourself with sackcloth.


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And your most beautiful son whom you love shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.


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And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own raiment: only let your name be called upon us, <i>and</i> take away our reproach.


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And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel.


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And it shall be, <i>that</i> the remnant left in Sion, and the remnant left in Jerusalem, <i>even</i> all that are <n>[[Gr. ]] written for life. </n> appointed to life in Jerusalem, shall be called holy.


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For the Lord shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Sion, and shall purge out the blood from the midst of them, with the spirit of judgment, and the spirit of burning.


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And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion, yes, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and <i>there shall be</i> as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory shall be a defence.


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And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency <i>of weather</i> and from rain.<pb/>


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Now I will sing to <i>my</i> beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. <i>My</i> beloved had a vineyard on a <n>[[Gr. ]] horn, so <i>Heb. </i></n> high hill in a fertile place.


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And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine-vat in it: and I waited <i>for it</i> to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.


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And now, you° dwellers in Jerusalem, and <i>every</i> man of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.


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What shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected <i>it</i> to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns.


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And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be <i>left</i> to be trodden down.


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And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.


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For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and <n>[[Gr. ]] a man. </n> the men of Juda <i>his</i> beloved plant: I expected <i>it</i> to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.


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Woe <i>to them</i> that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's: will you° dwell alone upon the land?


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For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.


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For where ten yoke of oxen plow <i>the land</i> shall yield one , and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.


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Woe <i>to them</i> that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait <i>at it till</i> evening: for the wine shall inflame them.


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For they drink wine with harp, and lute, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.


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Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead <i>bodies</i>, because of hunger and of thirst for water.


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Therefore <n>[[Gr. ]] Hades. </n> hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down <i>into it</i>.


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And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.


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But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness.


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And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.


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Woe <i>to them</i> that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:


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who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see <i>it</i>: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know <i>it</i>.


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Woe <i>to them</i> that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.


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Woe to the strong <i>ones</i> of you that drink wine, and the mighty <i>ones</i> that mingle strong drink:


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Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.


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Therefore the Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people, and he reached forth his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses were as dung in the midst of the way: yet for all this his anger has not been turned away, but his hand is yet <n>[[Gr. ]] High. </n> raised.


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Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and shall hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they are coming very quickly.


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They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe-latchets be broken.


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Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm.


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They rage as lions, and draw near as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast <i>them</i> forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.


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And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, <i>there shall be</i> thick darkness in their perplexity.<pb/>


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And it came to pass in the year in which king Ozias died, <i>that</i> I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, and the house was full of his glory.


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And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they covered <i>their</i> face, and with two they covered <i>their</i> feet, and with two they flew.


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And one cried to the other, and they said, Holy, holy, holy <i>is the</i> Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.


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And the lintel <n>[[Gr. ]] was lifted. </n> shook at the voice they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke.


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And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.


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And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs:


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and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched your lips, and will take away your iniquities, and will purge off your sins.


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And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom <n>[[Or, ]] should I send? </n> shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said, behold, I am <i>here</i>, send me. And he said, Go, and say to this people,


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You° shall hear indeed, but you° shall not understand; and you° shall see indeed, but you° shall not perceive.


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For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.


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And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until cities be deserted <n>Compare use of παρὰ, Jer 40.(33) 10,12; also 1 Cor 12.15,16. </n> by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate.


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And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied.


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And yet there <n>[[Gr. ]] is. </n> shall be a tenth upon it, and again it shall be for a spoil, as a turpentine tree, and as an acorn when it falls out of its husk.<pb/>


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And it came to pass in the days of Achaz <i>the son</i> of Joatham, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, there came up Rasim king of Aram, and Phakee son of Romelias, king of Israel, against Jerusalem to war against it, but they could not <n>[[Lit. ]] besiege See <i>Heb. </i></n> take it.


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And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind.


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And the Lord said to Esaias, Go forth to meet Achaz, you, and your son Jasub who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller's field.


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And you shall say to him, Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither let your soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: for when my fierce anger is over, I will heal again.


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And <i>as for</i> the son of Aram, and the son of Romelias, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel, <i>saying</i>,


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We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it;


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But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasim; and yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from <i>being</i> a people.


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And the head of Ephraim is Somoron, and the head of Somoron the son of Romelias: but <n>Comp. <i>Heb. </i></n> if you° believe not, neither will you° at all understand.


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And he said, Hear you° now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? and how do you° contend against the Lord?


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Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;  behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Emmanuel.


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For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which you are afraid of because of the two kings.


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But God shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon the house of your father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Juda the king of the Assyrians.


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And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the flies, <n>[[Or, ]] which part  [[d of the enemy, ]][[d* etc. shall rule over the river of Egypt; but according to ]][[ Alex. ]] the reading in the text is the right one. </n> which <i>insect</i> shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of the Assyrians.


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And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine.


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In that day the Lord shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Assyria beyond the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard.


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And it shall come to pass from their <n>[[Alex. ]] ποιεῖν, 'giving.' </n> drinking an abundance of milk, <i>that</i> every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>for</i> every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become <n>[[Gr. ]] for land and for a thorn. </n> barren land and thorns.


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<i>Men</i> shall enter there with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be <i>barren</i> ground and thorns.


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And every mountain shall be certainly plowed: there shall no fear come there: for there shall be from <i>among</i> the <i>barren</i> ground and thorns that whereon cattle shall feed and oxen shall tread.<pb/>


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And the Lord said to me, Take to yourself a volume of a great new <n>[[Alex. ]] paper, [[or, ]] parchment. </n> <i>book</i>, and write in it with a man's pen concerning the making a rapid plunder of spoils; for it is near at hand.


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And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil quickly, plunder speedily.


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For before the child shall know <i>how</i> to call <i>his</i> father or <i>his</i> mother, <i>one</i> shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.


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Because this people chooses not the water of Siloam that goes softly, but wills to have Rassin, and the son of Romelias <i>to be</i> king over you;


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therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, <i>even</i> the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours:


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and he shall take away from Juda <i>every</i> man who shall be able to lift up his head, <i>and every one</i> able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of your land, <i>O</i> <n><i>Heb. Immanuel. </i></n> God with us.


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Know, you° Gentiles, and be conquered; listen you°, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after you° strengthened yourselves; for even if you° should again strengthen yourselves, you° shall again be conquered.


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And whatever counsel you° shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nothing; and whatever word you° shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.


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Thus says the Lord, With a strong hand they <n>[[Gr. ]] disobey. </n> revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,


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Let them not say, <i>It is</i> hard, for whatever this people says, is hard: but fear not you° their fear, neither be dismayed.


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And if you shall trust in him, he shall be to you for a sanctuary; and you° shall not come against <i>him</i> as against  a stumbling-stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit.


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Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw near, and men shall be taken securely.


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Then shall those who seal themselves that they may <n>[[Alex. ]] — 'not.' </n> not learn the law be made manifest.


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And <i>one</i> shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.


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Behold I and the children which God has given me: and they shall be <i>for</i> signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in mount Sion.


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And if they should say to you, Seek <n>[[Gr. ]] ventriloquists. </n> those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly: shall not a nation diligently seek to their God? why do they seek to the dead concerning the living?


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For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no <n>See <i>Heb. </i></n> gifts to give for it.


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And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> when you° shall be hungry, you° shall be grieved, and you° shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above,


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and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and <n>[[Or, ]] a strait. </n> anguish, and darkness so that <i>one can’t</i> see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.<pb/>


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Drink this first. <n>[[Or, ]] do it quickly, [[i.e. ]] ‘drink’; See <i>Hebrew. </i></n> Act quickly,  O land of Zabulon, land of Nephthalim, and the rest <i>inhabiting</i> the sea-coast, and <i>the land</i> beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.


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O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: you° that dwell in the region <i>and</i> shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.


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The <n>[[Gr. ]] greatest part </n> multitude of the people which you have brought down in your joy, they shall even rejoice before you as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.


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Because the yoke that was laid upon them has been taken away, and the rod that was on their neck: for he has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Madiam.


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For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit, and <i>all</i> raiment with <n>[[Gr. ]] reconciliation, [[or, ]] exchange </n> restitution; and they shall be willing, <i>even</i> if they were burnt with fire.


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For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of great counsel: <n>[[Alex. ]] + Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty One, Potentate, Prince of Peace, Father of the age to come; Compare Heb 2:2 </n> for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to him.


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His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: <i>it shall be</i> upon the throne of David, and <i>upon</i> his kingdom, to establish it, and to support <i>it</i> with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth and forever. The seal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.


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And all the people of Ephraim, and they that lived in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,


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The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.


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<i>even</i> Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this <i>his</i> anger is not turned away, but still <i>his</i> hand is exalted.


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the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.


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And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.


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Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this <i>his</i> anger is not turned away, but <i>his</i> hand is yet exalted.


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And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass: and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.


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The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother.


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But <i>one</i> shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.


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For Manasses shall eat <i>the flesh</i> of Ephraim, and Ephraim <i>the flesh</i> of Manasses; for they shall besiege Juda together. For all this <i>his</i> anger is not turned away, but <i>his</i> hand is yet exalted.<pb/>


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perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.


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And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will you° flee for help? and where will you° leave your glory,


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that you° may not fall into <n>[[Heb. ]] and [[Alex. ]] + ‘and they shall fall under the slain’ </n> captivity? For all this <i>his</i> wrath is not turned away, but <i>his</i> hand is yet exalted.


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I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.


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But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and <i>that</i> to destroy nations not a few.


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then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? and have I <i>not</i> taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria?


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As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, you° idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria.


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And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and Jerusalem, <i>that</i> I will visit upon the <n>[[Gr. ]] great mind </n> proud heart, <i>even</i> upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.


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For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of <i>my</i> understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.


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And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.


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Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be so;


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but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonor upon your honor, and burning fire shall be kindled upon your glory.


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And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and he shall sanctify him with burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass.


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In that day the mountains shall be consumed, and the hills, and the forests, and <i>fire</i> shall devour <i>both</i> soul and body: and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame.


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And it shall come to pass in that day <i>that</i> the remnant of Israel shall no more <n>[[Or, ]] repeat their offense </n> join themselves with, and the saved of Jacob shall no more trust in, them that injured them; but they shall trust in the Holy God of Israel, in truth.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] finishing — cutting </n> He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because the Lord will make a short work in all the world.


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Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, Be not afraid, my people who dwell in Sion, of the Assyrians, because he shall strike you with a rod: for I am bringing a stroke upon you, that <i>you</i> may see the way of Egypt.


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For yet a little while, and the indignation shall cease: but my wrath shall be against their <n>[[sc. ]] of their enemies </n> council.


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And God will stir up <i>enemies</i> against them, according to the stroke of Madiam in the place of affliction: and his wrath shall be by the way of the sea, <i>even</i> to the way that leads to Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> his yoke shall be taken away from your shoulder, and his fear from you, and the yoke shall be destroyed from off your shoulders.


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For he shall arrive at the city of Angai, and shall pass on to Maggedo, and shall lay up his stores in Machmas.


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And he shall pass by the valley, and shall arrive at Angai: fear shall seize upon Rama, the city of Saul.


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Exhort you° <i>them</i> today to remain in the way: exhort you° <i>beckoning</i> with the hand the mountain, the daughter of Sion, even you° hills that are in Jerusalem.


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Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will mightily confound the glorious ones; and the haughty in pride shall be crushed, and the lofty shall be brought low:


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And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from <i>his</i> root:


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and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him;


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the spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report:


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but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.


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And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.


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And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.


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And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole <i>world</i> is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water <n>[[Gr. ]] may cover </n> covers the seas.


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And in that day  there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.


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And it shall be in that day, <i>that</i> the Lord shall again show his hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and <i>that</i> from Egypt, and from the country of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia.


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And he shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall gather the lost ones of Israel, and he shall gather the dispersed of Juda from the four corners of the earth.


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And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not afflict Ephraim.


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And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the <n>[[sc. ]] the west </n> sea, and them <i>that come</i> from the east, and Idumea: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey <i>them.</i>


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And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall <n>[[q. d. ]] form by striking. </n> strike the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.


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And there shall be a passage for my people that is left in Egypt: and it shall be to Israel as the day when he came forth out of the land of Egypt.<pb/>


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And in that day you shall say, I <i>will</i> bless you, O Lord; for you were angry with me, but you have turned aside your wrath, and have pitied me.


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Behold, my God is my Saviour; I will trust in him, and not be afraid: for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and is become my salvation.


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And in that day you shall say, sing to the Lord, call aloud upon his name, proclaim his glorious <i>deeds</i> among the Gentiles; make mention that his name is exalted.


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Sing praise to the name of the Lord; for he has done great <i>things</i>: declare this in all the earth.


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Exalt and rejoice, you° that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst <n>[[Heb. ]] and [[Alex. ]] ‘of you’ </n> of her.<pb/>


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Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open <i>the gates</i>, you° rulers.


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I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.


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A voice of many nations on the mountains, <i>even</i> like <i>to that</i> of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to <n>[[Lit. ]] fighting with armor or weapons </n> a warlike nation,


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to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors <i>are coming</i> to destroy all the world.


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The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.


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For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which can’t be <n>[[Gr. ]] healed </n> escaped, <i>a day</i> of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.


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For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.


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And I will command evils for the whole world, and <i>will visit</i> their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.


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And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.


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For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.


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And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather <i>them</i>: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.


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For whoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.


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And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.


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Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.


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They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare your children.


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And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as <i>when</i> God overthrew Sodoma, and Gomorrha.


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It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.


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And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land: and the stranger shall be added to them, yes, shall be added to the house of Jacob.


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And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and they shall <n>[[i.e. ]] the Israelites </n> inherit them, and <n>[[i.e. ]] the Gentiles </n> they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens: and they that took them captives shall become captives <i>to them</i>; and they that had lordship over them shall be under <i>their</i> rule.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> the Lord shall give you rest from your sorrow and vexation, <i>and from</i> your hard servitude wherein you did serve them.


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And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, <n>[[Alex. ]] + 'and you shall say in that day' </n> How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!


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Having struck a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, striking a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared <i>them</i> not, he rested in quiet.


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the trees also of Libanus rejoice against you, and the cedar of Libanus, <i>saying</i>, From the time that you have been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.


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Hell from beneath is provoked to meet you: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.


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All shall answer and say to you, You also have been taken, even as we; and you are numbered among us.


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Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth: under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering.


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How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent <i>orders</i> to all the nations is crushed to the earth.


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But you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north:


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They that see you shall wonder at you, and say, <n>See chap 5. 25. </n> This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;


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that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.


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But you shall be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.


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As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shall you be pure; because you have destroyed my land, and have slain my people: you shall not endure for ever, —<i>you</i> an evil seed.


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Prepare your children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.


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And I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus says the Lord.


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And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell <i>there</i>, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so <i>the matter</i> shall remain:


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<i>even</i> to destroy the Assyrians upon my land, and upon my mountains: and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders.


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This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.


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Rejoice not, all you° Philistines, because the yoke of him that struck you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents,


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And the poor shall be fed by him, and poor men shall rest in peace: but he shall destroy your seed with hunger, and shall destroy your remnant.


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Howl, you° gates of cities; let the cities be troubled and cry, <i>even</i> all the Philistines: for smoke is coming from the north, and there is no <i>possibility</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] of being </n> of living.


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And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded Sion, and by him the poor of the people shall be saved.<pb/>


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THE WORD AGAINST THE LAND OF MOAB. By night the land of Moab shall be destroyed; for by night the wall of the land of Moab shall be destroyed.


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Grieve for yourselves; for even Debon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed: there shall you° go up to weep, over Nabau of the land of Moab: howl you°: baldness shall be on every head, <i>and</i> all arms <i>shall be</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] cut to pieces </n> wounded.


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Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets: and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.


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For Esebon and Eleale have cried: their voice was heard to Jassa: therefore the loins of the region of Moab cry aloud; her soul shall know.


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The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is <i>as</i> a heifer of three years old: and on the ascent of Luith they shall go up to you weeping by the way of Aroniim: she cries, Destruction, and trembling.


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The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.


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Shall <i>Moab</i> even thus be delivered? for I <i>will</i> bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.


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For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moab, <i>even</i> of Agalim; and her howling <i>has gone</i> as far as the well of Aelim.


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And the water of Dimon shall be filled with blood: for I will bring Arabians upon Dimon, and I will take away the seed of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adama.<pb/>


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I will send as it were reptiles on the land: is <i>not</i> the mount of the daughter of Sion a desolate rock?


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For you shall be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown: <i>even</i> you shall be <i>so</i>, daughter of Moab: and then do you, O Arnon,


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take farther counsel, and continually make you a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not you led captive.


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The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with you; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer: for your alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth.


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And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hasting righteousness.


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We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: your prophecy shall not be thus, <i>no</i> not thus.


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Moab shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moab: but you shall care for them that dwell in Seth, and you shall not be ashamed.


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The plains of Esebon shall mourn, the vine of Sebama: swallowing up the nations, trample you° her vines, even to Jazer: you° shall not come together; wander you° in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.


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Therefore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sebama; Esebon and Eleale have cast down your trees; for I will trample on your harvest and on your vintages, and all <i>your plants</i> shall fall.


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And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they shall not at all tread wine into the vats; for <i>the vintage</i> has ceased.


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Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and <n>Compare the Hebrew </n> you have repaired my inward parts as a wall.


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And it shall be to your shame, (for Moab is wearied at the altars,) that he shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, but they shall not be at all able to deliver him.


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And now I say, in three years, of the years of an hireling, the glory of Moab shall be dishonored <i>with</i> all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honored.<pb/>


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THE WORD AGAINST DAMASCUS. Behold, Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;


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abandoned for ever, to <i>be</i> a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.


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And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for you are no better than the children of Israel, <i>even</i> than their glory; thus says the Lord of hosts.


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There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.


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And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley;


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and <i>as if</i> there should be left stubble therein, or <i>as it were</i> the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or <i>as if</i> four or five should be left on their branches; thus says the Lord, the God of Israel.


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In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.


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And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.


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In that day your cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaeans deserted <i>theirs</i>, because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.


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Because you have forsaken God your Saviour, and have not been mindful of the Lord your helper; therefore shall you plant a <n>[[Gr. ]] faithless </n> false plant, and a false seed.


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In the day wherein you shall plant you shall be deceived; but if you sow in the morning, <i>the seed</i> shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein you shall obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, you shall obtain an inheritance for your sons.


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Woe <i>to</i> the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall you° be confounded; and the <n>[[Gr. ]] back; Complut. reads ἠχος, ‘noise’ </n> force of many nations shall sound like water;


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many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.


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Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.<pb/>


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<n>[[Gr. ]] He that sends </n> He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.


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Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.


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For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.


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Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;


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And he shall leave <i>them</i> together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.


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In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; a nation hoping and <i>yet</i> trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Sion.<pb/>


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THE VISION OF EGYPT. Behold, the Lord sits on a swift cloud, and shall come to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and their heart shall faint within them.


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And the Egyptians shall be stirred up against the Egyptians: and a man shall fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbor, city against city, and <n>[[Alex. ]] ‘district,’ the accent being different </n> law against <n>[[Alex. ]] ‘district,’ the accent being different </n> law.


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And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel: and they shall enquire of their gods and their images, and <n>[[Gr. ]] the ventriloquists </n> them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.


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And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men, of cruel lords; and cruel kings shall rule over them: thus says the Lord of hosts.


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And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.


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And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every <n>[[Lit. ]] gathering; See Gen 1.9: also Jer 28. (51) 32. </n> reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.


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And all the green herbage round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.


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And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers shall mourn.


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And shame shall come upon them that work fine flax, and them that <n>[[Gr. ]] work at </n> make fine linen.


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And they that work at them shall be in pain, and all that make beer shall be grieved, and be pained in their souls.


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And the princes of Tanis shall be fools: <i>as for</i> the king's wise counselors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will you° say to the king, we are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?


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Where are now your wise men? and let them declare to you, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt?


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The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up <i>with pride</i>, and they shall cause Egypt to wander by tribes.


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For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.


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But in that day the Egyptians shall be as women, in fear and in trembling because of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shall bring upon them.


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And the land of the Jews shall be for a terror to the Egyptians: whoever shall name it to them, they shall fear, because of the counsel which the Lord of hosts has purposed concerning it.


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In that day there shall be five cities in Egypt speaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by the name of the Lord of hosts; one city shall be called the <n><i>Heb. city of destruction </i></n> city of Asedec.


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In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the land of the Egyptians, and a pillar to the Lord by its border.


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And it shall be for a sign to the Lord for ever in the land of Egypt: for they shall presently cry to the Lord by reason of them that afflict them, and he shall send them a man who shall save them; he shall judge and save them.


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And the Lord shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day; and they shall offer sacrifices, and shall vow vows to the Lord, and pay <i>them</i>.


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And the Lord shall strike the Egyptians with a stroke, and shall completely heal them: and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall hear them, and thoroughly heal them.


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In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptians shall go to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians.


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In that day shall Israel be third with the Egyptians and the Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of hosts has blessed,


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saying, Blessed be my people that is in Egypt, and that is among the Assyrians, and Israel my inheritance.<pb/>


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In the year when Tanathan came to Azotus, when he was sent by Arna king of the Assyrians, and warred against Azotus, and took it;


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then the Lord spoke to Esaias the son of Amos, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off your loins, and loose your sandals from off your feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.


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And the Lord said, As my servant Esaias has walked naked and barefoot three years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders to the Egyptians and Ethiopians;


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for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.


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And the Egyptians being defeated shall be ashamed of the Ethiopians, in whom they had trusted; for they were their glory.


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And they that dwell in this island shall say in that day, Behold, we trusted to flee to them for help, who could not save themselves from the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be saved?<pb/>


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THE VISION OF THE DESERT. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, <i>even</i> from such a land,


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<i>so</i> a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.


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Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.


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My heart wanders, and transgression <n>[[Lit. ]] baptizes </n> overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.


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For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for yourself, and declare whatever you shall see.


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Listen with great attention, and call you Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night:


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and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.


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Hear, you° that are left, and you° that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts <i>which</i> the God of Israel has declared to us. THE VISION OF IDUMEA.


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meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.


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For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of an hireling, <i>and</i> the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail:


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and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken <i>it</i>.<pb/>


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THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF SION. What has happened to you, that now you° are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?


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The city is filled with shouting <i>men</i>: your slain are not slain with swords, nor are your dead those who have died in battle.


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All your princes have fled, and <i>your</i> captives are tightly bound, and the mighty <i>men</i> in you have fled far away.


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Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.


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For <i>it is</i> a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and <i>there is</i> perplexity <i>sent</i> from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the valley of Sion; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.


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And the Elamites took <i>their</i> quivers, and <i>there were</i> men mounted on horses, and <i>there was</i> a gathering for battle.


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And it shall be <i>that</i> your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up your gates.


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And they shall uncover the gates of Juda, and they shall look in that day on the choice houses of the city.


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And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David: and they saw that they were many, and that one <i>had</i> turned the water of the old pool into the city;


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And you° procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool: but you° looked not to him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not him that created it.


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And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and <n>[[Gr. ]] shaving </n> baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:


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but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.


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And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts: for this sin shall not be forgiven you, until you° die.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts, Go into the chamber, to Somnas the <n>[[Or, ]] steward </n> treasurer, and say to him, Why are you here?


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and what have you to do here, that you have here hewn yourself a sepulchre, and made yourself a sepulchre on high, and have graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock?


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Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy <i>such</i> a man, and will take away your robe and your glorious crown,


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and will cast you into a great and unmeasured land, and there you shall die: and he will bring your fair chariot to shame, and the house of your prince to be trodden down.


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and I will put on him your robe, and I will grant him your crown with power, and I will give your stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Juda.


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And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key  of the house of David <i>upon</i> his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.


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And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne of his father's house.


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And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed: for the Lord has spoken it.<pb/>


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THE WORD CONCERNING TYRE. Howl, you° ships of Carthage; for she has perished, and <i>men</i> no longer arrive from the land of the Citians: she is led captive.


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in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, <i>so are</i> these traders with the nations.


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Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yes, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.


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Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.


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The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.


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And your hand prevails no more by sea, which <n>See chap 5. 25; 14. 16. </n> troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Chanaan, to destroy the strength thereof.


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And <i>men</i> shall say, You° shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if you depart to the Citians, neither there shall you have rest.


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And <i>if you depart</i> to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, <i>that</i> Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.


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Take a harp, go about, O city, you harlot that have been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many <i>songs</i>, that you may be remembered.


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And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, <i>that</i> God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.


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And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, <i>even</i> all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant <i>and</i> a memorial before the Lord.<pb/>


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Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.


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And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.


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The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.


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And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, <i>even</i> the everlasting covenant.


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Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.


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They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink <i>it</i>.


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There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.


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All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,


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these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the land shall rejoice together in the glory of the Lord: the water of the sea shall be troubled.


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Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name of the Lord shall be glorious.


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O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, <i>and there is</i> hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.


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And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,


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It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.


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And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be visited.


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And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex. ]] ‘in’ </n> from out of Sion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before <i>his</i> elders.<pb/>


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O Lord God, I will glorify you, I will sing to your name; for you have done wonderful things, <i>even</i> an ancient <i>and</i> faithful counsel. So be it.


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For you have made cities a heap, <i>even</i> cities <i>made</i> strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built for ever.


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For you have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: you shall deliver them from wicked men: <i>you have been</i> a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.


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<i>We were</i> as faint-hearted men thirsting in Sion, by reason of ungodly men to whom you did deliver us.


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And the Lord of hosts shall make <i>a feast</i> for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:


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they shall anoint themselves with ointment in this mountain. Impart you all these things to the nations; for this is <i>God's</i> counsel upon all the nations.


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Death has prevailed and swallowed <i>men</i> up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of <i>his</i> people from all the earth: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.


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And in that day they shall say, behold our God in whom we have trusted, and he shall save us: this <i>is</i> the Lord; we have waited for him, and we have exulted, and will rejoice in our salvation.


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God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with waggons.


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And he shall spread forth his hands, even as he also brings down <i>man</i> to destroy <i>him</i>: and he shall bring low his pride <i>in regard to the thing</i> on which he has laid his hands.


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And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.<pb/>


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In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judea; Behold a strong city; and he shall make salvation <i>its</i> wall and bulwark.


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who have humbled and brought down them that dwell on high, you shall cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground.


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For the way of the Lord is judgment: we have hoped in your name, and on the remembrance <i>of you</i>,


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which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks you very early in the morning, O God, for your commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, you° that dwell upon the earth.


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For the ungodly one is put down: no one who will not learn righteousness on the earth, shall be able to do the truth: let the ungodly be taken away, that he see not the glory of the Lord.


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O Lord, your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not: but when they know they shall be ashamed: jealousy shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.


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O Lord our God, take possession of us: O Lord, we know not <i>any</i> other beside you: we name your name.


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But the dead shall not see life, neither shall <n>See Job 26. 5. </n> physicians by any means raise <i>them</i> up: therefore you have brought <i>wrath</i> upon <i>them</i>, and slain <i>them</i>, and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;


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And as a woman in travail draws near to be delivered, <i>and</i> cries out in her pain; so have we been to your beloved.


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We have conceived, O Lord, because of your fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of your salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth: we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.


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The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for <n>See Ps 110 (109) </n> the dew from you is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.


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Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord have passed away.


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For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from <i>his</i> holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.<pb/>


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In that day God shall bring <i>his</i> holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.


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In that day <i>there shall be</i> a fair vineyard, <i>and</i> a desire to commence <i>a song</i> concerning it.


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I am a strong city, a city in a siege: in vain shall I water it; for it shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.


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There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.


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they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.


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Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; did you not meditate with a harsh spirit, to kill them with a wrathful spirit?


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Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.


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The flock that lived <i>there</i> shall be left, as a deserted flock; and <i>the ground</i> shall be for a long time for pasture, and there shall flocks lie down to rest.


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And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of <i>the grass</i> being parched. Come hither, you° women that come <n>See <i>Heb. </i></n> from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy <i>upon them</i>.


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And it shall come to pass in that day <i>that</i> God shall fence <i>men</i> off from the channel of the river as far as Rhinocorura; but do you° gather one by one the children of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass in that day <i>that</i> they shall blow the great trumpet, and the lost ones in the land of the Assyrians shall come, and the lost ones in Egypt, and shall worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.<pb/>


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Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.


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Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make rest for the land.


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The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.


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And the fading flower of the <n>[[Gr. ]] hope of glory </n> glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.


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In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven <i>crown</i> of glory, to the remnant of the people.


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They shall be left in the spirit of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.


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For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered <n>[[Lit. ]] from </n> through drunkenness; they have erred: this is <i>their</i> vision.


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To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? <i>even to those</i> that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.


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by reason of the contemptuous <i>words</i> of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,


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Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, <i>and</i> yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.


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


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Because you° have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:


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Therefore thus says the Lord, <i>even</i> the Lord,  Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious <i>stone</i>, for its foundations; and he that believes <i>on him</i> shall by no means be ashamed.


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And I will cause judgment <i>to be</i> for hope, and my compassion shall be for <i>just</i> measures, and you° that trust vainly in falsehood <i>shall fall</i>: for the storm shall by no means pass by you,


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<n>[[Or, ]] shall it not also? etc. </n> except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, you° shall be beaten down by it.


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Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. Learn to hear,


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The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly <i>men</i>, and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, <i>even</i> a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.


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Therefore do not you° rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.


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Will the plowman plow all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?


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Does he not, when he has levelled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread-corn in your borders?


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For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon-wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;


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for <n>[[Gr. ]] I am </n> I will not be angry with you for ever, neither shall the voice of <n>[[Gr. ]] bitterness trample you </n> my anger crush you.


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<n>[[Or, ]] woe to </n> Alas for the city of Ariel, which David <n>See <i>Heb. </i></n> besieged. Gather you° fruits year by year; eat you°, for you° shall eat with Moab.


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And I will compass you about like David, and will raise a mound about you, and set up towers round you.


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And your words shall be brought down to the earth, and your words shall sink down to the earth, and your voice shall be as they that speak out of the earth, and your voice shall <n>[[Gr. ]] become weak </n> be lowered to the ground.


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But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress you as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,


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from the Lord of Hosts: for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake, and a loud <n>[[Gr. ]] voice </n> noise, a rushing tempest, and devouring flame of fire.


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And the wealth of all the nations together, as many as have fought against Ariel, and all they that war against Jerusalem, and all who are gathered against her, and they that distress her, shall be as one that dreams in sleep by night.


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And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the mount Sion.


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For the Lord has made you to drink a spirit of deep sleep; and he shall close their eyes, and <i>the eyes</i> of their prophets and of their rulers, who see secret things.


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And all these things shall be to you as the words of this sealed book, which if they shall give to a learned man, saying, Read this, he shall then say, I can’t read <i>it</i>, for it is sealed.


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And this book shall be given into the hands of a man that is unlearned, and <i>one</i> shall say to him, Read this; and he shall say, I am not learned.


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And the Lord has said,  This people draw near to me with their mouth, and they honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me: but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.


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Therefore behold I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them: and  I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent.


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Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works <n>[[Gr. ]] shall be </n> are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? and who shall know us, or what we do?


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Shall you° not be counted as clay of the potter?  Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, You did not form me? or the work to the maker, You have not made me wisely?


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<i>Is it</i> not yet a little while, and Libanus shall be changed as the mountains of Chermel, and Chermel shall be reckoned as a forest?


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And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and they that are in darkness, and they that are in mist: the eyes of the blind shall see,


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and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.


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The lawless man has come to nothing, and the proud man has perished, and they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed:


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and they that cause men to sin by a word: and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offense, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the house of Jacob, whom he set apart from Abraam, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall he now change countenance.


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But when their children shall have seen my works, they shall sanctify my name for my sake, and they sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.


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And they that erred in spirit shall know understanding, and the murmurers shall learn obedience, and the stammering tongues shall learn to speak peace.<pb/>


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Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord: you° have framed counsel, not by me, and covenants not by my Spirit, to add sins to sins:


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<i>even</i> they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they might be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians.


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For the protection of Pharaoh shall be to you a disgrace, and <i>there shall be</i> a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.


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In vain shall they labor <i>in seeking</i> to a people, which shall not profit them for help, but <i>shall be</i> for a shame and reproach.


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THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress, <i>where are</i> the lion and lion's whelp, thence <i>come</i> also asps, and the young of flying asps, <i>there shall they be</i> who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.


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Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these things shall be <n>[[Gr. ]] for days in time. [[Alex. ]] seasons </n> for <i>many long</i> days, and even for ever.


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who say to the prophets, Report not to us; and to them that see visions, Speak <i>them</i> not to us, but speak and report to us another error;


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Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you° have refused to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because you have murmured, and been confident in this respect:


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therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very near at hand.


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And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, <i>as</i> small fragments of a pitcher, so that you should not find among them a sherd, with which you might take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water.


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Thus says the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When you shall turn and mourn, then you shall be saved; and you shall know where you were, when you did trust in vanities: <i>then</i> your strength became vain, yet you° would not listen:


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but you° said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you° flee: and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.


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A thousand shall flee because of the voice of one, and many shall flee on account of the voice of five; until you° be left as a signal-post upon a mountain, and as one bearing an ensign upon a hill.


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And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are they that <n>[[Or, ]] wait for </n> stay themselves upon him.


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For the holy people shall dwell in Sion: and <i>whereas</i> Jerusalem has <n>[[Gr. ]] with weeping </n> wept bitterly, <i>saying</i>, Pity me; he shall pity you: when he perceived the voice of your cry, he listened to you.


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And <i>though</i> the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction and scant water, yet they that cause you to err shall no more at all draw near to you; for your eyes shall see those that cause you to err,


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and your ears shall hear the words of them that went after you to lead you astray, who say, This <i>is</i> the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right or to the left.


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And you shall pollute the plated idols, and you shall grind to powder the gilt ones, and shall scatter them as the water of a removed <i>woman</i>, and you shall thrust them forth as dung.


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Then shall there be rain to the seed of your land; and the bread of the fruit of your land shall be plenteous and rich: and your cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious place.


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And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall.


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And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of your wound.


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Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a <i>long</i> time, burning wrath: the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of his wrath shall devour as fire.


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And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for <i>their</i> vain error: error also shall pursue them, and <n>[[Gr. ]] take them to their face </n> overtake them.


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Must you° always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must you° go with a pipe, as those that rejoice, into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel?


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And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and <i>his wrath shall be</i> as water and violent hail.


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For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, <i>even</i> by the stroke wherewith he shall strike them.


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And it shall happen to him from every side, <i>that</i> they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp.


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For you shall be required before <i>your</i> time: has it been prepared for you also to reign? nay, God has <i>prepared for you</i> a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord <i>shall be</i> as a trench kindled with sulphur.<pb/>


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Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, <i>which are</i> a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord.


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Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,


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<i>even</i> an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there is no help <i>in them</i>: but the Lord shall bring his hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.


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For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and <i>the animals</i> are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion, <i>even</i> upon her mountains.


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As birds flying, so shall the Lord of hosts defend; he shall defend Jerusalem, and he shall rescue, and save and deliver.


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For in that day men shall renounce their silver idols and <i>their</i> golden idols, which their hands made.


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And the Assyrian shall fall: not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword: but the young men shall be overthrown:


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for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be worsted; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus says the Lord, Blessed is he that has a seed in Sion, and household friends in Jerusalem.<pb/>


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And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.


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And the heart of the weak ones shall attend to hear, and the stammering tongues shall soon learn to speak peace.


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And they shall no more at all tell a fool to rule, and your servants shall no more at all say, Be silent.


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For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.


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For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and <n>[[Gr. ]] disperse the words </n> ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.


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Rise up, you° rich women, and hear my voice; <n>[[Gr. ]] daughters in hope </n> you° confident daughters, listen to my words.


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Remember for a full year in pain, yet with hope: the vintage has been cut off; it has ceased, it shall by no means come again.


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<i>As for</i> the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon <i>it</i>, and joy shall be removed from every house.


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<i>As for</i> the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, <i>and</i> the pleasant houses: and the villages shall be caves for ever, the joy of wild asses, shepherds' pastures;


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until the Spirit shall come upon you from on high, and Chermel shall be desert, and Chermel shall be counted for a forest.


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And the works of righteousness shall be peace; and righteousness shall ensure rest, and <i>the righteous</i> shall be confident for ever.


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And his people shall inhabit a city of peace, and dwell in <i>it</i> in confidence, and they shall rest with wealth.


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And if the hail should come down, it shall not come upon you; and they that dwell in the forests shall be in confidence, as those in the plain country.


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Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable: and he that deals perfidiously with you does not deal perfidiously: they that deal perfidiously shall be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.


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Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in you: the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.


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By reason of the terrible sound the nations were dismayed for fear of you, and the heathen were scattered.


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And now shall the spoils of your small and great be gathered: as if one should gather locusts, so shall they mock you.


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They shall be delivered up to the law: our salvation is our treasure: there are wisdom and knowledge and piety toward the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.


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Behold now, these shall be terrified with fear of you: those whom you° feared shall cry out because of you: messengers shall be sent, bitterly weeping, entreating for peace.


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For the ways of these shall be made desolate: the terror of the nations has been made to cease, and the covenant with these is taken away, and you° shall by no means deem them men.


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The land mourns; Libanus is ashamed: Saron is become marshes; Galilee shall be <n>[[Gr. ]] manifest </n> laid bare, and Chermel.


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Now shall you° see, now shall you° perceive; the strength of your breath, shall be vain; fire shall devour you.


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The sinners in Sion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?


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He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.


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he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock: bread shall be given him, and his water shall be sure.


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Your soul shall meditate terror. Where are the scribes? where are the counselors, where is he that numbers them that are growing up,


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<i>even</i> the small and great people? with whom he took not counsel, neither did he understand <i>a people</i> of deep speech, so that a despised people should not hear, and there is no understanding to him that hears.


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Behold the city of Sion, <n>[[Or, ]] salvation </n> our refuge: your eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved for ever, neither shall her cords be at all broken:


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for the name of the Lord is great to you: you° shall have a place, <i>even</i> rivers and wide and spacious channels: you shall not go this way, neither a vessel with oars go <i>thereby</i>.


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For my God is great: the Lord our judge shall not pass me by: the Lord is our prince, the Lord is our king; the Lord, he shall save us.


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Your cords are broken, for they had no strength: your meat has given way, it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame men take spoil.


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And the people dwelling among them shall by no means say, <n>[[Or, ]] I am sick </n> I am in pain: for their sin shall be forgiven them.<pb/>


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Draw near, you° nations; and listen, you° princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.


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For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and <i>his</i> anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.


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And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their <i>ill</i> savor shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.


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And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree.


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My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.


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The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.


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And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be <n>[[Gr. ]] made drunken </n> soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.


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And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;


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and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,


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and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and <n>[[Vide supra, ]] 13. 22. </n> satyrs shall dwell in it.


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And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of <n>[[Vide supra, ]] Job 30. 29; Isa. 13. 21, etc. </n> monsters, and a court of ostriches.


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And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves <i>a place of</i> rest.


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There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.


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They passed by in <i>full</i> number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them.


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And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out <i>their</i> pasture, <i>saying</i>, You° shall inherit <i>the land</i> for ever: they shall rest on it <i>through</i> all generations.<pb/>


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And the desert places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Libanus has been given to it, and the honor of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of God.


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Comfort one another, you° faint-hearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God renders judgment, and he will render <i>it</i>; he will come and save us.


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Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel <i>of water</i> in a thirsty land.


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And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall <i>be poured</i> into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.


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There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray.


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And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it, nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on the Lord's behalf, shall walk in it,


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and shall return, and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy <i>shall be</i> over their head; for on their head <i>shall be</i> praise and exultation, and joy shall take possession of them: sorrow and pain, and groaning have fled away.<pb/>


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Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of the reign of Ezekias, <i>that</i> Sennacherim, king of the Assyrians, came up against the strong cities of Judea, and took them.


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And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces out of Laches to Jerusalem to king Ezekias with a large force: and he stood by the <n>[[Gr. ]] in </n> conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field.


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And there went forth to him Heliakim the steward, the <i>son</i> of Chelcias, and Somnas the scribe, and Joach the <i>son</i> of Asaph, the recorder.


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And Rabsaces said to them, Say to Ezekias, Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians, Why are you secure?


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Is war carried on with counsel and <i>mere</i> words of the lips? and now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?


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Behold, you trust on this bruised staff of reed, on Egypt: <i>as soon</i> as a man leans upon it, it shall go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king of Egypt and all that trust in him.


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yet now make an agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you° shall be able to set riders upon them.


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And how can you° <i>then</i> turn to the face of the <n>[[Or, ]] local governors </n> satraps? They that trust on the Egyptians for horse and rider, are <i>our</i> servants.


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And now, Have we come up against this land to fight against it without the Lord? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.


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Then Eliakim and Somnas and Joach said to him, Speak to your servants in the Syrian tongue; for we understand <i>it</i>: and speak not to us in the Jewish tongue: and therefore speak you in the ears of the men on the wall?


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And Rabsaces said to them, Has my lord sent me to your lord or to you, to speak these words? <i>has he</i> not <i>sent</i> me to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat dung, and drink <i>their</i> water together with you?


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And Rabsaces stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and said, Hear you° the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians:


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And let not Ezekias say to you, That God will deliver you, and this city will not at all be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.


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Listen not to Ezekias: thus says the king of the Assyrians, If you° wish to be blessed, come out to me: and you° shall eat every one <i>of</i> his vine and his fig-trees, and you° shall drink water out of your own cisterns:


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until I come and take you to a land, like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread, and vineyards.


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Let not Ezekias deceive you, saying, God will deliver you. Have the gods of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?


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Where is the god of Emath, and Arphath? and where is the god of Eppharuaim? have they been able to deliver Samaria out of my hand?


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Which is the god of all these nations, that has delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


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And they were silent, and none answered him a word; because the king had commanded that none should answer.


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And Heliakim the <i>son</i> of Chelcias, the steward, and Somnas the military scribe, and Joach the <i>son</i> of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Ezekias, having their garments torn, and they reported to him the words of Rabsaces.<pb/>


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And it came to pass, when king Ezekias heard <i>it, that</i> he tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went up to the house of the Lord.


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And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the son of Amos, the prophet. And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias,


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To-day is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger: for the pangs are come upon the travailing <i>woman</i>, but she has not strength to bring forth.


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


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And Esaias said to them, Thus shall you° say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not you afraid at the words which you have heard, wherewith the ambassadors of the king of the Assyrians have reproached me,


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Behold, I <i>will</i> send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and return to his own country, and he shall fall by the sword in his own land.


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So Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachis.


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And Tharaca king of the Ethiopians went forth to <n>[[Gr. ]] besiege </n> attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,


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Thus shall you° say to Ezekias king of Judea, Let not your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.


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Hast you not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have destroyed the whole earth? and shall you be delivered?


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Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, both Gozan, and Charrhan, and Rapheth, which are in the land of Theemath?


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Where are the kings of Emath? and where <i>is the king of</i> Arphath? and where <i>is the king</i> of the city of Eppharuaim, <i>and of</i> Anagugana?


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And Ezekias received the letter from the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and opened it before the Lord.


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O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sit upon the cherubs, you alone are the God of every kingdom of the world: you have made heaven and earth.


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Incline your ear, O Lord, listen, O Lord; open your eyes, O Lord, look, O Lord: and behold the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.


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For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,


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and have cast their idols into the fire: for, they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.


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But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the earth may know that you are God alone.


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And Esaias the son of Amos was sent to Ezekias, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I have heard your prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.


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This is the word which God has spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter of Sion has despised you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.


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Whom have you reproached and provoked? and against whom have you lifted up your voice? and have you not lifted up your eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?


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For you have reproached the Lord by messengers; for you have said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Libanus; and I have <n>[[Gr. ]] cut </n> cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height of the forest region:


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Hast you not heard of these things which I did of old? I appointed <i>them</i> from ancient times; but now have I manifested <i>my purpose</i> of desolating nations in <i>their</i> strong holds, and them that dwell in strong cities.


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I weakened <i>their</i> hands, and they withered; and they became as dry grass on the housetops, and as grass.


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And your wrath wherewith you have been enraged, and your rancour has come up to me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and will turn you back by the way by which you came.


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And this shall be a sign to you, Eat this year what you have sown; and the second year that which is left: and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.


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for out of Jerusalem there shall be <n>[[Lit. ]] the left men </n> a remnant, and the saved ones out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, nor cast a weapon against it, nor bring a shield against it, nor make a rampart round it.


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But by the way by which he came, by it shall he return, and shall not enter into this city: thus says the Lord.


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And the angel of the Lord went forth, and killed out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all <i>these</i> bodies dead.


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And while he was worshipping Nasarach his country's god in the house, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons struck him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia: and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.<pb/>


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And it came to pass at that time, <i>that</i> Ezekias was sick even to death. And Esaias the prophet the son of Amos came to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give orders concerning your house: for you shall die, and not live.


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Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in your sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly.


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Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, and seen your tears: behold, I <i>will</i> add to your time fifteen years.


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And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city.


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behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees <i>of the dial</i> by which ten degrees on the house of your father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.


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THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE <n>[[Gr. ]] was sick </n> HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.


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I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.


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I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.


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<i>My life</i> has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down <i>again</i>: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws near to cut off <i>the</i> thread.


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In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day <i>even</i> to night.


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<i>Yes</i>, O Lord, for it was told you concerning this; and you have revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.


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For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast all <i>my</i> sins behind me.


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For they that are in the grave shall not praise you, neither shall the dead bless you, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for your mercy.


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The living shall bless you, as I also <i>do</i>: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare your righteousness,


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O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing you with the lute all the days of my life before the house of God.


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Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaster, and you shall be well.


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At that time Marodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, the king of Babylonia, sent letters and ambassadors and gifts to Ezekias: for he had heard that he <n>[[Gr. ]] was </n> had been sick <i>even</i> to death, and was recovered.


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And Ezekias was glad of their coming, and he showed them the house of <i>his</i> spices, and of silver, and gold, and myrrh, and incense, and ointment, and all the houses of his treasures, and all that he had in his stores: and there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, which Ezekias did not show.


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And Esaias the prophet came to king Ezekias, and said to him, What say these men? and whence came they to you? and Ezekias said, They are come to me from a land afar off, from Babylon.


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And Esaias said, What have they seen in your house? and Ezekias said, They have seen everything in my house; and there is nothing in my house which they have not seen: yes, also the <i>possessions</i> in my treasuries.


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Behold, the days come, when they shall take all the <i>things that are</i> in your house, and all that your fathers have gathered until this day, shall go to Babylon; and they shall not leave anything at all: and God has said,


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that they shall take also of your children whom you shall beget; and they shall make them eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians.


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And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good is the word of the Lord, which he has spoken: let there, I pray, be peace and righteousness in my days.<pb/>


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Speak, you° priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double <i>the amount of</i> her sins.


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The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you° the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.


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Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: <n>See Luke 3. 5, with which [[Alex. ]] agrees </n> and all the crooked <i>ways</i> shall become straight, and the rough <i>places</i> plains.


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And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken <i>it</i>.


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O you that bring glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up your voice with strength, you that bring glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Juda, Behold your God!


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Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and <i>his</i> arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and <i>his</i> work before him.


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He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.


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Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?


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Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding; <n>[[Alex. ]] + Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? Ro 11. 35; <i>Heb. omits. </i></n>


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since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, <i>and</i> shall be counted as spittle?


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Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, <i>and</i> made it a similitude?


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For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and <i>that so</i> that it should not be moved.


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Will you° not know? will you° not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have you° not known the foundations of the earth?


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<i>It is</i> he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched <i>it</i> out as a tent to dwell in:


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For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.


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Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? <i>even</i> he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by <i>means of his</i> great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped you.


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For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel, <i>saying</i>, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away <i>my</i> judgement, and has departed?


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And now, have you not known? have you not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.


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For the young <i>men</i> shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice <i>men</i> shall be powerless:


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but they that wait on God shall renew <i>their</i> strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.<pb/>


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Hold a feast to me, you° islands: for the princes shall renew <i>their</i> strength: let them draw near and speak together: then let them declare judgment.


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Who raised up righteousness from the east, <i>and</i> called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint <i>it</i> an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?


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Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God,  the first and to <i>all</i> futurity, I AM.


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The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, <i>and</i> forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.


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But you, Israel, are my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraam, whom I have loved:


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whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called you, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and I have not forsaken you.


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Fear not; for I am with you: wander not; for I am your God, who have strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with my just right hand.


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Behold, all your adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not: and all your opponents shall perish.


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You shall seek them, and you shall not find the men who shall <n>[[Lit. ]] transgress by wine against </n> insolently rage against you: for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against you shall not be.


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Fear not, Jacob, <i>and you</i> Israel few in number; I have helped you, says your God, he that redeems you, O Israel.


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Behold, I have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and you shall thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make <i>them</i> as chaff:


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and you shall winnow <i>them</i>, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.


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And the poor and the needy shall exult; for <i>when</i> they shall seek water, and there shall be none, <i>and</i> their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them:


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but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses.


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that they may see, and know, and perceive, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has wrought these <i>works</i>, and the Holy One of Israel has displayed <i>them</i>.


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Let them draw near, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell <i>us</i> what things were of old, and we will apply <i>our</i> understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things:


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tell us, declare you° to us the things that are coming on at the last <i>time</i>, and we shall know that you° are gods: do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time


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But I have raised up him that <i>comes</i> from the north, and him that <i>comes</i> from the rising of the sun: they shall be called by my name: let the princes come, and as potter's clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall you° be trodden down.


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For who will declare the things from the beginning, that we may know also the former things, <n>[[Or, ]] and say </n> and we will say that they are true? there is no one that speaks beforehand, nor anyone that hears your words.


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For from among the nations, behold, <i>there was</i> no one; and of their idols there was none to declare <i>anything</i>: and if I should ask them, Whence are you°? they could not answer me.


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For <i>these</i> are your makers, <i>as you° think</i>, and they that cause you to err in vain.<pb/>


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Jacob is <n>See Mat 12. 18, etc. </n> my servant, I will help him: Israel is my chosen, my soul has accepted him; I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.


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A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but he shall bring forth judgment to truth.


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He shall shine out, and shall not be <n>[[Lit. ]] broken </n> discouraged, until he have set judgment on the earth: and in his name shall the Gentiles trust.


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


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I the Lord God have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will strengthen you: and I have given you for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles:


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to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison-house.


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I am the Lord God: that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praises to graven images.


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Behold, the ancient things have come to pass, and <i>so will</i> the new things which I tell you: yes, before I tell <i>them</i> they are made known to you.


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Sing a new hymn to the Lord: you° <i>who are</i> his dominion, glorify his name from the end of the earth: you° that go down to the sea, and sail upon it; the islands, and they that dwell in them.


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Rejoice, you wilderness, and the villages thereof, the hamlets, and the dwellers in Kedar: the inhabitants of the rock shall rejoice, they shall shout from the top of the mountains.


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The Lord God of hosts shall go forth, and crush the war: he shall stir up jealousy, and shall shout mightily against his enemies.


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I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear: I have endured like a travailing <i>woman</i>: I will <i>now</i> amaze and wither at once.


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I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.


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And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.


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But they are turned back: be you° utterly ashamed that trust in graven <i>images</i>, who say to the molten <i>images</i>, You° are our gods.


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And who is blind, but my servants? and deaf, but they that rule over them? yes, the servants of God have been made blind.


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You° have often seen, and have not taken heed; <i>your</i> ears have been opened, and you° have not heard.


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And I [*]saw, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for <i>there is</i> a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.


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Who <i>is there</i> among you that will give ear to these things? listen you° to the things which are coming to pass.


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<n>Some read τίς, who </n> For what did he give to Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God <i>do it</i> against whom they sinned? <i>and</i> they would not walk in his ways, nor listen to his law.


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So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that burned round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew <i>it</i>, neither did they lay <i>it</i> to heart.<pb/>


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And now thus says the Lord God that made you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you <i>by</i> your name; you are mine.


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And if you pass through water, I am with you; and the rivers shall not overflow you: and if you go through fire, you shall not be burned; the flame shall not burn you.


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For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves you: I have made Egypt and Ethiopia your ransom, and <i>given</i> Soene for you.


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Since you became precious in my sight, you have become glorious, and I have loved you: and I will give men for you, and princes for <n>[[Gr. ]] head </n> your life.


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Fear not; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and will gather you from the west.


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I will say to the north, Bring; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from the <i>land</i> afar off, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;


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<i>even</i> all who are called by my name: for I have prepared him for my glory, and I have formed him, and have made him:


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and I have brought forth the blind people; for <i>their</i> eyes are alike blind, and they that have ears are deaf.


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All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them: who will declare these things? or who will declare to you things from the beginning? let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.


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Be you° my witnesses, and I <i>too am</i> a witness, says the Lord God, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you° may know, and believe, and understand that I am <i>he</i>: before me there was no other God, and after me there shall be none.


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I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange <i>god</i> among you: you° are my witnesses, and I am the Lord God,


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even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of my hands: I will work, and who shall turn it back?


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Thus says the Lord God that redeems you, the Holy One of Israel; for your sakes I will send to Babylon, and I will stir up all that flee, and the Chaldeans shall be bound in ships.


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who brought forth chariots and horse, and a mighty multitude: but they have <n>[[Or, ]] gone to sleep; See Ps. 75 (76) 5,6 </n> lain down, and shall not rise: they are extinct, as quenched flax.


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Behold, I <i>will</i> do new things, which shall presently spring forth, and you° shall know them: and I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land.


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the beasts of the field shall bless me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to my chosen race,


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You have not brought me the sheep of your whole burnt offering; neither have you glorified me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with sacrifices, neither have I wearied you with frankincense.


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Neither have you purchased for me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of your sacrifices: but you did stand before me in your sins, and in your iniquities.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] I am, I am </n> I, <i>even</i> I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and your sins; and I will not remember <i>them</i>.


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But do you remember, and let us plead <i>together</i>: do you first confess your transgressions, that you may be justified.


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And the princes have defiled my sanctuaries: so I gave Jacob <i>to enemies</i> to destroy, and Israel to reproach.<pb/>


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Thus says the Lord God that made you, and he that formed you from the womb; You shall yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.


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For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon your seed, and my blessings upon your children:


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and they shall spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on <i>the banks of</i> running water.


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One shall say, I am God's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, I am God's, and shall call himself by the name of Israel.


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Thus says God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him;  I am the first, and I am hereafter: beside me there is no God.


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Who is like me? let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for me from the time that I made man for ever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.


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Hide not yourselves, nor go astray: have you° not heard from the beginning, and <i>have not</i> I told you? you° are witnesses if there is a God beside me.


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But they that framed <i>false gods</i> did not then listen; and they that graved <i>images</i> are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed


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and all by whom they were made are withered: yes, let all the deaf be gathered from <i>among</i> men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together:


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For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions <i>the idol</i> with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.


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The artificer having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.


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He cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted, <i>even</i> a pine tree, and the rain made it grow,


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that it might be for men to burn: and having taken part of it he warms himself; yes, they burn part of it, and bake loaves thereon; and <i>of</i> the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.


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Half thereof he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied, and having warmed himself he says, I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and have seen the fire.


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And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships, and prays, saying, Deliver me; for you are my God.


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They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.


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


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Know you that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, you° will not say, <i>There is a</i> lie in my right hand.


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Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant; I have formed you <i>to be</i> my servant: and do you, Israel, not forget me.


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For behold, I have blotted out as a cloud your transgressions, and your sin as darkness: turn to me, and I will redeem you.


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Rejoice, you° heavens; for God has had mercy upon Israel: sound the trumpet, you° foundations of the earth: you° mountains, shout <i>with</i> joy, you° hills, and all the trees therein: for God has redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.


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


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Who else will frustrate the tokens of <n>[[Gr. ]] ventriloquists </n> those that have divining spirits, and prophecies <n>See <i>Heb. </i></n> from the heart of <i>man</i>? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;


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and confirming the word of his servant, and verifying the counsel of his messengers: who says to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Idumea, You° shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.


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Who bids Cyrus be wise, and he shall perform all my will: who says to Jerusalem, You shall be built, and I will lay the foundation of my holy house.<pb/>


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Thus says the Lord God to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings; I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed.


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I will go before you, and will level mountains: I will break to pieces brazen doors, and burst iron bars.


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And I will give you the treasures of darkness, I will open to you hidden, unseen <i>treasures</i>, that you may know that I, the Lord your God, that call you by name, am the God of Israel.


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For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I will call you by your name, and accept you: but you have not known me.


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For I am the Lord God, and there is no other God beside me; I strengthened you, and you have not known me.


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That they that <i>come</i> from the east and they that <i>come</i> from the west may know that there is no God but me. I am the Lord God, and there is none beside.


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I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.


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Let the heaven rejoice from above, and let the clouds rain righteousness: let the earth bring forth, and blossom <i>with</i> mercy, and bring forth righteousness likewise: I am the Lord that created you.


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What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day?  shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?


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As though one should say to <i>his</i> father, What will you beget me? and to his mother, What are you bringing forth?


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For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who has formed the things that are to come, Enquire of me concerning my sons, and concerning the works of my hands command me.


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I have made the earth, and man upon it: I with my hand have established the heaven; I have given commandment to all the stars.


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I have raised him up <i>to be</i> a king with righteousness, and all his ways are right: he shall build my city, and shall turn the captivity of my people, not <n>[[Gr. ]] with. </n> for ransoms, nor for rewards, says the Lord of hosts.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts, Egypt has laboured <i>for you</i>; and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over to you, and shall be your servants; and they shall follow after you bound in fetters, and shall pass over to you, and shall do obeisance to you, and make supplication to you: because God is in you; and there is no God beside you, <i>O Lord</i>.


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All that are opposed to him shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall walk in shame: you° isles, <n>See chap 41. 1. </n> keep a feast to me.


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Israel is saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation: they shall not be ashamed nor confounded for evermore.


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Thus says the Lord that made the heaven, this God that <n>[[Gr. ]] showed. </n> created the earth, and made it; he marked it out, he made it not in vain, but formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none beside.


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I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek vanity: <n>[[Gr. ]] I am, I am. </n> I, even I, am the Lord, speaking righteousness, and proclaiming truth.


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Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, you° that escape of the nations: they that set up wood, <i>even</i> their graven image, have no knowledge, nor they who pray to gods that do not save.


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If they will declare, let them draw near, that they may know together, who has caused these things to be heard from the beginning: then was it told you. I am God, and there is not another beside me; a just <i>God</i> and a Saviour; there is none but me.


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Turn you° to me, and you° shall be saved, you° that <i>come</i> from the end of the earth: I am God, and there is none other.


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By myself  I swear, righteousness shall surely proceed out of my mouth; my words shall not be frustrated; that to me every knee shall bend, and every tongue shall swear by God,


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saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him: and all that remove them from their borders shall be ashamed.


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By the Lord shall they be justified, and in God shall all the seed of the children of Israel be glorified.<pb/>


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Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: you° take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and <i>at the same time</i> helpless man;


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Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne <i>by me</i> from the womb, and taught <i>by me</i> from infancy, <i>even</i> to old age:


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I am <i>he</i>; and until you° shall have grown old, I am <i>he</i>: I bear you, I have made, and I will <n>[[Or, ]] put up with. </n> relieve, I will take up and save you.


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They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make <n>[[Gr. things ]] made with hands. </n> idols, and bow down, and worship them.


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They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it can’t move: and whoever shall cry to it, it can’t hear; it can’t save him from trouble.


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and remember the former things <i>that were</i> of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,


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telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:


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calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned: I have spoken, and brought <i>him</i>; I have created and made <i>him</i>; I have brought him, and prospered his way.


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I have brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from me: I have given salvation in Sion to Israel for glory.<pb/>


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Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon: sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and luxurious.


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Take a millstone, grind meal: remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.


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Your shame shall be uncovered, your reproaches shall be brought to light: I will exact of you due vengeance, I will no longer deliver you to men.


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Sit you down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: you shall no more be called the strength of a kingdom.


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


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and said, I shall be a princess for ever: you did not perceive these things in your heart, nor did you remember the latter end.


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But now hear these words, you luxurious one, <i>who are</i> the one that sits <i>at ease</i>, that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.


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But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,


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for your <n>[[Gr. ]] the hope of your wickedness. </n> trusting in wickedness: for you said, I am, and there is not another: know you, the understanding of these things and your harlotry shall be your shame; for you said in your heart, I am, and there is not another.


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And destruction shall come upon you, and you shall not be aware; <i>there shall be a</i> pit, and you shall fall into it: and grief shall come upon you, and you shall not be able to be <n>[[Or, ]] pure. </n> clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon you, and you shall not know.


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Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited.


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You are wearied in your counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver you, let them that see the stars tell you what is about to come upon you.


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Behold, they all shall be burnt up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because you have coals of fire, sit you upon them;


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these shall be your help. You have wearied yourself with traffic from your youth: every man has wandered to his own home, but you shall have no deliverance.<pb/>


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Hear these <i>words</i>, you° house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of Juda, who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making mention <i>of it, but</i> not with truth, nor with righteousness;


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maintaining also the name of the holy city, and staying themselves on the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name. The former things I have already declared;


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and they that have proceeded out of my mouth, and it became well known; I wrought suddenly, and <i>the events</i> came to pass.


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And I told you <n>[[Alex. ]] the ancient things before they came. </n> of old what <i>should be</i> before it came upon you; I made it known to you, lest you should say, <i>My</i> idols have done <i>it</i> for me; and should say, <i>My</i> graven and molten images have commanded me.


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You° have heard all this, but you° have not known: yet I have made <n>[[Or, ]] audible. </n> known to you the new things from henceforth, which are coming to pass, and you said not,


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Now they come to pass, and not formerly: and you heard not of them in former days: say not you, Yes, I know them.


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You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears: for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.


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For my own sake will I show you my wrath, and will bring before you my glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy you.


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Behold, I have sold you, <i>but</i> not for silver; but I have rescued you from the furnace of affliction.


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For my own sake I will do <i>this</i> for you, because my name is profaned; and I will not give my glory to another.


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Hear me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I <n>[[Gr. ]] am. </n> endure for ever.


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


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And all shall be gathered, and shall hear: who has told them these things? Out of love to you I have fulfilled your desire on Babylon, to abolish the seed of the Chaldeans.


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Draw near to me, and hear you° these words; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: when it took place, there was I, and now the Lord, <i>even</i> the Lord, and his Spirit, has sent me.


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Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the Holy One of Israel; I am your God, I have shown you how you should find the way wherein you should walk.


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And if you had listened to my commandments, <i>then</i> would your peace have been like a river, and your righteousness as a wave of the sea.


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Your seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shall you by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall your name perish before me.


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Go forth of Babylon, you that flee from the Chaldeans: utter aloud a voice of joy, and let this be made known, proclaim it to the end of the earth; say you°, The Lord has delivered his servant Jacob.


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And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.


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Listen to me, you° islands; and attend, you° Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, says the Lord: from my mother's womb he has called my name:


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and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has hid me in his quiver;


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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing: therefore is my judgment with the Lord, and my labor before my God.


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And now, thus says the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his own servant, to gather Jacob to him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.


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And he said to me, <i>It is</i> a great thing for you to be called my servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel: behold,  I have given you for the <n>[[Gr. ]] a perpetual covenant. </n> covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the end of the earth.


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Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes: kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord's sake: for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen you.


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


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saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and <i>bidding</i> them that are in darkness show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths <i>shall be</i> their pasture.


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They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them; but he that has mercy on them shall comfort <i>them</i>, and by fountains of waters shall he lead them.


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Behold, these shall come from far: <i>and</i> these from the north and the west, and others from the land of the Persians.


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Rejoice, you° heavens; and let the earth be glad: let the mountains break forth <i>with</i> joy; for the Lard has had mercy on his people, and has comforted the lowly ones of his people.


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Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? but if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget you, says the Lord.


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And you shall soon be built by those by whom you were destroyed, and they that made you desolate shall go forth of you.


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Lift up your eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and are come to you. <i>As</i> I live, says the Lord, you shall clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on as a bride her attire.


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For your desert and marred and ruined <i>places</i> shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured you shall be removed far from you.


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For your sons whom you have lost shall say in your ears, The place <i>is too</i> narrow for me: make room for me that I may dwell.


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And you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these? whereas I <i>was</i> childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? and I was left alone; but whence came these to me?


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Thus says the Lord, <i>even</i> the Lord, Behold, I lift up my hand to the nations, and I will lift up my signal to the islands: and they shall bring your sons in <i>their</i> bosom, and shall bear your daughters on <i>their</i> shoulders.


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And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their princesses your nurses, they shall bow down to you on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on me shall not be ashamed.


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Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take <i>a man</i> captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?


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For thus says the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes <i>them</i> from a mighty <i>man</i> shall be delivered: for I will plead your cause, and I will deliver your children.


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And they that afflicted you shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunken: and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers you, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.<pb/>


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Thus says the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, you° are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.


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Why did I come, and there was no man? <i>why</i> did I call, and there was none to listen? Is not my hand strong to redeem? or can I not deliver? behold, by my rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] the Lord the Lord. See on 3 Ki. 8. 53 </n> The Lord <i>even</i> God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear:


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I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting:


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but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never be ashamed,


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for he that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? let him stand up against me at the same time: yes, who is he that pleads with me? let him draw near to me.


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Behold, the Lord, the Lord, will help me; who will hurt me? behold, all you° shall wax old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.


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Who is among you that fears the Lord? let him listen to the voice of his servant: you° that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon God.


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Behold, you° all kindle a fire, and feed a flame: walk in the light of your fire, and in the flame which you° have kindled. This has happened to you for my sake; you° shall lie down in sorrow.<pb/>


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Listen to me, you° that follow after righteousness, and seek the Lord: look to the solid rock, which you° have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which you° have dug.


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Look to Abraam your father, and to Sarrha that bore you: for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.


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And now I will comfort you, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her <n>[[Heb. ]] שוב ambiguous. </n> western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.


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Hear me, hear me, my people; and you° kings, listen to me: for a law shall proceed from me, and my judgment <i>shall be</i> for a light of <n>[[Or, ]] the Gentiles. </n> the nations.


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My righteousness speedily draws near, and my salvation shall go forth <n>Not in [[Heb. ]] or [[Alex.]]</n> as light, and on my arm shall the Gentiles trust: the isles shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.


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Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath: for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my righteousness shall not fail.


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Hear me, you° that know judgment, the people in whose heart is my law: fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.


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For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by a moth, <i>so shall they be consumed</i>; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for all generations.


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Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of your arm; awake as <n>[[Gr. ]] the beginning of day. </n> in the early time, as the ancient generation.


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Are you not it that dried the sea, the water, <i>even</i> the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?


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for by <i>the help of</i> the Lord they shall return, and come to Sion with joy and everlasting exultation, for praise and joy shall come upon their head: pain, and grief, and groaning, have fled away.


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I, <i>even</i> I, am he that comforts you: consider who you are, that you were afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who are withered as grass.


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And you have forgotten God who made you, who made the sky and founded the earth; and you were continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted you: for <i>whereas</i> he counselled to take you away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted you?


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for I am your God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to roar: the Lord of hosts is my name.


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I will put my words into your mouth, and I will shelter you under the shadow of my hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and <i>the Lord</i> shall say to Sion, You are my people.


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Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for you have drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:


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and there was none to comfort you of all the children whom you bore; and there was none to take hold of your hand, not even of all the children whom you have reared.


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Therefore these things are against you; who shall sympathize with you in your grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort you?


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Your sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.


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thus says the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and you shall not drink it any more.


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And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and you did level your body with the ground to them passing by without.<pb/>


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Awake, awake, Sion; put on your strength, O Sion; and o you put on your glory, Jerusalem the holy city: there shall no more pass through you, the uncircumcised and unclean.


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Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of your neck, captive daughter of Sion.


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For thus says the Lord, You° have been sold for nothing; and you° shall not be ransomed with silver.


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Thus says the Lord, My people went down before to Egypt to sojourn there; and were carried away forcibly to the Assyrians.


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And now why are you° here? Thus says the Lord, Because my people was taken for nothing, wonder you° and howl. Thus says the Lord, On account of you  my name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.


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as <n>Rom 10. 15. Another reading is 'How beautiful are the feet,' etc. [[Lit. ]] Why have the feet been made beautiful? See also Joel 2. 2., 'the morning [spread] upon the mountains.' </n> a season of beauty upon the mountains, as the feet of one preaching glad tidings of peace, as one preaching good news: for I will publish your salvation, saying, O Sion, your God shall reign.


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For the voice of them that guard you is exalted, and with the voice together they shall rejoice: for eyes shall look to eyes, when the Lord shall have mercy upon Sion.


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Let the waste places of Jerusalem break forth <i>in</i> joy together, because the Lord has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Jerusalem.


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And the Lord shall reveal his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation that <i>comes</i> from our God.


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Depart you°, depart, go out from thence, and touch not the unclean thing; go you° out from the midst of her; separate yourselves, you° that bear the vessels of the Lord.


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For you° shall not go forth with tumult, neither go by flight: for the Lord shall go first in advance of you; and the God of Israel shall be he that <n>[[Gr. ]] gathers you. </n> brings up your rear.


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As many shall be amazed at you, so shall your face be without glory from men, and your glory <i>shall not be honored</i> by the sons of men.


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Thus shall many nations wonder at him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut:  for they to whom no report was brought concerning him, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall consider.<pb/>


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We brought a report as <i>of</i> a child before him; <i>he is</i> as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty.


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But his form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; <i>he was</i> a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for his face is turned from <i>us</i>: he was dishonored, and not esteemed.


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He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction.


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But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was <n>[[Or, ]] made sick. </n> bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; <i>and</i> by his <n>[[Gr. ]] bruise. 1 Pet. 2. 22. </n> bruises we were healed.


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All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave him up for our sins.


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And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth:  he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.


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In <i>his</i> humiliation his judgment was taken away: who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken away from the earth: because of the iniquities of my people he was led to death.


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And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death;  for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth.


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the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to show him light, and to form <i>him</i> with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and he shall bear their sins.


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Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because his soul was delivered to death: and  he was numbered among the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities.<pb/>


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Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that do not travail: for more are the children of the desolate than of her that has a husband: for the Lord has said,


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Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your curtains: fix <i>the pins</i>, spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pins;


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Fear not, because you have been put to shame, neither be confounded, because you were reproached: for you shall forget your <n>[[Gr. ]] ancient [[Or. ]] everlasting </n> former shame, and shall no more at all remember the reproach of your widowhood.


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For <i>it is</i> the Lord that made you; the Lord of hosts is his name: and he that delivered you, he is the God of Israel, <i>and</i> shall be called <i>so</i> by the whole earth.


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The Lord has not called you as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from <i>her</i> youth, says your God.


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In a little wrath I turned away my face from you; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon you, says the Lord that delivers you.


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From the time of the water of Noe this is my <i>purpose</i>: as I sware to him at that time, <i>saying</i> of the earth, I will no more be angry with you, neither when you are threatened,


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shall the mountains depart, nor shall your hills be removed: so neither shall my mercy fail you, nor shall the covenant of your peace be at all removed: for <n>[[Alex. ]] κύριος for κύριε adopted here. Compare Mat. 16. 22, with this passage. </n> the Lord <i>who is</i> gracious to you has spoken <i>it</i>.


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Afflicted and outcast you have not been comforted: behold, I <i>will</i> prepare carbuncle <i>for</i> your stones, and sapphire for your foundations;


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And <i>I will cause</i> all your sons <i>to be</i> taught of God, and your children <i>to be</i> in great peace.


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And you shall be built in righteousness: abstain from injustice, and you shall not fear; and trembling shall not come near you.


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Behold, strangers shall come to you by me, and shall sojourn with you, and shall run to you for refuge.


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Behold, I have created you, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing out a vessel <i>fit</i> for work; but I have created you, not for ruin, that <i>I</i> should destroy <i>you</i>.


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I will not suffer any <n>[[Gr. ]] instrument. </n> weapon formed against you to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against you for judgment, you shall vanquish them all; and your adversaries shall be <i>condemned</i> thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and you° shall be righteous before me, says the Lord.<pb/>


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You° that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go <i>and</i> buy; and eat <i>and drink</i> wine and fat without money or price.


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Therefore do you° value at the price of money, and <i>give</i> your labor <n>See Col 2. ult. </n> for that which will not satisfy? listen to me, and you° shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.


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Give heed with your ears, and follow my ways: listen to me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,  the sure mercies of David.


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Nations which know you not, shall call upon you, and peoples which are not acquainted with you, shall flee to you for refuge, for the sake of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.


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let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.


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But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from my mind.


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For as rain shall come down, or snow, from heaven, and shall not return until it has saturated the earth, and it bring forth, and bud, and  give seed to the sower, and bread for food:


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so shall my word be, whatever shall proceed out of my mouth, it shall by no means turn back, until all the things which I willed shall have been accomplished; and I will make your ways prosperous, and <i>will effect</i> my commands.


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For you° shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness: for the mountains and the hills shall exult to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.


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And instead of the bramble shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle: and the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and shall not fail.<pb/>


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Thus says the Lord, Keep you° judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my mercy to be revealed.


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Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the sabbaths from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.


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Let not the stranger who attaches himself to the Lord, say, Surely the Lord will separate me from his people: and let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree.


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Thus says the Lord to the eunuchs, as many as shall keep my sabbaths, and choose the things which I take pleasure in, and take hold of my covenant;


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I will give to them in my house and within my walls an honorable place, better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail.


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And <i>I will give it</i> to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be to him servants and handmaids; and <i>as for</i> all that keep my sabbaths from profaning <i>them</i>, and that take hold of my covenant;


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I will bring them to my holy mountain, and gladden them in my house of prayer: their whole burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon my altar; for  my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations,


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See how they are all blinded: they have not known; <i>they are</i> dumb dogs <i>that</i> will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.


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See how the just man has perished, and no one lays <i>it</i> to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.


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Wherein have you° been rioting? and against whom have you° opened your mouth, and against whom have you° loosed your tongue? are you° not children of perdition? a lawless seed?


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who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying <n>[[Gr. ]] their. </n> your children in the valleys among the rocks?


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That is your portion, this is your lot: and to them have you poured forth drink-offerings, and to these have you offered meat-offerings. Shall I not therefore be angry for these things?


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and behind the posts of your door you did place your memorials. Did you think that if you should depart from me, you would gain? you have loved those that lay with you;


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and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased even to hell.


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You have wearied yourself with your many ways; yet you said not, I will cease to strengthen myself: for you have done these things; therefore you have not supplicated me.


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Through dread of whom have you feared, and lied against me, and has not remembered, nor <n>[[Gr. ]] taken me into your mind, not into your heart. </n> considered me, nor regarded me, yes, though when I see you I pass you by, yet you have not feared me.


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When you cry out, let them deliver you in your affliction: for all these the wind shall take, and the tempest shall carry <i>them</i> away: but they that cleave to me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.


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And they shall say, <n>[[Lit. ]] purge. </n> Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of my people.


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Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high for ever, <n>[[Or, ]] Most Holy. </n> Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:


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I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.


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On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and struck him, and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.


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peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are near: and the Lord has said, I will heal them.


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Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up your voice as with a trumpet, and declare to my people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.


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They seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God: they now ask of me righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God,


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saying, Why have we fasted, and you regard not? <i>why</i> have we afflicted our souls, and you did not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts you° find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power you° wound.


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If you° fast for quarrels and strifes, and strike the lowly with <i>your</i> fists, therefore do you° fast to me as <i>you° do</i> this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?


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I have not chosen this fast, nor <i>such</i> a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though you should bend down your neck as a ring, and spread under you sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall you° call a fast acceptable.


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I have not chosen such a fast, says the Lord; but do you loose every burden of iniquity, do you untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account.


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Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house: if you see one naked, clothe <i>him</i>, and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.


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Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth: and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall compass you.


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Then shall you cry, and God shall listen to you; while you are yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;


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and <i>if</i> you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness <i>shall be</i> as noon-day:


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and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain <i>from</i> which the water has not failed.


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And your old waste desert <i>places</i> shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace.


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If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, so as not to do your <n>[[Gr. ]] pleasures. </n> pleasure on the holy days, and shall call the sabbaths delightful, holy to God; <i>if</i> you shall not lift up your foot to work, nor speak a word in anger out of your mouth,


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then shall you trust on the Lord; and he shall bring you up to the good places of the land, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.<pb/>


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Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not hear?


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Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away <i>his</i> face from you, so as not to have mercy <i>upon you</i>.


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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.


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None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty <i>words</i>; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.


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They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.


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Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.


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And  their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts <n>[[Gr. ]] from murders, but [[Alex. ]] reads ὐφρόνων. </n> of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;


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and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.


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Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.


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They shall feel for the wall as blind <i>men</i>, and shall feel <i>for it</i> as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.


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They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.


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For our iniquity is great before you, and our sins have risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.


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We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.


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And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight <i>path</i>.


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And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside <i>their</i> mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no judgment.


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And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was none to help: so he defended them with his arm, and established <i>them</i> with <i>his</i> mercy.


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And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,


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So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they <i>that come</i> from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.


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And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.<pb/>


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Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.


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Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and <i>there shall be</i> gross darkness on the nations: but the Lord shall appear upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.


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Lift up your eyes round about, and behold your children gathered: all your sons have come from far, and your daughters shall be borne on <i>men's</i> shoulders.


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Then shall you see, and fear, and be amazed in your heart; for the wealth of the sea shall come round to you, and of nations and peoples; and herds of camels shall come to you,


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and the camels of Madiam and Gaepha shall cover you: all from Saba shall come bearing gold, and shall bring frankincense, and they shall publish the salvation of the Lord.


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And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nabaeoth shall come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on my altar, and my house of prayer shall be glorified.


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The isles have waited for me, and the ships of Tharsis among the first, to bring your children from afar, and their silver and their gold with them, and <i>that</i> for the sake of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorified.


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And strangers shall build your walls, and their kings shall wait upon you: for by reason of my wrath I struck you, and by reason of mercy I loved you.


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And your gates shall be opened continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; to bring in to you the power of the Gentiles, and their kings as captives.


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For the nations and the kings which will not serve you shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.


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And the glory of Libanus shall come to you, with the cypress, and pine, and cedar together, to glorify my holy place.


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And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you <n>[[Lit. ]] having feared. </n> in fear; and you shall be called Sion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.


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Because you have become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make you a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.


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And you shall suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shall eat the wealth of kings: and shall know that I am the Lord that saves you and delivers you, the Holy One of Israel.


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And for brass I will bring you gold, and for iron I will bring you silver, and instead of wood I will bring you brass, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make your princes peaceful, and your overseers righteous.


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And injustice shall no more be heard in your land, nor destruction nor misery in your coasts; but your walls shall be called Salvation, and your gates Sculptured Work.


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And you shall no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten your night; but the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and God your glory.


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For the sun shall no more set, nor shall the moon be eclipsed; for the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be completed.


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Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, preserving that which they have planted, <i>even</i> the works of their hands, for glory.


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The <n>[[Or, ]] people few in number. </n> little one shall become thousands, and the least a great nation; I the Lord will gather them in <i>due</i> time.<pb/>


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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me; he has sent  me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;


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that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes, the <n>[[Alex. ]] reads καταστολὴν as one word. </n> oil of joy to the mourners, <n>[[Or, ]] anointing. </n> the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.


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And they shall build the old waste places, they shall raise up those that were before made desolate, and shall renew the desert cities, <i>even</i> those that had been desolate for <i>many</i> generations.


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And strangers shall come and feed your flocks, and aliens <i>shall be your</i> plowmen and vine-dressers.


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But you° shall be called priests of the Lord, the ministers of God: you° shall eat the strength of nations, and shall be admired because of their wealth.


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For I am the Lord who love righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labor to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.


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And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples: every one that sees them shall <n>[[Or, ]] acknowledge. </n> take notice of them, that they are a seed blessed of God;


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and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a mitre on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.


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And as the earth putting forth her flowers, and as a garden its seed; so shall the Lord, <i>even</i> the Lord, cause righteousness to spring forth, and exultation before all nations.<pb/>


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For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not <n>[[Gr. ]] relax. </n> rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and my salvation burn as a torch.


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And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and kings your glory: and one shall call you <i>by</i> a new name, which the Lord shall name.


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And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.


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And you shall no more be called Forsaken; and your land shall no more be called Desert: for you shall be called My Pleasure, and your land Inhabited: for the Lord has taken pleasure in you, and your land shall be inhabited.


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And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall your sons dwell in <i>you</i>: and it shall come to pass <i>that</i> as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over you.


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And on your walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of the Lord.


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For there is none like you, when he shall have established, and made Jerusalem a praise on the earth.


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For the Lord has sworn by his glory, and by the might of his arm, I will no more give your corn and your provisions to your enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink your wine, for which you have laboured.


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But they that have gathered them shall eat them, and they shall praise the Lord; and they that have gathered <i>the grapes</i> shall drink thereof in my holy courts.


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Go through my gates, and make a way for my people; and cast the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the Gentiles.


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For behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth,  say you° to the daughter of Sion, Behold, your Saviour has come to you, having his reward and his work before his face.


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And one shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord: and you shall be called a city sought out, and not forsaken.<pb/>


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Who is this that is come from Edom, <i>with</i> red garments from Bosor? thus fair in his apparel, with mighty strength? I <n>[[Gr. ]] discourse, reason about. </n> speak of righteousness and saving judgment.


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I am full of trodden <i>grape</i>, and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.


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And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld: therefore my arm delivered them, and my anger drew near.


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I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the  praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy, and according to the abundance of his righteousness.


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And he said, Is it not my people? the children surely will not be rebellious: and he became to them deliverance


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out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself saved them, because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up <n>[[Gr. ]] all the days of the age. </n> all the days of old.


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But they disobeyed, and provoked his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy, he himself contended against them.


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Then he remembered the ancient days, <i>saying</i>, Where is he that brought up from the sea the shepherd of the sheep? where is he that put his Holy Spirit in them?


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who led Moses with his right hand, the arm of his glory? he forced the water <i>to separate</i> from before him, to make himself an everlasting name.


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and as cattle through a plain: the Spirit came down from the Lord, and guided them: thus you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.


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Turn from heaven, and look from your holy habitation and <i>from</i> your glory: where is your zeal and your strength? where is the abundance of your mercy and of your compassions, that you have withholden yourself from us?


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For you are our Father; for <i>though</i> Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do you, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: your name has been upon us from the beginning.


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Why have you caused us to err, O Lord, from your way? <i>and</i> has hardened our hearts, that we should not fear you? Return for your servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of your inheritance,


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If you would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from you, and they shall melt,


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as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and your name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at your presence the nations shall be troubled,


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From of old  we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God beside you, and your works which you will perform to them that wait for mercy.


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For <i>these blessings</i> shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember your ways: behold, you were angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,


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and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag: and we have <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Lit. ]] flowed out. </n> fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us <i>away</i>.


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And there is none that calls upon your name, or that remembers to take hold on you: for you have turned your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.


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Be not very angry with us, and remember not our sins <n>The [[Gr. ]] ἐν καιρῷ is a Hebraism. </n> for ever; but now look on <i>us</i>, for we are all your people.


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The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burnt with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.


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And for all these things you, O Lord, has withholden, yourself, and been silent, and have brought us very low.<pb/>


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I became manifest to them that asked not for me; I was found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold, I am <i>here</i>, to a nation, who called not on my name.


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I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.


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This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.


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They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, <i>even</i> they that eat swine's flesh, and the broth of <i>their</i> sacrifices: all their vessels are defiled:


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who say, Depart from me, draw not near to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of my wrath, a fire burns with it continually.


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their sins and <i>the sins</i> of their fathers, says the Lord, who have burnt incense on the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom.


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Thus says the Lord, As a grape-stone shall be found in the cluster, and they shall say, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for the sake of him that serves me, for his sake I will not destroy <i>them</i> all.


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And I will lead forth the seed <i>that came</i> of Jacob and of Juda, and they shall inherit my holy mountain: and my elect and my servants shall inherit it, and shall dwell there.


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And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor <i>shall</i> be for a resting-place of herds for my people, who have sought me.


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But you° are they that have left me, and forget my holy mountain, and prepare a table for the devil, and fill up the <n>[[Gr. ]] mixture. </n> drink-offering to Fortune.


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I will deliver you up to the sword, you° shall all fall by slaughter: for I called you, and you° listened not; I spoke, and you° refused to hear; and you° did evil in my sight, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you° shall hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but you° shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you° shall be ashamed:


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behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but you° shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.


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For you° shall leave your name for a loathing to my chosen, and the Lord shall destroy you: but my servants shall be called by a new name,


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which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God: and they that swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God; for they shall forget the former affliction, it shall not come into their mind.


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For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.


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But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy.


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And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and will be glad in my people: and there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying.


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Neither shall there be there any more a <i>child that dies</i> untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall be a hundred years <i>old</i>, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed:


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and they shall build houses, and themselves shall dwell in <i>them</i>; and they shall plant vineyards, and themselves shall eat the fruit thereof.


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They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat: for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of my people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labors.


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My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.


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And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> before they call, I will listen to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What is it?


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Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, says the Lord.<pb/>


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Thus says the Lord,  Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will you° build me? and of what kind <i>is to be</i> the place of my rest?


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For all these things are mine, says the Lord: and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the <i>man</i> that trembles <i>at</i> my words?


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But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as <i>one that offers</i> swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.


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I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not listen to me; I spoke, and they heard not: and they did evil before me, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.


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Hear the words of the Lord, you° that tremble at his word; speak you°, <n>[[Alex. ]] ἡμῶν, but [[Heb. ]] and [[Vat. ]] 'your.' </n> our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may appear <n>[[Or, ]] your. </n> their joy; but they shall be ashamed.


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A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompence to <i>his</i> adversaries.


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Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail-pain came on, she escaped <i>it</i> and brought forth a male.


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Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Sion has travailed, and brought forth her children?


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But I have raised this expectation, yet you have not remembered me, says the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? says your God.


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Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all you° that love her hold in her a general assembly: rejoice greatly with her, all that <i>now</i> mourn over her:


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that you° may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation; that you° may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory.


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For thus says the Lord, Behold, I <n>[[i.e. ]] turn myself. </n> turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.


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As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and you° shall be comforted in Jerusalem.


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And you° shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall <n>[[Gr. ]] spring up. </n> thrive like grass: and the hand of the Lord shall be known to them that fear him, and he shall threaten the disobedient.


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For, behold, the Lord will come as fire, and his chariots as a storm, to render his vengeance with wrath, and his rebuke with a flame of fire.


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For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with his sword: many shall be slain by the Lord.


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They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine's flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says the Lord.


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And I <i>know</i> their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.


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And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped of them to the nations, to Tharsis, and Phud, and Lud, and Mosoch, and to Thobel, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off, to those who have not heard my name, nor seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.


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And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord with horses, and chariots, in litters <i>drawn by</i> mules with awnings, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord, as though the children of Israel should bring their sacrifices to me with psalms into the house of the Lord.


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For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name continue.


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And it shall come to pass from month to month, and from sabbath to sabbath, <i>that</i> all flesh shall come to worship before me in Jerusalem, says the Lord.


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And they shall go forth, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.


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The word of God which came to Jeremias the <i>son</i> of Chelcias, of the priests, who lived in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:


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<i>accordingly</i> as the word of God came to him in the days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.


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And it was in the days of Joakim, son of Josias king of Juda, until the eleventh year of Sedekias king of Juda, <i>even</i> until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.


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Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you; and before you came forth from the womb, I sanctified you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.


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And I said, O Lord, you that are supreme Lord, behold, I know not <i>how</i> to speak, for I am a child.


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And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child: for you shall go to all to whoever I shall send you, and according to all <i>the words</i> that I shall command you, you shall speak.


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And the Lord stretched forth his hand to me, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my words into your mouth.


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Behold, I have appointed you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.


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And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What see you? And I said, A caldron on the fire; and the face of it is toward the north.


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And the Lord said to me, From the north shall flame forth evils upon all the inhabitants of the land.


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


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And I will speak to them in judgment, concerning all their iniquity, <i>forasmuch</i> as they have forsaken me, and sacrificed to strange gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.


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And do you gird up your loins, and stand up, and speak all <i>the words</i> that I shall command you: be not afraid of their face, neither be you alarmed before them; for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.


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Behold, I have made you this day as a strong city, and as a brazen wall, strong <i>against</i> all the kings of Juda, and the princes thereof, and the people of the land.


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And they shall fight against you; but they shall by no means prevail against you; because I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.<pb/>


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in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was the holy <i>people</i> to the Lord, <i>and</i> the first fruits of his increase: all that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord.


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


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And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man lived there?


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And I brought you to Carmel, that you° should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and you° went in, and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.


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


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For go to the isles of the Chettians, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;


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if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory, <i>for that</i> from which they shall not be profited.


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For my people has committed two <i>faults</i>, and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.


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The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.


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And now what have you to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Geon? and what have you to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers?


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Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you: know then, and see, that your forsaking me <i>has been</i> bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.


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For of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you have said, I will not serve you, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.


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Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!


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Though you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, <i>still</i> you are stained by your iniquities before me, says the Lord.


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How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold your ways in the burial-ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening:


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she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up <i>to them</i>, who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at <i>the time of</i> her humiliation they shall find her.


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Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went after them.


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As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.


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They said to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have begotten me: and they have turned <i>their</i> backs to me, and not their faces: yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.


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And where are your gods, which you made for yourself? will they arise and save in the time of your affliction? for according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.


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Therefore do you° speak to me? you° all have been ungodly, and you° all have transgressed against me, says the Lord.


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In vain have I struck your children; you° have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you° feared not.


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Hear you° the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? therefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to you any more?


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Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number.


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What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? <i>it shall</i> not <i>be</i> so; moreover you have done wickedly in corrupting your ways;


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and in your hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.


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Yet you said, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I <i>will</i> plead with you, whereas you say, I have not sinned.


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For you have been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat your ways; but you shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assur.


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For you shall go forth thence also with your hands upon your head; for the Lord has rejected your hope, and you shall not prosper in it.<pb/>


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If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall she return to him any more at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? you° you have gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and have returned to me, says the Lord.


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Lift up your eyes <i>to look</i> straight forward, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications and your wickedness.


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And you did retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself: you had a whore's face, you did become shameless toward all.


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Will <i>God's anger</i> continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done these bad things, and had power <i>to do them</i>.


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And the Lord said to me in the days of Josias the king, Hast you seen what things the house of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.


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And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again to me. Yet she returned not. And faithless Juda saw her faithlessness.


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And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement,) yet faithless Juda feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication.


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Go and read these words toward the north, and you shall say, Return to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord; and I will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not be angry with you for ever.


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Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not listen to my voice, says the Lord.


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Turn, you° children that have revolted, says the Lord; for I will rule over you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Sion:


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And it shall come to pass that when you° are multiplied and increased upon the land, says the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Holy One of Israel: it shall not come to mind; it shall not be named; neither shall it be visited; nor shall <i>this</i> be done any more.


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In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk any more after the imaginations of their evil heart.


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In those days the house of Juda, shall come together to the house of Israel, and they shall come, together, from the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I caused their fathers to inherit.


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And I said, So be it, Lord, for <i>you said</i> I will set you among children, and will give you a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles: and I said, You° shall call me Father; and you° shall not turn away from me.


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But as a wife acts treacherously against her husband, so has the house of Israel dealt treacherously against me, says the Lord.


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A voice from the lips was heard, <i>even</i> of weeping and supplication of the children of Israel: for they have dealt unrighteously in their ways, they have forgotten God their Holy One.


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Turn, you° children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be your servants; for you are the Lord our God.


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Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.


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But shame has consumed the labors of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.


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We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us: because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God.<pb/>


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If Israel will return to me, says the Lord, he shall return: and if he will remove his abominations out of his mouth, and fear before me, and swear,


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The Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and righteousness, then shall nations bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.


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For thus says the Lord to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for yourselves, and sow not among thorns.


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Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, you° men of Juda, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.


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Declare you° in Juda, and let it be heard in Jerusalem: say you°, Sound the trumpet in the land; cry you° aloud: say you°, Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.


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Gather up <i>your wares</i> and flee to Sion: hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, and great destruction.


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The lion is gone up from his lair, he has roused <i>himself</i> to the destruction of the nations, and has gone forth out of his place, to make the land desolate; and the cities shall be destroyed, so as to be without inhabitant.


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For these things gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, and howl: for the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be amazed, and the prophets shall wonder.


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And I said, O sovereign Lord, verily you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, There shall be peace; whereas behold, the sword has reached even to their soul.


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At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, <i>There is</i> a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of my people is not to purity, nor to holiness.


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<i>But</i> a spirit of full vengeance shall come upon me; and now I declare my judgments against them.


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Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are in misery.


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Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved: how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?


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For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of mount Ephraim shall be heard of.


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Remind you° the nations; behold, they are come: proclaim <i>it</i> in Jerusalem, that bands are approaching from a land afar off, and have uttered their voice against the cities of Juda.


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Your ways and your devices have brought these things upon you; this is your wickedness, for <i>it is</i> bitter, for it has reached to your heart.


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


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for all the land is distressed: suddenly <i>my</i> tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been tore asunder.


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For the princes of my people have not known me, they are foolish and unwise children: they are wise to do evil, but <i>how</i> to do good they have not known.


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I looked upon the earth, and, behold, <i>it was</i> not; and to the sky, an there was no light in it.


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I saw, and, behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.


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For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above: for I have spoken, and I will not repent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back from it.


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The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no man lived in them.


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And what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, and adorn yourself with golden ornaments; though you adorn your eyes with stibium, your beauty <i>will be</i> in vain: your lovers have rejected you, they seek your life.


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


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Run you° about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you° can find <i>one</i>, if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, says the Lord.


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O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.


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Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.


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I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.


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Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to <i>their</i> houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.


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In what <i>way</i> shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses.


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Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.


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Go up upon her battlements, and break <i>them</i> down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses: for they are the Lord's.


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have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because you° have spoken this word, behold, I have made my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.


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Behold, I <i>will</i> bring upon you a nation from far, O house of Israel, says the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language one shall not understand.


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and they shall devour your harvest, and your bread; and shall devour your sons, and your daughters; and they shall devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig-plantations, and your olive yards: and they shall utterly destroy your strong cities, wherein you° trusted, with the sword.


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And it shall come to pass in those days, says the Lord your God, that I will not utterly destroy you.


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And it shall come to pass, when you° shall say, Therefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you shall say to them, Because you° served strange gods in your land, so shall you° serve strangers in a land that is not yours.


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Hear you° now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:


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will you° not be afraid of me? says the Lord; and will you° not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, <i>as</i> a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.


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and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved <i>it</i> for us.


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For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught <i>them</i>.


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As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:


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and they have transgressed <i>the rule of</i> judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.


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Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people have loved <i>to have it</i> thus: and what will you° do for the future.<pb/>


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Strengthen yourselves, you° children of Benjamin, <i>to flee</i> out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and set up a signal over Baethacharma: for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming.


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The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch <i>their</i> tents against her round about, and shall feed <i>their flocks</i> each with his hand.


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Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.


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For thus says the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; <i>there is</i> all oppression in her.


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As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, <i>as</i> continually before her.


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You shall be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.


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For thus says the Lord, Glean, glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back <i>your hands</i> as a grape-gatherer to his basket.


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To whom shall I speak, and testify, that he may listen? behold, your ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear: behold, the word of the Lord is become to them a reproach, they will not at all desire it.


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And I allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I kept <i>it</i> in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.


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And their houses shall be turned to others, <i>with</i> their fields and their wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of this land, says the Lord.


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For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all wrought falsely.


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And they healed the breach of my people <i>imperfectly</i>, making light <i>of it</i>, and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?


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They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are <i>truly</i> ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they <i>utterly</i> fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord, Stand you° in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and you° shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk <i>in them</i>.


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I have set watchmen over you, <i>saying</i>, Hear you° the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear <i>it</i>.


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Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon this people, <i>even</i> the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded my words, and they have rejected my law.


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Therefore do you° bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I <i>will</i> bring weakness upon this people, and the fathers and sons shall be weak together; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.


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


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They shall lay hold on bow and spear; <i>the people</i> is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against you as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Sion.


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We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.


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Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.


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O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth: sprinkle <i>yourself</i> with ashes; make for yourself pitiable lamentation, <i>as</i> the mourning for a beloved <i>son</i>: for misery will come suddenly upon you.


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I have caused you to be tried among tried nations, and you shall know me when I have tried their way.


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<i>They are</i> all disobedient, walking perversely: <i>they are</i> brass and iron; they are all corrupted.


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The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed: the silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.


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Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.


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Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.


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and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:


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then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old and for ever.


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and you° murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are gone after strange gods whom you° know not,


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so that it is evil with you; yet have you° come, and stood before me in the house, whereon my name is called, and you° have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.


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Is my house, whereon my name is called, a den of robbers in your eyes? And, behold, I have seen <i>it</i>, says the Lord.


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For go you° to my place with is in Selo, where I caused my name to dwell before, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.


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And now, because you° have done all these deeds, and I spoke to you, but you° listened not to me; and I called you, but you° answered not;


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therefore I also will do to the house whereon my name is called, wherein you° trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Selo.


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Therefore pray not you for this people, and intercede not for them to be pitied, yes, pray not, and approach me not for them: for I will not listen <i>to you</i>.


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Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink-offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke me to anger.


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Do they provoke me to anger? says the Lord: do they not <i>provoke</i> themselves, that their faces may be ashamed?


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, my anger and wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon every tree of their field, and upon the fruits of the land; and it shall burn, and not be quenched.


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For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt offerings and sacrifice:


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but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear you° my voice, and I will be to you a God, and you° shall be to me a people: and walk you° in all my ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.


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But they listened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward;


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from the day that their fathers went forth out of the land of Egypt, even until this day. And I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, by day and early in the morning: yes, I sent <i>them</i>,


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but they listened not to me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.


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This is the nation which has not listened to the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.


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Cut off your hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on your lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.


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For the children of Juda have wrought evil before me, says the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house on which my name is called, to defile it.


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And they have built the altar of Taphes, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them <i>to do</i>, neither did I design it in my heart.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The altar of Taphes, and the valley of the son of Ennom, but, The valley of the slain; and they shall bury in Taphes, for lack of room.


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And the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to drive <i>them</i> away.


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And I will destroy out of the cities of Juda, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.<pb/>


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At that time, says the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;


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and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,


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because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place whither I shall drive them out.


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For thus says the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?


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Therefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?


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Listen, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.


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Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her time, <i>also</i> the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments of the Lord.


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How will you° say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.


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


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There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig-trees, and the leaves have fallen off.


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Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before him.


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


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For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which can’t be charmed, and they shall bite you


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Behold, <i>there is</i> a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven <i>images</i>, and with strange vanities.


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


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And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?<pb/>


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


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Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.


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And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, says the Lord.


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Beware you° each of his neighbor, and trust you° not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.


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Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do <i>thus</i> because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.


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Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful: <i>one</i> speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.


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Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this?


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Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate for lack of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone.


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


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Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? and he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord <i>addressed</i> to him, let him tell you therefore the land has been destroyed, has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.


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And the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not listened to my voice;


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but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them <i>to worship</i>:


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therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:


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and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.


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Thus says the Lord, Call you° the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;


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and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.


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For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Sion, How are we become wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!


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Hear now, you° women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and <i>every</i> woman her neighbor a dirge.


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For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.


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And the carcases of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather <i>them</i>.


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Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;


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but let him that boasts boast in this, the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and righteousness, upon the earth; for in these things is my pleasure, says the Lord.


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Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their uncircumcision;


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on Egypt, and on Idumea, and on Edom, and on the children of Ammon, and on the children of Moab, and on every one that shaves his face round about, <i>even</i> them that dwell in the wilderness; for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised <i>in</i> their hearts.<pb/>


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Thus says the Lord, Learn you° not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, <i>falling</i> on their faces.


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For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.


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


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


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


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


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Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.


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For thus says the Lord, Behold, I <i>will</i> overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that your plague may be discovered.


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Alas for your ruin! your plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is your wound, and it has overtaken you.


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Your tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all your curtains have been torn asunder: my children and my cattle are no more: there is no more any place for my tabernacle, <i>nor</i> place for my curtains.


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For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and <i>the sheep</i> have been scattered.


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Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a desolation, and a resting-place for ostriches.


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Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the families that have not called upon your name: for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.<pb/>


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Hear you° the words of this covenant, and you shall speak to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem;


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and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Cursed is the man, who shall not listen to the words of this covenant,


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which I commanded your fathers, in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all things that I shall command you; so shall you° be to me a people, and I will be to you a God;


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that I may confirm my oath, which I sware to your fathers, to give them a land flowing <i>with</i> milk and honey, as <i>it is</i> this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.


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And the Lord said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Juda, and among the dwellers in Jerusalem.


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They are turned <i>aside</i> to the iniquities of their fathers that were of old, who would not listen to my words: and, behold, they go after strange gods, to serve them: and the house of Israel and the house of Juda have broken my covenant, which I made with their fathers.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I bring evils upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall presently cry to me, but I will not listen to them.


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And the cities of Juda and the dwellers in Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense; which shall not deliver them in the time of their troubles.


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For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you° set up altars to burn incense to Baal.


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And you, pray not for this people, and intercede not for them in supplication and prayer: for I will not hear in the day in which they call upon me, in the day of their affliction.


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Why has <i>my</i> beloved wrought abomination in my house? will prayers and holy offerings take away your wickedness from you, or shall you escape by these things?


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The Lord called your name a fair olive tree, of a goodly shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against it; great is the affliction <i>coming</i> upon you: her branches are become good for nothing.


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And the Lord that planted you has pronounced evils against you, because of the iniquity of the house of Israel and the house of Juda, whatever they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger by burning incense to Baal.


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But I as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, knew not: against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more.


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O Lord, that judge righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see your vengeance <i>taken</i> upon them, for to you I have declared my cause.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek my life, that say, You shall not prophesy at all in the name of the Lord, but if you do, you shall die by our hands:


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behold, I will visit them: their young men shall die by the sword; and their sons and their daughters shall die of famine:


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and there shall be no remnant <i>left</i> of them; for I will bring evil upon the dwellers in Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.<pb/>


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Righteous are you, O Lord, that I may make my defence to you, yes, I will speak to you <i>of</i> judgments. Why <i>is it</i> that the way of ungodly <i>men</i> prospers? <i>that</i> all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?


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You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; you are near to their mouth, and far from their reins.


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But you, Lord, know me; you have proved my heart before you; purify them for the day of their slaughter.


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How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of the field wither, for the wickedness of them, that dwell in it? the beasts and birds are utterly destroyed; because <i>the people</i> said, God shall not see our ways.


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Your feet run, and they cause you to faint; how will you prepare <i>to ride</i> upon horses? and you have been confident in the land of your peace? how will you do in the roaring of Jordan?


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For even your brethren and the house of your father, even these have dealt treacherously with you; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of you; trust not you in them, though they shall speak fair <i>words</i> to you.


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I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given my beloved one into the hands of her enemies.


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My inheritance has become to me as a lion in a forest; she has uttered her voice against me; therefore have I hated her.


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Is not my inheritance to me a hyaena's cave, or a cave round about her? Go you°, gather together all the wild beasts of the field, and let them come to devour her.


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Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have defiled my portion, they have made my desirable portion a trackless wilderness;


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it is made a complete ruin: for my sake the whole land has been utterly ruined, because there is none that lays <i>the matter</i> to heart.


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The ravagers are come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other: no flesh has any peace.


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Sow wheat, and reap thorns; their portions shall not profit them: be ashamed of your boasting, because of reproach before the Lord.


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For thus says the Lord, concerning all the evil neighbors that touch my inheritance, which I have divided to my people Israel; Behold, I <i>will</i> draw them away from their land, and I will cast out Juda from the midst of them.


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And it shall come to pass, after I have cast them out, <i>that</i> I will return, and have mercy upon them, and will cause them to dwell every one in his inheritance, and every one in his land.


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And it shall be, if they will indeed learn the way of my people, to swear by my name, <i>saying</i>, The Lord lives; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall <i>that nation</i> be built in the midst of my people.


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Thus says the Lord, Go and procure for yourself a linen girdle, and put it about your loins, and let it not be put in water.


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Take the girdle that is upon your loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.


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And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take thence the girdle, which I commanded you to hide there.


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So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I <i>had</i> buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.


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<i>even</i> this great pride <i>of the men</i> that will not listen to my words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them: and they shall be as this girdle, which can be used for nothing.


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For as a girdle cleaves about the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to myself the house of Israel, and the whole house of Juda; that they might be to me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory: but they did not listen to me.


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Thus says the Lord, Behold, I <i>will</i> fill the inhabitants of this land, and their kings the sons of David that sit upon their throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and Juda and all the dwellers in Jerusalem, with strong drink.


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And I will scatter them a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together: I will not have compassion, says the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity <i>to save them</i> from destruction.


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Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and you° shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.


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But if you° will not listen, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.


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Say you° to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.


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The cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open <i>them</i>: Juda is removed <i>into captivity, </i>they have suffered a complete removal.


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Lift up your eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given you, the sheep of your glory?


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What will you say when they shall visit you, for you did teach them lessons for rule against yourself; shall not pangs seize you as a woman in travail?


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And if you should say in your heart, Therefore have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of your iniquity have your skirts been discovered, that your heels might be exposed.


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If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall you° be able to do good, having learned evil.


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Thus is your lot, and the reward of your disobedience to me, says the Lord; as you did forget me, and trust in lies,


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your adultery also, and your neighing, and the looseness of your fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem, for you have not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet <i>shall it be</i>?<pb/>


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Judea has mourned, and her gates are emptied, and are darkened upon the earth; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.


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And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.


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And the labors of the land failed, because there was no rain: the husbandmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.


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The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.


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Our sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do you for us for your own sake; for our sins are many before you; for we have sinned against you.


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O Lord, <i>you are</i> the hope of Israel, and deliver <i>us</i> in time of troubles; why are you become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting-place?


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Will you be as a man asleep, or as a <i>strong</i> man that can’t save? yet you are among us, O Lord, and your name is called upon us; forget us not.


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Thus says the Lord to this people, They have loved to wander, and they have not spared, therefore God has not prospered them; now will he remember their iniquity.


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for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.


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And I said, O <i>ever</i> living Lord! behold, their prophets prophesy, and say, You° shall not see a sword, nor shall famine be among you; for I will give truth and peace on the land, and in this place.


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Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, and divinations, and auguries, and devices of their own heart.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy lies in my name, and I sent them not, who say, Sword and famine shall not be upon this land; they shall die by a grievous death, and the prophets shall be consumed by famine.


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And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall be none to bury them: their wives also, and their sons, and their daughters <i>shall die thus</i>; and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.


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


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If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.


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Have you utterly rejected Juda? and has your soul departed from Sion? therefore have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!


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Refrain for your name's sake, destroy not the throne of your glory: remember, break not your covenant with us.


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And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before my face, my soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth.


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And it shall be, if they say to you, Whither shall we go forth? then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord; As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.


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And I will punish them with four kinds <i>of death</i>, says the Lord, the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.


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And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.


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Who will spare you, O Jerusalem? and who will fear for you? or who will turn back <i>to ask</i> for your welfare?


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You have turned away from me, says the Lord, you will go back: therefore I will stretch out my hand, and will destroy you, and will no more spare them.


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And I will completely scatter them; in the gates of my people they are bereaved of children: they have destroyed my people because of their iniquities.


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Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, <i>even</i> distress at noon-day: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.


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She that bore seven is spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced: I will give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies.


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Woe is me, <i>my</i> mother! you have born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped <i>others</i>, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.


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Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before you in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for <i>their</i> good against the enemy.


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Yes, I will give your treasures for a spoil as a recompence, because of all your sins and <i>that</i> in all your borders.


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And I will enslave you to your enemies round about, in a land which you have not known; for a fire has been kindled out of my wrath; it shall burn upon you.


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O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for your sake, from those who set at nothing your words;


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consume them; and your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.


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I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of your power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.


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Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? my wound is severe; whence shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as deceitful water, that has no faithfulness.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, If you will return, then will I restore you, and you shall stand before my face: and if you will bring forth the precious from the worthless, you shall be as my mouth: and they shall return to you; but you shall not return to them.


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And I will make you to this people as a strong brazen wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you;


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for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you out of the hand of wicked <i>men</i>; and I will ransom you out of the hand of pestilent <i>men</i>.<pb/>


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For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that have born them, and concerning their fathers that have begotten them in this land;


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They shall die of grievous death; they shall not be lamented, nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky: they shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.


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Thus says the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them: for I have removed my peace from this people.


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They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselves <i>for them</i>:


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and there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them for consolation over the dead: they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.


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For thus says the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I <i>will</i> make to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.


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And it shall come to pass, when you shall report to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Therefore has the Lord pronounced against us all these evils? what is our unrighteousness? and what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?


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Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers forsook me, says the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshipped them, and forsook me, and kept not my law;


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(and you° sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, you° walk every one after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to listen to me);


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


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north, and from all countries whither they were thrust out: and I will restore them to their own land, which I gave to their fathers.


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Behold, I <i>will</i> send many fishers, says the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.


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And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profaned my land with the carcases of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against my inheritance.


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O Lord, you are my strength, and my help, and my refuge in days of evil: to you the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain <i>were the</i> idols <i>which</i> our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.


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Therefore, behold, I will at this time manifest my hand to them, and will make known to them my power; and they shall know that my name is the Lord.<pb/>


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And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren <i>places</i>, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.


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And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place: he shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be upon him shady branches: he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.


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I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.


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The partridge utters her voice, she gathers <i>eggs</i> which she did not lay; <i>so is a man</i> gaining his wealth unjustly; in the midst of his days <i>his riches</i> shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.


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


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But I have not been weary of following you, nor have I desired the day of man; you know; the <i>words</i> that proceed out of my lips are before your face.


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Let them that persecute me be ashamed, but let me not be ashamed: let them be alarmed, but let me not be alarmed: bring upon them the evil day, crush them with double destruction.


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Thus says the Lord; Go and stand in the gates of the children of your people, by which the kings of Juda enter, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:


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and you shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, you° kings of Juda, and all Judea, and all Jerusalem, <i>all</i> who go in at these gates:


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thus says the Lord; Take heed to your souls, and take up no burdens on the sabbath-day, and go not forth <i>through</i> the gates of Jerusalem;


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and carry forth no burdens out of your houses on the sabbath-day, and you° shall do no work: sanctify the sabbath-day, as I commanded your fathers.


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But they listened not, and inclined not their ear, but stiffened their neck more than their fathers <i>did</i>, so as not to hear me, and not to receive correction.


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And it shall come to pass, if you° will listen to me, says the Lord, to carry in no burdens through the gates of this city on the sabbath-day, and to sanctify the sabbath-day, so as to do no work <i>upon it</i>,


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that there shall enter through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, and riding on their chariots and horses, they, and their princes, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.


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And <i>men</i> shall come out of the cities of Juda, and from round about Jerusalem, and out of the land of Benjamin, and out of the plain country, and from the hill country, and from the south <i>country</i>, bringing whole burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and incense, and manna, and frankincense, bringing praise to the house of the Lord.


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But it shall come to pass, if you° will not listen to me to sanctify the sabbath-day, to bear no burdens, nor go in <i>with them by</i> the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath-day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the streets of Jerusalem, and shall not be quenched.<pb/>


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And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to him to make <i>it</i>.


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Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are you° in my hands.


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<i>If</i> I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy <i>them</i>;


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and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I repent of the evils which I purposed to do to them.


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And <i>if</i> I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild and to plant <i>it</i>;


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and they do evil before me, so as not to listen to my voice, then will I repent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.


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And now say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare evils against you, and devise a device against you: let every one turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.


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And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Enquire now among the nations, who has heard such very horrible things as the virgin of Israel has done?


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Will fertilising streams fail <i>to flow</i> from a rock, or snow <i>fail</i> from Libanus? will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?


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For my people have forgotten me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, <i>leaving</i> the ancient tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;


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to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing; all that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.


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I will scatter them before their enemies like an east wind; I will show them the day of their destruction.


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Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device against Jeremias; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.


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Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they <i>meant</i> for me; remember that I stood before your face, to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.


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Therefore do you deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.


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Let there be a cry in their houses: you shall bring upon them robbers suddenly: for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me.


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And you, Lord, know all their deadly counsel against me: account not their iniquities guiltless, and blot not out their sins from before you: let their weakness come before you; deal with them in the time of your wrath.<pb/>


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Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and you shall bring <i>some</i> of the elders of the people, and of the priests;


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and you shall go forth to the burial-place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the gate of Charsith; and do you read there all these words which I shall speak to you:


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and you shall say to them, Hear you° the word of the Lord, you° kings of Juda, and men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus says the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I <i>will</i> bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it shall tingle.


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Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burnt incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with innocent blood,


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and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design <i>them</i> in my heart:


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial-place of the son of Ennom, but, The burial-place of slaughter.


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And I will destroy the counsel of Juda and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the earth.


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And I will bring this city to desolation and <i>make it</i> a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.


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And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies shall besiege them.


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and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which can’t be mended again.


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Thus will I do, says the Lord, to this place, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.


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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to strange gods.


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And Jeremias came from <i>the place</i> of the Fall, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house: and said to all the people, Thus says the Lord;


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Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the evils which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, <i>that they might not</i> listen to my commands.<pb/>


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Now Paschor the son of Emmer, the priest, who also had been appointed chief of the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias prophesying these words.


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And he struck him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.


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And Paschor brought Jeremias out of the dungeon: and Jeremias said to him, <i>The Lord</i> has not called your name Paschor, but Exile.


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For thus says the Lord, Behold, I <i>will</i> give you up to captivity with all your friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see <i>it</i>: and I will give you and all Juda into the hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall carry them captives, and cut them in pieces with swords.


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And I will give all the strength of this city, and all the labors of it, and all the treasures of the king of Juda, into the hands of his enemies, and they shall bring them to Babylon.


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And you and all the dwellers in your house shall go into captivity: and you shall die in Babylon, and there you and all your friends shall be buried, to whom you have prophesied lies.


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You have deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived: you have been strong, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing stock, I am continually mocked every day.


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For I will laugh with my bitter speech, I will call upon rebellion and misery: for the word of the Lord is become a reproach to me and a mockery all my days.


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Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and can’t bear <i>up</i>.


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For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, <i>saying</i>, Conspire you°, and let us conspire together against him, <i>even</i> all his friends: watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.


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But the Lord was with me as a mighty man of war: therefore they persecuted <i>me</i>, but could not perceive <i>anything against me</i>; they were greatly confounded, for they perceived not their disgrace, which shall never be forgotten.


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O Lord, that prove just <i>deeds</i>, understanding the reins and hearts, let me see your vengeance upon them: for to you I have revealed my cause.


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Sing you° to the Lord, sing praise to him: for he has rescued the soul of the poor from the hand of evil-doers.


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Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed.


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Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;


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because he killed me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.


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Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?<pb/>


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THE WORD THAT CAME FROM THE LORD TO JEREMIAS, WHEN KING SEDEKIAS SENT TO HIM PASCHOR THE SON OF MELCHIAS, AND SOPHONIAS SON OF BASAEAS, THE PRIEST, SAYING,


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Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up against us; if the Lord will do according to all his wonderful works, and <i>the king</i> shall depart from us.


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Thus says the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> turn back the weapons of war wherewith you° fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.


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And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.


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And I will strike all the dwellers in this city, <i>both</i> men and cattle, with grievous pestilence: and they shall die.


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And after this, thus says the Lord; I will give Sedekias king of Juda, and his servants, and the people that is left in this city from the pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies, that seek their lives: and they shall cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword: I will not spare them, and I will not have compassion upon them.


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And you shall say to this people, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of death.


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He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine: but he that goes forth to advance to the Chaldeans that have besieged you, shall live, and his life shall be to him for a spoil, and he shall live.


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For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good: it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall consume it with fire.


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O house of David, thus says the Lord; Judge judgment in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that wrongs him, lest my anger be kindled like fire, and it burn, and there be none to quench <i>it</i>.


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Behold, I am against you that dwell in the valley of Sor; in the plain country, <i>even against</i> them that say, Who shall alarm us? or who shall enter into our habitation?


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Thus says the Lord; Go you, and go down to the house of the king of Juda, and you shall speak there this word,


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and you shall say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Juda, that sit on the throne of David, you, and your house, and your people, and they that go in at these gates:


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thus says the Lord; Execute you° judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.


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For if you° will indeed perform this word, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, and riding on chariots and horses, they, and their servants, and their people.


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But if you° will not perform these words, by myself have I sworn, says the Lord, that this house shall be <i>brought</i> to desolation.


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For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Juda; You are Galaad to me, <i>and</i> the head of Libanus: <i>yet</i> surely I will make you a desert, <i>even</i> cities that shall not be inhabited:


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and I will bring upon you a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast <i>them</i> into the fire.


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And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbor, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?


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And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped strange gods, and served them.


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Weep not for the dead, nor lament for him: weep bitterly for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.


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For thus says the Lord concerning Sellem the son of Josias, who reigns in the place of Josias his father, who has gone forth out of this place; He shall not return there any more:


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but in that place whither I have carried him captive, there shall he die, and shall see this land no more.


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He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbor for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.


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You have built for yourself a well-proportioned house, airy chambers, fitted with windows, and wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.


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Shall you reign, because you are provoked with your father Achaz? they shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute judgment and justice.


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They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor: is not this your not knowing me? says the Lord.


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Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but <i>they go</i> after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.


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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man; they shall not bewail him, <i>saying</i>, Ah brother! neither shall they at all weep for him, <i>saying</i>, Alas Lord.


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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.


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Go up to Libanus, and cry; and utter your voice to Basan, and cry aloud to the extremity of the sea: for all your lovers are destroyed.


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I spoke to you on <i>occasion of</i> your trespass, but you said, I will not listen. This <i>has been</i> your way from your youth, you have not listened to my voice.


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The wind shall tend all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; for then shall you be ashamed and disgraced because of all your lovers.


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O you that dwell in Libanus, making your nest in the cedars, you shall groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon you.


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and I will deliver you into the hands of them that seek your life, before whom you are afraid, into the hands of the Chaldeans.


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And I will cast forth you, and your mother that bore you, into a land where you were not born; and there you° shall die.


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Jechonias is dishonored as a good-for-nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.


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And I will raise up shepherds to them, who shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be alarmed, says the Lord.


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Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth.


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In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the prophets.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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but The Lord lives, who has gathered the whole seed of Israel from the north land, and from all the countries whither he <i>had</i> driven them out, and has restored them into their own land.


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My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken: I am become as a broken-down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of his glory.


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For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become evil, and so <i>also</i> their strength.


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Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.


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And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led my people Israel astray.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth <i>into</i> all the land.


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Thus says the Lord Almighty, Listen not to the words of the prophets: for they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.


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They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to everyone that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon you.


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And the Lord's wrath shall return no more, until he have accomplished it, and until he have established it, according to the purpose of his heart: at the end of the days they shall understand it.


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But if they had stood in my counsel, and if they had listened to my words, then would they have turned my people from their evil practices.


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I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.


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How long shall <i>these things</i> be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?


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who devise that <i>men</i> may forget my law by their dreams, which they have told every one to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name in <i>the worship of</i> Baal.


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Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, says the Lord God, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.


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Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them <i>truly</i>, and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.


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And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? then you shall say to them, You° are the burden, and I will dash you down, says the Lord.


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<i>As for</i> the prophet, and the priests, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his house.


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Thus shall you° say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has the Lord answered? and, what has the Lord said?


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Therefore thus says the Lord our God; Because you° have spoken this word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you, saying, you° shall not say, The burden of the Lord;


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therefore, behold, I <i>will</i> seize, and dash down you and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.


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And I will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, and everlasting disgrace, which shall not be forgotten.<pb/>


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The Lord showed me two baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of the Lord, after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried captive Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda, and the princes, and the artificers, and the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.


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The one basket was <i>full</i> of very good figs, as the early figs; and the other basket was <i>full</i> of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for their badness.


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And the Lord said to me, What see you, Jeremias? and I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which can’t be eaten, for their badness.


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Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel; As these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.


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And I will fix my eyes upon them for good, and I will restore them into this land for good: and I will build them up, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.


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And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to me with all their heart.


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And as the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, for their badness; thus says the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt.


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In the thirteenth year of Josias, son of Amos, king of Juda, even until this day for three and twenty years, I have both spoken to you, rising early and speaking,


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and I sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early; (but you° listened not, and listened not with your ears;) saying,


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Turn you° every one from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and you° shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, of old and for ever.


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Go you° not after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, that you° provoke me not by the works of your hands, to do you hurt.


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behold I <i>will</i> send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.


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And I will destroy from <i>among</i> them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.


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And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.


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And I will bring upon Aelam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them toward all these winds; and there shall be no nation <i>to</i> which they shall not come—<i>even</i> the outcasts of Aelam.


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And I will put them in fear before their enemies that seek their life; and I will bring evils upon them according to my great anger; and I will send forth my sword after them, until I have utterly destroyed them.


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FOR EGYPT, AGAINST THE POWER OF PHARAO NECHAO KING OF EGYPT, who was by the river Euphrates in Charmis, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Joakim king of Juda.


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and harness the horses: mount, you° horsemen, and stand ready in your helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breastplates.


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Why do they fear, and turn back? even because their mighty men shall be slain: they have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not rallied, says the Lord.


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Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north: the <i>forces</i> at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.


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The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river: and he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth, and will destroy the dwellers in it.


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Mount you° the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, you° warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, you° Lydians, bend the bow.


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And that day <i>shall be</i> to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to take vengeance on his enemies: and the sword of the Lord shall devour, and be glutted, and be drunken with their blood: for the Lord <i>has</i> a sacrifice from the land of the north at the river Euphrates.


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Go up to Galaad, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain have you multiplied your medicines; there is no help in you.


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The nations have heard your voice, and the land has been filled with your cry: for the warriors have fainted fighting one against another, <i>and</i> both are fallen together.


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THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE by Jeremias, concerning the coming of the king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt.


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Proclaim <i>it</i> at Magdol, and declare <i>it</i> at Memphis: say you°, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured your yew tree.


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Therefore has Apis fled from you? your choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.


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And your multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one said to his neighbor, Let us arise, and return into our country to our people, from the Grecian sword.


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<i>As</i> I live, says the Lord God, he shall come as Itabyrion among the mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.


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O daughter of Egypt dwelling <i>at home</i>, prepare you stuff for removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because there are no inhabitants in it.


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Also her hired <i>soldiers</i> in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord: they stood not, for the day of destruction was come upon them, and the time of their retribution.


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Their voice is as <i>that</i> of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the sand; they shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.


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They shall cut down her forest, says the Lord, for <i>their number</i> can’t at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.


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The daughter of Egypt is confounded; she is delivered into the hands of a people from the north.<pb/>


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Proclaim you° among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress <i>them</i> not: say you°, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.


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For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.


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In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.


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They shall ask the way till <i>they come to</i> Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.


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My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.


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All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers <i>had</i> a pasture of righteousness.


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Flee you° out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.


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For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.


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Because you° rejoiced, and boasted, <i>while</i> plundering my heritage; because you° exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.


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Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: <i>she is</i> the last of the nations, desolate,


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by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.


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Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you° that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,


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and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.


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Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, <i>and</i> him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.


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Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon <i>has gnawed</i> his bones.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.


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And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.


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In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left


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on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.


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Thus says the Lord; Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling therein, a deadly burning wind.


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And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about <i>her</i> in the day of her affliction.


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Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armor put it on: and spare you° not her young men, but destroy you° all her host.


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And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and <i>men</i> pierced through shall fall without it.


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For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken of their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy things of Israel.


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Flee you° out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every one his soul: and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution from the Lord; he is rendering to her a recompence.


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Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, causing all the earth to be drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore they were shaken.


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And Babylon is fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces: lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed.


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We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed: let us forsake her, and depart every one to his own country: for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.


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The Lord has brought forth his judgment: come, and let us declare in Sion the works of the Lord our God.


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Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord has stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes: for his wrath is against Babylon, to destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord's vengeance, it is the vengeance of his people.


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Lift up a standard on the walls of Babylon, prepare the quivers, rouse the guards, prepare the weapons: for the Lord has taken <i>the work</i> in hand, and will execute what he has spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon,


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dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures; your end is come verily into your bowels.


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For the Lord has sworn by his arm, <i>saying, </i>I will fill you with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against you.


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The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.


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At <i>his</i> voice he makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he makes lightnings for rain, and brings light out of his treasures.


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Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven <i>images</i>: for they have cast false <i>gods</i>, there is no breath in them.<pb/>


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Behold, waters come up from the north, and shall become a sweeping torrent, and it shall sweep away the land, and its fulness; the city, and them that dwell in it: and men shall cry and all that dwell in the land shall howl,


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at the sound of his rushing, at <i>the sound of</i> his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,


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in the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines: and I will utterly destroy Tyre and Sidon and all the rest of their allies: for the Lord will destroy the remaining <i>inhabitants</i> of the islands.


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How long will you strike, O sword of the Lord? how long will it be ere you are quiet? return into your sheath, rest, and be removed.


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How shall it be quiet, whereas the Lord has given it a commission against Ascalon, and against the regions on the sea-coast, to awake against the remaining <i>countries</i>! CONCERNING IDUMEA, thus says the Lord; There is no longer wisdom in Thaeman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,


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their place has been deceived. Dig deep for a dwelling, you° that inhabit Daedam, for he has wrought grievously: I brought trouble upon him in the time at which I visited him.


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For grape gatherers are come, who shall not leave you a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon <i>your possessions</i>.


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For I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their secret places; they shall have no power to hide themselves, they have perished <i>each</i> by the hand of his brother, my neighbor, and it is impossible


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For thus says the Lord; They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk <i>it</i>; and you shall by no means be cleared:


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for by myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that you shall be in the midst of her an impassable <i>land</i>, and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be desert for ever.


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I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent messengers to the nations, <i>saying, </i>Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise you° up to war.


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Your insolence has risen up against you, the fierceness of your heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high: thence will I bring you down.


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As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha and they that sojourned in her, says the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.


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Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of Jordan to the place of Aetham: for I will speedily drive them from it, and do you° set the young men against her: for who is like me? and who will withstand me? and who <i>is</i> this shepherd, who shall confront me?


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Therefore hear you° the counsel of the Lord, which he has framed against Idumea; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Thaeman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.


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CONCERNING THE SONS OF AMMON thus says the Lord, Are there no sons in Israel? or have they no one to succeed <i>them</i>? therefore has Melchol inherited Galaad, and why shall their people dwell in their cities?


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will cause to be heard in Rabbath a tumult of wars; and they shall become a waste and ruined place, and her altars shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel succeed to his dominion.


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Howl, O Esebon, for Gai has perished; cry, you° daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament; for Melchol shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.


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Why do you° exult in the plains of the Enakim, you haughty daughter, that trust in <i>your</i> treasures, that say, Who shall come in to me?


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CONCERNING DAMASCUS. Emath is brought to shame, and Arphath: for they have heard an evil report: they are amazed, they are angry, they shall be utterly unable to rest.


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Thus has the Lord said concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.


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There is no longer any healing for Moab, <i>nor</i> glorying in Esebon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her off from <i>being</i> a nation, and she shall be completely still: after you shall go a sword;


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for Aloth is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of Oronaim; you° have heard a cry of destruction.


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Since you have trusted in your strong-hold, therefore you shall be taken: and Chamos shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.


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And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.


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Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence <i>shall there be</i> an inhabitant for her?


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Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out <i>his liquor</i> from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.


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Therefore, behold, his days come, says the Lord, when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut his horns asunder.


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And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Baethel their hope, having trusted in them.


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Shake <i>the head</i> at him, all you° that are round about him; all <i>of you</i> utter his name; say you°, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!


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Come down from <i>your</i> glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against you one to ravage your strong-hold.


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Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?


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Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.


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Make you° him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing stock.


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For surely Israel was to you a laughing stock, and was found among your thefts, because you did fight against him.


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The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and lived in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.


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And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.


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Therefore howl you° for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men <i>in</i> a gloomy place. I will weep for you,


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O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: your branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon your fruits, <i>and</i> upon your grape gatherers.


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Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and <i>though</i> there was wine in your presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.


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From the cry of Esebon even to Aetam their cities uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings <i>as</i> a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall be dried up.


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Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what <i>every</i> man has gained has perished from him.


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They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat <i>the breasts</i>, and on all loins shall be sackcloth.


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And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets <i>shall be mourning</i>: for I have broken <i>him</i>, says the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.


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How has he changed! how has Moab turned <i>his</i> back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing stock, and an object of anger to all that are round about him.


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Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Take the cup of this unmixed wine from my hand, and you shall cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send you.


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Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing;


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and all the mingled <i>people</i>, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus,


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and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth.


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And you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty; Drink you°, be you° drunken; and you° shall vomit, and shall fall, and shall in nowise rise, because of the sword which I send among you.


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And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of your hand, to drink it, that you shall say, Thus said the Lord; You° shall surely drink.


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For I am beginning to afflict the city whereon my name is called, and you° shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.


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And you shall prophesy against them these words, and shall say, The Lord shall speak from on high, from his sanctuary he will utter his voice; he will pronounce a declaration on his place; and these shall answer like men gathering grapes: and destruction is coming on them that dwell on the earth,


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<i>even</i> upon <i>the extreme</i> part of the earth; for the Lord <i>has</i> a controversy with the nations, he is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, says the Lord.


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Thus said the Lord; Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth.


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And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from <i>one</i> end of the earth even to the <i>other</i> end of the earth: they shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.


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Howl, you° shepherds, and cry; and lament, you° rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and you° shall fall as the choice rams.


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A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.


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Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and you shall declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded you to speak to them; abate not one word.


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Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.


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And you shall say, Thus said the Lord; If you° will not listen to me, to walk in my statutes which I set before you,


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to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you early in the morning; yes, I sent them, but you° listened not to me;


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then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make <i>this</i> city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.


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And the priests, and the false prophets, and all the people heard Jeremias speaking these words in the house of the Lord.


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And it came to pass, when Jeremias had ceased speaking all that the Lord had ordered him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false prophets and all the people took him, saying,


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You shall surely die, because you have prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Selo, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.


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And the princes of Juda heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate.


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Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgment of death <i>is due</i> to this man; because he has prophesied against this city, as you° have heard with your ears.


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Then Jeremias spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words which you° have heard.


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And now amend your ways and your works, and listen to the voice of the Lord; and the Lord shall cease from the evils which he has pronounced against you.


