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\c 31
\p
\v 1 The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.
\b
\q1
\v 2 “Oh, my son!
\q2 Oh, son of my womb!
\q2 Oh, son of my vows!
\q1
\v 3 Don’t give your strength to women,
\q2 nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
\q1
\v 4 It is not for kings, Lemuel,
\q2 it is not for kings to drink wine,
\q2 nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
\q1
\v 5 lest they drink, and forget the law,
\q2 and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
\q1
\v 6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish,
\q2 and wine to the bitter in soul.
\q1
\v 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty,
\q2 and remember his misery no more.
\q1
\v 8 Open your mouth for the mute,
\q2 in the cause of all who are left desolate.
\q1
\v 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously,
\q2 and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
\b
\q1
\v 10 \f + \fr 31:10 \ft Proverbs 31:10-31 form an acrostic, with each verse starting with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in order.\f*Who can find a worthy woman?
\q2 For her price is far above rubies.
\q1
\v 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her.
\q2 He shall have no lack of gain.
\q1
\v 12 She does him good, and not harm,
\q2 all the days of her life.
\q1
\v 13 She seeks wool and flax,
\q2 and works eagerly with her hands.
\q1
\v 14 She is like the merchant ships.
\q2 She brings her bread from afar.
\q1
\v 15 She rises also while it is yet night,
\q2 gives food to her household,
\q2 and portions for her servant girls.
\q1
\v 16 She considers a field, and buys it.
\q2 With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
\q1
\v 17 She arms her waist with strength,
\q2 and makes her arms strong.
\q1
\v 18 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.
\q2 Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.
\q1
\v 19 She lays her hands to the distaff,
\q2 and her hands hold the spindle.
\q1
\v 20 She opens her arms to the poor;
\q2 yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
\q1
\v 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household;
\q2 for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
\q1
\v 22 She makes for herself carpets of tapestry.
\q2 Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
\q1
\v 23 Her husband is respected in the gates,
\q2 when he sits among the elders of the land.
\q1
\v 24 She makes linen garments and sells them,
\q2 and delivers sashes to the merchant.
\q1
\v 25 Strength and dignity are her clothing.
\q2 She laughs at the time to come.
\q1
\v 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom.
\q2 Kind instruction is on her tongue.
\q1
\v 27 She looks well to the ways of her household,
\q2 and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.
\q1
\v 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed.
\q2 Her husband also praises her:
\q1
\v 29 “Many women do noble things,
\q2 but you excel them all.”
\q1
\v 30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain;
\q2 but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
\q1
\v 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands!
\q2 Let her works praise her in the gates!


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\c 4
\q1
\v 1 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
\q2 Pay attention and know understanding;
\q1
\v 2 for I give you sound learning.
\q2 Don’t forsake my law.
\q1
\v 3 For I was a son to my father,
\q2 tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
\q1
\v 4 He taught me, and said to me:
\q2 “Let your heart retain my words.
\q2 Keep my commandments, and live.
\q1
\v 5 Get wisdom.
\q2 Get understanding.
\q2 Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
\q1
\v 6 Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you.
\q2 Love her, and she will keep you.
\q1
\v 7 Wisdom is supreme.
\q2 Get wisdom.
\q2 Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
\q1
\v 8 Esteem her, and she will exalt you.
\q2 She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.
\q1
\v 9 She will give to your head a garland of grace.
\q2 She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
\b
\q1
\v 10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings.
\q2 The years of your life will be many.
\q1
\v 11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom.
\q2 I have led you in straight paths.
\q1
\v 12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered.
\q2 When you run, you will not stumble.
\q1
\v 13 Take firm hold of instruction.
\q2 Don’t let her go.
\q2 Keep her, for she is your life.
\q1
\v 14 Don’t enter into the path of the wicked.
\q2 Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
\q1
\v 15 Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
\q2 Turn from it, and pass on.
\q1
\v 16 For they don’t sleep unless they do evil.
\q2 Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
\q1
\v 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
\q2 and drink the wine of violence.
\q1
\v 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light
\q2 that shines more and more until the perfect day.
\q1
\v 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness.
\q2 They don’t know what they stumble over.
\b
\q1
\v 20 My son, attend to my words.
\q2 Turn your ear to my sayings.
\q1
\v 21 Let them not depart from your eyes.
\q2 Keep them in the center of your heart.
\q1
\v 22 For they are life to those who find them,
\q2 and health to their whole body.
\q1
\v 23 Keep your heart with all diligence,
\q2 for out of it is the wellspring of life.
\q1
\v 24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
\q2 Put corrupt lips far from you.
\q1
\v 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead.
\q2 Fix your gaze directly before you.
\q1
\v 26 Make the path of your feet level.
\q2 Let all of your ways be established.
\q1
\v 27 Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
\q2 Remove your foot from evil.


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\c 5
\q1
\v 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
\q2 Turn your ear to my understanding,
\q1
\v 2 that you may maintain discretion,
\q2 that your lips may preserve knowledge.
\q1
\v 3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey.
\q2 Her mouth is smoother than oil,
\q1
\v 4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,
\q2 and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
\q1
\v 5 Her feet go down to death.
\q2 Her steps lead straight to Sheol.\f + \fr 5:5 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f*
\q1
\v 6 She gives no thought to the way of life.
\q2 Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me.
\q2 Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
\q1
\v 8 Remove your way far from her.
\q2 Don’t come near the door of her house,
\q1
\v 9 lest you give your honor to others,
\q2 and your years to the cruel one;
\q1
\v 10 lest strangers feast on your wealth,
\q2 and your labors enrich another man’s house.
\q1
\v 11 You will groan at your latter end,
\q2 when your flesh and your body are consumed,
\q1
\v 12 and say, “How I have hated instruction,
\q2 and my heart despised reproof;
\q1
\v 13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers,
\q2 nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
\q1
\v 14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin,
\q2 among the gathered assembly.”
\b
\q1
\v 15 Drink water out of your own cistern,
\q2 running water out of your own well.
\q1
\v 16 Should your springs overflow in the streets,
\q2 streams of water in the public squares?
\q1
\v 17 Let them be for yourself alone,
\q2 not for strangers with you.
\q1
\v 18 Let your spring be blessed.
\q2 Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
\q1
\v 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer—
\q2 let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
\q2 Be captivated always with her love.
\q1
\v 20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress?
\q2 Why embrace the bosom of another?
\q1
\v 21 For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes.
\q2 He examines all his paths.
\q1
\v 22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him.
\q2 The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
\q1
\v 23 He will die for lack of instruction.
\q2 In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.


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\c 6
\q1
\v 1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,
\q2 if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,
\q1
\v 2 you are trapped by the words of your mouth;
\q2 you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
\q1
\v 3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
\q2 since you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
\q1 Go, humble yourself.
\q2 Press your plea with your neighbor.
\q1
\v 4 Give no sleep to your eyes,
\q2 nor slumber to your eyelids.
\q1
\v 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
\q2 like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard.
\q2 Consider her ways, and be wise;
\q1
\v 7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
\q2
\v 8 provides her bread in the summer,
\q2 and gathers her food in the harvest.
\q1
\v 9 How long will you sleep, sluggard?
\q2 When will you arise out of your sleep?
\q1
\v 10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
\q2 a little folding of the hands to sleep:
\q1
\v 11 so your poverty will come as a robber,
\q2 and your scarcity as an armed man.
\b
\q1
\v 12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
\q2 is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
\q1
\v 13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,
\q2 who motions with his fingers,
\q1
\v 14 in whose heart is perverseness,
\q2 who devises evil continually,
\q2 who always sows discord.
\q1
\v 15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
\q2 He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
\b
\q1
\v 16 There are six things which Yahweh hates;
\q2 yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
\q1
\v 17 arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
\q2 hands that shed innocent blood,
\q1
\v 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
\q2 feet that are swift in running to mischief,
\q1
\v 19 a false witness who utters lies,
\q2 and he who sows discord among brothers.
\b
\q1
\v 20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
\q2 and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
\q1
\v 21 Bind them continually on your heart.
\q2 Tie them around your neck.
\q1
\v 22 When you walk, it will lead you.
\q2 When you sleep, it will watch over you.
\q2 When you awake, it will talk with you.
\q1
\v 23 For the commandment is a lamp,
\q2 and the law is light.
\q2 Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
\q1
\v 24 to keep you from the immoral woman,
\q2 from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
\q1
\v 25 Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,
\q2 neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
\q1
\v 26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
\q2 The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
\q1
\v 27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap,
\q2 and his clothes not be burned?
\q1
\v 28 Or can one walk on hot coals,
\q2 and his feet not be scorched?
\q1
\v 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife.
\q2 Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
\q1
\v 30 Men don’t despise a thief
\q2 if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;
\q1
\v 31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.
\q2 He shall give all the wealth of his house.
\q1
\v 32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
\q2 He who does it destroys his own soul.
\q1
\v 33 He will get wounds and dishonor.
\q2 His reproach will not be wiped away.
\q1
\v 34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.
\q2 He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.
\q1
\v 35 He won’t regard any ransom,
\q2 neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.


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\q1
\v 1 My son, keep my words.
\q2 Lay up my commandments within you.
\q1
\v 2 Keep my commandments and live!
\q2 Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
\q1
\v 3 Bind them on your fingers.
\q2 Write them on the tablet of your heart.
\q1
\v 4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
\q2 Call understanding your relative,
\q1
\v 5 that they may keep you from the strange woman,
\q2 from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
\q1
\v 6 For at the window of my house,
\q2 I looked out through my lattice.
\q1
\v 7 I saw among the simple ones.
\q2 I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
\q1
\v 8 passing through the street near her corner,
\q2 he went the way to her house,
\q1
\v 9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day,
\q2 in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
\q1
\v 10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
\q2 and with crafty intent.
\q1
\v 11 She is loud and defiant.
\q2 Her feet don’t stay in her house.
\q1
\v 12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,
\q2 and lurking at every corner.
\q1
\v 13 So she caught him, and kissed him.
\q2 With an impudent face she said to him:
\q1
\v 14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.
\q2 Today I have paid my vows.
\q1
\v 15 Therefore I came out to meet you,
\q2 to diligently seek your face,
\q2 and I have found you.
\q1
\v 16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
\q2 with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
\q1
\v 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
\q1
\v 18 Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning.
\q2 Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
\q1
\v 19 For my husband isn’t at home.
\q2 He has gone on a long journey.
\q1
\v 20 He has taken a bag of money with him.
\q2 He will come home at the full moon.”
\q1
\v 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray.
\q2 With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
\q1
\v 22 He followed her immediately,
\q2 as an ox goes to the slaughter,
\q2 as a fool stepping into a noose.
\q1
\v 23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver,
\q2 as a bird hurries to the snare,
\q2 and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
\b
\q1
\v 24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
\q2 Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
\q1
\v 25 Don’t let your heart turn to her ways.
\q2 Don’t go astray in her paths,
\q1
\v 26 for she has thrown down many wounded.
\q2 Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
\q1
\v 27 Her house is the way to Sheol,\f + \fr 7:27 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f*
\q2 going down to the rooms of death.


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\v 1 Doesn’t wisdom cry out?
\q2 Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?
\q1
\v 2 On the top of high places by the way,
\q2 where the paths meet, she stands.
\q1
\v 3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,
\q2 at the entry doors, she cries aloud:
\q1
\v 4 “I call to you men!
\q2 I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
\q1
\v 5 You simple, understand prudence!
\q2 You fools, be of an understanding heart!
\q1
\v 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things.
\q2 The opening of my lips is for right things.
\q1
\v 7 For my mouth speaks truth.
\q2 Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
\q1
\v 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness.
\q2 There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
\q1
\v 9 They are all plain to him who understands,
\q2 right to those who find knowledge.
\q1
\v 10 Receive my instruction rather than silver,
\q2 knowledge rather than choice gold.
\q1
\v 11 For wisdom is better than rubies.
\q2 All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.
\b
\q1
\v 12 “I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling.
\q2 Find out knowledge and discretion.
\q1
\v 13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil.
\q2 I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
\q1
\v 14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine.
\q2 I have understanding and power.
\q1
\v 15 By me kings reign,
\q2 and princes decree justice.
\q1
\v 16 By me princes rule,
\q2 nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.
\q1
\v 17 I love those who love me.
\q2 Those who seek me diligently will find me.
\q1
\v 18 With me are riches, honor,
\q2 enduring wealth, and prosperity.
\q1
\v 19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold,
\q2 my yield than choice silver.
\q1
\v 20 I walk in the way of righteousness,
\q2 in the middle of the paths of justice,
\q1
\v 21 that I may give wealth to those who love me.
\q2 I fill their treasuries.
\b
\q1
\v 22 “Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work,
\q2 before his deeds of old.
\q1
\v 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
\q2 before the earth existed.
\q1
\v 24 When there were no depths, I was born,
\q2 when there were no springs abounding with water.
\q1
\v 25 Before the mountains were settled in place,
\q2 before the hills, I was born;
\q1
\v 26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,
\q2 nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
\q1
\v 27 When he established the heavens, I was there.
\q2 When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
\q1
\v 28 when he established the clouds above,
\q2 when the springs of the deep became strong,
\q1
\v 29 when he gave to the sea its boundary,
\q2 that the waters should not violate his commandment,
\q2 when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
\q1
\v 30 then I was the craftsman by his side.
\q2 I was a delight day by day,
\q2 always rejoicing before him,
\q1
\v 31 rejoicing in his whole world.
\q2 My delight was with the sons of men.
\b
\q1
\v 32 “Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,
\q2 for blessed are those who keep my ways.
\q1
\v 33 Hear instruction, and be wise.
\q2 Don’t refuse it.
\q1
\v 34 Blessed is the man who hears me,
\q2 watching daily at my gates,
\q2 waiting at my door posts.
\q1
\v 35 For whoever finds me, finds life,
\q2 and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
\q1
\v 36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul.
\q2 All those who hate me love death.”


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\q1
\v 1 Wisdom has built her house.
\q2 She has carved out her seven pillars.
\q1
\v 2 She has prepared her meat.
\q2 She has mixed her wine.
\q2 She has also set her table.
\q1
\v 3 She has sent out her maidens.
\q2 She cries from the highest places of the city:
\q1
\v 4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
\q2 As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
\q1
\v 5 “Come, eat some of my bread,
\q2 Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
\q1
\v 6 Leave your simple ways, and live.
\q2 Walk in the way of understanding.”
\b
\q1
\v 7 One who corrects a mocker invites insult.
\q2 One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
\q1
\v 8 Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you.
\q2 Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
\q1
\v 9 Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser.
\q2 Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
\q1
\v 10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.
\q2 The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
\q1
\v 11 For by me your days will be multiplied.
\q2 The years of your life will be increased.
\q1
\v 12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself.
\q2 If you mock, you alone will bear it.
\b
\q1
\v 13 The foolish woman is loud,
\q2 undisciplined, and knows nothing.
\q1
\v 14 She sits at the door of her house,
\q2 on a seat in the high places of the city,
\q1
\v 15 to call to those who pass by,
\q2 who go straight on their ways,
\q1
\v 16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.”
\q2 as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
\q1
\v 17 “Stolen water is sweet.
\q2 Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
\q1
\v 18 But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,
\q2 that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.\f + \fr 9:18 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*


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\ide UTF-8
\h Ecclesiastes
\toc1 Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher
\toc2 Ecclesiastes
\toc3 Ecc
\mt1 Ecclesiastes
\mt2 or, The Preacher


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\v 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
\p
\v 2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
\v 3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
\v 4 One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
\v 5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
\v 6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
\v 7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
\v 8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
\v 9 That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
\v 10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:10 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* this is new?” It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
\v 11 There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
\p
\v 12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
\v 13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God\f + \fr 1:13 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
\v 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
\v 15 That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
\v 16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
\v 17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
\v 18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.


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\q1
\v 1 Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor;
\q2 so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
\q1
\v 2 A wise man’s heart is at his right hand,
\q2 but a fool’s heart at his left.
\v 3 Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
\v 4 If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
\p
\v 5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.
\v 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.
\v 7 I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.
\v 8 He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
\v 9 Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered by it.
\v 10 If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
\p
\v 11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.
\v 12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
\v 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
\v 14 A fool also multiplies words.
\p Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
\v 15 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
\q1
\v 16 Woe to you, land, when your king is a child,
\q2 and your princes eat in the morning!
\q1
\v 17 Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles,
\q2 and your princes eat in due season,
\q2 for strength, and not for drunkenness!
\q1
\v 18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in;
\q2 and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
\q1
\v 19 A feast is made for laughter,
\q2 and wine makes the life glad;
\q2 and money is the answer for all things.
\q1
\v 20 Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts;
\q2 and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom:
\q2 for a bird of the sky may carry your voice,
\q2 and that which has wings may tell the matter.


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\p
\v 1 Cast your bread on the waters;
\q2 for you shall find it after many days.
\q1
\v 2 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight;
\q2 for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
\q1
\v 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth;
\q2 and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north,
\q2 in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
\q1
\v 4 He who observes the wind won’t sow;
\q2 and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.
\q1
\v 5 As you don’t know what is the way of the wind,
\q2 nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child;
\q2 even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
\q1
\v 6 In the morning sow your seed,
\q2 and in the evening don’t withhold your hand;
\q2 for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that,
\q2 or whether they both will be equally good.
\q1
\v 7 Truly the light is sweet,
\q2 and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.
\q1
\v 8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all;
\q2 but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.
\q2 All that comes is vanity.
\q1
\v 9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth,
\q2 and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth,
\q2 and walk in the ways of your heart,
\q2 and in the sight of your eyes;
\q2 but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
\q1
\v 10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
\q2 and put away evil from your flesh;
\q2 for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.


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\v 1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth,
\q2 before the evil days come, and the years draw near,
\q2 when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
\q1
\v 2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened,
\q2 and the clouds return after the rain;
\q1
\v 3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble,
\q2 and the strong men shall bow themselves,
\q2 and the grinders cease because they are few,
\q2 and those who look out of the windows are darkened,
\q1
\v 4 and the doors shall be shut in the street;
\q2 when the sound of the grinding is low,
\q2 and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird,
\q2 and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
\q1
\v 5 yes, they shall be afraid of heights,
\q2 and terrors will be on the way;
\q2 and the almond tree shall blossom,
\q2 and the grasshopper shall be a burden,
\q2 and desire shall fail;
\q2 because man goes to his everlasting home,
\q2 and the mourners go about the streets:
\q1
\v 6 before the silver cord is severed,
\q2 or the golden bowl is broken,
\q2 or the pitcher is broken at the spring,
\q2 or the wheel broken at the cistern,
\q1
\v 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was,
\q2 and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
\q2
\v 8 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher.
\q2 “All is vanity!”
\p
\v 9 Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
\v 10 The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.
\v 11 The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
\v 12 Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
\p
\v 13 This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
\v 14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.


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\v 1 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.
\v 2 I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
\p
\v 3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
\v 4 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
\v 5 I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
\v 6 I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were grown.
\v 7 I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
\v 8 I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
\v 9 So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
\v 10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
\v 11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
\p
\v 12 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.
\v 13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
\v 14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
\v 15 Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
\v 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
\p
\v 17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
\v 18 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
\v 19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
\p
\v 20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
\v 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
\v 22 For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
\v 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
\v 24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
\v 25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
\v 26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.


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\v 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
\q1
\v 2 a time to be born,
\q2 and a time to die;
\q1 a time to plant,
\q2 and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
\q1
\v 3 a time to kill,
\q2 and a time to heal;
\q1 a time to break down,
\q2 and a time to build up;
\q1
\v 4 a time to weep,
\q2 and a time to laugh;
\q1 a time to mourn,
\q2 and a time to dance;
\q1
\v 5 a time to cast away stones,
\q2 and a time to gather stones together;
\q1 a time to embrace,
\q2 and a time to refrain from embracing;
\q1
\v 6 a time to seek,
\q2 and a time to lose;
\q1 a time to keep,
\q2 and a time to cast away;
\q1
\v 7 a time to tear,
\q2 and a time to sew;
\q1 a time to keep silence,
\q2 and a time to speak;
\q1
\v 8 a time to love,
\q2 and a time to hate;
\q1 a time for war,
\q2 and a time for peace.
\p
\v 9 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
\v 10 I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
\v 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
\v 12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
\v 13 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
\v 14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
\v 15 That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.
\p
\v 16 Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
\v 17 I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”
\v 18 I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
\v 19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.
\v 20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
\v 21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”
\p
\v 22 Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?


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\v 1 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
\v 2 Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
\v 3 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
\v 4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
\p
\v 5 The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
\v 6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
\p
\v 7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
\v 8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
\p
\v 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
\v 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
\v 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
\v 12 If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
\p
\v 13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
\v 14 For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
\v 15 I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
\v 16 There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.


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\v 1 Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
\v 2 Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
\v 3 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
\v 4 When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
\v 5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
\v 6 Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
\v 7 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
\p
\v 8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
\v 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
\p
\v 10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
\v 11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
\p
\v 12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
\p
\v 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
\v 14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
\v 15 As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
\v 16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
\v 17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
\p
\v 18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
\v 19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
\v 20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.


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\v 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:
\v 2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
\p
\v 3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
\v 4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
\v 5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
\v 6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?
\v 7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
\v 8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
\v 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
\v 10 Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
\v 11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
\v 12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?


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\c 7
\p
\v 1 A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.
\v 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.
\v 3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
\v 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
\v 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.
\v 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
\v 7 Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
\v 8 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning.
\p The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
\v 9 Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
\v 10 Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.
\p
\v 11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
\v 12 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
\p
\v 13 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
\v 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
\p
\v 15 All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
\v 16 Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
\v 17 Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
\v 18 It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.
\v 19 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
\v 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
\v 21 Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
\v 22 for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
\v 23 All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
\v 24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
\v 25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
\p
\v 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
\p
\v 27 “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme
\v 28 which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
\v 29 Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”


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\v 1 Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
\v 2 I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
\v 3 Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
\v 4 for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
\v 5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
\v 6 For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
\v 7 For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
\v 8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
\p
\v 9 All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
\v 10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
\v 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
\v 12 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
\v 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
\p
\v 14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
\v 15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
\p
\v 16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
\v 17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.


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\v 1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
\v 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
\v 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
\v 4 For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
\v 5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
\v 6 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
\p
\v 7 Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
\v 8 Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.
\v 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
\v 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol,\f + \fr 9:10 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* where you are going.
\p
\v 11 I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
\v 12 For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
\p
\v 13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
\v 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
\v 15 Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
\v 16 Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
\v 17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
\v 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.


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\v 1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;
\q2 for your love is better than wine.
\q1
\v 3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance.
\q2 Your name is oil poured out,
\q2 therefore the virgins love you.
\q1
\v 4 Take me away with you.
\q2 Let’s hurry.
\q2 The king has brought me into his rooms.
\sp Friends
\q1 We will be glad and rejoice in you.
\q2 We will praise your love more than wine!
\sp Beloved
\q1 They are right to love you.
\q1
\v 5 I am dark, but lovely,
\q2 you daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 like Kedar’s tents,
\q2 like Solomon’s curtains.
\q1
\v 6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark,
\q2 because the sun has scorched me.
\q1 My mother’s sons were angry with me.
\q2 They made me keeper of the vineyards.
\q2 I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
\q1
\v 7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
\q2 where you graze your flock,
\q2 where you rest them at noon;
\q2 for why should I be as one who is veiled
\q2 beside the flocks of your companions?
\sp Lover
\q1
\v 8 If you don’t know, most beautiful among women,
\q2 follow the tracks of the sheep.
\q2 Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
\b
\q1
\v 9 I have compared you, my love,
\q2 to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
\q1
\v 10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,
\q2 your neck with strings of jewels.
\sp Friends
\q1
\v 11 We will make you earrings of gold,
\q2 with studs of silver.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 12 While the king sat at his table,
\q2 my perfume spread its fragrance.
\q1
\v 13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh,
\q2 that lies between my breasts.
\q1
\v 14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
\q2 from the vineyards of En Gedi.
\sp Lover
\q1
\v 15 Behold,\f + \fr 1:15 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* you are beautiful, my love.
\q2 Behold, you are beautiful.
\q2 Your eyes are like doves.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant;
\q2 and our couch is verdant.
\sp Lover
\q1
\v 17 The beams of our house are cedars.
\q2 Our rafters are firs.


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\c 2
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 1 I am a rose of Sharon,
\q2 a lily of the valleys.
\sp Lover
\q1
\v 2 As a lily among thorns,
\q2 so is my love among the daughters.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,
\q2 so is my beloved among the sons.
\q1 I sat down under his shadow with great delight,
\q2 his fruit was sweet to my taste.
\q1
\v 4 He brought me to the banquet hall.
\q2 His banner over me is love.
\q1
\v 5 Strengthen me with raisins,
\q2 refresh me with apples;
\q2 for I am faint with love.
\q1
\v 6 His left hand is under my head.
\q2 His right hand embraces me.
\q1
\v 7 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
\q2 that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
\q2 until it so desires.
\b
\q1
\v 8 The voice of my beloved!
\q2 Behold, he comes,
\q2 leaping on the mountains,
\q2 skipping on the hills.
\q1
\v 9 My beloved is like a roe or a young deer.
\q2 Behold, he stands behind our wall!
\q1 He looks in at the windows.
\q2 He glances through the lattice.
\b
\q1
\v 10 My beloved spoke, and said to me,
\q2 “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
\q1
\v 11 For behold, the winter is past.
\q2 The rain is over and gone.
\q1
\v 12 The flowers appear on the earth.
\q2 The time of the singing has come,
\q2 and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
\q1
\v 13 The fig tree ripens her green figs.
\q2 The vines are in blossom.
\q2 They give out their fragrance.
\q1 Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
\q2 and come away.”
\sp Lover
\q1
\v 14 My dove in the clefts of the rock,
\q2 in the hiding places of the mountainside,
\q2 let me see your face.
\q2 let me hear your voice;
\q2 for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
\q1
\v 15 Catch for us the foxes,
\q2 the little foxes that plunder the vineyards;
\q2 for our vineyards are in blossom.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his.
\q2 He browses among the lilies.
\q1
\v 17 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
\q2 turn, my beloved,
\q2 and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.


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\c 3
\p
\v 1 By night on my bed,
\q2 I sought him whom my soul loves.
\q2 I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
\q1
\v 2 I will get up now, and go about the city;
\q2 in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.
\q2 I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
\q1
\v 3 The watchmen who go about the city found me;
\q2 “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
\q1
\v 4 I had scarcely passed from them,
\q2 when I found him whom my soul loves.
\q1 I held him, and would not let him go,
\q2 until I had brought him into my mother’s house,
\q2 into the room of her who conceived me.
\b
\q1
\v 5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
\q2 that you not stir up nor awaken love,
\q2 until it so desires.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke,
\q2 perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
\q2 with all spices of the merchant?
\q1
\v 7 Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage!
\q2 Sixty mighty men are around it,
\q2 of the mighty men of Israel.
\q1
\v 8 They all handle the sword, and are expert in war.
\q2 Every man has his sword on his thigh,
\q2 because of fear in the night.
\b
\q1
\v 9 King Solomon made himself a carriage
\q2 of the wood of Lebanon.
\q1
\v 10 He made its pillars of silver,
\q2 its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,
\q2 the middle of it being paved with love,
\q2 from the daughters of Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 11 Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon,
\q2 with the crown with which his mother has crowned him,
\q2 in the day of his weddings,
\q2 in the day of the gladness of his heart.


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\c 4
\sp Lover
\p
\v 1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
\q2 Behold, you are beautiful.
\q1 Your eyes are like doves behind your veil.
\q2 Your hair is as a flock of goats,
\q2 that descend from Mount Gilead.
\q1
\v 2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock,
\q2 which have come up from the washing,
\q2 where every one of them has twins.
\q2 None is bereaved among them.
\q1
\v 3 Your lips are like scarlet thread.
\q2 Your mouth is lovely.
\q2 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
\q1
\v 4 Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory,
\q2 on which a thousand shields hang,
\q2 all the shields of the mighty men.
\q1
\v 5 Your two breasts are like two fawns
\q2 that are twins of a roe,
\q2 which feed among the lilies.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
\q2 I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
\q2 to the hill of frankincense.
\b
\q1
\v 7 You are all beautiful, my love.
\q2 There is no spot in you.
\q1
\v 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
\q2 with me from Lebanon.
\q2 Look from the top of Amana,
\q2 from the top of Senir and Hermon,
\q2 from the lions’ dens,
\q2 from the mountains of the leopards.
\b
\q1
\v 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride.
\q2 You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes,
\q2 with one chain of your neck.
\q1
\v 10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
\q2 How much better is your love than wine,
\q2 the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
\q1
\v 11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb.
\q2 Honey and milk are under your tongue.
\q2 The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
\q1
\v 12 My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden;
\q2 a locked up spring,
\q2 a sealed fountain.
\q1
\v 13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits,
\q2 henna with spikenard plants,
\q2
\v 14 spikenard and saffron,
\q2 calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree;
\q2 myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
\q2
\v 15 a fountain of gardens,
\q2 a well of living waters,
\q2 flowing streams from Lebanon.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 16 Awake, north wind, and come, you south!
\q2 Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out.
\q1 Let my beloved come into his garden,
\q2 and taste his precious fruits.


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\c 5
\sp Lover
\q1
\v 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride.
\q2 I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
\q2 I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
\q2 I have drunk my wine with my milk.
\sp Friends
\q1 Eat, friends!
\q2 Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
\q2 It is the voice of my beloved who knocks:
\q2 “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled;
\q2 for my head is filled with dew,
\q2 and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
\q1
\v 3 I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?
\q2 I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
\q1
\v 4 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening.
\q2 My heart pounded for him.
\q1
\v 5 I rose up to open for my beloved.
\q2 My hands dripped with myrrh,
\q2 my fingers with liquid myrrh,
\q2 on the handles of the lock.
\q1
\v 6 I opened to my beloved;
\q2 but my beloved left, and had gone away.
\q1 My heart went out when he spoke.
\q2 I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.
\q2 I called him, but he didn’t answer.
\q1
\v 7 The watchmen who go about the city found me.
\q2 They beat me.
\q2 They bruised me.
\q2 The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
\b
\q1
\v 8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 If you find my beloved,
\q2 that you tell him that I am faint with love.
\sp Friends
\q1
\v 9 How is your beloved better than another beloved,
\q2 you fairest among women?
\q1 How is your beloved better than another beloved,
\q1 that you do so adjure us?
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 10 My beloved is white and ruddy.
\q2 The best among ten thousand.
\q1
\v 11 His head is like the purest gold.
\q2 His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
\q1
\v 12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,
\q2 washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
\q1
\v 13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.
\q2 His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
\q1
\v 14 His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.
\q2 His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
\q1
\v 15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.
\q2 His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
\q1
\v 16 His mouth is sweetness;
\q2 yes, he is altogether lovely.
\q1 This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
\q2 daughters of Jerusalem.


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\c 6
\sp Friends
\q1
\v 1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women?
\q2 Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden,
\q2 to the beds of spices,
\q2 to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
\q1
\v 3 I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.
\q2 He browses among the lilies.
\b
\sp Lover
\q1
\v 4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,
\q2 lovely as Jerusalem,
\q2 awesome as an army with banners.
\q1
\v 5 Turn away your eyes from me,
\q2 for they have overcome me.
\q1 Your hair is like a flock of goats,
\q2 that lie along the side of Gilead.
\q1
\v 6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes,
\q2 which have come up from the washing,
\q2 of which every one has twins;
\q2 not one is bereaved among them.
\q1
\v 7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
\b
\q1
\v 8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,
\q2 and virgins without number.
\q1
\v 9 My dove, my perfect one, is unique.
\q2 She is her mother’s only daughter.
\q2 She is the favorite one of her who bore her.
\q1 The daughters saw her, and called her blessed.
\q2 The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Who is she who looks out as the morning,
\q2 beautiful as the moon,
\q2 clear as the sun,
\q2 and awesome as an army with banners?
\b
\q1
\v 11 I went down into the nut tree grove,
\q2 to see the green plants of the valley,
\q2 to see whether the vine budded,
\q2 and the pomegranates were in flower.
\q1
\v 12 Without realizing it,
\q2 my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.
\sp Friends
\q1
\v 13 Return, return, Shulammite!
\q2 Return, return, that we may gaze at you.
\sp Lover
\q1 Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,
\q2 as at the dance of Mahanaim?


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\c 7
\p
\v 1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!
\q2 Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
\q2 the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
\q1
\v 2 Your body is like a round goblet,
\q2 no mixed wine is wanting.
\q1 Your waist is like a heap of wheat,
\q2 set about with lilies.
\q1
\v 3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
\q2 that are twins of a roe.
\q1
\v 4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.
\q2 Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.
\q2 Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
\q1
\v 5 Your head on you is like Carmel.
\q2 The hair of your head like purple.
\q2 The king is held captive in its tresses.
\q1
\v 6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are,
\q2 love, for delights!
\q1
\v 7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree,
\q2 your breasts like its fruit.
\q1
\v 8 I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree.
\q2 I will take hold of its fruit.”
\q1 Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
\q2 the smell of your breath like apples.
\q1
\v 9 Your mouth is like the best wine,
\q2 that goes down smoothly for my beloved,
\q2 gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 10 I am my beloved’s.
\q2 His desire is toward me.
\q1
\v 11 Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field.
\q2 Let’s lodge in the villages.
\q1
\v 12 Let’s go early up to the vineyards.
\q2 Let’s see whether the vine has budded,
\q2 its blossom is open,
\q2 and the pomegranates are in flower.
\q2 There I will give you my love.
\q1
\v 13 The mandrakes produce fragrance.
\q2 At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,
\q2 which I have stored up for you, my beloved.


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\p
\v 1 Oh that you were like my brother,
\q2 who nursed from the breasts of my mother!
\q1 If I found you outside, I would kiss you;
\q2 yes, and no one would despise me.
\q1
\v 2 I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother,
\q2 who would instruct me.
\q1 I would have you drink spiced wine,
\q2 of the juice of my pomegranate.
\q1
\v 3 His left hand would be under my head.
\q2 His right hand would embrace me.
\b
\q1
\v 4 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
\q2 until it so desires.
\sp Friends
\q1
\v 5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness,
\q2 leaning on her beloved?
\b
\sp Beloved
\q1 Under the apple tree I aroused you.
\q2 There your mother conceived you.
\q2 There she was in labor and bore you.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Set me as a seal on your heart,
\q2 as a seal on your arm;
\q2 for love is strong as death.
\q2 Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.\f + \fr 8:6 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f*
\q2 Its flashes are flashes of fire,
\q2 a very flame of Yahweh.\f + \fr 8:6 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f*
\q1
\v 7 Many waters can’t quench love,
\q2 neither can floods drown it.
\q1 If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,
\q2 he would be utterly scorned.
\sp Brothers
\q1
\v 8 We have a little sister.
\q2 She has no breasts.
\q1 What shall we do for our sister
\q2 in the day when she is to be spoken for?
\b
\q1
\v 9 If she is a wall,
\q2 we will build on her a turret of silver.
\q1 If she is a door,
\q2 we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,
\q2 then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
\q1
\v 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.
\q2 He leased out the vineyard to keepers.
\q2 Each was to bring a thousand shekels\f + \fr 8:11 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or about 22 pounds.\f* of silver for its fruit.
\q1
\v 12 My own vineyard is before me.
\q2 The thousand are for you, Solomon,
\q2 two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
\sp Lover
\q1
\v 13 You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance,
\q2 let me hear your voice!
\sp Beloved
\q1
\v 14 Come away, my beloved!
\q2 Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!


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\ide UTF-8
\h Isaiah
\toc1 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
\toc2 Isaiah
\toc3 Isa
\mt2 The Book of the Prophet
\mt1 Isaiah


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\c 1
\p
\v 1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
\q1
\v 2 Hear, heavens,
\q2 and listen, earth; for Yahweh\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* has spoken:
\q1 “I have nourished and brought up children
\q2 and they have rebelled against me.
\q1
\v 3 The ox knows his owner,
\q2 and the donkey his master’s crib;
\q2 but Israel doesn’t know.
\q2 My people don’t consider.”
\q1
\v 4 Ah sinful nation,
\q2 a people loaded with iniquity,
\q2 offspring\f + \fr 1:4 \ft or, seed\f* of evildoers,
\q2 children who deal corruptly!
\q1 They have forsaken Yahweh.
\q2 They have despised the Holy One of Israel.
\q2 They are estranged and backward.
\q1
\v 5 Why should you be beaten more,
\q2 that you revolt more and more?
\q1 The whole head is sick,
\q2 and the whole heart faint.
\q1
\v 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it:
\q2 wounds, welts, and open sores.
\q2 They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
\q1
\v 7 Your country is desolate.
\q2 Your cities are burned with fire.
\q2 Strangers devour your land in your presence
\q2 and it is desolate,
\q2 as overthrown by strangers.
\q1
\v 8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,
\q2 like a hut in a field of melons,
\q2 like a besieged city.
\q1
\v 9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant,
\q2 we would have been as Sodom.
\q2 We would have been like Gomorrah.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom!
\q2 Listen to the law of our God,\f + \fr 1:10 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* you people of Gomorrah!
\q1
\v 11 “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh.
\q2 “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams
\q2 and the fat of fed animals.
\q2 I don’t delight in the blood of bulls,
\q2 or of lambs,
\q2 or of male goats.
\q1
\v 12 When you come to appear before me,
\q2 who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
\q1
\v 13 Bring no more vain offerings.
\q2 Incense is an abomination to me.
\q2 New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:
\q2 I can’t stand evil assemblies.
\q1
\v 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts.
\q2 They are a burden to me.
\q2 I am weary of bearing them.
\q1
\v 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.
\q2 Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear.
\q2 Your hands are full of blood.
\q1
\v 16 Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean.
\q2 Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.
\q2 Cease to do evil.
\q1
\v 17 Learn to do well.
\q2 Seek justice.
\q2 Relieve the oppressed.
\q1 Defend the fatherless.
\q2 Plead for the widow.”
\b
\q1
\v 18 “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh:
\q2 “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
\q2 Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
\q1
\v 19 If you are willing and obedient,
\q2 you will eat the good of the land;
\q2
\v 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword;
\q2 for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
\b
\q1
\v 21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute!
\q2 She was full of justice.
\q1 Righteousness lodged in her,
\q2 but now there are murderers.
\q1
\v 22 Your silver has become dross,
\q2 your wine mixed with water.
\q1
\v 23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves.
\q2 Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards.
\q2 They don’t defend the fatherless,
\q2 neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
\b
\q1
\v 24 Therefore the Lord,\f + \fr 1:24 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” \f* Yahweh of Armies,
\q2 the Mighty One of Israel, says:
\q1 “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries,
\q2 and avenge myself on my enemies.
\q1
\v 25 I will turn my hand on you,
\q2 thoroughly purge away your dross,
\q2 and will take away all your tin.\f + \fr 1:25 \ft tin is a metal that is separated from silver during the refining and purification process.\f*
\q1
\v 26 I will restore your judges as at the first,
\q2 and your counselors as at the beginning.
\q1 Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness,
\q2 a faithful town.’
\q1
\v 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
\q2 and her converts with righteousness.
\q1
\v 28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together,
\q2 and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
\q1
\v 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,
\q2 and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
\q1
\v 30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades,
\q2 and as a garden that has no water.
\q1
\v 31 The strong will be like tinder,
\q2 and his work like a spark.
\q1 They will both burn together,
\q2 and no one will quench them.”


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\c 10
\p
\v 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
\v 2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
\v 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
\p
\v 4 They will only bow down under the prisoners,
\q2 and will fall under the slain.
\q1 For all this his anger is not turned away,
\q2 but his hand is stretched out still.
\b
\p
\v 5 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
\v 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
\v 7 However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
\v 8 For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
\v 9 Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
\v 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
\v 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
\p
\v 12 Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
\v 13 For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
\v 14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
\p
\v 15 Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
\v 16 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
\v 17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
\v 18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.
\v 19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.
\p
\v 20 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
\v 21 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
\v 22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
\v 23 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.
\p
\v 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.
\v 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
\v 26 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.
\v 27 It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
\p
\v 28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
\v 29 They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
\v 30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
\v 31 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
\v 32 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
\p
\v 33 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
\v 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/11/100000001
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\c 11
\q1
\v 1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
\q2 and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him:
\q2 the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
\q2 the spirit of counsel and might,
\q2 the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh.
\q1 He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
\q2 neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
\q1
\v 4 but he will judge the poor with righteousness,
\q2 and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
\q1 He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
\q2 and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
\q1
\v 5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,
\q2 and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
\b
\q1
\v 6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
\q2 and the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
\q2 the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;
\q2 and a little child will lead them.
\q1
\v 7 The cow and the bear will graze.
\q2 Their young ones will lie down together.
\q2 The lion will eat straw like the ox.
\q1
\v 8 The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole,
\q2 and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
\q1
\v 9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
\q2 for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,
\q2 as the waters cover the sea.
\b
\p
\v 10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
\p
\v 11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
\v 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
\v 13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
\v 14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
\v 15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.
\v 16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/12/100000001
data:
\c 12
\p
\v 1 In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
\v 2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
\v 3 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
\v 4 In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
\v 5 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!
\v 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/13/100000001
data:
\c 13
\p
\v 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
\p
\v 2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
\v 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
\v 4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
\v 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
\p
\v 6 Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
\v 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
\v 8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
\v 9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
\v 10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
\v 11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
\v 12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
\v 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
\v 14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
\v 15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
\v 16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
\p
\v 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
\v 18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
\v 19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
\v 20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
\v 21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
\v 22 Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/14/100000001
data:
\c 14
\p
\v 1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
\v 2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
\p
\v 3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
\v 4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
\v 5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
\v 6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
\v 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.
\v 8 Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”
\v 9 Sheol\f + \fr 14:9 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
\v 10 They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”
\v 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,\f + \fr 14:11 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f* with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
\p
\v 12 How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
\v 13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
\v 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
\v 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,\f + \fr 14:15 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* to the depths of the pit.
\v 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
\v 17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
\p
\v 18 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
\v 19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
\v 20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.
\p
\v 21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
\v 22 “I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.
\v 23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
\v 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
\v 26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
\v 27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
\p
\v 28 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.
\p
\v 29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
\v 30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.
\p
\v 31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
\p
\v 32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/15/100000001
data:
\c 15
\p
\v 1 The burden of Moab.
\p For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.
\v 2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.
\v 3 In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
\v 4 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.
\v 5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
\v 6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
\v 7 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
\v 8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.
\v 9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/16/100000001
data:
\c 16
\p
\v 1 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
\v 2 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
\v 3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!
\v 4 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
\v 5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
\p
\v 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.
\v 7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.
\v 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
\v 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
\v 10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
\v 11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
\v 12 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.
\p
\v 13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.
\v 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/17/100000001
data:
\c 17
\p
\v 1 The burden of Damascus.
\p “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
\v 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
\v 3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
\v 5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
\v 6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
\v 8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars.
\v 9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
\v 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
\v 11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
\p
\v 12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
\v 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
\v 14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/18/100000001
data:
\c 18
\p
\v 1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
\v 2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
\v 3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
\p
\v 4 For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
\v 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
\v 6 They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.
\v 7 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/19/100000001
data:
\c 19
\p
\v 1 The burden of Egypt.
\p “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.
\v 2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
\v 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
\v 4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
\v 6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
\v 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
\v 8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
\v 9 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.
\v 10 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.
\p
\v 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
\v 12 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.
\v 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.
\v 14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
\v 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.
\v 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.
\v 17 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.
\v 18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”
\p
\v 19 In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border.
\v 20 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.
\v 21 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.
\v 22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
\p
\v 23 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
\p
\v 24 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;
\v 25 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/2/100000001
data:
\c 2
\p
\v 1 This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains,
\q2 and shall be raised above the hills;
\q2 and all nations shall flow to it.
\q1
\v 3 Many peoples shall go and say,
\q2 “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
\q2 to the house of the God of Jacob;
\q2 and he will teach us of his ways,
\q2 and we will walk in his paths.”
\q1 For the law shall go out of Zion,
\q2 and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 4 He will judge between the nations,
\q2 and will decide concerning many peoples.
\q2 They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
\q2 and their spears into pruning hooks.
\q1 Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
\q2 neither shall they learn war any more.
\b
\q1
\v 5 House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 6 For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,
\q2 because they are filled from the east,
\q2 with those who practice divination like the Philistines,
\q2 and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
\q1
\v 7 Their land is full of silver and gold,
\q2 neither is there any end of their treasures.
\q1 Their land also is full of horses,
\q2 neither is there any end of their chariots.
\q1
\v 8 Their land also is full of idols.
\q2 They worship the work of their own hands,
\q2 that which their own fingers have made.
\q1
\v 9 Man is brought low,
\q2 and mankind is humbled;
\q2 therefore don’t forgive them.
\q1
\v 10 Enter into the rock,
\q2 and hide in the dust,
\q1 from before the terror of Yahweh,
\q2 and from the glory of his majesty.
\q1
\v 11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
\q2 the arrogance of men will be bowed down,
\q2 and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
\b
\q1
\v 12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant,
\q2 and for all that is lifted up;
\q2 and it shall be brought low:
\q2
\v 13 for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
\q2 for all the oaks of Bashan,
\q2
\v 14 for all the high mountains,
\q2 for all the hills that are lifted up,
\q2
\v 15 for every lofty tower,
\q2 for every fortified wall,
\q2
\v 16 for all the ships of Tarshish,
\q2 and for all pleasant imagery.
\q1
\v 17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
\q2 and the arrogance of men shall be brought low;
\q2 and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
\q1
\v 18 The idols shall utterly pass away.
\q1
\v 19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
\q2 and into the holes of the earth,
\q2 from before the terror of Yahweh,
\q2 and from the glory of his majesty,
\q2 when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
\q1
\v 20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver
\q2 and their idols of gold,
\q2 which have been made for themselves to worship,
\q2 to the moles and to the bats,
\q2
\v 21 to go into the caverns of the rocks,
\q2 and into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
\q2 from before the terror of Yahweh,
\q2 and from the glory of his majesty,
\q2 when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
\q1
\v 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
\q2 for of what account is he?


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\c 20
\p
\v 1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
\v 2 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
\v 3 Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,
\v 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
\v 5 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
\v 6 The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/21/100000001
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\c 21
\p
\v 1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea.
\p As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
\v 2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
\v 3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.
\v 4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
\v 5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
\v 6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
\v 7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
\v 8 He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
\v 9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
\p
\v 10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
\p
\v 11 The burden of Dumah.
\p One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
\v 12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
\p
\v 13 The burden on Arabia.
\p In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.
\v 14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
\v 15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
\v 16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
\v 17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/22/100000001
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\c 22
\p
\v 1 The burden of the valley of vision.
\p What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
\v 2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
\v 3 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
\v 4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
\p
\v 5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”
\v 6 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
\v 7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
\v 8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
\v 9 You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
\v 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
\v 11 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.
\p
\v 12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
\v 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
\v 14 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 15 The Lord, Yahweh of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
\v 16 ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
\v 17 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
\v 18 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.
\v 19 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.
\p
\v 20 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
\v 21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
\v 22 I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.
\v 23 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.
\v 24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.
\v 25 “In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”


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\c 23
\p
\v 1 The burden of Tyre.
\p Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
\v 2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea, have replenished.
\v 3 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
\v 4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”
\v 5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
\v 6 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!
\v 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?
\p
\v 8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
\v 9 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
\v 10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.
\v 11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.
\v 12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”
\p
\v 13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.
\v 14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!
\v 15 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.
\v 16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
\v 17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
\v 18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/24/100000001
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\c 24
\p
\v 1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
\v 2 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.
\v 3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
\v 4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
\v 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
\v 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.
\v 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
\v 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
\v 9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
\v 10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
\v 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
\v 12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
\v 13 For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
\p
\v 14 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.
\v 15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
\v 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous!
\p But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
\v 17 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabit the earth.
\v 18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
\v 19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
\v 20 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.
\p
\v 21 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
\v 22 They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.
\v 23 Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.


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\c 25
\p
\v 1 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
\v 2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
\v 3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
\v 4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
\v 5 As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
\p
\v 6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat,\f + \fr 25:6 \ft literally, fat things\f* a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
\v 7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
\v 8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
\p
\v 9 It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
\v 10 For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain.
\p Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
\v 11 He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.
\v 12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.


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\c 26
\p
\v 1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
\q1 “We have a strong city.
\q2 God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
\q1
\v 2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter:
\q2 the one which keeps faith.
\q1
\v 3 You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace,
\q2 because he trusts in you.
\q1
\v 4 Trust in Yahweh forever;
\q2 for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
\q1
\v 5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city.
\q2 He lays it low.
\q2 He lays it low even to the ground.
\q2 He brings it even to the dust.
\q1
\v 6 The foot shall tread it down,
\q2 even the feet of the poor
\q2 and the steps of the needy.”
\q1
\v 7 The way of the just is uprightness.
\q2 You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you.
\q2 Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
\q1
\v 9 With my soul I have desired you in the night.
\q2 Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly;
\q2 for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
\q1
\v 10 Let favor be shown to the wicked,
\q2 yet he will not learn righteousness.
\q1 In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,
\q2 and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see;
\q2 but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed.
\q2 Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us,
\q2 for you have also done all our work for us.
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us,
\q2 but we will only acknowledge your name.
\q1
\v 14 The dead shall not live.
\q2 The departed spirits shall not rise.
\q1 Therefore you have visited and destroyed them,
\q2 and caused all memory of them to perish.
\q1
\v 15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh.
\q2 You have increased the nation!
\q1 You are glorified!
\q2 You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
\b
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you.
\q2 They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
\q1
\v 17 Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery,
\q2 is in pain and cries out in her pangs,
\q2 so we have been before you, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 18 We have been with child.
\q2 We have been in pain.
\q1 We gave birth, it seems, only to wind.
\q2 We have not worked any deliverance in the earth;
\q2 neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
\q1
\v 19 Your dead shall live.
\q2 My dead bodies shall arise.
\q1 Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;
\q2 for your dew is like the dew of herbs,
\q2 and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
\b
\q1
\v 20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms,
\q2 and shut your doors behind you.
\q1 Hide yourself for a little moment,
\q2 until the indignation is past.
\q1
\v 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
\q2 The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.


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\c 27
\p
\v 1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
\p
\v 2 In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
\v 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
\v 4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
\v 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
\p
\v 6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
\v 7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
\v 8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
\v 9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
\v 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
\v 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
\p
\v 12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
\p
\v 13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.


file: ./bibles/Sample/23/28/100000001
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\c 28
\p
\v 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
\v 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.
\v 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
\v 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
\v 5 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,
\v 6 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
\p
\v 7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
\v 8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.
\p
\v 9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
\v 10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
\p
\v 11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,
\v 12 to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.
\v 13 Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
\p
\v 14 Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
\v 15 “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. \f + \fr 28:15 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
\v 16 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
\v 17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
\v 18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol \f + \fr 28:18 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
\v 19 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”
\v 20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
\v 21 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.
\v 22 Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
\p
\v 23 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
\v 24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
\v 25 When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
\v 26 For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.
\v 27 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
\v 28 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.
\v 29 This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.


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\c 29
\p
\v 1 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
\v 2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.\f + \fr 29:2 \ft or, Ariel\f*
\v 3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
\v 4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
\p
\v 5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
\v 6 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.
\v 7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
\v 8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
\p
\v 9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
\v 10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
\v 11 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”
\v 12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”
\p
\v 13 The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
\v 14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
\p
\v 15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
\v 16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”
\p
\v 17 Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
\v 18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
\v 19 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
\v 20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
\v 21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
\p
\v 22 Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.
\v 23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
\v 24 They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”


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\q1
\v 1 For, behold,\f + \fr 3:1 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support,
\q2 the whole supply of bread,
\q2 and the whole supply of water;
\q2
\v 2 the mighty man,
\q2 the man of war,
\q2 the judge,
\q2 the prophet,
\q2 the diviner,
\q2 the elder,
\q2
\v 3 the captain of fifty,
\q2 the honorable man,
\q2 the counselor,
\q2 the skilled craftsman,
\q2 and the clever enchanter.
\q1
\v 4 I will give boys to be their princes,
\q2 and children shall rule over them.
\q1
\v 5 The people will be oppressed,
\q2 everyone by another,
\q2 and everyone by his neighbor.
\q1 The child will behave himself proudly against the old man,
\q2 and the wicked against the honorable.
\q1
\v 6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,
\q2 “You have clothing, you be our ruler,
\q2 and let this ruin be under your hand.”
\q1
\v 7 In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a healer;
\q2 for in my house is neither bread nor clothing.
\q2 You shall not make me ruler of the people.”
\q1
\v 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen;
\q2 because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh,
\q1 to provoke the eyes of his glory.
\q1
\v 9 The look of their faces testify against them.
\q2 They parade their sin like Sodom.
\q2 They don’t hide it.
\q2 Woe to their soul!
\q2 For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
\q1
\v 10 Tell the righteous “Good!”
\q2 For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
\q1
\v 11 Woe to the wicked!
\q2 Disaster is upon them;
\q2 for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
\q1
\v 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors,
\q2 and women rule over them.
\q2 My people, those who lead you cause you to err,
\q2 and destroy the way of your paths.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh stands up to contend,
\q2 and stands to judge the peoples.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people
\q2 and their leaders:
\q2 “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
\q2 The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
\q2
\v 15 What do you mean that you crush my people,
\q2 and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
\b
\q1
\v 16 Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant,
\q2 and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes,
\q2 walking to trip as they go,
\q2 jingling ornaments on their feet;
\q1
\v 17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion,
\q2 and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
\p
\v 18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
\v 19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
\v 20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume containers, the charms,
\v 21 the signet rings, the nose rings,
\v 22 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses,
\v 23 the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.
\q1
\v 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness;
\q2 instead of a belt, a rope;
\q2 instead of well set hair, baldness;
\q2 instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth;
\q2 and branding instead of beauty.
\q1
\v 25 Your men shall fall by the sword,
\q2 and your mighty in the war.
\q1
\v 26 Her gates shall lament and mourn.
\q2 She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.


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\p
\v 1 “Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
\v 2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
\v 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
\v 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
\v 5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
\p
\v 6 The burden of the animals of the South.
\p Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
\v 7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
\v 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
\v 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
\v 10 who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
\v 11 Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
\v 12 Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
\v 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
\v 14 He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
\p
\v 15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
\v 16 but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
\v 17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
\p
\v 18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
\v 19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
\v 20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
\v 21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
\v 22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
\p
\v 23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
\v 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
\v 25 There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
\v 26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
\p
\v 27 Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.
\v 28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
\v 29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.
\v 30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
\v 31 For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.
\v 32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.
\v 33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.


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\q1
\v 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
\q2 and rely on horses,
\q2 and trust in chariots because they are many,
\q2 and in horsemen because they are very strong,
\q2 but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel,
\q2 and they don’t seek Yahweh!
\q1
\v 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster,
\q2 and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers,
\q2 and against the help of those who work iniquity.
\q1
\v 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
\q2 and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
\q1 When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble,
\q2 and he who is helped shall fall,
\q2 and they all shall be consumed together.
\b
\q1
\v 4 For Yahweh says to me,
\q1 “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey,
\q2 if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him,
\q2 will not be dismayed at their voice,
\q2 nor abase himself for their noise,
\q2 so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
\q1
\v 5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem.
\q2 He will protect and deliver it.
\q2 He will pass over and preserve it.”
\q1
\v 6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
\v 7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.
\p
\v 8 “The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man;
\q2 and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him.
\q1 He will flee from the sword,
\q2 and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
\q1
\v 9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror,
\q2 and his princes will be afraid of the banner,”
\q1 says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion,
\q2 and his furnace in Jerusalem.


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\q1
\v 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
\q2 and princes shall rule in justice.
\q1
\v 2 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind,
\q2 and a covert from the storm,
\q2 as streams of water in a dry place,
\q2 as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
\q1
\v 3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim,
\q2 and the ears of those who hear will listen.
\q1
\v 4 The heart of the rash will understand knowledge,
\q2 and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
\q1
\v 5 The fool will no longer be called noble,
\q2 nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
\q1
\v 6 For the fool will speak folly,
\q2 and his heart will work iniquity,
\q2 to practice profanity,
\q2 and to utter error against Yahweh,
\q2 to make empty the soul of the hungry,
\q2 and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
\q1
\v 7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil.
\q2 He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words,
\q2 even when the needy speaks right.
\q1
\v 8 But the noble devises noble things;
\q2 and he will continue in noble things.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice!
\q2 You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
\q1
\v 10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women;
\q2 for the vintage will fail.
\q2 The harvest won’t come.
\q1
\v 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease!
\q2 Be troubled, you careless ones!
\q2 Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked,
\q2 and put sackcloth on your waist.
\q1
\v 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
\q2 for the fruitful vine.
\q1
\v 13 Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land;
\q2 yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
\q1
\v 14 For the palace will be forsaken.
\q2 The populous city will be deserted.
\q2 The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever,
\q2 a delight for wild donkeys,
\q2 a pasture of flocks,
\q1
\v 15 until the Spirit is poured on us from on high,
\q2 and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
\q2 and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
\b
\q1
\v 16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness;
\q2 and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
\q1
\v 17 The work of righteousness will be peace,
\q2 and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
\q1
\v 18 My people will live in a peaceful habitation,
\q2 in safe dwellings,
\q2 and in quiet resting places,
\q1
\v 19 though hail flattens the forest,
\q2 and the city is leveled completely.
\q1
\v 20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters,
\q2 who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.


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\q1
\v 1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed,
\q2 and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!
\q1 When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;
\q2 and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
\b
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.
\q2 Be our strength every morning,
\q2 our salvation also in the time of trouble.
\q1
\v 3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.
\q2 When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
\q1
\v 4 Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.
\q2 Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high.
\q2 He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
\q1
\v 6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
\q2 The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;
\q2 the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
\q1
\v 8 The highways are desolate.
\q2 The traveling man ceases.
\q2 The covenant is broken.
\q2 He has despised the cities.
\q2 He doesn’t respect man.
\q1
\v 9 The land mourns and languishes.
\q2 Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
\q2 Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
\q1
\v 10 “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.
\q2 “Now I will lift myself up.
\q2 Now I will be exalted.
\q1
\v 11 You will conceive chaff.
\q2 You will give birth to stubble.
\q2 Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
\q1
\v 12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime,
\q2 like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
\q2 and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
\q1
\v 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid.
\q2 Trembling has seized the godless ones.
\q1 Who among us can live with the devouring fire?
\q2 Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
\q1
\v 15 He who walks righteously
\q2 and speaks blamelessly,
\q2 he who despises the gain of oppressions,
\q2 who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,
\q2 who stops his ears from hearing of blood,
\q2 and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
\q1
\v 16 he will dwell on high.
\q2 His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks.
\q2 His bread will be supplied.
\q2 His waters will be sure.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.
\q2 They will see a distant land.
\q1
\v 18 Your heart will meditate on the terror.
\q2 Where is he who counted?
\q2 Where is he who weighed?
\q2 Where is he who counted the towers?
\q1
\v 19 You will no longer see the fierce people,
\q2 a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend,
\q2 with a strange language that you can’t understand.
\q1
\v 20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.
\q2 Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation,
\q2 a tent that won’t be removed.
\q1 Its stakes will never be plucked up,
\q2 nor will any of its cords be broken.
\q1
\v 21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,
\q2 a place of wide rivers and streams,
\q2 in which no galley with oars will go,
\q2 neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
\q1
\v 22 For Yahweh is our judge.
\q2 Yahweh is our lawgiver.
\q2 Yahweh is our king.
\q2 He will save us.
\b
\q1
\v 23 Your rigging is untied.
\q2 They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast.
\q2 They couldn’t spread the sail.
\q1 Then the prey of a great plunder was divided.
\q2 The lame took the prey.
\b
\q1
\v 24 The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.”
\q2 The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.


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\q1
\v 1 Come near, you nations, to hear!
\q2 Listen, you peoples.
\q2 Let the earth and all it contains hear,
\q2 the world, and everything that comes from it.
\q1
\v 2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations,
\q2 and angry with all their armies.
\q1 He has utterly destroyed them.
\q2 He has given them over for slaughter.
\q1
\v 3 Their slain will also be cast out,
\q2 and the stench of their dead bodies will come up.
\q2 The mountains will melt in their blood.
\q1
\v 4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved.
\q2 The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
\q2 and all its armies will fade away,
\q2 as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
\q1
\v 5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky.
\q2 Behold, it will come down on Edom,
\q2 and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood.
\q2 It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
\q2 with the fat of the kidneys of rams;
\q2 for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
\q2 And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
\q1
\v 7 The wild oxen will come down with them,
\q2 and the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
\q2 and their land will be drunken with blood,
\q2 and their dust made greasy with fat.
\b
\q1
\v 8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,
\q2 a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
\q1
\v 9 Its streams will be turned into pitch,
\q2 its dust into sulfur,
\q2 And its land will become burning pitch.
\q1
\v 10 It won’t be quenched night nor day.
\q2 Its smoke will go up forever.
\q2 From generation to generation, it will lie waste.
\q2 No one will pass through it forever and ever.
\q1
\v 11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it.
\q2 The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
\q1 He will stretch the line of confusion over it,
\q2 and the plumb line of emptiness.
\q1
\v 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there;
\q2 and all its princes shall be nothing.
\q1
\v 13 Thorns will come up in its palaces,
\q2 nettles and thistles in its fortresses;
\q2 and it will be a habitation of jackals,
\q2 a court for ostriches.
\q1
\v 14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves,
\q2 and the wild goat will cry to his fellow.
\q1 Yes, the night creature\f + \fr 34:14 \ft literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or night monster\f* shall settle there,
\q2 and shall find herself a place of rest.
\q1
\v 15 The arrow snake will make her nest there,
\q2 and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade.
\q2 Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.
\b
\q1
\v 16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read:
\q2 not one of these will be missing.
\q2 None will lack her mate.
\q2 For my mouth has commanded,
\q2 and his Spirit has gathered them.
\q1
\v 17 He has cast the lot for them,
\q2 and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line.
\q2 They shall possess it forever.
\q2 From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad.
\q2 The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
\q1
\v 2 It will blossom abundantly,
\q2 and rejoice even with joy and singing.
\q2 Lebanon’s glory will be given to it,
\q2 the excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
\q2 They will see Yahweh’s glory,
\q2 the excellence of our God.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Strengthen the weak hands,
\q2 and make the feeble knees firm.
\q1
\v 4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong!
\q2 Don’t be afraid!
\q1 Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution.
\q2 He will come and save you.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
\q2 and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
\q1
\v 6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer,
\q2 and the tongue of the mute will sing;
\q2 for waters will break out in the wilderness,
\q2 and streams in the desert.
\q1
\v 7 The burning sand will become a pool,
\q2 and the thirsty ground springs of water.
\q2 Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
\q1
\v 8 A highway will be there, a road,
\q2 and it will be called “The Holy Way”.
\q1 The unclean shall not pass over it,
\q2 but it will be for those who walk in the Way.
\q2 Wicked fools shall not go there.
\q1
\v 9 No lion will be there,
\q2 nor will any ravenous animal go up on it.
\q2 They will not be found there;
\q2 but the redeemed will walk there.
\q1
\v 10 Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return,
\q2 and come with singing to Zion;
\q2 and everlasting joy will be on their heads.
\q1 They will obtain gladness and joy,
\q2 and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”


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\p
\v 1 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
\v 2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
\v 3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.
\p
\v 4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
\v 5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
\v 6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
\v 7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’”
\v 8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
\v 9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
\v 10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”
\p
\v 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
\p
\v 12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
\v 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
\v 14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
\v 15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’
\v 16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
\v 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
\v 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
\v 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
\v 20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
\p
\v 21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
\p
\v 22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.


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\v 1 When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
\v 2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
\v 3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
\v 4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
\p
\v 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
\p
\v 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
\v 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
\p
\v 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
\v 9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
\v 10 “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
\v 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
\v 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
\v 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
\p
\v 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
\v 15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
\v 16 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
\v 17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
\v 18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
\v 19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
\v 20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
\p
\v 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
\v 22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
\v 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
\v 24 By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
\v 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
\p
\v 26 “‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
\v 27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
\v 28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
\v 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
\p
\v 30 “‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
\v 31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
\v 32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’
\p
\v 33 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
\v 34 He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
\v 35 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
\p
\v 36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
\v 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
\v 38 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”
\p
\v 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,
\v 3 and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
\p
\v 4 Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying,
\v 5 “Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
\v 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
\v 7 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.
\v 8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.
\p
\v 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.
\q1
\v 10 I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.\f + \fr 38:10 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
\q1
\v 11 I said, “I won’t see Yah,
\q2 Yah in the land of the living.
\q2 I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
\q1
\v 12 My dwelling is removed,
\q2 and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.
\q1 I have rolled up my life like a weaver.
\q2 He will cut me off from the loom.
\q2 From day even to night you will make an end of me.
\q1
\v 13 I waited patiently until morning.
\q2 He breaks all my bones like a lion.
\q2 From day even to night you will make an end of me.
\q1
\v 14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane.
\q2 I moaned like a dove.
\q2 My eyes weaken looking upward.
\q2 Lord, I am oppressed.
\q2 Be my security.”
\q1
\v 15 What will I say?
\q2 He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.
\q2 I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
\q1
\v 16 Lord, men live by these things;
\q2 and my spirit finds life in all of them:
\q2 you restore me, and cause me to live.
\q1
\v 17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish,
\q2 but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption;
\q2 for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
\q1
\v 18 For Sheol\f + \fr 38:18 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* can’t praise you.
\q2 Death can’t celebrate you.
\q1 Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
\q1
\v 19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.
\q2 The father shall make known your truth to the children.
\q1
\v 20 Yahweh will save me.
\q2 Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.
\p
\v 21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”
\v 22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”


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\v 1 At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.
\v 2 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.
\v 3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”
\p Hezekiah said, “They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon.”
\p
\v 4 Then he asked, “What have they seen in your house?”
\p Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
\p
\v 5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:
\v 6 ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.
\v 7 ‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”
\p
\v 8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”


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\v 1 Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”
\p
\v 2 In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
\v 3 It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,
\v 4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.
\v 5 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.
\v 6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.


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\p
\v 1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
\v 2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
\q1
\v 3 The voice of one who calls out,
\q2 “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!
\q2 Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
\q1
\v 4 Every valley shall be exalted,
\q2 and every mountain and hill shall be made low.
\q2 The uneven shall be made level,
\q2 and the rough places a plain.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed,
\q2 and all flesh shall see it together;
\q2 for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
\b
\q1
\v 6 The voice of one saying, “Cry!”
\q2 One said, “What shall I cry?”
\q1 “All flesh is like grass,
\q2 and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
\q1
\v 7 The grass withers,
\q2 the flower fades,
\q2 because Yahweh’s breath blows on it.
\q2 Surely the people are like grass.
\q1
\v 8 The grass withers,
\q2 the flower fades;
\q2 but the word of our God stands forever.”
\b
\q1
\v 9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain.
\q2 You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength!
\q2 Lift it up! Don’t be afraid!
\q2 Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”
\q1
\v 10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one,
\q2 and his arm will rule for him.
\q2 Behold, his reward is with him,
\q2 and his recompense before him.
\q1
\v 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd.
\q2 He will gather the lambs in his arm,
\q2 and carry them in his bosom.
\q2 He will gently lead those who have their young.
\b
\q1
\v 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
\q2 and marked off the sky with his span,
\q2 and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket,
\q2 and weighed the mountains in scales,
\q2 and the hills in a balance?
\q1
\v 13 Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit,
\q2 or has taught him as his counselor?
\q1
\v 14 Who did he take counsel with,
\q2 and who instructed him,
\q2 and taught him in the path of justice,
\q2 and taught him knowledge,
\q2 and showed him the way of understanding?
\q1
\v 15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket,
\q2 and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.
\q2 Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
\q1
\v 16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
\q2 nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
\q1
\v 17 All the nations are like nothing before him.
\q2 They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
\b
\q1
\v 18 To whom then will you liken God?
\q2 Or what likeness will you compare to him?
\q1
\v 19 A workman has cast an image,
\q2 and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,
\q2 and casts silver chains for it.
\q1
\v 20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot.
\q2 He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.
\b
\q1
\v 21 Haven’t you known?
\q2 Haven’t you heard?
\q2 Haven’t you been told from the beginning?
\q2 Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
\q1
\v 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
\q2 and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
\q2 who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
\q2 and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
\q2
\v 23 who brings princes to nothing,
\q2 who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
\q1
\v 24 They are planted scarcely.
\q2 They are sown scarcely.
\q2 Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground.
\q2 He merely blows on them, and they wither,
\q2 and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
\b
\q1
\v 25 “To whom then will you liken me?
\q2 Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
\q1
\v 26 Lift up your eyes on high,
\q2 and see who has created these,
\q2 who brings out their army by number.
\q2 He calls them all by name.
\q2 by the greatness of his might,
\q2 and because he is strong in power,
\q2 not one is lacking.
\b
\q1
\v 27 Why do you say, Jacob,
\q2 and speak, Israel,
\q2 “My way is hidden from Yahweh,
\q2 and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”
\q1
\v 28 Haven’t you known?
\q2 Haven’t you heard?
\q2 The everlasting God, Yahweh,
\q2 the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint.
\q2 He isn’t weary.
\q2 His understanding is unsearchable.
\q1
\v 29 He gives power to the weak.
\q2 He increases the strength of him who has no might.
\q1
\v 30 Even the youths faint and get weary,
\q2 and the young men utterly fall;
\q2
\v 31 but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.
\q2 They will mount up with wings like eagles.
\q2 They will run, and not be weary.
\q2 They will walk, and not faint.


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\q1
\v 1 “Keep silent before me, islands,
\q2 and let the peoples renew their strength.
\q1 Let them come near,
\q2 then let them speak.
\q2 Let’s meet together for judgment.
\q1
\v 2 Who has raised up one from the east?
\q2 Who called him to his foot in righteousness?
\q2 He hands over nations to him
\q2 and makes him rule over kings.
\q2 He gives them like the dust to his sword,
\q2 like the driven stubble to his bow.
\q1
\v 3 He pursues them
\q2 and passes by safely,
\q2 even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
\q1
\v 4 Who has worked and done it,
\q2 calling the generations from the beginning?
\q2 I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
\b
\q1
\v 5 The islands have seen, and fear.
\q2 The ends of the earth tremble.
\q2 They approach, and come.
\q1
\v 6 Everyone helps his neighbor.
\q2 They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
\q1
\v 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith.
\q2 He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil,
\q2 saying of the soldering, “It is good;”
\q2 and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “But you, Israel, my servant,
\q2 Jacob whom I have chosen,
\q2 the offspring of Abraham my friend,
\q2
\v 9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,
\q2 and called from its corners,
\q2 and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’
\q1
\v 10 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you.
\q2 Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.
\q2 I will strengthen you.
\q2 Yes, I will help you.
\q2 Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
\q1
\v 11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded.
\q2 Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
\q1
\v 12 You will seek them, and won’t find them,
\q2 even those who contend with you.
\q2 Those who war against you will be as nothing,
\q2 as a non-existent thing.
\q1
\v 13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand,
\q2 saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid.
\q2 I will help you.’
\q1
\v 14 Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob,
\q2 and you men of Israel.
\q2 I will help you,” says Yahweh.
\q2 “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
\q1
\v 15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.
\q2 You will thresh the mountains,
\q2 and beat them small,
\q2 and will make the hills like chaff.
\q1
\v 16 You will winnow them,
\q2 and the wind will carry them away,
\q2 and the whirlwind will scatter them.
\q1 You will rejoice in Yahweh.
\q2 You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none.
\q2 Their tongue fails for thirst.
\q1 I, Yahweh, will answer them.
\q2 I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
\q1
\v 18 I will open rivers on the bare heights,
\q2 and springs in the middle of the valleys.
\q2 I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
\q2 and the dry land springs of water.
\q1
\v 19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness.
\q2 I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
\q2
\v 20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together,
\q2 that Yahweh’s hand has done this,
\q2 and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
\b
\q1
\v 21 Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.
\q2 “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
\q1
\v 22 “Let them announce and declare to us what will happen!
\q2 Declare the former things, what they are,
\q2 that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them;
\q2 or show us things to come.
\q1
\v 23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter,
\q2 that we may know that you are gods.
\q1 Yes, do good, or do evil,
\q2 that we may be dismayed,
\q2 and see it together.
\q1
\v 24 Behold, you are nothing,
\q2 and your work is nothing.
\q2 He who chooses you is an abomination.
\b
\q1
\v 25 “I have raised up one from the north, and he has come,
\q2 from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name,
\q2 and he shall come on rulers as on mortar,
\q2 and as the potter treads clay.
\q1
\v 26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know?
\q2 and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’
\q1 Surely, there is no one who declares.
\q2 Surely, there is no one who shows.
\q2 Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
\q1
\v 27 I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’
\q2 and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 28 When I look, there is no man,
\q2 even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
\q1
\v 29 Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing.
\q2 Their molten images are wind and confusion.


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\q1
\v 1 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,
\q2 my chosen, in whom my soul delights:
\q2 I have put my Spirit on him.
\q2 He will bring justice to the nations.
\q1
\v 2 He will not shout,
\q2 nor raise his voice,
\q2 nor cause it to be heard in the street.
\q1
\v 3 He won’t break a bruised reed.
\q2 He won’t quench a dimly burning wick.
\q2 He will faithfully bring justice.
\q1
\v 4 He will not fail nor be discouraged,
\q2 until he has set justice in the earth,
\q2 and the islands wait for his law.”
\b
\q1
\v 5 God Yahweh,
\q2 he who created the heavens and stretched them out,
\q2 he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,
\q2 he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:
\q1
\v 6 “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness.
\q2 I will hold your hand.
\q2 I will keep you,
\q2 and make you a covenant for the people,
\q2 as a light for the nations,
\q2
\v 7 to open the blind eyes,
\q2 to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
\q2 and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “I am Yahweh.
\q2 That is my name.
\q2 I will not give my glory to another,
\q2 nor my praise to engraved images.
\q1
\v 9 Behold, the former things have happened
\q2 and I declare new things.
\q2 I tell you about them before they come up.”
\b
\q1
\v 10 Sing to Yahweh a new song,
\q2 and his praise from the end of the earth,
\q2 you who go down to the sea,
\q2 and all that is therein,
\q2 the islands and their inhabitants.
\q1
\v 11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices,
\q2 with the villages that Kedar inhabits.
\q2 Let the inhabitants of Sela sing.
\q2 Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
\q1
\v 12 Let them give glory to Yahweh,
\q2 and declare his praise in the islands.
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man.
\q2 He will stir up zeal like a man of war.
\q2 He will raise a war cry.
\q2 Yes, he will shout aloud.
\q2 He will triumph over his enemies.
\b
\q1
\v 14 “I have been silent a long time.
\q2 I have been quiet and restrained myself.
\q2 Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
\q1
\v 15 I will destroy mountains and hills,
\q2 and dry up all their herbs.
\q2 I will make the rivers islands,
\q2 and will dry up the pools.
\q1
\v 16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know.
\q2 I will lead them in paths that they don’t know.
\q2 I will make darkness light before them,
\q2 and crooked places straight.
\q2 I will do these things,
\q2 and I will not forsake them.
\b
\q1
\v 17 “Those who trust in engraved images,
\q2 who tell molten images,
\q2 ‘You are our gods,’
\q2 will be turned back.
\q2 They will be utterly disappointed.
\b
\q1
\v 18 “Hear, you deaf,
\q2 and look, you blind,
\q2 that you may see.
\q1
\v 19 Who is blind, but my servant?
\q2 Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send?
\q1 Who is as blind as he who is at peace,
\q2 and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
\q1
\v 20 You see many things, but don’t observe.
\q2 His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
\q1
\v 21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law
\q2 and make it honorable.
\q1
\v 22 But this is a robbed and plundered people.
\q2 All of them are snared in holes,
\q2 and they are hidden in prisons.
\q1 They have become captives, and no one delivers,
\q2 and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
\b
\q1
\v 23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this?
\q2 Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
\q1
\v 24 Who gave Jacob as plunder,
\q2 and Israel to the robbers?
\q2 Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned?
\q2 For they would not walk in his ways,
\q2 and they disobeyed his law.
\q1
\v 25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him,
\q2 and the strength of battle.
\q1 It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know.
\q2 It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”


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\q1
\v 1 But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob,
\q2 and he who formed you, Israel, says:
\q1 “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you.
\q2 I have called you by your name.
\q2 You are mine.
\q1
\v 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you,
\q2 and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.
\q1 When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned,
\q2 and flame will not scorch you.
\q1
\v 3 For I am Yahweh your God,
\q2 the Holy One of Israel,
\q2 your Savior.
\q1 I have given Egypt as your ransom,
\q2 Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
\q1
\v 4 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight,
\q2 and I have loved you,
\q2 therefore I will give people in your place,
\q2 and nations instead of your life.
\q1
\v 5 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
\q2 I will bring your offspring from the east,
\q2 and gather you from the west.
\q1
\v 6 I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’
\q2 and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back!
\q2 Bring my sons from far away,
\q2 and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
\q1
\v 7 everyone who is called by my name,
\q2 and whom I have created for my glory,
\q2 whom I have formed,
\q2 yes, whom I have made.’”
\b
\q1
\v 8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes,
\q2 and the deaf who have ears.
\q1
\v 9 Let all the nations be gathered together,
\q2 and let the peoples be assembled.
\q1 Who among them can declare this,
\q2 and show us former things?
\q1 Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified,
\q2 or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”
\b
\q1
\v 10 “You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “With my servant whom I have chosen;
\q2 that you may know and believe me,
\q2 and understand that I am he.
\q1 Before me there was no God formed,
\q2 neither will there be after me.
\q1
\v 11 I myself am Yahweh.
\q2 Besides me, there is no savior.
\q1
\v 12 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown,
\q2 and there was no strange god among you.
\q1 Therefore you are my witnesses”,
\q2 says Yahweh, “and I am God.
\q1
\v 13 Yes, since the day was, I am he.
\q2 There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
\q2 I will work, and who can hinder it?”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
\v 15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea,
\q2 and a path in the mighty waters,
\q1
\v 17 who brings out the chariot and horse,
\q2 the army and the mighty man
\q2 (they lie down together, they shall not rise;
\q2 they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:
\q1
\v 18 “Don’t remember the former things,
\q2 and don’t consider the things of old.
\q1
\v 19 Behold, I will do a new thing.
\q2 It springs out now.
\q2 Don’t you know it?
\q1 I will even make a way in the wilderness,
\q2 and rivers in the desert.
\q1
\v 20 The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me,
\q2 because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,
\q2 to give drink to my people, my chosen,
\q2
\v 21 the people which I formed for myself,
\q2 that they might declare my praise.
\b
\q1
\v 22 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob;
\q2 but you have been weary of me, Israel.
\q1
\v 23 You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings,
\q2 neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.
\q1 I have not burdened you with offerings,
\q2 nor wearied you with frankincense.
\q1
\v 24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money,
\q2 nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices,
\q1 but you have burdened me with your sins.
\q2 You have wearied me with your iniquities.
\b
\q1
\v 25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;
\q2 and I will not remember your sins.
\q1
\v 26 Put me in remembrance.
\q2 Let us plead together.
\q1 Declare your case,
\q2 that you may be justified.
\q1
\v 27 Your first father sinned,
\q2 and your teachers have transgressed against me.
\q1
\v 28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;
\q2 and I will make Jacob a curse,
\q2 and Israel an insult.”


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\q1
\v 1 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant,
\q2 and Israel, whom I have chosen.
\q1
\v 2 This is what Yahweh who made you,
\q2 and formed you from the womb,
\q2 who will help you says:
\q1 “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant;
\q2 and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
\q1
\v 3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
\q2 and streams on the dry ground.
\q1 I will pour my Spirit on your descendants,
\q2 and my blessing on your offspring:
\q1
\v 4 and they will spring up among the grass,
\q2 as willows by the watercourses.
\q1
\v 5 One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’
\q2 and another will be called by the name of Jacob;
\q2 and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’
\q2 and honor the name of Israel.”
\b
\q1
\v 6 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel,
\q2 and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says:
\q1 “I am the first, and I am the last;
\q2 and besides me there is no God.
\q1
\v 7 Who is like me?
\q2 Who will call,
\q2 and will declare it,
\q2 and set it in order for me,
\q2 since I established the ancient people?
\q1 Let them declare the things that are coming,
\q2 and that will happen.
\q1
\v 8 Don’t fear,
\q2 neither be afraid.
\q1 Haven’t I declared it to you long ago,
\q2 and shown it?
\q1 You are my witnesses.
\q2 Is there a God besides me?
\q1 Indeed, there is not.
\q2 I don’t know any other Rock.”
\b
\q1
\v 9 Everyone who makes a carved image is vain.
\q2 The things that they delight in will not profit.
\q2 Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
\q1
\v 10 Who has fashioned a god,
\q2 or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
\q1
\v 11 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed;
\q2 and the workmen are mere men.
\q1 Let them all be gathered together.
\q2 Let them stand up.
\q2 They will fear.
\q2 They will be put to shame together.
\b
\q1
\v 12 The blacksmith takes an ax,
\q2 works in the coals,
\q2 fashions it with hammers,
\q2 and works it with his strong arm.
\q1 He is hungry,
\q2 and his strength fails;
\q1 he drinks no water,
\q2 and is faint.
\q1
\v 13 The carpenter stretches out a line.
\q2 He marks it out with a pencil.
\q2 He shapes it with planes.
\q2 He marks it out with compasses,
\q2 and shapes it like the figure of a man,
\q2 with the beauty of a man,
\q2 to reside in a house.
\q1
\v 14 He cuts down cedars for himself,
\q2 and takes the cypress and the oak,
\q2 and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest.
\q1 He plants a cypress tree,
\q2 and the rain nourishes it.
\q1
\v 15 Then it will be for a man to burn;
\q2 and he takes some of it, and warms himself.
\q2 Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread.
\q1 Yes, he makes a god, and worships it;
\q2 he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.
\q1
\v 16 He burns part of it in the fire.
\q2 With part of it, he eats meat.
\q2 He roasts a roast, and is satisfied.
\q1 Yes, he warms himself,
\q2 and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”
\q1
\v 17 The rest of it he makes into a god,
\q2 even his engraved image.
\q1 He bows down to it and worships,
\q2 and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my god!”
\b
\q1
\v 18 They don’t know, neither do they consider:
\q2 for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see;
\q2 and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
\q1
\v 19 No one thinks,
\q2 neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say,
\q2 “I have burned part of it in the fire.
\q2 Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals.
\q2 I have roasted meat and eaten it.
\q2 Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination?
\q2 Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”
\q1
\v 20 He feeds on ashes.
\q2 A deceived heart has turned him aside;
\q2 and he can’t deliver his soul,
\q2 nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
\b
\q1
\v 21 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel;
\q2 for you are my servant.
\q2 I have formed you.
\q2 You are my servant.
\q2 Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
\q1
\v 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,
\q2 and, as a cloud, your sins.
\q2 Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
\b
\q1
\v 23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it!
\q2 Shout, you lower parts of the earth!
\q2 Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees,
\q2 for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob,
\q2 and will glorify himself in Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 24 Yahweh, your Redeemer,
\q2 and he who formed you from the womb says:
\q1 “I am Yahweh, who makes all things;
\q2 who alone stretches out the heavens;
\q2 who spreads out the earth by myself;
\q1
\v 25 who frustrates the signs of the liars,
\q2 and makes diviners mad;
\q1 who turns wise men backward,
\q2 and makes their knowledge foolish;
\q1
\v 26 who confirms the word of his servant,
\q2 and performs the counsel of his messengers;
\q1 who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’
\q2 and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’
\q2 and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’
\q1
\v 27 who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’
\q2 and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’
\q1
\v 28 Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’
\q2 even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’
\q2 and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
\q1
\v 2 “I will go before you
\q2 and make the rough places smooth.
\q1 I will break the doors of bronze in pieces
\q2 and cut apart the bars of iron.
\q1
\v 3 I will give you the treasures of darkness
\q2 and hidden riches of secret places,
\q1 that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name,
\q2 even the God of Israel.
\q1
\v 4 For Jacob my servant’s sake,
\q2 and Israel my chosen,
\q1 I have called you by your name.
\q2 I have given you a title,
\q2 though you have not known me.
\q1
\v 5 I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
\q2 Besides me, there is no God.
\q1 I will strengthen\f + \fr 45:5 \ft or, equip\f* you,
\q2 though you have not known me,
\q1
\v 6 that they may know from the rising of the sun,
\q2 and from the west,
\q1 that there is no one besides me.
\q2 I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
\q1
\v 7 I form the light
\q2 and create darkness.
\q1 I make peace
\q2 and create calamity.
\q1 I am Yahweh,
\q2 who does all these things.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Rain, you heavens, from above,
\q2 and let the skies pour down righteousness.
\q1 Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation,
\q2 and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it.
\q1 I, Yahweh, have created it.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker—
\q2 a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth!
\q1 Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’
\q2 or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
\q1
\v 10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’
\q2 or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”
\b
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel
\q2 and his Maker says:
\q1 “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,
\q2 and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
\q1
\v 12 I have made the earth, and created man on it.
\q2 I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens.
\q2 I have commanded all their army.
\q1
\v 13 I have raised him up in righteousness,
\q2 and I will make all his ways straight.
\q1 He shall build my city,
\q2 and he shall let my exiles go free,
\q2 not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\b
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt,
\q2 and the merchandise of Ethiopia,
\q2 and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you,
\q2 and they will be yours.
\q1 They will go after you.
\q2 They shall come over in chains.
\q2 They will bow down to you.
\q1 They will make supplication to you:
\q2 ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else.
\q2 There is no other god.
\q1
\v 15 Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself,
\q2 God of Israel, the Savior.’”
\q1
\v 16 They will be disappointed,
\q2 yes, confounded, all of them.
\q2 Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
\q1
\v 17 Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation.
\q2 You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
\b
\q1
\v 18 For Yahweh who created the heavens,
\q2 the God who formed the earth and made it,
\q2 who established it and didn’t create it a waste,
\q2 who formed it to be inhabited says:
\q1 “I am Yahweh.
\q2 There is no other.
\q1
\v 19 I have not spoken in secret,
\q2 in a place of the land of darkness.
\q1 I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’
\q2 I, Yahweh, speak righteousness.
\q2 I declare things that are right.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Assemble yourselves and come.
\q2 Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations.
\q1 Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image,
\q2 and pray to a god that can’t save.
\q1
\v 21 Declare and present it.
\q2 Yes, let them take counsel together.
\q1 Who has shown this from ancient time?
\q2 Who has declared it of old?
\q2 Haven’t I, Yahweh?
\q1 There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior.
\q2 There is no one besides me.
\b
\q1
\v 22 “Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
\q2 for I am God, and there is no other.
\q1
\v 23 I have sworn by myself.
\q2 The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked,
\q1 that to me every knee shall bow,
\q2 every tongue shall take an oath.
\q1
\v 24 They will say of me,
\q2 ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’”
\q1 Even to him will men come.
\q2 All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
\q1
\v 25 All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh,
\q2 and will rejoice!


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\q1
\v 1 Bel bows down.
\q2 Nebo stoops.
\q1 Their idols are carried by animals,
\q2 and on the livestock.
\q1 The things that you carried around are heavy loads,
\q2 a burden for the weary.
\q1
\v 2 They stoop and they bow down together.
\q2 They could not deliver the burden,
\q2 but they have gone into captivity.
\b
\q1
\v 3 “Listen to me, house of Jacob,
\q2 and all the remnant of the house of Israel,
\q2 that have been carried from their birth,
\q2 that have been carried from the womb.
\q1
\v 4 Even to old age I am he,
\q2 and even to gray hairs I will carry you.
\q1 I have made, and I will bear.
\q2 Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal,
\q2 and compare me, as if we were the same?
\q1
\v 6 Some pour out gold from the bag,
\q2 and weigh silver in the balance.
\q1 They hire a goldsmith,
\q2 and he makes it a god.
\q1 They fall down—
\q2 yes, they worship.
\q1
\v 7 They bear it on their shoulder.
\q2 They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there.
\q2 It cannot move from its place.
\q1 Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer.
\q2 It cannot save him out of his trouble.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Remember this, and show yourselves men.
\q2 Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.
\q1
\v 9 Remember the former things of old:
\q2 for I am God, and there is no other.
\q2 I am God, and there is none like me.
\q1
\v 10 I declare the end from the beginning,
\q2 and from ancient times things that are not yet done.
\q1 I say: My counsel will stand,
\q2 and I will do all that I please.
\q1
\v 11 I call a ravenous bird from the east,
\q2 the man of my counsel from a far country.
\q1 Yes, I have spoken.
\q2 I will also bring it to pass.
\q1 I have planned.
\q2 I will also do it.
\b
\q1
\v 12 Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,
\q2 who are far from righteousness!
\q1
\v 13 I bring my righteousness near.
\q2 It is not far off,
\q2 and my salvation will not wait.
\q1 I will grant salvation to Zion,
\q2 my glory to Israel.
\b


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\c 47
\p
\v 1 “Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon.
\q2 Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans.
\q2 For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
\q1
\v 2 Take the millstones and grind flour.
\q2 Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs,
\q2 and wade through the rivers.
\q1
\v 3 Your nakedness will be uncovered.
\q2 Yes, your shame will be seen.
\q1 I will take vengeance,
\q2 and will spare no one.”
\b
\q1
\v 4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name,
\q2 is the Holy One of Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
\q2 daughter of the Chaldeans.
\q1 For you shall no longer be called
\q2 the mistress of kingdoms.
\q1
\v 6 I was angry with my people.
\q2 I profaned my inheritance
\q2 and gave them into your hand.
\q1 You showed them no mercy.
\q2 You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
\q1
\v 7 You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’
\q2 so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart,
\q2 nor did you remember the results.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,
\q2 who sit securely,
\q1 who say in your heart,
\q2 ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.
\q1 I won’t sit as a widow,
\q2 neither will I know the loss of children.’
\q1
\v 9 But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day,
\q2 the loss of children and widowhood.
\q1 They will come on you in their full measure,
\q2 in the multitude of your sorceries,
\q2 and the great abundance of your enchantments.
\q1
\v 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness.
\q2 You have said, ‘No one sees me.’
\q1 Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you.
\q2 You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
\q1
\v 11 Therefore disaster will come on you.
\q2 You won’t know when it dawns.
\q1 Mischief will fall on you.
\q2 You won’t be able to put it away.
\q1 Desolation will come on you suddenly,
\q2 which you don’t understand.
\b
\q1
\v 12 “Stand now with your enchantments
\q2 and with the multitude of your sorceries,
\q2 in which you have labored from your youth,
\q1 as if you might profit,
\q2 as if you might prevail.
\q1
\v 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.
\q2 Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
\q1
\v 14 Behold, they are like stubble.
\q2 The fire will burn them.
\q2 They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame.
\q1 It won’t be a coal to warm at
\q2 or a fire to sit by.
\q1
\v 15 The things that you labored in will be like this:
\q2 those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way.
\q2 There will be no one to save you.
\b


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\c 48
\q1
\v 1 “Hear this, house of Jacob,
\q2 you who are called by the name of Israel,
\q2 and have come out of the waters of Judah.
\q1 You swear by Yahweh’s name,
\q2 and make mention of the God of Israel,
\q2 but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
\q1
\v 2 for they call themselves citizens of the holy city,
\q2 and rely on the God of Israel;
\q2 Yahweh of Armies is his name.
\q1
\v 3 I have declared the former things from of old.
\q2 Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them.
\q2 I did them suddenly, and they happened.
\q1
\v 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate,
\q2 and your neck is an iron sinew,
\q2 and your brow bronze;
\q1
\v 5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old;
\q2 before it came to pass I showed it to you;
\q2 lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them.
\q2 My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’
\q1
\v 6 You have heard it.
\q2 Now see all this.
\q2 And you, won’t you declare it?
\b
\q1 “I have shown you new things from this time,
\q2 even hidden things, which you have not known.
\q1
\v 7 They are created now, and not from of old.
\q2 Before today, you didn’t hear them,
\q2 lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
\q1
\v 8 Yes, you didn’t hear.
\q2 Yes, you didn’t know.
\q2 Yes, from of old your ear was not opened,
\q1 for I knew that you dealt very treacherously,
\q2 and were called a transgressor from the womb.
\q1
\v 9 For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,
\q2 and for my praise, I hold it back for you
\q2 so that I don’t cut you off.
\q1
\v 10 Behold, I have refined you,
\q2 but not as silver.
\q2 I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
\q1
\v 11 For my own sake,
\q2 for my own sake, I will do it;
\q1 for how would my name be profaned?
\q2 I will not give my glory to another.
\b
\q1
\v 12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,
\q2 and Israel my called:
\q1 I am he.
\q2 I am the first.
\q2 I am also the last.
\q1
\v 13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
\q2 and my right hand has spread out the heavens.
\q2 when I call to them, they stand up together.
\b
\q1
\v 14 “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear!
\q2 Who among them has declared these things?
\q1 He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon,
\q2 and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
\q1
\v 15 I, even I, have spoken.
\q2 Yes, I have called him.
\q1 I have brought him
\q2 and he shall make his way prosperous.
\p
\v 16 “Come near to me and hear this:
\b
\q1 “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
\q2 from the time that it happened, I was there.”
\b
\q1 Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me
\q2 with his Spirit.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Yahweh,
\q2 your Redeemer,
\q2 the Holy One of Israel says:
\q1 “I am Yahweh your God,
\q2 who teaches you to profit,
\q2 who leads you by the way that you should go.
\q1
\v 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments!
\q2 Then your peace would have been like a river
\q2 and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
\q1
\v 19 Your offspring also would have been as the sand
\q2 and the descendants of your body like its grains.
\q2 His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
\b
\q1
\v 20 Leave Babylon!
\q2 Flee from the Chaldeans!
\q1 With a voice of singing announce this,
\q2 tell it even to the end of the earth:
\q2 say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
\q1
\v 21 They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts.
\q2 He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them.
\q2 He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
\b
\q1
\v 22 “There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”


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\c 49
\q1
\v 1 Listen, islands, to me.
\q2 Listen, you peoples, from afar:
\q1 Yahweh has called me from the womb;
\q2 from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.
\q1
\v 2 He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
\q2 He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
\q1 He has made me a polished shaft.
\q2 He has kept me close in his quiver.
\q1
\v 3 He said to me, “You are my servant,
\q2 Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
\q1
\v 4 But I said, “I have labored in vain.
\q2 I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;
\q1 yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh,
\q2 and my reward with my God.”
\b
\q1
\v 5 Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
\q2 says to bring Jacob again to him,
\q2 and to gather Israel to him,
\q2 for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes,
\q2 and my God has become my strength.
\q1
\v 6 Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
\q2 and to restore the preserved of Israel.
\q1 I will also give you as a light to the nations,
\q2 that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
\q2 says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers:
\q1 “Kings shall see and rise up,
\q2 princes, and they shall worship,
\q2 because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time.
\q2 I have helped you in a day of salvation.
\q1 I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people,
\q2 to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
\q1
\v 9 saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
\q2 to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
\q1 “They shall feed along the paths,
\q2 and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
\q1
\v 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst;
\q2 neither shall the heat nor sun strike them:
\q2 for he who has mercy on them will lead them.
\q2 He will guide them by springs of water.
\q1
\v 11 I will make all my mountains a road,
\q2 and my highways shall be exalted.
\q1
\v 12 Behold, these shall come from afar,
\q2 and behold, these from the north and from the west;
\q2 and these from the land of Sinim.”
\q1
\v 13 Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!
\q2 Break out into singing, mountains,
\q1 for Yahweh has comforted his people,
\q2 and will have compassion on his afflicted.
\b
\q1
\v 14 But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,
\q2 and the Lord has forgotten me.”
\q1
\v 15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
\q2 that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
\q1 Yes, these may forget,
\q2 yet I will not forget you!
\q1
\v 16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.
\q2 Your walls are continually before me.
\q1
\v 17 Your children hurry.
\q2 Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
\q1
\v 18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
\q2 all these gather themselves together, and come to you.
\q1 As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament,
\q2 and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
\q1
\v 19 “For, as for your waste and your desolate places,
\q2 and your land that has been destroyed,
\q1 surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants,
\q2 and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
\q1
\v 20 The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,
\q2 ‘This place is too small for me.
\q2 Give me a place to live in.’
\q1
\v 21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children
\q2 and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth?
\q1 Who has brought these up?
\q2 Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’”
\b
\q1
\v 22 The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
\q2 and lift up my banner to the peoples.
\q1 They shall bring your sons in their bosom,
\q2 and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
\q1
\v 23 Kings shall be your foster fathers,
\q2 and their queens your nursing mothers.
\q1 They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
\q2 and lick the dust of your feet.
\q1 Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
\q2 and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
\b
\q1
\v 24 Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty,
\q2 or the lawful captives be delivered?
\q1
\v 25 But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
\q2 and the plunder retrieved from the fierce,
\q1 for I will contend with him who contends with you
\q2 and I will save your children.
\q1
\v 26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh;
\q2 and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine.
\q1 Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior
\q2 and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”


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\c 5
\q1
\v 1 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard.
\q2 My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
\q1
\v 2 He dug it up,
\q2 gathered out its stones,
\q2 planted it with the choicest vine,
\q2 built a tower in the middle of it,
\q2 and also cut out a wine press in it.
\q1 He looked for it to yield grapes,
\q2 but it yielded wild grapes.
\b
\q1
\v 3 “Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
\q2 please judge between me and my vineyard.
\q1
\v 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
\q2 Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
\q1
\v 5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
\q2 I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
\q2 I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
\q1
\v 6 I will lay it a wasteland.
\q2 It won’t be pruned or hoed,
\q2 but it will grow briers and thorns.
\q2 I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
\q1
\v 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,
\q2 and the men of Judah his pleasant plant:
\q2 and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;
\q2 for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Woe to those who join house to house,
\q2 who lay field to field, until there is no room,
\q2 and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
\q1
\v 9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,
\q2 even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
\q1
\v 10 For ten acres\f + \fr 5:10 \ft literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.\f* of vineyard shall yield one bath,\f + \fr 5:10 \ft 1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons\f*
\q2 and a homer\f + \fr 5:10 \ft 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels\f* of seed shall yield an ephah.”\f + \fr 5:10 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown.\f*
\q1
\v 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink,
\q2 who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
\q1
\v 12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;
\q2 but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh,
\q2 neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.
\q2 Their honorable men are famished,
\q2 and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
\q1
\v 14 Therefore Sheol\f + \fr 5:14 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* has enlarged its desire,
\q2 and opened its mouth without measure;
\q2 and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
\q1
\v 15 So man is brought low,
\q2 mankind is humbled,
\q2 and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
\q1
\v 16 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice,
\q2 and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
\q1
\v 17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
\q2 and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
\b
\q1
\v 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,
\q2 and wickedness as with cart rope,
\q1
\v 19 who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;
\q2 let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
\q2 that we may know it!”
\q1
\v 20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
\q2 who put darkness for light,
\q2 and light for darkness;
\q1 who put bitter for sweet,
\q2 and sweet for bitter!
\q1
\v 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
\q2 and prudent in their own sight!
\q1
\v 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,
\q2 and champions at mixing strong drink;
\q1
\v 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
\q2 but deny justice for the innocent!
\b
\q1
\v 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
\q2 and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
\q2 so their root shall be as rottenness,
\q2 and their blossom shall go up as dust,
\q1 because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies,
\q2 and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
\q1
\v 25 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people,
\q2 and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them.
\q1 The mountains tremble,
\q2 and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets.
\q1 For all this, his anger is not turned away,
\q2 but his hand is still stretched out.
\b
\q1
\v 26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away,
\q2 and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.
\q2 Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
\q1
\v 27 No one shall be weary nor stumble among them;
\q2 no one shall slumber nor sleep,
\q2 neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,
\q2 nor the strap of their sandals be broken,
\q1
\v 28 whose arrows are sharp,
\q2 and all their bows bent.
\q1 Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,
\q2 and their wheels like a whirlwind.
\q1
\v 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness.
\q2 They will roar like young lions.
\q1 Yes, they shall roar,
\q2 and seize their prey and carry it off,
\q2 and there will be no one to deliver.
\q1
\v 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.
\q2 If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.
\q2 The light is darkened in its clouds.


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\c 50
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away?
\q2 Or to which of my creditors have I sold you?
\q1 Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,
\q2 and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
\q1
\v 2 Why, when I came, was there no one?
\q2 When I called, why was there no one to answer?
\q1 Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem?
\q2 Or have I no power to deliver?
\q1 Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea.
\q2 I make the rivers a wilderness.
\q2 Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
\q1
\v 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness.
\q2 I make sackcloth their covering.”
\b
\q1
\v 4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught,
\q2 that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.
\q1 He awakens morning by morning,
\q2 he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
\q1
\v 5 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear.
\q2 I was not rebellious.
\q2 I have not turned back.
\q1
\v 6 I gave my back to those who beat me,
\q2 and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.
\q2 I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
\q1
\v 7 For the Lord Yahweh will help me.
\q2 Therefore I have not been confounded.
\q1 Therefore I have set my face like a flint,
\q2 and I know that I won’t be disappointed.
\q1
\v 8 He who justifies me is near.
\q2 Who will bring charges against me?
\q1 Let us stand up together.
\q2 Who is my adversary?
\q2 Let him come near to me.
\q1
\v 9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me!
\q2 Who is he who will condemn me?
\q1 Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.
\q2 The moths will eat them up.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Who among you fears Yahweh
\q2 and obeys the voice of his servant?
\q1 He who walks in darkness
\q2 and has no light,
\q1 let him trust in Yahweh’s name,
\q2 and rely on his God.
\q1
\v 11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
\q2 who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves,
\q1 walk in the flame of your fire,
\q2 and among the torches that you have kindled.
\q1 You will have this from my hand:
\q2 you will lie down in sorrow.


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\c 51
\q1
\v 1 “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,
\q2 you who seek Yahweh.
\q1 Look to the rock you were cut from,
\q2 and to the quarry you were dug from.
\q1
\v 2 Look to Abraham your father,
\q2 and to Sarah who bore you;
\q1 for when he was but one I called him,
\q2 I blessed him,
\q2 and made him many.
\q1
\v 3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion.
\q2 He has comforted all her waste places,
\q2 and has made her wilderness like Eden,
\q2 and her desert like the garden of Yahweh.
\q1 Joy and gladness will be found in them,
\q2 thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Listen to me, my people;
\q2 and hear me, my nation,
\q1 for a law will go out from me,
\q2 and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
\q1
\v 5 My righteousness is near.
\q2 My salvation has gone out,
\q2 and my arms will judge the peoples.
\q1 The islands will wait for me,
\q2 and they will trust my arm.
\q1
\v 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
\q2 and look at the earth beneath;
\q1 for the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
\q2 and the earth will wear out like a garment.
\q1 Its inhabitants will die in the same way,
\q2 but my salvation will be forever,
\q2 and my righteousness will not be abolished.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
\q2 the people in whose heart is my law.
\q1 Don’t fear the reproach of men,
\q2 and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
\q1
\v 8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
\q2 and the worm will eat them like wool;
\q1 but my righteousness will be forever,
\q2 and my salvation to all generations.”
\b
\q1
\v 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh!
\q2 Awake, as in the days of old,
\q2 the generations of ancient times.
\q1 Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces,
\q2 who pierced the monster?
\q1
\v 10 Isn’t it you who dried up the sea,
\q2 the waters of the great deep;
\q2 who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
\q1
\v 11 Those ransomed by Yahweh will return,
\q2 and come with singing to Zion.
\q2 Everlasting joy shall be on their heads.
\q1 They will obtain gladness and joy.
\q2 Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
\b
\q1
\v 12 “I, even I, am he who comforts you.
\q2 Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,
\q2 and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
\q1
\v 13 Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker,
\q2 who stretched out the heavens,
\q2 and laid the foundations of the earth?
\q1 Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor,
\q2 when he prepares to destroy?
\q2 Where is the fury of the oppressor?
\q1
\v 14 The captive exile will speedily be freed.
\q2 He will not die and go down into the pit.
\q2 His bread won’t fail.
\q1
\v 15 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea
\q2 so that its waves roar.
\q2 Yahweh of Armies is his name.
\q1
\v 16 I have put my words in your mouth
\q2 and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
\q1 that I may plant the heavens,
\q2 and lay the foundations of the earth,
\q2 and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
\b
\q1
\v 17 Awake, awake!
\q2 Stand up, Jerusalem,
\q2 you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath.
\q1 You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,
\q2 and drained it.
\q1
\v 18 There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth;
\q2 and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.
\q1
\v 19 These two things have happened to you—
\q2 who will grieve with you?—
\q1 desolation and destruction,
\q2 and famine and the sword.
\q2 How can I comfort you?
\q1
\v 20 Your sons have fainted.
\q2 They lie at the head of all the streets,
\q2 like an antelope in a net.
\q1 They are full of Yahweh’s wrath,
\q2 the rebuke of your God.
\b
\q1
\v 21 Therefore now hear this, you afflicted,
\q2 and drunken, but not with wine:
\q1
\v 22 Your Lord Yahweh,
\q2 your God who pleads the cause of his people, says,
\q1 “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering,
\q2 even the bowl of the cup of my wrath.
\q2 You will not drink it any more.
\q1
\v 23 I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
\q2 who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’
\q2 and you have laid your back as the ground,
\q2 like a street to those who walk over.”


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\c 52
\q1
\v 1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.
\q2 Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:
\q2 for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
\q1
\v 2 Shake yourself from the dust!
\q2 Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!
\q2 Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
\b
\q1
\v 3 For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing;
\q2 and you will be redeemed without money.”
\b
\p
\v 4 For the Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there:
\q2 and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing?
\q1 Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
\q1
\v 6 Therefore my people shall know my name.
\q2 Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks.
\q2 Behold, it is I.”
\b
\q1
\v 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,
\q2 who publishes peace,
\q2 who brings good news,
\q2 who proclaims salvation,
\q2 who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
\q1
\v 8 Your watchmen lift up their voice.
\q2 Together they sing;
\q2 for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.
\q1
\v 9 Break out into joy!
\q2 Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem;
\q2 for Yahweh has comforted his people.
\q2 He has redeemed Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations.
\q2 All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing!
\q2 Go out from among her!
\q2 Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.
\q1
\v 12 For you shall not go out in haste,
\q2 neither shall you go by flight:
\q1 for Yahweh will go before you;
\q2 and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Behold, my servant will deal wisely.
\q2 He will be exalted and lifted up,
\q2 and will be very high.
\q1
\v 14 Just as many were astonished at you—
\q2 his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—
\q1
\v 15 so he will cleanse\f + \fr 52:15 \ft or, sprinkle\f* many nations.
\q2 Kings will shut their mouths at him;
\q2 for they will see that which had not been told them,
\q2 and they will understand that which they had not heard.


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\c 53
\q1
\v 1 Who has believed our message?
\q2 To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?
\q1
\v 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant,
\q2 and as a root out of dry ground.
\q1 He has no good looks or majesty.
\q2 When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
\q1
\v 3 He was despised
\q2 and rejected by men,
\q1 a man of suffering
\q2 and acquainted with disease.
\q1 He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;
\q2 and we didn’t respect him.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Surely he has borne our sickness
\q2 and carried our suffering;
\q1 yet we considered him plagued,
\q2 struck by God, and afflicted.
\q1
\v 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions.
\q2 He was crushed for our iniquities.
\q1 The punishment that brought our peace was on him;
\q2 and by his wounds we are healed.
\q1
\v 6 All we like sheep have gone astray.
\q2 Everyone has turned to his own way;
\q2 and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
\b
\q1
\v 7 He was oppressed,
\q2 yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth.
\q1 As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
\q2 and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
\q2 so he didn’t open his mouth.
\q1
\v 8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment.
\q2 As for his generation,
\q2 who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living
\q2 and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
\q1
\v 9 They made his grave with the wicked,
\q2 and with a rich man in his death,
\q1 although he had done no violence,
\q2 nor was any deceit in his mouth.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
\q2 He has caused him to suffer.
\q1 When you make his soul an offering for sin,
\q2 he will see his offspring.
\q1 He will prolong his days
\q2 and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
\q1
\v 11 After the suffering of his soul,
\q2 he will see the light\f + \fr 53:11 \ft So read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. Masoretic Text omits “the light”.\f* and be satisfied.
\q1 My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself;
\q2 and he will bear their iniquities.
\q1
\v 12 Therefore I will give him a portion with the great.
\q2 He will divide the plunder with the strong;
\q1 because he poured out his soul to death
\q2 and was counted with the transgressors;
\q1 yet he bore the sins of many
\q2 and made intercession for the transgressors.


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\q1
\v 1 “Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth;
\q2 break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child:
\q2 for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
\q2 and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations;
\q2 don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
\q1
\v 3 For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left;
\q2 and your offspring will possess the nations
\q2 and settle in desolate cities.
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed.
\q2 Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed.
\q1 For you will forget the shame of your youth.
\q2 You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.
\q1
\v 5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
\q2 The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.
\q2 He will be called the God of the whole earth.
\q1
\v 6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
\q2 even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “For a small moment I have forsaken you,
\q2 but I will gather you with great mercies.
\q1
\v 8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment,
\q2 but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
\b
\q1
\v 9 “For this is like the waters of Noah to me;
\q2 for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth,
\q2 so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
\q1
\v 10 For the mountains may depart,
\q2 and the hills be removed;
\q1 but my loving kindness will not depart from you,
\q2 and my covenant of peace will not be removed,”
\q2 says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted,
\q2 behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors,
\q2 and lay your foundations with sapphires.
\q1
\v 12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
\q2 your gates of sparkling jewels,
\q2 and all your walls of precious stones.
\q1
\v 13 All your children will be taught by Yahweh;
\q2 and your children’s peace will be great.
\q1
\v 14 You will be established in righteousness.
\q2 You will be far from oppression,
\q2 for you will not be afraid,
\q2 and far from terror,
\q2 for it shall not come near you.
\q1
\v 15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me.
\q2 Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.
\b
\q1
\v 16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame,
\q2 and forges a weapon for his work;
\q2 and I have created the destroyer to destroy.
\q1
\v 17 No weapon that is formed against you will prevail;
\q2 and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
\q1 This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants,
\q2 and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.


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\q1
\v 1 “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters!
\q2 Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!
\q2 Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
\q1
\v 2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,
\q2 and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy?
\q1 Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good,
\q2 and let your soul delight itself in richness.
\q1
\v 3 Turn your ear, and come to me.
\q2 Hear, and your soul will live.
\q2 I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
\q1
\v 4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,
\q2 a leader and commander to the peoples.
\q1
\v 5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know;
\q2 and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you,
\q2 because of Yahweh your God,
\q2 and for the Holy One of Israel;
\q2 for he has glorified you.”
\b
\q1
\v 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found.
\q2 Call on him while he is near.
\q1
\v 7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
\q2 and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
\q1 Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him,
\q2 to our God, for he will freely pardon.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
\q2 and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
\q2 so are my ways higher than your ways,
\q2 and my thoughts than your thoughts.
\q1
\v 10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky,
\q2 and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth,
\q2 and makes it grow and bud,
\q2 and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
\q1
\v 11 so is my word that goes out of my mouth:
\q2 it will not return to me void,
\q2 but it will accomplish that which I please,
\q2 and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
\q1
\v 12 For you shall go out with joy,
\q2 and be led out with peace.
\q1 The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing;
\q2 and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
\q1
\v 13 Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up;
\q2 and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up.
\q1 It will make a name for Yahweh,
\q2 for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”


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\c 56
\p
\v 1 Yahweh says,
\q1 “Maintain justice
\q2 and do what is right,
\q1 for my salvation is near
\q2 and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
\q1
\v 2 Blessed is the man who does this,
\q2 and the son of man who holds it fast;
\q1 who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it
\q2 and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
\b
\q1
\v 3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh speak, saying,
\q2 “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.”
\q2 Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
\b
\q1
\v 4 For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
\q2 choose the things that please me,
\q2 and hold fast to my covenant,
\q1
\v 5 I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters.
\q2 I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh
\q2 to serve him,
\q1 and to love Yahweh’s name,
\q2 to be his servants,
\q1 everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it,
\q2 and holds fast my covenant,
\q1
\v 7 I will bring these to my holy mountain,
\q2 and make them joyful in my house of prayer.
\q1 Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar;
\q2 for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
\q1
\v 8 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
\q2 “I will yet gather others to him,
\q2 in addition to his own who are gathered.”
\b
\q1
\v 9 All you animals of the field,
\q2 come to devour,
\q2 all you animals in the forest.
\q1
\v 10 His watchmen are blind.
\q2 They are all without knowledge.
\q1 They are all mute dogs.
\q2 They can’t bark—
\q2 dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
\q1
\v 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy.
\q2 They can never have enough.
\q1 They are shepherds who can’t understand.
\q2 They have all turned to their own way,
\q2 each one to his gain, from every quarter.
\q1
\v 12 “Come,” say they, “I will get wine,
\q2 and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;
\q2 and tomorrow will be as today,
\q2 great beyond measure.”


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\q1
\v 1 The righteous perish,
\q2 and no one lays it to heart.
\q1 Merciful men are taken away,
\q2 and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
\q1
\v 2 He enters into peace.
\q2 They rest in their beds,
\q2 each one who walks in his uprightness.
\b
\q1
\v 3 “But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress,
\q2 you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
\q1
\v 4 Whom do you mock?
\q2 Against whom do you make a wide mouth
\q2 and stick out your tongue?
\q1 Aren’t you children of disobedience
\q2 and offspring of falsehood,
\q1
\v 5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks,
\q2 under every green tree;
\q1 who kill the children in the valleys,
\q2 under the clefts of the rocks?
\q1
\v 6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion.
\q2 They, they are your lot.
\q1 You have even poured a drink offering to them.
\q2 You have offered an offering.
\q2 Shall I be appeased for these things?
\q1
\v 7 On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed.
\q2 You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
\q1
\v 8 You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts,
\q2 for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me,
\q2 and have gone up.
\q1 You have enlarged your bed
\q2 and made you a covenant with them.
\q2 You loved what you saw on their bed.
\q1
\v 9 You went to the king with oil,
\q2 increased your perfumes,
\q2 sent your ambassadors far off,
\q2 and degraded yourself even to Sheol.\f + \fr 57:9 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q1
\v 10 You were wearied with the length of your ways;
\q2 yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’
\q1 You found a reviving of your strength;
\q2 therefore you weren’t faint.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Whom have you dreaded and feared,
\q2 so that you lie,
\q2 and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart?
\q1 Haven’t I held my peace for a long time,
\q2 and you don’t fear me?
\q1
\v 12 I will declare your righteousness;
\q2 and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
\q1
\v 13 When you cry,
\q2 let those whom you have gathered deliver you;
\q1 but the wind will take them.
\q2 a breath will carry them all away:
\q1 but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land,
\q2 and will inherit my holy mountain.”
\b
\q1
\v 14 He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way!
\q2 Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
\q1
\v 15 For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,
\q2 whose name is Holy, says:
\q1 “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
\q2 to revive the spirit of the humble,
\q2 and to revive the heart of the contrite.
\q1
\v 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry;
\q2 for the spirit would faint before me,
\q2 and the souls whom I have made.
\q1
\v 17 I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him.
\q2 I hid myself and was angry;
\q2 and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
\q1
\v 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him.
\q2 I will lead him also,
\q2 and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
\q1
\v 19 I create the fruit of the lips:
\q2 Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,”
\q2 says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
\q1
\v 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea;
\q2 for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
\q1
\v 21 “There is no peace”, says my God,
\q2 “for the wicked.”


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\q1
\v 1 “Cry aloud! Don’t spare!
\q2 Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
\q1 Declare to my people their disobedience,
\q2 and to the house of Jacob their sins.
\q1
\v 2 Yet they seek me daily,
\q2 and delight to know my ways.
\q1 As a nation that did righteousness,
\q2 and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God,
\q1 they ask of me righteous judgments.
\q2 They delight to draw near to God.
\q1
\v 3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see?
\q2 Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’
\b
\q1 “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
\q2 and oppress all your laborers.
\q1
\v 4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention,
\q2 and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
\q2 You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
\q1
\v 5 Is this the fast that I have chosen?
\q2 A day for a man to humble his soul?
\q1 Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
\q2 and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself?
\q1 Will you call this a fast,
\q2 and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
\b
\q1
\v 6 “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
\q2 to release the bonds of wickedness,
\q2 to undo the straps of the yoke,
\q2 to let the oppressed go free,
\q2 and that you break every yoke?
\q1
\v 7 Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry,
\q2 and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house?
\q1 When you see the naked,
\q2 that you cover him;
\q2 and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
\q1
\v 8 Then your light will break out as the morning,
\q2 and your healing will appear quickly;
\q1 then your righteousness shall go before you,
\q2 and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
\q1
\v 9 Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer.
\q2 You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
\b
\q1 “If you take away from among you the yoke,
\q2 finger pointing,
\q2 and speaking wickedly;
\q1
\v 10 and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
\q2 and satisfy the afflicted soul,
\q1 then your light will rise in darkness,
\q2 and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
\q1
\v 11 and Yahweh will guide you continually,
\q2 satisfy your soul in dry places,
\q2 and make your bones strong.
\q1 You will be like a watered garden,
\q2 and like a spring of water
\q2 whose waters don’t fail.
\q1
\v 12 Those who will be of you will build the old waste places.
\q2 You will raise up the foundations of many generations.
\q1 You will be called Repairer of the Breach,
\q2 Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
\q2 from doing your pleasure on my holy day;
\q1 and call the Sabbath a delight,
\q2 and the holy of Yahweh honorable;
\q2 and honor it,
\q2 not doing your own ways,
\q2 nor finding your own pleasure,
\q2 nor speaking your own words,
\q1
\v 14 then you will delight yourself in Yahweh,
\q2 and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth,
\q2 and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;”
\q2 for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.


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\c 59
\q1
\v 1 Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save;
\q2 nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
\q1
\v 2 But your iniquities have separated you and your God,
\q2 and your sins have hidden his face from you,
\q2 so that he will not hear.
\q1
\v 3 For your hands are defiled with blood,
\q2 and your fingers with iniquity.
\q1 Your lips have spoken lies.
\q2 Your tongue mutters wickedness.
\q1
\v 4 No one sues in righteousness,
\q2 and no one pleads in truth.
\q1 They trust in vanity,
\q2 and speak lies.
\q1 They conceive mischief,
\q2 and give birth to iniquity.
\q1
\v 5 They hatch adders’ eggs,
\q2 and weave the spider’s web.
\q1 He who eats of their eggs dies;
\q2 and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
\q1
\v 6 Their webs won’t become garments.
\q2 They won’t cover themselves with their works.
\q1 Their works are works of iniquity,
\q2 and acts of violence are in their hands.
\q1
\v 7 Their feet run to evil,
\q2 and they hurry to shed innocent blood.
\q1 Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
\q2 Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
\q1
\v 8 They don’t know the way of peace;
\q2 and there is no justice in their ways.
\q1 They have made crooked paths for themselves;
\q2 whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Therefore justice is far from us,
\q2 and righteousness doesn’t overtake us.
\q1 We look for light, but see darkness;
\q2 for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
\q1
\v 10 We grope for the wall like the blind.
\q2 Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes.
\q1 We stumble at noon as if it were twilight.
\q2 Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
\q1
\v 11 We all roar like bears
\q2 and moan bitterly like doves.
\q1 We look for justice, but there is none,
\q2 for salvation, but it is far off from us.
\b
\q1
\v 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
\q2 and our sins testify against us;
\q1 for our transgressions are with us,
\q2 and as for our iniquities, we know them:
\q1
\v 13 transgressing and denying Yahweh,
\q2 and turning away from following our God,
\q2 speaking oppression and revolt,
\q2 conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
\q1
\v 14 Justice is turned away backward,
\q2 and righteousness stands far away;
\q1 for truth has fallen in the street,
\q2 and uprightness can’t enter.
\q1
\v 15 Yes, truth is lacking;
\q2 and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
\b
\q1 Yahweh saw it,
\q2 and it displeased him that there was no justice.
\q1
\v 16 He saw that there was no man,
\q2 and wondered that there was no intercessor.
\q1 Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
\q2 and his righteousness sustained him.
\q1
\v 17 He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
\q2 and a helmet of salvation on his head.
\q1 He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
\q2 and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
\q1
\v 18 According to their deeds,
\q2 he will repay as appropriate,
\q2 wrath to his adversaries,
\q2 recompense to his enemies;
\q2 he will repay the islands their due.
\q1
\v 19 So they will fear Yahweh’s name from the west,
\q2 and his glory from the rising of the sun;
\q1 for he will come as a rushing stream,
\q2 which Yahweh’s breath drives.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “A Redeemer will come to Zion,
\q2 and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”


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\c 6
\p
\v 1 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
\v 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
\v 3 One called to another, and said,
\q1 “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies!
\q2 The whole earth is full of his glory!”
\p
\v 4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
\v 5 Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
\p
\v 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
\v 7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
\p
\v 8 I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
\p Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
\p
\v 9 He said, “Go, and tell this people,
\q1 ‘You hear indeed,
\q2 but don’t understand.
\q1 You see indeed,
\q2 but don’t perceive.’
\q1
\v 10 Make the heart of this people fat.
\q2 Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
\q1 lest they see with their eyes,
\q2 hear with their ears,
\q2 understand with their heart,
\q2 and turn again, and be healed.”
\p
\v 11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”
\p He answered,
\q1 “Until cities are waste without inhabitant,
\q2 houses without man,
\q2 the land becomes utterly waste,
\q2
\v 12 and Yahweh has removed men far away,
\q2 and the forsaken places are many within the land.
\q1
\v 13 If there is a tenth left in it,
\q2 that also will in turn be consumed,
\q1 as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down;
\q2 so the holy seed is its stock.”


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\c 60
\q1
\v 1 “Arise, shine; for your light has come,
\q2 and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
\q1
\v 2 For, behold, darkness will cover the earth,
\q2 and thick darkness the peoples;
\q1 but Yahweh will arise on you,
\q2 and his glory shall be seen on you.
\q1
\v 3 Nations will come to your light,
\q2 and kings to the brightness of your rising.
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
\q2 they all gather themselves together.
\q2 They come to you.
\q1 Your sons will come from far away,
\q2 and your daughters will be carried in arms.
\q1
\v 5 Then you shall see and be radiant,
\q2 and your heart will thrill and be enlarged;
\q1 because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you.
\q2 The wealth of the nations will come to you.
\q1
\v 6 A multitude of camels will cover you,
\q2 the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah.
\q1 All from Sheba will come.
\q2 They will bring gold and frankincense,
\q2 and will proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you.
\q2 The rams of Nebaioth will serve you.
\q1 They will be accepted as offerings on my altar;
\q2 and I will beautify my glorious house.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Who are these who fly as a cloud,
\q2 and as the doves to their windows?
\q1
\v 9 Surely the islands will wait for me,
\q2 and the ships of Tarshish first,
\q1 to bring your sons from far,
\q2 their silver and their gold with them,
\q1 for the name of Yahweh your God,
\q2 and for the Holy One of Israel,
\q2 because he has glorified you.
\b
\q1
\v 10 “Foreigners will build up your walls,
\q2 and their kings will serve you:
\q1 for in my wrath I struck you,
\q2 but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
\q1
\v 11 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
\q1
\v 12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
\q1
\v 14 The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you;
\q2 and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet.
\q1 They will call you Yahweh’s City,
\q2 the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 15 “Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
\q2 so that no one passed through you,
\q1 I will make you an eternal excellency,
\q2 a joy of many generations.
\q1
\v 16 You will also drink the milk of the nations,
\q2 and will nurse from royal breasts.
\q1 Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior,
\q2 your Redeemer,
\q2 the Mighty One of Jacob.
\q1
\v 17 For bronze I will bring gold;
\q2 for iron I will bring silver;
\q2 for wood, bronze,
\q2 and for stones, iron.
\q1 I will also make peace your governor,
\q2 and righteousness your ruler.
\q1
\v 18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
\q2 nor desolation or destruction within your borders;
\q1 but you will call your walls Salvation,
\q2 and your gates Praise.
\q1
\v 19 The sun will be no more your light by day;
\q2 nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you,
\q1 but Yahweh will be your everlasting light,
\q2 and your God will be your glory.
\q1
\v 20 Your sun will not go down any more,
\q2 nor will your moon withdraw itself;
\q1 for Yahweh will be your everlasting light,
\q2 and the days of your mourning will end.
\q1
\v 21 Then your people will all be righteous.
\q2 They will inherit the land forever,
\q2 the branch of my planting,
\q2 the work of my hands,
\q2 that I may be glorified.
\q1
\v 22 The little one will become a thousand,
\q2 and the small one a strong nation.
\q2 I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”


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\c 61
\q1
\v 1 The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
\q2 because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble.
\q1 He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
\q2 to proclaim liberty to the captives
\q2 and release to those who are bound,
\q1
\v 2 to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor
\q2 and the day of vengeance of our God,
\q2 to comfort all who mourn,
\q1
\v 3 to provide for those who mourn in Zion,
\q2 to give to them a garland for ashes,
\q2 the oil of joy for mourning,
\q2 the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness,
\q1 that they may be called trees of righteousness,
\q2 the planting of Yahweh,
\q2 that he may be glorified.
\b
\q1
\v 4 They will rebuild the old ruins.
\q2 They will raise up the former devastated places.
\q1 They will repair the ruined cities
\q2 that have been devastated for many generations.
\q1
\v 5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks.
\q2 Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
\q1
\v 6 But you will be called Yahweh’s priests.
\q2 Men will call you the servants of our God.
\q1 You will eat the wealth of the nations.
\q2 You will boast in their glory.
\q1
\v 7 Instead of your shame you will have double.
\q2 Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion.
\q1 Therefore in their land they will possess double.
\q2 Everlasting joy will be to them.
\q1
\v 8 “For I, Yahweh, love justice.
\q2 I hate robbery and iniquity.
\q1 I will give them their reward in truth
\q2 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
\q1
\v 9 Their offspring will be known among the nations,
\q2 and their offspring among the peoples.
\q1 All who see them will acknowledge them,
\q2 that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”
\b
\q1
\v 10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!
\q2 My soul will be joyful in my God,
\q1 for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
\q2 He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
\q2 as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
\q2 and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
\q1
\v 11 For as the earth produces its bud,
\q2 and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up,
\q2 so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.


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\c 62
\q1
\v 1 For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,
\q2 and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
\q1 until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
\q2 and her salvation like a burning lamp.
\q1
\v 2 The nations will see your righteousness,
\q2 and all kings your glory.
\q1 You will be called by a new name,
\q2 which Yahweh’s mouth will name.
\q1
\v 3 You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand,
\q2 and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.
\q1
\v 4 You will not be called Forsaken any more,
\q2 nor will your land be called Desolate any more;
\q1 but you will be called Hephzibah,\f + \fr 62:4 \ft Hephzibah means “I delight in her”.\f*
\q2 and your land Beulah;\f + \fr 62:4 \ft Beulah means “married”\f*
\q1 for Yahweh delights in you,
\q2 and your land will be married.
\q1
\v 5 For as a young man marries a virgin,
\q2 so your sons will marry you.
\q1 As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
\q2 so your God will rejoice over you.
\b
\q1
\v 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.
\q2 They will never be silent day nor night.
\q1 You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
\q2
\v 7 and give him no rest, until he establishes,
\q2 and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand,
\q2 and by the arm of his strength,
\q1 “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies,
\q2 and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,
\q1
\v 9 but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh.
\q2 Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”
\b
\q1
\v 10 Go through, go through the gates!
\q2 Prepare the way of the people!
\q1 Build up, build up the highway!
\q2 Gather out the stones!
\q2 Lift up a banner for the peoples.
\q1
\v 11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth,
\q2 “Say to the daughter of Zion,
\q2 ‘Behold, your salvation comes!
\q1 Behold, his reward is with him,
\q2 and his recompense before him!’”
\q1
\v 12 They will call them “The Holy People,
\q2 Yahweh’s Redeemed”.
\q1 You will be called “Sought Out,
\q2 A City Not Forsaken”.


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\c 63
\q1
\v 1 Who is this who comes from Edom,
\q2 with dyed garments from Bozrah?
\q1 Who is this who is glorious in his clothing,
\q2 marching in the greatness of his strength?
\q1 “It is I who speak in righteousness,
\q2 mighty to save.”
\q1
\v 2 Why is your clothing red,
\q2 and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
\b
\q1
\v 3 “I have trodden the wine press alone.
\q2 Of the peoples, no one was with me.
\q1 Yes, I trod them in my anger
\q2 and trampled them in my wrath.
\q1 Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments,
\q2 and I have stained all my clothing.
\q1
\v 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
\q2 and the year of my redeemed has come.
\q1
\v 5 I looked, and there was no one to help;
\q2 and I wondered that there was no one to uphold.
\q1 Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me.
\q2 My own wrath upheld me.
\q1
\v 6 I trod down the peoples in my anger
\q2 and made them drunk in my wrath.
\q2 I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”
\b
\q1
\v 7 I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh
\q2 and the praises of Yahweh,
\q2 according to all that Yahweh has given to us,
\q1 and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
\q2 which he has given to them according to his mercies,
\q2 and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
\q1
\v 8 For he said, “Surely, they are my people,
\q2 children who will not deal falsely;”
\q2 so he became their Savior.
\q1
\v 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted,
\q2 and the angel of his presence saved them.
\q1 In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.
\q2 He bore them,
\q2 and carried them all the days of old.
\b
\q1
\v 10 But they rebelled
\q2 and grieved his Holy Spirit.
\q1 Therefore he turned and became their enemy,
\q2 and he himself fought against them.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Then he remembered the days of old,
\q2 Moses and his people, saying,
\q1 “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
\q2 Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
\q1
\v 12 Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?
\q2 Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
\q1
\v 13 Who led them through the depths,
\q2 like a horse in the wilderness,
\q2 so that they didn’t stumble?
\q1
\v 14 As the livestock that go down into the valley,
\q2 Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest.
\q2 So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name.
\b
\q1
\v 15 Look down from heaven,
\q2 and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
\q1 Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
\q2 The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
\q1
\v 16 For you are our Father,
\q2 though Abraham doesn’t know us,
\q2 and Israel does not acknowledge us.
\q1 You, Yahweh, are our Father.
\q2 Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
\q1
\v 17 O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways,
\q2 and harden our heart from your fear?
\q1 Return for your servants’ sake,
\q2 the tribes of your inheritance.
\q1
\v 18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while.
\q2 Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
\q1
\v 19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled,
\q2 like those who were not called by your name.


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\q1
\v 1 Oh that you would tear the heavens,
\q2 that you would come down,
\q2 that the mountains might quake at your presence.
\q1
\v 2 As when fire kindles the brushwood,
\q2 and the fire causes the water to boil;
\q1 Make your name known to your adversaries,
\q2 that the nations may tremble at your presence!
\q1
\v 3 When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for,
\q2 you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
\q1
\v 4 For from of old men have not heard,
\q2 nor perceived by the ear,
\q2 nor has the eye seen a God besides you,
\q2 who works for him who waits for him.
\q1
\v 5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
\q2 those who remember you in your ways.
\q1 Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
\q2 We have been in sin for a long time.
\q2 Shall we be saved?
\q1
\v 6 For we have all become like one who is unclean,
\q2 and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment.
\q1 We all fade like a leaf;
\q2 and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
\q1
\v 7 There is no one who calls on your name,
\q2 who stirs himself up to take hold of you;
\q1 for you have hidden your face from us,
\q2 and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
\b
\q1
\v 8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.
\q2 We are the clay and you our potter.
\q2 We all are the work of your hand.
\q1
\v 9 Don’t be furious, Yahweh.
\q2 Don’t remember iniquity forever.
\q1 Look and see, we beg you,
\q2 we are all your people.
\q1
\v 10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness.
\q2 Zion has become a wilderness,
\q2 Jerusalem a desolation.
\q1
\v 11 Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you
\q2 is burned with fire.
\q2 All our pleasant places are laid waste.
\q1
\v 12 Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh?
\q2 Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?


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\c 65
\q1
\v 1 “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
\q2 I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
\q2 I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
\q1
\v 2 I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people,
\q2 who walk in a way that is not good,
\q2 after their own thoughts;
\q1
\v 3 a people who provoke me to my face continually,
\q2 sacrificing in gardens,
\q2 and burning incense on bricks;
\q1
\v 4 who sit among the graves,
\q2 and spend nights in secret places;
\q1 who eat pig’s meat,
\q2 and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
\q1
\v 5 who say, ‘Stay by yourself,
\q2 don’t come near to me,
\q2 for I am holier than you.’
\q1 These are smoke in my nose,
\q2 a fire that burns all day.
\b
\q1
\v 6 “Behold, it is written before me:
\q2 I will not keep silence,
\q2 but will repay,
\q2 yes, I will repay into their bosom,
\q1
\v 7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh,
\q2 “who have burned incense on the mountains,
\q2 and blasphemed me on the hills.
\q2 Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”
\b
\p
\v 8 Yahweh says,
\q1 “As the new wine is found in the cluster,
\q2 and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’
\q1 so I will do for my servants’ sake,
\q2 that I may not destroy them all.
\q1
\v 9 I will bring offspring out of Jacob,
\q2 and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains.
\q1 My chosen will inherit it,
\q2 and my servants will dwell there.
\q1
\v 10 Sharon will be a fold of flocks,
\q2 and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in,
\q2 for my people who have sought me.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “But you who forsake Yahweh,
\q2 who forget my holy mountain,
\q2 who prepare a table for Fortune,
\q2 and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
\q1
\v 12 I will destine you to the sword,
\q2 and you will all bow down to the slaughter;
\q1 because when I called, you didn’t answer.
\q2 When I spoke, you didn’t listen;
\q1 but you did that which was evil in my eyes,
\q2 and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
\b
\p
\v 13 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,
\q1 “Behold, my servants will eat,
\q2 but you will be hungry;
\q1 behold, my servants will drink,
\q2 but you will be thirsty.
\q1 Behold, my servants will rejoice,
\q2 but you will be disappointed;
\q1
\v 14 Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart,
\q2 but you will cry for sorrow of heart,
\q2 and will wail for anguish of spirit.
\q1
\v 15 You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen;
\q2 and the Lord Yahweh will kill you.
\q1 He will call his servants by another name,
\q2
\v 16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth;
\q2 and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth;
\q1 because the former troubles are forgotten,
\q2 and because they are hidden from my eyes.
\b
\q1
\v 17 “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
\q2 and the former things will not be remembered,
\q2 nor come into mind.
\q1
\v 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
\q2 for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,
\q2 and her people a joy.
\q1
\v 19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
\q2 and delight in my people;
\q1 and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying
\q2 will be heard in her no more.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,
\q2 nor an old man who has not filled his days;
\q1 for the child will die one hundred years old,
\q2 and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
\q1
\v 21 They will build houses and inhabit them.
\q2 They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
\q1
\v 22 They will not build and another inhabit.
\q2 They will not plant and another eat:
\q1 for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,
\q2 and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
\q1
\v 23 They will not labor in vain
\q2 nor give birth for calamity;
\q1 for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed
\q2 and their descendants with them.
\q1
\v 24 It will happen that before they call, I will answer;
\q2 and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
\q1
\v 25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together.
\q2 The lion will eat straw like the ox.
\q2 Dust will be the serpent’s food.
\q1 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,”
\q2 says Yahweh.


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\c 66
\p
\v 1 Yahweh says,
\q1 “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
\q2 What kind of house will you build to me?
\q2 Where will I rest?
\q1
\v 2 For my hand has made all these things,
\q2 and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh:
\q1 “but I will look to this man,
\q2 even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
\q2 and who trembles at my word.
\q1
\v 3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man;
\q2 he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck;
\q2 he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood;
\q2 he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol.
\q1 Yes, they have chosen their own ways,
\q2 and their soul delights in their abominations:
\q1
\v 4 I also will choose their delusions,
\q2 and will bring their fears on them;
\q1 because when I called, no one answered;
\q2 when I spoke, they didn’t listen;
\q1 but they did that which was evil in my eyes,
\q2 and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
\b
\q1
\v 5 Hear Yahweh’s word,
\q2 you who tremble at his word:
\q1 “Your brothers who hate you,
\q2 who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said,
\q1 ‘Let Yahweh be glorified,
\q2 that we may see your joy;’
\q2 but it is those who shall be disappointed.
\q1
\v 6 A voice of tumult from the city,
\q2 a voice from the temple,
\q2 a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Before she travailed, she gave birth.
\q2 Before her pain came, she delivered a son.
\q1
\v 8 Who has heard of such a thing?
\q2 Who has seen such things?
\q1 Shall a land be born in one day?
\q2 Shall a nation be born at once?
\q1 For as soon as Zion travailed,
\q2 she gave birth to her children.
\q1
\v 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh.
\q2 “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.
\b
\q1
\v 10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her.
\q2 Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
\q1
\v 11 that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts;
\q2 that you may drink deeply,
\q2 and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”
\b
\q1
\v 12 For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
\q2 and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
\q2 and you will nurse.
\q1 You will be carried on her side,
\q2 and will be dandled on her knees.
\q1
\v 13 As one whom his mother comforts,
\q2 so I will comfort you.
\q2 You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
\b
\q1
\v 14 You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice,
\q2 and your bones will flourish like the tender grass.
\q1 Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants;
\q2 and he will have indignation against his enemies.
\b
\q1
\v 15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire,
\q2 and his chariots will be like the whirlwind;
\q1 to render his anger with fierceness,
\q2 and his rebuke with flames of fire.
\q1
\v 16 For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh;
\q2 and those slain by Yahweh will be many.
\p
\v 17 “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.
\p
\v 19 “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
\v 20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into Yahweh’s house.
\v 21 Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.
\v 23 It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.
\v 24 “They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”


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\p
\v 1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
\v 2 David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
\p
\v 3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.
\v 4 Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
\v 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
\v 6 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”
\v 7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
\v 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.
\v 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
\p
\v 10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
\v 11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
\p
\v 12 But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”
\p
\v 13 He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
\v 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.\f + \fr 7:14 \ft “Immanuel” means “God with us”.\f*
\v 15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
\v 16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
\v 17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.
\p
\v 18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
\v 19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.
\p
\v 20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
\p
\v 21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep.
\v 22 It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter; for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.
\p
\v 23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels,\f + \fr 7:23 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or 22 pounds.\f* shall be for briers and thorns.
\v 24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
\v 25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;\f + \fr 8:1 \ft “Maher Shalal Hash Baz” means “quick to the plunder, swift to the prey”.\f*
\v 2 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”
\p
\v 3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’
\v 4 For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”
\p
\v 5 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,
\v 6 “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
\v 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
\v 8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.
\v 9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
\v 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
\v 11 For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
\v 12 “Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.
\v 13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
\v 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.
\v 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”
\p
\v 16 Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.
\v 17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
\v 18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
\p
\v 19 When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
\v 20 Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
\v 21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
\v 22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.


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\p
\v 1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
\p
\v 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.
\q2 The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.
\q1
\v 3 You have multiplied the nation.
\q2 You have increased their joy.
\p They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.
\v 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
\v 5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
\v 6 For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
\v 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
\p
\v 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob,
\q2 and it falls on Israel.
\q1
\v 9 All the people will know,
\q2 including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
\q1
\v 10 “The bricks have fallen,
\q2 but we will build with cut stone.
\q1 The sycamore fig trees have been cut down,
\q2 but we will put cedars in their place.”
\q1
\v 11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin,
\q2 and will stir up his enemies,
\q2
\v 12 The Syrians in front,
\q2 and the Philistines behind;
\q2 and they will devour Israel with open mouth.
\q1 For all this, his anger is not turned away,
\q2 but his hand is stretched out still.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them,
\q2 neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
\q1
\v 14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail,
\q2 palm branch and reed, in one day.
\q1
\v 15 The elder and the honorable man is the head,
\q2 and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
\q1
\v 16 For those who lead this people lead them astray;
\q2 and those who are led by them are destroyed.
\q1
\v 17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men,
\q2 neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows;
\q1 for everyone is profane and an evildoer,
\q2 and every mouth speaks folly.
\q1 For all this his anger is not turned away,
\q2 but his hand is stretched out still.
\b
\q1
\v 18 For wickedness burns like a fire.
\q2 It devours the briers and thorns;
\q2 yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest,
\q2 and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
\q1
\v 19 Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up;
\q2 and the people are the fuel for the fire.
\q2 No one spares his brother.
\q1
\v 20 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry;
\q2 and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied.
\q1 Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
\q2
\v 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah.
\q1 For all this his anger is not turned away,
\q2 but his hand is stretched out still.


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\v 1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
\v 2 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word came to him in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
\v 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
\v 4 Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\q1
\v 5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
\q2 Before you were born, I sanctified you.
\q2 I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
\p
\v 6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord\f + \fr 1:6 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” \f* Yahweh! Behold,\f + \fr 1:6 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”
\p
\v 7 But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.
\v 8 Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 9 Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
\v 10 Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
\p
\v 11 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”
\p I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”
\p
\v 12 Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”
\p
\v 13 Yahweh’s word came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?”
\p I said, “I see a boiling cauldron; and it is tipping away from the north.”
\p
\v 14 Then Yahweh said to me, “Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.
\v 15 For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says Yahweh.
\q1 “They will come, and they will each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
\q2 and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.
\q1
\v 16 I will utter my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness,
\q2 in that they have forsaken me,
\q2 and have burned incense to other gods,
\q2 and worshiped the works of their own hands.
\p
\v 17 “You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
\v 18 For, behold, I have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
\v 19 They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”


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\p
\v 1 Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!
\v 2 Yahweh says,
\q1 “Don’t learn the way of the nations,
\q2 and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky;
\q2 for the nations are dismayed at them.
\q1
\v 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity;
\q2 for one cuts a tree out of the forest,
\q2 the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.
\q1
\v 4 They deck it with silver and with gold.
\q2 They fasten it with nails and with hammers,
\q2 so that it can’t move.
\q1
\v 5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work,
\q2 and don’t speak.
\q1 They must be carried,
\q2 because they can’t move.
\q1 Don’t be afraid of them;
\q2 for they can’t do evil,
\q2 neither is it in them to do good.”
\q1
\v 6 There is no one like you, Yahweh.
\q2 You are great,
\q2 and your name is great in might.
\q1
\v 7 Who shouldn’t fear you,
\q2 King of the nations?
\q2 For it belongs to you.
\q1 Because among all the wise men of the nations,
\q2 and in all their royal estate,
\q2 there is no one like you.
\q1
\v 8 But they are together brutish and foolish,
\q2 instructed by idols!
\q2 It is just wood.
\q1
\v 9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish,
\q2 and gold from Uphaz,
\q2 the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith.
\q1 Their clothing is blue and purple.
\q2 They are all the work of skillful men.
\q1
\v 10 But Yahweh is the true God.
\q2 He is the living God,
\q2 and an everlasting King.
\q1 At his wrath, the earth trembles.
\q2 The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.
\p
\v 11 “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
\q1
\v 12 God has made the earth by his power.
\q2 He has established the world by his wisdom,
\q2 and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.
\q1
\v 13 When he utters his voice,
\q2 the waters in the heavens roar,
\q2 and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.
\q1 He makes lightnings for the rain,
\q2 and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
\q1
\v 14 Every man has become brutish and without knowledge.
\q2 Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image;
\q1 for his molten image is falsehood,
\q2 and there is no breath in them.
\q1
\v 15 They are vanity, a work of delusion.
\q2 In the time of their visitation they will perish.
\q1
\v 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these;
\q2 for he is the maker of all things;
\q1 and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance:
\q2 Yahweh of Armies is his name.
\q1
\v 17 Gather up your wares out of the land,
\q2 you who live under siege.
\q1
\v 18 For Yahweh says,
\q2 “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time,
\q2 and will distress them, that they may feel it.”
\q1
\v 19 Woe is me because of my injury!
\q2 My wound is serious;
\q1 but I said,
\q2 “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”
\q1
\v 20 My tent has been destroyed,
\q2 and all my cords are broken.
\q1 My children have gone away from me, and they are no more.
\q2 There is no one to spread my tent any more,
\q2 to set up my curtains.
\q1
\v 21 For the shepherds have become brutish,
\q2 and have not inquired of Yahweh.
\q1 Therefore they have not prospered,
\q2 and all their flocks have scattered.
\q1
\v 22 The voice of news, behold, it comes,
\q2 and a great commotion out of the north country,
\q1 to make the cities of Judah a desolation,
\q2 a dwelling place of jackals.
\q1
\v 23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself.
\q2 It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
\q1
\v 24 Yahweh, correct me, but gently;
\q2 not in your anger,
\q2 lest you reduce me to nothing.
\q1
\v 25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,
\q2 and on the families that don’t call on your name;
\q1 for they have devoured Jacob.
\q2 Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him,
\q2 and have laid waste his habitation.


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\c 11
\p
\v 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
\v 2 “Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
\v 3 and say to them, Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this covenant,
\v 4 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;
\v 5 that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today.”
\p Then I answered, and said, “Amen, Yahweh.”
\p
\v 6 Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.
\v 7 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, “Obey my voice.”
\v 8 Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’”
\p
\v 9 Yahweh said to me, “A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
\v 10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
\v 11 Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.
\v 12 Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
\v 13 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.’
\p
\v 14 “Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
\q1
\v 15 What has my beloved to do in my house,
\q2 since she has behaved lewdly with many,
\q2 and the holy flesh has passed from you?
\q1 When you do evil,
\q2 then you rejoice.”
\b
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree,
\q2 beautiful with goodly fruit.”
\q1 With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it,
\q2 and its branches are broken.
\m
\v 17 For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.
\p
\v 18 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings.
\v 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying,
\q1 “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit,
\q2 and let’s cut him off from the land of the living,
\q2 that his name may be no more remembered.”
\q1
\v 20 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously,
\q2 who tests the heart and the mind,
\q1 I will see your vengeance on them;
\q2 for to you I have revealed my cause.
\p
\v 21 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’
\v 22 therefore Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine.
\v 23 There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’”


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\c 12
\q1
\v 1 You are righteous, Yahweh,
\q2 when I contend with you;
\q1 yet I would like to reason the cause with you.
\q2 Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
\q2 Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
\q1
\v 2 You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root.
\q2 They grow. Yes, they produce fruit.
\q1 You are near in their mouth,
\q2 and far from their heart.
\q1
\v 3 But you, Yahweh, know me.
\q2 You see me, and test my heart toward you.
\q1 Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
\q2 and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
\q1
\v 4 How long will the land mourn,
\q2 and the herbs of the whole country wither?
\q1 Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein,
\q2 the animals and birds are consumed;
\q1 because they said,
\q2 “He won’t see our latter end.”
\q1
\v 5 “If you have run with the footmen,
\q2 and they have wearied you,
\q2 then how can you contend with horses?
\q1 Though in a land of peace you are secure,
\q2 yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
\q1
\v 6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father,
\q2 even they have dealt treacherously with you!
\q2 Even they have cried aloud after you!
\q1 Don’t believe them,
\q2 though they speak beautiful words to you.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “I have forsaken my house.
\q2 I have cast off my heritage.
\q2 I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
\q1
\v 8 My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest.
\q2 She has uttered her voice against me.
\q2 Therefore I have hated her.
\q1
\v 9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey?
\q2 Are the birds of prey against her all around?
\q1 Go, assemble all the animals of the field.
\q2 Bring them to devour.
\q1
\v 10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard.
\q2 They have trodden my portion under foot.
\q2 They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
\q1
\v 11 They have made it a desolation.
\q2 It mourns to me, being desolate.
\q1 The whole land is made desolate,
\q2 because no one cares.
\q1
\v 12 Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness;
\q2 for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land.
\q2 No flesh has peace.
\q1
\v 13 They have sown wheat,
\q2 and have reaped thorns.
\q1 They have exhausted themselves,
\q2 and profit nothing.
\q1 You will be ashamed of your fruits,
\q2 because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
\b
\p
\v 14 Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
\v 15 It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
\v 16 It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.
\v 17 But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says Yahweh.


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\c 13
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
\p
\v 2 So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.
\p
\v 3 Yahweh’s word came to me the second time, saying,
\v 4 “Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
\p
\v 5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.
\p
\v 6 After many days, Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.”
\p
\v 7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.
\p
\v 8 Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 9 “Yahweh says, ‘In this way I, will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
\v 10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
\v 11 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’
\p
\v 12 “Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Every container should be filled with wine.”’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’
\v 13 Then tell them, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
\v 14 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.”’”
\q1
\v 15 Hear, and give ear.
\q2 Don’t be proud,
\q2 for Yahweh has spoken.
\q1
\v 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God,
\q2 before he causes darkness,
\q2 and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains,
\q1 and while you look for light,
\q2 he turns it into the shadow of death,
\q2 and makes it deep darkness.
\q1
\v 17 But if you will not hear it,
\q2 my soul will weep in secret for your pride.
\q1 My eye will weep bitterly,
\q2 and run down with tears,
\q2 because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
\q1
\v 18 Say to the king and to the queen mother,
\q2 “Humble yourselves.
\q1 Sit down, for your crowns have come down,
\q2 even the crown of your glory.
\q1
\v 19 The cities of the South are shut up,
\q2 and there is no one to open them.
\q1 Judah is carried away captive: all of them.
\q2 They are wholly carried away captive.
\q1
\v 20 Lift up your eyes,
\q2 and see those who come from the north.
\q1 Where is the flock that was given to you,
\q2 your beautiful flock?
\q1
\v 21 What will you say, when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you?
\q2 Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?
\q1
\v 22 If you say in your heart,
\q2 “Why have these things come on me?”
\q1 Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity,
\q2 and your heels suffer violence.
\q1
\v 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
\q2 or the leopard his spots?
\q1 Then may you also do good,
\q2 who are accustomed to do evil.
\b
\q1
\v 24 “Therefore I will scatter them,
\q2 as the stubble that passes away,
\q2 by the wind of the wilderness.
\q1
\v 25 This is your lot,
\q2 the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh,
\q1 “because you have forgotten me,
\q2 and trusted in falsehood.”
\q1
\v 26 Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face,
\q2 and your shame will appear.
\q1
\v 27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries,
\q2 and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution,
\q2 on the hills in the field.
\q1 Woe to you, Jerusalem!
\q2 You will not be made clean.
\q2 How long will it yet be?”


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\c 14
\p
\v 1 This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
\q1
\v 2 “Judah mourns,
\q2 and its gates languish.
\q1 They sit in black on the ground.
\q2 The cry of Jerusalem goes up.
\q1
\v 3 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters.
\q2 They come to the cisterns,
\q2 and find no water.
\q1 They return with their vessels empty.
\q2 They are disappointed and confounded,
\q2 and cover their heads.
\q1
\v 4 Because of the ground which is cracked,
\q2 because no rain has been in the land,
\q1 the plowmen are disappointed.
\q2 They cover their heads.
\q1
\v 5 Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young,
\q2 because there is no grass.
\q1
\v 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights.
\q2 They pant for air like jackals.
\q1 Their eyes fail,
\q2 because there is no vegetation.
\q1
\v 7 Though our iniquities testify against us,
\q2 work for your name’s sake, Yahweh;
\q1 for our rebellions are many.
\q2 We have sinned against you.
\q1
\v 8 You hope of Israel,
\q2 its Savior in the time of trouble,
\q1 why should you be as a foreigner in the land,
\q2 and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
\q1
\v 9 Why should you be like a scared man,
\q2 as a mighty man who can’t save?
\q1 Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us,
\q2 and we are called by your name.
\q2 Don’t leave us.
\p
\v 10 Yahweh says to this people,
\q1 “Even so they have loved to wander.
\q2 They have not restrained their feet.
\q1 Therefore Yahweh does not accept them.
\q2 Now he will remember their iniquity,
\q2 and punish them for their sins.”
\p
\v 11 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good.
\v 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
\p
\v 13 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’”
\p
\v 14 Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
\v 15 Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine.
\v 16 The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.
\p
\v 17 “You shall say this word to them:
\q1 “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
\q2 and let them not cease;
\q1 for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach,
\q2 with a very grievous wound.
\q1
\v 18 If I go out into the field,
\q2 then, behold, the slain with the sword!
\q1 If I enter into the city,
\q2 then, behold, those who are sick with famine!
\q1 For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land,
\q2 and have no knowledge.’”
\b
\q1
\v 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah?
\q2 Has your soul loathed Zion?
\q1 Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us?
\q2 We looked for peace, but no good came;
\q2 and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
\q1
\v 20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness,
\q2 and the iniquity of our fathers;
\q2 for we have sinned against you.
\q1
\v 21 Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake.
\q2 Do not disgrace the throne of your glory.
\q2 Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
\q1
\v 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain?
\q2 Or can the sky give showers?
\q2 Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God?
\q1 Therefore we will wait for you;
\q2 for you have made all these things.


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\c 15
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
\v 2 It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says:
\q1 “Such as are for death, to death;
\q1 such as are for the sword, to the sword;
\q1 such as are for the famine, to the famine;
\q1 and such as are for captivity, to captivity.”’
\p
\v 3 “I will appoint over them four kinds,” says Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
\v 4 I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 5 For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?
\q2 Who will mourn you?
\q2 Who will come to ask of your welfare?
\q1
\v 6 You have rejected me,” says Yahweh.
\q2 “You have gone backward.
\q1 Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you
\q2 and destroyed you.
\q2 I am weary of showing compassion.
\q1
\v 7 I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land.
\q2 I have bereaved them of children.
\q1 I have destroyed my people.
\q2 They didn’t return from their ways.
\q1
\v 8 Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas.
\q2 I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday.
\q2 I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
\q1
\v 9 She who has borne seven languishes.
\q2 She has given up the spirit.
\q1 Her sun has gone down while it was yet day.
\q2 She has been disappointed and confounded.
\q2 I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife,
\q2 and a man of contention to the whole earth!
\q1 I have not lent, neither have men lent to me;
\q2 yet every one of them curses me.
\p
\v 11 Yahweh said,
\q1 “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good.
\q2 Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil
\q2 and in the time of affliction.
\q1
\v 12 Can one break iron,
\q2 even iron from the north, and bronze?
\q1
\v 13 I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price,
\q2 and that for all your sins,
\q2 even in all your borders.
\q1
\v 14 I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know;
\q2 for a fire is kindled in my anger,
\q2 which will burn on you.”
\b
\q1
\v 15 Yahweh, you know.
\q2 Remember me, visit me,
\q2 and avenge me of my persecutors.
\q1 You are patient, so don’t take me away.
\q2 Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
\q1
\v 16 Your words were found,
\q2 and I ate them.
\q1 Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart,
\q2 for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
\q1
\v 17 I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice.
\q2 I sat alone because of your hand,
\q2 for you have filled me with indignation.
\q1
\v 18 Why is my pain perpetual,
\q2 and my wound incurable,
\q2 which refuses to be healed?
\q1 Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook,
\q2 like waters that fail?
\p
\v 19 Therefore Yahweh says,
\q1 “If you return, then I will bring you again,
\q2 that you may stand before me;
\q1 and if you take out the precious from the vile,
\q2 you will be as my mouth.
\q1 They will return to you,
\q2 but you will not return to them.
\q1
\v 20 I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall.
\q2 They will fight against you,
\q2 but they will not prevail against you;
\q1 for I am with you to save you
\q2 and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 21 “I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,
\q2 and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”


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\c 16
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came also to me, saying,
\v 2 “You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”
\v 3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:
\v 4 “They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
\p
\v 5 For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.
\v 6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.
\v 7 Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
\p
\v 8 “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
\v 9 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
\v 10 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
\v 11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.
\v 12 You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
\v 13 Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
\p
\v 14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
\v 15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
\p
\v 16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
\v 17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
\v 18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
\b
\q1
\v 19 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold,
\q2 and my refuge in the day of affliction,
\q1 the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth,
\q2 and will say,
\q1 “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
\q2 vanity and things in which there is no profit.
\q1
\v 20 Should a man make to himself gods
\q2 which yet are no gods?”
\b
\q1
\v 21 “Therefore behold, I will cause them to know,
\q2 this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might.
\q2 Then they will know that my name is Yahweh.”


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\c 17
\q1
\v 1 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,
\q2 and with the point of a diamond.
\q1 It is engraved on the tablet of their heart,
\q2 and on the horns of your altars.
\q1
\v 2 Even their children remember their altars
\q2 and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
\q1
\v 3 My mountain in the field,
\q2 I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder,
\q2 and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.
\q1
\v 4 You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you.
\q2 I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know,
\q2 for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”
\p
\v 5 Yahweh says:
\q1 “Cursed is the man who trusts in man,
\q2 relies on strength of flesh,
\q2 and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
\q1
\v 6 For he will be like a bush in the desert,
\q2 and will not see when good comes,
\q1 but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
\q2 an uninhabited salt land.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh,
\q2 and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 8 For he will be as a tree planted by the waters,
\q2 who spreads out its roots by the river,
\q1 and will not fear when heat comes,
\q2 but its leaf will be green,
\q1 and will not be concerned in the year of drought.
\q2 It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
\q1
\v 9 The heart is deceitful above all things
\q2 and it is exceedingly corrupt.
\q2 Who can know it?
\b
\q1
\v 10 “I, Yahweh, search the mind.
\q2 I try the heart,
\q1 even to give every man according to his ways,
\q2 according to the fruit of his doings.”
\b
\q1
\v 11 As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid,
\q2 so is he who gets riches, and not by right.
\q1 In the middle of his days, they will leave him.
\q2 At his end, he will be a fool.
\q1
\v 12 A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning,
\q2 is the place of our sanctuary.
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh, the hope of Israel,
\q2 all who forsake you will be disappointed.
\q1 Those who depart from me will be written in the earth,
\q2 because they have forsaken Yahweh,
\q2 the spring of living waters.
\q1
\v 14 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed.
\q2 Save me, and I will be saved;
\q2 for you are my praise.
\q1
\v 15 Behold, they ask me,
\q2 “Where is Yahweh’s word?
\q2 Let it be fulfilled now.”
\q1
\v 16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you.
\q2 I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know.
\q2 That which came out of my lips was before your face.
\q1
\v 17 Don’t be a terror to me.
\q2 You are my refuge in the day of evil.
\q1
\v 18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me,
\q2 but let not me be disappointed.
\q1 Let them be dismayed,
\q2 but don’t let me be dismayed.
\q1 Bring on them the day of evil,
\q2 and destroy them with double destruction.
\p
\v 19 Yahweh said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
\v 20 Tell them, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
\v 21 Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
\v 22 Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
\v 23 But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
\v 24 It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
\v 25 then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever.
\v 26 They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to Yahweh’s house.
\v 27 But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”


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\c 18
\p
\v 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
\v 2 “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”
\p
\v 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.
\v 4 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
\p
\v 5 Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 6 “House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
\v 7 At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
\v 8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
\v 9 At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
\v 10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
\p
\v 11 “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’
\v 12 But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
\p
\v 13 Therefore Yahweh says:
\q1 “Ask now among the nations,
\q2 ‘Who has heard such things?’
\q2 The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
\q1
\v 14 Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field?
\q2 Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
\q1
\v 15 For my people have forgotten me.
\q2 They have burned incense to false gods.
\q1 They have been made to stumble in their ways,
\q2 in the ancient paths,
\q2 to walk in byways, in a way not built up,
\q1
\v 16 to make their land an astonishment,
\q2 and a perpetual hissing.
\q1 Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,
\q2 and shake his head.
\q1
\v 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy.
\q2 I will show them the back, and not the face,
\q2 in the day of their calamity.
\p
\v 18 Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
\q1
\v 19 Give heed to me, Yahweh,
\q2 and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
\q1
\v 20 Should evil be recompensed for good?
\q2 For they have dug a pit for my soul.
\q1 Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them,
\q2 to turn away your wrath from them.
\q1
\v 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine,
\q2 and give them over to the power of the sword.
\q1 Let their wives become childless and widows.
\q2 Let their men be killed
\q2 and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
\q1
\v 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses
\q2 when you bring a troop suddenly on them;
\q1 for they have dug a pit to take me
\q2 and hidden snares for my feet.
\q1
\v 23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me.
\q2 Don’t forgive their iniquity.
\q2 Don’t blot out their sin from your sight,
\q1 Let them be overthrown before you.
\q2 Deal with them in the time of your anger.


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\c 19
\p
\v 1 Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
\v 2 and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.
\v 3 Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.
\v 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
\v 5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind.
\v 6 Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.
\p
\v 7 “‘“I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.
\v 8 I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
\v 9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’
\p
\v 10 “Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,
\v 11 and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.
\v 12 This is what I will do to this place,” says Yahweh, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.
\v 13 The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”
\p
\v 14 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:
\v 15 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says,
\q1 “I remember for you the kindness of your youth,
\q2 the love of your weddings;
\q1 how you went after me in the wilderness,
\q2 in a land that was not sown.
\q1
\v 3 Israel was holiness to Yahweh,
\q2 the first fruits of his increase.
\q1 All who devour him will be held guilty.
\q2 Evil will come on them,”’ says Yahweh.”
\p
\v 4 Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!
\v 5 Yahweh says,
\q1 “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me,
\q2 that they have gone far from me,
\q1 and have walked after worthless vanity,
\q2 and have become worthless?
\q1
\v 6 They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
\q2 who led us through the wilderness,
\q2 through a land of deserts and of pits,
\q2 through a land of drought and of the shadow of death,
\q2 through a land that no one passed through,
\q2 and where no man lived?’
\q1
\v 7 I brought you into a plentiful land
\q2 to eat its fruit and its goodness;
\q1 but when you entered, you defiled my land,
\q2 and made my heritage an abomination.
\q1
\v 8 The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’
\q2 and those who handle the law didn’t know me.
\q1 The rulers also transgressed against me,
\q2 and the prophets prophesied by Baal
\q2 and followed things that do not profit.
\q1
\v 9 “Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “and I will contend with your children’s children.
\q1
\v 10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see.
\q2 Send to Kedar, and consider diligently,
\q2 and see if there has been such a thing.
\q1
\v 11 Has a nation changed its gods,
\q2 which really are no gods?
\q2 But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
\q1
\v 12 “Be astonished, you heavens, at this
\q2 and be horribly afraid.
\q2 Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 13 “For my people have committed two evils:
\q2 they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters,
\q2 and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
\q1
\v 14 Is Israel a slave?
\q2 Is he born into slavery?
\q2 Why has he become a captive?
\q1
\v 15 The young lions have roared at him and yelled.
\q2 They have made his land waste.
\q2 His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
\q2
\v 16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
\q1
\v 17 “Haven’t you brought this on yourself,
\q2 in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God,\f + \fr 2:17 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* when he led you by the way?
\q1
\v 18 Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor?
\q2 Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?\f + \fr 2:18 \ft i.e., the Euphrates River\f*
\q1
\v 19 “Your own wickedness will correct you,
\q2 and your backsliding will rebuke you.
\q1 Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing,
\q2 that you have forsaken Yahweh your God,
\q2 and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
\q1
\v 20 “For long ago I broke off your yoke,
\q2 and burst your bonds.
\q1 You said, ‘I will not serve;’
\q2 for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself,
\q2 playing the prostitute.
\q1
\v 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine,
\q2 a pure and faithful seed.
\q2 How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
\q1
\v 22 For though you wash yourself with lye,
\q2 and use much soap,
\q2 yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\q1
\v 23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled.
\q2 I have not gone after the Baals’?
\q1 See your way in the valley.
\q2 Know what you have done.
\q1 You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
\v 24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving.
\q2 When she is in heat, who can turn her away?
\q2 All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
\q1
\v 25 “Keep your feet from being bare,
\q2 and your throat from thirst.
\q1 But you said, ‘It is in vain.
\q2 No, for I have loved strangers,
\q2 and I will go after them.’
\q1
\v 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found,
\q2 so the house of Israel is ashamed:
\q2 they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
\q1
\v 27 who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’
\q2 and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’
\q1 for they have turned their back to me,
\q2 and not their face;
\q2 but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
\q1
\v 28 “But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves?
\q2 Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble;
\q2 for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
\q1
\v 29 “Why will you contend with me?
\q2 You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 30 “I have struck your children in vain.
\q2 They received no correction.
\q1 Your own sword has devoured your prophets,
\q2 like a destroying lion.
\q1
\v 31 Generation, consider Yahweh’s word.
\q2 Have I been a wilderness to Israel?
\q2 Or a land of thick darkness?
\q1 Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose.
\q2 We will come to you no more?’
\q1
\v 32 “Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
\q2 or a bride her attire?
\q2 Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
\q1
\v 33 How well you prepare your way to seek love!
\q2 Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.
\q1
\v 34 Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts.
\q2 You didn’t find them breaking in,
\q2 but it is because of all these things.
\q1
\v 35 “Yet you said, ‘I am innocent.
\q2 Surely his anger has turned away from me.’
\q1 “Behold, I will judge you,
\q2 because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
\q1
\v 36 Why do you go about so much to change your ways?
\q2 You will be ashamed of Egypt also,
\q2 as you were ashamed of Assyria.
\q1
\v 37 You will also leave that place with your hands on your head;
\q2 for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust,
\q2 and you won’t prosper with them.


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\p
\v 1 Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
\v 2 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.
\v 3 On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.\f + \fr 20:3 \ft “Magormissabib” means “surrounded by terror”\f*
\v 4 For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword.
\v 5 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies. They will make them captives, take them, and carry them to Babylon.
\v 6 You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity. You will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’”
\b
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded.
\q2 You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
\q1 I have become a laughingstock all day.
\q2 Everyone mocks me.
\q1
\v 8 For as often as I speak, I cry out;
\q2 I cry, “Violence and destruction!”
\q1 because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me,
\q2 and a derision, all day.
\q1
\v 9 If I say, I will not make mention of him,
\q2 or speak any more in his name,
\q1 then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones.
\q2 I am weary with holding it in.
\q2 I can’t.
\q1
\v 10 For I have heard the defaming of many,
\q2 “Terror on every side!
\q2 Denounce, and we will denounce him!”
\q1 say all my familiar friends,
\q2 those who watch for my fall.
\q1 “Perhaps he will be persuaded,
\q2 and we will prevail against him,
\q2 and we will take our revenge on him.”
\q1
\v 11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one.
\q2 Therefore my persecutors will stumble,
\q2 and they won’t prevail.
\q1 They will be utterly disappointed,
\q2 because they have not dealt wisely,
\q2 even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.
\q1
\v 12 But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous,
\q2 who sees the heart and the mind,
\q1 let me see your vengeance on them,
\q2 for I have revealed my cause to you.
\q1
\v 13 Sing to Yahweh!
\q2 Praise Yahweh,
\q2 for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
\q1
\v 14 Cursed is the day in which I was born.
\q2 Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
\q1
\v 15 Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying,
\q2 “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
\q1
\v 16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew,
\q2 and didn’t repent.
\q1 Let him hear a cry in the morning,
\q2 and shouting at noontime;
\q1
\v 17 because he didn’t kill me from the womb.
\q2 So my mother would have been my grave,
\q2 and her womb always great.
\q1
\v 18 Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow,
\q2 that my days should be consumed with shame?


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\p
\v 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
\v 2 “Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may withdraw from us.”
\p
\v 3 Then Jeremiah said to them, “Tell Zedekiah:
\v 4 ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will gather them into the middle of this city.
\v 5 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation.
\v 6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.
\v 7 Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy.”’
\p
\v 8 “You shall say to this people, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
\v 9 He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life.
\v 10 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,” says Yahweh. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.”’
\p
\v 11 “Concerning the house of the king of Judah, hear Yahweh’s word:
\v 12 House of David, Yahweh says,
\q1 ‘Execute justice in the morning,
\q2 and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,
\q1 lest my wrath go out like fire,
\q2 and burn so that no one can quench it,
\q2 because of the evil of your doings.
\q1
\v 13 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley,
\q2 and of the rock of the plain,’ says Yahweh.
\q1 ‘You that say, “Who would come down against us?”
\q2 or “Who would enter into our homes?”
\q1
\v 14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh;
\q2 and I will kindle a fire in her forest,
\q2 and it will devour all that is around her.’”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word, there:
\v 2 ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne, you, your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.
\v 3 Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
\v 4 For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses, he, his servants, and his people.
\v 5 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”
\p
\v 6 For Yahweh says concerning the house of the king of Judah:
\q1 “You are Gilead to me,
\q2 the head of Lebanon.
\q1 Yet surely I will make you a wilderness,
\q2 cities which are not inhabited.
\q1
\v 7 I will prepare destroyers against you,
\q2 everyone with his weapons,
\q1 and they will cut down your choice cedars,
\q2 and cast them into the fire.
\p
\v 8 “Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’
\v 9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’”
\q1
\v 10 Don’t weep for the dead.
\q2 Don’t bemoan him;
\q1 but weep bitterly for him who goes away,
\q2 for he will return no more,
\q2 and not see his native country.
\m
\v 11 For Yahweh says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.
\v 12 But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more.”
\q1
\v 13 “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,
\q2 and his rooms by injustice;
\q1 who uses his neighbor’s service without wages,
\q2 and doesn’t give him his hire;
\q1
\v 14 who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’
\q2 and cuts out windows for himself;
\q1 with a cedar ceiling,
\q2 and painted with red.
\b
\q1
\v 15 “Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar?
\q2 Didn’t your father eat and drink,
\q2 and do justice and righteousness?
\q2 Then it was well with him.
\q1
\v 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
\q2 so it was well, then.
\q1 Wasn’t this to know me?”
\q2 says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 17 But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness,
\q2 for shedding innocent blood,
\q2 for oppression, and for doing violence.”
\m
\v 18 Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
\q1 “They won’t lament for him,
\q2 saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’
\q1 They won’t lament for him,
\q2 saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’
\q1
\v 19 He will be buried with the burial of a donkey,
\q2 drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry.
\q2 Lift up your voice in Bashan,
\q1 and cry from Abarim;
\q2 for all your lovers have been destroyed.
\q1
\v 21 I spoke to you in your prosperity;
\q2 but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
\q1 This has been your way from your youth,
\q2 that you didn’t obey my voice.
\q1
\v 22 The wind will feed all your shepherds,
\q2 and your lovers will go into captivity.
\q1 Surely then you will be ashamed
\q2 and confounded for all your wickedness.
\q1
\v 23 Inhabitant of Lebanon,
\q2 who makes your nest in the cedars,
\q1 how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you,
\q2 the pain as of a woman in travail!
\p
\v 24 “As I live,” says Yahweh, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from there.
\v 25 I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
\v 26 I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.
\v 27 But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will not return.”
\q1
\v 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel?
\q2 Is he a vessel in which no one delights?
\q1 Why are they cast out, he and his offspring,
\q2 and cast into a land which they don’t know?
\q1
\v 29 O earth, earth, earth,
\q2 hear Yahweh’s word!
\q1
\v 30 Yahweh says,
\q2 “Record this man as childless,
\q2 a man who will not prosper in his days;
\q1 for no more will a man of his offspring prosper,
\q2 sitting on David’s throne,
\q2 and ruling in Judah.”


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\c 23
\p
\v 1 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.
\v 2 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.
\v 3 “I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.
\v 4 I will set up shepherds over them, who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 5 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch,
\q1 and he will reign as king and deal wisely,
\q2 and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
\q1
\v 6 In his days Judah will be saved,
\q2 and Israel will dwell safely.
\q1 This is his name by which he will be called:
\q2 Yahweh our righteousness.
\m
\v 7 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that they will no more say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
\v 8 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land.”
\p
\v 9 Concerning the prophets:
\q1 My heart within me is broken.
\q2 All my bones shake.
\q1 I am like a drunken man,
\q2 and like a man whom wine has overcome,
\q1 because of Yahweh,
\q2 and because of his holy words.
\q1
\v 10 For the land is full of adulterers;
\q2 for because of the curse the land mourns.
\q1 The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
\q2 Their course is evil,
\q2 and their might is not right;
\q1
\v 11 for both prophet and priest are profane.
\q2 Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 12 Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness.
\q2 They will be driven on,
\q2 and fall therein;
\q1 for I will bring evil on them,
\q2 even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria.
\q2 They prophesied by Baal,
\q2 and caused my people Israel to err.
\q1
\v 14 In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing:
\q2 they commit adultery and walk in lies.
\q1 They strengthen the hands of evildoers,
\q2 so that no one returns from his wickedness.
\q1 They have all become to me as Sodom,
\q2 and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”
\p
\v 15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets:
\q1 “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
\q2 and make them drink poisoned water;
\q2 for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh of Armies says,
\q1 “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
\q2 They teach you vanity.
\q2 They speak a vision of their own heart,
\q2 and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 17 They say continually to those who despise me,
\q2 ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;”’
\q1 and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say,
\q2 ‘No evil will come on you.’
\q1
\v 18 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh,
\q2 that he should perceive and hear his word?
\q2 Who has listened to my word, and heard it?
\q1
\v 19 Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out.
\q2 Yes, a whirling storm:
\q2 It will burst on the head of the wicked.
\q1
\v 20 Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed,
\q2 and until he has performed the intents of his heart.
\q2 In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
\q1
\v 21 I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran.
\q2 I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
\q1
\v 22 But if they had stood in my council,
\q2 then they would have caused my people to hear my words,
\q1 and would have turned them from their evil way,
\q2 and from the evil of their doings.
\b
\q1
\v 23 “Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “and not a God afar off?
\q1
\v 24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places
\q2 so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh.
\q2 “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 25 “I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
\v 26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
\v 27 They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.
\v 28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.
\v 29 “Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
\p
\v 30 “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.
\v 31 Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
\v 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 33 “When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’
\v 34 As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ I will even punish that man and his household.
\v 35 You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has Yahweh answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh said?’
\v 36 You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.
\v 37 You will say to the prophet, ‘What has Yahweh answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’
\v 38 Although you say, ‘The message from Yahweh;’ therefore Yahweh says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from Yahweh,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from Yahweh;”
\v 39 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.
\v 40 I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”


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\c 24
\p
\v 1 Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
\v 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
\p
\v 3 Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”
\p I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that can’t be eaten.”
\p
\v 4 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 5 “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
\v 6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
\v 7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.
\p
\v 8 “‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
\v 9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.
\v 10 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/24/25/100000001
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\c 25
\p
\v 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (this was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),
\v 2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
\v 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.
\p
\v 4 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear),
\v 5 saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.
\v 6 Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm.”
\p
\v 7 “Yet you have not listened to me,” says Yahweh; “that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.”
\p
\v 8 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says: “Because you have not heard my words,
\v 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
\v 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
\v 11 This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
\p
\v 12 “It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever.
\v 13 I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
\v 14 For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”
\p
\v 15 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
\v 16 They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
\p
\v 17 Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
\v 18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;
\v 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people;
\v 20 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
\v 21 Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon;
\v 22 and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
\v 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;
\v 24 and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;
\v 25 and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
\v 26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth. The king of Sheshach will drink after them.
\p
\v 27 “You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”’
\v 28 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.
\v 29 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.”’
\p
\v 30 “Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them,
\q1 “‘Yahweh will roar from on high,
\q2 and utter his voice from his holy habitation.
\q2 He will mightily roar against his fold.
\q1 He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes,
\q2 against all the inhabitants of the earth.
\q1
\v 31 A noise will come even to the end of the earth;
\q2 for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations.
\q1 He will enter into judgment with all flesh.
\q2 As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,”’ says Yahweh.”
\p
\v 32 Yahweh of Armies says,
\q1 “Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation,
\q2 and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.”
\m
\v 33 The slain of Yahweh will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground.
\q1
\v 34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry.
\q2 Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock;
\q1 for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come,
\q2 and you will fall like fine pottery.
\q1
\v 35 The shepherds will have no way to flee.
\q2 The leader of the flock will have no escape.
\q1
\v 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds,
\q2 and the wailing of the leader of the flock,
\q2 for Yahweh destroys their pasture.
\q1
\v 37 The peaceful folds are brought to silence
\q2 because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 38 He has left his covert, as the lion;
\q2 for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression,
\q2 and because of his fierce anger.


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\c 26
\p
\v 1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh:
\v 2 “Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
\v 3 It may be they will listen, and every man turn from his evil way; that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’
\v 4 You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
\v 5 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;
\v 6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”
\p
\v 7 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in Yahweh’s house.
\v 8 When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!
\v 9 Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.
\p
\v 10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to Yahweh’s house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house.
\v 11 Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”
\p
\v 12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.
\v 13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.
\v 14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes.
\v 15 Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
\p
\v 16 Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”
\p
\v 17 Then certain of the elders of the land rose up, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
\v 18 “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says:
\q1 “‘Zion will be plowed as a field,
\q2 and Jerusalem will become heaps,
\q2 and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’
\m
\v 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”
\p
\v 20 There was also a man who prophesied in Yahweh’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
\v 21 When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.
\v 22 Then Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;
\v 23 and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
\p
\v 24 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they didn’t give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.


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\c 27
\p
\v 1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
\v 2 Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.
\v 3 Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
\v 4 Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters:
\v 5 ‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.
\v 6 Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.
\v 7 All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
\p
\v 8 “‘“‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
\v 9 But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”
\v 10 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish.
\v 11 But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says Yahweh; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’”’”
\p
\v 12 I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
\v 13 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
\v 14 Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.
\v 15 For I have not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
\p
\v 16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Yahweh says, “Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of Yahweh’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.
\v 17 Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?
\v 18 But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.
\v 19 For Yahweh of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,
\v 20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
\v 21 yes, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in Yahweh’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
\v 22 ‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says Yahweh; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/24/28/100000001
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\c 28
\p
\v 1 That same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in Yahweh’s house, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
\v 2 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
\v 3 Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon.
\v 4 I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”
\p
\v 5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in Yahweh’s house,
\v 6 even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all those who are captives, from Babylon to this place.
\v 7 Nevertheless listen now to this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:
\v 8 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.
\v 9 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet happens, then the prophet will be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.”
\p
\v 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.
\v 11 Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Yahweh says: ‘Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from off the neck of all the nations within two full years.’” Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
\p
\v 12 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
\v 13 “Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “You have broken the bars of wood, but you have made in their place bars of iron.”
\v 14 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. I have also given him the animals of the field.”’”
\p
\v 15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen, Hananiah! Yahweh has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie.
\v 16 Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.


file: ./bibles/Sample/24/29/100000001
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\c 29
\p
\v 1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,
\v 2 (after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem),
\v 3 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). It said:
\pi1
\v 4 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:
\v 5 “Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.
\v 6 Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.
\v 7 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”
\v 8 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
\v 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says Yahweh.
\v 10 For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
\v 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
\v 12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
\v 13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
\v 14 I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”
\pi1
\v 15 Because you have said, “Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;”
\v 16 Yahweh says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity;
\v 17 Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.
\v 18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
\v 19 because they have not listened to my words,” says Yahweh, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says Yahweh.
\pi1
\v 20 Hear therefore Yahweh’s word, all you captives, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
\v 21 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes.
\v 22 A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’
\v 23 because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 24 Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
\v 25 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
\v 26 “Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
\v 27 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
\v 28 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’”
\p
\v 29 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.
\v 30 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
\v 31 “Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘Yahweh says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;”
\v 32 therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.”’”


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\c 3
\p
\v 1 “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 2 “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
\v 3 Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.
\v 4 Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’
\p
\v 5 “‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”
\p
\v 6 Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there.
\v 7 I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
\v 8 I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
\v 9 Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.
\v 10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 11 Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
\v 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
\v 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.”
\v 14 “Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
\v 15 I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
\v 16 It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,” says Yahweh, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of Yahweh’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made.
\v 17 At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
\v 18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
\p
\v 19 “But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
\p
\v 20 “Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.
\v 21 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
\v 22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding.
\p “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
\v 23 Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
\v 24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
\v 25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”


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\c 30
\p
\v 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
\v 2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
\v 3 For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
\p
\v 4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
\v 5 For Yahweh says:
\q1 “We have heard a voice of trembling;
\q2 a voice of fear, and not of peace.
\q1
\v 6 Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child.
\q2 Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail,
\q2 and all faces are turned pale?
\q1
\v 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it.
\q2 It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;
\q2 but he will be saved out of it.
\q1
\v 8 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck,
\q2 and will burst your bonds.
\q2 Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;
\q1
\v 9 but they will serve Yahweh their God,
\q2 and David their king,
\q2 whom I will raise up to them.
\q1
\v 10 Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh.
\q2 Don’t be dismayed, Israel.
\q1 For, behold, I will save you from afar,
\q2 and save your offspring from the land of their captivity.
\q1 Jacob will return,
\q2 and will be quiet and at ease.
\q2 No one will make him afraid.
\q1
\v 11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you;
\q2 for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you,
\q2 but I will not make a full end of you;
\q1 but I will correct you in measure,
\q2 and will in no way leave you unpunished.”
\p
\v 12 For Yahweh says,
\q1 “Your hurt is incurable.
\q2 Your wound is grievous.
\q1
\v 13 There is no one to plead your cause,
\q2 that you may be bound up.
\q2 You have no healing medicines.
\q1
\v 14 All your lovers have forgotten you.
\q2 They don’t seek you.
\q1 For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
\q2 with the chastisement of a cruel one,
\q1 for the greatness of your iniquity,
\q2 because your sins were increased.
\q1
\v 15 Why do you cry over your injury?
\q2 Your pain is incurable.
\q1 For the greatness of your iniquity,
\q2 because your sins have increased,
\q2 I have done these things to you.
\q1
\v 16 Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured.
\q2 All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity.
\q1 Those who plunder you will be plunder.
\q2 I will make all who prey on you become prey.
\q1
\v 17 For I will restore health to you,
\q2 and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh;
\q1 “because they have called you an outcast,
\q2 saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”
\p
\v 18 Yahweh says:
\q1 “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents,
\q2 and have compassion on his dwelling places.
\q1 The city will be built on its own hill,
\q2 and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.
\q1
\v 19 Thanksgiving will proceed out of them
\q2 with the voice of those who make merry.
\q1 I will multiply them,
\q2 and they will not be few;
\q1 I will also glorify them,
\q2 and they will not be small.
\q1
\v 20 Their children also will be as before,
\q2 and their congregation will be established before me.
\q2 I will punish all who oppress them.
\q1
\v 21 Their prince will be one of them,
\q2 and their ruler will proceed from among them.
\q1 I will cause him to draw near,
\q2 and he will approach me;
\q2 for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 22 “You shall be my people,
\q2 and I will be your God.
\q1
\v 23 Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out,
\q2 a sweeping storm:
\q2 it will burst on the head of the wicked.
\q1
\v 24 The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until he has accomplished,
\q2 and until he has performed the intentions of his heart.
\q2 In the latter days you will understand it.”


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\c 31
\p
\v 1 “At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
\p
\v 2 Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”
\p
\v 3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying,
\q1 “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love.
\q2 Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
\q1
\v 4 I will build you again,
\q2 and you will be built, O virgin of Israel.
\q1 You will again be adorned with your tambourines,
\q2 and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.
\q1
\v 5 Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria.
\q2 The planters will plant,
\q2 and will enjoy its fruit.
\q1
\v 6 For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry,
\q2 ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”
\p
\v 7 For Yahweh says,
\q1 “Sing with gladness for Jacob,
\q2 and shout for the chief of the nations.
\q1 Publish, praise, and say,
\q2 ‘Yahweh, save your people,
\q2 the remnant of Israel!’
\q1
\v 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
\q2 and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth,
\q1 along with the blind and the lame,
\q2 the woman with child and her who travails with child together.
\q2 They will return as a great company.
\q1
\v 9 They will come with weeping.
\q2 I will lead them with petitions.
\q1 I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters,
\q2 in a straight way in which they won’t stumble;
\q1 for I am a father to Israel.
\q2 Ephraim is my firstborn.
\b
\q1
\v 10 “Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations,
\q2 and declare it in the distant islands. Say,
\q1 ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
\q2 and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’
\q1
\v 11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob,
\q2 and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.
\q1
\v 12 They will come and sing in the height of Zion,
\q2 and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh,
\q1 to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil,
\q2 and to the young of the flock and of the herd.
\q1 Their soul will be as a watered garden.
\q2 They will not sorrow any more at all.
\q1
\v 13 Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance;
\q2 the young men and the old together;
\q1 for I will turn their mourning into joy,
\q2 and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
\q1
\v 14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
\q2 and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.
\b
\p
\v 15 Yahweh says:
\q1 “A voice is heard in Ramah,
\q2 lamentation and bitter weeping,
\q1 Rachel weeping for her children.
\q2 She refuses to be comforted for her children,
\q2 because they are no more.”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh says:
\q1 “Refrain your voice from weeping,
\q2 and your eyes from tears;
\q2 for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh.
\q2 “They will come again from the land of the enemy.
\q1
\v 17 There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh.
\q2 “Your children will come again to their own territory.
\b
\q1
\v 18 “I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus,
\q2 ‘You have chastised me,
\q2 and I was chastised, as an untrained calf.
\q1 Turn me, and I will be turned;
\q2 for you are Yahweh my God.
\q1
\v 19 Surely after that I was turned.
\q2 I repented.
\q1 After that I was instructed.
\q2 I struck my thigh.
\q1 I was ashamed, yes, even confounded,
\q2 because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
\q1
\v 20 Is Ephraim my dear son?
\q2 Is he a darling child?
\q1 For as often as I speak against him,
\q2 I still earnestly remember him.
\q1 therefore my heart yearns for him.
\q2 I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 21 “Set up road signs.
\q2 Make guideposts.
\q1 Set your heart toward the highway,
\q2 even the way by which you went.
\q1 Turn again, virgin of Israel.
\q2 Turn again to these your cities.
\q1
\v 22 How long will you go here and there,
\q2 you backsliding daughter?
\q1 For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth:
\q2 a woman will encompass a man.”
\b
\p
\v 23 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’
\v 24 Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
\v 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
\p
\v 26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
\p
\v 27 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.
\v 28 It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says Yahweh.
\v 29 “In those days they will say no more,
\q1 “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
\q2 and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
\m
\v 30 But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
\q1
\v 31 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
\q2 and with the house of Judah:
\q1
\v 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
\q2 which covenant of mine they broke,
\q2 although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 33 “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,”
\q2 says Yahweh:
\q1 “I will put my law in their inward parts,
\q2 and I will write it in their heart.
\q1 I will be their God,
\q2 and they shall be my people.
\q1
\v 34 They will no longer each teach his neighbor,
\q2 and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’
\q1 for they will all know me,
\q2 from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh:
\q1 “for I will forgive their iniquity,
\q2 and I will remember their sin no more.”
\q1
\v 35 Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day,
\q2 and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,
\q1 who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar;
\q2 Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:
\q1
\v 36 “If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
\q1
\v 37 Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured,
\q2 and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
\q2 then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 38 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the city will be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
\v 39 The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah.
\v 40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”


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\c 32
\nb
\v 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
\v 2 Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
\p
\v 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;
\v 4 and Zedekiah king of Judah won’t escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes;
\v 5 and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” says Yahweh: “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you will not prosper?”’”
\p
\v 6 Jeremiah said, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 7 ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’”
\p
\v 8 “So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’
\p “Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s word.
\v 9 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels\f + \fr 32:9 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver.
\v 10 I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.
\v 11 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
\v 12 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.
\p
\v 13 “I commanded Baruch before them, saying,
\v 14 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.’
\v 15 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Houses and fields and vineyards will yet again be bought in this land.’
\p
\v 16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,
\b
\mi
\v 17 “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.
\v 18 You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:
\v 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;
\v 20 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made yourself a name, as it is today;
\v 21 and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders, with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
\v 22 and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
\v 23 They came in and possessed it, but they didn’t obey your voice and didn’t walk in your law. They have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do. Therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them.
\pi1
\v 24 “Behold, siege ramps have come to the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it.
\v 25 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”
\p
\v 26 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
\v 27 “Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?
\v 28 Therefore Yahweh says: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.
\v 29 The Chaldeans, who fight against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
\p
\v 30 “For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.
\v 31 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day, so that I should remove it from before my face,
\v 32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
\v 33 They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
\v 34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
\v 35 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech, which I didn’t command them. It didn’t even come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”
\p
\v 36 Now therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning this city, about which you say, “It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:”
\v 37 “Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place. I will cause them to dwell safely.
\v 38 Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
\v 39 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.
\v 40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
\v 41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”
\p
\v 42 For Yahweh says: “Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.
\v 43 Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’
\v 44 Men will buy fields for money, sign the deeds, seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captivity to be reversed,” says Yahweh.


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\nb
\v 1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,
\v 2 “Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his name, says:
\v 3 ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
\v 4 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword;
\v 5 while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:
\v 6 ‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
\v 7 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
\v 8 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.
\v 9 This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’”
\p
\v 10 Yahweh says: “Yet again there will be heard in this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,’
\v 11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 12 Yahweh of Armies says: “Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
\v 13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of him who counts them,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 14 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
\q1
\v 15 “In those days and at that time,
\q2 I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David.
\q2 He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
\q1
\v 16 In those days Judah will be saved,
\q2 and Jerusalem will dwell safely.
\q1 This is the name by which she will be called:
\q2 Yahweh our righteousness.”
\p
\v 17 For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.
\v 18 The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”
\p
\v 19 Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
\v 20 “Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;
\v 21 then may my covenant also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
\v 22 As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’”
\p
\v 23 Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
\v 24 “Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”
\v 25 Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
\v 26 then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”


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\c 34
\p
\v 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying:
\v 2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire.
\v 3 You won’t escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and delivered into his hand. Your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with you mouth to mouth. You will go to Babylon.”’
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\v 4 “Yet hear Yahweh’s word, O Zedekiah king of Judah: Yahweh says concerning you, ‘You won’t die by the sword.
\v 5 You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They will lament you, saying, “Ah Lord!” for I have spoken the word,’ says Yahweh.”
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\v 6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
\v 7 when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities.
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\v 8 The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
\v 9 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.
\v 10 All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more. They obeyed and let them go;
\v 11 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
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\v 12 Therefore Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
\v 13 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
\v 14 At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you; but your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.
\v 15 You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;
\v 16 but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’”
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\v 17 Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
\v 18 I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:
\v 19 the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;
\v 20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.
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\v 21 “I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you.
\v 22 Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”


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\v 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
\v 2 “Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into Yahweh’s house, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.”
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\v 3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, with his brothers, all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
\v 4 and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
\v 5 I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine!”
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\v 6 But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever.
\v 7 You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land in which you live as nomads.’
\v 8 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
\v 9 and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed;
\v 10 but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
\v 11 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come! Let’s go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we will dwell at Jerusalem.’”
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\v 12 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
\v 13 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, “Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words?” says Yahweh.
\v 14 “The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment; but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, and you have not listened to me.
\v 15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Every one of you must return now from his evil way, amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
\v 16 The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me.”’
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\v 17 “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.’”
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\v 18 Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;’
\v 19 therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before me forever.’”


