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file: ./bibles/Sample/24/36/100000001
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\c 36
\p
\v 1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
\v 2 “Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
\v 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
\p
\v 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all Yahweh’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.
\v 5 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.
\v 6 Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s words, in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
\v 7 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”
\p
\v 8 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book Yahweh’s words in Yahweh’s house.
\v 9 Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.
\v 10 Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in Yahweh’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house, in the ears of all the people.
\p
\v 11 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all Yahweh’s words,
\v 12 he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
\v 13 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
\v 14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come.”
\p So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.
\v 15 They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.”
\p So Baruch read it in their hearing.
\p
\v 16 Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”
\v 17 They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?”
\p
\v 18 Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”
\p
\v 19 Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”
\p
\v 20 They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king.
\v 21 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king.
\v 22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month; and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
\v 23 When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
\v 24 The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.
\v 25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.
\v 26 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
\p
\v 27 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
\v 28 “Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
\v 29 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’”’
\v 30 Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
\v 31 I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.”’”
\p
\v 32 Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.


file: ./bibles/Sample/24/37/100000001
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\c 37
\p
\v 1 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
\v 2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to Yahweh’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.
\p
\v 3 Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.”
\p
\v 4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.
\v 5 Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem.
\p
\v 6 Then Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
\v 7 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land.
\v 8 The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.”’
\p
\v 9 “Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for they will not depart.
\v 10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’”
\p
\v 11 When the army of the Chaldeans had broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
\v 12 then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the middle of the people.
\v 13 When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”
\p
\v 14 Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.”
\p But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
\v 15 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
\p
\v 16 When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
\v 17 then Zedekiah the king sent, and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from Yahweh?”
\p Jeremiah said, “There is.” He also said, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
\p
\v 18 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
\v 19 Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land?’
\v 20 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”
\p
\v 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.


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\c 38
\p
\v 1 Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,
\v 2 “Yahweh says, ‘He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live, and he will escape with his life, and he will live.’
\v 3 Yahweh says, ‘This city will surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.’”
\p
\v 4 Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”
\p
\v 5 Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”
\p
\v 6 Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
\p
\v 7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),
\v 8 Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,
\v 9 “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”
\p
\v 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.”
\p
\v 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
\v 12 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.”
\p Jeremiah did so.
\v 13 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
\p
\v 14 Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”
\p
\v 15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”
\p
\v 16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”
\p
\v 17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You will live, along with your house.
\v 18 But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’”
\p
\v 19 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”
\p
\v 20 But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.
\v 21 But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:
\v 22 ‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say,
\q1 “Your familiar friends have turned on you,
\q2 and have prevailed over you.
\q1 Your feet are sunk in the mire,
\q2 they have turned away from you.”
\p
\v 23 They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’”
\p
\v 24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die.
\v 25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also tell us what the king said to you;’
\v 26 then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’”
\p
\v 27 Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
\p
\v 28 So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.


file: ./bibles/Sample/24/39/100000001
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\c 39
\p
\v 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.
\v 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
\v 3 All the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
\v 4 When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
\p
\v 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.
\v 6 Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.
\v 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
\p
\v 8 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
\v 9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.
\v 10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
\p
\v 11 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying,
\v 12 “Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you.”
\p
\v 13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, with Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;
\v 14 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he lived among the people.
\p
\v 15 Now Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
\v 16 “Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they will be accomplished before you in that day.
\v 17 But I will deliver you in that day,” says Yahweh; “and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
\v 18 For I will surely save you, and you won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life; because you have put your trust in me,” says Yahweh.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/24/4/100000001
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\c 4
\p
\v 1 “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
\v 2 and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
\p
\v 3 For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
\v 4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
\v 5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’
\v 6 Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
\p
\v 7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
\v 8 For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.
\v 9 “It will happen at that day,” says Yahweh, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”
\p
\v 10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
\p
\v 11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
\v 12 a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
\p
\v 13 Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
\v 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
\v 15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
\v 16 “Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
\v 17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh.
\v 18 “Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
\p
\v 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
\v 20 Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
\v 21 How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
\p
\v 22 “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
\v 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
\v 24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
\v 25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
\v 26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.
\v 27 For Yahweh says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
\v 28 For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
\p
\v 29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
\v 30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
\v 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/24/40/100000001
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\c 40
\p
\v 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
\v 2 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, “Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;
\v 3 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.
\v 4 Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.”
\v 5 Now while he had not yet gone back, “Go back then,” he said, “to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go.”
\p So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.
\v 6 Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.
\p
\v 7 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon;
\v 8 then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men came to Gedaliah to Mizpah.
\v 9 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.
\v 10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”
\p
\v 11 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;
\v 12 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits.
\p
\v 13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
\v 14 and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?”
\p But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn’t believe them.
\p
\v 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?”
\p
\v 16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.”


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\c 41
\p
\v 1 Now in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.
\v 2 Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah arose, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
\v 3 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.
\p
\v 4 The second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
\v 5 men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.
\v 6 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and as he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.”
\v 7 It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.
\v 8 But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.”
\p So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their brothers.
\v 9 Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.
\p
\v 10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all of the people who were left in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.
\p
\v 11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
\v 12 then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
\v 13 Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad.
\v 14 So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.
\v 15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
\p
\v 16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men of war, with the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.
\v 17 They departed and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt
\v 18 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.


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\p
\v 1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,
\v 2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;
\v 3 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”
\p
\v 4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”
\p
\v 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God sends you to tell us.
\v 6 Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.”
\p
\v 7 After ten days, Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah.
\v 8 Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
\v 9 and said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him, says:
\v 10 ‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.
\v 11 Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Yahweh: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
\v 12 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.
\p
\v 13 “‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land;” so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice,
\v 14 saying, “No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:”’
\v 15 now therefore hear Yahweh’s word, O remnant of Judah: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there;
\v 16 then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there.
\v 17 So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’
\v 18 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’
\p
\v 19 “Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today.
\v 20 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’
\v 21 I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.
\v 22 Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live there.”


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\p
\v 1 When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
\v 2 then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’
\v 3 but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.”
\p
\v 4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, to dwell in the land of Judah.
\v 5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah;
\v 6 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king’s daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;
\v 7 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice: and they came to Tahpanhes.
\p
\v 8 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
\v 9 “Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
\v 10 and tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
\v 11 He will come, and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.
\v 12 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.
\v 13 He will also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and he will burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.’”


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\p
\v 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
\v 2 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them,
\v 3 because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.
\v 4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”
\v 5 But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods.
\v 6 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today.’
\p
\v 7 “Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining;
\v 8 in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
\v 9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
\v 10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’
\p
\v 11 “Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.
\v 12 I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine. They will be an object of horror, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
\v 13 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;
\v 14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except those who will escape.’”
\p
\v 15 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
\v 16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
\v 17 But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
\v 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
\p
\v 19 “When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”
\p
\v 20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,
\v 21 “The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?
\v 22 Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.
\v 23 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today.”
\p
\v 24 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt!
\v 25 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, “We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her.”
\p “‘Establish then your vows, and perform your vows.’
\p
\v 26 “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord Yahweh lives.”
\v 27 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.
\v 28 Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.
\p
\v 29 “‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’
\v 30 Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.’”


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\p
\v 1 The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
\v 2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:
\v 3 ‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’
\p
\v 4 “You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
\v 5 Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
\p
\v 2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
\q1
\v 3 “Prepare the buckler and shield,
\q2 and draw near to battle!
\q1
\v 4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen,
\q2 and stand up with your helmets.
\q1 Polish the spears,
\q2 put on the coats of mail.
\q1
\v 5 Why have I seen it?
\q2 They are dismayed and are turned backward.
\q1 Their mighty ones are beaten down,
\q2 have fled in haste,
\q2 and don’t look back.
\q1 Terror is on every side,”
\q2 says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 6 “Don’t let the swift flee away,
\q2 nor the mighty man escape.
\q1 In the north by the river Euphrates
\q2 they have stumbled and fallen.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Who is this who rises up like the Nile,
\q2 whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
\q1
\v 8 Egypt rises up like the Nile,
\q2 and his waters toss themselves like the rivers.
\q1 He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth.
\q2 I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’
\q1
\v 9 Go up, you horses!
\q2 Rage, you chariots!
\q1 Let the mighty men go out:
\q2 Cush and Put, who handle the shield;
\q2 and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
\q1
\v 10 For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
\q2 a day of vengeance,
\q2 that he may avenge himself of his adversaries.
\q1 The sword will devour and be satiated,
\q2 and will drink its fill of their blood;
\q2 for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
\q1
\v 11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt.
\q2 You use many medicines in vain.
\q2 There is no healing for you.
\q1
\v 12 The nations have heard of your shame,
\q2 and the earth is full of your cry;
\q2 for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty,
\q2 they both fall together.”
\b
\p
\v 13 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.
\q1
\v 14 “Declare in Egypt,
\q2 publish in Migdol,
\q2 and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes:
\q1 say, ‘Stand up, and prepare;
\q2 for the sword has devoured around you.’
\q1
\v 15 Why are your strong ones swept away?
\q2 They didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.
\q1
\v 16 He made many to stumble.
\q2 Yes, they fell on one another.
\q1 They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people,
\q2 and to the land of our birth,
\q2 from the oppressing sword.’
\q1
\v 17 They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;
\q2 he has let the appointed time pass by.’
\b
\q1
\v 18 “As I live,” says the King,
\q2 whose name is Yahweh of Armies,
\q1 “surely like Tabor among the mountains,
\q2 and like Carmel by the sea,
\q2 so he will come.
\q1
\v 19 You daughter who dwells in Egypt,
\q2 furnish yourself to go into captivity;
\q1 for Memphis will become a desolation,
\q2 and will be burned up,
\q2 without inhabitant.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer;
\q2 but destruction out of the north has come.
\q2 It has come.
\q1
\v 21 Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall;
\q2 for they also are turned back.
\q2 They have fled away together.
\q1 They didn’t stand,
\q2 for the day of their calamity has come on them,
\q2 the time of their visitation.
\q1
\v 22 Its sound will go like the serpent;
\q2 for they will march with an army,
\q2 and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
\q1
\v 23 They will cut down her forest,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “though it can’t be searched;
\q1 because they are more than the locusts,
\q2 and are innumerable.
\q1
\v 24 The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed;
\q2 she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.”
\p
\v 25 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him.
\v 26 I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 27 “But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant.
\q2 Don’t be dismayed, Israel;
\q1 for, behold, I will save you from afar,
\q2 and 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 28 Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh;
\q2 “for I am with you;
\q2 for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you;
\q1 but I will not make a full end of you,
\q2 but I will correct you in measure,
\q2 and will in no way leave you unpunished.”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.
\p
\v 2 Yahweh says:
\q1 “Behold, waters rise up out of the north,
\q2 and will become an overflowing stream,
\q1 and will overflow the land and all that is therein,
\q2 the city and those who dwell therein.
\q1 The men will cry,
\q2 and all the inhabitants of the land will wail.
\q1
\v 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones,
\q2 at the rushing of his chariots,
\q2 at the rumbling of his wheels,
\q1 the fathers don’t look back to their children
\q2 for feebleness of hands;
\q1
\v 4 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines,
\q2 to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains;
\q1 for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines,
\q2 the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
\q1
\v 5 Baldness has come on Gaza;
\q2 Ashkelon is brought to nothing,
\q1 the remnant of their valley:
\q2 how long will you cut yourself?
\b
\q1
\v 6 “‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet?
\q2 Put yourself back into your scabbard;
\q2 rest, and be still.’
\b
\q1
\v 7 “How can you be quiet,
\q2 since Yahweh has given you a command?
\q1 Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore,
\q2 there has he appointed it.”


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\c 48
\p
\v 1 Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says:
\q1 “Woe to Nebo!
\q2 For it is laid waste.
\q1 Kiriathaim is disappointed.
\q2 It is taken.
\q1 Misgab\f + \fr 48:1 \ft or, The stronghold\f* is put to shame
\q2 and broken down.
\q1
\v 2 The praise of Moab is no more.
\q2 In Heshbon they have devised evil against her:
\q2 ‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’
\q1 You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence.
\q2 The sword will pursue you.
\q1
\v 3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim,
\q2 desolation and great destruction!
\q1
\v 4 Moab is destroyed.
\q2 Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
\q1
\v 5 For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping.
\q2 For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
\q1
\v 6 Flee! Save your lives!
\q2 Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.
\q1
\v 7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,
\q2 you also will be taken.
\q1 Chemosh will go out into captivity,
\q2 his priests and his princes together.
\q1
\v 8 The destroyer will come on every city,
\q2 and no city will escape;
\q1 the valley also will perish,
\q2 and the plain will be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
\q1
\v 9 Give wings to Moab,
\q2 that she may fly and get herself away:
\q1 and her cities will become a desolation,
\q2 without anyone to dwell in them.
\b
\q1
\v 10 “Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently;
\q2 and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth,
\q2 and he has settled on his lees,
\q1 and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
\q2 neither has he gone into captivity:
\q1 therefore his taste remains in him,
\q2 and his scent is not changed.
\q1
\v 12 Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “that I will send to him those who pour off,
\q1 and they will pour him off;
\q2 and they will empty his vessels,
\q2 and break their containers in pieces.
\q1
\v 13 Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh,
\q2 as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
\b
\q1
\v 14 “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men,
\q2 and valiant men for the war?’
\q1
\v 15 Moab is laid waste,
\q2 and they have gone up into his cities,
\q2 and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,”
\q2 says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
\q1
\v 16 “The calamity of Moab is near to come,
\q2 and his affliction hurries fast.
\q1
\v 17 All you who are around him, bemoan him,
\q2 and all you who know his name; say,
\q1 ‘How the strong staff is broken,
\q2 the beautiful rod!’
\b
\q1
\v 18 “You daughter who dwells in Dibon,
\q2 come down from your glory,
\q2 and sit in thirst;
\q1 for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you.
\q2 He has destroyed your strongholds.
\q1
\v 19 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch.
\q2 Ask him who flees, and her who escapes;
\q2 say, ‘What has been done?’
\q1
\v 20 Moab is disappointed;
\q2 for it is broken down.
\q1 Wail and cry!
\q2 Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
\q1
\v 21 Judgment has come on the plain country,
\q2 on Holon, on Jahzah, on Mephaath,
\q2
\v 22 on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,
\q2
\v 23 on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,
\q2
\v 24 on Kerioth, on Bozrah,
\q2 and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
\q1
\v 25 The horn of Moab is cut off,
\q2 and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 26 “Make him drunken;
\q2 for he magnified himself against Yahweh.
\q1 Moab will wallow in his vomit,
\q2 and he also will be in derision.
\q1
\v 27 For wasn’t Israel a derision to you?
\q2 Was he found among thieves?
\q1 For as often as you speak of him,
\q2 you shake your head.
\q1
\v 28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock.
\q2 Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
\b
\q1
\v 29 “We have heard of the pride of Moab.
\q2 He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride,
\q2 his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.
\q1
\v 30 I know his wrath,” says Yahweh, “that it is nothing;
\q2 his boastings have done nothing.
\q1
\v 31 Therefore I will wail for Moab.
\q2 Yes, I will cry out for all Moab.
\q2 They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
\q1
\v 32 With more than the weeping of Jazer
\q2 I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah.
\q1 Your branches passed over the sea.
\q2 They reached even to the sea of Jazer.
\q1 The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits
\q2 and on your vintage.
\q1
\v 33 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field
\q2 and from the land of Moab.
\q1 I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses.
\q2 No one will tread with shouting.
\q2 The shouting will be no shouting.
\q1
\v 34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh,
\q2 even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice,
\q2 from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah;
\q2 for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.
\q1
\v 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “him who offers in the high place,
\q2 and him who burns incense to his gods.
\q1
\v 36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes,
\q2 and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres.
\q2 Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.
\q1
\v 37 For every head is bald,
\q2 and every beard clipped.
\q1 There are cuttings on all the hands,
\q2 and sackcloth on the waist.
\q1
\v 38 On all the housetops of Moab,
\q2 and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere;
\q2 for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 39 “How it is broken down!
\q2 How they wail!
\q1 How Moab has turned the back with shame!
\q2 So will Moab become a derision
\q2 and a terror to all who are around him.”
\q1
\v 40 For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle,
\q2 and will spread out his wings against Moab.
\q1
\v 41 Kerioth is taken,
\q2 and the strongholds are seized.
\q1 The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day
\q2 will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
\q1
\v 42 Moab will be destroyed from being a people,
\q2 because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.
\q1
\v 43 Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you,
\q2 inhabitant of Moab,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 44 “He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit;
\q2 and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare:
\q1 for I will bring on him, even on Moab,
\q2 the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 45 “Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;
\q2 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
\q2 and a flame from the middle of Sihon,
\q1 and has devoured the corner of Moab,
\q2 and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
\q1
\v 46 Woe to you, O Moab!
\q2 The people of Chemosh are undone;
\q1 for your sons are taken away captive,
\q2 and your daughters into captivity.
\b
\q1
\v 47 “Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,”
\q2 says Yahweh.
\p Thus far is the judgment of Moab.


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\p
\v 1 Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says:
\q1 “Has Israel no sons?
\q2 Has he no heir?
\q1 Why then does Malcam possess Gad,
\q2 and his people dwell in its cities?
\q1
\v 2 Therefore behold, the days come,”
\q2 says Yahweh,
\q1 “that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon;
\q2 and it will become a desolate heap,
\q2 and her daughters will be burned with fire:
\q1 then Israel will possess those who possessed him,”
\q2 says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 3 “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
\q2 Cry, you daughters of Rabbah!
\q1 Clothe yourself in sackcloth.
\q2 Lament, and run back and forth among the fences;
\q1 for Malcam will go into captivity,
\q2 his priests and his princes together.
\q1
\v 4 Why do you boast in the valleys,
\q2 your flowing valley, backsliding daughter?
\q1 You trusted in her treasures,
\q2 saying, ‘Who will come to me?’
\q1
\v 5 Behold, I will bring a terror on you,”
\q2 says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
\q1 “from all who are around you.
\q2 All of you will be driven completely out,
\q2 and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.
\b
\q1
\v 6 “But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon,”
\q2 says Yahweh.
\b
\p
\v 7 Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says:
\q1 “Is wisdom no more in Teman?
\q2 Has counsel perished from the prudent?
\q2 Has their wisdom vanished?
\q1
\v 8 Flee! Turn back!
\q2 Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan;
\q2 for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.
\q1
\v 9 If grape gatherers came to you,
\q2 would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
\q1 If thieves came by night,
\q2 wouldn’t they steal until they had enough?
\q1
\v 10 But I have made Esau bare,
\q2 I have uncovered his secret places,
\q2 and he will not be able to hide himself.
\q1 His offspring is destroyed,
\q2 with his brothers and his neighbors;
\q2 and he is no more.
\q1
\v 11 Leave your fatherless children.
\q2 I will preserve them alive.
\q2 Let your widows trust in me.”
\p
\v 12 For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.
\v 13 For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
\q1
\v 14 I have heard news from Yahweh,
\q2 and an ambassador is sent among the nations,
\q1 saying, “Gather yourselves together!
\q2 Come against her!
\q2 Rise up to the battle!”
\b
\q1
\v 15 “For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,
\q2 and despised among men.
\q1
\v 16 As for your terror,
\q2 the pride of your heart has deceived you,
\q1 O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
\q2 who hold the height of the hill,
\q1 though you should make your nest as high as the eagle,
\q2 I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 17 “Edom will become an astonishment.
\q2 Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,
\q2 and will hiss at all its plagues.
\q1
\v 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “no man will dwell there,
\q2 neither will any son of man live therein.
\b
\q1
\v 19 “Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation:
\q2 for I will suddenly make them run away from it;
\q1 and whoever is chosen,
\q2 I will appoint him over it.
\q1 For who is like me?
\q2 Who will appoint me a time?
\q2 Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”
\q1
\v 20 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom;
\q2 and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
\q1 Surely they will drag them away,
\q2 the little ones of the flock.
\q2 Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
\q1
\v 21 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall;
\q2 there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.
\q1
\v 22 Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle,
\q2 and spread out his wings against Bozrah.
\q2 The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
\b
\p
\v 23 Of Damascus:
\q1 “Hamath is confounded, and Arpad;
\q2 for they have heard evil news.
\q2 They have melted away.
\q1 There is sorrow on the sea.
\q2 It can’t be quiet.
\q1
\v 24 Damascus has grown feeble,
\q2 she turns herself to flee,
\q2 and trembling has seized her.
\q1 Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
\q2 as of a woman in travail.
\q1
\v 25 How is the city of praise not forsaken,
\q2 the city of my joy?
\q1
\v 26 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,
\q2 and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day,”
\q2 says Yahweh of Armies.
\q1
\v 27 “I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
\q2 and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.”
\b
\q1
\v 28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Yahweh says:
\q1 “Arise, go up to Kedar,
\q2 and destroy the children of the east.
\q1
\v 29 They will take their tents and their flocks.
\q2 they will carry away for themselves their curtains,
\q2 all their vessels, and their camels;
\q2 and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’
\q1
\v 30 Flee!
\q2 Wander far off!
\q1 Dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor,” says Yahweh;
\q2 “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you,
\q2 and has conceived a purpose against you.
\q1
\v 31 Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease,
\q2 that dwells without care,” says Yahweh;
\q2 “that has neither gates nor bars,
\q2 that dwells alone.
\q1
\v 32 Their camels will be a booty,
\q2 and the multitude of their livestock a plunder.
\q1 I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off;
\q2 and I will bring their calamity from every side of them,”
\q2 says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 33 Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals,
\q2 a desolation forever.
\q1 No man will dwell there,
\q2 neither will any son of man live therein.”
\b
\p
\v 34 Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
\v 35 “Yahweh of Armies says:
\q1 ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
\q2 the chief of their might.
\q1
\v 36 I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky,
\q2 and will scatter them toward all those winds.
\q2 There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.
\q1
\v 37 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,
\q2 and before those who seek their life.
\q1 I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says Yahweh;
\q2 ‘and I will send the sword after them,
\q2 until I have consumed them.
\q1
\v 38 I will set my throne in Elam,
\q2 and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 39 ‘But it will happen in the latter days
\q2 that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says Yahweh.”


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\p
\v 1 “Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
\v 2 Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
\p
\v 3 O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
\p
\v 4 Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.
\v 5 I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
\v 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.
\p
\v 7 “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
\v 8 They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
\v 9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
\p
\v 10 “Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not Yahweh’s.
\v 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.
\v 13 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”
\p
\v 14 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.
\v 15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.
\v 16 Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.
\v 17 They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.
\p
\v 18 “But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end of you.
\v 19 It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
\p
\v 20 “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
\v 21 ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
\v 22 Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
\p
\v 23 “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
\v 24 They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
\p
\v 25 “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
\v 26 For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
\v 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
\v 28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
\p
\v 29 “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
\p
\v 30 “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
\v 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?


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\p
\v 1 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
\q1
\v 2 “Declare among the nations and publish,
\q2 and set up a standard;
\q2 publish, and don’t conceal:
\q1 say, ‘Babylon has been taken,
\q2 Bel is disappointed,
\q2 Merodach is dismayed!
\q1 Her images are disappointed.
\q2 Her idols are dismayed.’
\q1
\v 3 For a nation comes up out of the north against her,
\q2 which will make her land desolate,
\q2 and no one will dwell in it.
\q1 They have fled.
\q2 They are gone,
\q2 both man and animal.
\b
\q1
\v 4 “In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “the children of Israel will come,
\q2 they and the children of Judah together;
\q1 they will go on their way weeping,
\q2 and will seek Yahweh their God.
\q1
\v 5 They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it,
\q2 saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant
\q2 that will not be forgotten.’
\q1
\v 6 My people have been lost sheep.
\q2 Their shepherds have caused them to go astray.
\q1 They have turned them away on the mountains.
\q2 They have gone from mountain to hill.
\q2 They have forgotten their resting place.
\q1
\v 7 All who found them have devoured them.
\q2 Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty,
\q1 because they have sinned against Yahweh,
\q2 the habitation of righteousness,
\q2 even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Flee out of the middle of Babylon!
\q2 Go out of the land of the Chaldeans,
\q2 and be as the male goats before the flocks.
\q1
\v 9 For, behold, I will stir up
\q2 and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country;
\q2 and they will set themselves in array against her.
\q1 She will be taken from there.
\q2 Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man.
\q2 None of them will return in vain.
\q1
\v 10 Chaldea will be a prey.
\q2 All who prey on her will be satisfied,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Because you are glad,
\q2 because you rejoice,
\q1 O you who plunder my heritage,
\q2 because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain,
\q2 and neigh as strong horses;
\q1
\v 12 your mother will be utterly disappointed.
\q2 She who bore you will be confounded.
\q1 Behold, she will be the least of the nations,
\q2 a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
\q1
\v 13 Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited,
\q2 but she will be wholly desolate.
\q1 Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished,
\q2 and hiss at all her plagues.
\q1
\v 14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around,
\q2 all you who bend the bow;
\q2 shoot at her.
\q1 Spare no arrows;
\q2 for she has sinned against Yahweh.
\q1
\v 15 Shout against her all around.
\q2 She has submitted herself.
\q2 Her bulwarks have fallen.
\q1 Her walls have been thrown down,
\q2 for it is the vengeance of Yahweh.
\q1 Take vengeance on her.
\q2 As she has done, do to her.
\q1
\v 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon,
\q2 and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest.
\q1 For fear of the oppressing sword,
\q2 they will each return to their own people,
\q2 and they will each flee to their own land.
\b
\q1
\v 17 “Israel is a hunted sheep.
\q2 The lions have driven him away.
\q1 First, the king of Assyria devoured him,
\q2 and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
\p
\v 18 Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says:
\q1 “Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,
\q2 as I have punished the king of Assyria.
\q1
\v 19 I will bring Israel again to his pasture,
\q2 and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan.
\q2 His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
\q1
\v 20 In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for,
\q2 and there will be none;
\q1 also the sins of Judah,
\q2 and they won’t be found;
\q2 for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
\b
\q1
\v 21 “Go up against the land of Merathaim,
\q2 even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod.
\q1 Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “and do according to all that I have commanded you.
\q1
\v 22 A sound of battle is in the land,
\q2 and of great destruction.
\q1
\v 23 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken!
\q2 How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
\q1
\v 24 I have laid a snare for you,
\q2 and you are also taken, Babylon,
\q2 and you weren’t aware.
\q1 You are found,
\q2 and also caught,
\q2 because you have fought against Yahweh.
\q1
\v 25 Yahweh has opened his armory,
\q2 and has brought out the weapons of his indignation;
\q2 for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
\q1
\v 26 Come against her from the farthest border.
\q2 Open her storehouses.
\q2 Cast her up as heaps.
\q1 Destroy her utterly.
\q2 Let nothing of her be left.
\q1
\v 27 Kill all her bulls.
\q2 Let them go down to the slaughter.
\q1 Woe to them! For their day has come,
\q2 the time of their visitation.
\q1
\v 28 Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon,
\q2 to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God,
\q2 the vengeance of his temple.
\b
\q1
\v 29 “Call together the archers against Babylon,
\q2 all those who bend the bow.
\q1 Encamp against her all around.
\q2 Let none of it escape.
\q1 Pay her back according to her work.
\q2 According to all that she has done, do to her;
\q1 for she has been proud against Yahweh,
\q2 against the Holy One of Israel.
\q1
\v 30 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets.
\q2 All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 31 “Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies;
\q2 “for your day has come,
\q2 the time that I will visit you.
\q1
\v 32 The proud one will stumble and fall,
\q2 and no one will raise him up.
\q1 I will kindle a fire in his cities,
\q2 and it will devour all who are around him.”
\q1
\v 33 Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together.
\q2 All who took them captive hold them fast.
\q2 They refuse to let them go.
\q1
\v 34 Their Redeemer is strong:
\q2 Yahweh of Armies is his name.
\q1 He will thoroughly plead their cause,
\q2 that he may give rest to the earth,
\q2 and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
\b
\q1
\v 35 “A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “and on the inhabitants of Babylon,
\q2 on her princes,
\q2 and on her wise men.
\q1
\v 36 A sword is on the boasters,
\q2 and they will become fools.
\q1 A sword is on her mighty men,
\q2 and they will be dismayed.
\q1
\v 37 A sword is on their horses,
\q2 on their chariots,
\q2 and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her;
\q2 and they will become as women.
\q1 A sword is on her treasures,
\q2 and they will be robbed.
\q1
\v 38 A drought is on her waters,
\q2 and they will be dried up;
\q1 for it is a land of engraved images,
\q2 and they are mad over idols.
\q1
\v 39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert
\q2 with the wolves will dwell there.
\q1 The ostriches will dwell therein;
\q2 and it will be inhabited no more forever;
\q2 neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.
\q1
\v 40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “so no man will dwell there,
\q2 neither will any son of man live therein.
\b
\q1
\v 41 “Behold, a people comes from the north;
\q2 and a great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
\q1
\v 42 They take up bow and spear.
\q2 They are cruel, and have no mercy.
\q2 Their voice roars like the sea.
\q1 They ride on horses,
\q2 everyone set in array,
\q2 as a man to the battle,
\q2 against you, daughter of Babylon.
\q1
\v 43 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them,
\q2 and his hands become feeble:
\q1 anguish has taken hold of him,
\q2 pains as of a woman in labor.
\q1
\v 44 Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion
\q2 from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation;
\q2 for I will suddenly make them run away from it.
\q1 Whoever is chosen,
\q2 I will appoint him over it;
\q2 for who is like me?
\q1 Who will appoint me a time?
\q2 Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”
\q1
\v 45 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh,
\q2 that he has taken against Babylon;
\q1 and his purposes,
\q2 that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
\q1 Surely they will drag them away,
\q2 even the little ones of the flock.
\q2 Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
\q1
\v 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles;
\q2 and the cry is heard among the nations.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh says:
\q1 “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
\q2 and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
\q1
\v 2 I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her.
\q2 They will empty her land;
\q2 for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.
\q1
\v 3 Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow,
\q2 also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail.
\q1 Don’t spare her young men!
\q2 Utterly destroy all her army!
\q1
\v 4 They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
\q2 and thrust through in her streets.
\q1
\v 5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God,
\q2 by Yahweh of Armies;
\q2 though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 6 “Flee out of the middle of Babylon!
\q2 Everyone save his own life!
\q1 Don’t be cut off in her iniquity;
\q2 for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance.
\q2 He will render to her a recompense.
\q1
\v 7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand,
\q2 who made all the earth drunk.
\q1 The nations have drunk of her wine;
\q2 therefore the nations have gone mad.
\q1
\v 8 Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed!
\q2 Wail for her!
\q1 Take balm for her pain.
\q2 Perhaps she may be healed.
\b
\q1
\v 9 “We would have healed Babylon,
\q2 but she is not healed.
\q1 Forsake her,
\q2 and let’s each go into his own country;
\q1 for her judgment reaches to heaven,
\q2 and is lifted up even to the skies.
\q1
\v 10 ‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness:
\q2 come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Make the arrows sharp!
\q2 Hold the shields firmly!
\q1 Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes,
\q2 because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it;
\q1 for it is the vengeance of Yahweh,
\q2 the vengeance of his temple.
\q1
\v 12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon!
\q2 Make the watch strong!
\q1 Set the watchmen,
\q2 and prepare the ambushes;
\q1 for Yahweh has both purposed and done
\q2 that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
\q1
\v 13 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures,
\q2 your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying,
\q2 ‘Surely I will fill you with men,
\q2 as with the canker worm;
\q2 and they will lift up a shout against you.’
\b
\q1
\v 15 “He has made the earth by his power.
\q2 He has established the world by his wisdom.
\q2 By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.
\q1
\v 16 When he utters his voice,
\q2 there is a roar of waters in the heavens,
\q2 and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.
\q1 He makes lightning for the rain,
\q2 and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
\b
\q1
\v 17 “Every man has become brutish without knowledge.
\q2 Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image;
\q1 for his molten image is falsehood,
\q2 and there is no breath in them.
\q1
\v 18 They are vanity,
\q2 a work of delusion.
\q2 In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
\q1
\v 19 The portion of Jacob is not like these,
\q2 for he is the former of all things;
\q2 including the tribe of his inheritance:
\q2 Yahweh of Armies is his name.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “You are my battle ax and weapons of war.
\q2 With you I will break the nations into pieces.
\q2 With you I will destroy kingdoms.
\q1
\v 21 With you I will break in pieces
\q2 the horse and his rider.
\q1
\v 22 With you I will break in pieces
\q2 the chariot and him who rides therein.
\q1 With you I will break in pieces
\q2 man and woman.
\q1 With you I will break in pieces
\q2 the old man and the youth.
\q1 With you I will break in pieces
\q2 the young man and the virgin.
\q1
\v 23 With you I will break in pieces
\q2 the shepherd and his flock.
\q1 With you I will break in pieces
\q2 the farmer and his yoke.
\q1 With you I will break in pieces
\q2 governors and deputies.
\p
\v 24 “I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 25 “Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “which destroys all the earth.
\q1 I will stretch out my hand on you,
\q2 roll you down from the rocks,
\q2 and will make you a burned mountain.
\q1
\v 26 They won’t take a cornerstone from you,
\q2 nor a stone for foundations;
\q2 but you will be desolate forever,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 27 “Set up a standard in the land!
\q2 Blow the trumpet among the nations!
\q1 Prepare the nations against her!
\q2 Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz!
\q1 Appoint a marshal against her!
\q2 Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
\q1
\v 28 Prepare against her the nations,
\q2 the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
\q1
\v 29 The land trembles and is in pain;
\q2 for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand,
\q2 to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
\q1
\v 30 The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting,
\q2 they remain in their strongholds.
\q1 Their might has failed.
\q2 They have become as women.
\q1 Her dwelling places are set on fire.
\q2 Her bars are broken.
\q1
\v 31 One runner will run to meet another,
\q2 and one messenger to meet another,
\q2 to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
\q1
\v 32 So the passages are seized.
\q2 They have burned the reeds with fire.
\q2 The men of war are frightened.”
\p
\v 33 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says:
\q1 “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden.
\q2 Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
\b
\q1
\v 34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me.
\q2 He has crushed me.
\q2 He has made me an empty vessel.
\q1 He has, like a monster, swallowed me up.
\q2 He has filled his mouth with my delicacies.
\q2 He has cast me out.
\q1
\v 35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!”
\q2 the inhabitant of Zion will say; and,
\q1 “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
\q2 will Jerusalem say.
\b
\p
\v 36 Therefore Yahweh says:
\q1 “Behold, I will plead your cause,
\q2 and take vengeance for you.
\q1 I will dry up her sea,
\q2 and make her fountain dry.
\q1
\v 37 Babylon will become heaps,
\q2 a dwelling place for jackals,
\q2 an astonishment, and a hissing,
\q2 without inhabitant.
\q1
\v 38 They will roar together like young lions.
\q2 They will growl as lions’ cubs.
\q1
\v 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast,
\q2 and I will make them drunk,
\q1 that they may rejoice,
\q2 and sleep a perpetual sleep,
\q2 and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
\q2 like rams with male goats.
\b
\q1
\v 41 “How Sheshach is taken!
\q2 How the praise of the whole earth seized!
\q2 How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
\q1
\v 42 The sea has come up on Babylon.
\q2 She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
\q1
\v 43 Her cities have become a desolation,
\q2 a dry land, and a desert,
\q2 a land in which no man dwells.
\q2 No son of man passes by it.
\q1
\v 44 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon,
\q2 and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up.
\q1 The nations will not flow any more to him.
\q2 Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
\b
\q1
\v 45 “My people, go away from the middle of her,
\q2 and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
\q1
\v 46 Don’t let your heart faint.
\q2 Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land.
\q1 For news will come one year,
\q2 and after that in another year news will come,
\q2 and violence in the land,
\q2 ruler against ruler.
\q1
\v 47 Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon;
\q2 and her whole land will be confounded.
\q2 All her slain will fall in the middle of her.
\q1
\v 48 Then the heavens and the earth,
\q2 and all that is therein,
\q1 will sing for joy over Babylon;
\q2 for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 49 “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
\q2 so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
\q1
\v 50 You who have escaped the sword, go!
\q2 Don’t stand still!
\q1 Remember Yahweh from afar,
\q2 and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
\b
\q1
\v 51 “We are confounded,
\q2 because we have heard reproach.
\q1 Confusion has covered our faces,
\q2 for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
\b
\q1
\v 52 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “that I will execute judgment on her engraved images;
\q2 and through all her land the wounded will groan.
\q1
\v 53 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky,
\q2 and though she should fortify the height of her strength,
\q2 yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 54 “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
\q2 and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
\q1
\v 55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste,
\q2 and destroys out of her the great voice!
\q1 Their waves roar like many waters.
\q2 The noise of their voice is uttered.
\q1
\v 56 For the destroyer has come on her,
\q2 even on Babylon.
\q1 Her mighty men are taken.
\q2 Their bows are broken in pieces,
\q1 for Yahweh is a God of retribution.
\q2 He will surely repay.
\q1
\v 57 I will make her princes, her wise men,
\q2 her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk.
\q1 They will sleep a perpetual sleep,
\q2 and not wake up,”
\q2 says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 58 Yahweh of Armies says:
\q1 “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown.
\q2 Her high gates will be burned with fire.
\q1 The peoples will labor for vanity,
\q2 and the nations for the fire;
\q2 and they will be weary.”
\p
\v 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.
\v 60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
\v 61 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,
\v 62 and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’
\v 63 It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
\v 64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’”
\p Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.


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\p
\v 1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
\v 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
\v 3 For through Yahweh’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.
\p Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
\v 4 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
\v 5 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
\p
\v 6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
\v 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,
\v 8 but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
\v 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.
\v 10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
\v 11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
\p
\v 12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.
\v 13 He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
\v 14 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
\v 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
\v 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.
\p
\v 17 The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon.
\v 18 They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
\v 19 The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.
\p
\v 20 They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house. The bronze of all these vessels was without weight.
\v 21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits;\f + \fr 52:21 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.
\v 22 A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits,\f + \fr 52:22 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.
\v 23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.
\p
\v 24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
\v 25 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city.
\v 26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
\v 27 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.
\p So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
\v 28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive:
\m in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Jews;
\m
\v 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;
\m
\v 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five people:
\m all the people were four thousand six hundred.
\p
\v 31 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.
\v 32 He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
\v 33 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.
\v 34 For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.


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\p
\v 1 “Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.
\v 2 I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.
\v 3 Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”
\p
\v 4 “Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
\v 5 Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”
\v 6 For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is wholly oppression within herself.
\v 7 As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.
\v 8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”
\p
\v 9 Yahweh of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”
\p
\v 10 To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
\v 11 Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in.
\q1 “Pour it out on the children in the street,
\q2 and on the assembly of young men together;
\q1 for even the husband with the wife will be taken,
\q2 the aged with him who is full of days.
\q1
\v 12 Their houses will be turned to others,
\q2 their fields and their wives together;
\q1 for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.”
\q1
\v 13 “For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness.
\q2 From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
\q1
\v 14 They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially,
\q2 saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.
\q1
\v 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
\q2 No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush.
\q1 Therefore they will fall among those who fall.
\q2 When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 16 Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
\v 17 I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’
\v 18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
\v 19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
\v 20 To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
\p
\v 21 Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”
\v 22 Yahweh says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
\v 23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”
\p
\v 24 We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.
\v 25 Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.
\v 26 Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.
\p
\v 27 “I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.
\v 28 They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.
\v 29 The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.
\v 30 Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”


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\v 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
\v 2 “Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 3 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
\v 4 Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
\v 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
\v 6 if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;
\v 7 then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
\v 8 Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
\v 9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
\v 10 then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?
\v 11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 12 “But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
\v 13 Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;
\v 14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
\v 15 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring\f + \fr 7:15 \ft or, seed\f* of Ephraim.
\p
\v 16 “Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
\v 17 Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
\v 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
\v 19 Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”
\p
\v 20 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”
\p
\v 21 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
\v 22 For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;
\v 23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
\v 24 But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
\v 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
\v 26 Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
\p
\v 27 “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
\v 28 You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
\v 29 Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
\p
\v 30 “For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
\v 31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.
\v 32 Therefore behold, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
\v 33 The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.
\v 34 Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”


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\p
\v 1 “At that time,” says Yahweh, “they will bring the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.
\v 2 They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.
\v 3 Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 4 “Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says:
\q1 “‘Do men fall, and not rise up again?
\q2 Does one turn away, and not return?
\q1
\v 5 Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding?
\q2 They cling to deceit.
\q2 They refuse to return.
\q1
\v 6 I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right.
\q2 No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?”
\q1 Everyone turns to his course,
\q2 as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
\q1
\v 7 Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times.
\q2 The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming;
\q2 but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?”
\q2 But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.
\q1
\v 9 The wise men are disappointed.
\q2 They are dismayed and trapped.
\q1 Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word.
\q2 What kind of wisdom is in them?
\q1
\v 10 Therefore I will give their wives to others
\q2 and their fields to those who will possess them.
\q1 For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness;
\q2 from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
\q1
\v 11 They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,
\q2 “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.
\q1
\v 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
\q2 No, they were not at all ashamed.
\q2 They couldn’t blush.
\q1 Therefore they will fall among those who fall.
\q2 In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh.
\q2 No grapes will be on the vine,
\q2 no figs on the fig tree,
\q2 and the leaf will fade.
\q1 The things that I have given them
\q2 will pass away from them.’”
\b
\q1
\v 14 “Why do we sit still?
\q2 Assemble yourselves!
\q2 Let’s enter into the fortified cities,
\q2 and let’s be silent there;
\q1 for Yahweh our God has put us to silence,
\q2 and given us poisoned water to drink,
\q2 because we have sinned against Yahweh.
\q1
\v 15 We looked for peace, but no good came;
\q2 and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
\q1
\v 16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan.
\q2 The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;
\q1 for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it,
\q2 the city and those who dwell therein.”
\q1
\v 17 “For, behold, I will send serpents,
\q2 adders among you,
\q2 which will not be charmed;
\q2 and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!
\q2 My heart is faint within me.
\q1
\v 19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off:
\q2 “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion?
\q2 Isn’t her King in her?”
\b
\q1 “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images,
\q2 and with foreign idols?”
\b
\q1
\v 20 “The harvest is past.
\q2 The summer has ended,
\q2 and we are not saved.”
\b
\q1
\v 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt.
\q2 I mourn.
\q2 Dismay has taken hold of me.
\q1
\v 22 Is there no balm in Gilead?
\q2 Is there no physician there?
\q1 Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?


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\q1
\v 1 Oh that my head were waters,
\q2 and my eyes a spring of tears,
\q1 that I might weep day and night
\q2 for the slain of the daughter of my people!
\q1
\v 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness
\q2 a lodging place of wayfaring men;
\q1 that I might leave my people,
\q2 and go from them!
\q1 For they are all adulterers,
\q2 an assembly of treacherous men.
\q1
\v 3 “They bend their tongue,
\q2 as their bow, for falsehood.
\q1 They have grown strong in the land,
\q2 but not for truth;
\q1 for they proceed from evil to evil,
\q2 and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 4 “Everyone beware of his neighbor,
\q2 and don’t trust in any brother;
\q1 for every brother will utterly supplant,
\q2 and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
\q1
\v 5 Friends deceive each other,
\q2 and will not speak the truth.
\q1 They have taught their tongue to speak lies.
\q2 They weary themselves commiting iniquity.
\q1
\v 6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit.
\q2 Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 7 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says,
\q1 “Behold, I will melt them and test them;
\q2 for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
\q1
\v 8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow.
\q2 It speaks deceit.
\q1 One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth,
\q2 but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
\q1
\v 9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh.
\q2 “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
\q1
\v 10 I will weep and wail for the mountains,
\q2 and lament for the pastures of the wilderness,
\q1 because they are burned up, so that no one passes through;
\q2 Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock.
\q1 Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled.
\q2 They are gone.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “I will make Jerusalem heaps,
\q2 a dwelling place of jackals.
\q1 I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
\q2 without inhabitant.”
\p
\v 12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
\p
\v 13 Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,
\v 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
\v 15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
\v 16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
\p
\v 17 Yahweh of Armies says,
\q1 “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come.
\q2 Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
\q1
\v 18 Let them make haste
\q2 and take up a wailing for us,
\q1 that our eyes may run down with tears
\q2 and our eyelids gush out with waters.
\q1
\v 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
\q2 ‘How we are ruined!
\q1 We are greatly confounded
\q2 because we have forsaken the land,
\q2 because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
\b
\q1
\v 20 Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.
\q2 Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
\q1 Teach your daughters wailing.
\q2 Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
\q1
\v 21 For death has come up into our windows.
\q2 It has entered into our palaces
\q1 to cut off the children from outside,
\q2 and the young men from the streets.
\p
\v 22 Speak, “Yahweh says,
\q1 “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,
\q2 and as the handful after the harvester.
\q2 No one will gather them.’”
\p
\v 23 Yahweh says,
\q1 “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.
\q2 Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might.
\q2 Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
\q1
\v 24 But let him who glories glory in this,
\q2 that he has understanding, and knows me,
\q1 that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth,
\q2 for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 25 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
\v 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”


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\v 1 How the city sits solitary,
\q2 that was full of people!
\q1 She has become as a widow,
\q2 who was great among the nations!
\q1 She who was a princess among the provinces
\q2 has become a slave!
\b
\q1
\v 2 She weeps bitterly in the night.
\q2 Her tears are on her cheeks.
\q1 Among all her lovers
\q2 she has no one to comfort her.
\q1 All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.
\q2 They have become her enemies.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction,
\q2 and because of great servitude.
\q1 She dwells among the nations.
\q2 She finds no rest.
\q2 All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
\b
\q1
\v 4 The roads to Zion mourn,
\q2 because no one comes to the solemn assembly.
\q1 All her gates are desolate.
\q2 Her priests sigh.
\q1 Her virgins are afflicted,
\q2 and she herself is in bitterness.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Her adversaries have become the head.
\q2 Her enemies prosper;
\q1 for Yahweh\f + \fr 1:5 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.
\q2 Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
\b
\q1
\v 6 All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.
\q2 Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.
\q2 They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
\q2 all her pleasant things that were from the days of old;
\q1 when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,
\q2 and no one helped her.
\q1 The adversaries saw her.
\q2 They mocked at her desolations.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned.
\q2 Therefore she has become unclean.
\q1 All who honored her despise her,
\q2 because they have seen her nakedness.
\q2 Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Her filthiness was in her skirts.
\q2 She didn’t remember her latter end.
\q1 Therefore she has come down astoundingly.
\q2 She has no comforter.
\q1 “See, Yahweh, my affliction;
\q2 for the enemy has magnified himself.”
\b
\q1
\v 10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;
\q2 for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,
\q2 concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
\b
\q1
\v 11 All her people sigh.
\q2 They seek bread.
\q2 They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.
\q1 “Look, Yahweh, and see;
\q2 for I have become despised.”
\b
\q1
\v 12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
\q2 Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
\q2 which is brought on me,
\q2 with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “From on high has he sent fire into my bones,
\q2 and it prevails against them.
\q1 He has spread a net for my feet.
\q2 He has turned me back.
\q2 He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
\b
\q1
\v 14 “The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.
\q2 They are knit together.
\q2 They have come up on my neck.
\q2 He made my strength fail.
\q1 The Lord\f + \fr 1:14 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* has delivered me into their hands,
\q2 against whom I am not able to stand.
\b
\q1
\v 15 “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.
\q2 He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men.
\q2 The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
\b
\q1
\v 16 “For these things I weep.
\q2 My eye, my eye runs down with water,
\q2 because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.
\q1 My children are desolate,
\q2 because the enemy has prevailed.”
\b
\q1
\v 17 Zion spreads out her hands.
\q2 There is no one to comfort her.
\q1 Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob,
\q2 that those who are around him should be his adversaries.
\q2 Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
\b
\q1
\v 18 “Yahweh is righteous;
\q2 for I have rebelled against his commandment.
\q1 Please hear all you peoples,
\q2 and see my sorrow.
\q2 My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
\b
\q1
\v 19 “I called for my lovers,
\q2 but they deceived me.
\q1 My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city,
\q2 while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress.
\q2 My heart is troubled.
\q1 My heart turns over within me,
\q2 for I have grievously rebelled.
\q1 Abroad, the sword bereaves.
\q2 At home, it is like death.
\b
\q1
\v 21 “They have heard that I sigh.
\q2 There is no one to comfort me.
\q1 All my enemies have heard of my trouble.
\q2 They are glad that you have done it.
\q1 You will bring the day that you have proclaimed,
\q2 and they will be like me.
\b
\q1
\v 22 “Let all their wickedness come before you.
\q2 Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions.
\q1 For my sighs are many,
\q2 and my heart is faint.


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\p
\v 1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
\q2 He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,
\q2 and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
\b
\q1
\v 2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob
\q2 without pity.
\q1 He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.
\q2 He has brought them down to the ground.
\q2 He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
\b
\q1
\v 3 He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.
\q2 He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.
\q1 He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,
\q2 which devours all around.
\b
\q1
\v 4 He has bent his bow like an enemy.
\q2 He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.
\q1 Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.
\q2 In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
\b
\q1
\v 5 The Lord has become as an enemy.
\q2 He has swallowed up Israel.
\q1 He has swallowed up all her palaces.
\q2 He has destroyed his strongholds.
\q2 He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
\b
\q1
\v 6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle,
\q2 as if it were of a garden.
\q1 He has destroyed his place of assembly.
\q2 Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion.
\q2 In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
\b
\q1
\v 7 The Lord has cast off his altar.
\q2 He has abhorred his sanctuary.
\q1 He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy.
\q2 They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house,
\q2 as in the day of a solemn assembly.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.
\q2 He has stretched out the line.
\q2 He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
\q1 He has made the rampart and wall lament.
\q2 They languish together.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground.
\q2 He has destroyed and broken her bars.
\q1 Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not.
\q2 Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground.
\q2 They keep silence.
\q1 They have cast up dust on their heads.
\q2 They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.
\q2 The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
\b
\q1
\v 11 My eyes fail with tears.
\q2 My heart is troubled.
\q1 My liver is poured on the earth,
\q2 because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
\q2 because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
\b
\q1
\v 12 They ask their mothers,
\q2 “Where is grain and wine?”
\q2 when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
\q2 when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
\b
\q1
\v 13 What shall I testify to you?
\q2 What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?
\q1 What shall I compare to you,
\q2 that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?
\q1 For your breach is as big as the sea.
\q2 Who can heal you?
\b
\q1
\v 14 Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you.
\q2 They have not uncovered your iniquity,
\q2 to reverse your captivity,
\q2 but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
\b
\q1
\v 15 All that pass by clap their hands at you.
\q2 They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
\q1 “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty,
\q2 the joy of the whole earth’?”
\b
\q1
\v 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you.
\q2 They hiss and gnash their teeth.
\q2 They say, “We have swallowed her up.
\q1 Certainly this is the day that we looked for.
\q2 We have found it.
\q2 We have seen it.”
\b
\q1
\v 17 Yahweh has done that which he planned.
\q2 He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.
\q1 He has thrown down,
\q2 and has not pitied.
\q1 He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you.
\q2 He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
\b
\q1
\v 18 Their heart cried to the Lord.
\q2 O wall of the daughter of Zion,
\q2 let tears run down like a river day and night.
\q1 Give yourself no relief.
\q2 Don’t let the your eyes rest.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Arise, cry out in the night,
\q2 at the beginning of the watches!
\q1 Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
\q2 Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children,
\q2 who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus!
\q2 Should the women eat their offspring,
\q2 the children that they held and bounced on their knees?
\q2 Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
\b
\q1
\v 21 “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.
\q2 My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.
\q1 You have killed them in the day of your anger.
\q2 You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
\b
\q1
\v 22 “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.
\q2 There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
\q2 My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.


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\c 3
\q1
\v 1 I am the man who has seen affliction
\q2 by the rod of his wrath.
\q1
\v 2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
\q2 and not in light.
\q1
\v 3 Surely he turns his hand against me
\q2 again and again all day long.
\b
\q1
\v 4 He has made my flesh and my skin old.
\q2 He has broken my bones.
\q1
\v 5 He has built against me,
\q2 and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
\q1
\v 6 He has made me dwell in dark places,
\q2 as those who have been long dead.
\b
\q1
\v 7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
\q2 He has made my chain heavy.
\q1
\v 8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
\q2 he shuts out my prayer.
\q1
\v 9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
\q2 He has made my paths crooked.
\b
\q1
\v 10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
\q2 as a lion in secret places.
\q1
\v 11 He has turned away my ways,
\q2 and pulled me in pieces.
\q2 He has made me desolate.
\q1
\v 12 He has bent his bow,
\q2 and set me as a mark for the arrow.
\b
\q1
\v 13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
\q2
\v 14 I have become a derision to all my people,
\q2 and their song all day long.
\q1
\v 15 He has filled me with bitterness.
\q2 He has stuffed me with wormwood.
\b
\q1
\v 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
\q2 He has covered me with ashes.
\q1
\v 17 You have removed my soul far away from peace.
\q2 I forgot prosperity.
\q1
\v 18 I said, “My strength has perished,
\q2 along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
\b
\q1
\v 19 Remember my affliction and my misery,
\q2 the wormwood and the bitterness.
\q1
\v 20 My soul still remembers them,
\q2 and is bowed down within me.
\q1
\v 21 This I recall to my mind;
\q2 therefore I have hope.
\b
\q1
\v 22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
\q2 because his compassion doesn’t fail.
\q1
\v 23 They are new every morning.
\q2 Great is your faithfulness.
\q1
\v 24 “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.
\q2 “Therefore I will hope in him.”
\b
\q1
\v 25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
\q2 to the soul who seeks him.
\q1
\v 26 It is good that a man should hope
\q2 and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
\q2
\v 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
\b
\q1
\v 28 Let him sit alone and keep silence,
\q2 because he has laid it on him.
\q1
\v 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust,
\q2 if it is so that there may be hope.
\q1
\v 30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
\q2 Let him be filled full of reproach.
\b
\q1
\v 31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
\q2
\v 32 For though he causes grief,
\q2 yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
\q1
\v 33 For he does not afflict willingly,
\q2 nor grieve the children of men.
\b
\q1
\v 34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
\q2
\v 35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
\q2
\v 36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
\b
\q1
\v 37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
\q2 when the Lord doesn’t command it?
\q1
\v 38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
\q2
\v 39 Why does a living man complain,
\q2 a man for the punishment of his sins?
\b
\q1
\v 40 Let us search and try our ways,
\q2 and turn again to Yahweh.
\q1
\v 41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God\f + \fr 3:41 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* in the heavens.
\q2
\v 42 “We have transgressed and have rebelled.
\q2 You have not pardoned.
\b
\q1
\v 43 “You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
\q2 You have killed.
\q2 You have not pitied.
\q1
\v 44 You have covered yourself with a cloud,
\q2 so that no prayer can pass through.
\q1
\v 45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
\q2 in the middle of the peoples.
\b
\q1
\v 46 “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
\q2
\v 47 Terror and the pit have come on us,
\q2 devastation and destruction.”
\b
\q1
\v 48 My eye runs down with streams of water,
\q2 for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
\q1
\v 49 My eye pours down
\q2 and doesn’t cease,
\q2 without any intermission,
\q1
\v 50 until Yahweh looks down,
\q2 and sees from heaven.
\q1
\v 51 My eye affects my soul,
\q2 because of all the daughters of my city.
\b
\q1
\v 52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
\q2 those who are my enemies without cause.
\q1
\v 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
\q2 and have cast a stone on me.
\q1
\v 54 Waters flowed over my head.
\q2 I said, “I am cut off.”
\b
\q1
\v 55 I called on your name, Yahweh,
\q2 out of the lowest dungeon.
\q1
\v 56 You heard my voice:
\q2 “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
\q2 and my cry.”
\b
\q1
\v 57 You came near in the day that I called on you.
\q2 You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
\b
\q1
\v 58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
\q2 You have redeemed my life.
\q1
\v 59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
\q2 Judge my cause.
\q1
\v 60 You have seen all their vengeance
\q2 and all their plans against me.
\b
\q1
\v 61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
\q2 and all their plans against me,
\q1
\v 62 the lips of those that rose up against me,
\q2 and their plots against me all day long.
\q1
\v 63 You see their sitting down and their rising up.
\q2 I am their song.
\b
\q1
\v 64 You will pay them back, Yahweh,
\q2 according to the work of their hands.
\q1
\v 65 You will give them hardness of heart,
\q2 your curse to them.
\q1
\v 66 You will pursue them in anger,
\q2 and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.


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\v 1 How the gold has become dim!
\q2 The most pure gold has changed!
\q1 The stones of the sanctuary are poured out
\q2 at the head of every street.
\b
\q1
\v 2 The precious sons of Zion,
\q2 comparable to fine gold,
\q1 how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers,
\q2 the work of the hands of the potter!
\b
\q1
\v 3 Even the jackals offer their breast.
\q2 They nurse their young ones.
\q1 But the daughter of my people has become cruel,
\q2 like the ostriches in the wilderness.
\b
\q1
\v 4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.
\q2 The young children ask bread,
\q2 and no one breaks it for them.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.
\q2 Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
\b
\q1
\v 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,
\q2 which was overthrown as in a moment.
\q2 No hands were laid on her.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Her nobles were purer than snow.
\q2 They were whiter than milk.
\q1 They were more ruddy in body than rubies.
\q2 Their polishing was like sapphire.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal.
\q2 They are not known in the streets.
\q1 Their skin clings to their bones.
\q2 It is withered.
\q2 It has become like a stick.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;
\q2 For these pine away, stricken through,
\q2 for lack of the fruits of the field.
\b
\q1
\v 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.
\q2 They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath.
\q2 He has poured out his fierce anger.
\q1 He has kindled a fire in Zion,
\q2 which has devoured its foundations.
\b
\q1
\v 12 The kings of the earth didn’t believe,
\q2 neither did all the inhabitants of the world,
\q2 that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
\b
\q1
\v 13 It is because of the sins of her prophets
\q2 and the iniquities of her priests,
\q2 That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
\b
\q1
\v 14 They wander as blind men in the streets.
\q2 They are polluted with blood,
\q2 So that men can’t touch their garments.
\b
\q1
\v 15 “Go away!” they cried to them.
\q2 “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch!
\q1 When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,
\q2 “They can’t live here any more.”
\b
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh’s anger has scattered them.
\q2 He will not pay attention to them any more.
\q1 They didn’t respect the persons of the priests.
\q2 They didn’t favor the elders.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Our eyes still fail,
\q2 looking in vain for our help.
\q2 In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
\b
\q1
\v 18 They hunt our steps,
\q2 so that we can’t go in our streets.
\q1 Our end is near.
\q2 Our days are fulfilled,
\q2 for our end has come.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.
\q2 They chased us on the mountains.
\q2 They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
\b
\q1
\v 20 The breath of our nostrils,
\q2 the anointed of Yahweh,
\q2 was taken in their pits;
\q1 of whom we said,
\q2 under his shadow we will live among the nations.
\b
\q1
\v 21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,
\q2 that dwells in the land of Uz.
\q1 The cup will pass through to you also.
\q2 You will be drunken,
\q2 and will make yourself naked.
\b
\q1
\v 22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion.
\q2 He will no more carry you away into captivity.
\q1 He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom.
\q2 He will uncover your sins.


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\v 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us.
\q2 Look, and see our reproach.
\q1
\v 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
\q2 our houses to aliens.
\q1
\v 3 We are orphans and fatherless.
\q2 Our mothers are as widows.
\q1
\v 4 We have drunken our water for money.
\q2 Our wood is sold to us.
\q1
\v 5 Our pursuers are on our necks.
\q2 We are weary, and have no rest.
\q1
\v 6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
\q2 and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
\q1
\v 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
\q2 We have borne their iniquities.
\q1
\v 8 Servants rule over us.
\q2 There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
\q1
\v 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
\q2 because of the sword of the wilderness.
\q1
\v 10 Our skin is black like an oven,
\q2 because of the burning heat of famine.
\q1
\v 11 They ravished the women in Zion,
\q2 the virgins in the cities of Judah.
\q1
\v 12 Princes were hanged up by their hands.
\q2 The faces of elders were not honored.
\q1
\v 13 The young men carry millstones.
\q2 The children stumbled under loads of wood.
\q1
\v 14 The elders have ceased from the gate,
\q2 and the young men from their music.
\q1
\v 15 The joy of our heart has ceased.
\q2 Our dance is turned into mourning.
\q1
\v 16 The crown has fallen from our head.
\q2 Woe to us, for we have sinned!
\q1
\v 17 For this our heart is faint.
\q2 For these things our eyes are dim.
\q1
\v 18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.
\q2 The foxes walk on it.
\b
\q1
\v 19 You, Yahweh, remain forever.
\q2 Your throne is from generation to generation.
\q1
\v 20 Why do you forget us forever,
\q2 and forsake us for so long a time?
\q1
\v 21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned.
\q2 Renew our days as of old.
\q1
\v 22 But you have utterly rejected us.
\q2 You are very angry against us.


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\v 1 Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.\f + \fr 1:1 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\p
\v 2 In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
\v 3 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:3 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.
\p
\v 4 I looked, and behold,\f + \fr 1:4 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire.
\v 5 Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man.
\v 6 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.
\v 7 Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.
\v 8 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this:
\v 9 Their wings were joined to one another. They didn’t turn when they went. Each one went straight forward.
\p
\v 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.
\v 11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.
\v 12 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went. They didn’t turn when they went.
\v 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.
\v 14 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
\p
\v 15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.
\v 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
\v 17 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn when they went.
\v 18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.
\p
\v 19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. When the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
\v 20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. The spirit was to go there. The wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
\v 21 When those went, these went. When those stood, these stood. When those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
\p
\v 22 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at, stretched out over their heads above.
\v 23 Under the expanse, their wings were straight, one toward the other. Each one had two which covered on this side, and each one had two which covered their bodies on that side.
\v 24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.
\p
\v 25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood, they let down their wings.
\v 26 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire\f + \fr 1:26 \ft or, lapis lazuli\f* stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
\v 27 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
\v 28 As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around.
\p This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.


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\v 1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire\f + \fr 10:1 \ft or, lapis lazuli \f* stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
\v 2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.”
\p He went in as I watched.
\v 3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
\v 4 Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.
\v 5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
\p
\v 6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
\v 7 The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
\v 8 The form of a man’s hand appeared here in the cherubim under their wings.
\p
\v 9 I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
\v 10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.
\v 11 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn as they went.
\v 12 Their whole body, including their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had.
\v 13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, “the whirling wheels”.
\v 14 Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle.
\p
\v 15 The cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
\v 16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t turn from beside them.
\v 17 When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
\p
\v 18 Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
\v 19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
\p
\v 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
\v 21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
\v 22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.


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\p
\v 1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
\v 2 He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
\v 3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’
\v 4 Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man.”
\p
\v 5 Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
\v 6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.
\p
\v 7 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it.
\v 8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 9 “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
\v 10 You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\v 11 This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
\v 12 You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes, You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”
\p
\v 13 When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 15 “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’”
\p
\v 16 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’
\p
\v 17 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”
\p
\v 18 “‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.
\v 19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
\v 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
\v 21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
\p
\v 22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
\v 23 Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
\v 24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives.
\p So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
\v 25 Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.


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\v 1 Yahweh’s word also came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.
\p
\v 3 “Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
\v 4 You shall bring out your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. You shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go out into exile.
\v 5 Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.
\v 6 In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.”
\p
\v 7 I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it out in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
\p
\v 8 In the morning, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 9 “Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
\p
\v 10 “Say to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.”’
\p
\v 11 “Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.
\p
\v 12 “‘The prince who is among them will bear on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig through the wall to carry things out that way. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes.
\v 13 I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
\v 14 I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them.
\p
\v 15 “‘They will know that I am Yahweh when I disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
\v 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 17 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 18 “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.
\v 19 Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
\v 20 The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
\p
\v 21 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 22 “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’
\v 23 Tell them therefore, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel;”’ but tell them, ‘“The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
\v 24 For there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
\v 25 For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 26 Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 27 “Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’
\p
\v 28 “Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “None of my words will be deferred any more, but the word which I speak will be performed,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”


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\c 13
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word:
\v 3 The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
\v 4 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
\v 5 You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.
\v 6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
\v 7 Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”
\p
\v 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 9 “My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
\p
\v 10 “‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.
\v 11 Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it.
\v 12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, “Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?”
\p
\v 13 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
\v 14 So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\v 15 Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;
\v 16 to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 17 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,
\v 18 and say, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
\v 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’
\p
\v 20 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms. I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly.
\v 21 I will also tear your kerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\v 22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.
\v 23 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/14/100000001
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\c 14
\p
\v 1 Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.
\v 2 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 3 “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?
\v 4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;
\v 5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’
\p
\v 6 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.
\p
\v 7 “‘“For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself.
\v 8 I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 9 “‘“If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.
\v 10 They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;
\v 11 that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 12 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 13 “Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;
\v 14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 15 “If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;
\v 16 though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
\p
\v 17 “Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’
\v 18 though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves.
\p
\v 19 “Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
\v 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
\p
\v 21 For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
\v 22 Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.
\v 23 They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/15/100000001
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\c 15
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
\v 3 Will wood be taken of it to make anything? Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel on it?
\v 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work?
\v 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was suitable for no work. How much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it has been burned, will it yet be suitable for any work?”
\p
\v 6 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
\v 7 I will set my face against them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire will devour them. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
\v 8 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,” says the Lord Yahweh.


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/16/100000001
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\c 16
\p
\v 1 Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
\v 3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
\v 4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all.
\v 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.
\p
\v 6 “‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’
\v 7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.
\p
\v 8 “‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
\p
\v 9 “‘“Then washed I you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
\v 10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sealskin sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
\v 11 I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.
\v 12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
\v 13 Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
\v 14 Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 15 “‘“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It was his.
\v 16 You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shall not happen, neither shall it be.
\v 17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.
\v 18 You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
\v 19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 20 “‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
\v 21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
\v 22 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.
\p
\v 23 “‘“It has happened after all your wickedness. Woe, woe to you!” says the Lord Yahweh,
\v 24 “that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
\v 25 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
\v 26 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
\v 27 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
\v 28 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied.
\v 29 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.
\p
\v 30 “‘“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
\v 31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
\p
\v 32 “‘“A wife who commits adultery! Who takes strangers instead of her husband!
\v 33 People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.
\v 34 You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.”’
\p
\v 35 “Therefore, prostitute, hear Yahweh’s word:
\v 36 ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
\v 37 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated. I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
\v 38 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
\v 39 I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.
\v 40 They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
\v 41 They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.
\v 42 So I will cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will not be angry any more.
\p
\v 43 “‘“Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
\p
\v 44 “‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’
\v 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
\v 46 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters.
\v 47 Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
\v 48 As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
\p
\v 49 “‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
\v 50 They were arrogant, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
\v 51 Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
\v 52 You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
\p
\v 53 “‘“I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives among them;
\v 54 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
\v 55 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate; and you and your daughters will return to your former estate.
\v 56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
\v 57 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you all around.
\v 58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 59 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
\v 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
\v 61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
\v 62 I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
\v 63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/17/100000001
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\c 17
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
\v 3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.
\v 4 He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.
\p
\v 5 “‘“He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.
\v 6 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.
\p
\v 7 “‘“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
\v 8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.”’
\p
\v 9 “Say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people.
\v 10 Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.”’”
\p
\v 11 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 12 “Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.
\v 13 He took some of the royal offspring,\f + \fr 17:13 \ft or, seed\f* and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
\v 14 that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
\v 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?
\p
\v 16 “‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.
\v 17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.
\v 18 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.
\p
\v 19 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.
\v 20 I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
\v 21 All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’
\p
\v 22 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
\v 23 I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.
\v 24 All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish.
\p “‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/18/100000001
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\c 18
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,
\v 2 “What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
\q1 ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
\q2 and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
\p
\v 3 “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel.
\v 4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “But if a man is just,
\q2 and does that which is lawful and right,
\q1
\v 6 and has not eaten on the mountains,
\q2 hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
\q1 hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,
\q2 hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,
\q1
\v 7 and has not wronged any,
\q2 but has restored to the debtor his pledge,
\q1 has taken nothing by robbery,
\q2 has given his bread to the hungry,
\q2 and has covered the naked with a garment;
\q1
\v 8 he who hasn’t lent to them with interest,
\q2 hasn’t taken any increase from them,
\q1 who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity,
\q2 has executed true justice between man and man,
\q1
\v 9 has walked in my statutes,
\q2 and has kept my ordinances,
\q2 to deal truly;
\q1 he is just,
\q2 he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\b
\p
\v 10 “If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,
\v 11 or who does not do any of those things,
\q1 but even has eaten at the mountain shrines,
\q2 and defiled his neighbor’s wife,
\q1
\v 12 has wronged the poor and needy,
\q2 has taken by robbery,
\q1 has not restored the pledge,
\q2 and has lifted up his eyes to the idols,
\q2 has committed abomination,
\q1
\v 13 has lent with interest,
\q2 and has taken increase from the poor;
\m shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.
\p
\v 14 “Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
\q1
\v 15 who hasn’t eaten on the mountains,
\q2 hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
\q2 hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,
\q1
\v 16 hasn’t wronged any,
\q2 hasn’t taken anything to pledge,
\q1 hasn’t taken by robbery,
\q2 but has given his bread to the hungry,
\q2 and has covered the naked with a garment;
\q1
\v 17 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor,
\q2 who hasn’t received interest or increase,
\q1 has executed my ordinances,
\q2 has walked in my statutes;
\m he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.
\v 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.
\p
\v 19 “Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.
\v 20 The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
\p
\v 21 “But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
\v 22 None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.
\v 23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
\p
\v 24 “But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
\p
\v 25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?
\v 26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die.
\v 27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.
\v 28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
\v 29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?
\p
\v 30 “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.
\v 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
\v 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!


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\c 19
\p
\v 1 “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
\v 2 and say,
\q1 ‘What was your mother?
\q2 A lioness.
\q1 She couched among lions,
\q2 in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
\q1
\v 3 She brought up one of her cubs.
\q2 He became a young lion.
\q1 He learned to catch the prey.
\q2 He devoured men.
\q1
\v 4 The nations also heard of him.
\q2 He was taken in their pit;
\q2 and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “‘Now when she saw that she had waited,
\q2 and her hope was lost,
\q1 then she took another of her cubs,
\q2 and made him a young lion.
\q1
\v 6 He went up and down among the lions.
\q2 He became a young lion.
\q1 He learned to catch the prey.
\q2 He devoured men.
\q1
\v 7 He knew their palaces,
\q2 and laid waste their cities.
\q1 The land was desolate,
\q2 with its fullness,
\q2 because of the noise of his roaring.
\q1
\v 8 Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces.
\q2 They spread their net over him.
\q2 He was taken in their pit.
\q1
\v 9 They put him in a cage with hooks,
\q2 and brought him to the king of Babylon.
\q1 They brought him into strongholds,
\q2 so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 10 “‘Your mother was like a vine
\q2 in your blood,
\q1 planted by the waters.
\q2 It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
\q1
\v 11 It had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled.
\q2 Their stature was exalted among the thick boughs.
\q1 They were seen in their height
\q2 with the multitude of their branches.
\q1
\v 12 But it was plucked up in fury.
\q2 It was cast down to the ground,
\q1 and the east wind dried up its fruit.
\q2 Its strong branches were broken off and withered.
\q2 The fire consumed them.
\q1
\v 13 Now it is planted in the wilderness,
\q2 in a dry and thirsty land.
\q1
\v 14 Fire has gone out of its branches.
\q2 It has devoured its fruit,
\q2 so that there is in it no strong branch to be a scepter to rule.’
\m This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”


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\c 2
\p
\v 1 He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”
\v 2 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.
\p
\v 3 He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
\v 4 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord\f + \fr 2:4 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh says.’
\v 5 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.
\v 6 You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
\v 7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.
\v 8 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”
\p
\v 9 When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was in it.
\v 10 He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.


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\c 20
\p
\v 1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
\p
\v 2 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’
\p
\v 4 “Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers.
\v 5 Tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, ‘I am Yahweh your God;’
\v 6 in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
\v 7 I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’
\p
\v 8 “‘“But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.
\v 9 But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
\v 10 So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
\v 11 I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.
\v 12 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
\p
\v 13 “‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
\v 14 But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
\v 15 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
\v 16 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
\v 17 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.
\v 18 I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
\v 19 I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.
\v 20 Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’
\p
\v 21 “‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
\v 22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
\v 23 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
\v 24 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
\v 25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.
\v 26 I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.”’
\p
\v 27 “Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
\v 28 For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
\v 29 Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah\f + \fr 20:29 \ft “Bamah” means “High Place”.\f* to this day.”’
\p
\v 30 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after their abominations?
\v 31 When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!
\p
\v 32 “‘“That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’
\v 33 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.
\v 34 I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.
\v 35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
\v 36 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 37 “I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
\v 38 I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
\p
\v 39 “‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.
\v 40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
\v 41 I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
\v 42 You will know that I am Yahweh when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.
\v 43 There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
\v 44 You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 45 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 46 “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South.
\v 47 Tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.
\v 48 All flesh will see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it. It will not be quenched.”’”
\p
\v 49 Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’”


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\c 21
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel.
\v 3 Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
\v 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.
\v 5 All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’
\p
\v 6 “Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart\f + \fr 21:6 \ft literally, the breaking of your thighs\f* and with bitterness.
\v 7 It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 8 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 9 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says:
\q1 “A sword! A sword!
\q2 It is sharpened,
\q2 and also polished.
\q1
\v 10 It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter.
\q2 It is polished that it may be as lightning.
\q1 Should we then make mirth?
\q2 The rod of my son condemns every tree.
\q1
\v 11 It is given to be polished,
\q2 that it may be handled.
\q1 The sword is sharpened.
\q2 Yes, it is polished
\q2 to give it into the hand of the killer.”’
\q1
\v 12 Cry and wail, son of man;
\q2 for it is on my people.
\q2 It is on all the princes of Israel.
\q1 They are delivered over to the sword with my people.
\q2 Therefore beat your thigh.
\b
\p
\v 13 “For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.
\q1
\v 14 “You therefore, son of man, prophesy,
\q2 and strike your hands together.
\q1 Let the sword be doubled the third time,
\q2 the sword of the fatally wounded.
\q1 It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded,
\q2 which enters into their rooms.
\q1
\v 15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,
\q2 that their heart may melt,
\q2 and their stumblings be multiplied.
\q1 Ah! It is made as lightning.
\q2 It is pointed for slaughter.
\q1
\v 16 Gather yourselves together.
\q2 Go to the right.
\q1 Set yourselves in array.
\q2 Go to the left,
\q2 wherever your face is set.
\q1
\v 17 I will also strike my hands together,
\q2 and I will cause my wrath to rest.
\q2 I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”
\p
\v 18 Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,
\v 19 “Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
\v 20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
\v 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim.\f + \fr 21:21 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* He looked in the liver.
\v 22 In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.
\v 23 It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.
\p
\v 24 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.
\p
\v 25 “‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
\v 26 the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.
\v 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’
\p
\v 28 “You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach:
\q1 “A sword! A sword is drawn!
\q2 It is polished for the slaughter,
\q1 to cause it to devour,
\q2 that it may be as lightning;
\q1
\v 29 while they see for you false visions,
\q2 while they divine lies to you,
\q1 to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,
\q2 whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
\q1
\v 30 Cause it to return into its sheath.
\q2 In the place where you were created,
\q2 in the land of your birth, I will judge you.
\q1
\v 31 I will pour out my indignation on you.
\q2 I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath.
\q1 I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men,
\q2 skillful to destroy.
\q1
\v 32 You will be for fuel to the fire.
\q2 Your blood will be in the middle of the land.
\q1 You will be remembered no more;
\q2 for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”’”


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\c 22
\p
\v 1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
\v 3 You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
\v 4 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
\v 5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
\p
\v 6 “‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
\v 7 In you have they treated father and mother with contempt.\f + \fr 22:7 \ft Literally, \fqa made light of father and mother.\f* Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
\v 8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
\v 9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
\v 10 In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
\v 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
\v 12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 13 “‘“Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.
\v 14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
\v 15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.
\v 16 You will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
\p
\v 17 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
\v 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.
\v 20 As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
\v 21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.
\v 22 As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’”
\p
\v 23 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 24 “Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.’
\v 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.
\v 26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.
\v 27 Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
\v 28 Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.
\v 29 The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
\p
\v 30 “I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
\v 31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.


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\c 23
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
\v 3 They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.
\v 4 Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
\p
\v 5 “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
\v 6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
\v 7 She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after.
\v 8 She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
\p
\v 9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
\v 10 These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
\p
\v 11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.
\v 12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
\v 13 I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.
\p
\v 14 “She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,
\v 15 dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
\v 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
\v 17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
\v 18 So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.
\v 19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
\v 20 She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
\v 21 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.
\p
\v 22 “Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:
\v 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
\v 24 They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their judgments.
\v 25 I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire.
\v 26 They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.
\v 27 Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’
\p
\v 28 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated.
\v 29 They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
\v 30 These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.
\v 31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’
\p
\v 32 “The Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup,
\q2 which is deep and large.
\q1 You will be ridiculed and held in derision.
\q2 It contains much.
\q1
\v 33 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
\q2 with the cup of astonishment and desolation,
\q2 with the cup of your sister Samaria.
\q1
\v 34 You will even drink it and drain it out.
\q2 You will gnaw the broken pieces of it,
\q2 and will tear your breasts;
\m for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 35 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’”
\p
\v 36 Yahweh said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
\v 37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
\v 38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
\v 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.
\p
\v 40 “Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,
\v 41 and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.
\p
\v 42 “The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
\v 43 Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’
\v 44 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
\v 45 Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
\p
\v 46 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
\v 47 The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
\p
\v 48 “‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.
\v 49 They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/24/100000001
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\c 24
\p
\v 1 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, write the name of the day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
\v 3 Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,
\q1 “Put the cauldron on the fire.
\q2 Put it on,
\q2 and also pour water into it.
\q1
\v 4 Gather its pieces into it,
\q2 even every good piece:
\q2 the thigh and the shoulder.
\q2 Fill it with the choice bones.
\q1
\v 5 Take the choice of the flock,
\q2 and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron.
\q1 Make it boil well.
\q2 Yes, let its bones be boiled within it.”
\m
\v 6 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “Woe to the bloody city,
\q2 to the cauldron whose rust is in it,
\q2 and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it!
\q1 Take out of it piece after piece.
\q2 No lot is fallen on it.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “‘“For her blood is in the middle of her.
\q2 She set it on the bare rock.
\q1 She didn’t pour it on the ground,
\q2 to cover it with dust.
\q1
\v 8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,
\q2 I have set her blood on the bare rock,
\q2 that it should not be covered.”
\m
\v 9 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “Woe to the bloody city!
\q2 I also will make the pile great.
\q1
\v 10 Heap on the wood.
\q2 Make the fire hot.
\q1 Boil the meat well.
\q2 Make the broth thick,
\q2 and let the bones be burned.
\q1
\v 11 Then set it empty on its coals,
\q2 that it may be hot,
\q1 and its bronze may burn,
\q2 and that its filthiness may be molten in it,
\q2 that its rust may be consumed.
\q1
\v 12 She is weary with toil;
\q2 yet her great rust,
\q2 rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.
\p
\v 13 “‘“In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
\p
\v 14 I, Yahweh, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 15 Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 16 “Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
\v 17 Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”
\p
\v 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.
\p
\v 19 The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?”
\p
\v 20 Then I said to them, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 21 ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
\v 22 You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.
\v 23 Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
\v 24 Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”’”
\p
\v 25 “You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
\v 26 that in that day he who escapes will come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
\v 27 In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you will speak, and be no more mute. So you will be a sign to them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/25/100000001
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\c 25
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them.
\v 3 Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
\v 4 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.
\v 5 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
\v 6 For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;
\v 7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
\p
\v 8 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;’
\v 9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,
\v 10 to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.
\v 11 I will execute judgments on Moab. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”
\p
\v 12 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them;”
\v 13 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman. They will fall by the sword even to Dedan.
\v 14 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. Then they will know my vengeance,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 15 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;”
\v 16 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
\v 17 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay my vengeance on them.”’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/26/100000001
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\c 26
\p
\v 1 In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’
\v 3 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.
\v 4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
\v 5 She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. ‘She will become plunder for the nations.
\v 6 Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’
\p
\v 7 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and an army with many people.
\v 8 He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
\v 9 He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
\v 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open.
\v 11 He will tread down all your streets with the hoofs of his horses. He will kill your people with the sword. The pillars of your strength will go down to the ground.
\v 12 They will make a plunder of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. They will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses. They will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in the middle of the waters.
\v 13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.
\v 14 I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 15 “The Lord Yahweh says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you?
\v 16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.
\v 17 They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you,
\q1 “How you are destroyed,
\q2 who were inhabited by seafaring men,
\q1 the renowned city,
\q2 who was strong in the sea,
\q1 she and her inhabitants,
\q2 who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!”
\q1
\v 18 Now the islands will tremble in the day of your fall.
\q2 Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.’
\p
\v 19 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you;
\v 20 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.
\v 21 I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/27/100000001
data:
\c 27
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
\v 2 “You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
\v 3 and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “You, Tyre, have said,
\q2 ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
\q1
\v 4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas.
\q2 Your builders have perfected your beauty.
\q1
\v 5 They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir.
\q2 They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
\q1
\v 6 They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan.
\q2 They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.
\q1
\v 7 Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt,
\q2 that it might be to you for a banner.
\q2 Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.
\q1
\v 8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers.
\q2 Your wise men, Tyre, were in you.
\q2 They were your pilots.
\q1
\v 9 The old men of Gebal
\q2 and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you.
\q1 All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you
\q2 to deal in your merchandise.
\b
\q1
\v 10 “‘“Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army,
\q2 your men of war.
\q1 They hung the shield and helmet in you.
\q2 They showed your beauty.
\q1
\v 11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around,
\q2 and valiant men were in your towers.
\q1 They hung their shields on your walls all around.
\q2 They have perfected your beauty.
\p
\v 12 “‘“Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead.
\p
\v 13 “‘“Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.
\p
\v 14 “‘“They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses, war horses, and mules.
\p
\v 15 “‘“The men of Dedan traded with you. Many islands were the market of your hand. They brought you horns of ivory and ebony in exchange.
\p
\v 16 “‘“Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.
\p
\v 17 “‘“Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.
\p
\v 18 “‘“Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
\p
\v 19 “‘“Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus were among your merchandise.
\p
\v 20 “‘“Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
\p
\v 21 “‘“Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, rams, and goats. In these, they were your merchants.
\p
\v 22 “‘“The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
\p
\v 23 “‘“Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders.
\v 24 These were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
\q1
\v 25 “‘“The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise.
\q2 You were replenished
\q2 and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
\q1
\v 26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters.
\q2 The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
\q1
\v 27 Your riches,
\q2 your wares,
\q2 your merchandise,
\q1 your mariners,
\q2 your pilots,
\q2 your repairers of ship seams,
\q1 the dealers in your merchandise,
\q2 and all your men of war, who are in you,
\q1 with all your company which is among you,
\q2 will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
\q1
\v 28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots,
\q2 the pasture lands will shake.
\q1
\v 29 All who handle the oars,
\q2 the mariners and all the pilots of the sea,
\q2 will come down from their ships.
\q1 They will stand on the land,
\q2
\v 30 and will cause their voice to be heard over you,
\q2 and will cry bitterly.
\q1 They will cast up dust on their heads.
\q2 They will wallow in the ashes.
\q1
\v 31 They will make themselves bald for you,
\q2 and clothe themselves with sackcloth.
\q1 They will weep for you in bitterness of soul,
\q2 with bitter mourning.
\q1
\v 32 In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you,
\q2 and lament over you, saying,
\q1 ‘Who is there like Tyre,
\q2 like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’
\q1
\v 33 When your wares went out of the seas,
\q2 you filled many peoples.
\q1 You enriched the kings of the earth
\q2 with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.
\q1
\v 34 In the time that you were broken by the seas,
\q2 in the depths of the waters,
\q1 your merchandise
\q2 and all your company fell within you.
\q1
\v 35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you,
\q2 and their kings are horribly afraid.
\q2 They are troubled in their face.
\q1
\v 36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you.
\q2 You have become a terror,
\q2 and you will be no more.”’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/28/100000001
data:
\c 28
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “Because your heart is lifted up,
\q2 and you have said, ‘I am a god,
\q1 I sit in the seat of God,
\q2 in the middle of the seas;’
\q1 yet you are man,
\q2 and not God,
\q2 though you set your heart as the heart of God—
\q1
\v 3 behold, you are wiser than Daniel;
\q2 there is no secret that is hidden from you;
\q1
\v 4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches,
\q2 and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
\q1
\v 5 by your great wisdom
\q2 and by your trading you have increased your riches,
\q2 and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”
\p
\v 6 “‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
\q2
\v 7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you,
\q2 the terrible of the nations.
\q1 They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.
\q2 They will defile your brightness.
\q1
\v 8 They will bring you down to the pit.
\q2 You will die the death of those who are slain
\q2 in the heart of the seas.
\q1
\v 9 Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’?
\q2 But you are man, and not God,
\q2 in the hand of him who wounds you.
\q1
\v 10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised
\q2 by the hand of strangers;
\q2 for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\b
\p
\v 11 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “You were the seal of full measure,
\q2 full of wisdom,
\q2 and perfect in beauty.
\q1
\v 13 You were in Eden,
\q2 the garden of God.
\q1 Every precious stone adorned you:
\q2 ruby, topaz, emerald,
\q2 chrysolite, onyx, jasper,
\q2 sapphire,\f + \fr 28:13 \ft or, lapis lazuli \f* turquoise, and beryl.
\q1 Gold work of tambourines
\q2 and of pipes was in you.
\q2 They were prepared in the day that you were created.
\q1
\v 14 You were the anointed cherub who covers.
\q2 Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God.
\q2 You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.
\q1
\v 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created,
\q2 until unrighteousness was found in you.
\q1
\v 16 By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence,
\q2 and you have sinned.
\q1 Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain.
\q2 I have destroyed you, covering cherub,
\q2 from the middle of the stones of fire.
\q1
\v 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty.
\q2 You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.
\q1 I have cast you to the ground.
\q2 I have laid you before kings,
\q2 that they may see you.
\q1
\v 18 By the multitude of your iniquities,
\q2 in the unrighteousness of your commerce,
\q2 you have profaned your sanctuaries.
\q1 Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you.
\q2 It has devoured you.
\q1 I have turned you to ashes on the earth
\q2 in the sight of all those who see you.
\q1
\v 19 All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you.
\q2 You have become a terror,
\q2 and you will exist no more.”’”
\b
\p
\v 20 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 21 “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
\v 22 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “Behold, I am against you, Sidon.
\q2 I will be glorified among you.
\q1 Then they will know that I am Yahweh,
\q2 when I have executed judgments in her,
\q2 and am sanctified in her.
\q1
\v 23 For I will send pestilence into her,
\q2 and blood into her streets.
\q1 The wounded will fall within her,
\q2 with the sword on her on every side.
\q2 Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 24 “‘“There will be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
\p
\v 25 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.
\v 26 They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who scorn them all around. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.”’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/29/100000001
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\c 29
\p
\v 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
\v 3 Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
\q2 the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers,
\q1 that has said, ‘My river is my own,
\q2 and I have made it for myself.’
\q1
\v 4 I will put hooks in your jaws,
\q2 and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales.
\q1 I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers,
\q2 with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
\q1
\v 5 I’ll cast you out into the wilderness,
\q2 you and all the fish of your rivers.
\q1 You’ll fall on the open field.
\q2 You won’t be brought together or gathered.
\q1 I have given you for food to the animals of the earth
\q2 and to the birds of the sky.
\p
\v 6 “‘“All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
\v 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”
\p
\v 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.
\v 9 The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
\p “‘“Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it;’
\v 10 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
\v 11 No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years.
\v 12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities among the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”
\p
\v 13 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered.
\v 14 I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. They will be a lowly kingdom, there.
\v 15 It will be the lowest of the kingdoms. It won’t lift itself up above the nations any more. I will diminish them, so that they will no longer rule over the nations.
\v 16 It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”’”
\b
\p
\v 17 It came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 18 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
\v 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army.
\v 20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 21 “In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/3/100000001
data:
\c 3
\p
\v 1 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”
\p
\v 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
\p
\v 3 He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.”
\p Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
\p
\v 4 He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.
\v 5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
\v 6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
\v 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate\f + \fr 3:7 \ft Literally, have a hard forehead\f* and hard-hearted.
\v 8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
\v 9 I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”
\p
\v 10 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.
\v 11 Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.
\p
\v 12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed be Yahweh’s glory from his place.”
\v 13 I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.
\v 14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.
\v 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
\p
\v 16 At the end of seven days, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
\v 18 When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
\v 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”
\p
\v 20 “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.
\v 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”
\p
\v 22 Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”
\p
\v 23 Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, Yahweh’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face.
\p
\v 24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.
\v 25 But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them.
\v 26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute, and will not be able to correct them; for they are a rebellious house.
\v 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”


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\c 30
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
\q2
\v 3 For the day is near,
\q2 even Yahweh’s day is near.
\q1 It will be a day of clouds,
\q2 a time of the nations.
\q1
\v 4 A sword will come on Egypt,
\q2 and anguish will be in Ethiopia,
\q2 when the slain fall in Egypt.
\q1 They take away her multitude,
\q2 and her foundations are broken down.
\p
\v 5 “‘“Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword.”
\p
\v 6 “‘Yahweh says:
\q1 “They also who uphold Egypt will fall.
\q2 The pride of her power will come down.
\q1 They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,”
\q2 says the Lord Yahweh.
\q1
\v 7 “They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.
\q2 Her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.
\q1
\v 8 They will know that I am Yahweh
\q2 when I have set a fire in Egypt,
\q2 and all her helpers are destroyed.
\p
\v 9 “‘“In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”
\p
\v 10 “‘The Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease,
\q2 by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
\q1
\v 11 He and his people with him,
\q2 the terrible of the nations,
\q1 will be brought in to destroy the land.
\q2 They will draw their swords against Egypt,
\q2 and fill the land with the slain.
\q1
\v 12 I will make the rivers dry,
\q2 and will sell the land into the hand of evil men.
\q1 I will make the land desolate,
\q2 and all that is therein,
\q2 by the hand of strangers:
\q2 I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”
\p
\v 13 “‘The Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “I will also destroy the idols,
\q2 and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis.
\q1 There will be no more a prince from the land of Egypt.
\q2 I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
\q1
\v 14 I will make Pathros desolate,
\q2 and will set a fire in Zoan,
\q2 and will execute judgments on No.
\q1
\v 15 I will pour my wrath on Sin,
\q2 the stronghold of Egypt.
\q2 I will cut off the multitude of No.
\q1
\v 16 I will set a fire in Egypt
\q2 Sin will be in great anguish.
\q1 No will be broken up.
\q2 Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.
\q1
\v 17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth will fall by the sword.
\q2 They will go into captivity.
\q1
\v 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself,
\q2 when I break the yokes of Egypt, there.
\q1 The pride of her power will cease in her.
\q2 As for her, a cloud will cover her,
\q2 and her daughters will go into captivity.
\q1
\v 19 Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt.
\q2 Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
\b
\p
\v 20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.
\v 22 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
\v 23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
\v 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.
\v 25 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.
\v 26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”


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\c 31
\p
\v 1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his multitude:
\q1 ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
\q1
\v 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
\q2 with beautiful branches,
\q1 and with a forest-like shade,
\q2 of high stature;
\q2 and its top was among the thick boughs.
\q1
\v 4 The waters nourished it.
\q2 The deep made it to grow.
\q1 Its rivers ran all around its plantation;
\q2 and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
\q1
\v 5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;
\q2 and its boughs were multiplied.
\q1 Its branches became long by reason of many waters,
\q2 when it spread them out.
\q1
\v 6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs.
\q2 Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young.
\q2 All great nations lived under its shadow.
\q1
\v 7 Thus it was beautiful in its greatness,
\q2 in the length of its branches;
\q2 for its root was by many waters.
\q1
\v 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it.
\q2 The cypress trees were not like its boughs.
\q1 The pine trees were not as its branches;
\q2 nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
\q1
\v 9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches,
\q2 so that all the trees of Eden,
\q2 that were in the garden of God, envied it.’
\p
\v 10 “Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
\v 11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.
\v 12 Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
\v 13 All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches;
\v 14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’
\p
\v 15 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol \f + \fr 31:15 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
\v 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol\f + \fr 31:16 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
\v 17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.
\p
\v 18 “‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.
\p “‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”


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\c 32
\p
\v 1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him,
\q1 “You were likened to a young lion of the nations;
\q2 yet you are as a monster in the seas.
\q1 You broke out with your rivers,
\q2 and troubled the waters with your feet,
\q2 and fouled their rivers.”
\q1
\v 3 The Lord Yahweh says:
\q2 “I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples;
\q2 and they will bring you up in my net.
\q1
\v 4 I will leave you on the land.
\q2 I will cast you out on the open field,
\q1 and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you.
\q2 I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
\q1
\v 5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains,
\q2 and fill the valleys with your height.
\q1
\v 6 I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood,
\q2 even to the mountains.
\q2 The watercourses will be full of you.
\q1
\v 7 When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens
\q2 and make its stars dark.
\q1 I will cover the sun with a cloud,
\q2 and the moon won’t give its light.
\q1
\v 8 I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you,
\q2 and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\q1
\v 9 “I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples,
\q2 when I bring your destruction among the nations,
\q2 into the countries which you have not known.
\q1
\v 10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you,
\q2 and their kings will be horribly afraid for you,
\q1 when I brandish my sword before them.
\q2 They will tremble at every moment,
\q1 every man for his own life,
\q2 in the day of your fall.”
\q1
\v 11 For the Lord Yahweh says:
\q2 “The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.
\q1
\v 12 I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty.
\q2 They are all the ruthless of the nations.
\q1 They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing,
\q2 and all its multitude will be destroyed.
\q1
\v 13 I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters.
\q2 The foot of man won’t trouble them any more,
\q2 nor will the hoofs of animals trouble them.
\q1
\v 14 Then I will make their waters clear,
\q2 and cause their rivers to run like oil,”
\q2 says the Lord Yahweh.
\q1
\v 15 “When I make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,
\q2 a land destitute of that of which it was full,
\q1 when I strike all those who dwell therein,
\q2 then they will know that I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 16 “‘“This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\b
\p
\v 17 Also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 18 “Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
\v 19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
\v 20 They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.
\v 21 The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol \f + \fr 32:21 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword.
\p
\v 22 “Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them slain, fallen by the sword;
\v 23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
\p
\v 24 “There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
\v 25 They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain.
\p
\v 26 “There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
\v 27 They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
\p
\v 28 “But you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.
\p
\v 29 “There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
\p
\v 30 “There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
\p
\v 31 “Pharaoh will see them, and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 32 “For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.


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\c 33
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
\v 3 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;
\v 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.
\v 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul.
\v 6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’
\p
\v 7 “So you, son of man: I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me.
\v 8 When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.
\v 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
\p
\v 10 “You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?”’
\v 11 Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’
\p
\v 12 “You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.
\v 13 When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.
\v 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;
\v 15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.
\v 16 None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.
\p
\v 17 “‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.
\v 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.
\v 19 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.
\v 20 Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’”
\b
\p
\v 21 In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”
\v 22 Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
\p
\v 23 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 24 “Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’
\v 25 Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?
\v 26 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’
\p
\v 27 “You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give he who is in the open field to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence.
\v 28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through.
\v 29 Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’
\p
\v 30 “As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from Yahweh.’
\v 31 They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
\v 32 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.
\p
\v 33 “When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”


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\c 34
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?
\v 3 You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.
\v 4 You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.
\v 5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
\v 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”
\p
\v 7 “‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word:
\v 8 “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”
\v 9 Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word:
\v 10 The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”
\p
\v 11 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
\v 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
\v 13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
\v 14 I will feed them with good pasture; and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on fat pasture on the mountains of Israel.
\v 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 16 “I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.”’
\p
\v 17 “As for you, O my flock, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
\v 18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?
\v 19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’
\p
\v 20 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
\v 21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
\v 22 therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.
\v 23 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.
\v 24 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
\p
\v 25 “‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
\v 26 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.
\v 27 The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
\v 28 They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid.
\v 29 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more.
\v 30 They will know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 31 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/35/100000001
data:
\c 35
\p
\v 1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
\v 3 and tell it, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
\v 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 5 “‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
\v 6 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.
\v 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
\v 8 I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.
\v 9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 10 “‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it;’ whereas Yahweh was there:
\v 11 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.
\v 12 You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given us to devour.’
\v 13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”
\v 14 The Lord Yahweh says: “When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
\v 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/36/100000001
data:
\c 36
\p
\v 1 You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, “You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word.
\v 2 The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!”’
\v 3 therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”
\v 4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
\v 5 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.”’
\v 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.”
\v 7 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’
\p
\v 8 “‘“But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
\v 9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be tilled and sown.
\v 10 I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built.
\v 11 I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\v 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children.”
\p
\v 13 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’
\v 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, and not bereave your nation any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 15 “I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 16 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
\v 18 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.
\v 19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds.
\v 20 When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’
\v 21 But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.
\p
\v 22 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
\v 23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.
\p
\v 24 “‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
\v 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.
\v 26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
\v 27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
\v 28 You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
\v 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
\v 30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
\p
\v 31 “‘“Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
\v 32 I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”
\p
\v 33 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built.
\v 34 The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
\v 35 They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’
\v 36 Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”
\p
\v 37 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
\v 38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/37/100000001
data:
\c 37
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
\v 2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
\v 3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
\p I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”
\p
\v 4 Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.
\v 5 The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.
\v 6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
\p
\v 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone.
\v 8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
\p
\v 9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”
\p
\v 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
\p
\v 11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’
\v 12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
\v 13 You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
\v 14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’”
\b
\p
\v 15 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
\v 16 “You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’
\v 17 Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
\p
\v 18 “When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’
\v 19 tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.
\v 20 The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.”’
\v 21 Say to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land.
\v 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
\v 23 They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.
\p
\v 24 “‘“My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
\v 25 They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever.
\v 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.
\v 27 My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
\v 28 The nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.”’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/38/100000001
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\c 38
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
\v 3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
\v 4 I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;
\v 5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
\v 6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.
\p
\v 7 “‘“Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
\v 8 After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them.
\v 9 You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”
\p
\v 10 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
\v 11 You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
\v 12 to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’
\v 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’
\p
\v 14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, will you not know it?
\v 15 You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.
\v 16 You will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”
\p
\v 17 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them?
\v 18 It will happen in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that my wrath will come up into my nostrils.
\v 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
\v 20 so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence. Then the mountains will be thrown down, the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.
\v 21 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.
\v 22 I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
\v 23 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/39/100000001
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\c 39
\p
\v 1 “You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
\v 2 I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you onto the mountains of Israel.
\v 3 I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
\v 4 You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
\v 5 You will fall on the open field; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 6 “I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 7 “‘“I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
\v 8 Behold, it comes, and it will be done,” says the Lord Yahweh. “This is the day about which I have spoken.
\p
\v 9 “‘“Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years;
\v 10 so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 11 “‘“It will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there; and they will call it ‘The valley of Hamon Gog’.
\p
\v 12 “‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land.
\v 13 Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and they will become famous in the day that I will be glorified,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 14 “‘“They will set apart men of continual employment, who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search.
\v 15 Those who pass through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then he will set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.
\v 16 Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus they will cleanse the land.”’
\p
\v 17 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood.
\v 18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
\v 19 You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
\v 20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’
\p
\v 21 “I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
\v 22 So the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward.
\v 23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
\v 24 I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them.
\p
\v 25 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.
\v 26 They will bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid,
\v 27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.
\v 28 They will know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave none of them captive any more.
\v 29 I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/26/4/100000001
data:
\c 4
\p
\v 1 “You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.
\v 2 Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.
\v 3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
\p
\v 4 “Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
\v 5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
\p
\v 6 “Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.
\v 7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.
\v 8 Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.
\p
\v 9 “Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.
\v 10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels\f + \fr 4:10 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* a day. From time to time you shall eat it.
\v 11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin.\f + \fr 4:11 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* From time to time you shall drink.
\v 12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”
\v 13 Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”
\p
\v 14 Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”
\p
\v 15 Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”
\p
\v 16 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
\v 17 that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.


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\c 40
\p
\v 1 In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me there.
\v 2 In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was something like the frame of a city to the south.
\v 3 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
\v 4 The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”
\p
\v 5 Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits\f + \fr 40:5 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. Thus, a 6-cubit measuring reed would have been about 3 yards or about 2.74 meters long.\f* long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
\p
\v 6 Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.
\v 7 Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.
\p
\v 8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
\v 9 Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.
\p
\v 10 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
\v 11 He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
\v 12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
\v 13 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, door against door.
\v 14 He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate.
\v 15 From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
\v 16 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post.
\p
\v 17 Then he brought me into the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement.
\v 18 The pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
\v 19 Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.
\p
\v 20 He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces toward the north.
\v 21 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side. Its posts and its arches were the same as the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
\v 22 Its windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces toward the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its arches were before them.
\v 23 There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate.
\p
\v 24 He led me toward the south; and behold, there was a gate toward the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements.
\v 25 There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
\v 26 There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them. It had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.
\v 27 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate toward the south.
\p
\v 28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements;
\v 29 with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.
\v 30 There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits wide.
\v 31 Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps.
\p
\v 32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;
\v 33 with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.
\v 34 Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
\p
\v 35 He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements;
\v 36 its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.
\v 37 Its posts were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
\p
\v 38 A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.
\v 39 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.
\v 40 On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.
\v 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate: eight tables, on which they killed the sacrifices.
\v 42 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.
\v 43 The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around. The meat of the offering was on the tables.
\p
\v 44 Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced toward the south. One at the side of the east gate faced toward the north.
\v 45 He said to me, “This room, which faces toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house.
\v 46 The room which faces toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.”
\v 47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house.
\p
\v 48 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.
\v 49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.


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\v 1 He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side, and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent.
\v 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits;\f + \fr 41:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
\p
\v 3 Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.
\v 4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”
\p
\v 5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.
\v 6 The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported, and not penetrate the wall of the house.
\v 7 The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.
\p
\v 8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.
\v 9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.
\v 10 Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.
\v 11 The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.
\p
\v 12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
\p
\v 13 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;
\v 14 also the width of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.
\p
\v 15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court
\v 16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
\v 17 to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.
\v 18 It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;
\v 19 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around.
\v 20 Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.
\p
\v 21 As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.
\v 22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before Yahweh.”
\v 23 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
\v 24 The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
\v 25 There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
\v 26 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the house and the thresholds were arranged.


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\v 1 Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building toward the north.
\v 2 Before the length of one hundred cubits\f + \fr 42:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.
\v 3 Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor.
\v 4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
\v 5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
\v 6 For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.
\v 7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.
\v 8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
\v 9 From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.
\p
\v 10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.
\v 11 The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their width: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
\v 12 According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.
\p
\v 13 Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
\v 14 When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments, and shall approach that which is for the people.”
\p
\v 15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faces toward the east, and measured it all around.
\v 16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.
\v 17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.
\v 18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
\v 19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
\v 20 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the width five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.


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\v 1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.
\v 2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth was illuminated with his glory.
\v 3 It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
\v 4 Yahweh’s glory came into the house by the way of the gate which faces toward the east.
\v 5 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
\p
\v 6 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
\v 7 He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;
\v 8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
\v 9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.
\p
\v 10 “You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
\v 11 If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.
\p
\v 12 “This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
\p
\v 13 “These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit\f + \fr 43:13 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span;\f + \fr 43:13 \ft A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)\f* and this shall be the base of the altar.
\v 14 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit.
\v 15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.
\v 16 The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.
\v 17 The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.”
\p
\v 18 He said to me, “Son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.
\v 19 You shall give to the Levitical priests who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘a young bull for a sin offering.
\v 20 You shall take of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way.
\v 21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.
\p
\v 22 “On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
\v 23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect.
\v 24 You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
\p
\v 25 “Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect.
\v 26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it.
\v 27 When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”


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\v 1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.
\v 2 Yahweh said to me, “This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut.
\v 3 As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before Yahweh. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way.”
\p
\v 4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my face.
\p
\v 5 Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
\v 6 You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations,
\v 7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.
\v 8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.”
\v 9 The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
\p
\v 10 “‘“But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.
\v 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
\v 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel. Therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and they will bear their iniquity.
\v 13 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
\v 14 Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein.
\p
\v 15 “‘“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 16 “They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.
\p
\v 17 “‘“It will be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
\v 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat.
\v 19 When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.
\p
\v 20 “‘“They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
\v 21 None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
\v 22 They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
\v 23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
\p
\v 24 “‘“In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.
\p
\v 25 “‘“They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.
\v 26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
\v 27 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 28 “‘They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession.
\v 29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
\v 30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
\v 31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.


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\v 1 “‘“Moreover, when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border all around.
\v 2 Of this there shall be a five hundred by five hundred square for the holy place; and fifty cubits\f + \fr 45:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* for its pasture lands all around.
\v 3 Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.
\v 4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
\v 5 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width, shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms.
\p
\v 6 “‘“You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand wide, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
\p
\v 7 “‘“What is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.
\v 8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”
\p
\v 9 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 10 “You shall have just balances, a just ephah,\f + \fr 45:10 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* and a just bath.
\v 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer,\f + \fr 45:11 \ft 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels\f* and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.
\v 12 The shekel\f + \fr 45:12 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* shall be twenty gerahs.\f + \fr 45:12 \ft a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains\f* Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.\f + \fr 45:12 \ft A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.\f*
\p
\v 13 “‘“This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;
\v 14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)\f + \fr 45:14 \ft 1 cor is the same as 1 homer in volume, and is about 211 liters, 55.9 gallons, or 6 bushels. 1 bath is about 21.1 liters, 5.59 gallons, or 2.4 pecks.\f*
\v 15 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\v 16 “All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.
\v 17 It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”
\p
\v 18 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
\v 19 The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
\v 20 So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.
\p
\v 21 “‘“In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
\v 22 On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
\v 23 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
\v 24 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah\f + \fr 45:24 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin\f + \fr 45:24 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* of oil to an ephah.
\p
\v 25 “‘“In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he shall do like that for seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.”


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\v 1 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
\v 2 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
\v 3 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
\v 4 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without defect and a ram without defect;
\v 5 and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin\f + \fr 46:5 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* of oil to an ephah.\f + \fr 46:5 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f*
\v 6 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect.
\v 7 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
\v 8 When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.
\p
\v 9 “‘“But when the people of the land come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.
\v 10 The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.
\p
\v 11 “‘“In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah \f + \fr 46:11 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
\v 12 When the prince prepares a free will offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a free will offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate.
\p
\v 13 “‘“You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it.
\v 14 You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah,\f + \fr 46:14 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.
\v 15 Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.”
\p
\v 16 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance.
\v 17 But if he gives of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.
\v 18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession.”’”
\p
\v 19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north. Behold, there was a place on the back part westward.
\v 20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.”
\p
\v 21 Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
\v 22 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits\f + \fr 46:22 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* long and thirty wide. These four in the corners were the same size.
\v 23 There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around.
\v 24 Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”


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\c 47
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\v 1 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.
\v 2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me around by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east. Behold, waters ran out on the right side.
\p
\v 3 When the man went out eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits,\f + \fr 47:3 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.
\v 4 Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist.
\v 5 Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be walked through.
\p
\v 6 He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen?”
\p Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.
\v 7 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
\v 8 Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.
\v 9 It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.
\v 10 It will happen, that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.
\v 11 But the miry places of it, and its marshes, will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.
\v 12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”
\p
\v 13 The Lord Yahweh says: “This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.
\v 14 You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers. This land will fall to you for inheritance.
\p
\v 15 “This shall be the border of the land:
\p “On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;
\v 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
\v 17 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
\p
\v 18 “The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.
\p
\v 19 “The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.
\p
\v 20 “The west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
\p
\v 21 “So you shall divide this land to yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.
\v 22 It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
\v 23 It shall happen, that in whatever tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord Yahweh.


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\v 1 “Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion.
\p
\v 2 “By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.
\p
\v 3 “By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.
\p
\v 4 “By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.
\p
\v 5 “By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.
\p
\v 6 “By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion.
\p
\v 7 “By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.
\p
\v 8 “By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.
\p
\v 9 “The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand in width.
\v 10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in width, and toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the middle of it.
\v 11 It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
\v 12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a most holy thing, by the border of the Levites.
\p
\v 13 “Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width. All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand.
\v 14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.
\p
\v 15 “The five thousand that are left in the width, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for pasture lands; and the city shall be in the middle of it.
\v 16 These shall be its measurements: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
\v 17 The city shall have pasture lands: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.
\v 18 The remainder in the length, alongside the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be alongside the holy offering. Its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.
\v 19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
\v 20 All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city.
\p
\v 21 “The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. The holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.
\v 22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the middle of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
\p
\v 23 “As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.
\p
\v 24 “By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion.
\p
\v 25 “By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.
\p
\v 26 “By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.
\p
\v 27 “By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.
\p
\v 28 “By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea.
\p
\v 29 “This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 30 “These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure;
\v 31 and the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
\p
\v 32 “At the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
\p
\v 33 “At the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
\p
\v 34 “At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
\p
\v 35 “It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’


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\v 1 “You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.
\v 2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
\v 3 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in the folds of your robe.
\v 4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
\p
\v 5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.
\v 6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’
\p
\v 7 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
\v 8 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
\v 9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations.
\v 10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
\v 11 Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
\v 12 A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
\p
\v 13 “‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
\p
\v 14 “‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
\v 15 So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—
\v 16 when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.
\v 17 I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’”


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\c 6
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\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,
\v 3 and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: “Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.
\v 4 Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
\v 5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.
\v 6 In all your dwelling places, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
\v 7 The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 8 “‘“Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you will have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.
\v 9 Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
\v 10 They will know that I am Yahweh. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”’
\p
\v 11 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, “Alas!” Because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they will fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
\v 12 He who is far off will die of the pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword. He who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them.
\v 13 You will know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols.
\v 14 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”
\b


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\v 1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 2 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.
\v 3 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
\v 4 My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’
\p
\v 5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘An evil! A unique evil! Behold, it comes.
\v 6 An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.
\v 7 Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land! The time has come! The day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains.
\v 8 Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
\v 9 My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways. Your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.
\p
\v 10 “‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.
\v 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.
\v 12 The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
\v 13 For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
\v 14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.
\p
\v 15 “‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.
\v 16 But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.
\v 17 All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.
\v 18 They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
\v 19 They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
\v 20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
\v 21 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it.
\v 22 I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.
\p
\v 23 “‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
\v 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.
\v 25 Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.
\v 26 Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
\v 27 The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments I will judge them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”


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\v 1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord Yahweh’s hand fell on me there.
\v 2 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
\v 3 He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
\v 4 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.
\p
\v 5 Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north.”
\p So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
\p
\v 6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”
\p
\v 7 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
\v 8 Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig now in the wall.”
\p When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.
\p
\v 9 He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.”
\p
\v 10 So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.
\v 11 Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.
\p
\v 12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’”
\v 13 He said also to me, “You will again see more of the great abominations which they do.”
\p
\v 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh’s house which was toward the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz.
\v 15 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”
\p
\v 16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.
\p
\v 17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
\v 18 Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”


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\v 1 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, each man with his destroying weapon in his hand.”
\v 2 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
\p
\v 3 The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.
\v 4 Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
\p
\v 5 To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.
\v 6 Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.”
\p Then they began at the old men who were before the house.
\p
\v 7 He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!”
\p They went out, and struck in the city.
\v 8 While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?”
\p
\v 9 Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
\v 10 As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”
\p
\v 11 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, “I have done as you have commanded me.”


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\v 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
\v 2 The Lord\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; \f + \fr 1:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
\p
\v 3 The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring\f + \fr 1:3 \ft or, seed\f* and of the nobles;
\v 4 youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
\v 5 The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.
\p
\v 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
\v 7 The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
\p
\v 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
\v 9 Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
\v 10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king.”
\p
\v 11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
\v 12 “Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
\v 13 Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.”
\v 14 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
\p
\v 15 At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.
\v 16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables.
\p
\v 17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
\p
\v 18 At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
\v 19 The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.
\v 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.
\p
\v 21 Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.


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\v 1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare. He understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
\p
\v 2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
\v 3 I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
\p
\v 4 In the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
\v 5 I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there was a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz.
\v 6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude.
\p
\v 7 I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn’t see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.
\v 8 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.
\v 9 Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.
\p
\v 10 Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.
\v 11 He said to me, “Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now.” When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.
\p
\v 12 Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.
\v 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I remained there with the kings of Persia.
\v 14 Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”
\p
\v 15 When he had spoken these words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.
\v 16 Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength.
\v 17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me.”
\p
\v 18 Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me.
\v 19 He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.”
\p When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”
\p
\v 20 Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.
\v 21 But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth. There is no one who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince.


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\v 1 “As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.
\p
\v 2 “Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece.
\v 3 A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
\v 4 When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.
\p
\v 5 “The king of the south will be strong. One of his princes will become stronger than him, and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion.
\v 6 At the end of years they will join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement; but she will not retain the strength of her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm; but she will be given up, with those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.
\p
\v 7 “But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail.
\v 8 He will also carry their gods, with their molten images, and with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, captive into Egypt. He will refrain some years from the king of the north.
\v 9 He will come into the realm of the king of the south, but he will return into his own land.
\v 10 His sons will wage war, and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on, and overflow, and pass through. They will return and wage war, even to his fortress.
\p
\v 11 “The king of the south will be moved with anger, and will come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. He will send out a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand.
\v 12 The multitude will be lifted up, and his heart will be exalted. He will cast down tens of thousands, but he won’t prevail.
\v 13 The king of the north will return, and will send out a multitude greater than the former. He will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance.
\p
\v 14 “In those times many will stand up against the king of the south. Also the children of the violent among your people will lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they will fall.
\v 15 So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the south won’t stand, neither will his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand.
\v 16 But he who comes against him will do according to his own will, and no one will stand before him. He will stand in the glorious land, and destruction will be in his hand.
\v 17 He will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she will not stand, and won’t be for him.
\v 18 After this he will turn his face to the islands, and will take many; but a prince will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. Yes, moreover, he will cause his reproach to turn on him.
\v 19 Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.
\p
\v 20 “Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle.
\p
\v 21 “In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
\v 22 The overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him, and will be broken. Yes, also the prince of the covenant.
\v 23 After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people.
\v 24 In time of security he will come even on the fattest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter among them prey, plunder, and substance. Yes, he will devise his plans against the strongholds, even for a time.
\p
\v 25 “He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he won’t stand; for they will devise plans against him.
\v 26 Yes, those who eat of his dainties will destroy him, and his army will be swept away. Many will fall down slain.
\v 27 As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.
\v 28 Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action, and return to his own land.
\p
\v 29 “He will return at the appointed time, and come into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time as it was in the former.
\v 30 For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.
\p
\v 31 “Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.
\v 32 He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong, and take action.
\p
\v 33 “Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.
\v 34 Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.
\v 35 Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
\p
\v 36 “The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.
\v 37 He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.
\v 38 But in his place he will honor the god of fortresses. He will honor a god whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things.
\v 39 He will deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god. He will increase with glory whoever acknowledges him. He will cause them to rule over many, and will divide the land for a price.
\p
\v 40 “At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.
\v 41 He will enter also into the glorious land, and many countries will be overthrown; but these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
\v 42 He will also stretch out his hand on the countries. The land of Egypt won’t escape.
\v 43 But he will have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.
\v 44 But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him; and he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.
\v 45 He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.


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\v 1 “At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.
\v 2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
\v 3 Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
\v 4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”
\p
\v 5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side.
\v 6 One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these wonders?”
\p
\v 7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.
\p
\v 8 I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
\p
\v 9 He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
\v 10 Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.
\p
\v 11 “From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
\v 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
\p
\v 13 “But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days.”


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\v 1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
\v 2 Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
\v 3 The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”
\p
\v 4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
\p
\v 5 The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.
\v 6 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”
\p
\v 7 They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
\p
\v 8 The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.
\v 9 But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”
\p
\v 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.
\v 11 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
\p
\v 12 Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
\v 13 So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
\p
\v 14 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.
\v 15 He answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
\v 16 Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.
\p
\v 17 Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
\v 18 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
\v 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
\v 20 Daniel answered,
\q1 “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever;
\q2 for wisdom and might are his.
\q1
\v 21 He changes the times and the seasons.
\q2 He removes kings, and sets up kings.
\q1 He gives wisdom to the wise,
\q2 and knowledge to those who have understanding.
\q1
\v 22 He reveals the deep and secret things.
\q2 He knows what is in the darkness,
\q2 and the light dwells with him.
\q1
\v 23 I thank you, and praise you,
\q2 you God of my fathers,
\q1 who have given me wisdom and might,
\q2 and have now made known to me what we desired of you;
\q2 for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”
\p
\v 24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”
\p
\v 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.”
\p
\v 26 The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?”
\p
\v 27 Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers;
\v 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
\p
\v 29 “As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.
\v 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
\p
\v 31 “You, O king, saw, and behold,\f + \fr 2:31 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying.
\v 32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
\v 33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
\v 34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
\v 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
\p
\v 36 “This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.
\v 37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.
\v 38 Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.
\p
\v 39 “After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.
\v 40 The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush.
\v 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
\v 42 As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken.
\v 43 Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.
\p
\v 44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
\v 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
\p
\v 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.
\v 47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”
\p
\v 48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
\v 49 Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.


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\v 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits,\f + \fr 3:1 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
\v 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
\v 3 Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
\p
\v 4 Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,
\v 5 that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.
\v 6 Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”
\p
\v 7 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
\p
\v 8 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.
\v 9 They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!
\v 10 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;
\v 11 and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.
\v 12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up.”
\p
\v 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.
\v 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered them, “Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
\v 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”
\p
\v 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
\v 17 If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
\v 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”
\p
\v 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
\v 20 He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
\v 21 Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
\v 22 Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
\v 23 These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
\p
\v 24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?”
\p They answered the king, “True, O king.”
\p
\v 25 He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”
\p
\v 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!”
\p Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.
\v 27 The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.
\p
\v 28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
\v 29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”
\p
\v 30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.


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\v 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king,
\pi1 to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth:
\pi1 Peace be multiplied to you.
\pi1
\v 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
\q1
\v 3 How great are his signs!
\q2 How mighty are his wonders!
\q1 His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
\q2 His dominion is from generation to generation.
\pi1
\v 4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
\v 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
\v 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
\v 7 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation.
\v 8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. I told the dream before him, saying,
\pi1
\v 9 “Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.
\v 10 Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.
\v 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.
\v 12 The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.
\pi1
\v 13 “I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.
\v 14 He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
\v 15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.
\v 16 Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him.
\pi1
\v 17 “‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’
\pi1
\v 18 “This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”
\pi1
\v 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.”
\pi1 Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.
\v 20 The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;
\v 21 whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:
\v 22 it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
\pi1
\v 23 “Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.
\pi1
\v 24 “This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:
\v 25 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.
\v 26 Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule.
\v 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
\pi1
\v 28 All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar.
\v 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
\v 30 The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
\pi1
\v 31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.
\v 32 You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’”
\pi1
\v 33 This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
\pi1
\v 34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever;
\q1 for his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
\q2 and his kingdom from generation to generation.
\q1
\v 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
\q2 and he does according to his will in the army of heaven,
\q2 and among the inhabitants of the earth;
\q1 and no one can stop his hand,
\q2 or ask him, “What are you doing?”
\pi1
\v 36 At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.
\v 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.


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\v 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
\v 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
\v 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
\v 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
\p
\v 5 In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
\v 6 Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
\p
\v 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
\p
\v 8 Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation.
\v 9 Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.
\p
\v 10 The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.
\v 11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king Nebuchadnezzar your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
\v 12 because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”
\p
\v 13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?
\v 14 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you.
\v 15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
\v 16 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
\p
\v 17 Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
\p
\v 18 “You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.
\v 19 Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.
\v 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
\v 21 He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.
\p
\v 22 “You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
\v 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.
\v 24 Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
\p
\v 25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’
\p
\v 26 “This is the interpretation of the thing:
\m MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.
\m
\v 27 TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
\m
\v 28 PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
\p
\v 29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
\p
\v 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
\v 31 Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.


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\v 1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;
\v 2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.
\v 3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
\p
\v 4 Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.
\v 5 Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”
\p
\v 6 Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!
\v 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
\v 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
\v 9 Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
\p
\v 10 When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
\v 11 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
\v 12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?”
\p The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
\p
\v 13 Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”
\v 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
\p
\v 15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.”
\p
\v 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”
\p
\v 17 A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
\v 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.
\p
\v 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.
\v 20 When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”
\p
\v 21 Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!
\v 22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
\p
\v 23 Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
\p
\v 24 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
\p
\v 25 Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth:
\pi1 “Peace be multiplied to you.
\pi1
\v 26 “I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel;
\q1 “for he is the living God,
\q2 and steadfast forever.
\q1 His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed.
\q2 His dominion will be even to the end.
\q1
\v 27 He delivers and rescues.
\q2 He works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth,
\q2 who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.”
\p
\v 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.


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\v 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
\p
\v 2 Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.
\v 3 Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.
\p
\v 4 “The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.
\p
\v 5 “Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’
\p
\v 6 “After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.
\p
\v 7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.
\p
\v 8 “I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
\q1
\v 9 “I watched until thrones were placed,
\q2 and one who was ancient of days sat.
\q1 His clothing was white as snow,
\q2 and the hair of his head like pure wool.
\q1 His throne was fiery flames,
\q2 and its wheels burning fire.
\q1
\v 10 A fiery stream issued and came out from before him.
\q2 Thousands of thousands ministered to him.
\q2 Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
\q1 The judgment was set.
\q2 The books were opened.
\p
\v 11 “I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
\v 12 As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
\p
\v 13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
\v 14 Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.
\p
\v 15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
\v 16 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this.
\p “So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
\v 17 ‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.
\v 18 But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’
\p
\v 19 “Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
\v 20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
\v 21 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,
\v 22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
\p
\v 23 “Thus he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces.
\v 24 As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings.
\v 25 He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
\p
\v 26 “‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.
\v 27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’
\p
\v 28 “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”


