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But if you say to me, We trust in Jehovah our God; [is it] not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?


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Now then, please exchange pledges with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses if you are able on your part to set riders on them for you.


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How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?


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And it happened when king Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.


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So you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed: Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?


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Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?


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And Hezekiah received the letter from the courier's hand, and read it. And Hezekiah went up [into] the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD.


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O Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel, who dwells [between] the cherubs, You [are] He, God, You alone to all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.


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Bow down Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to mock the living God.


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and have cast their gods into the fire, for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; so they have destroyed them.


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And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.


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And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You [are] the LORD, You alone.


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And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, So says Jehovah, God of Israel, Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,


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this [is] the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you [and] laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken [her] head behind you.


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Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised [your] voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.


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By your servants you have mocked Jehovah and have said, by my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, [and] its choice fir trees; and I will go to its greatest height, the forest of its Carmel.


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Have you not heard from afar? I made it from days of old, even I have formed it. Now I have caused it to come, and you are to cause fortified cities to crash [into] heaps, ruins.


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And their inhabitants [were] short of hand; dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, even grain blasted before it has risen.


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Because of your raging against Me, and your arrogance has come up into My ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came.


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And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy! For the sons have come to the birth, and no strength to bring forth.


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And this [shall be] a sign to you: You shall eat self-sown grain [this] year; and the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year you shall sow, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.


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The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward;


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for out of Jerusalem shall go out a remnant, and those who escape out of Mount Zion; the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.


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So the LORD says this to the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it [with] shield, nor cast a bank against it.


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Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold! They [were] all dead corpses.


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And it happened as he was worshiping [in] the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword. And they escaped [into] the land of Ararat; and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place.


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It may be Jehovah your God will hear the words of the chief of the cupbearers, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Jehovah your God has heard. And you shall lift up [your] prayer for the remnant that is left.


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And Isaiah said to them, So you shall say to your master, So says the LORD, Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.


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Behold, I will send a blast on him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.


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So the chief of the cupbearers returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah. For he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.


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And he heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He has come out to war with you. And he heard and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, So says the LORD, Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.


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I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I have numbered the rest of my years.


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I said, I shall not see Jah, Jehovah, in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more with the people of the world.


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My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver; He will cut me off from the loom; from day even to night You will make an end of me.


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I place [Him] before me until morning, [that], as a lion, so He breaks all my bones; from day even until night You make an end of me.


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Like a twittering swallow, so I chatter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights. O LORD, I am pressed down; be surety for me.


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What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted; I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.


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O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these [is] the life of my spirit; so You will recover me, and make me to live.


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Behold, I had great bitterness for peace; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back.


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For the grave cannot praise You, death can [not] rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.


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The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I [do] this day; the father shall make Your truth known to the sons.


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For the LORD [is] for my salvation; and we will sing my songs on the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.


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and said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done the good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.


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Go and say to Hezekiah: So says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.


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And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. And I will defend this city.


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And this [shall be] a sign to you from the LORD that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken:


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behold, I will bring again the shadow of the steps, which has gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten steps backward. So the sun returned ten steps, by which steps it had gone down.


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At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.


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And Hezekiah rejoiced over them, and let them see the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not let them see.


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Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say? And where did they come from to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country to me, from Babylon.


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Then he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in my house they have seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not let them see.


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Behold, the days come when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.


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And of your sons which shall issue from you, which you shall bring out, they shall take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.


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Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which you have spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.


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And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, we will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing; only let us be called by your name, to take away our shame.


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In that day shall the Branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth excellent and comely for those who have escaped from Israel.


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And it shall be, he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;


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when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.


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And the LORD will create over all the site of Mount Zion, and on her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for on all the glory [shall be] a defense.


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And there shall be a booth for a shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge, and for a hiding place from storm and rain.


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Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with a strong [hand], and His arm shall rule for Him; behold, His reward [is] with Him, and His work before Him.


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He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry [them] in His bosom, [and] shall gently lead those with young.


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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out the heavens with a span? And who has shut up the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?


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With whom did He take counsel, and [who] instructed Him and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge, and made known the way of understanding to Him?


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Behold, the nations [are] like a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the scales; behold, He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing.


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All nations before Him [are] as nothing; and to Him they are thought to be less than nothing, and vanity.


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The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.


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Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.


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He too poor for [that] offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he looks for a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not totter.


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Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood [from] the foundations of the earth?


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[It is] He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;


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Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown. Yes, their stump shall not take root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall take them away like stubble.


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Lift up your eyes on high, and behold, who has created these, who brings out their host by number? He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power; not one is lacking.


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Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD and my judgment has passed over from my God?


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Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not grow weak nor weary? [There is] no searching of His understanding.


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The voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the LORD, make straight a highway in the desert for our God.


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but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up [with] wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.


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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked places shall be made level, and the rough places smooth;


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and the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.


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The voice said, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the beauty of it [is] as the flower of the field.


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The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of the LORD blows on it; surely the people [is] grass.


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Go up for yourself on the high mountain, bringer of good tidings to Zion. Lift up your voice with strength, O you who bring good tidings to Jerusalem; lift up, do not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!


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Keep silence before Me, O coasts; and peoples shall renew strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together for judgment.


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Do not fear; for I [am] with you; be not dismayed; for I [am] your God. I will make you strong; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.


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Behold, all those who were angered against you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing. And those who fight with you shall perish.


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You shall seek them, and shall not find them; men warring against you shall be as nothing, and as ceasing.


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Do not fear, worm of Jacob [and] men of Israel; I will help you, says Jehovah, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.


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Behold, I make you a new sharp threshing instrument, a master of teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shall make the hills like chaff.


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You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD [and] shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.


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The poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none; their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.


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I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.


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I will plant the cedar in the wilderness, the acacia tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree. I will set the fir tree in the desert, [and] the pine, and the box tree together;


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Who raised up the righteous one from the east, called him to His foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? He gave them as the dust [to] his sword, [and] as driven stubble [to] his bow.


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so that they may see, and know, and look on, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.


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Let them bring [them] out, and tell us what shall happen; let them reveal the former things, what they [are], that we may look on them and know the final end of them; or declare to us things to come.


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Reveal the near things after this, so that we may know that you [are] gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, so that we may be amazed and see together.


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I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall come from the sunrise; he will call on My name. And he shall come [on] rulers as [on] mortar, and as the potter tramples clay.


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Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one proclaims; yea, no one hears your words.


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I first [shall say] to Zion, Behold! Behold them! And I will give to Jerusalem one who bears good news.


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For I looked, and [there was] no man; and of these no counselor was, that I might ask and they could answer.


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Who has planned and done [it], calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, [am] the first and the last; I [am] He.


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So the artisan strengthens the refiner, and he smoothing [with] the hammer, him who struck the anvil, saying of soldering, It [is] good. And he made it strong with nails; it will not totter.


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whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from its sides. And I said to you, You [are] My servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.


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Behold My Servant, whom I uphold; My Elect, [in whom] My soul delights. I have put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring out judgment to the nations.


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Sing to the LORD a new song; His praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and its fullness; coasts and their peoples.


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Let the wilderness and its cities lift up [their voice], the villages where Kedar dwells. Let the dwellers of the rock sing, let them shout from the mountain tops.


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The LORD goes out as a warrior, He stirs up zeal like a man of wars; He shouts, yea, roars; He overcomes His enemies.


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I have kept silence from forever; I have been still and refrained Myself. [Now] I will cry like a woman in pangs of labor, I will pant and gasp at once.


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I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their plants. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will dry up the pools.


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And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. I will do these things to them, and not forsake them.


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They are turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the images, You [are] our gods.


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Who [is] blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I sent? Who [is] blind as he who is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?


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The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness sake; He will magnify the Law and make [it] honorable.


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But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; all of them snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison-houses; they have been taken, and none delivers them; a prize, and none says, Give back.


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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? Did not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His law.


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So He has poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle. And it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay [it] to heart.


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A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring out judgment to truth.


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He shall not fail nor be discouraged until He has set judgment in the earth; and the coasts shall wait for His law.


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So says Jehovah God, [He] who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading out the earth and its offspring; He who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it.


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I the LORD have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;


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to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.


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I [am] Jehovah; that [is] My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.


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Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they happen, I cause you to hear.


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But now so says the LORD who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel; Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called [you] by your name; you [are] Mine.


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You [are] My witnesses, says the LORD, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I [am] He. Before Me no God was formed, nor shall there be after Me.


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I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when [there was] no strange [god] among you; therefore you [are] My witnesses, says Jehovah, that I [am] God.


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Yea, before the day [was], I [am] He; and no one delivers out of My hand; I will work, and who will reverse it?


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So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all of them [as] fugitives, and the Chaldeans, whose shout [is] in the ships.


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who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise; they are put out, they are snuffed out like a wick.


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Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall sprout; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.


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When you pass through the waters, I [will be] with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; nor shall the flame kindle on you.


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The beasts of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.


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You have not brought Me the lamb of your burnt offerings; nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.


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You have bought Me no sweet cane with silver, nor have you filled Me [with] the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.


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And I will defile rulers of the sanctuary, and will give Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.


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For I [am] the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt [for] your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you.


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Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you; therefore I will give men for you, and people for your life.


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I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from far and My daughters from the ends of the earth;


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everyone who is called by My name; for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, [I have] made him.


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Let all the nations be brought together, and let the people be gathered; who among them can declare this and make us hear former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, [It is] true.


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Behold, all his companions shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen; they [are] from men. They shall assemble; all of them shall stand; they shall dread; they shall be ashamed together.


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He engraves iron with a tool. He works in the coals, and forms it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms. Then, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is weak.


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He fashions wood, and stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with carving tools, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to sit [in the] house.


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He cuts down cedars, and takes cypress and oak, which he makes the trees of the forest strong for him; he plants a tree, and the rain makes [it] grow.


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And it shall be for a man to burn; for he will take some of it and warm himself. Yes, he kindles [it] and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god and worships; he makes it a graven image and falls down to it.


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He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast and is satisfied; yea, he warms [himself], and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.


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And the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me! for you [are] my god.


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They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; [and] their hearts so that they cannot understand.


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And none thinks within his heart, nor [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?


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So says the LORD who made you, and formed you from the womb, [who] will help you; Fear not, O Jacob My servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.


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He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?


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Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you [are] My servant; I have formed you; you [are] My servant; O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by Me.


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I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins; return to Me; for I have redeemed you.


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Sing, O heavens; for the LORD has done [it]. Shout, lower parts of the earth. Break out into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified Himself in Israel.


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So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb, I [am] Jehovah who makes all things; who stretches out the heavens alone; who spreads out the earth; who [was] with Me?


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who brings to nothing the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns the wise backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;


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who makes the word of His servant sure, and makes good the counsel of His messengers; who says to Jerusalem, She shall have people; and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;


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who says of Cyrus, [He is] My shepherd, and shall do all My pleasure; even saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built; and to the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.


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For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground. I will pour My spirit on your seed, and My blessing on your offspring;


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One shall say, I [am] the LORD's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, For the LORD, and be named by the name of Israel.


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So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and His redeemer Jehovah of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides Me [there is] no God.


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And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it and set it in order for Me, since I placed the people of old? And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them declare to them.


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Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you and made you hear since then? So you [are] My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Yea, [there is] none. I have not known a Rock.


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Those who make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they [are] their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.


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So says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have made strong in order to humble nations before him. And I will loosen the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut.


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Woe to him who says to [his] father, What are you fathering? Or to the woman, What are you laboring over?


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So says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and the One who formed him, Do you ask Me of things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands?


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I have made the earth, and created man on it; I [with] My hands have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.


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I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways; he shall build My city, and he shall let My captives go, not for price nor reward, says Jehovah of hosts.


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So says the LORD, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come to you, and they shall be yours. They shall come after you in chains; and they shall cross in chains and they shall fall down to you. They shall plead to you, [saying], Surely God [is] in you; and none else, no [other] God.


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They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they [who are] makers of idols shall go into disgrace together.


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[But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD [with] an everlasting salvation. You shall not be ashamed nor blush to the forevers of eternity.


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For so says Jehovah the Creator of the heavens, He [is] God, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty, [but] forming it to be inhabited. I [am] Jehovah, and [there is] no other.


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I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain. I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.


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I will go before you, and make hills level. I will break in pieces the bronze gates, and cut the iron bars in two.


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Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god [that] cannot save. They know nothing.


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Declare and bring near; yea, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this of old? [Who] has told it from then? Is it not I, the LORD? And [there is] no other God besides Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me.


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I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone out of My mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.


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He says, Only in the LORD do I have righteousness and strength; even to Him he comes. And they are ashamed, all who are angry with Him.


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And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I [am] Jehovah, who calls [you] by your name, the God of Israel.


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For Jacob My servant's sake, and Israel My chosen, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known me.


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I [am] Jehovah, and [there is] none else, no God besides Me; I clothed you, though you have not known Me;


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that they may know from the rising of the sun, and to the sunset, that [there is] none besides Me. I [am] the LORD, and there is none else;


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forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these [things].


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Drop down from above, O heavens, and let the clouds pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, and let salvation bear fruit; and let righteousness spring up together. I Jehovah have created it.'


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Woe to him who fights with the One who formed him, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to its former, What are you making? Or your work, He [has] no hands?


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Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle; the things you carried about have become a load, a burden for the weary.


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declaring the end from the beginning, and from the past things which were not done, saying, My purpose shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure;


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calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken, I will also cause it to come; I have formed; yes, I will do it.


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I bring near My righteousness. It shall not be far off, and My salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion, My glory for Israel.


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They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but they themselves have gone into captivity.


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Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are borne [by Me] from the belly, who are lifted from the womb;


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[even] to old age I [am] He; and to gray hairs I will bear [you]. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you].


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They pour gold out of the bag, and weigh silver out of the measuring rod, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god; they fall down, yea, they bow down.


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They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, [one] shall cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.


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Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. [There is] no throne [for you], O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.


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For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I [am], and there is no one else.


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But evil shall come on you; you shall not know its origin. And mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it off. And desolation shall come on you suddenly, you shall not know.


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Stand now with your spells, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have wearied yourself since your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps you may bring terror.


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You are exhausted by your many plans; now let the astrologers, the stargazers, making known what is coming on you into the new moons.


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Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; [there shall] not [be] a coal to warm them; nor fire, to sit before it.


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So they are to you with whom you labored, your merchants from your youth. Each one wanders to his own way; none shall save you.


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Take the millstones and grind meal. Push back your veil, draw up your skirt, uncover your leg, pass over the rivers.


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Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen; I will take vengeance and I will not meet [you as] a man.


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Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.


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I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.


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And you said, I shall be a mistress forever; so you did not lay these [things] to your heart, nor remembered the latter end of it.


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Now then hear this, O pleasure seeker, who lives carelessly; who says in her heart, I [am], and none else [is]; I shall not sit [as] a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children


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But these two [things] shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come on you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great power of your enchantments.


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Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of the LORD and make mention of the God of Israel ( but] not in truth nor in righteousness).


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For my sake, for My sake I will do it; for why should [My name] be defiled? And I will not give My glory to another.


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My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens. I called; they stood up together.


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Let all of you gather and hear; who among them has declared these [things]? The LORD has loved him; He will do His pleasure on Babylon, and His arm [shall be] on the Chaldeans.


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Come near to Me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From its being, I [was] there; and now the Lord Jehovah, and His Spirit, has sent Me.


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So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I [am] the LORD your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.


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Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.


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And your seed would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like its grain; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.


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For they call themselves of the holy city, and rest themselves on the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts [is] His name.


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Go out of Babylon; flee from the Chaldeans. Tell it with a voice of singing, let this be heard, let it go out to the end of the earth; say, The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob.


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And they did not thirst [when] He led them through the deserts; He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; He cut open the rock also, and the waters gushed out.


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I have foretold the former things from the beginning; and they went out of My mouth; and I made them hear; I acted suddenly; and they came about.


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And I declared [it] to you from the beginning. Before it happened I revealed it to you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.


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You heard; see it all; and will you not declare? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.


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They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you did not hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.


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Yea, you did not hear; yea, you did not know; yea, from the time that your ear was not opened; for I surely know that you will betray and trespass; from the womb it was called to you.


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For My name's sake I will put off My anger, and for My praise I will hold back for you, that I do not cut you off.


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Listen, O coastlands, to Me; and listen, [lend your ear], peoples from afar; the LORD has called Me from the womb; He has made mention of My name from My mother's bowels.


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They shall not hunger nor thirst; nor shall the heat nor sun strike them; for He who has mercy on them shall lead them; even by the springs of water He shall guide them.


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Behold, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.


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Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break out [into] singing, O mountains; for the Lord has comforted His people, and will have mercy on His afflicted.


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Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.


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Lift up your eyes all around and see; they all gather [and] come to you. [As] I live, says the LORD, you shall surely wear them as an ornament, and bind them [on] as a bride.


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For your wastes and your deserted places, and your land of ruins, shall even now be too narrow to dwell there, and they who swallowed you up shall be far away.


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And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, and made Me a polished shaft. He has hidden Me in His quiver,


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The sons of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place [is] too narrow for me; come near to me so that I may dwell.


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Then you shall say in your heart, Who has borne me these, since I [am] bereaved, and desolate, turned aside and an exile, and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where [were] they?


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So says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and have set up My banner to the people; and they shall bring your sons in [their] bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on [their] shoulders.


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And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow to you, faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD; by whom they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.


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But so says the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the fearful ones shall escape. For I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your sons.


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And I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I Jehovah [am] your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.


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Then I said, I have labored in vain; I have spent My strength for nothing, and in vain; [yet] surely My judgment is with the LORD, and My work with My God.


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And now, says the LORD who formed Me from the womb [to be] His servant, to bring Jacob again to Him, Though Israel is not gathered, yet I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and My God shall be My strength.


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And He said, It is but a little [thing] that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to bring back the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You for a light to the nations, to be My salvation to the end of the earth.


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So says Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, [to Him] whom man despises, [to Him] whom the nation hates, the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, rulers also shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and He shall choose You.


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So says the LORD, in a favorable time I replied to You, and in a day of salvation I have helped You; and I will preserve You, and give You for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause them to inherit the wasted inheritances;


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that You may say to the prisoners, Go out! To those who [are] in darkness, Show yourselves! They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.


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Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.


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Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight [while] wine inflames them!


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And the lyre, and the harp, the timbrel, and pipe, and wine, are [at] their feasts; but they do not regard the work of the LORD. Yea, they do not see the work of His hands.


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For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.


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So hell has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pride, and he who rejoices in her, shall go down into it.


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who say, Let Him hurry [and] hasten His work, so that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know!


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And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it [with] choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked [for it] to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.


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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!


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So, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame burns up the chaff; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel.


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Therefore the anger of the LORD is kindled on His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them, and has stricken them; and the hills trembled, and their dead bodies [were] as filth in the midst of the streets. In all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand [is] stretched out still.


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And He will lift up a banner to distant nations, and will hiss to them from the ends of the earth; and behold, they shall come [with] swift speed.


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None [shall be] weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the waistcoat of their loins be loosened, nor the thong of their sandals be broken;


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whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.


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Their roaring [shall be] like a lion; they shall roar like young lions; for, they shall roar and lay hold of the prey, and carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it].


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And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and [one] looks to the land, behold darkness, and lo, darkness! Distress! And the light shall be darkened by its clouds.


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What more could have been done to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I looked [for it] to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes.


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And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;


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and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.


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For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!


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Woe [to] those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!


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The LORD of hosts [swore] in my ears, Truly many houses shall be deserted, big and fair, without inhabitant.


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So says the LORD, Where [is] your mother's bill of divorce, whom I have put away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother is put away for your sins.


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Who among you fears the LORD, who obeys the voice of His servant, who walks [in] darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rest on his God.


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Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who are surrounded [with] sparks; walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks which you have kindled. This you shall have of My hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.


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Who knows why I have come, and no one [is here]? I called and no one answered. Is My hand shortened at all so that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.


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The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know to help the weary [with] a word. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.


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I gave My back to the strikers, and My cheeks to pluckers; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.


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For the Lord Jehovah will help Me; therefore I have not been ashamed. On account of this I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.


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[He is] near who justifies Me; who will contend with Me? Let us stand together; who [is] master of My judgment? Let him come near Me.


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Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help Me; who [is] he [who] shall condemn Me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.


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Listen to me, pursuers of righteousness; seekers of the LORD: Look to the rock [from which] you were cut, and to the hole of the pit [from which] you were dug.


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Was it not You [who] dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?


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Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come with singing into Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] on their head. Gladness and joy shall overtake [them]; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.


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I, I, [am] He who comforts you. Who [are] you, that you should fear a man. He shall die, or from the son of man? He shall be made [as] grass?


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And you forget Jehovah your Maker, who has stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. And you dread continually, every day, because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy. And where [is] the fury of the oppressor?


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Bowed he hurries to be freed, and not [that] he should die in the pit, nor that he [lack] his bread.


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But I [am] Jehovah your God, who divided the sea, and its waves roared; Jehovah of hosts [is] His name.


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And I have put My words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, You [are] My people.


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Awake! Awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, who drank the cup of His fury from the hand of the LORD; you have drunk the cup of reeling to the dregs, [and] wrung [them] out.


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


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These two [things] have come to you, who shall be sorry for you? Desolation, and ruin, and the famine, and the sword. By whom shall I comfort you?


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Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah [who] bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.


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Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the street like a wild antelope [in] a net, filled with the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.


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So says your Lord Jehovah, and your God [who] strives [for] His people, Behold, I have taken the cup of reeling from your hand, even the dregs of the cup of My fury; you shall never drink it again.


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But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down so that we may cross; and put your back as the ground, even as the street to those who cross.


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For the LORD shall comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.


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Listen to Me, My people; and give ear to Me, O My nation; for a law shall go out from Me, and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of peoples.


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My righteousness [is] near; My salvation has gone out, and My arms shall judge peoples; the coastlands shall wait on Me, and on My arm they shall trust.


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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment; and its inhabitants shall die in the same way. But My salvation shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be broken.


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Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart [is] My law; do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revelings.


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For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but My righteousness shall be forever, and My salvation from generation to generation.


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Awake! awake! Put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Awake! as in the days of old, in the generations of old. Was it not You [who] cut Rahab into pieces, piercing the sea-monster?


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


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The LORD has bared His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.


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Turn! Turn! Go out from there! Touch not the unclean. Go out of her midst; purify yourself, bearers of the vessels of the LORD.


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For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel gathers you.


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Just as many were astonished at You (so [much was] the disfigurement from man, His appearance and His form from the sons of mankind);


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so He sprinkles from many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at Him; for they will see [that] which [was] not told to them; yea, what they had not heard, nor understood.


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Shake yourself from the dust; rise up! Sit, Jerusalem! Free yourself from your neckbands, O captive daughter of Zion.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah, My people went down before [into] Egypt to stay there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.


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Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule [make them] howl, says the LORD; and without ceasing My name is blasphemed every day.


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Therefore My people shall know My name; So [it shall be] in that day, for I [am] He who speaks; behold, [it is] I.


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How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, making peace heard; who brings good news, making salvation heard; who says to Zion, Your God reigns!


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The voice of Your watchmen shall lift up! They lift up the voice together; they sing aloud. For they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.


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Break out, sing together, waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.


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Yet it pleased the LORD to crush Him; to grieve Him; [that] He should put forth His soul as a guilt-offering. He shall see [His] seed, He shall prolong [His] days, and the will of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.


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He shall see [the fruit] of the travail of His soul. He shall be fully satisfied. By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify for many; and He shall bear their iniquities.


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Therefore I will divide to Him with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul to death; and He was counted among the transgressors; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors.


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For He comes up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; He has no form nor majesty that we should see Him, nor an appearance that we should desire Him.


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[He is] despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not.


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Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.


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But He [was] wounded for our transgressions; [He was] bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace [was] on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed.


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All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.


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He was oppressed, and He was afflicted; yet He opened not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.


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He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of My people He [was] stricken.


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And He put His grave with the wicked, and with a rich one in His death; although He had done no violence, nor [was any] deceit in His mouth.


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Rejoice, O unfruitful one [that] never bore; break out a song and shout, [you] who never travailed. For more [are] the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married woman, says the LORD.


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For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall the covenant of My peace be removed, says the LORD who has mercy on you.


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Afflicted one, storm-tossed [and] not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones among antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.


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And I will make your battlements of ruby, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.


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In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.


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Behold, they shall surely gather together, not by Me; whoever shall gather against you, he shall fall by you.


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Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire, and who brings out a tool for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.


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No weapon that is formed against you shall be blessed; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This [is] the inheritance of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] from Me, says the LORD.


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Make the place of your tent larger, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. Do not spare, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes;


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for you shall break out [on] the right hand and on the left. And your seed shall inherit the nations, and people will inhabit ruined cities.


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Do not fear; for you shall not be ashamed, nor shall you blush; for you shall not be put to shame; for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.


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For your Maker [is] your husband; Jehovah of hosts is His name; and your Redeemer [is] the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall He be called.


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For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were rejected, says your God.


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In a little wrath I hid My face from you [for] a moment; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.


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For this [is as] the waters of Noah to Me; [for as] I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn from being angry with you and from rebuking you.


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Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who [has] no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.


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For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring out and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater;


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so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall certainly do what I sent it to do.


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For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.


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Instead of the thorn, the fir tree shall come up; and instead of the brier, the myrtle tree shall come up; and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [which] shall not be cut off.


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Why do you weigh silver for [what is] not bread? and your labor for [what] never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat [what is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.


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Bow down your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.


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Behold, You shall call a nation that You do not know; a nation [that] did not know You shall run to You because of Jehovah Your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for He has glorified You.


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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.


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For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.


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So says the LORD, Keep judgment and do justice; for My salvation [is] near to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.


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His watchmen [are] blind; they are all ignorant; they [are] all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.


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Yea, [they are] greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they [are] shepherds [who] cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.


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[They say], come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.


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Blessed [is] the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; keeping the sabbath, from defiling it; and keeping his hand from doing any evil.


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And do not let the son of the stranger, who has joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, the LORD has utterly separated me from His people. And do not let the eunuch say, Behold, I [am] a dry tree.


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For so says the LORD to the eunuchs who keep My sabbath, and choose things that please Me, and take hold of My covenant;


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even to them will I give within My house and within My walls a hand and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.


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Also the sons of the stranger, who join themselves to the LORD to serve Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants, everyone who keeps from defiling the sabbath, and takes hold of My covenant;


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even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted on My altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples,


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says the Lord Jehovah who gathers the outcasts of Israel, Yet I will gather beside him his gathered ones.


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The righteous one perishes, and no one lays [it] to heart, and merciful men [are] taken away; no one cares that the righteous is taken away from the face of evil.


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You are wearied in the length of your way; you did not say, Despair! You found life in your hand; so you were not weak.


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And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied and have not remembered Me, nor laid [it] to your heart? Have I not been silent, even from forever, and you did not fear Me?


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When you cry, let your gathering deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away. Vanity shall take [them]; but he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, and shall inherit My holy mountain.


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And He shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear the way! Make the stumbling-block rise out of the way of My people.


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For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.


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For I will not contend forever, nor will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before Me, and the souls I have made.


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For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid Myself, and was angry, and he went on turning away in the way of his heart.


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I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.


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[I] create the fruit of the lips; peace, peace, to him far off, and to him near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.


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But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.


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Of whom are you making sport? Against whom do you make a wide mouth [and] draw out the tongue? [Are] you not children of transgression, a lying seed,


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being inflamed with idols under every green tree, killing the little sons in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?


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Among the smooth [stones] of the stream is your portion; they, [even] they, [are] your lot; even to them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a food offering. Should I be consoled over these?


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Also behind the door and the post you have set up your image; for you uncovered [yourself] and went up from Me. You spread your bed and cut [a covenant] with them; you loved their bed where you looked.


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And you went to the king with ointment, and increased your perfumes, and sent your messengers far off, and lowered [yourself even] to hell.


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Cry aloud, do not spare, lift up your voice like a ram's horn, and show My people their rebellion, and the house of Jacob their sins.


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and [if] you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in darkness, and your darkness [shall be] as the noonday.


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And the LORD shall always guide you and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones fat; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.


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And [those who] come of you shall build the old ruins; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.


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If you turn your foot because of the Sabbath, [from] doing what you please on My holy days, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words,


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then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed yourself with the inheritance of Jacob your father. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.


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Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and one who did not forget the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God.


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[They say], Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.


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Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness; you shall not fast as [you do] today, to make your voice to be heard on high.


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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? [Is it] to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to the LORD?


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[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed ones go free, and that you break every yoke?


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[Is it] not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When will you see the naked and cover him; and you will not hide yourself from your own flesh?


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Then shall your light break out as the dawn, and your health shall spring out quickly; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall gather you.


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Then you shall call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I [am]. If you take the yoke away from among you, the pointing of the finger, and speaking vanity;


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Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened so that it cannot save, nor is His ear heavy so that it cannot hear.


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We grope [for] the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in deserted places like dead men.


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We all roar like bears, and mourn grievously like doves; we look for judgment, but none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.


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For our transgressions [are] multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them;


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in transgressing and lying against the LORD, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.


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And justice is driven back, and justice stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and right cannot enter.


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Yea, truth fails; and he [who] departs from evil makes himself a prey. And the LORD saw, and it displeased Him that [there was] no judgment.


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And He saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore His own arm brought salvation to Him; and His righteousness sustained Him.


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For He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. And He put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was covered with zeal like a cloak.


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According to [their] deeds, accordingly He will repay; fury to His foes, deed for deed to His enemies. He will repay their deeds to the coastlands.


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So they shall fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall make him flee.


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But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden [His] face from you, from hearing.


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And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD.


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As for Me, this [is] My covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is on you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says the LORD, from now on and forever.


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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.


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None calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring out iniquity.


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They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.


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Their webs shall not become clothing, nor shall they cover themselves with their works; their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.


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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and ruin [are] in their paths.


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They did not know the way of peace, and [there is] no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.


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Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.


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In the year that king Uzziah died I then saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.


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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.


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Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation,


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and [until] the LORD has moved men far away, and the desolation in the midst of the land [is] great.


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But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return and be consumed like the terebinth and like the oak being felled, [yet has] its stump; the holy seed [is] its stump.


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Above it stood the seraphs; each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.


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And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts; the whole earth full of His glory.


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Then I said, Woe [is] me! For I am undone; for I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.


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Then one of the seraphs flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, snatched with tongs from the altar.


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And he laid [it] on my mouth and said, Lo, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.


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And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here [am] I; send me!


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And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know.


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And the sons of strangers will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you; for in My wrath I struck you, but in My favor I had mercy on you.


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Therefore your gates will always be open; they will not be shut day nor night, to bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings may be led.


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For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish. Yes, [those] nations will be completely wasted.


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The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; and I will make the place of My feet glorious.


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Also the sons of your afflicters shall come bowing to you; and all your despisers will bow down at the soles of your feet. And they will call you, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.


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Instead of being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through, I will make you for everlasting majesty, a joy of many generations.


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You will also suck the milk of nations, and suck the breast of kings; and you will know that I Jehovah [am] your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.


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For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver; and for wood I will bring bronze, and for stones, iron. I will also make your overseers to be peace, and your rulers to be righteousness.


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Violence will no more be heard in your land, wasting nor ruin within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.


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The sun will no more be your light by day; nor the brightness of the moon give light to you; but the LORD will be to you for everlasting light, and your God your glory.


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For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness [the] peoples; but the LORD shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you.


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Your sun will no more go down, nor your moon withdraw; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be ended.


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Your people also [will] all [be] righteous; they will inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.


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A little one will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.


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Lift up your eyes all around, and see. All of them gather themselves; they come to you. Your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be nursed at [your] side.


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Then you shall fear and become bright, and your heart shall throb and swell for joy; because the abundance of the sea shall turn to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.


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A host of camels shall cover you, the camels of Midian and Ephah. All of them from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall proclaim the praises of the LORD.


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All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you. They shall come up on My altar pleasing Me, and I will glorify the house of My glory.


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Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.


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The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah [is] on Me; because the LORD has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;


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I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me [with] the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns [himself] with ornaments, and like a bride adorns [herself] with her jewels.


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For as the earth comes out with its bud, and as the garden causes that which is sown to grow; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to grow before all the nations.


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to preach the acceptable year of the LORD and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;


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to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He might be glorified.


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And they will build the old wastes, they will raise up the ruins of former times. And they will repair the waste cities, the ruins of many generations.


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And strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the stranger [will be] your plowmen and your vinedressers.


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But you will be named the priests of the LORD; it will be said of you, Ministers of our God; you will eat the riches of the nations, and you will revel in their glory.


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For your shame [you will have] double; and for disgrace they will rejoice in their portion; therefore in their own land they will possess double; everlasting joy will be theirs.


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For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.


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And their seed will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them will acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed the LORD has blessed.


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For Zion's sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness goes out as brightness, and her salvation as a burning lamp.


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Pass! Pass through the gates; prepare the way of the people. Raise up! Raise up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples.


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Behold, the LORD has sent a message to the end of the earth, Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, His reward [is] with Him, and His work before Him.


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And they will call them, The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; and you will be called, Sought Out, a city not forsaken.


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And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; and you will be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD will name.


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You also will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.


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You will no more be called Forsaken; nor will your land any more be called Desolate; but you will be called My Delight [is] in her, and your land, Married; for the LORD delights in you, And your land Married.


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For [as] a young man marries a virgin, so will your sons marry you; and [as] the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, [so] will your God rejoice over you.


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I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not always be silent all the day nor all the night; you who remember the LORD, do not be silent.


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The LORD has sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of His strength, Surely I will no more give your grain [to be] food for your enemies; and the sons of strangers will not drink your wine for which you have labored.


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But its gatherers will eat it and praise the LORD; and they who collected it will drink it in My holy courts.


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Who [is] this who comes from Edom, [with] dyed garments from Bozrah, this One adorned in His clothing, bending down in His great power? I who speak in righteousness, great to save.


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But they rebelled, and troubled His Holy Spirit; therefore He was turned [to be] their enemy, [and] He fought against them.


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Then He remembered the days of old, Moses [and] His people, [saying], Where [is] He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where [is] He who put His Holy Spirit within him?


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He led [them] by the right [hand] of Moses with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting name?


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As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused him to rest. So You led Your people, to make Yourself a glorious name.


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Look down from Heaven, and look down from the place of Your holiness and of Your glory; where [is] Your zeal and Your strength, the multitude of Your tender affections and of Your mercies toward me? Are they withheld?


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For You [are] our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does acknowledge us. You, O LORD, [are] our Father, our Redeemer; Your name is from everlasting.


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O LORD, why have You made us wander from Your ways. You harden our heart from Your fear? For Your servants' sake, return the tribes of Your inheritance.


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The people of Your holiness have possessed [it] but a little [while]; our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.


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I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples [there was] no man with Me; for I will tread them in My anger and trample them in My fury; and their blood will be sprinkled on My garments, and I will stain all My clothing.


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And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered that there [was] no one to uphold; therefore My own arm has saved for Me; and My fury upheld Me.


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And I will tread down the people in My anger, and make them drunk in My fury, and I will pour their juice to the earth.


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I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has benefited for us, and the great good to the house of Israel [by] which He benefited them according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of His loving-kindnesses.


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In all their affliction He [was] afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.


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The house of our holiness and our beauty, where our fathers praised You, has become a burning of fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.


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( as] the brushwood fire burns, the fire causes water to boil, to make Your name known to Your foes, [that] the nations may tremble at Your presence!


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When You did dreadful things [which] we did not look for, You came down, the mountains flowed down at Your presence.


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And from forever they have not heard, nor did they listen. Eye has not seen a God except You, who works for him who waits for Him.


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You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, [those who] remember You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned. In them [is] eternity, and we will be saved.


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But we are all as the unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.


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And [there is] no one who calls on Your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away because of our iniquities.


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But now, O Jehovah, You [are] our Father; we [are] the clay, and You [are] our Former; and we all [are] the work of Your hand.


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Do not be grievously angry, O LORD, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold! Look, please; all of us [are] Your people.


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I am sought by those who asked not for Me; I am found by those who did not seek Me. I said, Behold Me, behold Me, to a nation not calling on My name.


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And Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting-place of herds for My people who have sought Me.


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But you [are] those who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who furnish the drink offering to Fate.


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Therefore I will number you to the sword; and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because I called and you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear and did evil before My eyes, and chose [that] in which I did not delight.


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So the Lord Jehovah says, Behold, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be ashamed.


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Behold,. My servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will howl because of a breaking of spirit.


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And you will leave your name for a curse to My elect; for the Lord Jehovah will kill you, and call His servants by another name.


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[He] who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth. And he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from My eyes.


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For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the things before will not be remembered, nor come to mind.


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But be glad and rejoice forever [in that] which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.


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I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and I will rejoice in My people; and the voice of weeping will no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying be heard in her.


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I have spread out My hands all the day to a rebellious people who walk in the way not good, after their own thoughts;


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There will not be an infant, nor an old man that has not filled his days. For the child will die a hundred years old; but the sinner [who is] a hundred years old will be despised.


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They will not build, and another live [in them]; they will not plant, and another eat. For like the days of a tree [are] the days of My people, and My elect will long enjoy the work of their hands.


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They will not labor in vain, nor bring forth for terror. For they [are] the seed of the beloved of the LORD, and their offspring with them.


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The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust [will be] the food of the snake. They will not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, says the LORD.


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a people who without ceasing provoke Me to anger to My face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense on the bricks;


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[a people] who remain among the graves, and sleep in the tombs, who eat swine's flesh, and broth from hateful [things in] their vessels;


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who say, Keep to yourself, do not come near me; for I am holier than you. These [are] a smoke in My nose, a fire that burns all the day.


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Behold, [it is] written before Me; I will not be silent, except I will repay; yea, I will repay into their bosom


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your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, [they] that burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed Me on the hills. And I will measure their former work into their bosom.


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So says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] says, Do not destroy it, for a blessing [is] in it; so I will do to My servants, that I may not destroy them all.


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And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who inherits My mountains; and My elect will inherit it, and My servants will dwell there.


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So says the LORD, Heaven [is] My throne, and earth My footstool. Where, then, [is] the house that you build for Me? And where [is] the place of My rest?


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Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all who mourn for her;


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that you may suck and be satisfied with her comforting breasts; that you may milk out and be delighted with the fullness of her glory.


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For so says the LORD, Behold, I will hold out peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like a flowing stream. Then you will suck, you will be carried on [her] sides and be dandled upon [her] knees.


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And you will see, and your heart will rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the grass. And the hand of the LORD will be known toward His servants, and [His] fury toward His enemies.


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For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with His chariots like a tempest, to refresh His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire.


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For by fire and by His sword the LORD will execute judgment with all flesh; and the slain of the LORD will be many.


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Those who sanctify themselves, and purify themselves [to go] into the gardens, behind one [tree] in the middle, eating swine's flesh, and the hateful thing, and the mouse, will be cut off together, says the LORD.


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For I [know] their works and their thoughts; it comes to gather all the nations and the tongues; and they will come and see My glory.


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And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape from them to the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, drawers of the bow; [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the far away coasts that have not heard My fame, nor have seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.


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For all those My hand has made, and all those exist, says the LORD. But to this one I will look, to the afflicted and contrite spirit, and the one who trembles at My word.


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And they will bring all your brothers [for] an offering to the LORD out of all nations on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, as the sons of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel [into] the house of the LORD.


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For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make stand before Me, says the LORD, so will your seed and your name stand.


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And it will be, from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before Me, says the LORD.


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And they will go out and see the dead bodies of the men who have sinned against Me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be put out; and they will be an object of disgust to all flesh.


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He who kills an ox is [is as if] he killed a man; he who sacrifices a lamb [is as if] he broke a dog's neck; he who offers an offering [is as if] he offered swine's blood; he who burns incense [is as if] he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.


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I also will choose the things that delude them, and I will bring their fears on them, because I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not hear. But they did evil before My eyes and chose [that] in which I did not delight.


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Hear the Word of the LORD, you who tremble at His Word; your brothers who hated you, who cast you out for My name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified. But He will appear to your joy, and they will be ashamed.


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Who has heard [a thing] like this? Who has seen [things] like these? Will the earth be brought forth [in] one day? [Or] will a nation be born at once? For Zion travailed and also brought forth her sons.


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Will I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth, says the LORD? Surely I will cause birth and restrain, says your God.


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And it happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not overcome it.


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And He said, Hear now, O house of David; [is it] a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?


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So, the Lord Himself shall give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel.


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For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you loathe shall be forsaken before both its kings.


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The LORD shall bring on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, since the days that Ephraim departed from Judah, the king of Assyria.


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And it shall be, in that day the LORD shall hiss for the fly at the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria.


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And they shall come and all of them shall rest in the desert valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorns, and on all the pastures.


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And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved by the wind.


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In the same day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by those Beyond the River, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet; and it shall also sweep away the beard.


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and it will be, from the plentiful supply of milk they shall give, he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall everyone eat who is left in the land.


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And it shall be, in that day every place where there were a thousand vines, [worth] a thousand pieces of silver, [it] shall even be for briers and thorns.


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With arrows and with the bow [men] shall come there, because all the land shall become briers and thorns.


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And all hills which were hoed with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of the ox, and for the trampling of sheep.


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Then the LORD said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the Fuller's Field.


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And say to him, Be careful and be quiet. Do not fear, nor be timid of heart because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah;


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Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and break her for ourselves, and set a king in the midst of it, the son of Tabeal.


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For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken so that it shall not be a people.


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And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.


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And the LORD said to me, Take a great scroll and write in it with a man's pen: Make Haste [to] Plunder! Hasten to the Prey!


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Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated. Speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God [is] with us.


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For so the LORD spoke to me with a strong hand, and warned me against walking in the way of this people, saying,


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Do not say, A conspiracy! to everything of which this people says, A conspiracy! And do not fear their fear, nor be afraid.


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And He shall be a sanctuary for you, but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the people of Jerusalem.


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Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.


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And when they shall say to you, Seek to the mediums and to wizards who peep and mutter; should not a people seek to their God, [than] for the living to the dead?


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And I took to myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.


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To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, [it is] because no light [is] in them.


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And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall be, they shall be hungry; They shall rave and curse their king and their God, and look upward.


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And they shall look to the land; and behold, trouble and darkness and gloom of anguish! And they [are] driven away into darkness.


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And I went to the prophetess. And she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz [Make Haste to Plunder].


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For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.


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Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;


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And therefore, behold, the Lord brings on them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory. And he shall come up over all his channels and go over all his banks.


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And he shall pass through Judah. He shall overflow and go over; he shall reach to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.


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Suffer evil, O people, and be broken! And give ear, all from the far places of the earth. Gird yourselves and be broken. Gird yourselves and be broken!


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Yet there [will be] no gloom for her who [was] in anguish, [as in] the former time. He degraded the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, so afterwards He will glorify the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations.


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The bricks have fallen down, but we will build [with] cut stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we use cedars instead.


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the Syrians in front and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand [is] stretched out still.


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For this the Lord shall not rejoice over their young men, nor shall He have mercy on their orphans and widows; for everyone [is] a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolishness. In all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand [is] stretched out still.


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For wickedness burns like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall roll upwards [like] the lifting up of smoke.


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Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land scorched, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man shall have pity on his brother.


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The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; they who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.


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And [he shall] cut off on the right hand and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left, and they shall not be satisfied. Each man shall eat the flesh of his own arm;


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Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; [and] they together [shall be] against Judah. In all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.


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You have multiplied the nation. You have not increased the joy. They rejoice before You according to the joy in harvest, and [as men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.


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For You have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his taskmaster, as [in] the day of Midian.


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For every boot of the warrior [is] with commotion, and the coat rolled in blood shall be burning fuel for the fire.


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For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be on His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.


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There is no end of the increase of [His] government and peace on the throne of David, and on His kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.


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And all the people shall know, Ephraim and the people of Samaria, who say in pride and hardness of heart,


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And if his offering [is] of the flocks, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall bring a male without blemish.


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And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD. And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.


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And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. And the priest shall arrange on the wood that [is] on the fire, which [is] on the altar.


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But he shall wash the inward parts and the legs in water; and the priest shall bring near all [of it] and burn it on the altar. It [is] a burnt sacrifice, a fire offering of a sweet fragrance to the LORD.


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And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD [is] out of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle-doves or of young pigeons.


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And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head and burn [it] on the altar. And its blood shall be drained at the side of the altar.


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And he shall pluck away its crop with its feathers, and throw it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes.


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And he shall cut it in two with the wings of it, not dividing [it]. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It [is] a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, If any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of the cattle, of the herd and of the flock.


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If his offering [is] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.


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And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering. And it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.


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And he shall kill the young bull before the LORD. And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that [is by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall arrange the parts with the head and the fat on the wood that [is] on the fire on the altar.


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But its inward parts and its legs he shall wash in water. And the priest shall burn all on the altar, a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.


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and so that you may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.


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And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the food offering that remains of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar. For it [is] most holy.


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And you shall eat in the holy place, because it [is] your due, and your sons' due, of the fire offerings of the LORD made by fire. For so I am commanded.


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And the wave breast and heave shoulder you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons and your daughters with you. For [they have been] given for your portion and the portion of your sons out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the sons of Israel.


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The heave shoulder and the wave breast they shall bring with the fire offerings of the fat, to wave [for] a wave offering before the LORD. And it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, by a statute forever, even as the LORD has commanded.


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And Moses carefully looked for the goat of the sin offering. And behold, it was burned! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron left alive, saying,


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Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, since it [is] most holy, and He has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?


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Behold! The blood of it was not brought within the holy place! You should indeed have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.


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And Aaron said to Moses, Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. And such things have happened to me. And [if] I had eaten the sin offering today, should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?


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Then Moses said to Aaron, It [is] that which the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.


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And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.


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And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die, and lest He be angry on all the people. But let your brothers, the whole of Israel, mourn the burning which the LORD has kindled.


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And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die. For the anointing oil of the LORD [is] on you. And they did according to the word of Moses.


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Do not drink wine nor strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die, a statute forever throughout your generations.


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And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing that [is] in the waters, they shall be an abomination to you.


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They shall even be an abomination to you. You shall not eat of their flesh, but you shall have their carcasses in abomination.


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And you shall have these in abomination among the fowls. They shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the black vulture, and the bearded vulture,


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These [are] the animals which you shall eat among all the animals that are in the earth.


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Yet you may eat these of any flying swarming thing that goes on [all] four, those which have legs above their feet, to leap with on the earth.


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You may eat these of them: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind.


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And you shall be unclean for these. Whoever touches their dead body shall be unclean until the evening.


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even every living thing which divides the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor [chews] the cud, they [are] unclean to you. Everyone that touches them shall be unclean.


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And whatever goes on its paws, among all the living things that go on [all] four, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches their dead body shall be unclean until the evening.


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And he that carries their dead bodies shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. They [are] unclean to you.


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These also [shall be] unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind;


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Whatever divides the hoof, and is cloven-footed, [chewing] the cud, among the animals, that you shall eat.


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These [are] unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.


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And whatever shall fall on [any] of them when they are dead, [shall be] unclean, [whether] any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack; whatever vessel in which work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean to the evening. So it shall be cleaned.


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And every earthen vessel in which [any] of them falls, whatever [is] in it shall be unclean. And you shall break it.


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Of all food which may be eaten, [that] on which such water comes shall be unclean. And all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.


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And every [thing] on which [any part] of their dead body falls shall be unclean; [whether it is] the oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down. They [are] unclean, and shall be unclean to you.


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But a fountain or pit, [with] a collection of water, shall be clean. But that which touches their dead body shall be unclean.


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But if [any] water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body falls on it, it [shall be] unclean to you.


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And if any animal among those you may eat dies, he that touches its dead body shall be unclean until the evening.


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Only, you shall not eat these of them that [chew] the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: the camel, for he [chews] the cud but does not divide the hoof; he [is] unclean to you.


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And he that eats of its dead body shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. He also that carries its body shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.


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Anything going on its belly, and any going on [all] four, and all having many feet, even every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them. For they are an abomination.


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You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that swarms, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, so that you should be defiled by them.


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For I [am] the LORD your God, and you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I [am] holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of swarming thing that swarms on the earth.


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For I [am] the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.


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This [is] the law of the animals, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that swarms on the earth,


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to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the creature that may be eaten and the creature that may not be eaten.


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And the rock badger, because he [chews] the cud, but does not divide the hoof; he [is] unclean to you.


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And the swine, though he divides the hoof and is cloven-footed, yet he does not [chew] the cud; he [is] unclean to you.


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You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall not touch their dead body. They [are] unclean to you.


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These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them you shall eat.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a woman has conceived seed and has borne a male, then she shall be unclean seven days; as on the days of her menstrual impurity she shall be unclean.


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And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying thirty-three days. She shall touch no holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are fulfilled.


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But if she bears a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying sixty-six days.


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And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle-dove, for a sin offering to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest.


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And he shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her. And she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This [is] the law for her that has borne a male or a female.


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And if her hand cannot reach to a lamb, then she shall bring two turtle-doves or two young pigeons. The one shall be for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed.


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And the priest shall look. And, behold, if the rising is white in the skin, and it has turned the hair white and [there is] live raw flesh in the rising,


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it [is] an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh. And the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.


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And if a leprosy breaks out greatly on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the [one who has] the plague from his head even to his foot, to all that appears to the eyes of the priest,


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then the priest shall look. And behold, [if] the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce the plagued one clean. It has all turned white. He is clean.


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And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean. The raw flesh [is] unclean; it [is] a leprosy.


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And the priest shall look on him. And, behold, the plague has turned to white, then the priest shall pronounce the plagued one clean. He [is] clean.


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and in the place of the boil there is a white rising or a bright spot, a reddish white, it shall be shown to the priest;


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When a man has a rising in the skin of his flesh, or a scab or bright spot, and it is in the skin of his flesh [like] the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.


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and if the priest sees it, and behold, it [is] in sight lower than the skin, and the hair of it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It [is] a plague of leprosy broken out in a boil.


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But if the priest looks on it, and, behold, [there are] no white hairs in it, and it [is] not lower than the skin, but has become dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.


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And if it spreads greatly in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It [is] a plague.


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But if the bright spot stays in its place, not spreading, it [is] a burning boil. And the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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Or if there is flesh in which the skin has a hot burning, and the raw [flesh] of the burning [becomes] a white bright spot, reddish or white,


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then the priest shall look on it. And behold, the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and [it is] in sight deeper than the skin, it [is] leprosy broken out of the burning. Therefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It [is] the plague of leprosy.


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But if the priest looks on it, and behold, there [is] no white hair in the bright spot, and it [is] no lower than the [other] skin, but is somewhat dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.


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And the priest shall look on him the seventh day. If it spreads farther in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It [is] the plague of leprosy.


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And if the bright spot stays in its place, and does not spread in the skin, but [is] somewhat faded, it [is] a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it [is] a scar of the burning.


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And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh. And [if] the hair in the plague has turned white, and the plague in sight [is] deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy. And the priest shall look on him and shall pronounce him unclean.


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then the priest shall see the plague. And behold, if it [is] in sight deeper than the skin, and a yellow thin hair [is] in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It [is] a dry scab, a leprosy on the head or beard.


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And if the priest looks on the plague of the scab, and behold, it [is] not in sight deeper than the skin, and no black hair [is] in it, then the priest shall shut up the plagued one [with] the scab seven days.


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And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague. And behold, [if] the scab does not spread, and no yellow hair [is] in it, and the scab [is] not in sight deeper than the skin,


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he shall be shaven, but shall not shave the scab. And the priest shall shut up [the one who has] the scab seven days more.


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And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scab. And behold, [if] the scab has not spread in the skin, nor [is] in sight deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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then the priest shall look on him, and behold, if the scab is spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for shining yellow hair. He [is] unclean.


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But if in his eyes the scab is stabilized, and black hair is growing up in it, the scab is healed. He [is] clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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then the priest shall look. And behold, [if] pale white bright spots [are] in the skin of their flesh, it [is] a pale spot springing up in the skin. He [is] clean.


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And if the bright spot [is] white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight is not deeper than the skin, and the hair of it has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up the plague seven days.


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And if there is in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore, it [is] a leprosy sprung up in his bald head or his bald forehead.


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And the priest shall look on it. And behold, [if] the rising of the sore is reddish white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appears in the skin of the flesh,


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he [is] a man with leprosy. He [is] unclean. The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean. His plague [is] in his head.


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And as for the leper in whom the plague [is], his clothes shall be torn, and his head shall be bare, and he shall put a covering on his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean! Unclean!


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All the days in which the plague [is] in him he shall be defiled. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling [shall be] outside the camp.


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And if there is any garment that has the plague of leprosy in it, in a wool garment or a linen garment,


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and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it [is] a plague of leprosy. And it shall be shown to the priest.


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And the priest shall look on him the seventh day. And behold, [if] the plague in his sight is stayed; the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more.


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And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day. If the plague is spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any skin [or] in any work that is made of skin, the plague is] a fretting leprosy. It [is unclean.


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And he shall burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin in which the plague is. For it [is] a fretting leprosy. It shall be burned in the fire.


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And if the priest shall look, and behold, the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or the woof, or anything of skin,


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then the priest shall command that they wash [the thing] in which the plague is. And he shall shut it up seven days more.


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And the priest shall look on the plague after it is washed, and behold, [if] the plague has not changed its color and the plague has not spread; it [is] unclean. You shall burn it in the fire. It [is] eaten away in its inside or in its outside.


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And if the priest looks, and behold, the plague [is] somewhat dark after the washing of it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.


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And if it appears still in the garment, or in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it [is] a spreading [plague]. You shall burn that which [is] in it [is] the plague [is] with fire.


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And the garment which you shall wash, either warp or woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean.


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This [is] the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp or woof or anything of skins, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.


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And the priest shall look on him again in the seventh day. And, behold, [if] the plague [is] somewhat dark; the plague has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean. It [is] a scab. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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But if the scab spreads greatly in the skin after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again.


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And [if] the priest sees that, behold, the scab spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It [is] a leprosy.


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And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three-tenth parts of fine flour [for] a food offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.


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And the priest who is cleansing, and the man who is to be cleansed, shall stand with them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priest shall take one male lamb and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD.


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And he shall kill the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place. For as the sin offering [is] the priest's, so is the trespass offering. It [is] most holy.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.


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And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the trespass offering.


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And the rest of the oil in the priest's palm he shall pour on the head of him that is to be cleansed. And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.


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And the priest shall offer the sin offering and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the food offering on the altar. And the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.


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And if he [is] poor and his hand cannot reach [so much], then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one-tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering, and a log of oil,


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and two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, such as his hand can reach. And the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.


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And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD.


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And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. And the priest shall take from the blood of the trespass offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.


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And the priest shall put of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.


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And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.


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And the priest shall go forth out of the camp. And the priest shall look, and behold, [if] the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,


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even such as he is able to reach, the one [for] a sin offering and the other [for] a burnt offering, with the food offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.


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This [is] the law of him in whom [is] the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to reach in his cleansing.


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When you come into the land of Canaan which I give you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house in the land of your possession,


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and if he that owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, A plague [is] seen by me in the house;


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then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to see the plague, so that all that [is] in the house may not become unclean. And afterwards the priest shall go in to see the house.


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And he shall look on the plague. And behold, [if] the plague [is] in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall,


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then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.


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And the priest shall come again the seventh day and shall look. And behold, [if] the plague has spread in the walls of the house,


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then the priest shall command to take two clean live birds for him that is to be cleansed, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.


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then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague [is], and they shall throw them into an unclean place outside the city.


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And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside all around, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off outside the city in an unclean place.


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And they shall take other stones and put [them] in the place of those stones. And he shall take other mortar and shall plaster the house.


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And if the plague comes again and breaks out in the house after he has taken away the stones and after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered,


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then the priest shall come and look. And behold, [if] the plague has spread in the house, it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house. It [is] unclean.


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And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber of it, and all the mortar of the house, and he shall carry [them] out of the city into an unclean place.


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And he that lies in the house shall wash his clothes. And he that eats in the house shall wash his clothes.


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And if the priest shall come in and look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the plague is healed.


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And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water.


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And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet dye, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.


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And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet.


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But he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field, and make an atonement for the house. And it shall be clean.


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He shall take the living bird, and the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the slain bird, over the running water.


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And he shall sprinkle on him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.


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And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water so that he may be clean. And after that he shall come into the camp, and shall stay outside his tent seven days.


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But on the seventh day he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eye-brows; even all his hair shall he shave off. And he shall wash his clothes. He also shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.


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And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And he that carries [any of] those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And whomever he who discharges touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And the earthen vessel that he who discharges touches shall be broken. And every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.


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And when he who discharges is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall number seven days to himself for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day he shall take two turtle-doves to himself, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them to the priest.


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And the priest shall offer them, the one [for] a sin offering and the other [for] a burnt offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.


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And if any man's semen goes from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And every garment and every skin on which the semen shall be, it shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And the woman with whom a man shall lie [with] emission of semen shall both bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And if a woman has a discharge, [and] her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. And whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his flesh; he is unclean [because of] his discharge.


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And everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.


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And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever touches anything that she sat on, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if it [is] on the bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.


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And if any man lies with her at all, and her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days. And every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.


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And if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days outside of the time of her impurity, or if she discharges it beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her impurity. She is] unclean.


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Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity.


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And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day she shall take two turtle-doves to her, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And this shall be his uncleanness in his discharge. His flesh has run with his discharge, or his flesh [is] ceased from his discharge, it [is] his uncleanness.


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And the priest shall offer the one [for] a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for the discharge of her uncleanness.


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So you shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that [is] among them.


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This [is] the law of him that has an discharge, and of him whose semen goes from him and is defiled with it,


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and of her that is menstruating, and of him that has an discharge, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lies with an unclean woman.


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Every bed on which he who discharges lies is unclean. And everything on which he sits shall be unclean.


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And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And he that sits on [any] thing on which he who discharges sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And he that touches the flesh of him who discharges shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if he who discharges spits on him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD and they died.


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But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall bring the young bull of the sin offering which is for himself, and shall atone for himself and for his house, and shall kill the young bull of the sin offering which is for himself.


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And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah, and his hands full of fragrant perfumes beaten small, and bring [it] within the veil.


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And he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD. And the cloud of the incense shall cover the mercy-seat that is on the Testimony. And he shall not die.


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And he shall take of the blood of the young bull and shall sprinkle with his finger on the front of the mercy-seat eastward. And he shall sprinkle at the front of the mercy-seat seven times from the blood with his finger.


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Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil. And he shall do with that blood as he did with the blood of the young bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy-seat and before the mercy-seat.


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And he shall atone for the sanctuary, because of the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins. And so he shall do for the tabernacle of the congregation which remains with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.


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And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goes in to make an atonement in the sanctuary, until he comes out and has made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.


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And he shall go out to the altar that [is] before the LORD and make an atonement for it. And he shall take of the blood of the young bull, and of the blood of the goat, and put [it] on the horns of the altar all around.


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And he shall sprinkle of the blood on it with his finger seven times and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel.


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and the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, that he does not come at all times into the sanctuary within the veil before the mercy-seat, which is on the Ark, so that he will not die. For I will appear in the cloud on the mercy-seat.


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And when he has made an end of reconciling the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.


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And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the sins of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send away by the hand of a chosen man into the wilderness.


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And the goat shall bear on him all their sins to a land in which no one lives. And he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall strip off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the sanctuary, and shall leave them there.


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And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself and for the people.


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And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.


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And the young bull [for] the sin offering, and the goat [for] the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy [place], shall they carry forth outside the camp. And they shall burn their skins in the fire, and their flesh and their dung.


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And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.


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And it shall be a statute forever to you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work at all, the native and the alien who is staying among you.


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Aaron shall come into the sanctuary this way: with a bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.


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For on that day an atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you, so that you may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.


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And the priest whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement and shall put on the linen clothes, the holy garments.


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And he shall make an atonement [for] the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar; and he shall make an atonement for the priests and for all the people of the congregation.


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And this shall be an everlasting statute to you, to make an atonement for the sons of Israel for their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.


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He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen miter he shall be dressed. [These are] holy garments. And he shall wash his flesh in water and put them on.


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And he shall take from the congregation of the sons of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.


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And Aaron shall offer his young bull of the sin offering which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself and for his house.


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And he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats; one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat.


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And any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that are staying among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.


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For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood. And I have given it to you on the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For it [is] the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.


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Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that is staying among you eat blood.


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And any man of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that are staying among you, who hunts game, beast or fowl, that may be eaten, he shall even pour out its blood and cover it with dust.


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For [it is] the life of all flesh. Its blood is for the life of it. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh. For the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.


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And any soul that eats a dead body, or a torn thing, whether a native or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, This [is] the thing which the LORD has commanded, saying,


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Any man of the house of Israel who kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or kills it out of the camp,


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and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer as offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, blood shall be charged to that man; he has shed blood. And that man shall be cut off from among his people,


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so that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them to the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest, and offer them [for] peace offerings to the LORD.


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And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And they shall no more offer their sacrifices to goats, after whom they have gone whoring. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.


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And you shall say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who are staying among you, offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,


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and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation to offer it to the LORD, even that man shall be cut off from among his people.


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The nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, you shall not uncover their nakedness. For theirs [is] your own nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife, begotten of your father. She [is] your sister.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister. For she [is] your mother's near kinswoman.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother. You shall not approach his wife. She [is] your aunt.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She [is] your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shall you undertake to uncover her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter. They [are] her near kinswomen; it [is] wickedness.


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And you shall not take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life.


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And you shall not let any of your seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shall you profane the name of your God. I [am] the LORD.


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And you shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. And a woman shall not stand before an animal to lie down to it. It [is] a perversion.


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Do not defile yourselves in any of these things. For in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.


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And the land is defiled. Therefore I visit its wickedness on it, and the land itself vomits out those who live in it.


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You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations, [neither] the native, nor any stranger that lives among you.


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For the men of the land who [were] before you have done all these abominations, and the land is defiled.


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[You shall not do these] so that the land may not spew you out also when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that [were] before you.


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For whoever shall commit [any] of these abominations, even the souls who commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people.


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You shall not do like the doings of the land of Egypt in which you lived. And you shall not do like the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you. Neither shall you walk in their ordinances.


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And you shall keep My ordinance, so as not to do [any] of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves in them. I [am] the LORD your God.


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And you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I [am] the LORD.


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None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness. I [am] the LORD.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother. She [is] your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, born at home or born away. Their nakedness you shall not uncover.


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And you shall not glean your vineyard. And you shall not gather the leavings of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I [am] the LORD your God.


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And you shall not swear by My name falsely; nor shall you profane the name of your God. I [am] the LORD.


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You shall not defraud your neighbor nor rob [him]. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you until the morning.


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You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shall fear your God. I [am] the LORD.


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You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. You shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; [but] you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.


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You shall not go [as] a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I [am] the LORD.


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You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall always rebuke your neighbor, and not allow sin on him.


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You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I [am] the LORD.


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You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with different kinds. You shall not sow your field with two kinds [of] seed. And you shall not allow clothing mixed of linen and wool to come on you.


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Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God [am] holy.


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And whoever lies with a woman with semen, and she is a slave-girl, betrothed to a husband and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her, there shall be an inquest. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.


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And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has done. And the sin which he has done shall be forgiven him.


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And when you shall come into the land, and shall have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit of them as uncircumcised. It shall be uncircumcised three years to you. It shall not be eaten.


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And in the fifth year you shall eat of the fruit of it, so that it may yield to you its increase. I [am] the LORD your God.


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You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you. I [am] the LORD.


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You shall not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore, lest the land go whoring, and the land become full of wickedness.


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You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I [am] the LORD your God.


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You shall not turn to those that have familiar spirits, nor seek to spiritists to be defiled by them. I [am] the LORD your God.


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You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God. I [am] the LORD.


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The stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I [am] the LORD your God.


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You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.


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And if you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it of your own free will.


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It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. And if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire.


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And anyone that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD. And that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corner of your field. And you shall not gather the gleaning of your harvest.


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And when anyone will offer a food offering to the LORD, his offering shall be [of] fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it.


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And that which is left of the food offering [shall be] Aaron's and his sons: [it is] most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.


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Any food offering which you shall bring to the LORD shall not be made with leaven. For you shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.


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As an offering of the firstfruits, you shall bring them to the LORD. But they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet savor.


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And every sacrifice of your food offering shall you season with salt. And you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your food offering. You shall offer salt with all your offerings.


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And if you bring a food offering of your firstfruits to the LORD, green ears roasted by fire, kernels of a garden, you shall bring near for a food offering your firstfruits,


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And the priest shall burn it as incense with its memorial offering from its kernels and from its oil, besides all its frankincense, a fire offering to the LORD.


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And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests. And he shall take out of it his handful of flour and its oil, with all its frankincense. And the priest shall burn the memorial of it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And the rest of the food offering [shall be] Aaron's and his sons', most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.


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And if you bring a sacrifice of a food offering baked in the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.


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And if your offering [is] a food offering on the griddle, your offering shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil.


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And if your offering [is] a food offering in the frying pan, it shall be made [of] fine flour with oil.


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And you shall bring the food offering that is made of [these] things to the LORD. And when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.


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And the priest shall take from the food offering a memorial of it, and shall burn [it] on the altar. It is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.


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And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be on them.


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And if a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have performed a perversion; their blood [shall be] on them.


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If a man also lies with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood [shall be] on them.


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And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it [is] wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, so that there may be no wickedness among you.


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And if a woman goes up to any animal and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] on them.


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And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it [is] a wicked thing. And they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.


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And if a man shall lie with a menstruous woman, and shall uncover her nakedness, he has discovered her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. And both of them shall be cut off from among their people.


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And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister. For he uncovers his near kin. They shall bear their iniquity.


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Again you shall say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel or of the strangers who live in Israel, that gives any of his seed to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.


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And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.


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And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it [is] an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.


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You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and do them, so that the land where I bring you to live shall not spit you out.


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And you shall not walk in the ways of the nation which I cast out before you. For they committed all these things, and therefore I loathed them.


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But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I, I am giving it to you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey. I [am] the LORD your God, who has separated you from the nations.


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And you shall make a difference between clean animals and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean. And you shall not defile your souls by beast, or by fowl, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.


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And you shall be holy to Me. For I, the LORD, am holy, and have severed you from the nations, so that you should be Mine.


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A man also or woman that has a medium or that is a necromancer, shall surely be put to death. They shall stone them with stones. Their blood [is] on them.


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And I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My holy name.


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And if the people of the land in any way hide their eyes from the man when he gives of his seed to Molech, and do not kill him,


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then I will set My face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go lusting after him to commit adultery with Molech, from among their people.


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And the soul that turns to mediums, and to spirit-knowers, to go lusting after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.


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And any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood [shall be] on him.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people.


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And the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes.


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Neither shall he come near to any dead person, nor defile himself for his father nor for his mother.


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Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God [is] on him. I [am] the LORD.


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He shall not take a widow or a divorced woman, or profane, [or] a harlot, but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.


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Speak to Aaron, saying, No man of your seed in their generations shall draw near to offer the bread of his God if there is a blemish in him.


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For no man in whom [there is] a blemish shall draw near, a blind man, or a lame man, or disfigured, or deformed,


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But for his kin that is near him, for his mother and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother


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or crook-backed, or a crushed one, or who has a blemish in his eye, or a scurvy or scabbed person, or one with crushed testicles.


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No man of the seed of Aaron, the priest, in whom there is a blemish shall come near to offer the fire offerings of the LORD. He has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.


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Only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; so that he does not profane My sanctuaries. For I the LORD do sanctify them.


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and for his sister, a virgin, who is near to him, who has had no husband, for her he may be defiled.


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They shall not make baldness on their head, nor shall they shave the corner of their beard, nor make any cutting in their flesh.


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They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the fire offerings of the LORD, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.


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They shall not take a wife [who is] a whore, or defiled. Neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband. For he [is] holy to his God.


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And you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you. For I [am] holy, the LORD who sanctifies you.


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And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by going whoring, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.


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There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy things. A tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.


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But if the priest buys a soul with his silver, he shall eat of it. And one born in his house shall eat of his food.


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And a priest's daughter, when she belongs to a man, a stranger, she may not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.


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But if the priest's daughter is a widow, or put away, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as [in] her youth, she shall eat of her father's food. But no stranger shall eat of it.


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And if a man eats a holy thing without knowing it, then he shall put the fifth part to it, and shall give to the priest with the holy thing.


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and so load on them the iniquity of the guilt offering in their eating of their holy things. For I [am] the LORD who sanctifies them.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them: Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who offers his sacrifices for his vows, for all his free-will offerings, which they will offer to the LORD for a burnt offering,


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[you shall offer] at your own will a male without blemish, of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name [in what] they devote to Me. I [am] the LORD.


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And when a man offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to carry out [his] vow, or a free-will offering in cattle or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted. There shall be no blemish in them.


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Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a running sore, or having scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.


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As to a young bull or a sheep that is deformed or dwarfed, you may offer that [for] a free-will offering. But for a vow it shall not be accepted.


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You shall not offer to the LORD that which is bruised or crushed, or broken or cut. You shall not make [any offering] of it in your land.


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And you shall not offer the bread of your God out of the hand of a son of a stranger, or any of these, because their uncleanness [is] in them, and blemishes are in them. They shall not be accepted for you.


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When a bull or a lamb or a goat is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam. And from the eighth day and from then on, it shall be accepted for a fire offering to the LORD.


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Say to them, Any man of all your seed among your generations who draws near to the holy things, which the sons of Israel set apart to the Lord, if he has his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from My presence. I [am] the LORD.


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And you shall not profane My holy name. But I will be holy among the sons of Israel. I [am] the LORD who is sanctifying you,


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Any man of the seed of Aaron who [is] leprous, or has a discharge, he shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. And he who touches any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose semen has gone out from him,


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or a man who touches any swarming thing by which he may be made unclean, or touches a man who is unclean to him, by any uncleanness he has,


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the soul which has touched it shall be unclean until evening. And he shall not eat of the holy things unless he washes his flesh with water.


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And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it [is] his food.


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And they shall keep My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, that they may not die for it when they defile it. I the LORD sanctify them.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.


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And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD to be received for you. On the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.


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And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD.


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And its food offering [shall be] two-tenth parts of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to the LORD for a sweet savor. And the drink offering of it [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] of a hin.


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And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the same day, until you have brought an offering to your God. [It shall be] a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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And you shall count to you from the next day after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete.


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To the next day after the seventh sabbath you shall number fifty days. And you shall offer a new food offering to the LORD.


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You shall bring out of your homes two wave loaves of two-tenth parts. They shall be of fine flour. They shall be baked with leaven, firstfruits to the LORD.


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And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bull, and two rams. They shall be [for] a burnt offering to the LORD, with their food offering, and their drink offerings, a fire offering of sweet savor to the LORD.


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Then you shall sacrifice one he-goat for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim, holy convocations, even these are My appointed feasts.


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And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits, a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.


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And you shall proclaim on the same day [that] it may be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no work of labor. [It shall be] a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.


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And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corner of your field. When you reap the gleaning of your harvest, you shall not gather. You shall leave them to the poor and to the stranger. I [am] the LORD your God.


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Speak to the sons of Israel saying: In the seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial summons, a holy convocation.


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Also, on the tenth of this seventh month, this is a day of atonement. [It shall be] a holy convocation to you. And you shall afflict your souls and offer a fire offering to the LORD.


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And you shall do no work in that same day, for it [is] a day of atonement, in order to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.


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Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work. It [is] a sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.


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And any soul who does any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.


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You shall do no kind of work. [It shall be] a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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It [shall be] to you a sabbath of rest, and you shall humble your souls. In the ninth of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your sabbath.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be] the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.


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Seven days you shall offer a fire offering to the LORD. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. And you shall offer a fire offering to the LORD. It [is] a solemn assembly. And you shall do no work of labor.


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These [are] the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer a fire offering to the LORD, a burnt offering and a food offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, everything on its day;


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besides the sabbath of the LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your free-will offerings which you give to the LORD.


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Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days. On the first day [shall be] a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.


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These [are] the appointed feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim in their appointed seasons.


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And you shall take the fruit of majestic trees for yourselves on the first day, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook. And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.


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And you shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year. [It shall be] a statute forever in your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.


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so that your generations may know that I made the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I [am] the LORD your God.


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and on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the Feast of Unleavened [Bread] to the LORD. You must eat unleavened [bread] seven days.


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but you shall offer a fire offering to the LORD seven days. In the seventh day [is] a holy convocation. You shall do no work of labor.


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And the son of a woman of Israel, whose father [was] an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel. And this son of the woman of Israel and a man of Israel struggled together in the camp.


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And the son of the woman of Israel blasphemed the name [of the LORD], and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. (And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)


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Bring forth the despiser outside the camp. And let all that heard lay their hands on his head. Let all the congregation stone him.


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And he that blasphemes the Name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall surely stone him. And the stranger as well, even as he that is born in the land; when he blasphemes the Name, he shall be put to death.


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Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you pure olive oil, beaten, for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.


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break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him.


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And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel that they should bring the despiser outside the camp, and stone him with stones. And the sons of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Aaron shall order it from evening until the morning before the LORD forever outside the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation. [It shall be] a statute forever in your generations.


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And you shall put pure frankincense on [each] row, so that it may be on the bread for a memorial, a fire offering to the LORD.


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Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD forever, from the sons of Israel by an everlasting covenant.


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And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'. And they shall eat it in the holy place, for it [is] most holy to him of the fire offerings of the LORD, by a never-ending statute.


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And you shall make the fiftieth year holy, [one] year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you, and you shall return each man to his possession, and you shall return each man to his family.


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That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. You shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of your undressed vine.


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For it [is] the jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You shall eat the increase of it out of the field.


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And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.


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According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy of your neighbor, according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to you.


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According to the number of years you shall increase the price of it, and according to the fewness of years you shall diminish the price of it, for he is selling to you the number of crops.


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And you shall do My statutes, and keep My judgments and do them. And you shall dwell in the land in safety.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD.


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And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our increase!


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Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.


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And you shall sow the eighth year, and eat of old fruit until the ninth year; until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old fruit.


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The land shall not be sold forever; for the land [is] Mine. For you are strangers and pilgrims with Me.


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If your brother has become poor, and has sold his possessions, and if any of his relatives come to redeem it, then he shall redeem that which his brother sold.


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And if the man has no redeemer, and he himself is able to redeem it, and he has enough [for] its redemption;


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then let him count the years of the sale of it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it, so that he may return to his possession.


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But if he is not able to restore to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.


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And if a man sells a dwelling house [in] a walled city, then he may redeem it [within] a whole year after it is sold. He may redeem it within a full year.


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You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in the fruit of it.


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And if it is not redeemed within the time of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall be made sure forever to its buyer throughout his generations. It shall not go out in the jubilee.


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But the houses of the villages which have no walls around them shall be counted as the field of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.


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As to the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a never-ending redemption.


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And if a man purchases [a house] from the Levites, then the house that was sold and the city of his possession shall go out in [the year of] jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.


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And if your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall help him; yes, [even if he is] a stranger or a visitor, so that he may live with you.


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You shall take no interest from him, or increase. But you shall fear your God, so that your brother may live with you.


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I [am] the LORD your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan [and] to be your God.


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And if your brother [who lives] beside you has become poor, and is sold to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bond-servant.


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But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD. You shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.


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As a hired servant, as a temporary resident, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of jubilee.


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And he shall depart from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his own family. And he shall return to the possession of his fathers.


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For they [are] My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as a slave.


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Both your male slaves, and your female slaves whom you shall have, [shall be] of the nations that are all around you. You shall buy male slaves and female slaves from them.


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And also you may buy of the sons of the tenants who are staying with you; and from their families that [are] with you, whom they fathered in your land. And they shall be your possession.


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And you shall take them as an inheritance [for] your sons after you, to hold [for] a possession; you may lay service on them forever. But you shall not rule over your brothers, the sons of Israel, over one another, with harshness.


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And if an alien or a tenant lifts up a hand among you, and your brother [who dwells] beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the alien [or] tenant by you, or to the offshoot of the alien's family,


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either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or [any] that is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he is able, he may redeem himself.


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You shall not reap that which grows of its own accord of your harvest, neither gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It is a year of rest to the land.


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And he shall count with his buyer from the year that he was sold to him, until the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant it shall be with him.


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If [there are] still many years, he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the silver that he was bought for, according to the years.


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And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according to his years he shall give him again the price of his redemption.


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And if he is not redeemed in this way, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.


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For to Me the sons of Israel [are] servants. They are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I [am] the LORD your God.


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And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you, for you and for your servant, and for your slave woman and for your hired servant, and for your stranger who stays with you,


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and for your cattle, and for the beast that [is] in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.


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And you shall number seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be forty-nine years to you.


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Then you shall cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth of the seventh month; in the day of atonement, the trumpet shall sound throughout all your land.


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You shall make no idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not set up any image of stone in your land in order to bow down to it. For I [am] the LORD your God.


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I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from being their bondmen. And I have broken the bonds of your yoke, and made you go upright.


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and if you shall despise My statutes, or if your soul hates My judgments, so that you will not do all My commandments, so that you break My covenant;


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I will also do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, consumption, and burning fever, consuming the eyes and causing sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.


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And I will set My face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies. They that hate you shall reign over you. And you shall flee when none pursues you.


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And if you will not yet listen to Me for all this, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.


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And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven like iron and your earth like bronze.


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And your strength shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the field yield their fruits.


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And if you walk contrary to Me, and will not listen to Me, I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.


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I will also send wild beasts among you, who shall bereave you. And I will destroy your cattle, and make you few. And your highways shall be deserted.


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And I will bring a sword on you that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant. And when you are gathered inside your cities, I will send the plague among you. And you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.


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When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight. And you shall eat and not be satisfied.


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then I will walk contrary to you also in fury. And I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.


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And I will destroy your high places and cut down your images, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and My soul shall despise you.


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And I will make your cities waste and cause your sanctuaries to be deserted. And I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.


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And I will turn the land into wasteland. And your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.


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And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be waste, and your cities waste.


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Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies waste, and [you are] in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest and enjoy its sabbaths.


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As long as it lies waste it shall rest, because it did not rest in your sabbaths when you lived on it.


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And on those of you that are left I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as if fleeing from a sword. And they shall fall when none pursues.


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And they shall fall on one another, as if it were before a sword, when none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.


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And they that are left of you shall putrefy in their wilful sin in your enemies' lands. And also they shall putrefy with them in the perversities of their fathers.


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then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.


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If they shall confess their wilfulness and the wilfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me--


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I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then pay for their iniquity,


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then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I will remember. And I will remember the land.


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The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lies waste without them. And they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities; because, even because they despised My judgments, and because their soul hated My statutes.


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And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I hate them, to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them. For I [am] the LORD their God.


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But for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, so that I might be their God. I [am] the LORD.


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These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between Him and the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.


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And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. And you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.


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And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and none shall make [you] afraid. And I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.


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And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight. And your enemies shall fall by the sword in front of you.


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For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish My covenant with you.


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He shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. And if he shall at all change animal for animal, then it and the exchange of it shall be holy.


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And if [it is] any unclean animal, of which they do not offer a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the animal before the priest.


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And the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest value it, so shall it be.


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And when a man shall sanctify his house [to be] holy to the LORD, then the priest shall judge it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest shall judge it, so shall it stand.


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And if he who sanctified it desires to redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth [part] of the silver of your judgment, and it shall be his.


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And if a man shall sanctify to the LORD [some part] of a field that he owns, then your judgment shall be according to its seed; a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.


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But if he sanctifies his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver according to the years that remain, even until the year of jubilee, and it shall be taken from your estimation.


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And if he who sanctified the field desires in any way to redeem it, then he shall add the fifth [part] of the money of your estimation to it, and it shall be made sure to him.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When a man shall make a special vow, the persons [shall be] for the LORD by your evaluation.


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And if he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.


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But the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field devoted. The possession of it shall be the priest's.


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And if [a man] sanctifies to the LORD a field which he has bought, which [is] not of the fields he owns,


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then the priest shall count to him the worth of your estimation, until the year of jubilee. And he shall give your estimation in that day, a holy thing to the LORD.


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In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to him who owns [it in] the land.


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And all your judgments shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.


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However, the first-born of an animal, which should be the LORD's first-born, no man shall sanctify it, whether an ox, or sheep, it is the LORD's.


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And if [it is] of an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your estimation, and shall add a fifth [part] of it to it. Or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your estimation.


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However, no devoted thing that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that he has, either of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Every devoted thing [is] most holy to the LORD.


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Nothing devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed, [but] shall surely be put to death.


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And your judgment shall be of the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your judgment shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, [is] the LORD's. [It is] holy to the LORD.


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And all the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, all that passes under the rod, a tenth shall be holy to the LORD


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He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it. And if he changes it at all, then both it and the change of it shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.


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And if from five years old to twenty years old, then your judgment shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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And if from a month old to five years old, then your judgment shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your judgment [shall be] three shekels of silver.


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And if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male then your judgment shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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But if he is poorer than your judgment, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him. The priest shall value him according to the ability of him who vowed.


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And if [it is] an animal of which they bring an offering to the LORD, all that one gives of such to the LORD shall be holy.


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And if his offering [is] a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers from the herd, whether it is a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.


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and the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] on them, which [is] on the loins, and the fold above the liver, beside the kidneys, he shall remove it.


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And [he] shall lay his hand on its head and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation. And the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around.


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And he shall offer his offering of it, a fire offering to the LORD, the fat that covers the inward parts, and all the fat on the inward parts,


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and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which [is] on the loins, and the fold above the liver, beside the kidneys, he shall remove.


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And the priest shall burn them on the altar, bread of the fire offering for a sweet savor. All the fat [is] the LORD's.


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[It shall be] a statute forever for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle the blood on the altar all around.


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And he shall bring near from the sacrifice the peace offering, a fire offering to the LORD. The fat that covers the inward parts, all the fat that [is] on the inward parts,


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and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and the fold above the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove.


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And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar, on the burnt sacrifice on the wood, which is on the fire. [It is] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD [is] of the flocks, male or female, he shall bring it without blemish.


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And [he] shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.


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And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering, a fire offering to the LORD. He shall take away its fat, all its fat next to the backbone, and all the fat that covers the inward parts, and all the fat that [is] on the inward parts,


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Even as it was lifted from the young bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings, the priest shall burn them on the altar of the burnt offering.


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And the skin of the young bull, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inward parts, and its dung,


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even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on the wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.


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And if the whole company of Israel sins through ignorance, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and if they do that which ought not to be done to any of all the commands of the LORD, and are guilty;


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when the sin is known which they have sinned against it, then the congregation shall bring near a young bull for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the young bull before the LORD, and the young bull shall be killed before the LORD.


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And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the young bull's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle seven times before the LORD, before the veil.


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And he shall put [some] of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and shall do any one of them,


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And he shall do with the young bull as he did with the young bull for a sin offering; so shall he do to it. And the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.


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And he shall carry forth the young bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It [is] a sin offering for the congregation.


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When a ruler has sinned and through ignorance has acted against one of the commands of the LORD his God, which [is] not to be done, and is guilty;


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or if his sin which he has sinned shall be made known to him, he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where he kills the burnt offering before the LORD. It [is] a sin offering.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put [it] on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out its blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.


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And he shall burn all its fat on the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And if any one of the people of the land sins through ignorance, by doing that which is not to be done against one of the commands of the LORD, and is guilty;


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or if his sin which he has sinned shall be made known to him, then he shall bring his offering, a ewe of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.


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if the priest who is anointed sins, resulting in guilt to the people, then he shall bring for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull, a son of the herd, a perfect one, to the LORD for a sin offering.


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And the priest shall take of its blood with his finger and put [it] on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood of it at the bottom of the altar.


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And he shall take away all its fat, as the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall burn [it] on the altar for a sweet savor to the LORD. And the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where he kills the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put [it] on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all its blood at the bottom of the altar.


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And he shall take away all the fat of it, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings. And the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the fire offerings to the LORD. And the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And he shall bring the young bull to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD, and [he] shall lay his hand on the young bull's head, and kill the young bull before the LORD.


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And the priest who is anointed shall take of the young bull's blood, and shall bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, at the front of the veil of the holy place.


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And the priest shall put [some] of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which [is] in the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall pour all the blood of the young bull at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he shall lift up from it all the fat of the young bull for the sin offering; the fat that covers the inward parts, and all the fat on the inward parts,


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and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, beside the loins, and he shall remove the fold above the liver, with the kidneys.


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And if a soul sins and hears the voice of swearing, and [is] a witness, and he has seen or known, if he does not tell it, then he shall bear his iniquity.


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And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.


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But if he is not able to bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put frankincense on it. For it [is] a sin offering.


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And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his full handful of it, a memorial of it, and burn [it] on the altar, on the fire offering to the LORD. It is a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin that he has sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him. And [the rest] shall be the priest's, as a food offering.


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If a soul commits a trespass and sins through ignorance in the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring for his trespass to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flock, together with an amount set by you, by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.


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And he shall make it good [in] which he has sinned, in the holy thing, and he shall add the fifth part of it, and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And if a soul sins, and he has done that which ought not to be done, any one from all the commands of the LORD, and does not know, and he is guilty and bears his iniquity;


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then he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, at your evaluation, for a trespass offering, to the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his ignorance in which he erred without knowing it, and it shall be forgiven him.


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Or if a soul touches any unclean thing, whether a dead body of an unclean beast, or a dead body of unclean cattle, or the dead body of unclean swarming things, and [if] it is hidden from him that he is unclean and guilty--


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or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness by which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him, and he knows, then he shall be guilty.


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Or if a soul swears, pronouncing with [his] lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man speaks rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and he knows, then he shall be guilty of one of these.


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And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a doe of the goats, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin.


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And if his hand cannot reach to a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass which he has committed, two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to the LORD-- one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer for the sin offering first, and shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide [it].


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And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained at the bottom of the altar. It [is] a sin offering.


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And the priest shall put on his linen garment. And he shall put his linen breeches on his flesh and take up the ashes which the fire has consumed with the burnt offering on the altar. And he shall put them beside the altar.


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And he shall strip off his garments and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.


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And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order on it. And he shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.


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And this [is] the law of the food offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD before the altar.


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And he shall take from it his handful of the flour of the food offering, and of the oil of it, and all the frankincense which is on the food offering, and shall burn [it] on the altar for a sweet savor, the memorial of it, to the LORD.


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And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten [with] unleavened bread in the holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it [as] their portion of My offerings made by fire. It [is] most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering is.


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All the males among the sons of Aaron shall eat of it. [It shall be] a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire. Everyone that touches them shall be holy.


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If a soul sins, and acts unfaithfully against the LORD, and lies to his neighbor as to a deposit-- or as to security, or by robbery, or has extorted his neighbor,


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This [is] the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to the LORD in the day [he is] anointed, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a continual food offering, half of it in the morning and half of it at night.


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It shall be made in a pan with oil; you shall bring it in. And you shall offer the baked pieces of the food offering, a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And the priest of his sons, who is anointed in his stead, shall offer it. [It is] a statute forever to the LORD. It shall be wholly burnt.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This [is] the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before the LORD. It [is] most holy.


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The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in the holy place, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. And when any of its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in the holy place.


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But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water.


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or has found that which was lost and lies concerning it and swears falsely-- in any of all [these] that a man does, sinning in it,


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And no sin offering, of which [any] of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation for atonement in the sanctuary, shall be eaten. It shall be burned up in the fire.


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then, it shall be, because he sinned and is guilty, he shall pay back that which he got by robbery; or if he robbed the thing extorted; or the deposit which had been deposited with him; or the lost thing which he had found;


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or all that which he swore about falsely, --he shall even repay it in its principal, and the fifth part he shall add to it, to whomever it belongs. He shall give it on the day of his guilt offering.


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And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, together with an amount set by you, for a trespass offering, to the priest.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD, and it shall be forgiven him for anything of all that he has done by being guilty in it.


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Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This [is] the law of the burnt offering. It is the burnt offering for burning on the altar all night to the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.


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If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil, of fine flour, fried.


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Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for] his offering unleavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.


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And from it he shall offer one cake out of the whole sacrifice for a heave offering to the LORD, to the priest that sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings; it is his.


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And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.


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But if the sacrifice of his offering [is] a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice. And on the next day also the rest of it shall be eaten.


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And if [any] of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offerings is eaten at all the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It shall be an abomination, and the soul that eats of it shall bear his iniquity.


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And the flesh that touches any unclean [thing] shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. And as for the flesh, all who are clean shall eat of it.


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In the place where they kill the burnt offering, they shall kill the trespass offering. And he shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around.


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But the soul that eats [of] the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings that pertain to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.


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And the soul that shall touch any unclean [thing], of the uncleanness of man, or any unclean animal, or an unclean abominable thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which pertain to the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.


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And the fat of a dead body, and the fat of a thing torn, may be used in any other use. But you shall in no way eat it.


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For whoever eats the fat of the beast of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul that eats [it] shall be cut off from his people.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD, shall bring his sacrifice to the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.


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And he shall offer all its fat; he shall offer the fat tail of it, and the fat that covers the inward parts,


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His own hands shall bring in the fire offerings of the LORD. He shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be waved [for] a wave-offering before the LORD.


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And you shall give the right shoulder to the priest [for] a heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.


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He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for [his] part.


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For I have taken the wave breast and the heave shoulder from the sons of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons by a statute forever from among the sons of Israel.


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This is the [portion] of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day he presented them to minister to the LORD in the priest's office,


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which the LORD commanded to be given to them of the sons of Israel, in the day that He anointed them as a statute forever throughout their generations.


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This [is] the law of the burnt offering, of the food offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifices of the peace offerings,


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which the LORD commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to offer their sacrifices to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.


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and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and the fold above the liver, beside the kidneys, he shall take away.


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And the priest shall burn them on the altar for a fire offering to the LORD. It is a trespass offering.


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Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It shall be eaten in the holy place. It [is] most holy.


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As the sin offering, so [is] the trespass offering. There is one law for them. The priest that makes atonement with it, it is his.


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And the priest that offers any man's burnt offering, that priest shall have the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered; it is his.


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And all the food offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying-pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest's that offers it; it is his.


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And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that [was] in it, and sanctified them.


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And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, both the laver and its base, to sanctify them.


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And Moses brought Aaron's sons and put tunics on them, and girded them with girdles, and bound turbans on them, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he brought the young bull for the sin offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the young bull for the sin offering.


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And he killed [it]. And Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement on it.


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And he took all the fat on the inward parts, and the fold above the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses burned [it] on the altar.


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But the young bull and its hide, its flesh and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he brought the ram for the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.


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Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a young bull for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread.


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And he washed the inward parts and the legs in water. And Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It [was] a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savor, a fire offering to the LORD, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he brought the second ram, the ram of consecration. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.


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And he killed [it]. And Moses took of the blood of it, and put [it] on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around.


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And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat on the inward parts, and the fold [above] the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder.


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And he took one unleavened cake out of the basket of unleavened bread that [was] before the LORD, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put [them] on the fat, and on the right shoulder.


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And he put all on Aaron's hands, and on his sons' hands, and waved them [for] a wave offering before the LORD.


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And Moses took them off their hands and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They [were] consecrations for a sweet savor. It [is] a fire offering to the LORD.


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And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses' part of the ram of consecration, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which [was] on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, [and] on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him. And he sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.


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And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And eat it there with the bread in the basket of consecrations, as I have commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.


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You shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation seven days, until the days of your consecration are at an end. For He shall consecrate you seven days.


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And you shall remain [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, so that you do not die. For so I am commanded.


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And Moses did as the LORD had commanded him. And the assembly was gathered together to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he put on him the tunic, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him, and girded him with the embroidered girdle of the ephod, and bound [it] to him with it.


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And he put the miter on his head. Also he put the golden plate, the holy crown, on the miter, on his forehead, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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But he burned the fat and the kidneys and the fold above the liver of the sin offering on the altar, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he killed the burnt offering. And Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar.


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And they presented the burnt offering to him, with the pieces of it, and the head. And he burned [them] on the altar.


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And he brought the people's offering. And he took the goat, the sin offering for the people, and killed it and offered it for sin as the first.


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And he brought the food offering and took a handful of it, and burned [it] on the altar besides the burnt sacrifice of the morning.


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He also killed the young bull and the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace offerings for the people. And Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the altar all around.


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And they brought the fat of the young bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the inward parts, and the kidneys, and the fold [above] the liver.


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And he said to Aaron, Take a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram without blemish for a burnt offering, and offer before the LORD.


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And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved [for] a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses commanded.


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And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and peace offerings.


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And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out and blessed the people. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.


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And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and burned up the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. And all the people saw and shouted and fell on their faces.


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And speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Take a kid of the goats for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb of the first year, all without blemish, for a burnt offering.


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Also take a young bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a food offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.


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And they brought [that] which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation. And all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.


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And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded that you should do. And the glory of the LORD shall appear to you.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Go to the altar, and offer your sin offering and your burnt offerings, and make an atonement for yourself and for the people. And offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them, even as the LORD commanded.


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And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him. And he dipped his finger in the blood and put [it] on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar.


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The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,


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Behold! I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.


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And the word of the LORD [came] to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.


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And the Word of the LORD [came] to me the second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot; and its face [is] from the face of the north.


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And the LORD said to me, Out of the north an evil will be set loose on all the inhabitants of the land.


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For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD. And they shall come, and they shall each one set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its wall all around, and against all the cities of Judah.


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And I will pronounce My judgments against them regarding all their evil, [those] who have forsaken Me, and burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.


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And you must gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be terrified at their faces, lest I prostrate you before them.


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For, behold, I have made you a fortified city this day, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its rulers, against its priests, and against the people of the land.


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And they shall fight against you; but they shall not overcome you. For I [am] with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.


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[to] whom the Word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.


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It also came in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the exiling of Jerusalem in the fifth month.


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Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I consecrated you, [and] I ordained you a prophet to the nations.


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But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I [am] a boy; for you shall go to all that I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.


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And the LORD put forth His hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.


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But the LORD [is] the true God, He [is] the living God, and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to stand His fury.


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So you shall say to them, The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.


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He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His judgment.


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When He utters His voice, [there is] a noise of many waters in the heavens. He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.


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Every man is stupid for [lack of] knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is a lie, and no breath is in them.


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The Portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for He [is] the Maker of all things; and Israel [is] the rod of His inheritance. Jehovah of hosts [is] His name.


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For so says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the people of the land at this time, and will distress them, so that they may find [Me].


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Woe [to] me for my breaking! My wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this [is] a malady, and I must bear it.


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So says the LORD, Do not learn the way of the nations, and do not be terrified at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are terrified at them.


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My tabernacle is ravaged, and all my cords are broken; My sons went away from me, and they [are] not. [There is] none to stretch out My tabernacle any more, and to set up My curtains.


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For the pastors have become stupid, and have not sought the LORD, therefore they shall not be blessed, and all their flocks shall be scattered.


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Behold, the noise of the rumor has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a den of jackals.


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O LORD, I know that the way of man does not [belong] to man; [it is] not in man who walks to direct his steps.


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Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name; for they have eaten up Jacob and have devoured him, and have destroyed him, and have made his dwelling desolate.


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For the customs of the people [are] vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the axe, the work of the hands of the workman.


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They adorn it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers, so that it will not wobble.


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They [are] like a rounded post, and they cannot speak. They must surely be lifted, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil nor good, for it is not in them.


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Who would not fear You, O King of nations? For fear belongs to You, because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like You.


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Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the goldsmith. Violet and purple [is] their clothing; they [are] all the work of skillful ones.


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They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My words. And they went after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.


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So the LORD says this: Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to Me, I will not listen to them.


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Then shall the cities of Judah and the people of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to whom they offer incense. But they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.


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For [according to] the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah. And [according to] the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to [that] shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.


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And you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them. For I will not hear [them] in the time they cry to Me for their trouble.


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What [is to] My beloved in My house, [since] she has committed her many evils? And has the holy flesh caused your evil to pass from you? [How] then do you exult?


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The LORD called your name, a green olive tree, fair, [with] fine fruit. With the sound of a great storm He has set fire to it, and its branches are worthless.


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And Jehovah of hosts who planted you has spoken evil against you, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves to provoke Me to anger by offering incense to Baal.


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But I [was] like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had plotted evils against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.


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But, O Jehovah of hosts who judges rightly, who tries the heart and the mind, let me see Your vengeance on them. For to You I have revealed my cause.


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Therefore so says the LORD of the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, that you do not die by our hand.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;


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and there shall be no remnant of them. For I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, the year of their judgment.


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And say to them, So says Jehovah, God of Israel, Cursed [is] the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,


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which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey My voice and do them according to all that I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God;


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so that I may fulfil the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then I answered and said, Amen, O LORD.


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Then the LORD said to me, Declare all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.


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For I earnestly testified to your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and testifying, saying, Obey My voice.


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Yet they did not obey nor bow down their ear, but walked each one in the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I will bring on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did not do them.


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Righteous [are] You, O LORD, that I might contend with You; yet let me speak with You about [Your] judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? [Why] are all [those] happy who deal treacherously?


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Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My portion under foot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.


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One has made it a desolation, it mourns to Me. The whole land is made desolate because no man lays [it] to heart.


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The ravagers have come on all high places through the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land. No flesh shall have peace.


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They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns. They are worn out, [but] they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.


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So says the LORD against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.


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And it will be after I have plucked them out, I will return and have pity on them, and will bring them again, each man to his inheritance and each man to his land.


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And it will be if they will carefully learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, [As] the LORD lives; as they taught the people to swear by Baal; then they shall be built in the midst of My people.


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You have planted them; yea, they take root. They grow, yea, they make fruit. You [are] near in their mouth and far from their reins.


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But You, O LORD, know me. You have seen me and tried my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and devote them for the day of slaughter.


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How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither from the evil of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds have been destroyed, because they said, He shall not see our last end.


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If you have run with footmen, and they wore you out, then how can you compete with horses? And [if] you feel secure in the land of peace, then how will you do in the swelling of Jordan?


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For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you. Yea, they have called a multitude after you. Do not believe them, though they speak good things to you.


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I have forsaken My house; I have left My inheritance. I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.


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My inheritance is to Me as a lion in the forest; it cries out against Me; therefore I have hated it.


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My inheritance [is like] a speckled bird to Me; the birds all around [are] against her. Go, gather all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.


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So says the LORD to me, Go and buy for yourself a linen girdle, and put it on your loins, and do not put [it] in water.


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This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart and walk after other gods to serve them and to worship them, shall even be like this girdle, which is good for nothing.


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For as the girdle holds fast to the loins of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me, says the LORD; so that they might be to Me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory; but they would not hear.


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So you will speak to them this word: So says Jehovah, God of Israel, Every skin shall be filled with wine. And they shall say to you, Do we not surely know that every skin shall be filled with wine?


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Then you shall say to them, So says the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the people of this land, even the kings that sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.


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And I will smash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the LORD. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, [to keep them] from their destruction.


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Give glory to the LORD your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, setting up deep gloom.


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But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride. And my eye shall weep sore and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock was captured.


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Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your greatness shall come down, even the crown of your glory.


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The cities of the south have been shut up, and none are opening; Judah has been exiled, all of it has been peacefully exiled.


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Lift up your eyes and behold those who come from the north. Where [is] the flock [that] was given to you, your beautiful flock?


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What will you say when he comes to punish you? For you have taught them [to be] rulers over you for a head. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in travail?


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And if you say in your heart, Why do these things come on me? [It is] because of the greatness of your iniquity; your skirts are bared, [and] your heels suffer violence.


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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? [Then] you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.


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This [is] your lot, the share I have measured to you, says the LORD, because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.


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I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the wickedness of your fornication, [and] your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? How long [will it] still [be] ?


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Take the girdle that you bought, which [is] on your loins, and arise. Go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.


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And it happened at the end of many days the LORD said to me, Arise, go to Euphrates and take the girdle from there, which I commanded you to hide there.


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Then I went to Euphrates and dug, and took the girdle from the place where I had hidden it. And, behold, the girdle was rotted; it was not good for anything.


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So says the LORD to this people; So they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins.


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When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.


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Then I said, Ah, O Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets are saying to them, You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine; but I will give you true peace in this place.


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And the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a false vision and a worthless divination, and a thing of no value, and the deceit of their heart.


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So the LORD says this concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I did not send them; yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.


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And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, [either] them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour their evil on them.


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And you shall speak this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, [with] a very grievous blow.


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If I go out into the field, then I see those killed with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, sicknesses of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest have gone up into a land that they do not know.


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Have You utterly rejected Judah? Or has Your soul hated Zion? Why have You stricken us, and [there is] no healing for us? [We] looked for peace, but no good [came]; and for the time of healing, and behold, trouble!


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Judah mourns, and its gates droop. They are black to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.


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We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.


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Do not abhor [us] for Your name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; remember, do not break Your covenant with us.


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Are there [any] among the vanities of the nations who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? [Is] it not You, O LORD our God? Then we will wait on You; for You do all these things.


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And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters; they came to the cisterns, [and] found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.


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Because the ground was cracked, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.


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And the wild asses stood in the high places; they snuffed up the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because [there was] no grass.


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O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.


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O the Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveler turning in to lodge?


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Why should You be as a man stunned, as one mighty, [yet] who cannot save? Yet You, O LORD, [are] in our midst, and we are called by Your name. Do not leave us!


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Then the LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul [could] not [be] toward this people. Send [them] out of My sight, and let them go out.


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Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not loaned, nor have men loaned to me; [yet] every one curses me.


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The LORD said, Truly I will free you for good. Truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.


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Your wealth and your treasures I will give for prey, not for price, [but] for all your sins, even in all your borders.


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And I will make [you] pass with your enemies into a land [which] you do not know. For a fire has been kindled in My anger; it shall burn against you.


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O LORD, You know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on those who seek to hurt me. Do not take me away in Your long-suffering; know that for Your sake I have suffered rebuke.


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Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.


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I did not sit in the circle of mockers, nor rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation.


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Why has my pain been without end, and why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like a deceitful brook, waters that cannot be trusted.


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Therefore so says the LORD, If you turn back, then I will bring you again; you shall stand before Me. And if you take the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth. Let them turn back to you, but do not return to them.


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And it will be, if they say to you, Where shall we go? Then you shall tell them, So says the LORD: Those who [are] for death, go to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.


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And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not overcome you; for I [am] with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.


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And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the evil ones.


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And I will set over them four kinds, says the LORD; the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.


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


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For who shall have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who shall weep over you? Or who shall turn aside to ask your welfare?


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You have forsaken Me, says the LORD; you have gone backward; therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.


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And I will winnow them with a fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of sons; I will destroy My people, since they do not turn from their ways.


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Their widows are more numerous about Me than the sand of the seas; I have brought on them, against a mother of a young man, a ravager at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall on her suddenly.


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She who bore seven languishes; she has breathed out her life; her sun has gone down while [it was] yet day. She has been ashamed and humiliated; and I will deliver the rest of them to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.


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And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what [is] our iniquity, or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God?


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Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law.


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And you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to Me;


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even I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, [neither] you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night; where I will not grant you favor.


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So, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be said, [As] the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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but, [As] the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands where He had driven them. And I will bring them again into their lands that I gave to their fathers.


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Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they will fish them. And afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.


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For My eyes [are] on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.


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And first I will twice repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land, they have filled My inheritance with the dead bodies of their abominable things.


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O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.


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Therefore, behold, I will make them know; this time I will cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name [is] Jehovah.


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For so says the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land:


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They shall die from deaths of diseases; they shall not be mourned, nor shall they be buried. [But] they shall be as dung on the face of the earth. And they shall be destroyed by the sword and by famine; and their bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.


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For so says the LORD, Do not enter into the house of mourning; do not go to weep nor moan over them. For I have taken away My peace from this people, says the LORD, even loving-kindness and mercies.


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Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall [men] mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.


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Nor shall [anyone] tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Nor shall [anyone] give them the cup of comfort to drink for their father or for their mother.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause the voice of mirth to cease out of this place [before] your eyes, and in your days, and the voice of gladness, and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.


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The sin of Judah [is] engraved with an iron stylus; [it is] carved on the tablet of the heart and on the horns of Your altar with the point of a diamond;


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I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.


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The quail sits [on eggs] and does not hatch [them]; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.


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O LORD, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the Fountain of living waters.


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I have not hurried away from shepherding after You; nor have I desired the woeful day; You surely know the going forth of my lips before Your face.


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Let those who persecute me be ashamed, but do not let me be ashamed; let them be afraid, but do not let me be afraid. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them [with] double breaking.


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So the LORD said to me: Go and stand in the gates of the sons of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.


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And say to them, Hear the Word of the LORD, kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the people of Jerusalem who enter in by these gates!


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So says the LORD, Take heed to yourselves, and carry no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem.


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Nor carry out a burden from your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.


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But they did not obey, nor bowed down their ear, but made their neck stiff, so that they might not hear nor receive instruction.


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And it shall be, if you carefully listen to Me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy, to do no work in it;


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then kings and rulers sitting on the throne of David shall enter into the gates of this city, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their rulers, the men of Judah, and the people of Jerusalem. And this city shall remain forever.


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And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and grain offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise to the house of the LORD.


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But if you will not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to carry a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be put out.


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O My mountain in the field, I will give your wealth [and] all your treasures for prey, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.


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And you, even through yourself, have let go of the inheritance which I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in a land which you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in My anger, [which] shall burn forever.


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So says the LORD, Cursed [is] the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.


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For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land that is not inhabited.


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For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; [it] sends out its roots by the river, and [it] shall not fear when the heat comes, but its foliage shall be green; and he is not worried in the year of drought, nor will it cease from yielding fruit.


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if it does evil in My sight, not to obey My voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would do them good.


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Now then please, speak to the men of Judah, and to the people of Jerusalem, saying, So says the LORD: Behold, I am forming evil against you, and devising a plan against you. Return now, each one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.


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And they said, There is no hope; but we will walk after our own ways, and we will each one do [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.


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Therefore so says the LORD, Ask now among the nations; who has heard the like of this? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.


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Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the field? [Or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?


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Because My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways [from] the old paths, to walk [in] by-paths, not [in] the highway,


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to make their land desolate [and] a hissing forever. Everyone who passes by will be amazed, and will wag his head.


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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.


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Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.


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Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before You to do good for them, [and] to turn away Your wrath from them.


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Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the hand of the sword. And let their wives be bereaved, and widows, and their men [be] slain of death; let their young men be struck by the sword in battle.


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Let a cry be heard from their houses, when You suddenly bring a raiding party on them. For they have dug a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.


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Yet, LORD, You know all their counsel against me to kill [me]. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from Your sight, but let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.


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And the vessel that he made in clay was ruined in the hand of the potter; so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it].


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O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, As the clay in the potter's hands, [so are] you in My hand, O house of Israel.


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The instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck it up and to pull it down, and to destroy [it];


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if that nation, against whom I have spoken, will turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.


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And the instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build it and to plant [it];


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So says the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen jar, and [assemble] from the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests.


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and shall say to them, So says the LORD of hosts, Even so I will break this people of this city, as [one] breaks a potter's vessel that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury [them in Tophet until there is no place left] to bury.


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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be as defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.


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Then Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy. And he stood in the court of the LORD's house, and said to all the people,


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So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their necks so that they might not hear My words.


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And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom by the entry of Potsherd Gate. And there declare the words that I shall tell you.


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And say, Hear the Word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and people of Jerusalem. So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which shall cause the ears of him who hears it to tingle.


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Because they have forsaken Me, and have made this place [famous] and have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents.


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They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings to Baal, which I never commanded nor spoke, nor did [it] come into My mind.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The Valley of Slaughter.


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And I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of those who seek their lives. And I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the animals of the earth.


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And I will make this city a waste and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be amazed and shall hiss because of all its plagues.


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


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For pass over the coasts of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and carefully consider, and see if there is [such a] thing.


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Has a nation changed [their] gods who are yet no gods? But My people have changed their Glory for that which does not profit.


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For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.


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The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are burned without inhabitant.


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Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way?


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


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Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you, therefore know and see that [it is] an evil and bitter [thing] that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear [is] not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of hosts.


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Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, So says the LORD, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.


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


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Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate [shoots of] an alien vine to Me?


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For though you wash yourself with potash, and multiply soap for yourself, [yet] your iniquity is marked before Me, says the Lord Jehovah.


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How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley, know what you have done! [You are] a swift camel crossing its ways;


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a wild ass used to the wilderness; in the desire of her passion she snuffs at the wind; [in] her time who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.


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Withhold your foot from [being] bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, There is no hope; no; for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.


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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their rulers, and their priests, and their prophets;


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saying to a tree, You [are] my father; and to a stone, You gave [me] birth. For they have turned [their] back to Me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise and save us!


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But where [are] your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.


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Israel [was] holiness to the LORD, and the firstfruits of His increase. All that devour him shall offend; evil shall come on them, says the LORD.


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In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.


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O generation, see the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam [freely]; we will come no more to You?


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Can a virgin forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.


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


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Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.


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


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Yes, you shall go out from this [place], and your hands on your head. For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.


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So says the LORD, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?


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Nor did they say, Where [is] the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of dry places, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man lived?


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And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination.


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The priests did not say, Where [is] the LORD? And they who handle the law did not know Me; the shepherds also rebelled against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things not profitable.


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Therefore I will contend with you, says the LORD, and with your son's sons I will enter into judgment.


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When Pashur the son of Immer the priest (he was chief officer in the house of the LORD) heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,


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For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace is watching for my fall, [saying], Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail over him, and we shall take our revenge on him.


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But the LORD [is] with me like a mighty, awesome one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not overcome me. They shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not be blessed. Their] everlasting shame shall never be forgotten.


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But, O Jehovah of hosts, who tries the righteous [and] sees the reins and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For I have committed my cause to You.


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Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD; for He has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.


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Cursed [is] the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man child is born to you; making him very glad.


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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;


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because he did not kill me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].


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Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?


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then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that [were] in the upper Benjamin Gate, which [was] by the house of the LORD.


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And it happened on the next day, Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, The LORD has not called your name Pashur, but Terror from All Around.


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For so says the LORD, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall behold [it]. And I will give all Judah into the king of Babylon's hand, and he will exile them into Babylon, and kill them with the sword.


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And I will give all the wealth of this city, and its produce, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah, [even] I will give into the hand of their enemies; who will strip them and take them, and bring them to Babylon.


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And you, Pashur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. And you shall come to Babylon, and you shall die there, and shall be buried there; you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.


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O LORD, You have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and You have prevailed. I am in derision all the day; everyone laughs at me.


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For whenever I speak, I cry out, I cry violence and ruin; for the Word of the LORD has been a reproach and a cause of mocking to me all day.


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Then I said, I will not mention Him, nor speak in His name any more. But [His Word] was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding in, and I could not stop.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,


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For I have set My face against this city for evil, and not for good, says the LORD. It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.


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O house of David, so says the LORD: Do judgment in the morning, and deliver [him who is] robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go out like fire, and burn so that none can put it] out, because of the evil of your doings.


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Behold, I [am] against you, O dweller of the valley, rock of the plain, says the LORD; those who say, Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter into our homes?


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


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Please inquire of the LORD for us. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that he may go up from us.


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So says the Jehovah, God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and [against] the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls. And I will gather them together in the middle of this city.


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And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.


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And afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. And he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor have mercy.


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And to this people you shall say, So says the LORD, Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.


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He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague. But he who goes out and falls to the Chaldeans who are all around you, he shall live, and his life shall be his prize.


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Weep not for the dead, nor moan for him; [but] weep bitterly for him who goes away. For he shall return no more, nor see his native country.


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For so says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who reigned in the place of Josiah his father, who went forth out of this place: he shall not return there any more.


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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him his work;


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who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts out windows for himself, and puts in a cedar ceiling, and paints it with vermilion.


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Do you reign, because you lust to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then [it was] well with him.


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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well with him. Was this not to know Me? says the LORD.


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But your eyes and your heart [are] for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.


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Therefore so says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, They shall not mourn for him, [saying], Ah, my brother! or, Ah, sister! They shall not mourn for him, [saying], Ah, lord! or, Ah, his glory!


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And say, Hear the Word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.


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Go up to Lebanon, and cry. And lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.


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I spoke to you in your prosperity; [but] you said, I will not hear. This [has been] your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed My voice.


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The wind shall eat up all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated for all your wickedness.


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O dweller in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth?


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[As] I live, says the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pull you out of there!


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And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand [of those] whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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And I will cast you and your mother who bore you into another country where you were not born. And there you shall die.


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[Is] this man Coniah a despised broken jar? [Is he] a vessel in which there [is] no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they do not know?


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So says the LORD, Do judgment and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the oppressors's hand. And do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.


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So says the LORD, Write this man down as childless, a man who will not be blessed in his days. For no man of his seed shall be blessed, sitting on the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.


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For if you do this thing indeed, then there shall enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.


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But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a ruin.


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For so says the LORD to the king of Judah's house, You [are] Gilead to Me, [and] the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities with no people.


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And I will prepare destroyers against you, each one with his weapons. And they shall cut down your choice cedars, and throw [them] into the fire.


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And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say each one to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done this to this great city?


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Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.


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For the land is full of adulterers. Yes, because of cursing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their power [is] not right.


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So their way shall be to them as slippery [ways] in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall in them; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their judgment, says the LORD.


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And I have seen frivolity in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal and caused My people Israel to go astray.


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I have also seen in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing; they commit adultery and walk in falsehood. They also strengthen to the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his evil; they are all of them like Sodom to Me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.


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So Jehovah of hosts says this concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you vain; they speak a vision from their own heart, not out of the mouth of the LORD.


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They still say to those who despise Me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace! And they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own heart, No evil shall come on you!


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For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hears His Word? Who has listened to His Word and heard [it] ?


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Behold, the tempest of the LORD has gone forth in fury, a whirling tempest. It shall whirl on the head of the wicked.


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Therefore so says Jehovah, God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed My people, You have scattered My flock, and have driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will bring on you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.


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The anger of the LORD shall not return, until He has done and until He has set up the purposes of His heart; in later days you shall understand it perfectly.


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But if they had stood in My wisdom and had caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.


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Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do I not fill the heavens and earth? says the LORD.


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I have heard what the prophets said, who prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.


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How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? But they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,


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who plot to cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which they tell, each one to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten My name for Baal.


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The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.


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And I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their fold. And they shall be fruitful and multiply.


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So the LORD says, Behold, I [am] against the prophets who steal My words each one from his neighbor.


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The LORD says, Behold, I [am] against those who prophesy false dreams and tell them, and cause My people to go astray by their lies and by their lightness. Yet I did not send them nor command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.


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And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? You shall then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.


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And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.


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So you shall say each one to his neighbor, and each one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? And what has the LORD spoken?


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And you shall mention the burden of the LORD no more. For every man's word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.


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But since you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore so says the LORD, Because you say this word; the burden of the LORD; and I have sent to you saying, You shall not say, The burden of the LORD;


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therefore, behold, I, even I, will completely forget you, and I will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers, [and cast you] out of My presence.


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And I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. And they shall fear no more, nor be afraid; nor shall they lack [anything], says the LORD.


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And I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a never-ending shame, which shall not be forgotten.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and act wisely, and shall do judgment and justice in the earth.


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In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this [is] His name by which He shall be called, JEHOVAH, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, who brought the sons of Israel up out of the land of Egypt;


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but, The LORD lives, who brought up and led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I have driven them. And they shall dwell in their own land.


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My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of His holiness.


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The LORD caused me to see, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD (after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the rulers of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon);


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And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague among them until they are destroyed from the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.


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one basket [had] very good figs, like the first ripe figs. And the other basket [had] very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.


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Then the LORD said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so that they cannot be eaten, they are so bad.


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So says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will acknowledge the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place [into] the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.


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For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. And I will build them and not pull [them] down; and I will plant them and not pluck them up.


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And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I [am] the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.


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And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely so says the LORD, So I will give to Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the rest of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt;


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


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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. It [was] the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;


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And I will take from them the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle.


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And this whole land shall be a ruin [and] a waste. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


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And it shall be, when seventy years are fulfilled I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, and the land of the Chaldeans, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and I will make it an everlasting ruin.


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And I will bring on that land all My words which I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.


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For many nations and great kings shall lay service on them also. And I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.


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For so says the LORD, the God of Israel, to me, Take the wine cup of this wrath at My hand, and cause all the nations to whom I shall send you to drink it.


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And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be maddened, because of the sword that I will send among them.


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Then I took the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me.


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Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of them, and their rulers, to make them a ruin and a, a hissing, and a curse, (as [it is] today),


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the word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people of Jerusalem, saying,


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and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the rest of Ashdod;


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and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands beyond the sea,


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and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.


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So you shall say to them, So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.


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And it shall be if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, So says the LORD of hosts, You shall certainly drink.


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For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by My name; and should you be found entirely without guilt? You shall not be without guilt. For I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.


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From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, that [is] the twenty-third year, the Word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking. But you have not listened.


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And prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation. He shall mightily roar over His dwelling place. He shall give a shout, like those who tread out grapes], against all the people of the earth.


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A noise shall come to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations; He will enter into judgment with all flesh. He will give those [who are] wicked to the sword, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be stirred up from the corners of the earth.


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And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth; they shall not be mourned, nor gathered, nor buried. They shall be [as] dung on the ground.


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Howl, shepherds, and cry; and roll, leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and of your scatterings are fulfilled; and you shall fall like a desirable vessel.


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A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the choice ones of the flock [shall be heard]; for the LORD has spoiled their pasture.


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Like the lion, He has left His den; for their land is wasted because of the oppressor's pressing fury, and because of His fierce anger.


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And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened nor bowed down your ear to hear.


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They said, Turn again now, each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever.


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And do not go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm.


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Yet you have not listened to Me, says the LORD, so that you might provoke Me with the works of your hands, for harm to you.


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behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and will bring them against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations all around. And I will completely destroy them, and make them a waste, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.


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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,


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When the rulers of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entrance of the New Gate of the LORD's [house].


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And the priests and the prophets spoke to the rulers and to all the people, saying, [Let] a death sentence be for this man, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.


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Then Jeremiah spoke to all the rulers and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.


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So now make your ways and your doings good, and obey the voice of the LORD your God. And the LORD will repent of the evil that He has spoken against you.


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But know for certain that if you put me to death you shall surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its people. For truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.


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Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, There [is] not a sentence of death for this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.


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Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, So says Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house like the high places of a forest.


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Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah indeed put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD, and pray to the LORD, and the LORD repented of the evil which He had spoken against them? So we are doing great evil against our souls.


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So says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not keep back a word.


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And there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.


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And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the rulers, heard his words, the king tried to put him to death. But when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled and went into Egypt.


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And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt; Elnathan the son of Achbor, and men with him into Egypt.


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And they brought Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and threw his dead body into the graves of the common people.


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But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.


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It may be that they will listen, and each man turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I plan to do to them because of the evil of their doings.


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And you shall say to them, So says the LORD: If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,


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to listen to the words of My servants the prophets whom I am sending to you (both rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened);


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then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.


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So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.


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And it happened when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, You shall surely die!


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Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be wasted, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.


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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,


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For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out and you should perish.


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But the nations who bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those I will leave it on their own land, says the LORD. And [they] shall work it and dwell in it.


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I also spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.


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Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?


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Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon. For they prophesy a lie to you.


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For I have not sent them, says the LORD; yet they prophesy a lie in My name, so that I might drive you out, and that you might perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.


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Also I spoke to the priests and to all the people, saying, So says the LORD, Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon. For they prophesy a lie to you.


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But if they [are] prophets, and if the Word of the LORD is with them, let them now pray to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels which remain in this city,


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which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;


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yes, so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain [in] the house of the LORD and [in] the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem:


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They shall be carried to Babylon, and they shall be there until the day that I visit them, says the LORD. Then I will bring them up and give them back to this place.


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And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who came to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.


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And command them to [go to] their masters, So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: So you shall say to your masters,


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I have made the earth, man, and the animals on the face of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed right to Me.


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And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant. And I have also given him the beast of the field to serve him.


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And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.


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And it shall be, the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish, says the LORD, with the sword and with the famine, and with the plague, until I have destroyed them by his hand.


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As for you, do not listen to your prophets, nor to your fortune tellers, nor to your dreamers, nor to your conjurers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon.


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And it happened in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,


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And Hananiah spoke for the eyes of all the people, saying, So says the LORD, Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the time of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.


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Then the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,


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Go and tell Hananiah, saying, So says the LORD: You have broken the yokes of wood, but you shall make for them yokes of iron.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And they shall serve him. And I have given him the beasts of the field also.


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Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah. The LORD has not sent you, but you make this people to trust in a lie.


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Therefore so says the LORD, Behold, I will drive you from off the face of the earth. You shall die this year, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD.


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Within two full years I will again bring into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried them to Babylon.


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And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went into Babylon, says the LORD. For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.


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Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence all the people who stood in the house of the LORD,


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even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen. May the LORD do [so]. May the LORD confirm your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is exiled from Babylon into this place.


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The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of plague.


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As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, [then] the prophet shall be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.


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And these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon.


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For so says the LORD, When according to My Word seventy years have been fulfilled for Babylon, I will visit you and confirm My good Word to you, to bring you back to this place.


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For I know the purposes which I am purposing for you, says the LORD; purposes of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.


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And I will be found by you, says the LORD; and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD. And I will bring you again into the place from where I caused you to be exiled.


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so says the LORD of the king who sits on the throne of David, and of all the people who dwell in this city, [and] of your brothers who have not gone out with you into captivity;


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so says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the plague, and will make them like worthless figs which cannot be eaten from badness.


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And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and a waste, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them,


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because they have not listened to My words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending; but you would not hear, says the LORD.


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(After Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the eunuchs, the rulers of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem.)


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so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, about Ahab the son of Kolaiah and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall kill them before your eyes.


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And a curse shall be taken up from them by all the exiles of Judah who [are] in Babylon, saying, May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,


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because they have committed evil in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them; for I [am] He who knows and a witness, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your name to all the people who [are] at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,


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The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be officers [in] the house of the LORD, over every madman who prophesies, that you should put him into the stocks and into the collar.


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For this cause he sent to us [in] Babylon, saying, This [exile is] long. Build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.


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The letter came by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah the king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,


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Send to all the exiles, saying, So says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he caused you to trust in a lie,


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therefore so says the LORD, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed. He shall not have a man to dwell among this people; nor shall he behold the good which I shall do for My people, says the LORD, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD.


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So says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I caused to be exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon:


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Take wives and father sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may be multiplied there and not become few.


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And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be exiled, and pray to the LORD for it. For in its peace you shall have peace.


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For so says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your fortune-tellers in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you dream.


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[They] say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says the LORD.


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And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, says the LORD.


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Go and cry these words toward the north, and say, Return, O backsliding Israel, says the LORD; [and] I will not cause My anger to fall on you; for I [am] merciful, says the LORD, [and] I will not keep anger forever.


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Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have sinned against the LORD your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says the LORD.


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Turn, O backsliding sons, says the LORD; for I am married to you; and I will take you one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.


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And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you [with] knowledge and understanding.


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And it will be when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD! Nor shall it come to mind; nor shall they remember it; nor shall they visit [it]; nor shall it be made any more.


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At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. Nor shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.


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In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.


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But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance [among] the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.


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Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.


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Surely [as] a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.


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A voice was heard on the high places weeping, cryings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten Jehovah their God.


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Return, O backsliding sons, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to You; for You are Jehovah our God.


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Truly, for delusion [comes] from the high hills, tumult [on] the mountains. Truly, in Jehovah our God [is] the salvation of Israel.


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For shame has eaten up the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.


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We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.


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Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.


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Will He keep [His anger] forever? Will He keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done [all] the evil things you could do.


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The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.


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And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn to Me! But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.


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And I saw, when for all the causes [for] which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and gave a bill of divorce to her, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she went and whored, she also.


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And it happened, from the folly of her whoredom, she defiled the land and fornicated with stones and stocks.


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And you, O My servant Jacob, do not fear, says the LORD. Do not be terrified, O Israel. For lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid.


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For I [am] with you, says the LORD, to save you. Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you entirely unpunished.


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All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity; [because] your sins are many.


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Why do you cry over your crushing? Your pain [is] incurable, for the greatness of your iniquity; because your sins are many, I have done these things to you.


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So all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your enemies, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And they who rob you shall be robbed, and all who strip you I will strip.


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For I will give health back to you, and will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an outcast, [saying], This is Zion; no one is seeking for her.


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So says the LORD: Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and will have mercy on his dwelling places. And the city shall be built on her own hill, and the palace shall remain in its own place.


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And out of them shall come thanksgiving, and the voice of those who rejoice. And I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.


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Also their sons shall be as they were before, and their congregation shall be established before Me, and I will punish all who ill-treat them.


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And their rulers shall be of themselves, and their governor shall come from among them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach Me. For who [is] this who pledged his heart to come near to Me? says the LORD.


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Behold, the tempest of Jehovah's wrath goes forth, a sweeping tempest; it shall whirl on the head of the wicked.


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The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return until He has done [it], and until He has fulfilled the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it.


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For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, says the LORD. And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave their fathers, and they shall possess it.


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Ask now, and see whether a man is giving birth? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labor, and all faces are turned into paleness?


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Alas! For that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it; it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.


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For it shall be in that day, says Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from your neck and will burst your bonds. And strangers shall no longer enslave him,


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At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.


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Hear the Word of the LORD, O nations, and declare [it] in the coastlands afar off. And say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd [keeps] his flock.


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Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the sons of the flock and the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not pine away any more at all.


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Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their affliction.


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And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD: A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing [and] bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her sons; she refuses to be comforted for her sons, because they [are] not.


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So says the LORD: Hold back your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD. And they shall come again from the land of the enemy.


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And there is hope for your future, says the LORD, that [your] sons shall come again to their own border.


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I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, [saying], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You [are] the LORD my God.


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Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was taught, I struck on [my] thigh. I was ashamed, yea, I even blushed, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.


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So says the LORD, The people [who were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I will go to give him rest.


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[Is] Ephraim My dear son? [Is he] a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still. Therefore My bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD.


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Set up waymarks, make sign posts for yourself. Set your heart toward the highway, the way you went. Turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.


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How long will you turn to and fro, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land; a woman shall enclose a man.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Again they shall speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall again bring their captivity: The LORD bless you, O home of justice [and] mountain of holiness.


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And farmers, and those going forth with flocks, shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities of it together.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.


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And it shall be, as I have watched over them to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so I will watch over them to build, and to plant, says the LORD.


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In those days they shall not say any more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.


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Jehovah has appeared to me from afar, [saying], Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you.


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But every man shall die in his iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be dull.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,


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not according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to them, says the LORD;


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but this [shall be] the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: After those days, says the LORD, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.


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And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know the LORD; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more.


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So says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day and the laws of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; the LORD of hosts [is] His name;


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if those ordinances depart from Me, says the LORD, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.


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So says the LORD, If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be searched out, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the Tower of Hananeel to the Corner Gate.


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Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel. You shall again put on your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.


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And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the torrent of Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, [shall be] holy to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up nor thrown down any more forever.


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You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common things.


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For there shall be a day [that] the watchmen on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion to Jehovah our God!


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For so says the LORD, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations. Cry out, give praise and say, O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel.


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Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the corners of the earth, and with [them] the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; a great company shall return there.


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They shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] My firstborn.


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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.


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And I wrote it in the document, and sealed [it], and called witnesses, and weighed the silver in the scales.


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So I took the document of the purchase, that which was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and the open copy.


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And I gave the document of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, before the eyes of Hanameel my uncle's [son], and before the eyes of the witnesses who wrote in the purchase document, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.


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So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these books, the purchase document, the one sealed and the open book, and put them in an earthen vessel so that they may stand many days.


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For so says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall be owned again in this land.


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Ah, Lord Jehovah! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and stretched out arm. Nothing is too great for You.


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You show loving-kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them. The great, the mighty God, Jehovah of hosts, [is] His name,


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great in wisdom and mighty in work; for Your eyes [are] open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.


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For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem. And Jeremiah the prophet was shut in the court of the guard, which [was] in the king of Judah's house.


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For You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, until this day, and in Israel, and among men; and have made You a name, as at this day;


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and have brought forth Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror.


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And You have given them this land, which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And they came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice, nor did they walk in Your law. They have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have caused all this evil to come on them.


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Behold, the siege mounds have come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the plague. And what You have spoken has happened; and, behold, You saw [it].


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And You have said to me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.


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Therefore so says the LORD: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it.


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And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come up and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.


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For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy and say, So says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it,


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For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have only done evil before Me from their youth. For the sons of Israel have only provoked Me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD.


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For this city has been to Me as a cause of My anger and of My fury from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before My face


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because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and of the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger, they, their kings, their rulers, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And they have turned the back to Me, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet they have not listened to receive instruction.


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And they built the high places of Baal, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.


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And now therefore, so says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague:


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Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands where I have driven them in My anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath. And I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.


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And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their good and for the good of their sons after them.


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and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes,


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


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Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will truly plant them in this land with all My heart and all My whole soul.


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For so says the LORD: As I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.


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And fields shall be bought in this land of which you say, [It is] a desert without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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Men shall buy fields for silver, and write it in a book, and seal [it], and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south. For I will cause their captivity to return, says the LORD.


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and he shall lead Zedekiah into Babylon, and there he shall be until I visit him, says the LORD; though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not be blessed.


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Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth; for the right to redeem it [is] yours, to buy [it].


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So Hanameel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD and said to me, Please buy my field in Anathoth, which [is] in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance [is] yours, and the right to redeem [is] yours. Buy [it] for yourself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.


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And I bought the field in Anathoth, of Hanameel my uncle's son, and weighed him the silver, seventeen shekels of silver.


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And the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard, saying,


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So says the LORD: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say [is] a waste without man and without beast, [even] in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast;


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the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts, for the LORD [is] good, for His mercy [endures] forever; and the voice of those who shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return, as at the first, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD of hosts: Again in this place which is a desert without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there [shall be] a home of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down.


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In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him who tallies, says the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will establish the good thing which I have spoken to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.


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In those days, and at that time, I will cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. And He shall do judgment and righteousness in the land.


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In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this [is the name] with which she shall be called, JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.


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nor shall the priests the Levites lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle grain offerings, and to do sacrifice forever.


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So says Jehovah the Maker of it, Jehovah who formed it in order to establish it; Jehovah [is] His name:


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So says the LORD: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season,


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[then] also may My covenant with David My servant be broken, that he should not have a son to reign on his throne, and [My covenant] with the Levites the priests, My ministers.


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As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.


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Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has even cast them off? So they have despised My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.


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So says the LORD: If My covenant [is] not with day and night, [and if] I have not given the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,


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then I will cast away the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will bring back their captivity, and have mercy on them.


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For so says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to defend] against the siege-mounds and against the sword:


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They come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My fury, and for all whose evil I have hidden My face from this city.


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Behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will heal them and will show them the riches of peace and truth.


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And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.


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


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And it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them. And they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the riches that I bring to it.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth (because his hand rules) and all the peoples, fought against Jerusalem and against all its cities; saying,


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And all the rulers obeyed, and all the people who had entered into the covenant allowed them to go free, each man his male slave, and each man his female slave, so that not any should enslave among them any more; and they obeyed and let them] go.


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But afterward they turned and caused the slaves and slave women whom they had let go free, to return! And they subjected them for slaves and slave women.


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So says the LORD, the God of Israel: I cut a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,


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At the end of seven years each man should let go his brother, a Hebrew, and who has been sold to him. And when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor bow down their ears.


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And you had turned today, and had done right in My sight to call for liberty, each man to his neighbor. And you had cut a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.


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But you turned and defiled My name, and each man caused his slave, and each man caused his slave woman, whom you had set free to do as they pleased, to return. And you brought them into service to be slaves and slave women to you.


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So the LORD says this: You have not listened to Me to proclaim liberty each man to his brother, and each man to his neighbor! Behold, I call for freedom for you, says the LORD, to the sword, to the plague, and to the famine. And I will cause you to be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And I will give the men who have sinned against My covenant, who have not done the words of the covenant which they cut before Me [when they] cut the calf in two and passed between its parts;


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the rulers of Judah, and the rulers of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf;


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So says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, So says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.


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I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.


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And I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his rulers, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have withdrawn from you.


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Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and cause them to return to this city. And they shall fight against it and capture it, and burn it with fire. And I will make the cities of Judah a desert without a soul to live in it.


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And you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand. And your eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.


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Yet hear the Word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah: So says the LORD of you, You shall not die by the sword.


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You shall die in peace; and as the burnings of spices [for] your fathers, the former kings which were before you, so they shall burn [spices] for you. And they will mourn you, saying, Ah, lord! For I have spoken the word, says the LORD.


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when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah; against Lachish, and against Azekah; for these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.


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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after king Zedekiah had cut a covenant with all the people at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,


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that each man should let his male slave, and each man his female slave, [if] a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, to go free, that none should enslave a Jew, his brother among them.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,


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But we have lived in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.


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But it happened when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, Come and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the Chaldean army, and for fear of the Syrian army. So we are living at Jerusalem.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and tell the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to listen to My words? says the LORD.


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The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are done. For to this day they do not drink, but obey their father's commandment. But I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you did not listen to Me.


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I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending, saying, Return now each man from his evil way, and make your doings good, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers. But you have not bowed down your ear, nor listened to Me.


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Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have done the commandment of their father, which He commanded them; but this people has not listened to Me;


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therefore so says Jehovah, God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil that I have spoken against them. Because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.


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And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts, and have done according to all that he has commanded you;


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therefore so says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before Me forever.


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Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the rooms. And give them wine to drink.


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Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites.


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And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which [was] near the room of the rulers, above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door.


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And I set pots full of wine, and cups, before the sons of the house of the Rechabites. And I said to them, Drink wine!


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But they said, We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, [you] nor your sons forever.


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Nor shall you build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant a vineyard, nor have [anything]; but all your days you shall live in tents, so that you may live many days in the land where you are strangers.


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So we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he has commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;


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And it happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,


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And Baruch read in the book, the words of Jeremiah [in] the house of the LORD, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entrance to the New Gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.


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When Michaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD out of the book,


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then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's room. And, lo, all the rulers sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the rulers.


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Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.


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Therefore all the rulers sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take the roll in your hand in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand and came to them.


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And it happened when they had heard all the words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.


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Then Baruch answered them, He spoke all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink on the book.


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And the rulers said to Baruch, Go hide yourselves, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.


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Take for yourself a roll 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.


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And they went in to the king into the court. But they laid up the roll in the room of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.


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So the king sent Jehudi to bring the roll. And he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the rulers who stood beside the king.


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And it happened when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the scribe's knife and threw [it] into the fire in the fire-pan, until all the scroll was burned up in the fire-pan.


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Yet the king and all his servants who heard these words were not afraid, [nor] did they tear their garments.


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But Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had pleaded with the king that he should not burn the scroll, but he would not hear them.


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And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD hid them.


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Then the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,


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Take for yourself another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.


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And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, So says the LORD: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in it, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause man and beast to cease from there?


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It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I plan to do to them, that they may each man turn from his evil way, so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.


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Therefore so says the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David. And his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.


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And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity. And I will bring on them, and on the people of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evils that I have spoken against them; but they did not listen.


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Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many words like them were added to them.


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Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah. And Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which He had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.


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Therefore you go, and read in the roll which you have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house on the fasting day. And also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.


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It may be they will present their prayer before the LORD, and will return, each one from his evil way. For great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD has spoken against this people.


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And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book, the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.


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And it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, they called a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.


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And King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.


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For though you had stricken the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained [only] wounded men among them, they would rise up, each man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.


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And it happened when the army of Chaldeans was made to go up from Jerusalem because of fear of Pharaoh's army,


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then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive a portion from there in the midst of the people.


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And it happened, he [being] in the gate of Benjamin, a commander of the guard named Irijah [was] there, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.


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Then Jeremiah said, A lie! I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he did not listen to him; so Irijah took Jeremiah and brought him to the rulers.


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And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison, the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison.


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When Jeremiah had entered into the house of the pit, and into the cells, then Jeremiah remained there many days.


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And Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. And the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is. For, He said, you shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.


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And Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, What have I offended against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?


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Where now [are] your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor against this land?


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But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to the words of the LORD which He spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.


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And please hear now, O my lord the king; I beg you, let my cry be pleasing to you, so that you cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.


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And Zedekiah the king commanded that they should put Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him a piece of bread out of the bakers' street daily, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.


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And 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 Jehovah our God for us.


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And Pharaoh's army had come out from Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who besieged Jerusalem heard news of them, they departed from Jerusalem.


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So says the LORD, the God of Israel: You shall say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.


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And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city, and capture it, and burn it with fire.


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So says the LORD: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us. For they shall not depart.


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And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying,


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Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take in your hand thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet up out of the pit before he dies.


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So Ebed-melech took the men in his hand and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took worn out clothes and worn out rags from there, and let them down by ropes into the pit to Jeremiah.


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And Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Now put the worn out clothes and rags under your armpits, under the ropes. And Jeremiah did so.


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So they drew up Jeremiah with ropes and took him up out of the pit. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.


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And Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to him, into the third gate in the house of the LORD. And the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing. Do not hide anything from me.


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Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare [it] to you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.


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Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.


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Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, So says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surely go forth to the king of Babylon's rulers, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire. And you shall live, and your house.


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But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's rulers, then this city shall be given into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand.


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And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and lest they hurt me.


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So says the LORD, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague. But he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life as a prize, and shall live.


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But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver [you]. I beg you, obey the voice of the LORD which I speak to you; so it shall be well to you, and your soul shall live.


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And, behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house [shall be] brought out to the king of Babylon's rulers, and they shall say, Your friends have urged you on, and have prevailed against you. Your feet have sunk in the mire, and they have turned away.


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So they shall bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans. And you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.


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But if the rulers hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and say to you, Declare to us now what you have said to the king; do not hide [it] from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you;


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then you shall say to them, I presented my cry before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.


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Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah and asked him. And he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they quit speaking with him; for the matter was not known.


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So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was captured. And he was [there] when Jerusalem was captured.


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So says the LORD: This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, and he shall capture it.


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And the rulers said to the king, Please let this man be put to death. For in this way 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 does not seek the good of this people, but the hurt.


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Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand. For the king cannot do a thing against you.


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And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which [was] in the court of the prison. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.


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And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, of the eunuchs in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the pit (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),


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My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have thrown into the pit. And he is likely to die of hunger in the place where he is, for [there is] no more bread in the city.


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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 they besieged it.


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But Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, left [some] of the poor people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields on that day.


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And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners, saying,


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Take him, and set your eyes on him, and do him no evil. But do with him even as he shall say to you.


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So Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners sent, and Nebu-shasban chief of the eunuchs, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon's rulers,


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even they sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and entrusted him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, to take him to the house. So he lived among the people.


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Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring My words on this city for evil and not for good. And they shall be [done] in that day before you.


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But I will deliver you in that day, says the LORD. And you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you [are] afraid.


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For I will surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be as a prize to you, because you have put your trust in Me, says the LORD.


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In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth of the month, the city was broken up.


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And all the rulers of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, chief of the eunuchs, Nergal-sharezer, chief soothsayer, and all the rest of the rulers of the king of Babylon.


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And it happened when Zedekiah, the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out from the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out the way of the plain.


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But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And they took him, and made him go up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment on him.


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Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes in Riblah. Also the king of Babylon killed all the rulers of Judah.


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And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.


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Then Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled [to] Babylon the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to him with the rest of the people that remained.


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If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return to Me. And if you will put away your abominations out of your sight, then you shall not be moved.


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Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; but the sword reaches to the soul.


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At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind [from] the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to sift nor to cleanse.


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


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O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?


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Tell [it] to the nations: Behold! proclaim against Jerusalem! Besiegers are going to come from a distant land; and they will set their voice against the cities of Judah.


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Like watchmen of a field, they are against her all around; because she rebelled against Me, says the LORD.


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Your way and your doings have brought these [things] on you; this is your evil, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.


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My bowels, my bowels! I convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the ram's horn, the alarm of war.


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And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him they shall glory.


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Ruin on ruin is cried; for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are laid waste, my curtains in a moment.


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For My people [are] foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.


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I looked on the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.


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I looked, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down before the face of the LORD, before His fierce anger.


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The earth shall mourn for this, and the heavens above shall be black, because I have spoken, I have purposed, and will not repent, nor will I turn back from it.


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Every city shall flee from the sound of the horsemen and bowmen. They shall go into thickets and climb up among the rocks. All the city is abandoned, and not a man shall live in them.


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For so says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.


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And you, O desolate one, what will you do? Though you dress with crimson, though you put on ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes large with paint, you shall make yourself beautiful in vain; your lovers will despise you; they will seek your life.


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For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as one bearing her first child, the voice of Zion's daughter, gasping and spreading her hands, [saying], Woe to me now! For my soul faints because of murderers.


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Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, men of Judah and people of Jerusalem; lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that none can put [it] out; because of the evil of your doings.


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Declare in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land; cry, gather together, and say, Gather yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities.


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Set up the banner toward Zion; flee for safety and do not wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great ruin.


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The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations has set out; he has left his place to make your land a waste. Your cities will fall into ruins without inhabitant.


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Put on sackcloth for this, wail and howl; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.


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And it shall be at that day, says the LORD, the king's heart will perish, and the heart of the rulers; and the priests will be amazed, and the prophets will be astounded.


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This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners 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 being exiled to Babylon.


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[As for] me, behold, I will live at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, who have come to us. But you go gather wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken.


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Also when all the Jews in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and 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;


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even 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 wine and summer fruits in abundance.


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And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces that [were] in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah.


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And they said to him, You certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to kill you. But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.


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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 shall know. Why should he kill you so that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?


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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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And the chief of the executioners took Jeremiah and said to him, Jehovah your God has spoken this evil against this place.


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And the LORD has brought [it], and has done according as He has said, Because you have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, therefore this thing has come on you.


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And now, behold, I set you free today from the chains on your hand. If [it seems] good to you to come with me into Babylon, come. And I will keep my eye on you. But if [it seems] evil to you to come with me into Babylon, stay. Behold, all the land [is] before you. Wherever it seems good and pleasing for you to go, go there.


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And while he had not yet gone back, [he said], Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and live with him among the people. Or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the chief of the executioners gave him food and a reward, and let him go.


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Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam at Mizpah. And [he] lived with him among the people who were left in the land.


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And when all the commanders of the forces who [were] in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had entrusted to him men, and women, and children, and [many] of the poor of the land, of those who [were] not exiled to Babylon;


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then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai of Netopha, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.


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And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, Do not fear to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.


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And it happened in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and the rulers 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.


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Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who [were] in Mizpah, even the king's daughters and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners had entrusted to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took captive and left to go over to the Ammonites.


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But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,


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then they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. And they found him by the great waters that [are] in Gibeon.


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And it happened when all the people with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces with him, then they were glad.


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So all the people that Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.


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Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces 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. They took mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon.


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because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.


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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.


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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.


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some men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.


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And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he walked. And it happened as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.


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And it happened when they came into the middle of the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, he and the men with him, and they [threw them] into the middle of the pit.


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But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, Do not kill us, for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he held back and did not kill them among their brothers.


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And the pit in which Ishmael had thrown all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had killed because of Gedaliah, [was] the one which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.


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Then came near all the commanders 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.


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If you will still remain in this land, then I will build you and will not pull [you] down. And I will plant you and will not pluck [you] up. For I repent of the evil that I have done to you.


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Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not be afraid of him, says the LORD. For I [am] with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand.


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And I will show mercies to you, so that he may have mercy on you and cause you to return to your own land.


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saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger for bread; and there we will dwell;


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then now hear the Word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: If you surely set your faces to go into Egypt, and go to live there,


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then it will happen, the sword which you feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt. And the famine of which you were anxious about shall cling to you there [in] Egypt; and you shall die there.


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So [it] shall be to all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague. And none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As My anger and My fury has been poured forth on the people of Jerusalem, so shall My fury be poured forth on you when you shall enter into Egypt. And you shall be a curse, and a wonder, and a shame, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.


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The LORD has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Do not go into Egypt. Know certainly that I have warned you this day.


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And they said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our cry be pleasing to you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnant, (for we are left [but] a few of many, as your eyes behold us,)


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For you used deceit against your souls when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do [it].


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And I have declared [it] to you today; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor anything for which He has sent me to you.


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And therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, in the place where you desire to go to live.


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And Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall be, all the word the LORD shall answer, I will declare [it] to you. I will keep nothing back from you.


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And they said to Jeremiah, Let the LORD be a true and faithful witness between us if we do not do even according to all things for which the LORD your God shall send you to us.


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Whether [it is] good, or whether it is evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send you; so that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.


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And he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest.


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And he said to them, So says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your cry before Him:


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And it happened when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, all these words,


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And say to them, So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: 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 shall spread his royal pavilion over them.


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And when he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt. And whoever [is] for death [shall go] to death; and whoever for captivity, into captivity; and whoever for the sword, to the sword.


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And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. And he shall burn them and exile them. And he shall adorn himself with the land of Egypt, like a shepherd puts on his robe; and he shall go out from there in peace.


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He shall also break the obelisks of The House of the Sun which [is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians he shall burn with fire.


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Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, spoke then, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, Do not go to Egypt to live there.


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But Baruch the son of Neriah [is] inciting you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death and to exile us to Babylon.


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So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces, and all the people, did not obey the voice of the LORD to live in the land of Judah.


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But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations (where they had been driven) to dwell in the land of Judah;


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men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.


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So they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. So they came to Tahpanhes.


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Take great stones to your hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln which [is] at the entrance to Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.


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The Word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who live in the land of Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,


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They are not humbled to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in My law, nor in My statutes which I have set before you and before your fathers.


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So Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says this: Behold, I will set My face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.


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And I will take the remnant of Judah, who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there; and they shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt. They shall be destroyed by the sword and by the famine. They shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be a curse, a wonder, and a shame, and a reproach.


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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 plague,


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So that none of the remnant of Judah who has gone into the land of Egypt to live there shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah to which they have a desire to return to live there. For none shall return except those who escape.


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And all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great multitude, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah. And they said,


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But we will certainly do whatever thing goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. [For] then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.


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But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all [things], and have been devoured by the sword and by the famine.


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And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make our cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our men?


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. And, behold, today [they are] a ruin, and no one lives there


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And Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women, and to all the people who had given him [that] answer:


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The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your fathers, your kings, and your rulers, and the people of the land; did not the LORD remember them? Yea, it came into His mind.


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Yea, so that the LORD could no longer hold back because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations which you have committed! So your land is a waste, and a wonder, and a curse, without anyone in it, as [it is] today.


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Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, [nor walked] in His law, nor in His statutes, nor did you walk in His testimonies, therefore this evil has happened to you, as at this day.


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And Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the Word of the LORD, all Judah that [is] in the land of Egypt.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hands, saying, We will surely fulfil our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her. You will surely fulfil your vows and surely carry out your vows.


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Therefore hear the Word of the LORD, all Judah that lives in the land of Egypt. Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that My name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord Jehovah lives.


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Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good. And all the men of Judah in the land of Egypt shall be destroyed by the sword and by the famine, until there is an end of them.


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Yet the small number that escapes the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah (who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there) shall know whose word shall stand, Mine or theirs.


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And this [shall be] a sign to you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place so that you may know that My words shall surely stand against you for evil.


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because of their evil which they have committed to provoke Me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods whom they knew not, they, you, nor your fathers.


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So says the LORD, Behold, I am giving 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, his enemy that sought his life.


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But I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate!


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But they did not listen, nor bow down their ear to turn from their evil, to burn no incense to other gods.


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Therefore My fury and My anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. And they are wasted, deserted as at this day.


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And now so says Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit [this] great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and babe, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;


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in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you might cut yourselves off and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?


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Have you forgotten the evilness of your fathers, and the evilness of the kings of Judah, and the evilness of their wives, and your own evilness, and the evilness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?


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The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,


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You said, Woe is me now, for the LORD has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.


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So you shall say to him, The LORD says this: Behold, what I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even all the land itself to Me.


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And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek [them]; for behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says the LORD. But I will give your life to you as a prize, in all places where you go.


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For this [is] the day of the Lord Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself of His foes. And the sword shall devour, and it shall be filled and made drunk with their blood, for the Lord Jehovah of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.


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Go up into Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt. In vain shall you use many medicines, [for] you shall not be cured.


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The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land. For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, [and] they have both fallen together.


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The word spoken by the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, of the coming of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to strike the land of Egypt.


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Declare [it] in Egypt, and cry [it] in Migdol, and make [it] heard in Noph and in Tahpanhes. Say, Stand fast and get ready, the sword shall devour all around you.


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He made many fall; yea, one fell on another. And they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressing sword.


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[As] I live, says the King whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.


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O daughter dwelling in Egypt, get ready to go into captivity. For Noph shall be waste and a desert without inhabitant.


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against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho, 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.


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Also her hired ones [are] in her midst like calves of the stall; for they also have turned back, fleeing together. They did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come on them, the time of their visitation.


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Its sound [is] like a serpent's going, for they shall go in force and come against her with axes like woodcutters.


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They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts and cannot be counted.


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The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed. She shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.


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Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings; even Pharaoh and all who trust in him;


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and 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. And afterward it will be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD.


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But you do not fear, O My servant Jacob, and be not afraid, O Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him afraid.


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Do not fear, O Jacob My servant, says the LORD, for I [am] with you. For I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you. But I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure; yet I will not leave you wholly unpunished.


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Harness the horses, and horsemen get up. Yea, stand with helmets, polish the spears; put on body armor.


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Why have I seen? They are afraid, turned backward. And their mighty ones are beaten down and have fled [for] refuge, and they do not look back. Terror [is] all around, says the LORD.


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Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. They stumbled and fell toward the north, by the side of the river Euphrates.


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Egypt rises up like the Nile, and [his] waters surge about like the rivers. And he says, I will go up [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its people.


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Come up, horses; and rage chariots! And let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans who handle the shield, and the Lydians who handle [and] bend the bow.


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The Word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.


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So says the LORD: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land and all its fullness; the city and those who dwell in it. And the men shall cry, and all the people of the land shall howl.


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At the noise of the stamping of the hooves of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their sons because of feebleness of hands;


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because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines [and] to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every survivor who helps. For the LORD will plunder the Philistines, the rest of the country of Caphtor.


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Baldness has come on Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off [with] the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?


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O sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] before you are quiet? Put yourself into your sheath; rest and be still.


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How can it be quiet, since the LORD has given it a command? He has set it there against Ashkelon, and against the seashore.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, against Moab: Woe to Nebo, for it is ravaged! Kiriathaim [is] shamed [and] captured. The Fortress is shamed and razed.


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Cursed [is] he who does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed [is] he who keeps back his sword from blood.


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Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile. Therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.


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Therefore behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send pourers to him, who shall pour him off, and his vessels shall empty, and shatter their jars.


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Moab is plundered and has come up out of her cities. And his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King whose name [is] Jehovah of hosts.


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All you who are around him, mourn him. And all you who know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, [and] the beautiful rod!


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O dweller, daughter of Dibon, come down from [your] glory and sit in thirst. For the ravager of Moab shall come on you; he shall destroy your strongholds.


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O dweller of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, What is happening?


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[There shall be] no more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have plotted evil against it, saying, Come and let us cut it off [from being] a nation. Also you shall be silenced, O madmen; the sword shall pursue you.


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Make him drunk, for he magnified [himself] against the LORD. Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be a mockery.


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For was not Israel a mockery to you? Was he found among thieves? For ever since you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.


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O you who dwell in Moab, leave the cities and live in the rock, and be like the dove making her nest in the sides of the mouth of the pit.


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We have heard the pride of Moab (he is exceedingly proud), his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and his elevated heart.


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O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer. Your plants have gone over the sea; they reach to the sea of Jazer. A ravager has fallen on your summer fruits and on your grape crop.


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And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab. And I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses; none shall tread [the grapes] with shouting; [their] shouting [shall be] no shouting.


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From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh, and to Jahaz, they have uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, [like] a heifer three years old. For the waters of Nimrim also shall be deserted.


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And, I will cause him who offers in the high places to cease in Moab, says the LORD, and him who burns incense to his gods.


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Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like flutes, and my heart shall sound like flutes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches [that] he has gotten have perished.


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For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.


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On all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets, there [is] weeping for all. For I have broken Moab like a vessel in which [is] no pleasure, says the LORD.


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They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! How has Moab turned the back [with] shame! So Moab shall be a cause of scorn, and he shall be a terror to all those around him.


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Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized; and the mighty men's hearts in Moab shall be at that day like the heart of a woman in [her] pangs.


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And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he has magnified [himself] against the LORD.


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He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who goes up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring on it, even on Moab, the year of their judgment, says the LORD.


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Those who fled stood powerless in the shadow of Heshbon, for a fire shall come out from Heshbon, and a flame out of the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the sons of desolation.


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Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish; for your sons are taken away into exile, and your daughters into exile.


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But I will restore the prisoners of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD. So far [is] the judgment of Moab.


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For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of ruin.


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For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be captured. And Chemosh shall go into exile [with] his priests and his rulers.


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And the robber shall come on every city, and no city shall escape. Also the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.


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Give wings to Moab so that it may flee and get away; for its cities shall be a desert, without an inhabitant in them.


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So says the LORD to the sons of Ammon: Has Israel no sons? Or has he no heir? Why does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?


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But I have made Esau bare; I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself. His seed is ravaged, and his brothers, and his neighbors, and he [is] gone.


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


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For I have sworn by Myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be wastes forever.


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I have heard a message from the LORD, and a herald is sent to the nations, [saying], Gather together and come against her, and rise up to the battle.


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Your fearfulness has deceived you, [and] the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.


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Also Edom shall be a ruin. Everyone who goes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss at all its plagues.


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As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor, says the LORD, no man shall remain there, nor shall a son of man live in it.


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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the home of the strong. But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who [is] a chosen one I may appoint over it? For who [is] like Me? And who will summon Me? And who [is] that shepherd who will stand before Me?


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So, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will cause a shout of war to be heard in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. And it shall be a heap of ruins, and her daughter-villages shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall inherit his inheritance, says the LORD.


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So then hear the counsel of the LORD which He has taken against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the people of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them away. Surely He shall make their homes a ruin over them.


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The earth is shaken at the noise of their fall; when they cried, its noise was heard in the Red Sea.


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Behold, he shall come up and fly like the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah. And at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.


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Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard bad news. They are melted; anxiety is in the sea; it cannot be quiet.


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Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee, and trembling has seized [her]. Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.


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So her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be silenced in that day, says the LORD of hosts.


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So says the LORD concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike: Arise, go up to Kedar, and strip the men of the east.


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They shall take away their tents and their flocks. They shall take their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels to themselves. And they shall cry to them, Fear [is] on every side.


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Wail, O Heshbon; Ai is spoiled! Cry, daughters of Rabbah; clothe yourselves with sackcloth, mourn, and run to and fro by the hedges! For their king shall go into exile; his priests and his rulers together.


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Flee, go far away, go deep to dwell; O people of Hazor, says the LORD; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has plotted a plan against you.


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Arise, go up to the nation that is at ease, who dwells securely, says the LORD, which has neither gates nor bars, [which] dwells alone.


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And their camels shall be a prize, and the multitude of their cattle a prey. And I will scatter them to all winds, those who cut the corners. And I will bring their calamity from all sides of it, says the LORD.


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And Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals [and] a ruin forever. No man shall live there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it.


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The Word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,


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And I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven on Elam, and will scatter them toward all these winds. And there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.


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For I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies and before those who seek their life. And I will bring evil on them, even My fierce anger, says the LORD. And I will send the sword after them until I have destroyed them;


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and I will set My throne in Elam, and will destroy the king and the rulers from there, says the LORD.


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Why do you glory in your valley, your flowing valleys, O backsliding daughter? she trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?


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Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord Jehovah of hosts, from all those who are around you. And you shall be driven out, each man straight forward; and there shall be none to gather up the runaways.


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So says the LORD of hosts to Edom: [Is] wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?


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Flee, turn back, dwell deep, O people of Dedan. For I will bring the calamity of Esau on him [in] the time [that] I will visit him.


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If the gatherers of grapes come to you, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? If thieves [come] by night, they will destroy until they have enough.


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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.


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Go up on her vine-rows and destroy; but do not make a full end; take away her branches, for they [are] not the LORD's.


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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very deceitfully against Me, says the LORD.


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They have lied against the LORD and said, [It is] not He; neither shall evil come on us; nor shall we see sword nor famine.


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Therefore so says Jehovah, God of hosts, Because you spoke this word, behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, and these people wood, and it shall devour them.


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Lo, I will bring a nation on you from afar, O house of Israel, says the LORD. It [is] an enduring nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor understand what they say.


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And they shall eat up Your harvest and your bread. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig-trees. One shall beat down your fortified cities with the sword, those in which you trust.


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And it will be, when you shall say, Why does the LORD our God do all these things] to us? Then You shall answer them, Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is] not yours.


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Now hear this, O foolish people and without heart; who have eyes and see not; who have ears and hear not;


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Do you not fear Me? says the LORD. Will you not tremble at My presence, I who have placed the sand [for] the boundary of the sea [by] a never-ending decree, so that it cannot pass it? And though they toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail; though its waves roar, yet they cannot pass over it?


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And they do not say in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, who gives both the former and the latter rain in its season; He reserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.


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For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.


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Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.


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They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.


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Shall I not visit for these [things]? says the LORD. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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O LORD, [are] not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.


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The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so, and what will you do at the end of it?


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So I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.


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I will go up for myself to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD [and] the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!


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Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, [and] a wolf of the deserts shall rob them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn in pieces, because their sins are many [and] their backslidings are multiplied.


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Why shall I pardon you for this? Your sons have forsaken Me, and have sworn by No-gods. When I adjured them, then they committed adultery, and gathered themselves by troops in a harlot's house.


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They were [like] lusty, well-fed stallions in the morning; every one neighing after his neighbor's wife.


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Shall I not judge for these [things]? says the LORD. And shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon, against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.


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Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O destroyers of My inheritance; because you are fat like the heifer in grass, and bellow like bulls;


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your mother shall be deeply ashamed; she who bore you shall turn pale. Behold, the last of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.


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Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly a waste. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be amazed and hiss at all her plagues.


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Put yourselves in order against Babylon all around; all you who bend the bow, shoot at her. Hold back no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.


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Shout against her all around. She has given her hand; her foundations have fallen, her walls have been thrown down; for it [is] the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.


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Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the pressing sword they shall turn, each one to his people; and they shall flee, each one to his own land.


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Israel [is] a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon crunched [his bones].


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So Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says this: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.


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And I will again bring Israel to his home, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.


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Declare among the nations, and cause them to hear, and lift up a banner. Cause them to hear, do not hide it; say, Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is broken in pieces; her images are shamed, her idols are broken in pieces.


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


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Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it and against the people of Pekod. Waste and destroy after them, says the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you.


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How the hammer of the whole earth is cut off and broken! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations!


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I have laid a trap for you, and you are also captured, O Babylon, and you did not know. You were found and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD.


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The LORD has opened His armory, and has brought forth the weapons of His fury. For this [is] the work of the Lord Jehovah of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.


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Come against her from the border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her completely. Let nothing of her be left.


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Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.


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The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of His temple.


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Make the archers hear against Babylon. All you who tread a bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.


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For out of the north a nation comes up against her, which shall make her land a desert, and none shall dwell in it. They shall flee, they shall depart, both man and beast.


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So her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be silenced in that day, says the LORD.


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Behold, I [am] against you, O proud ones, says the Lord Jehovah of hosts; for your day has come, the time that I will judge you.


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And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall burn up everything all around him.


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So says Jehovah of hosts: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah [were] oppressed together. And all who captured them held them fast; they refused to let them go.


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Their Redeemer [is] strong; Jehovah of hosts, [is] His name. He shall thoroughly plead their cause, so that he may give rest to the land, and give trouble to the people of Babylon.


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A sword [is] on the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers, and on her wise men.


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A sword [is] on the liars, and they shall become fools. A sword [is] on her mighty men, and they shall be afraid.


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A sword [is] on their horses and their chariots, and on all the mixed people in her midst; and they shall become as women. A sword [is] to her treasuries, and they shall be robbed.


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A drought [is] on her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it [is] the land of idols, and they act madly [with] idols.


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So the beasts of the desert shall dwell there with jackals. And the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her again. And it shall not again have anyone [in it] forever; it shall not be lived in until generation and generation.


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In those days, and at that time, says the LORD, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping. They shall go and seek Jehovah their God.


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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says the LORD, no man shall live there; nor shall any son of man live in it.


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Behold, a people shall come from the north, even a great nation; and many kings shall be stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth.


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They lay hold on a bow and spear; they [are] cruel and will not show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride on horses arrayed like a man for the battle against you, O daughter of Babylon.


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The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands became feeble. Anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs like [those of] a woman in labor.


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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the home of the strong. But I will make them suddenly run away from her. And who [is] a chosen [one whom] I will appoint over her? For who [is] like Me? And who will set Me the time? And who [is] that shepherd who will stand before Me?


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Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon; and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely the least of the flock shall drag them; surely He shall make [their] dwelling a desert with them.


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At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and a cry is heard among the nations.


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They shall ask the way [to] Zion with their faces there, [saying], Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD [in] an everlasting covenant never [to be] forgotten.


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My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away [on] the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.


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All who have found them have devoured them. And their enemies said, We do not offend, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.


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Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.


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For, lo, I am stirring up and bringing up against Babylon a company of great nations from a northern land. And they shall array themselves against her. She shall be captured there. Their arrows [ shall be] as [those] of a skillful, mighty man; none shall return in vain.


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So says the LORD: Behold, I will raise up a destroying wind against Babylon, and against those dwelling in the heart of My foes.


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The LORD has brought forth our righteousness; come and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.


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Sharpen the arrows; gather the shields; the LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan [is] against Babylon, to destroy [it]; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of His temple.


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Set up the banner on the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up the watchmen; prepare the ambushes. For the LORD has both planned and done that which He spoke against the people of Babylon.


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O you who live on many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, [and] the measure of your unjust gain.


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Jehovah of hosts has sworn by Himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men as with locusts; and they shall lift up a shout against you.


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He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His understanding.


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When He utters [His] voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens; and He causes the mists to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with rain and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.


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Every man is brutish in knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by idols. For his molded image [is] a lie, and no breath [is] in them.


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The Portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for He [is] the Former of all things, and [Israel is] the rod of His inheritance. Jehovah of hosts [is] His name.


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And I will send aliens to Babylon who will sift her and will empty her land. For in the day of trouble they shall be against her all around.


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You [are] My war-club [and] weapons of war; for with you I will shatter nations; and with you I will destroy kingdoms.


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And with you I will shatter the horse and his rider; and with you I will shatter the chariot and his rider.


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Also with you I will shatter man and woman; and with you I will shatter old and young; and with you I will shatter the young man and the girl.


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I will also shatter the shepherd and his flock with you. And with you I will shatter the farmer and his team; and with you I will shatter heads and rulers.


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And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the LORD.


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Behold, I [am] against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, who destroys all the earth. And I will stretch out My hand on you and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.


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And they shall not take a stone from you for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be a waste forever, says the LORD.


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Set up a banner in the land; blow a trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations against her. Call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her; set a commander against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.


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Consecrate nations against her, with the kings of the Medes, her governors and all her rulers, and all the land of his kingdom.


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And the land shall tremble and writhe. For every purpose of the LORD shall be done against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desert without inhabitant.


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Do not let the treader fully tread his bow; nor lift himself up in his armor. And do not spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.


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The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting; they have remained in strongholds; their might has failed. They became like women; they have burned her houses; her bars are broken.


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A runner shall run to meet a runner, and a herald to a herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is captured from end [to end];


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and that the fords are stopped. And they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war are frightened.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshing floor; [it is] time to thresh her. Yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me up like a jackal; he has filled his belly with good things; he has thrown me out;


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the violence done to me and to my flesh [shall be] on Babylon; the dweller in Zion shall say. And, My blood [shall be] on the people of Chaldea, Jerusalem shall say.


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So the LORD says this: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.


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In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice and sleep a never-ending sleep, and never awaken, says the LORD.


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How Sheshach is captured! And how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!


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Her cities are a desert, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does [any] son of man pass by it.


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And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.


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My people, go out of her midst; and let each man deliver his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.


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And let not your heart faint, nor fear the rumor that shall be heard in the land. The report [shall come] in a year. And after that a report [shall come] in [another] year; and violence shall be] in the land, ruler against ruler.


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So, behold, the days come that I will punish the idols of Babylon. And all her land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in her midst.


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And the heavens and the earth, and all that [is] in them, shall shout for Babylon; for the plunderers shall come to her from the north, says the LORD.


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For neither Israel nor Judah [has been] forsaken by his God, by Jehovah of hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.


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You who have escaped the sword, go away; do not stand still. Remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.


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We have turned pale because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the LORD's house.


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So, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will punish her idols, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.


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Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] plunderers shall come to her from Me, says the LORD.


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because the LORD is stripping Babylon, and the great voice will perish out of her. And her waves will roar like great waters; the noise of their voice is given,


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because the ravager has come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are captured. Every one of their bows is broken, for Jehovah, God of vengeance, shall surely repay.


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And I will make her rulers drunk, also her wise ones, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a never-ending sleep and not awaken, says the King whose name [is] Jehovah of hosts.


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So says Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be completely broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the people shall be in the fire, and they shall be weary.


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The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah [into] Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah [was] a quiet prince.


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Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and each man deliver his soul. Be not cut off in her iniquity, for this [is] the time of the LORD's vengeance; He will give to her a just reward.


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So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.


