# verses

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<t> <f>[19†]</f>Whoever curses his father or his mother, </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.</t>


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<t> <f>[21†]</f>An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>Will not be blessed at the end.</t>


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<t> <f>[23†]</f>Do not say, “I will recompense evil”; </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>Wait for the LORD, and He will save you.</t>


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<t>Diverse weights <i>are</i> an abomination to the LORD, </t><t>And dishonest scales <i>are</i> not good.</t>


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<t><i>It</i> <i>is</i> a snare for a man to devote rashly <i>something</i> <i>as</i> holy, </t><t>And afterward to reconsider <i>his</i> vows.</t>


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<t> <f>[25†]</f>A wise king sifts out the wicked, </t><t>And brings the threshing wheel over them.</t>


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<t> <f>[26†]</f>The spirit of a man <i>is</i> the lamp of the LORD, </t><t>Searching all the inner depths of his heart.</t>


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<t> <f>[27†]</f>Mercy and truth preserve the king, </t><t>And by lovingkindness he upholds his throne.</t>


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<t>The glory of young men <i>is</i> their strength, </t><t>And <f>[28†]</f>the splendor of old men <i>is</i> their gray head.</t>


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<t>Blows that hurt cleanse away evil, </t><t>As <i>do</i> stripes the inner depths of the heart.</t>


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<pb/><t>The king’s heart <i>is</i> in the hand of the LORD, </t><t><i>Like</i> the rivers of water; </t><t>He turns it wherever He wishes.</t>


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<t> <f>[1†]</f>Every way of a man <i>is</i> right in his own eyes, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>But the LORD weighs the hearts.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>To do righteousness and justice </t><t><i>Is</i> more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>A haughty look, a proud heart, </t><t><i>And</i> the plowing of the wicked <i>are</i> sin.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>The plans of the diligent <i>lead</i> surely to plenty, </t><t>But <i>those</i> <i>of</i> everyone <i>who</i> <i>is</i> hasty, surely to poverty.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>Getting treasures by a lying tongue </t><t><i>Is</i> the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death.</t>


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<t>The way of a guilty man <i>is</i> perverse; </t><t>But <i>as</i> <i>for</i> the pure, his work <i>is</i> right.</t>


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<t>Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, </t><t>Than in a house shared with <f>[7†]</f>a contentious woman.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>The soul of the wicked desires evil; </t><t>His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.</t>


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<t>When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; </t><t>But when the <f>[9†]</f>wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.</t>


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<t>The righteous <i>God</i> wisely considers the house of the wicked, </t><t>Overthrowing the wicked for <i>their</i> wickedness.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor </t><t>Will also cry himself and not be heard.</t>


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<t><i>It</i> <i>is</i> a joy for the just to do justice, </t><t>But destruction <i>will</i> <i>come</i> to the workers of iniquity.</t>


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<t>A man who wanders from the way of understanding </t><t>Will rest in the assembly of the <f>[11†]</f>dead.</t>


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<t>He who loves pleasure <i>will</i> <i>be</i> a poor man; </t><t>He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.</t>


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<t>The wicked <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> a ransom for the righteous, </t><t>And the unfaithful for the upright.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f><i>There</i> <i>is</i> desirable treasure, </t><t>And oil in the dwelling of the wise, </t><t>But a foolish man squanders it.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>He who follows righteousness and mercy </t><t>Finds life, righteousness, and honor.</t>


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<t>A <f>[14†]</f>wise <i>man</i> scales the city of the mighty, </t><t>And brings down the trusted stronghold.</t>


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<t>A proud <i>and</i> haughty <i>man</i>— “Scoffer” <i>is</i> his name; </t><t>He acts with arrogant pride.</t>


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<t>The <f>[16†]</f>desire of the lazy <i>man</i> kills him, </t><t>For his hands refuse to labor.</t>


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<t>He covets greedily all day long, </t><t>But the righteous <f>[17†]</f>gives and does not spare.</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>The sacrifice of the wicked <i>is</i> an abomination; </t><t>How much more <i>when</i> he brings it with wicked intent!</t>


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<t>A wicked man hardens his face, </t><t>But <i>as</i> <i>for</i> the upright, he establishes his way.</t>


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<t> <f>[19†]</f><i>There</i> <i>is</i> no wisdom or understanding </t><t>Or counsel against the LORD.</t>


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<t>The horse <i>is</i> prepared for the day of battle, </t><t>But <f>[20†]</f>deliverance <i>is</i> of the LORD.</t>


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<pb/><t>A <f>[1†]</f><i>good</i> name is to be chosen rather than great riches, </t><t>Loving favor rather than silver and gold.</t>


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<t>The <f>[2†]</f>rich and the poor have this in common, </t><t>The <f>[3†]</f>LORD <i>is</i> the maker of them all.</t>


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<t>A prudent <i>man</i> foresees evil and hides himself, </t><t>But the simple pass on and are <f>[4†]</f>punished.</t>


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<t>Thorns <i>and</i> snares <i>are</i> in the way of the perverse; </t><t>He who guards his soul will be far from them.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Train up a child in the way he should go, </t><t>And when he is old he will not depart from it.</t>


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<t>The <f>[6†]</f>rich rules over the poor, </t><t>And the borrower <i>is</i> servant to the lender.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>He who has a generous eye will be <f>[9†]</f>blessed, </t><t>For he gives of his bread to the poor.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Cast out the scoffer, and contention will leave; </t><t>Yes, strife and reproach will cease.</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>He who loves purity of heart </t><t><i>And</i> <i>has</i> grace on his lips, </t><t>The king <i>will</i> <i>be</i> his friend.</t>


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<t>The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, </t><t>But He overthrows the words of the faithless.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>The lazy <i>man</i> says, “<i>There</i> <i>is</i> a lion outside! </t><t>I shall be slain in the streets!”</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>The mouth of an immoral woman <i>is</i> a deep pit; </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>He who is abhorred by the LORD will fall there.</t>


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<t>Foolishness <i>is</i> bound up in the heart of a child; </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>The rod of correction will drive it far from him.</t>


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<t>He who oppresses the poor to increase his <i>riches,</i> </t><t><i>And</i> he who gives to the rich, <i>will</i> surely <i>come</i> to poverty.</t>


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<t>Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, </t><t>And apply your heart to my knowledge;</t>


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<t>For <i>it</i> <i>is</i> a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; </t><t>Let them all be fixed upon your lips,</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>That I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>That you may answer words of truth </t><t>To those who send to you?</t>


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<t>Do not rob the <f>[18†]</f>poor because he <i>is</i> poor, </t><t>Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;</t>


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<t> <f>[19†]</f>For the LORD will plead their cause, </t><t>And plunder the soul of those who plunder them.</t>


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<t> <f>[21†]</f>Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, </t><t>One of those who is surety for debts;</t>


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<t>If you have nothing <i>with</i> <i>which</i> to pay, </t><t>Why should he take away your bed from under you?</t>


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<t>Do you see a man <i>who</i> excels in his work? </t><t>He will stand before kings; </t><t>He will not stand before unknown <i>men.</i></t>


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<pb/><t>When you sit down to eat with a ruler, </t><t>Consider carefully what <i>is</i> before you;</t>


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<t> <f>[1†]</f>Do not overwork to be rich; </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>Because of your own understanding, cease!</t>


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<t>Will you set your eyes on that which is not? </t><t>For <i>riches</i> certainly make themselves wings; </t><t>They fly away like an eagle <i>toward</i> heaven.</t>


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<t>For as he thinks in his heart, so <i>is</i> he. </t><t>“Eat and drink!” <f>[4†]</f>he says to you, </t><t>But his heart is not with you.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, </t><t>For he will despise the wisdom of your words.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>For their Redeemer <i>is</i> mighty; </t><t>He will plead their cause against you.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>Do not withhold correction from a child, </t><t>For <i>if</i> you beat him with a rod, he will not die.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>Do not let your heart envy sinners, </t><t>But <f>[9†]</f><i>be</i> <i>zealous</i> for the fear of the LORD all the day;</t>


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<t>For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, </t><t>And drowsiness will clothe <i>a</i> <i>man</i> with rags.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>Listen to your father who begot you, </t><t>And do not despise your mother when she is old.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>Buy the truth, and do not sell <i>it,</i> </t><t><i>Also</i> wisdom and instruction and understanding.</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, </t><t>And he who begets a wise <i>child</i> will delight in him.</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>For a harlot <i>is</i> a deep pit, </t><t>And a seductress <i>is</i> a narrow well.</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>She also lies in wait as <i>for</i> a victim, </t><t>And increases the unfaithful among men.</t>


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<t> <f>[17†]</f>Who has woe? </t><t>Who has sorrow? </t><t>Who has contentions? </t><t>Who has complaints? </t><t>Who has wounds without cause? </t><t>Who <f>[18†]</f>has redness of eyes?</t>


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<t> <f>[19†]</f>Those who linger long at the wine, </t><t>Those who go in search of <f>[20†]</f>mixed wine.</t>


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<t>Do not look on the wine when it is red, </t><t>When it sparkles in the cup, </t><t><i>When</i> it swirls around smoothly;</t>


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<t>Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, </t><t>Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, <i>saying:</i></t>


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<t>“They <f>[21†]</f> have struck me, <i>but</i> I was not hurt; </t><t>They have beaten me, but I did not feel <i>it.</i> </t><t>When shall <f>[22†]</f>I awake, that I may seek another <i>drink?</i>”</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>For by wise counsel you will wage your own war, </t><t>And in a multitude of counselors <i>there</i> <i>is</i> safety.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>Wisdom <i>is</i> too lofty for a fool; </t><t>He does not open his mouth in the gate.</t>


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<t>The devising of foolishness <i>is</i> sin, </t><t>And the scoffer <i>is</i> an abomination to men.</t>


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<t><i>If</i> you <f>[6†]</f>faint in the day of adversity, </t><t>Your strength <i>is</i> small.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>Deliver <i>those</i> <i>who</i> are drawn toward death, </t><t>And hold back <i>those</i> stumbling to the slaughter.</t>


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<t>If you say, “Surely we did not know this,” </t><t>Does not <f>[8†]</f>He who weighs the hearts consider <i>it?</i> </t><t>He who keeps your soul, does He <i>not</i> know <i>it?</i> </t><t>And will He <i>not</i> render to <i>each</i> man <f>[9†]</f>according to his deeds?</t>


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<t>My son, <f>[10†]</f>eat honey because <i>it</i> <i>is</i> good, </t><t>And the honeycomb <i>which</i> <i>is</i> sweet to your taste;</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>So <i>shall</i> the knowledge of wisdom <i>be</i> to your soul; </t><t>If you have found <i>it,</i> there is a prospect, </t><t>And your hope will not be cut off.</t>


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<t>Do not lie in wait, O wicked <i>man,</i> against the dwelling of the righteous; </t><t>Do not plunder his resting place;</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>For a righteous <i>man</i> may fall seven times </t><t>And rise again, </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>But the wicked shall fall by calamity.</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, </t><t>And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;</t>


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<t>Lest the LORD see <i>it,</i> and it displease Him, </t><t>And He turn away His wrath from him.</t>


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<t>For there will be no prospect for the evil <i>man;</i> </t><t>The lamp of the wicked will be put out.</t>


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<t>My son, <f>[16†]</f>fear the LORD and the king; </t><t>Do not associate with those given to change;</t>


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<pb/>These <i>things</i> also <i>belong</i> to the wise: <pb/><t> <f>[17†]</f><i>It</i> <i>is</i> not good to show partiality in judgment.</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>He who says to the wicked, “You <i>are</i> righteous,” </t><t>Him the people will curse; </t><t>Nations will abhor him.</t>


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<t>But those who rebuke <i>the</i> <i>wicked</i> will have <f>[19†]</f>delight, </t><t>And a good blessing will come upon them.</t>


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>Prepare your outside work, </t><t>Make it fit for yourself in the field; </t><t>And afterward build your house.</t>


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<t> <f>[21†]</f>Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, </t><t>For would you deceive with your lips?</t>


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<t> <f>[22†]</f>Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; </t><t>I will render to the man according to his work.”</t>


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<t>I went by the field of the lazy <i>man</i>, </t><t>And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;</t>


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<t>And there it was, <f>[23†]</f>all overgrown with thorns; </t><t>Its surface was covered with nettles; </t><t>Its stone wall was broken down.</t>


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<t>When I saw <i>it,</i> I considered <i>it</i> well; </t><t>I looked on <i>it</i> <i>and</i> received instruction:</t>


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<t> <f>[25†]</f>So shall your poverty come <i>like</i> a prowler, </t><t>And your need like an armed man.</t>


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<pb/>These <f>[1†]</f> also <i>are</i> proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied:


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<pb/><t> <f>[2†]</f><i>It</i> <i>is</i> the glory of God to conceal a matter, </t><t>But the glory of kings <i>is</i> to search out a matter.</t>


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<t><i>As</i> the heavens for height and the earth for depth, </t><t>So the heart of kings <i>is</i> unsearchable.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>Take away the dross from silver, </t><t>And it will go to the silversmith <i>for</i> jewelry.</t>


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<t>Take away the wicked from before the king, </t><t>And his throne will be established in <f>[4†]</f>righteousness.</t>


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<t>Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, </t><t>And do not stand in the place of the great;</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>For <i>it</i> <i>is</i> better that he say to you, </t><t>“Come up here,” </t><t>Than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, </t><t>Whom your eyes have seen.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>Do not go hastily to court; </t><t>For what will you do in the end, </t><t>When your neighbor has put you to shame?</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>Debate your case with your neighbor, </t><t>And do not disclose the secret to another;</t>


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<t>A word fitly <f>[8†]</f>spoken <i>is</i> <i>like</i> apples of gold </t><t>In settings of silver.</t>


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<t><i>Like</i> an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold </t><t><i>Is</i> a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>Like the cold of snow in time of harvest </t><t><i>Is</i> a faithful messenger to those who send him, </t><t>For he refreshes the soul of his masters.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Whoever falsely boasts of giving </t><t><i>Is</i> <i>like</i> <f>[11†]</f>clouds and wind without rain.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>By long forbearance a ruler is persuaded, </t><t>And a gentle tongue breaks a bone.</t>


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<t>Have you found honey? </t><t>Eat only as much as you need, </t><t>Lest you be filled with it and vomit.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>A man who bears false witness against his neighbor </t><t><i>Is</i> <i>like</i> a club, a sword, and a sharp arrow.</t>


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<t>Confidence in an unfaithful <i>man</i> in time of trouble </t><t><i>Is</i> <i>like</i> a bad tooth and a foot out of joint.</t>


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<t><i>Like</i> one who takes away a garment in cold weather, </t><t><i>And</i> <i>like</i> vinegar on soda, </t><t><i>Is</i> one who <f>[14†]</f>sings songs to a heavy heart.</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; </t><t>And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;</t>


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<t>For <i>so</i> you will heap coals of fire on his head, </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>And the LORD will reward you.</t>


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<t>The north wind brings forth rain, </t><t>And <f>[17†]</f>a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f><i>It</i> <i>is</i> better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, </t><t>Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.</t>


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<t><i>As</i> cold water to a weary soul, </t><t>So <i>is</i> <f>[19†]</f>good news from a far country.</t>


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<t>A righteous <i>man</i> who falters before the wicked </t><t><i>Is</i> <i>like</i> a murky spring and a polluted well.</t>


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<t><i>It</i> <i>is</i> not good to eat much honey; </t><t>So <f>[20†]</f>to seek one’s own glory <i>is</i> <i>not</i> glory.</t>


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<t> <f>[21†]</f>Whoever <i>has</i> no rule over his own spirit </t><t><i>Is</i> <i>like</i> a city broken down, without walls.</t>


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<pb/><t>As snow in summer <f>[1†]</f>and rain in harvest, </t><t>So honor is not fitting for a fool.</t>


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<t>Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, </t><t>So <f>[2†]</f>a curse without cause shall not alight.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>A whip for the horse, </t><t>A bridle for the donkey, </t><t>And a rod for the fool’s back.</t>


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<t>He who sends a message by the hand of a fool </t><t>Cuts off <i>his</i> <i>own</i> feet <i>and</i> drinks violence.</t>


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<t><i>Like</i> the legs of the lame that hang limp </t><t><i>Is</i> a proverb in the mouth of fools.</t>


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<t><i>Like</i> a thorn <i>that</i> goes into the hand of a drunkard </t><t><i>Is</i> a proverb in the mouth of fools.</t>


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<t>The great <i>God</i> who formed everything </t><t>Gives the fool <i>his</i> hire and the transgressor <i>his</i> wages.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>As a dog returns to his own vomit, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f><i>So</i> a fool repeats his folly.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> more hope for a fool than for him.</t>


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<t>The lazy <i>man</i> says, “<i>There</i> <i>is</i> a lion in the road! </t><t>A fierce lion <i>is</i> in the streets!”</t>


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<t>The <f>[8†]</f>lazy <i>man</i> buries his hand in the bowl; </t><t>It wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.</t>


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<t>The lazy <i>man</i> <i>is</i> wiser in his own eyes </t><t>Than seven men who can answer sensibly.</t>


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<t>He who passes by <i>and</i> meddles in a quarrel not his own </t><t><i>Is</i> <i>like</i> one who takes a dog by the ears.</t>


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<t><i>Is</i> the man <i>who</i> deceives his neighbor, </t><t>And says, <f>[9†]</f>“I was only joking!”</t>


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<t>Where <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no wood, the fire goes out; </t><t>And where <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no talebearer, strife ceases.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f><i>As</i> charcoal <i>is</i> to burning coals, and wood to fire, </t><t>So <i>is</i> a contentious man to kindle strife.</t>


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<t>The words of a talebearer <i>are</i> like tasty trifles, </t><t>And they go down into the inmost body.</t>


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<t>Fervent lips with a wicked heart </t><t><i>Are</i> <i>like</i> earthenware covered with silver dross.</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>When he speaks kindly, do not believe him, </t><t>For <i>there</i> <i>are</i> seven abominations in his heart;</t>


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<t><i>Though</i> <i>his</i> hatred is covered by deceit, </t><t>His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, </t><t>And he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.</t>


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<t>A lying tongue hates <i>those</i> <i>who</i> <i>are</i> crushed by it, </t><t>And a flattering mouth works <f>[13†]</f>ruin.</t>


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<pb/><t>Do <f>[1†]</f> not boast about tomorrow, </t><t>For you do not know what a day may bring forth.</t>


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<t> <f>[2†]</f>Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; </t><t>A stranger, and not your own lips.</t>


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<t>A stone <i>is</i> heavy and sand <i>is</i> weighty, </t><t>But a fool’s wrath <i>is</i> heavier than both of them.</t>


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<t>Wrath <i>is</i> cruel and anger a torrent, </t><t>But <f>[3†]</f>who <i>is</i> able to stand before jealousy?</t>


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<t>Faithful <i>are</i> the wounds of a friend, </t><t>But the kisses of an enemy <i>are</i> <f>[5†]</f>deceitful.</t>


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<t>A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, </t><t>But to a hungry soul every bitter thing <i>is</i> sweet.</t>


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<t>Ointment and perfume delight the heart, </t><t>And the sweetness of a man’s friend <i>gives</i> <i>delight</i> by hearty counsel.</t>


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<t>Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, </t><t>Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Better <i>is</i> a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.</t>


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<t>My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>That I may answer him who reproaches me.</t>


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<t>A prudent <i>man</i> foresees evil <i>and</i> hides himself; </t><t>The simple pass on <i>and</i> are <f>[8†]</f>punished.</t>


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<t>Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger, </t><t>And hold it in pledge <i>when</i> he is surety for a seductress.</t>


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<t>He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, </t><t>It will be counted a curse to him.</t>


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<t>A <f>[9†]</f>continual dripping on a very rainy day </t><t>And a contentious woman are alike;</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit; </t><t>So he who waits on his master will be honored.</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>Hell and Destruction are never full; </t><t>So <f>[12†]</f>the eyes of man are never satisfied.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>The refining pot <i>is</i> for silver and the furnace for gold, </t><t>And a man <i>is</i> <i>valued</i> by what others say of him.</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, </t><t><i>Yet</i> his foolishness will not depart from him.</t>


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<t>Be diligent to know the state of your <f>[15†]</f>flocks, </t><t><i>And</i> attend to your herds;</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f><i>When</i> the hay is removed, and the tender grass shows itself, </t><t>And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,</t>


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<t>The lambs <i>will</i> <i>provide</i> your clothing, </t><t>And the goats the price of a field;</t>


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<t><i>You</i> <i>shall</i> <i>have</i> enough goats’ milk for your food, </t><t>For the food of your household, </t><t>And the nourishment of your maidservants.</t>


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<pb/><t>The <f>[1†]</f>wicked flee when no one pursues, </t><t>But the righteous are bold as a lion.</t>


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<t>Because of the transgression of a land, many <i>are</i> its princes; </t><t>But by a man of understanding <i>and</i> knowledge </t><t>Right will be prolonged.</t>


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<t> <f>[2†]</f>A poor man who oppresses the poor </t><t><i>Is</i> <i>like</i> a driving rain which leaves no food.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>But such as keep the law contend with them.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Evil men do not understand justice, </t><t>But <f>[6†]</f>those who seek the LORD understand all.</t>


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<t>Better <i>is</i> the poor who walks in his integrity </t><t>Than one perverse <i>in</i> <i>his</i> ways, though he <i>be</i> rich.</t>


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<t>Whoever keeps the law <i>is</i> a discerning son, </t><t>But a companion of gluttons shames his father.</t>


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<t>One who increases his possessions by usury and extortion </t><t>Gathers it for him who will pity the poor.</t>


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<t>One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>Even his prayer <i>is</i> an abomination.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, </t><t>He himself will fall into his own pit; </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>But the blameless will inherit good.</t>


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<t>The rich man <i>is</i> wise in his own eyes, </t><t>But the poor who has understanding searches him out.</t>


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<t>When the righteous rejoice, <i>there</i> <i>is</i> great <f>[10†]</f>glory; </t><t>But when the wicked arise, men hide themselves.</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>He who covers his sins will not prosper, </t><t>But whoever confesses and forsakes <i>them</i> will have mercy.</t>


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<t>Happy <i>is</i> the man who is always reverent, </t><t>But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f><i>Like</i> a roaring lion and a charging bear </t><t> <f>[13†]</f><i>Is</i> a wicked ruler over poor people.</t>


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<t>A ruler who lacks understanding <i>is</i> a great <f>[14†]</f>oppressor, </t><t><i>But</i> he who hates covetousness will prolong <i>his</i> days.</t>


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<t>Whoever walks blamelessly will be saved, </t><t>But <i>he</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> perverse <i>in</i> <i>his</i> ways will suddenly fall.</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, </t><t>But he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough!</t>


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<t>A faithful man will abound with blessings, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>But he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>To show partiality <i>is</i> not good, </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.</t>


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<t>A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, </t><t>And does not consider that <f>[20†]</f>poverty will come upon him.</t>


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<t> <f>[21†]</f>He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward </t><t>Than he who flatters with the tongue.</t>


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<t>Whoever robs his father or his mother, </t><t>And says, “<i>It</i> <i>is</i> no transgression,” </t><t>The same <f>[22†]</f><i>is</i> companion to a destroyer.</t>


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<t> <f>[23†]</f>He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife, </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>But he who trusts in the LORD will be prospered.</t>


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<t>He who <f>[25†]</f>trusts in his own heart is a fool, </t><t>But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.</t>


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<t> <f>[26†]</f>He who gives to the poor will not lack, </t><t>But he who hides his eyes will have many curses.</t>


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<t>When the wicked arise, <f>[27†]</f>men hide themselves; </t><t>But when they perish, the righteous increase.</t>


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<pb/><t>He <f>[1†]</f> who is often rebuked, <i>and</i> hardens <i>his</i> neck, </t><t>Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.</t>


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<t>When the righteous are in authority, the <f>[2†]</f>people rejoice; </t><t>But when a wicked <i>man</i> rules, <f>[3†]</f>the people groan.</t>


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<t>Whoever loves wisdom makes his father rejoice, </t><t>But a companion of harlots wastes <i>his</i> wealth.</t>


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<t>The righteous <f>[5†]</f>considers the cause of the poor, </t><t><i>But</i> the wicked does not understand <i>such</i> knowledge.</t>


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<t><i>If</i> a wise man contends with a foolish man, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>Whether <i>the</i> <i>fool</i> rages or laughs, <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no peace.</t>


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<t>The poor <i>man</i> and the oppressor have this in common: </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.</t>


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<t>The king who judges the <f>[11†]</f>poor with truth, </t><t>His throne will be established forever.</t>


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<t>The rod and rebuke give <f>[12†]</f>wisdom, </t><t>But a child left <i>to</i> <i>himself</i> brings shame to his mother.</t>


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<t>When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases; </t><t>But the righteous will see their <f>[13†]</f>fall.</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>Where <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no revelation, the people cast off restraint; </t><t>But <f>[15†]</f>happy <i>is</i> he who keeps the law.</t>


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<t>A servant will not be corrected by mere words; </t><t>For though he understands, he will not respond.</t>


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<t>Do you see a man hasty in his words? </t><t> <f>[16†]</f><i>There</i> <i>is</i> more hope for a fool than for him.</t>


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<t> <f>[17†]</f>An angry man stirs up strife, </t><t>And a furious man abounds in transgression.</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>A man’s pride will bring him low, </t><t>But the humble in spirit will retain honor.</t>


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<t>Whoever is a partner with a thief hates his own life; </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>He swears to tell the truth, but reveals nothing.</t>


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>The fear of man brings a snare, </t><t>But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe.</t>


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<t> <f>[21†]</f>Many seek the ruler’s favor, </t><t>But justice for man <i>comes</i> from the LORD.</t>


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<t>An unjust man <i>is</i> an abomination to the righteous, </t><t>And <i>he</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> upright in the way <i>is</i> an abomination to the wicked.</t>


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<pb/>The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, <i>his</i> utterance. This man declared to Ithiel—to Ithiel and Ucal:


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<pb/><t> <f>[1†]</f>Surely I <i>am</i> more stupid than <i>any</i> man, </t><t>And do not have the understanding of a man.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>Who has gathered the wind in His fists? </t><t>Who has bound the waters in a garment? </t><t>Who has established all the ends of the earth? </t><t>What <i>is</i> His name, and what <i>is</i> His Son’s name, </t><t>If you know?</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Every word of God <i>is</i> pure; </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>He <i>is</i> a shield to those who put their trust in Him.</t>


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<t>Remove falsehood and lies far from me; </t><t>Give me neither poverty nor riches— </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>Feed me with the food allotted to me;</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>Lest I be full and deny <i>You,</i> </t><t>And say, “Who <i>is</i> the LORD?” </t><t>Or lest I be poor and steal, </t><t>And profane the name of my God.</t>


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<t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> a generation <i>that</i> curses its <f>[10†]</f>father, </t><t>And does not bless its mother.</t>


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<t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> a generation <f>[11†]</f><i>that</i> <i>is</i> pure in its own eyes, </t><t><i>Yet</i> is not washed from its filthiness.</t>


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<t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> a generation—oh, how <f>[12†]</f>lofty are their eyes! </t><t>And their eyelids are lifted up.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f><i>There</i> <i>is</i> a generation whose teeth <i>are</i> <i>like</i> swords, </t><t>And whose fangs <i>are</i> <i>like</i> knives, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>To devour the poor from off the earth, </t><t>And the needy from <i>among</i> men.</t>


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<t>The leech has two daughters— </t><t>Give <i>and</i> Give! </t><t>There are three <i>things</i> <i>that</i> are never satisfied, </t><t>Four never say, “Enough!”:</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>The grave, </t><t>The barren womb, </t><t>The earth <i>that</i> is not satisfied with water— </t><t>And the fire never says, “Enough!”</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>The eye <i>that</i> mocks <i>his</i> father, </t><t>And scorns obedience to <i>his</i> mother, </t><t>The ravens of the valley will pick it out, </t><t>And the young eagles will eat it.</t>


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<t>There are three <i>things</i> <i>which</i> are too wonderful for me, </t><t>Yes, four <i>which</i> I do not understand:</t>


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<t>The way of an eagle in the air, </t><t>The way of a serpent on a rock, </t><t>The way of a ship in the midst of the sea, </t><t>And the way of a man with a virgin.</t>


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<t>This <i>is</i> the way of an adulterous woman: </t><t>She eats and wipes her mouth, </t><t>And says, “I have done no wickedness.”</t>


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<t>A hateful <i>woman</i> when she is married, </t><t>And a maidservant who succeeds her mistress.</t>


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<t>There are four <i>things</i> <i>which</i> are little on the earth, </t><t>But they <i>are</i> exceedingly wise:</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>The ants <i>are</i> a people not strong, </t><t>Yet they prepare their food in the summer;</t>


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<t> <f>[19†]</f>The rock badgers are a feeble folk, </t><t>Yet they make their homes in the crags;</t>


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<t>There are three <i>things</i> <i>which</i> are majestic in pace, </t><t>Yes, four <i>which</i> are stately in walk:</t>


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<t>A greyhound, </t><t>A male goat also, </t><t>And a king <i>whose</i> troops <i>are</i> with him.</t>


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<t>If you have been foolish in exalting yourself, </t><t>Or if you have devised evil, <f>[20†]</f><i>put</i> <i>your</i> hand on <i>your</i> mouth.</t>


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<t>For <i>as</i> the churning of milk produces butter, </t><t>And wringing the nose produces blood, </t><t>So the forcing of wrath produces strife.</t>


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<pb/><t>What, my son? </t><t>And what, son of my womb? </t><t>And what, <f>[1†]</f>son of my vows?</t>


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<t> <f>[2†]</f>Do not give your strength to women, </t><t>Nor your ways <f>[3†]</f>to that which destroys kings.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f><i>It</i> <i>is</i> not for kings, O Lemuel, </t><t><i>It</i> <i>is</i> not for kings to drink wine, </t><t>Nor for princes intoxicating drink;</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Lest they drink and forget the law, </t><t>And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>Give strong drink to him who is perishing, </t><t>And wine to those who are bitter of heart.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>Open your mouth for the speechless, </t><t>In the cause of all <i>who</i> <i>are</i> appointed to die.</t>


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<t>Open your mouth, <f>[8†]</f>judge righteously, </t><t>And <f>[9†]</f>plead the cause of the poor and needy.</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>She also rises while it is yet night, </t><t>And <f>[12†]</f>provides food for her household, </t><t>And a portion for her maidservants.</t>


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<t>She perceives that her merchandise <i>is</i> good, </t><t>And her lamp does not go out by night.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>She extends her hand to the poor, </t><t>Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.</t>


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<t>She is not afraid of snow for her household, </t><t>For all her household <i>is</i> clothed with scarlet.</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>Her husband is known in the gates, </t><t>When he sits among the elders of the land.</t>


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<t>She makes linen garments and sells <i>them,</i> </t><t>And supplies sashes for the merchants.</t>


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<t>Her children rise up and call her blessed; </t><t>Her husband <i>also,</i> and he praises her:</t>


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<t>Charm <i>is</i> deceitful and beauty <i>is</i> passing, </t><t>But a woman <i>who</i> fears the LORD, she shall be praised.</t>


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<pb/><t>“Vanity <f>[2†]</f> of vanities,” says the Preacher; </t><t>“Vanity of vanities, <f>[3†]</f>all <i>is</i> vanity.”</t>


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<t><i>One</i> generation passes away, and <i>another</i> generation comes; </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>But the earth abides forever.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, </t><t>And hastens to the place where it arose.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>The wind goes toward the south, </t><t>And turns around to the north; </t><t>The wind whirls about continually, </t><t>And comes again on its circuit.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>All the rivers run into the sea, </t><t>Yet the sea <i>is</i> not full; </t><t>To the place from which the rivers come, </t><t>There they return again.</t>


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<t>All things <i>are</i> full of labor; </t><t>Man cannot express <i>it.</i> </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>The eye is not satisfied with seeing, </t><t>Nor the ear filled with hearing.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>That which has been <i>is</i> what will be, </t><t>That which <i>is</i> done is what will be done, </t><t>And <i>there</i> <i>is</i> nothing new under the sun.</t>


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<t>Is there anything of which it may be said, </t><t>“See, this <i>is</i> new”? </t><t>It has already been in ancient times before us.</t>


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<t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> <f>[11†]</f>no remembrance of former <i>things,</i> </t><t>Nor will there be any remembrance of <i>things</i> that are to come </t><t>By <i>those</i> who will come after.</t>


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And I set my heart to seek and <f>[12†]</f>search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; <f>[13†]</f>this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.


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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all <i>is</i> vanity and grasping for the wind.


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<pb/><t> <f>[14†]</f><i>What</i> <i>is</i> crooked cannot be made straight, </t><t>And what is lacking cannot be numbered.</t>


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<pb/>I communed with my heart, saying, “Look, I have attained greatness, and have gained <f>[15†]</f>more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My heart has understood great wisdom and knowledge.”


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<f>[16†]</f>And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.


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<pb/><t>For <f>[17†]</f>in much wisdom <i>is</i> much grief, </t><t>And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.</t>


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<pb/>I said <f>[1†]</f>in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with <f>[2†]</f>mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, <f>[3†]</f>this also <i>was</i> vanity.


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<f>[4†]</f>I searched in my heart <i>how</i> to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what <i>was</i> <f>[5†]</f>good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.


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I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me.


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<f>[7†]</f>I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, <i>and</i> musical instruments of all kinds.


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>So I became great and excelled <f>[9†]</f>more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.


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<pb/><t>Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. </t><t>I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, </t><t>For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; </t><t>And <f>[10†]</f>this was my reward from all my labor.</t>


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<t>Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done </t><t>And on the labor in which I had toiled; </t><t>And indeed all <i>was</i> <f>[11†]</f>vanity and grasping for the wind. </t><t><i>There</i> <i>was</i> no profit under the sun.</t>


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<t>Then I turned myself to consider wisdom <f>[12†]</f>and madness and folly; </t><t>For what <i>can</i> the man <i>do</i> who succeeds the king?— </t><t><i>Only</i> what he has already <f>[13†]</f>done.</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>The wise man’s eyes <i>are</i> in his head, </t><t>But the fool walks in darkness. </t><t>Yet I myself perceived </t><t>That <f>[16†]</f>the same event happens to them all.</t>


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<t>So I said in my heart, </t><t>“As it happens to the fool, </t><t>It also happens to me, </t><t>And why was I then more wise?” </t><t>Then I said in my heart, </t><t>“This also <i>is</i> vanity.”</t>


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<t>For <i>there</i> <i>is</i> <f>[17†]</f>no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, </t><t>Since all that now <i>is</i> will be forgotten in the days to come. </t><t>And how does a wise <i>man</i> die? </t><t>As the fool!</t>


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<pb/>Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun <i>was</i> distressing to me, for all <i>is</i> vanity and grasping for the wind.


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<pb/>Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because <f>[18†]</f>I must leave it to the man who will come after me.


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And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also <i>is</i> vanity.


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For there is a man whose labor <i>is</i> with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also <i>is</i> vanity and a great evil.


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<f>[19†]</f>For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?


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For all his days <i>are</i> <f>[20†]</f>sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.


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<pb/> <f>[21†]</f>Nothing <i>is</i> better for a man <i>than</i> that he should eat and drink, and <i>that</i> his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.


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For <i>God</i> gives <f>[22†]</f>wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who <i>is</i> good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that <f>[23†]</f>he may give to <i>him</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> good before God. This also <i>is</i> vanity and grasping for the wind.


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<pb/><t>To everything <i>there</i> <i>is</i> a season, </t><t>A <f>[1†]</f>time for every purpose under heaven:</t>


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<t>A time to be born, </t><t>And <f>[2†]</f>a time to die; </t><t>A time to plant, </t><t>And a time to pluck <i>what</i> <i>is</i> planted;</t>


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<t>A time to kill, </t><t>And a time to heal; </t><t>A time to break down, </t><t>And a time to build up;</t>


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<t>A time to <f>[3†]</f>weep, </t><t>And a time to laugh; </t><t>A time to mourn, </t><t>And a time to dance;</t>


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<t>A time to cast away stones, </t><t>And a time to gather stones; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>A time to embrace, </t><t>And a time to refrain from embracing;</t>


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<t>A time to gain, </t><t>And a time to lose; </t><t>A time to keep, </t><t>And a time to throw away;</t>


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<t>A time to tear, </t><t>And a time to sew; </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>A time to keep silence, </t><t>And a time to <f>[6†]</f>speak;</t>


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<t>A time to love, </t><t>And a time to <f>[7†]</f>hate; </t><t>A time of war, </t><t>And a time of peace.</t>


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He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that <f>[10†]</f>no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.


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<pb/>I know that nothing <i>is</i> <f>[11†]</f>better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives,


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and also that <f>[12†]</f>every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it <i>is</i> the gift of God.


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<pb/><t>I know that whatever God does, </t><t>It shall be forever. </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>Nothing can be added to it, </t><t>And nothing taken from it. </t><t>God does <i>it,</i> that men should fear before Him.</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>That which is has already been, </t><t>And what is to be has already been; </t><t>And God requires an account of what is past.</t>


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<pb/>Moreover <f>[15†]</f>I saw under the sun: <pb/><t><i>In</i> the place of judgment, </t><t>Wickedness <i>was</i> there; </t><t>And <i>in</i> the place of righteousness, </t><t>Iniquity <i>was</i> there.</t>


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<pb/>I said in my heart, <pb/><t> <f>[16†]</f>“God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, </t><t>For <i>there</i> <i>is</i> a time there for every purpose and for every work.”</t>


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<pb/>I said in my heart, “Concerning the condition of the sons of men, God tests them, that they may see that they themselves are <i>like</i> animals.”


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<f>[17†]</f>For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all <i>is</i> vanity.


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<f>[19†]</f>Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?


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<f>[20†]</f>So I perceived that nothing <i>is</i> better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for <f>[21†]</f>that <i>is</i> his heritage. <f>[22†]</f>For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?


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<pb/>Then I returned and considered all the <f>[1†]</f>oppression that is done under the sun: <pb/><t>And look! The tears of the oppressed, </t><t>But they have no comforter— </t><t>On the side of their oppressors <i>there</i> <i>is</i> power, </t><t>But they have no comforter.</t>


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<t> <f>[2†]</f>Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead, </t><t>More than the living who are still alive.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>Yet, better than both <i>is</i> <i>he</i> who has never existed, </t><t>Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.</t>


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<pb/>Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also <i>is</i> vanity and grasping for the wind.


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Better a handful <i>with</i> quietness </t><t>Than both hands full, <i>together</i> <i>with</i> toil and grasping for the wind.</t>


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<pb/><t>There is one alone, without companion: </t><t>He has neither son nor brother. </t><t>Yet <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no end to all his labors, </t><t>Nor is his <f>[6†]</f>eye satisfied with riches. </t><t><i>But</i> <f>[7†]</f>he never asks, </t><t>“For whom do I toil and deprive myself of <f>[8†]</f>good?” </t><t>This also <i>is</i> vanity and a grave misfortune.</t>


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<t>For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. </t><t>But woe to him <i>who</i> <i>is</i> alone when he falls, </t><t>For <i>he</i> <i>has</i> no one to help him up.</t>


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<t>Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; </t><t>But how can one be warm <i>alone?</i></t>


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<t>Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. </t><t>And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.</t>


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<t>Better a poor and wise youth </t><t>Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more.</t>


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<t>I saw all the living who walk under the sun; </t><t>They were with the second youth who stands in his place.</t>


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<t><i>There</i> <i>was</i> no end of all the people over whom he was made king; </t><t>Yet those who come afterward will not rejoice in him. </t><t>Surely this also <i>is</i> vanity and grasping for the wind.</t>


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<pb/>Walk <f>[1†]</f>prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather <f>[2†]</f>than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.


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<pb/><t>Do not be <f>[3†]</f>rash with your mouth, </t><t>And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God. </t><t>For God <i>is</i> in heaven, and you on earth; </t><t>Therefore let your words <f>[4†]</f>be few.</t>


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<t>For a dream comes through much activity, </t><t>And <f>[5†]</f>a fool’s voice <i>is</i> <i>known</i> by <i>his</i> many words.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>When you make a vow to God, do not delay to <f>[7†]</f>pay it; </t><t>For <i>He</i> <i>has</i> no pleasure in fools. </t><t>Pay what you have vowed—</t>


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<pb/>Do not let your <f>[9†]</f>mouth cause your flesh to sin, <f>[10†]</f>nor say before the messenger <i>of</i> <i>God</i> that it <i>was</i> an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?


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For in the multitude of dreams and many words <i>there</i> <i>is</i> also vanity. But <f>[11†]</f>fear God.


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<pb/>If you <f>[12†]</f>see the oppression of the poor, and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for <f>[13†]</f>high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.


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<pb/><t>He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; </t><t>Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. </t><t>This also <i>is</i> vanity.</t>


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<t>When goods increase, </t><t>They increase who eat them; </t><t>So what profit have the owners </t><t>Except to see <i>them</i> with their eyes?</t>


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<t>The sleep of a laboring man <i>is</i> sweet, </t><t>Whether he eats little or much; </t><t>But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>There is a severe evil <i>which</i> I have seen under the sun: </t><t>Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.</t>


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<t>But those riches perish through misfortune; </t><t>When he begets a son, <i>there</i> <i>is</i> nothing in his hand.</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return, </t><t>To go as he came; </t><t>And he shall take nothing from his labor </t><t>Which he may carry away in his hand.</t>


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<t>And this also <i>is</i> a severe evil— </t><t>Just exactly as he came, so shall he go. </t><t>And <f>[16†]</f>what profit has he <f>[17†]</f>who has labored for the wind?</t>


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<t>All his days <f>[18†]</f>he also eats in darkness, </t><t>And <i>he</i> <i>has</i> much sorrow and sickness and anger.</t>


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<pb/>Here is what I have seen: <f>[19†]</f><i>It</i> <i>is</i> good and fitting <i>for</i> <i>one</i> to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; <f>[20†]</f>for it <i>is</i> his heritage.


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As for <f>[21†]</f>every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor—this <i>is</i> the <f>[22†]</f>gift of God.


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For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life, because God keeps <i>him</i> busy with the joy of his heart.


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<pb/>There <f>[1†]</f> is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it <i>is</i> common among men:


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A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, <f>[2†]</f>so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; <f>[3†]</f>yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This <i>is</i> vanity, and it <i>is</i> an evil affliction.


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<pb/>If a man begets a hundred <i>children</i> and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or <f>[4†]</f>indeed he has no burial, I say <i>that</i> <f>[5†]</f>a stillborn child <i>is</i> better than he—


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even if he lives a thousand years twice—but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one <f>[6†]</f>place?


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<pb/><t> <f>[7†]</f>All the labor of man <i>is</i> for his mouth, </t><t>And yet the soul is not satisfied.</t>


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<t>For what more has the wise <i>man</i> than the fool? </t><t>What does the poor man have, </t><t>Who knows <i>how</i> to walk before the living?</t>


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<t>Better <i>is</i> the <f>[8†]</f>sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. </t><t>This also <i>is</i> vanity and grasping for the wind.</t>


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<t>Whatever one is, he has been named <f>[9†]</f>already, </t><t>For it is known that he <i>is</i> man; </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>And he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.</t>


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<pb/>For who knows what <i>is</i> good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like <f>[11†]</f>a shadow? <f>[12†]</f>Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?


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<pb/>A <f>[1†]</f>good name <i>is</i> better than precious ointment, <pb/><t>And the day of death than the day of one’s <f>[2†]</f>birth;</t>


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<t>Better to go to the house of mourning </t><t>Than to go to the house of feasting, </t><t>For that <i>is</i> the end of all men; </t><t>And the living will take <i>it</i> to <f>[3†]</f>heart.</t>


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<t>Sorrow <i>is</i> better than laughter, </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>For by a sad countenance the heart is made better.</t>


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<t>The heart of the wise <i>is</i> in the house of mourning, </t><t>But the heart of fools <i>is</i> in the house of mirth.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f><i>It</i> <i>is</i> better to hear the rebuke of the wise </t><t>Than for a man to hear the song of fools.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, </t><t>So <i>is</i> the laughter of the fool. </t><t>This also is vanity.</t>


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<t>Surely oppression destroys a wise <i>man’s</i> reason, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>And a bribe debases the heart.</t>


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<t>The end of a thing <i>is</i> better than its beginning; </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>The patient in spirit <i>is</i> better than the proud in spirit.</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, </t><t>For anger rests in the bosom of fools.</t>


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<t>Do not say, </t><t>“Why were the former days better than these?” </t><t>For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.</t>


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<t>Wisdom <i>is</i> good with an inheritance, </t><t>And profitable <f>[10†]</f>to those who see the sun.</t>


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<t>For wisdom <i>is</i> a <f>[11†]</f>defense <i>as</i> money <i>is</i> a defense, </t><t>But the excellence of knowledge <i>is</i> <i>that</i> wisdom gives <f>[12†]</f>life to those who have it.</t>


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<t>Consider the work of God; </t><t>For <f>[13†]</f>who can make straight what He has made crooked?</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>In the day of prosperity be joyful, </t><t>But in the day of adversity consider: </t><t>Surely God has appointed the one as well as the other, </t><t>So that man can find out nothing <i>that</i> <i>will</i> <i>come</i> after him.</t>


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<pb/>I have seen everything in my days of vanity: <pb/><t> <f>[15†]</f>There is a just <i>man</i> who perishes in his righteousness, </t><t>And there is a wicked <i>man</i> who prolongs <i>life</i> in his wickedness.</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>Do not be overly righteous, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>Nor be overly wise: </t><t>Why should you destroy yourself?</t>


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<t>Do not be overly wicked, </t><t>Nor be foolish: </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>Why should you die before your time?</t>


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<t><i>It</i> <i>is</i> good that you grasp this, </t><t>And also not remove your hand from the other; </t><t>For he who <f>[19†]</f>fears God will escape them all.</t>


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<t> <f>[21†]</f>For <i>there</i> <i>is</i> not a just man on earth who does good </t><t>And does not sin.</t>


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<t>Also do not take to heart everything people say, </t><t>Lest you hear your servant cursing you.</t>


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<t>All this I have proved by wisdom. </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>I said, “I will be wise”; </t><t>But it <i>was</i> far from me.</t>


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<t> <f>[23†]</f>As for that which is far off and <f>[24†]</f>exceedingly deep, </t><t>Who can find it out?</t>


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<t> <f>[25†]</f>I applied my heart to know, </t><t>To search and seek out wisdom and the reason <i>of</i> <i>things,</i> </t><t>To know the wickedness of folly, </t><t>Even of foolishness <i>and</i> madness.</t>


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<t> <f>[26†]</f>And I find more bitter than death </t><t>The woman whose heart <i>is</i> snares and nets, </t><t>Whose hands <i>are</i> fetters. </t><t>He who pleases God shall escape from her, </t><t>But the sinner shall be trapped by her.</t>


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<t>Here is what I have found,” says <f>[27†]</f>the Preacher, </t><t>“<i>Adding</i> one thing to the other to find out the reason,</t>


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<t>Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find: </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>One man among a thousand I have found, </t><t>But a woman among all these I have not found.</t>


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<t>Truly, this only I have found: </t><t> <f>[29†]</f>That God made man upright, </t><t>But <f>[30†]</f>they have sought out many schemes.”</t>


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<pb/><t>Who <i>is</i> like a wise <i>man?</i> </t><t>And who knows the interpretation of a thing? </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, </t><t>And <f>[2†]</f>the sternness of his face is changed.</t>


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<f>[4†]</f>Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.”


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<pb/><t>Where the word of a king <i>is, there is</i> power; </t><t>And <f>[5†]</f>who may say to him, “What are you doing?”</t>


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<t>He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful; </t><t>And a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment,</t>


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<t>Because <f>[6†]</f>for every matter there is a time and judgment, </t><t>Though the misery of man increases greatly.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>For he does not know what will happen; </t><t>So who can tell him when it will occur?</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, </t><t>And no one has power in the day of death. </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> <f>[9†]</f>no release from that war, </t><t>And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.</t>


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<pb/>All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: <i>There</i> <i>is</i> a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.


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<pb/>Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were <f>[10†]</f>forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also <i>is</i> vanity.


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<f>[11†]</f>Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.


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<f>[12†]</f>Though a sinner does evil a hundred <i>times,</i> and his <i>days</i> are prolonged, yet I surely know that <f>[13†]</f>it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.


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But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong <i>his</i> days, <i>which</i> <i>are</i> as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.


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<pb/>There is a vanity which occurs on earth, that there are just <i>men</i> to whom it <f>[14†]</f>happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked <i>men</i> to whom it happens according to the work of the <f>[15†]</f>righteous. I said that this also <i>is</i> vanity.


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<pb/> <f>[16†]</f>So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor <i>all</i> the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.


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<pb/>When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,


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then I saw all the work of God, that <f>[17†]</f>a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. For though a man labors to discover <i>it,</i> yet he will not find <i>it;</i> moreover, though a wise <i>man</i> attempts to know <i>it,</i> he will not be able to find <i>it.</i>


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<pb/>For I considered all this in my heart, so that I could declare it all: <f>[1†]</f>that the righteous and the wise and their works <i>are</i> in the hand of God. People know neither love nor hatred <i>by</i> anything <i>they</i> <i>see</i> before them.


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<f>[2†]</f>All things <i>come</i> alike to all: <pb/><t>One event <i>happens</i> to the righteous and the wicked; </t><t>To the good, the clean, and the unclean; </t><t>To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. </t><t>As is the good, so <i>is</i> the sinner; </t><t>He who takes an oath as <i>he</i> who fears an oath.</t>


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<pb/>This <i>is</i> an evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing <i>happens</i> to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness <i>is</i> in their hearts while they live, and after that <i>they</i> <i>go</i> to the dead.


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But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.


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<pb/><t>For the living know that they will die; </t><t>But <f>[3†]</f>the dead know nothing, </t><t>And they have no more reward, </t><t>For <f>[4†]</f>the memory of them is forgotten.</t>


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<t>Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; </t><t>Nevermore will they have a share </t><t>In anything done under the sun.</t>


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<t>Go, <f>[5†]</f>eat your bread with joy, </t><t>And drink your wine with a merry heart; </t><t>For God has already accepted your works.</t>


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<pb/>Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; <f>[6†]</f>for that <i>is</i> your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun.


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<pb/> <f>[7†]</f>Whatever your hand finds to do, do <i>it</i> with your <f>[8†]</f>might; for <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.


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<pb/>I returned <f>[9†]</f>and saw under the sun that— <pb/><t>The race <i>is</i> not to the swift, </t><t>Nor the battle to the strong, </t><t>Nor bread to the wise, </t><t>Nor riches to men of understanding, </t><t>Nor favor to men of skill; </t><t>But time and <f>[10†]</f>chance happen to them all.</t>


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<t>For <f>[11†]</f>man also does not know his time: </t><t>Like fish taken in a cruel net, </t><t>Like birds caught in a snare, </t><t>So the sons of men <i>are</i> <f>[12†]</f>snared in an evil time, </t><t>When it falls suddenly upon them.</t>


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<f>[13†]</f><i>There</i> <i>was</i> a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great snares around it.


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Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that same poor man.


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<pb/>Then I said: <pb/><t>“Wisdom <i>is</i> better than <f>[14†]</f>strength. </t><t>Nevertheless <f>[15†]</f>the poor man’s wisdom <i>is</i> despised, </t><t>And his words are not heard.</t>


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<t>Words of the wise, <i>spoken</i> quietly, <i>should</i> <i>be</i> heard </t><t>Rather than the shout of a ruler of fools.</t>


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<t>Wisdom <i>is</i> better than weapons of war; </t><t>But <f>[16†]</f>one sinner destroys much good.”</t>


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<pb/><t>Dead flies putrefy the perfumer’s ointment, </t><t>And cause it to give off a foul odor; </t><t><i>So</i> <i>does</i> a little folly to one respected for wisdom <i>and</i> honor.</t>


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<t>Even when a fool walks along the way, </t><t>He lacks wisdom, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>And he shows everyone <i>that</i> he <i>is</i> a fool.</t>


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<t>If the spirit of the ruler rises against you, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>Do not leave your post; </t><t>For <f>[3†]</f>conciliation pacifies great offenses.</t>


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<t>I have seen servants <f>[5†]</f>on horses, </t><t>While princes walk on the ground like servants.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>He who digs a pit will fall into it, </t><t>And whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent.</t>


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<t>He who quarries stones may be hurt by them, </t><t><i>And</i> he who splits wood may be endangered by it.</t>


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<t>If the ax is dull, </t><t>And one does not sharpen the edge, </t><t>Then he must use more strength; </t><t>But wisdom brings success.</t>


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<t>A serpent may bite <f>[7†]</f>when <i>it</i> <i>is</i> not charmed; </t><t>The babbler is no different.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>The words of a wise man’s mouth <i>are</i> gracious, </t><t>But <f>[9†]</f>the lips of a fool shall swallow him up;</t>


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<t>The words of his mouth begin with foolishness, </t><t>And the end of his talk <i>is</i> raving madness.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>A fool also multiplies words. </t><t>No man knows what is to be; </t><t>Who can tell him <f>[11†]</f>what will be after him?</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>Woe to you, O land, when your king <i>is</i> a child, </t><t>And your princes feast in the morning!</t>


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<t>Blessed <i>are</i> you, O land, when your king <i>is</i> the son of nobles, </t><t>And your <f>[13†]</f>princes feast at the proper time— </t><t>For strength and not for drunkenness!</t>


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<t>Because of laziness the building decays, </t><t>And <f>[14†]</f>through idleness of hands the house leaks.</t>


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<t>A feast is made for laughter, </t><t>And <f>[15†]</f>wine makes merry; </t><t>But money answers everything.</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>Do not curse the king, even in your thought; </t><t>Do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom; </t><t>For a bird of the air may carry your voice, </t><t>And a bird in flight may tell the matter.</t>


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<pb/><t>Cast your bread <f>[1†]</f>upon the waters, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>For you will find it after many days.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>Give a serving <f>[4†]</f>to seven, and also to eight, </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>For you do not know what evil will be on the earth.</t>


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<t>If the clouds are full of rain, </t><t>They empty <i>themselves</i> upon the earth; </t><t>And if a tree falls to the south or the north, </t><t>In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.</t>


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<t>As <f>[6†]</f>you do not know what <i>is</i> the way of the wind, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f><i>Or</i> how the bones <i>grow</i> in the womb of her who is with child, </t><t>So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.</t>


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<t>In the morning sow your seed, </t><t>And in the evening do not withhold your hand; </t><t>For you do not know which will prosper, </t><t>Either this or that, </t><t>Or whether both alike <i>will</i> <i>be</i> good.</t>


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<t>Truly the light is sweet, </t><t>And <i>it</i> <i>is</i> pleasant for the eyes <f>[8†]</f>to behold the sun;</t>


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<t>But if a man lives many years </t><t><i>And</i> <f>[9†]</f>rejoices in them all, </t><t>Yet let him <f>[10†]</f>remember the days of darkness, </t><t>For they will be many. </t><t>All that is coming <i>is</i> vanity.</t>


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<t>Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, </t><t>And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>Walk in the ways of your heart, </t><t>And in the sight of your eyes; </t><t>But know that for all these </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>God will bring you into judgment.</t>


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<t>Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, </t><t>And <f>[13†]</f>put away evil from your flesh, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>For childhood and youth <i>are</i> vanity.</t>


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<pb/><t>Remember <f>[1†]</f> now your Creator in the days of your youth, </t><t>Before the difficult days come, </t><t>And the years draw near <f>[2†]</f>when you say, </t><t>“I have no pleasure in them”:</t>


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<t>While the sun and the light, </t><t>The moon and the stars, </t><t>Are not darkened, </t><t>And the clouds do not return after the rain;</t>


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<t>In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, </t><t>And the strong men bow down; </t><t>When the grinders cease because they are few, </t><t>And those that look through the windows grow dim;</t>


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<t>When the doors are shut in the streets, </t><t>And the sound of grinding is low; </t><t>When one rises up at the sound of a bird, </t><t>And all <f>[3†]</f>the daughters of music are brought low.</t>


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<t>Also they are afraid of height, </t><t>And of terrors in the way; </t><t>When the almond tree blossoms, </t><t>The grasshopper is a burden, </t><t>And desire fails. </t><t>For man goes to <f>[4†]</f>his eternal home, </t><t>And <f>[5†]</f>the mourners go about the streets.</t>


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<t><i>Remember</i> <i>your</i> <i>Creator</i> before the silver cord is loosed, </t><t>Or the golden bowl is broken, </t><t>Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, </t><t>Or the wheel broken at the well.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>And the spirit will return to God <f>[8†]</f>who gave it.</t>


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<pb/>And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out <i>and</i> <f>[10†]</f>set in order many proverbs.


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The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and <i>what</i> <i>was</i> written <i>was</i> upright—words of truth.


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The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd.


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And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no end, and <f>[11†]</f>much study <i>is</i> wearisome to the flesh.


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<pb/>Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: <pb/><t> <f>[12†]</f>Fear God and keep His commandments, </t><t>For this is man’s all.</t>


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<t>For <f>[13†]</f>God will bring every work into judgment, </t><t>Including every secret thing, </t><t>Whether good or evil.</t>


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<pb/><t>Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>For your love <i>is</i> better than wine.</t>


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<t>Because of the fragrance of your good ointments, </t><t>Your name <i>is</i> ointment poured forth; </t><t>Therefore the virgins love you.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>Draw me away! </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>We will run after you. </t><t>The king <f>[5†]</f>has brought me into his chambers. </t><t>We will be glad and rejoice in you. </t><t>We will remember your love more than wine. </t><t>Rightly do they love you.</t>


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<t>I <i>am</i> dark, but lovely, </t><t>O daughters of Jerusalem, </t><t>Like the tents of Kedar, </t><t>Like the curtains of Solomon.</t>


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<t>Do not look upon me, because I <i>am</i> dark, </t><t>Because the sun has tanned me. </t><t>My mother’s sons were angry with me; </t><t>They made me the keeper of the vineyards, </t><t><i>But</i> my own <f>[6†]</f>vineyard I have not kept.</t>


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<t>Tell me, O you whom I love, </t><t>Where you feed <i>your</i> <i>flock,</i> </t><t>Where you make <i>it</i> rest at noon. </t><t>For why should I be as one who veils herself </t><t>By the flocks of your companions?</t>


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<t>If you do not know, <f>[7†]</f>O fairest among women, </t><t>Follow in the footsteps of the flock, </t><t>And feed your little goats </t><t>Beside the shepherds’ tents.</t>


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<t>I have compared you, <f>[8†]</f>my love, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>To my filly among Pharaoh’s chariots.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, </t><t>Your neck with chains <i>of</i> <i>gold.</i></t>


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<t>My beloved <i>is</i> to me a cluster of henna <i>blooms</i> </t><t>In the vineyards of En Gedi.</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>Behold, you <i>are</i> fair, my love! </t><t>Behold, you <i>are</i> fair! </t><t>You <i>have</i> dove’s eyes.</t>


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<t>Behold, you <i>are</i> <f>[12†]</f>handsome, my beloved! </t><t>Yes, pleasant! </t><t>Also our bed <i>is</i> green.</t>


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<t>Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods, </t><t>So <i>is</i> my beloved among the sons. </t><t>I sat down in his shade with great delight, </t><t>And <f>[1†]</f>his fruit <i>was</i> sweet to my taste.</t>


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<t>Sustain me with cakes of raisins, </t><t>Refresh me with apples, </t><t>For I <i>am</i> lovesick.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, </t><t>By the gazelles or by the does of the field, </t><t>Do not stir up nor awaken love </t><t>Until it pleases.</t>


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<t>The voice of my beloved! </t><t>Behold, he comes </t><t>Leaping upon the mountains, </t><t>Skipping upon the hills.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. </t><t>Behold, he stands behind our wall; </t><t>He is looking through the windows, </t><t>Gazing through the lattice.</t>


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<t>My beloved spoke, and said to me: </t><t>“Rise up, my love, my fair one, </t><t>And come away.</t>


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<t>The flowers appear on the earth; </t><t>The time of singing has come, </t><t>And the voice of the turtledove </t><t>Is heard in our land.</t>


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<t>The fig tree puts forth her green figs, </t><t>And the vines <i>with</i> the tender grapes </t><t>Give a <i>good</i> smell. </t><t>Rise up, my love, my fair one, </t><t>And come away!</t>


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<t>“O my <f>[5†]</f>dove, in the clefts of the rock, </t><t>In the secret <i>places</i> of the cliff, </t><t>Let me see your face, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Let me hear your voice; </t><t>For your voice <i>is</i> sweet, </t><t>And your face <i>is</i> lovely.”</t>


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<t>Catch us <f>[7†]</f>the foxes, </t><t>The little foxes that spoil the vines, </t><t>For our vines <i>have</i> tender grapes.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>My beloved <i>is</i> mine, and I <i>am</i> his. </t><t>He feeds <i>his</i> <i>flock</i> among the lilies.</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>Until the day breaks </t><t>And the shadows flee away, </t><t>Turn, my beloved, </t><t>And be <f>[10†]</f>like a gazelle </t><t>Or a young stag </t><t>Upon the mountains of Bether.</t>


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<pb/><t>By <f>[1†]</f>night on my bed I sought the one I love; </t><t>I sought him, but I did not find him.</t>


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<t>“I will rise now,” <i>I</i> <i>said,</i> </t><t>“And go about the city; </t><t>In the streets and in the squares </t><t>I will seek the one I love.” </t><t>I sought him, but I did not find him.</t>


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<t> <f>[2†]</f>The watchmen who go about the city found me; </t><t><i>I</i> <i>said,</i> </t><t>“Have you seen the one I love?”</t>


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<t>Scarcely had I passed by them, </t><t>When I found the one I love. </t><t>I held him and would not let him go, </t><t>Until I had brought him to the <f>[3†]</f>house of my mother, </t><t>And into the chamber of her who conceived me.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, </t><t>By the gazelles or by the does of the field, </t><t>Do not stir up nor awaken love </t><t>Until it pleases.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Who <i>is</i> this coming out of the wilderness </t><t>Like pillars of smoke, </t><t>Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, </t><t>With all the merchant’s fragrant powders?</t>


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<t>Behold, it <i>is</i> Solomon’s couch, </t><t><i>With</i> sixty valiant men around it, </t><t>Of the valiant of Israel.</t>


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<t>They all hold swords, </t><t><i>Being</i> expert in war. </t><t>Every man <i>has</i> his sword on his thigh </t><t>Because of fear in the night.</t>


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<t>He made its pillars <i>of</i> silver, </t><t>Its support <i>of</i> gold, </t><t>Its seat <i>of</i> purple, </t><t>Its interior paved <i>with</i> love </t><t>By the daughters of Jerusalem.</t>


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<t>Go forth, O daughters of Zion, </t><t>And see King Solomon with the crown </t><t>With which his mother crowned him </t><t>On the day of his wedding, </t><t>The day of the gladness of his heart.</t>


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<pb/><t>Behold, <f>[1†]</f>you <i>are</i> fair, my love! </t><t>Behold, you <i>are</i> fair! </t><t>You <i>have</i> dove’s eyes behind your veil. </t><t>Your hair <i>is</i> like a <f>[2†]</f>flock of goats, </t><t>Going down from Mount Gilead.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>Your teeth <i>are</i> like a flock of shorn <i>sheep</i> </t><t>Which have come up from the washing, </t><t>Every one of which bears twins, </t><t>And none <i>is</i> barren among them.</t>


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<t>Your lips <i>are</i> like a strand of scarlet, </t><t>And your mouth is lovely. </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>Your temples behind your veil </t><t><i>Are</i> like a piece of pomegranate.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Your neck <i>is</i> like the tower of David, </t><t>Built <f>[6†]</f>for an armory, </t><t>On which hang a thousand bucklers, </t><t>All shields of mighty men.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>Your two breasts <i>are</i> like two fawns, </t><t>Twins of a gazelle, </t><t>Which feed among the lilies.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>Until the day breaks </t><t>And the shadows flee away, </t><t>I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh </t><t>And to the hill of frankincense.</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>You <i>are</i> all fair, my love, </t><t>And <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no spot in you.</t>


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<t>Come with me from Lebanon, <i>my</i> spouse, </t><t>With me from Lebanon. </t><t>Look from the top of Amana, </t><t>From the top of Senir <f>[10†]</f>and Hermon, </t><t>From the lions’ dens, </t><t>From the mountains of the leopards.</t>


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<t>You have ravished my heart, </t><t>My sister, <i>my</i> spouse; </t><t>You have ravished my heart </t><t>With one <i>look</i> of your eyes, </t><t>With one link of your necklace.</t>


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<t>How fair is your love, </t><t>My sister, <i>my</i> spouse! </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>How much better than wine is your love, </t><t>And the scent of your perfumes </t><t>Than all spices!</t>


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<t>Your lips, O <i>my</i> spouse, </t><t>Drip as the honeycomb; </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>Honey and milk <i>are</i> under your tongue; </t><t>And the fragrance of your garments </t><t><i>Is</i> <f>[13†]</f>like the fragrance of Lebanon.</t>


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<t>A garden enclosed </t><t><i>Is</i> my sister, <i>my</i> spouse, </t><t>A spring shut up, </t><t>A fountain sealed.</t>


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<t>Your plants <i>are</i> an orchard of pomegranates </t><t>With pleasant fruits, </t><t>Fragrant henna with spikenard,</t>


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<t>Spikenard and saffron, </t><t>Calamus and cinnamon, </t><t>With all trees of frankincense, </t><t>Myrrh and aloes, </t><t>With all the chief spices—</t>


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<t>A fountain of gardens, </t><t>A well of <f>[14†]</f>living waters, </t><t>And streams from Lebanon.</t>


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<t>Awake, O north <i>wind,</i> </t><t>And come, O south! </t><t>Blow upon my garden, </t><t><i>That</i> its spices may flow out. </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>Let my beloved come to his garden </t><t>And eat its pleasant <f>[16†]</f>fruits.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>I <f>[1†]</f>have come to my garden, my <f>[2†]</f>sister, <i>my</i> spouse; </t><t>I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; </t><t>I have drunk my wine with my milk. </t><t>Eat, O <f>[4†]</f>friends! </t><t>Drink, yes, drink deeply, </t><t>O beloved ones!</t>


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<t>I sleep, but my heart is awake; </t><t><i>It</i> <i>is</i> the voice of my beloved! </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>He knocks, <i>saying,</i> </t><t>“Open for me, my sister, my love, </t><t>My dove, my perfect one; </t><t>For my head is covered with dew, </t><t>My locks with the drops of the night.”</t>


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<t>I have taken off my robe; </t><t>How can I put it on <i>again?</i> </t><t>I have washed my feet; </t><t>How can I defile them?</t>


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<t>My beloved put his hand </t><t>By the latch <i>of</i> <i>the</i> <i>door,</i> </t><t>And my heart yearned for him.</t>


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<t>I arose to open for my beloved, </t><t>And my hands dripped <i>with</i> myrrh, </t><t>My fingers with liquid myrrh, </t><t>On the handles of the lock.</t>


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<t>I opened for my beloved, </t><t>But my beloved had turned away <i>and</i> was gone. </t><t>My heart leaped up when he spoke. </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>I sought him, but I could not find him; </t><t>I called him, but he gave me no answer.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>The watchmen who went about the city found me. </t><t>They struck me, they wounded me; </t><t>The keepers of the walls </t><t>Took my veil away from me.</t>


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<t>I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, </t><t>If you find my beloved, </t><t>That you tell him I <i>am</i> lovesick!</t>


text:
<t>What <i>is</i> your beloved </t><t>More than <i>another</i> beloved, </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>O fairest among women? </t><t>What <i>is</i> your beloved </t><t>More than <i>another</i> beloved, </t><t>That you so charge us?</t>


text:
<t>His head <i>is</i> <i>like</i> the finest gold; </t><t>His locks <i>are</i> wavy, </t><t><i>And</i> black as a raven.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[9†]</f>His eyes <i>are</i> like doves </t><t>By the rivers of waters, </t><t>Washed with milk, </t><t><i>And</i> fitly set.</t>


text:
<t>His cheeks <i>are</i> like a bed of spices, </t><t>Banks of scented herbs. </t><t>His lips <i>are</i> lilies, </t><t>Dripping liquid myrrh.</t>


text:
<t>His hands <i>are</i> rods of gold </t><t>Set with beryl. </t><t>His body <i>is</i> carved ivory </t><t>Inlaid <i>with</i> sapphires.</t>


text:
<t>His legs <i>are</i> pillars of marble </t><t>Set on bases of fine gold. </t><t>His countenance <i>is</i> like Lebanon, </t><t>Excellent as the cedars.</t>


text:
<t>His mouth <i>is</i> most sweet, </t><t>Yes, he <i>is</i> altogether lovely. </t><t>This <i>is</i> my beloved, </t><t>And this <i>is</i> my friend, </t><t>O daughters of Jerusalem!</t>


text:
<pb/><t>Where has your beloved gone, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>O fairest among women? </t><t>Where has your beloved turned aside, </t><t>That we may seek him with you?</t>


text:
<t>My beloved has gone to his <f>[2†]</f>garden, </t><t>To the beds of spices, </t><t>To feed <i>his</i> <i>flock</i> in the gardens, </t><t>And to gather lilies.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[3†]</f>I <i>am</i> my beloved’s, </t><t>And my beloved <i>is</i> mine. </t><t>He feeds <i>his</i> <i>flock</i> among the lilies.</t>


text:
<t>O my love, you <i>are</i> <i>as</i> beautiful as Tirzah, </t><t>Lovely as Jerusalem, </t><t>Awesome as <i>an</i> <i>army</i> with banners!</t>


text:
<t>Turn your eyes away from me, </t><t>For they have overcome me. </t><t>Your hair <i>is</i> <f>[4†]</f>like a flock of goats </t><t>Going down from Gilead.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[5†]</f>Your teeth <i>are</i> like a flock of sheep </t><t>Which have come up from the washing; </t><t>Every one bears twins, </t><t>And none <i>is</i> barren among them.</t>


text:
<t>There are sixty queens </t><t>And eighty concubines, </t><t>And <f>[7†]</f>virgins without number.</t>


text:
<t>My dove, my <f>[8†]</f>perfect one, </t><t>Is the only one, </t><t>The only one of her mother, </t><t>The favorite of the one who bore her. </t><t>The daughters saw her </t><t>And called her blessed, </t><t>The queens and the concubines, </t><t>And they praised her.</t>


text:
<t>Who is she who looks forth as the morning, </t><t>Fair as the moon, </t><t>Clear as the sun, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>Awesome as <i>an</i> <i>army</i> with banners?</t>


text:
<t>I went down to the garden of nuts </t><t>To see the verdure of the valley, </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>To see whether the vine had budded </t><t><i>And</i> the pomegranates had bloomed.</t>


text:
<t>Before I was even aware, </t><t>My soul had made me </t><t><i>As</i> the chariots of my noble people.</t>


text:
<t>Return, return, O Shulamite; </t><t>Return, return, that we may look upon you! </t><t>What would you see in the Shulamite— </t><t>As it were, the dance of the two camps?</t>


text:
<pb/><t>How beautiful are your feet in sandals, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>O prince’s daughter! </t><t>The curves of your thighs <i>are</i> like jewels, </t><t>The work of the hands of a skillful workman.</t>


text:
<t>Your navel <i>is</i> a rounded goblet; </t><t>It lacks no blended beverage. </t><t>Your waist <i>is</i> a heap of wheat </t><t>Set about with lilies.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[3†]</f>Your neck <i>is</i> like an ivory tower, </t><t>Your eyes <i>like</i> the pools in Heshbon </t><t>By the gate of Bath Rabbim. </t><t>Your nose <i>is</i> like the tower of Lebanon </t><t>Which looks toward Damascus.</t>


text:
<t>Your head <i>crowns</i> you like <i>Mount</i> Carmel, </t><t>And the hair of your head <i>is</i> like purple; </t><t>A king <i>is</i> held captive by <i>your</i> tresses.</t>


text:
<t>I said, “I will go up to the palm tree, </t><t>I will take hold of its branches.” </t><t>Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine, </t><t>The fragrance of your breath like apples,</t>


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<t>And the roof of your mouth like the best wine. </t><t><i>The</i> <i>wine</i> goes <i>down</i> smoothly for my beloved, </t><t>Moving gently the lips of sleepers.</t>


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<t>Let us get up early to the vineyards; </t><t>Let us <f>[6†]</f>see if the vine has budded, </t><t><i>Whether</i> the grape blossoms are open, </t><t><i>And</i> the pomegranates are in bloom. </t><t>There I will give you my love.</t>


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<t>The <f>[7†]</f>mandrakes give off a fragrance, </t><t>And at our gates <f>[8†]</f><i>are</i> pleasant <i>fruits,</i> </t><t>All manner, new and old, </t><t>Which I have laid up for you, my beloved.</t>


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<pb/><t>Oh, that you were like my brother, </t><t>Who nursed at my mother’s breasts! </t><t><i>If</i> I should find you outside, </t><t>I would kiss you; </t><t>I would not be despised.</t>


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<t>I would lead you <i>and</i> bring you </t><t>Into the <f>[1†]</f>house of my mother, </t><t>She <i>who</i> used to instruct me. </t><t>I would cause you to drink of <f>[2†]</f>spiced wine, </t><t>Of the juice of my pomegranate.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, </t><t>Do not stir up nor awaken love </t><t>Until it pleases.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Who <i>is</i> this coming up from the wilderness, </t><t>Leaning upon her beloved? </t><t>I awakened you under the apple tree. </t><t>There your mother brought you forth; </t><t>There she <i>who</i> bore you brought <i>you</i> forth.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>Set me as a seal upon your heart, </t><t>As a seal upon your arm; </t><t>For love <i>is</i> <i>as</i> strong as death, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>Jealousy <i>as</i> cruel as the grave; </t><t>Its flames <i>are</i> flames of fire, </t><t>A most vehement flame.</t>


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<t>Many waters cannot quench love, </t><t>Nor can the floods drown it. </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>If a man would give for love </t><t>All the wealth of his house, </t><t>It would be utterly despised.</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>We have a little sister, </t><t>And she has no breasts. </t><t>What shall we do for our sister </t><t>In the day when she is spoken for?</t>


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<t>If she <i>is</i> a wall, </t><t>We will build upon her </t><t>A battlement of silver; </t><t>And if she <i>is</i> a door, </t><t>We will enclose her </t><t>With boards of cedar.</t>


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<t>I <i>am</i> a wall, </t><t>And my breasts like towers; </t><t>Then I became in his eyes </t><t>As one who found peace.</t>


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<t>Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon; </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>He leased the vineyard to keepers; </t><t>Everyone was to bring for its fruit </t><t>A thousand silver <i>coins</i>.</t>


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<t>My own vineyard <i>is</i> before me. </t><t>You, O Solomon, <i>may</i> <i>have</i> a thousand, </t><t>And those who tend its fruit two hundred.</t>


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<t>You who dwell in the gardens, </t><t>The companions listen for your voice— </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>Let me hear it!</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>Make haste, my beloved, </t><t>And <f>[13†]</f>be like a gazelle </t><t>Or a young stag </t><t>On the mountains of spices.</t>


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<pb/>The <f>[1†]</f>vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the <f>[2†]</f>days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, <i>and</i> Hezekiah, kings of Judah.


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<pb/><t> <f>[3†]</f>Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! </t><t>For the LORD has spoken: </t><t>“I have nourished and brought up children, </t><t>And they have rebelled against Me;</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>The ox knows its owner </t><t>And the donkey its master’s crib; </t><t><i>But</i> Israel <f>[5†]</f>does not know, </t><t>My people do not consider.”</t>


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<t>Alas, sinful nation, </t><t>A people laden with iniquity, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>A brood of evildoers, </t><t>Children who are corrupters! </t><t>They have forsaken the LORD, </t><t>They have provoked to anger </t><t>The Holy One of Israel, </t><t>They have turned away backward.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>Why should you be stricken again? </t><t>You will revolt more and more. </t><t>The whole head is sick, </t><t>And the whole heart faints.</t>


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<t>From the sole of the foot even to the head, </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> no soundness in it, </t><t><i>But</i> wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; </t><t>They have not been closed or bound up, </t><t>Or soothed with ointment.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>Your country <i>is</i> desolate, </t><t>Your cities <i>are</i> burned with fire; </t><t>Strangers devour your land in your presence; </t><t>And <i>it</i> <i>is</i> desolate, as overthrown by strangers.</t>


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<t>So the daughter of Zion is left <f>[9†]</f>as a booth in a vineyard, </t><t>As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>As a besieged city.</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>Unless the LORD of hosts </t><t>Had left to us a very small remnant, </t><t>We would have become like <f>[12†]</f>Sodom, </t><t>We would have been made like Gomorrah.</t>


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<t>Hear the word of the LORD, </t><t>You rulers <f>[13†]</f>of Sodom; </t><t>Give ear to the law of our God, </t><t>You people of Gomorrah:</t>


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<t>“To what purpose <i>is</i> the multitude of your <f>[14†]</f>sacrifices to Me?” </t><t>Says the LORD. </t><t>“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams </t><t>And the fat of fed cattle. </t><t>I do not delight in the blood of bulls, </t><t>Or of lambs or goats.</t>


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<t>“When you come <f>[15†]</f>to appear before Me, </t><t>Who has required this from your hand, </t><t>To trample My courts?</t>


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<t>Bring no more <f>[16†]</f>futile sacrifices; </t><t>Incense is an abomination to Me. </t><t>The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and <f>[17†]</f>the calling of assemblies— </t><t>I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.</t>


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<t>Your <f>[18†]</f>New Moons and your <f>[19†]</f>appointed feasts </t><t>My soul hates; </t><t>They are a trouble to Me, </t><t>I am weary of bearing <i>them.</i></t>


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>When you spread out your hands, </t><t>I will hide My eyes from you; </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>Even though you make many prayers, </t><t>I will not hear. </t><t>Your hands are full of blood.</t>


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<t>“Wash <f>[22†]</f> yourselves, make yourselves clean; </t><t>Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. </t><t> <f>[23†]</f>Cease to do evil,</t>


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<t>Learn to do good; </t><t>Seek justice, </t><t>Rebuke the oppressor; </t><t>Defend the fatherless, </t><t>Plead for the widow.</t>


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<t>“Come now, and let us <f>[24†]</f>reason together,” </t><t>Says the LORD, </t><t>“Though your sins are like scarlet, </t><t> <f>[25†]</f>They shall be as white as snow; </t><t>Though they are red like crimson, </t><t>They shall be as wool.</t>


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<t>But if you refuse and rebel, </t><t>You shall be devoured by the sword”; </t><t> <f>[26†]</f>For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.</t>


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<t> <f>[27†]</f>How the faithful city has become a harlot! </t><t>It was full of justice; </t><t>Righteousness lodged in it, </t><t>But now <f>[28†]</f>murderers.</t>


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<t> <f>[30†]</f>Your princes <i>are</i> rebellious, </t><t>And <f>[31†]</f>companions of thieves; </t><t> <f>[32†]</f>Everyone loves bribes, </t><t>And follows after rewards. </t><t>They <f>[33†]</f>do not defend the fatherless, </t><t>Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.</t>


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<t>Therefore the Lord says, </t><t>The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, </t><t>“Ah, <f>[34†]</f>I will rid Myself of My adversaries, </t><t>And take vengeance on My enemies.</t>


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<t>I will turn My hand against you, </t><t>And <f>[35†]</f>thoroughly purge away your dross, </t><t>And take away all your alloy.</t>


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<t>I will restore your judges <f>[36†]</f>as at the first, </t><t>And your counselors as at the beginning. </t><t>Afterward <f>[37†]</f>you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”</t>


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<t>The <f>[38†]</f>destruction of transgressors and of sinners <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> together, </t><t>And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.</t>


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<t>For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees </t><t>Which you have desired; </t><t>And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens </t><t>Which you have chosen.</t>


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<t> <f>[39†]</f>The strong shall be as tinder, </t><t>And the work of it as a spark; </t><t>Both will burn together, </t><t>And no one shall <f>[40†]</f>quench <i>them.</i></t>


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<pb/><t>Now <f>[1†]</f>it shall come to pass <f>[2†]</f>in the latter days </t><t> <f>[3†]</f><i>That</i> the mountain of the LORD’s house </t><t>Shall be established on the top of the mountains, </t><t>And shall be exalted above the hills; </t><t>And all nations shall flow to it.</t>


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<t>Many people shall come and say, </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, </t><t>To the house of the God of Jacob; </t><t>He will teach us His ways, </t><t>And we shall walk in His paths.” </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>For out of Zion shall go forth the law, </t><t>And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.</t>


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<t>He shall judge between the nations, </t><t>And rebuke many people; </t><t>They shall beat their swords into plowshares, </t><t>And their spears into pruning hooks; </t><t>Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, </t><t>Neither shall they learn war anymore.</t>


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<t>For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, </t><t>Because they are filled <f>[7†]</f>with eastern ways; </t><t>They <i>are</i> <f>[8†]</f>soothsayers like the Philistines, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>And they are pleased with the children of foreigners.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Their land is also full of silver and gold, </t><t>And there is no end to their treasures; </t><t>Their land is also full of horses, </t><t>And there is no end to their chariots.</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>Their land is also full of idols; </t><t>They worship the work of their own hands, </t><t>That which their own fingers have made.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, </t><t>From the terror of the LORD </t><t>And the glory of His majesty.</t>


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<t>The lofty looks of man shall be <f>[13†]</f>humbled, </t><t>The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, </t><t>And the LORD alone shall be exalted <f>[14†]</f>in that day.</t>


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<t>For the day of the LORD of hosts </t><t><i>Shall</i> <i>come</i> upon everything proud and lofty, </t><t>Upon everything lifted up— </t><t>And it shall be brought low—</t>


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<t>Upon all <f>[15†]</f>the cedars of Lebanon <i>that</i> <i>are</i> high and lifted up, </t><t>And upon all the oaks of Bashan;</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>Upon all the high mountains, </t><t>And upon all the hills <i>that</i> <i>are</i> lifted up;</t>


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<t>The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, </t><t>And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; </t><t>The LORD alone will be exalted in that day,</t>


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<t>They shall go into the <f>[18†]</f>holes of the rocks, </t><t>And into the caves of the earth, </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>From the terror of the LORD </t><t>And the glory of His majesty, </t><t>When He arises <f>[20†]</f>to shake the earth mightily.</t>


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<t>In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver </t><t>And his idols of gold, </t><t>Which they made, <i>each</i> for himself to worship, </t><t>To the moles and bats,</t>


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<t>To go into the clefts of the rocks, </t><t>And into the crags of the rugged rocks, </t><t>From the terror of the LORD </t><t>And the glory of His majesty, </t><t>When He arises to shake the earth mightily.</t>


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<t> <f>[21†]</f>Sever yourselves from such a man, </t><t>Whose <f>[22†]</f>breath <i>is</i> in his nostrils; </t><t>For of what account is he?</t>


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<pb/><t>For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>The stock and the store, </t><t>The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>The mighty man and the man of war, </t><t>The judge and the prophet, </t><t>And the diviner and the elder;</t>


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<t>The captain of fifty and the honorable man, </t><t>The counselor and the skillful artisan, </t><t>And the expert enchanter.</t>


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<t>“I will give <f>[4†]</f>children <i>to</i> <i>be</i> their princes, </t><t>And babes shall rule over them.</t>


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<t>The people will be oppressed, </t><t>Every one by another and every one by his neighbor; </t><t>The child will be insolent toward the elder, </t><t>And the base toward the honorable.”</t>


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<t>When a man takes hold of his brother </t><t>In the house of his father, <i>saying,</i> </t><t>“You have clothing; </t><t>You be our ruler, </t><t>And <i>let</i> these ruins <i>be</i> under your power,”</t>


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<t>In that day he will protest, saying, </t><t>“I cannot cure <i>your</i> ills, </t><t>For in my house <i>is</i> neither food nor clothing; </t><t>Do not make me a ruler of the people.”</t>


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<t>For <f>[5†]</f>Jerusalem stumbled, </t><t>And Judah is fallen, </t><t>Because their tongue and their doings </t><t><i>Are</i> against the LORD, </t><t>To provoke the eyes of His glory.</t>


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<t>The look on their countenance witnesses against them, </t><t>And they declare their sin as <f>[6†]</f>Sodom; </t><t>They do not hide <i>it.</i> </t><t>Woe to their soul! </t><t>For they have brought evil upon themselves.</t>


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<t>“Say to the righteous <f>[7†]</f>that <i>it</i> <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> well <i>with</i> <i>them,</i> </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>For they shall eat the fruit of their doings.</t>


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<t>Woe to the wicked! <f>[9†]</f><i>It</i> <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> ill <i>with</i> <i>him,</i> </t><t>For the reward of his hands shall be given him.</t>


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<t><i>As</i> <i>for</i> My people, children <i>are</i> their oppressors, </t><t>And women rule over them. </t><t>O My people! <f>[10†]</f>Those who lead you cause <i>you</i> to err, </t><t>And destroy the way of your paths.”</t>


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<t>The LORD will enter into judgment </t><t>With the elders of His people </t><t>And His princes: </t><t>“For you have eaten up <f>[12†]</f>the vineyard; </t><t>The plunder of the poor <i>is</i> in your houses.</t>


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<t>What do you mean by <f>[13†]</f>crushing My people </t><t>And grinding the faces of the poor?” </t><t>Says the Lord GOD of hosts.</t>


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<pb/>Moreover the LORD says: <pb/><t>“Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, </t><t>And walk with outstretched necks </t><t>And wanton eyes, </t><t>Walking and mincing <i>as</i> they go, </t><t>Making a jingling with their feet,</t>


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<t>Therefore the Lord will strike with <f>[14†]</f>a scab </t><t>The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, </t><t>And the LORD will <f>[15†]</f>uncover their secret parts.”</t>


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<t>In that day the Lord will take away the finery: </t><t>The jingling anklets, the scarves, and the <f>[16†]</f>crescents;</t>


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<pb/>And so it shall be: <pb/><t>Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench; </t><t>Instead of a sash, a rope; </t><t>Instead of well-set hair, <f>[17†]</f>baldness; </t><t>Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; </t><t>And branding instead of beauty.</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>Her gates shall lament and mourn, </t><t>And she <i>being</i> desolate <f>[19†]</f>shall sit on the ground.</t>


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<pb/><t>And <f>[1†]</f>in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, </t><t>“We will <f>[2†]</f>eat our own food and wear our own apparel; </t><t>Only let us be called by your name, </t><t>To take away <f>[3†]</f>our reproach.”</t>


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<t>In that day <f>[4†]</f>the Branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious; </t><t>And the fruit of the earth <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> excellent and appealing </t><t>For those of Israel who have escaped.</t>


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<pb/>And it shall come to pass that <i>he</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem <f>[5†]</f>will be called holy—everyone who is <f>[6†]</f>recorded among the living in Jerusalem.


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When <f>[7†]</f>the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,


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then the LORD will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above her assemblies, <f>[8†]</f>a cloud and smoke by day and <f>[9†]</f>the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there <i>will</i> <i>be</i> a covering.


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And there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, <f>[10†]</f>for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain.


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<pb/><t>Now let me sing to my Well-beloved </t><t>A song of my Beloved <f>[1†]</f>regarding His vineyard: </t><t>My Well-beloved has a vineyard </t><t>On a very fruitful hill.</t>


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<t>He dug it up and cleared out its stones, </t><t>And planted it with the choicest vine. </t><t>He built a tower in its midst, </t><t>And also made a winepress in it; </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>So He expected <i>it</i> to bring forth <i>good</i> grapes, </t><t>But it brought forth wild grapes.</t>


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<t>“And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>Judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.</t>


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<t>What more could have been done to My vineyard </t><t>That I have not done in <f>[4†]</f>it? </t><t>Why then, when I expected <i>it</i> to bring forth <i>good</i> grapes, </t><t>Did it bring forth wild grapes?</t>


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<t>And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard: </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; </t><t><i>And</i> break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.</t>


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<t>I will lay it <f>[6†]</f>waste; </t><t>It shall not be pruned or dug, </t><t>But there shall come up briers and <f>[7†]</f>thorns. </t><t>I will also command the clouds </t><t>That they rain no rain on it.”</t>


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<t>For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts <i>is</i> the house of Israel, </t><t>And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. </t><t>He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; </t><t>For righteousness, but behold, a cry <i>for</i> <i>help.</i></t>


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<t>Woe to those who join <f>[8†]</f>house to house; </t><t>They add field to field, </t><t>Till <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no place </t><t>Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>In my hearing the LORD of hosts <i>said,</i> </t><t>“Truly, many houses shall be desolate, </t><t>Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.</t>


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<t>For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one <f>[10†]</f>bath, </t><t>And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[11†]</f>Woe to those who rise early in the morning, </t><t><i>That</i> they may follow intoxicating drink; </t><t>Who continue until night, <i>till</i> wine inflames them!</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>The harp and the strings, </t><t>The tambourine and flute, </t><t>And wine are in their feasts; </t><t>But <f>[13†]</f>they do not regard the work of the LORD, </t><t>Nor consider the operation of His hands.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[14†]</f>Therefore my people have gone into captivity, </t><t>Because <i>they</i> <i>have</i> no <f>[15†]</f>knowledge; </t><t>Their honorable men <i>are</i> famished, </t><t>And their multitude dried up with thirst.</t>


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<t>Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself </t><t>And opened its mouth beyond measure; </t><t>Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, </t><t>And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.</t>


text:
<t>People shall be brought down, </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>Each man shall be humbled, </t><t>And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.</t>


text:
<t>But the LORD of hosts shall be <f>[17†]</f>exalted in judgment, </t><t>And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.</t>


text:
<t>Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, </t><t>And in the waste places of <f>[18†]</f>the fat ones strangers shall eat.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[19†]</f>That say, “Let Him make speed <i>and</i> hasten His work, </t><t>That we may see <i>it;</i> </t><t>And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, </t><t>That we may know <i>it.</i>”</t>


text:
<t>Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; </t><t>Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; </t><t>Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!</t>


text:
<t>Woe to <i>those</i> <i>who</i> <i>are</i> <f>[20†]</f>wise in their own eyes, </t><t>And prudent in their own sight!</t>


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<t>Who <f>[21†]</f>justify the wicked for a bribe, </t><t>And take away justice from the righteous man!</t>


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<t>Therefore, <f>[22†]</f>as the fire devours the stubble, </t><t>And the flame consumes the chaff, </t><t><i>So</i> <f>[23†]</f>their root will be as rottenness, </t><t>And their blossom will ascend like dust; </t><t>Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, </t><t>And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.</t>


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<t> <f>[24†]</f>Therefore the anger of the LORD is aroused against His people; </t><t>He has stretched out His hand against them </t><t>And stricken them, </t><t>And <f>[25†]</f>the hills trembled. </t><t>Their carcasses <i>were</i> as refuse in the midst of the streets. </t><t> <f>[26†]</f>For all this His anger is not turned away, </t><t>But His hand <i>is</i> stretched out still.</t>


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<t> <f>[27†]</f>He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, </t><t>And will <f>[28†]</f>whistle to them from <f>[29†]</f>the end of the earth; </t><t>Surely <f>[30†]</f>they shall come with speed, swiftly.</t>


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<t>No one will be weary or stumble among them, </t><t>No one will slumber or sleep; </t><t>Nor <f>[31†]</f>will the belt on their loins be loosed, </t><t>Nor the strap of their sandals be broken;</t>


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<t> <f>[32†]</f>Whose arrows <i>are</i> sharp, </t><t>And all their bows bent; </t><t>Their horses’ hooves will seem like flint, </t><t>And their wheels like a whirlwind.</t>


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<t>Their roaring <i>will</i> <i>be</i> like a lion, </t><t>They will roar like young lions; </t><t>Yes, they will roar </t><t>And lay hold of the prey; </t><t>They will carry <i>it</i> away safely, </t><t>And no one will deliver.</t>


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<t>In that day they will roar against them </t><t>Like the roaring of the sea. </t><t>And if <i>one</i> <f>[33†]</f>looks to the land, </t><t>Behold, darkness <i>and</i> sorrow; </t><t>And the light is darkened by the clouds.</t>


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<pb/>In the year that <f>[1†]</f>King Uzziah died, I <f>[2†]</f>saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His <i>robe</i> filled the temple.


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Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, <f>[3†]</f>with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.


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And one cried to another and said: <pb/><t> <f>[4†]</f>“Holy, holy, holy <i>is</i> the LORD of hosts; </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>The whole earth <i>is</i> full of His glory!”</t>


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<pb/>And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.


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<pb/>So I said: <pb/><t>“Woe <i>is</i> me, for I am undone! </t><t>Because I <i>am</i> a man of <f>[6†]</f>unclean lips, </t><t>And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; </t><t>For my eyes have seen the King, </t><t>The LORD of hosts.”</t>


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<pb/>Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal <i>which</i> he had taken with the tongs from <f>[7†]</f>the altar.


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And he <f>[8†]</f>touched my mouth <i>with</i> <i>it,</i> and said: <pb/><t>“Behold, this has touched your lips; </t><t>Your iniquity is taken away, </t><t>And your sin purged.”</t>


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<pb/>Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: <pb/><t>“Whom shall I send, </t><t>And who will go for <f>[9†]</f>Us?” </t> <pb/>Then I said, “Here <i>am</i> I! Send me.”


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<pb/>And He said, “Go, and <f>[10†]</f>tell this people: <pb/><t>‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; </t><t>Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’</t>


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<t>“Make <f>[11†]</f>the heart of this people dull, </t><t>And their ears heavy, </t><t>And shut their eyes; </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>Lest they see with their eyes, </t><t>And hear with their ears, </t><t>And understand with their heart, </t><t>And return and be healed.”</t>


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<pb/>Then I said, “Lord, how long?” <pb/>And He answered: <pb/><t> <f>[13†]</f>“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, </t><t>The houses are without a man, </t><t>The land is utterly desolate,</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>The LORD has removed men far away, </t><t>And the forsaken places <i>are</i> many in the midst of the land.</t>


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<t>But yet a tenth <i>will</i> <i>be</i> in it, </t><t>And will return and be for consuming, </t><t>As a terebinth tree or as an oak, </t><t>Whose stump <i>remains</i> when it is cut down. </t><t>So <f>[15†]</f>the holy seed <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> its stump.”</t>


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<pb/>Now it came to pass in the days of <f>[1†]</f>Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, <i>that</i> Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to <i>make</i> war against <f>[2†]</f>it, but could not prevail against it.


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And it was told to the house of David, saying, “Syria’s forces are deployed in Ephraim.” So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field,


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and say to him: ‘Take heed, and be <f>[3†]</f>quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.


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“Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”—


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thus says the Lord GOD: <pb/><t> <f>[4†]</f>“It shall not stand, </t><t>Nor shall it come to pass.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>For the head of Syria <i>is</i> Damascus, </t><t>And the head of Damascus <i>is</i> Rezin. </t><t>Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken, </t><t><i>So</i> <i>that</i> <i>it</i> <i>will</i> not <i>be</i> a people.</t>


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<t>The head of Ephraim <i>is</i> Samaria, </t><t>And the head of Samaria <i>is</i> Remaliah’s son. </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>If you will not believe, </t><t>Surely you shall not be established.” ’ ”</t>


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<f>[7†]</f>“Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.”


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<pb/>Then he said, “Hear now, O house of David! <i>Is</i> <i>it</i> a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?


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Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: <f>[8†]</f>Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear <f>[9†]</f>a Son, and shall call His name <f>[10†]</f>Immanuel.


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<f>[11†]</f>For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by <f>[12†]</f>both her kings.


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<f>[13†]</f>The LORD will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your father’s house—days that have not come since the day that <f>[14†]</f>Ephraim departed from Judah.”


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<pb/><t>And it shall come to pass in that day </t><t><i>That</i> the LORD <f>[15†]</f>will whistle for the fly </t><t>That <i>is</i> in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt, </t><t>And for the bee that <i>is</i> in the land of Assyria.</t>


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<t>They will come, and all of them will rest </t><t>In the desolate valleys and in <f>[16†]</f>the clefts of the rocks, </t><t>And on all thorns and in all pastures.</t>


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<t>In the same day the Lord will shave with a <f>[17†]</f>hired <f>[18†]</f>razor, </t><t>With those from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, </t><t>The head and the hair of the legs, </t><t>And will also remove the beard.</t>


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<t>So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give, </t><t>That he will eat curds; </t><t>For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.</t>


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<t>It shall happen in that day, </t><t><i>That</i> wherever there could be a thousand vines </t><t><i>Worth</i> a thousand <i>shekels</i> of silver, </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>It will be for briers and thorns.</t>


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<t>With arrows and bows <i>men</i> will come there, </t><t>Because all the land will become briers and thorns.</t>


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<t>And to any hill which could be dug with the hoe, </t><t>You will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; </t><t>But it will become a range for oxen </t><t>And a place for sheep to roam.</t>


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<pb/>Moreover the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll, and <f>[1†]</f>write on it with a man’s pen concerning Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.


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And I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to record, <f>[2†]</f>Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”


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<pb/>Then 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;


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<f>[3†]</f>for before the child shall have knowledge to cry ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ <f>[4†]</f>the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be taken away before the king of Assyria.”


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<pb/><t>“Inasmuch as these people refused </t><t>The waters of <f>[5†]</f>Shiloah that flow softly, </t><t>And rejoice <f>[6†]</f>in Rezin and in Remaliah’s son;</t>


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<t>Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them </t><t>The waters of the River, strong and mighty— </t><t>The king of Assyria and all his glory; </t><t>He will go up over all his channels </t><t>And go over all his banks.</t>


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<t>He will pass through Judah, </t><t>He will overflow and pass over, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>He will reach up to the neck; </t><t>And the stretching out of his wings </t><t>Will fill the breadth of Your land, O <f>[8†]</f>Immanuel.</t>


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<t>“Be <f>[9†]</f> shattered, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! </t><t>Give ear, all you from far countries. </t><t>Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces; </t><t>Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; </t><t>Speak the word, <f>[11†]</f>but it will not stand, </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>For God <i>is</i> with us.”</t>


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<pb/>For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:


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<pb/><t>“Do not say, ‘A conspiracy,’ </t><t>Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, </t><t>Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.</t>


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<t>The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow; </t><t><i>Let</i> Him <i>be</i> your fear, </t><t>And <i>let</i> Him <i>be</i> your dread.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>He will be as a sanctuary, </t><t>But <f>[14†]</f>a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense </t><t>To both the houses of Israel, </t><t>As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</t>


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<t>And many among them shall <f>[15†]</f>stumble; </t><t>They shall fall and be broken, </t><t>Be snared and taken.”</t>


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<t>And I will wait on the LORD, </t><t>Who <f>[16†]</f>hides His face from the house of Jacob; </t><t>And I <f>[17†]</f>will hope in Him.</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>Here am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! </t><t><i>We</i> <f>[19†]</f>are for signs and wonders in Israel </t><t>From the LORD of hosts, </t><t>Who dwells in Mount Zion.</t>


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<pb/>And when they say to you, <f>[20†]</f>“Seek those who are mediums and wizards, <f>[21†]</f>who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? <i>Should</i> <i>they</i> <f>[22†]</f>seek the dead on behalf of the living?


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<f>[23†]</f>To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, <i>it</i> <i>is</i> because <f>[24†]</f>there is no light in them.


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<pb/>They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and <f>[25†]</f>curse their king and their God, and look upward.


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Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and <i>they</i> <i>will</i> <i>be</i> driven into darkness.


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<pb/><t>Nevertheless <f>[1†]</f>the gloom <i>will</i> not <i>be</i> upon her who <i>is</i> distressed, </t><t>As when at <f>[2†]</f>first He lightly esteemed </t><t>The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, </t><t>And <f>[3†]</f>afterward more heavily oppressed <i>her,</i> </t><t><i>By</i> the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, </t><t>In Galilee of the Gentiles.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>The people who walked in darkness </t><t>Have seen a great light; </t><t>Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, </t><t>Upon them a light has shined.</t>


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<t>You have multiplied the nation </t><t><i>And</i> increased its joy; </t><t>They rejoice before You </t><t>According to the joy of harvest, </t><t>As <i>men</i> rejoice <f>[5†]</f>when they divide the spoil.</t>


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<t>For You have broken the yoke of his burden </t><t>And the staff of his shoulder, </t><t>The rod of his oppressor, </t><t>As in the day of <f>[6†]</f>Midian.</t>


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<t>For every warrior’s sandal from the noisy battle, </t><t>And garments rolled in blood, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>Will be used for burning <i>and</i> fuel of fire.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>For unto us a Child is born, </t><t>Unto us a <f>[9†]</f>Son is given; </t><t>And <f>[10†]</f>the government will be upon His shoulder. </t><t>And His name will be called </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>Wonderful, Counselor, <f>[12†]</f>Mighty God, </t><t>Everlasting Father, <f>[13†]</f>Prince of Peace.</t>


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<t>Of the increase of <i>His</i> government and peace </t><t> <f>[14†]</f><i>There</i> <i>will</i> <i>be</i> no end, </t><t>Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, </t><t>To order it and establish it with judgment and justice </t><t>From that time forward, even forever. </t><t>The <f>[15†]</f>zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.</t>


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<t>All the people will know— </t><t>Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria— </t><t>Who say in pride and arrogance of heart:</t>


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<t>“The bricks have fallen down, </t><t>But we will rebuild with hewn stones; </t><t>The sycamores are cut down, </t><t>But we will replace <i>them</i> with cedars.”</t>


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<t>Therefore the LORD shall set up </t><t>The adversaries of Rezin against him, </t><t>And spur his enemies on,</t>


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<t>The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; </t><t>And they shall devour Israel with an open mouth. </t><t>For all this His anger is not turned away, </t><t>But His hand <i>is</i> stretched out still.</t>


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<t>For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, </t><t>Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.</t>


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<t>Therefore the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, </t><t>Palm branch and bulrush <f>[17†]</f>in one day.</t>


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<t>The elder and honorable, he <i>is</i> the head; </t><t>The prophet who teaches lies, he <i>is</i> the tail.</t>


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<t>For <f>[18†]</f>the leaders of this people cause <i>them</i> to err, </t><t>And <i>those</i> <i>who</i> <i>are</i> led by them are destroyed.</t>


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<t>Therefore the Lord <f>[19†]</f>will have no joy in their young men, </t><t>Nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; </t><t>For everyone <i>is</i> a hypocrite and an evildoer, </t><t>And every mouth speaks folly. </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>For all this His anger is not turned away, </t><t>But His hand <i>is</i> stretched out still.</t>


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<t>For wickedness <f>[21†]</f>burns as the fire; </t><t>It shall devour the briers and thorns, </t><t>And kindle in the thickets of the forest; </t><t>They shall mount up <i>like</i> rising smoke.</t>


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<t>Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>The land is burned up, </t><t>And the people shall be as fuel for the fire; </t><t> <f>[23†]</f>No man shall spare his brother.</t>


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<t>And he shall snatch on the right hand </t><t>And be hungry; </t><t>He shall devour on the left hand </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>And not be satisfied; </t><t> <f>[25†]</f>Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.</t>


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<t>Manasseh <i>shall</i> <i>devour</i> Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; </t><t>Together they <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <f>[26†]</f>against Judah. </t><t> <f>[27†]</f>For all this His anger is not turned away, </t><t>But His hand <i>is</i> stretched out still.</t>


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<pb/><t>“Woe to those who <f>[1†]</f>decree unrighteous decrees, </t><t>Who write misfortune, </t><t><i>Which</i> they have prescribed</t>


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<t>To rob the needy of justice, </t><t>And to take what is right from the poor of My people, </t><t>That widows may be their prey, </t><t>And <i>that</i> they may rob the fatherless.</t>


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<t> <f>[2†]</f>What will you do in <f>[3†]</f>the day of punishment, </t><t>And in the desolation <i>which</i> will come from <f>[4†]</f>afar? </t><t>To whom will you flee for help? </t><t>And where will you leave your glory?</t>


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<t>Without Me they shall bow down among the <f>[5†]</f>prisoners, </t><t>And they shall fall among the slain.” </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>For all this His anger is not turned away, </t><t>But His hand <i>is</i> stretched out still.</t>


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<t>“Woe to Assyria, <f>[7†]</f>the rod of My anger </t><t>And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.</t>


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<t>I will send him against <f>[8†]</f>an ungodly nation, </t><t>And against the people of My wrath </t><t>I will <f>[9†]</f>give him charge, </t><t>To seize the spoil, to take the prey, </t><t>And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Yet he does not mean so, </t><t>Nor does his heart think so; </t><t>But <i>it</i> <i>is</i> in his heart to destroy, </t><t>And cut off not a few nations.</t>


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<t><i>Is</i> not <f>[12†]</f>Calno <f>[13†]</f>like Carchemish? </t><t><i>Is</i> not Hamath like Arpad? </t><t><i>Is</i> not Samaria <f>[14†]</f>like Damascus?</t>


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<t>As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, </t><t>Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,</t>


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<t>As I have done to Samaria and her idols, </t><t>Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?’ ”</t>


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<pb/>Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has performed all His work <f>[15†]</f>on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, <i>that</i> <i>He</i> <i>will</i> <i>say,</i> <f>[16†]</f>“I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.”


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<pb/> <f>[17†]</f>For he says: <pb/><t>“By the strength of my hand I have done <i>it,</i> </t><t>And by my wisdom, for I am prudent; </t><t>Also I have removed the boundaries of the people, </t><t>And have robbed their treasuries; </t><t>So I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant <i>man.</i></t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>My hand has found like a nest the riches of the people, </t><t>And as one gathers eggs <i>that</i> <i>are</i> left, </t><t>I have gathered all the earth; </t><t>And there was no one who moved <i>his</i> wing, </t><t>Nor opened <i>his</i> mouth with even a peep.”</t>


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<t>Shall <f>[19†]</f>the ax boast itself against him who chops with it? </t><t><i>Or</i> shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it? </t><t>As if a rod could wield <i>itself</i> against those who lift it up, </t><t><i>Or</i> as if a staff could lift up, <i>as</i> <i>if</i> <i>it</i> <i>were</i> not wood!</t>


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<t>Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, </t><t>Will send leanness among his fat ones; </t><t>And under his glory </t><t>He will kindle a burning </t><t>Like the burning of a fire.</t>


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<t>So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, </t><t>And his Holy One for a flame; </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>It will burn and devour </t><t>His thorns and his briers in one day.</t>


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<t>And it will consume the glory of his forest and of <f>[21†]</f>his fruitful field, </t><t>Both soul and body; </t><t>And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.</t>


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<t>Then the rest of the trees of his forest </t><t>Will be so few in number </t><t>That a child may write them.</t>


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<t>And it shall come to pass in that day </t><t><i>That</i> the remnant of Israel, </t><t>And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>Will never again depend on him who defeated them, </t><t>But will depend on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.</t>


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<t> <f>[24†]</f>For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, </t><t> <f>[25†]</f>A remnant of them will return; </t><t>The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.</t>


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<t> <f>[26†]</f>For the Lord GOD of hosts </t><t>Will make a determined end </t><t>In the midst of all the land.</t>


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, <f>[27†]</f>do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of <f>[28†]</f>Egypt.


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For yet a very little while <f>[29†]</f>and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.”


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And the LORD of hosts will stir up <f>[30†]</f>a scourge for him like the slaughter of <f>[31†]</f>Midian at the rock of Oreb; <f>[32†]</f><i>as</i> His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner of Egypt.


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<pb/><t>It shall come to pass in that day </t><t><i>That</i> his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, </t><t>And his yoke from your neck, </t><t>And the yoke will be destroyed because of <f>[33†]</f>the anointing oil.</t>


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<t>He has come to Aiath, </t><t>He has passed Migron; </t><t>At Michmash he has attended to his equipment.</t>


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<t>They have gone along <f>[34†]</f>the ridge, </t><t>They have taken up lodging at Geba. </t><t>Ramah is afraid, </t><t> <f>[35†]</f>Gibeah of Saul has fled.</t>


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<t>Lift up your voice, </t><t>O daughter <f>[36†]</f>of Gallim! </t><t>Cause it to be heard as far as <f>[37†]</f>Laish— </t><t>O poor Anathoth!</t>


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<t>As yet he will remain <f>[39†]</f>at Nob that day; </t><t>He will <f>[40†]</f>shake his fist at the mount of <f>[41†]</f>the daughter of Zion, </t><t>The hill of Jerusalem.</t>


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<t>Behold, the Lord, </t><t>The LORD of hosts, </t><t>Will lop off the bough with terror; </t><t> <f>[42†]</f>Those of high stature <i>will</i> <i>be</i> hewn down, </t><t>And the haughty will be humbled.</t>


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<t>He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, </t><t>And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>There <f>[1†]</f>shall come forth a Rod from the stem of <f>[2†]</f>Jesse, </t><t>And <f>[3†]</f>a Branch shall grow out of his roots.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[4†]</f>The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, </t><t>The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, </t><t>The Spirit of counsel and might, </t><t>The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>His delight <i>is</i> in the fear of the LORD, </t><t>And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, </t><t>Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;</t>


text:
<t>But <f>[5†]</f>with righteousness He shall judge the poor, </t><t>And decide with equity for the meek of the earth; </t><t>He shall <f>[6†]</f>strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, </t><t>And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.</t>


text:
<t>“The <f>[7†]</f> wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, </t><t>The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, </t><t>The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; </t><t>And a little child shall lead them.</t>


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<t>The cow and the bear shall graze; </t><t>Their young ones shall lie down together; </t><t>And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.</t>


text:
<t>The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, </t><t>And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[8†]</f>They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, </t><t>For <f>[9†]</f>the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD </t><t>As the waters cover the sea.</t>


text:
<t>“And <f>[10†]</f> in that day <f>[11†]</f>there shall be a Root of Jesse, </t><t>Who shall stand as a <f>[12†]</f>banner to the people; </t><t>For the <f>[13†]</f>Gentiles shall seek Him, </t><t>And His resting place shall be glorious.”</t>


text:
<t>It shall come to pass in that day </t><t><i>That</i> the Lord shall set His hand again the second time </t><t>To recover the remnant of His people who are left, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>From Assyria and Egypt, </t><t>From Pathros and Cush, </t><t>From Elam and Shinar, </t><t>From Hamath and the islands of the sea.</t>


text:
<t>He will set up a banner for the nations, </t><t>And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, </t><t>And gather together <f>[15†]</f>the dispersed of Judah </t><t>From the four corners of the earth.</t>


text:
<t>Also <f>[16†]</f>the envy of Ephraim shall depart, </t><t>And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; </t><t>Ephraim shall not envy Judah, </t><t>And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.</t>


text:
<t>But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; </t><t>Together they shall plunder the people of the East; </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; </t><t>And the people of Ammon shall obey them.</t>


text:
<t>The LORD <f>[18†]</f>will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; </t><t>With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River, </t><t>And strike it in the seven streams, </t><t>And make <i>men</i> cross over dry-shod.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[19†]</f>There will be a highway for the remnant of His people </t><t>Who will be left from Assyria, </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>As it was for Israel </t><t>In the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.</t>


text:
<pb/>And <f>[1†]</f>in that day you will say: <pb/><t>“O LORD, I will praise You; </t><t>Though You were angry with me, </t><t>Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.</t>


text:
<t>Behold, God <i>is</i> my salvation, </t><t>I will trust and not be afraid; </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>‘For <f>[3†]</f>YAH, the LORD, <i>is</i> my strength and song; </t><t>He also has become my salvation.’ ”</t>


text:
<pb/>And in that day you will say: <pb/><t> <f>[5†]</f>“Praise the LORD, call upon His name; </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Declare His deeds among the peoples, </t><t>Make mention that His <f>[7†]</f>name is exalted.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[8†]</f>Sing to the LORD, </t><t>For He has done excellent things; </t><t>This <i>is</i> known in all the earth.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[9†]</f>Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, </t><t>For great <i>is</i> <f>[10†]</f>the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Lift <f>[2†]</f> up a banner <f>[3†]</f>on the high mountain, </t><t>Raise your voice to them; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.</t>


text:
<t>I have commanded My sanctified ones; </t><t>I have also called <f>[5†]</f>My mighty ones for My anger— </t><t>Those who <f>[6†]</f>rejoice in My exaltation.”</t>


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<t>The <f>[7†]</f>noise of a multitude in the mountains, </t><t>Like that of many people! </t><t>A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! </t><t>The LORD of hosts musters </t><t>The army for battle.</t>


text:
<t>They come from a far country, </t><t>From the end of heaven— </t><t>The <f>[8†]</f>LORD and His weapons of indignation, </t><t>To destroy the whole <f>[9†]</f>land.</t>


text:
<t>Wail, <f>[10†]</f>for the day of the LORD <i>is</i> at hand! </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>It will come as destruction from the Almighty.</t>


text:
<t>And they will be afraid. </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>Pangs and sorrows will take hold of <i>them;</i> </t><t>They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; </t><t>They will be amazed at one another; </t><t>Their faces <i>will</i> <i>be</i> <i>like</i> flames.</t>


text:
<t>Behold, <f>[13†]</f>the day of the LORD comes, </t><t>Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, </t><t>To lay the land desolate; </t><t>And He will destroy <f>[14†]</f>its sinners from it.</t>


text:
<t>For the stars of heaven and their constellations </t><t>Will not give their light; </t><t>The sun will be <f>[15†]</f>darkened in its going forth, </t><t>And the moon will not cause its light to shine.</t>


text:
<t>“I will <f>[16†]</f>punish the world for <i>its</i> evil, </t><t>And the wicked for their iniquity; </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>I will halt the arrogance of the proud, </t><t>And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.</t>


text:
<t>I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, </t><t>A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[18†]</f>Therefore I will shake the heavens, </t><t>And the earth will move out of her place, </t><t>In the wrath of the LORD of hosts </t><t>And in <f>[19†]</f>the day of His fierce anger.</t>


text:
<t>It shall be as the hunted gazelle, </t><t>And as a sheep that no man takes up; </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>Every man will turn to his own people, </t><t>And everyone will flee to his own land.</t>


text:
<t>Everyone who is found will be thrust through, </t><t>And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.</t>


text:
<t>Their children also will be <f>[21†]</f>dashed to pieces before their eyes; </t><t>Their houses will be plundered </t><t>And their wives <f>[22†]</f>ravished.</t>


text:
<t>“Behold, <f>[23†]</f> I will stir up the Medes against them, </t><t>Who will not regard silver; </t><t>And <i>as</i> <i>for</i> gold, they will not delight in it.</t>


text:
<t>Also <i>their</i> bows will dash the young men to pieces, </t><t>And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; </t><t>Their eye will not spare children.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[24†]</f>And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, </t><t>The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, </t><t>Will be as when God overthrew <f>[25†]</f>Sodom and Gomorrah.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[26†]</f>It will never be inhabited, </t><t>Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; </t><t>Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, </t><t>Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[27†]</f>But wild beasts of the desert will lie there, </t><t>And their houses will be full of owls; </t><t>Ostriches will dwell there, </t><t>And wild goats will caper there.</t>


text:
<t>The hyenas will howl in their citadels, </t><t>And jackals in their pleasant palaces. </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>Her time <i>is</i> near to come, </t><t>And her days will not be prolonged.”</t>


text:
<pb/>For the LORD <f>[1†]</f>will have mercy on Jacob, and <f>[2†]</f>will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. <f>[3†]</f>The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.


text:
Then people will take them <f>[4†]</f>and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the LORD; they will take them captive whose captives they were, <f>[5†]</f>and rule over their oppressors.


text:
<pb/>It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,


text:
that you <f>[6†]</f>will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: <pb/><t>“How the oppressor has ceased, </t><t>The <f>[7†]</f>golden city ceased!</t>


text:
<t>He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, </t><t>He who ruled the nations in anger, </t><t>Is persecuted <i>and</i> no one hinders.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[9†]</f>Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, </t><t><i>And</i> the cedars of Lebanon, </t><t><i>Saying,</i> ‘Since you were cut down, </t><t>No woodsman has come up against us.’</t>


text:
<t>“Hell <f>[10†]</f> from beneath is excited about you, </t><t>To meet <i>you</i> at your coming; </t><t>It stirs up the dead for you, </t><t>All the chief ones of the earth; </t><t>It has raised up from their thrones </t><t>All the kings of the nations.</t>


text:
<t>They all shall <f>[11†]</f>speak and say to you: </t><t>‘Have you also become as weak as we? </t><t>Have you become like us?</t>


text:
<t>Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, </t><t><i>And</i> the sound of your stringed instruments; </t><t>The maggot is spread under you, </t><t>And worms cover you.’</t>


text:
<t>“How <f>[12†]</f> you are fallen from heaven, </t><t>O Lucifer, son of the morning! </t><t><i>How</i> you are cut down to the ground, </t><t>You who weakened the nations!</t>


text:
<t>For you have said in your heart: </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>‘I will ascend into heaven, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; </t><t>I will also sit on the <f>[15†]</f>mount of the congregation </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>On the farthest sides of the north;</t>


text:
<t>I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>I will be like the Most High.’</t>


text:
<t>“Those who see you will gaze at you, </t><t><i>And</i> consider you, <i>saying:</i> </t><t>‘<i>Is</i> this the man who made the earth tremble, </t><t>Who shook kingdoms,</t>


text:
<t>Who made the world as a wilderness </t><t>And destroyed its cities, </t><t><i>Who</i> did not open the house of his prisoners?’</t>


text:
<t>“All the kings of the nations, </t><t>All of them, sleep in glory, </t><t>Everyone in his own house;</t>


text:
<t>But you are cast out of your grave </t><t>Like an abominable branch, </t><t><i>Like</i> the garment of those who are slain, </t><t>Thrust through with a sword, </t><t>Who go down to the stones of the pit, </t><t>Like a corpse trodden underfoot.</t>


text:
<t>You will not be joined with them in burial, </t><t>Because you have destroyed your land </t><t><i>And</i> slain your people. </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>The brood of evildoers shall never be named.</t>


text:
<t>Prepare slaughter for his children </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>Because of the iniquity of their fathers, </t><t>Lest they rise up and possess the land, </t><t>And fill the face of the world with cities.”</t>


text:
<t>“For I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of hosts, </t><t>“And cut off from Babylon <f>[21†]</f>the name and <f>[22†]</f>remnant, </t><t> <f>[23†]</f>And offspring and posterity,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“I will also make it a possession for the <f>[24†]</f>porcupine, </t><t>And marshes of muddy water; </t><t>I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the LORD of hosts.</t>


text:
<t>The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, </t><t>“Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, </t><t>And as I have purposed, <i>so</i> it shall <f>[25†]</f>stand:</t>


text:
<t>That I will break the <f>[26†]</f>Assyrian in My land, </t><t>And on My mountains tread him underfoot. </t><t>Then <f>[27†]</f>his yoke shall be removed from them, </t><t>And his burden removed from their shoulders.</t>


text:
<t>This <i>is</i> the <f>[28†]</f>purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, </t><t>And this <i>is</i> the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.</t>


text:
<t>For the LORD of hosts has <f>[29†]</f>purposed, </t><t>And who will annul <i>it?</i> </t><t>His hand <i>is</i> stretched out, </t><t>And who will turn it back?”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, </t><t> <f>[31†]</f>Because the rod that struck you is broken; </t><t>For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper, </t><t> <f>[32†]</f>And its offspring <i>will</i> <i>be</i> a fiery flying serpent.</t>


text:
<t>The firstborn of the poor will feed, </t><t>And the needy will lie down in safety; </t><t>I will kill your roots with famine, </t><t>And it will slay your remnant.</t>


text:
<t>Wail, O gate! Cry, O city! </t><t>All you of Philistia <i>are</i> dissolved; </t><t>For smoke will come from the north, </t><t>And no one <i>will</i> <i>be</i> alone in his appointed times.”</t>


text:
<t>What will they answer the messengers of the nation? </t><t>That <f>[33†]</f>the LORD has founded Zion, </t><t>And <f>[34†]</f>the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.</t>


text:
<pb/>The <f>[1†]</f>burden against Moab. <pb/><t>Because in the night <f>[2†]</f>Ar of <f>[3†]</f>Moab is laid waste </t><t><i>And</i> destroyed, </t><t>Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste </t><t><i>And</i> destroyed,</t>


text:
<t>He has gone up to the temple and Dibon, </t><t>To the high places to weep. </t><t>Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>On all their heads <i>will</i> <i>be</i> baldness, </t><t><i>And</i> every beard cut off.</t>


text:
<t>In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth; </t><t>On the tops of their houses </t><t>And in their streets </t><t>Everyone will wail, <f>[5†]</f>weeping bitterly.</t>


text:
<t>Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, </t><t>Their voice shall be heard as far as <f>[6†]</f>Jahaz; </t><t>Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab will cry out; </t><t>His life will be burdensome to him.</t>


text:
<t>“My <f>[7†]</f> heart will cry out for Moab; </t><t>His fugitives <i>shall</i> <i>flee</i> to Zoar, </t><t><i>Like</i> a three-year-old heifer. </t><t>For <f>[8†]</f>by the Ascent of Luhith </t><t>They will go up with weeping; </t><t>For in the way of Horonaim </t><t>They will raise up a cry of destruction,</t>


text:
<t>For the waters <f>[9†]</f>of Nimrim will be desolate, </t><t>For the green grass has withered away; </t><t>The grass fails, there is nothing green.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore the abundance they have gained, </t><t>And what they have laid up, </t><t>They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.</t>


text:
<t>For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab, </t><t>Its wailing to Eglaim </t><t>And its wailing to Beer Elim.</t>


text:
<t>For the waters of Dimon will be full of blood; </t><t>Because I will bring more upon Dimon, </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>Lions upon him who escapes from Moab, </t><t>And on the remnant of the land.”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>Send <f>[1†]</f>the lamb to the ruler of the land, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>From Sela to the wilderness, </t><t>To the mount of the daughter of Zion.</t>


text:
<t>For it shall be as a <f>[3†]</f>wandering bird thrown out of the nest; </t><t><i>So</i> shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the <f>[4†]</f>Arnon.</t>


text:
<t>“Take counsel, execute judgment; </t><t>Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; </t><t>Hide the outcasts, </t><t>Do not betray him who escapes.</t>


text:
<t>Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab; </t><t>Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler. </t><t>For the extortioner is at an end, </t><t>Devastation ceases, </t><t>The oppressors are consumed out of the land.</t>


text:
<t>In mercy <f>[5†]</f>the throne will be established; </t><t>And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Judging and seeking justice and hastening <f>[7†]</f>righteousness.”</t>


text:
<t>We have heard of the <f>[8†]</f>pride of Moab— </t><t><i>He</i> <i>is</i> very proud— </t><t>Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; </t><t> <f>[9†]</f><i>But</i> his lies <i>shall</i> not <i>be</i> so.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore Moab shall <f>[10†]</f>wail for Moab; </t><t>Everyone shall wail. </t><t>For the foundations <f>[11†]</f>of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn; </t><t>Surely <i>they</i> <i>are</i> stricken.</t>


text:
<t>For <f>[12†]</f>the fields of Heshbon languish, </t><t><i>And</i> <f>[13†]</f>the vine of Sibmah; </t><t>The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants, </t><t>Which have reached to Jazer </t><t>And wandered through the wilderness. </t><t>Her branches are stretched out, </t><t>They are gone over the <f>[14†]</f>sea.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah, </t><t>With the weeping of Jazer; </t><t>I will drench you with my tears, </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>O Heshbon and Elealeh; </t><t>For battle cries have fallen </t><t>Over your summer fruits and your harvest.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[16†]</f>Gladness is taken away, </t><t>And joy from the plentiful field; </t><t>In the vineyards there will be no singing, </t><t>Nor will there be shouting; </t><t>No treaders will tread out wine in the presses; </t><t>I have made their shouting cease.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore <f>[17†]</f>my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab, </t><t>And my inner being for Kir Heres.</t>


text:
<t>And it shall come to pass, </t><t>When it is seen that Moab is weary on <f>[18†]</f>the high place, </t><t>That he will come to his sanctuary to pray; </t><t>But he will not prevail.</t>


text:
But now the LORD has spoken, saying, “Within three years, <f>[19†]</f>as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant <i>will</i> <i>be</i> very small <i>and</i> feeble.”


text:
<pb/>The <f>[1†]</f>burden against Damascus. <pb/><t>“Behold, Damascus will cease from <i>being</i> a city, </t><t>And it will be a ruinous heap.</t>


text:
<t>The cities of <f>[2†]</f>Aroer <i>are</i> forsaken; </t><t>They will be for flocks </t><t>Which lie down, and <f>[3†]</f>no one will make <i>them</i> afraid.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[4†]</f>The fortress also will cease from Ephraim, </t><t>The kingdom from Damascus, </t><t>And the remnant of Syria; </t><t>They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” </t><t>Says the LORD of hosts.</t>


text:
<t>“In that day it shall come to pass </t><t><i>That</i> the glory of Jacob will wane, </t><t>And <f>[5†]</f>the fatness of his flesh grow lean.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[6†]</f>It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain, </t><t>And reaps the heads with his arm; </t><t>It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain </t><t>In the Valley of Rephaim.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[7†]</f>Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it, </t><t>Like the shaking of an olive tree, </t><t>Two <i>or</i> three olives at the top of the uppermost bough, </t><t>Four <i>or</i> five in its most fruitful branches,” </t><t>Says the LORD God of Israel.</t>


text:
<t>In that day a man will <f>[8†]</f>look to his Maker, </t><t>And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.</t>


text:
<t>He will not look to the altars, </t><t>The work of his hands; </t><t>He will not respect what his <f>[9†]</f>fingers have made, </t><t>Nor the wooden images nor the incense altars.</t>


text:
<t>In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough </t><t>And an uppermost branch, </t><t>Which they left because of the children of Israel; </t><t>And there will be desolation.</t>


text:
<t>Because you have forgotten <f>[10†]</f>the God of your salvation, </t><t>And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, </t><t>Therefore you will plant pleasant plants </t><t>And set out foreign seedlings;</t>


text:
<t>In the day you will make your plant to grow, </t><t>And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; </t><t><i>But</i> the harvest <i>will</i> <i>be</i> a heap of ruins </t><t>In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.</t>


text:
<t>Woe to the multitude of many people </t><t><i>Who</i> make a noise <f>[11†]</f>like the roar of the seas, </t><t>And to the rushing of nations </t><t><i>That</i> make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!</t>


text:
<t>The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters; </t><t>But <i>God</i> will <f>[12†]</f>rebuke them and they will flee far away, </t><t>And <f>[13†]</f>be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, </t><t>Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.</t>


text:
<t>Then behold, at eventide, trouble! </t><t><i>And</i> before the morning, he <i>is</i> no more. </t><t>This <i>is</i> the portion of those who plunder us, </t><t>And the lot of those who rob us.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>Woe <f>[1†]</f>to the land shadowed with buzzing wings, </t><t>Which <i>is</i> beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,</t>


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<t>Which sends ambassadors by sea, </t><t>Even in vessels of reed on the waters, <i>saying,</i> </t><t>“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth <i>of</i> <i>skin,</i> </t><t>To a people terrible from their beginning onward, </t><t>A nation powerful and treading down, </t><t>Whose land the rivers divide.”</t>


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<t>All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth: </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see <i>it;</i> </t><t>And when he blows a trumpet, you hear <i>it.</i></t>


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<t>For so the LORD said to me, </t><t>“I will take My rest, </t><t>And I will look from My dwelling place </t><t>Like clear heat in sunshine, </t><t>Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”</t>


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<t>For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect </t><t>And the sour grape is ripening in the flower, </t><t>He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks </t><t>And take away <i>and</i> cut down the branches.</t>


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<t>They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey </t><t>And for the beasts of the earth; </t><t>The birds of prey will summer on them, </t><t>And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.</t>


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<t>In that time <f>[3†]</f>a present will be brought to the LORD of hosts </t><t>From a people tall and smooth <i>of</i> <i>skin,</i> </t><t>And from a people terrible from their beginning onward, </t><t>A nation powerful and treading down, </t><t>Whose land the rivers divide— </t><t>To the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, </t><t>To Mount Zion.</t>


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<pb/>The <f>[1†]</f>burden against Egypt. <pb/><t>Behold, the LORD <f>[2†]</f>rides on a swift cloud, </t><t>And will come into Egypt; </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, </t><t>And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.</t>


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<t>“I will <f>[4†]</f>set Egyptians against Egyptians; </t><t>Everyone will fight against his brother, </t><t>And everyone against his neighbor, </t><t>City against city, kingdom against kingdom.</t>


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<t>The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst; </t><t>I will destroy their counsel, </t><t>And they will <f>[5†]</f>consult the idols and the charmers, </t><t>The mediums and the sorcerers.</t>


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<t>And the Egyptians I will give </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Into the hand of a cruel master, </t><t>And a fierce king will rule over them,” </t><t>Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>The waters will fail from the sea, </t><t>And the river will be wasted and dried up.</t>


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<t>The rivers will turn foul; </t><t>The brooks <f>[8†]</f>of defense will be emptied and dried up; </t><t>The reeds and rushes will wither.</t>


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<t>The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of the River, </t><t>And everything sown by the River, </t><t>Will wither, be driven away, and be no more.</t>


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<t>The fishermen also will mourn; </t><t>All those will lament who cast hooks into the River, </t><t>And they will languish who spread nets on the waters.</t>


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<t>Moreover those who work in <f>[9†]</f>fine flax </t><t>And those who weave fine fabric will be ashamed;</t>


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<t>And its foundations will be broken. </t><t>All who make wages <i>will</i> <i>be</i> troubled of soul.</t>


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<t>Surely the princes of <f>[10†]</f>Zoan <i>are</i> fools; </t><t>Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish counsel. </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>How do you say to Pharaoh, “I <i>am</i> the son of the wise, </t><t>The son of ancient kings?”</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>Where <i>are</i> they? </t><t>Where are your wise men? </t><t>Let them tell you now, </t><t>And let them know what the LORD of hosts has <f>[13†]</f>purposed against Egypt.</t>


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<t>The princes of Zoan have become fools; </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>The princes of Noph are deceived; </t><t>They have also deluded Egypt, </t><t><i>Those</i> <i>who</i> <i>are</i> the mainstay of its tribes.</t>


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<t>The LORD has mingled <f>[15†]</f>a perverse spirit in her midst; </t><t>And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work, </t><t>As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.</t>


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<t>Neither will there be <i>any</i> work for Egypt, </t><t>Which <f>[16†]</f>the head or tail, </t><t>Palm branch or bulrush, may do.</t>


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<pb/>In that day Egypt will <f>[17†]</f>be like women, and will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, <f>[18†]</f>which He waves over it.


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And the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt; everyone who makes mention of it will be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts which He has <f>[19†]</f>determined against it.


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<pb/>In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will <f>[20†]</f>speak the language of Canaan and <f>[21†]</f>swear by the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.


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<pb/>In that day <f>[22†]</f>there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the <f>[23†]</f>LORD at its border.


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And <f>[24†]</f>it will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and He will send them a <f>[25†]</f>Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them.


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Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will <f>[26†]</f>know the LORD in that day, and <f>[27†]</f>will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the LORD and perform <i>it.</i>


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And the LORD will strike Egypt, He will strike and <f>[28†]</f>heal <i>it;</i> they will return to the LORD, and He will be entreated by them and heal them.


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<pb/>In that day <f>[29†]</f>there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will <f>[30†]</f>serve with the Assyrians.


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<pb/>In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the land,


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whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed <i>is</i> Egypt My people, and Assyria <f>[31†]</f>the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”


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<pb/>In the year that <f>[1†]</f>Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it,


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at the same time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and remove <f>[2†]</f>the sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, <f>[3†]</f>walking naked and barefoot.


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<pb/>Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years <f>[4†]</f><i>for</i> a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia,


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so shall the <f>[5†]</f>king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, <f>[6†]</f>with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.


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<f>[7†]</f>Then they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory.


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And the inhabitant of this territory will say in that day, ‘Surely such <i>is</i> our expectation, wherever we flee for <f>[8†]</f>help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?’ ”


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<pb/>The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. <pb/><t>As <f>[1†]</f>whirlwinds in the South pass through, </t><t><i>So</i> it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.</t>


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<t>A distressing vision is declared to me; </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, </t><t>And the plunderer plunders. </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>Go up, O Elam! </t><t>Besiege, O Media! </t><t>All its sighing I have made to cease.</t>


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<t>Therefore <f>[4†]</f>my loins are filled with pain; </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. </t><t>I was distressed when <i>I</i> heard <i>it;</i> </t><t>I was dismayed when <i>I</i> saw <i>it.</i></t>


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<t>My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>Prepare the table, </t><t>Set a watchman in the tower, </t><t>Eat and drink. </t><t>Arise, you princes, </t><t>Anoint the shield!</t>


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<t>For thus has the Lord said to me: </t><t>“Go, set a watchman, </t><t>Let him declare what he sees.”</t>


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<t>And he saw a chariot <i>with</i> a pair of horsemen, </t><t>A chariot of donkeys, <i>and</i> a chariot of camels, </t><t>And he listened earnestly with great care.</t>


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<t>Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord! </t><t>I stand continually on the <f>[8†]</f>watchtower in the daytime; </t><t>I have sat at my post every night.</t>


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<t>And look, here comes a chariot of men <i>with</i> a pair of horsemen!” </t><t>Then he answered and said, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>“Babylon is fallen, is fallen! </t><t>And <f>[10†]</f>all the carved images of her gods </t><t>He has broken to the ground.”</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! </t><t>That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, </t><t>The God of Israel, </t><t>I have declared to you.</t>


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<pb/> <f>[12†]</f>The burden against Dumah. <pb/><t>He calls to me out of <f>[13†]</f>Seir, </t><t>“Watchman, what of the night? </t><t>Watchman, what of the night?”</t>


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<t>The watchman said, </t><t>“The morning comes, and also the night. </t><t>If you will inquire, inquire; </t><t>Return! Come back!”</t>


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>The burden against Arabia. <pb/><t>In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, </t><t>O you traveling companies <f>[15†]</f>of Dedanites.</t>


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<t>O inhabitants of the land of Tema, </t><t>Bring water to him who is thirsty; </t><t>With their bread they met him who fled.</t>


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<t>For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, </t><t>From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.</t>


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<pb/>For thus the LORD has said to me: “Within a year, <f>[16†]</f>according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of <f>[17†]</f>Kedar will fail;


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and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken <i>it.</i>”


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<pb/>The burden against the Valley of Vision. <pb/><t>What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,</t>


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<t>You who are full of noise, </t><t>A tumultuous city, <f>[1†]</f>a joyous city? </t><t>Your slain <i>men</i> <i>are</i> not slain with the sword, </t><t>Nor dead in battle.</t>


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<t>All your rulers have fled together; </t><t>They are captured by the archers. </t><t>All who are found in you are bound together; </t><t>They have fled from afar.</t>


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<t>Therefore I said, “Look away from me, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>I will weep bitterly; </t><t>Do not labor to comfort me </t><t>Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>For <i>it</i> <i>is</i> a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>By the Lord GOD of hosts </t><t>In the Valley of Vision— </t><t>Breaking down the walls </t><t>And of crying to the mountain.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Elam bore the quiver </t><t>With chariots of men <i>and</i> horsemen, </t><t>And <f>[6†]</f>Kir uncovered the shield.</t>


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<t>It shall come to pass <i>that</i> your choicest valleys </t><t>Shall be full of chariots, </t><t>And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>He removed the protection of Judah. </t><t>You looked in that day to the armor <f>[8†]</f>of the House of the Forest;</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>You also saw the damage to the city of David, </t><t>That it was great; </t><t>And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.</t>


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<t>You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, </t><t>And the houses you broke down </t><t>To fortify the wall.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>You also made a reservoir between the two walls </t><t>For the water of the old <f>[11†]</f>pool. </t><t>But you did not look to its Maker, </t><t>Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.</t>


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<t>And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>Called for weeping and for mourning, </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.</t>


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<t>But instead, joy and gladness, </t><t>Slaying oxen and killing sheep, </t><t>Eating meat and <f>[14†]</f>drinking wine: </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts, </t><t>“Surely for this iniquity there <f>[17†]</f>will be no atonement for you, </t><t>Even to your death,” says the Lord GOD of hosts.</t>


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<pb/>Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: <pb/><t>“Go, proceed to this steward, </t><t>To <f>[18†]</f>Shebna, who <i>is</i> over the house, <i>and</i> <i>say:</i></t>


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<t>‘What have you here, and whom have you here, </t><t>That you have hewn a sepulcher here, </t><t><i>As</i> he <f>[19†]</f>who hews himself a sepulcher on high, </t><t>Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?</t>


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<t>Indeed, the LORD will throw you away violently, </t><t>O mighty man, </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>And will surely seize you.</t>


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<t>He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball </t><t>Into a large country; </t><t>There you shall die, and there <f>[21†]</f>your glorious chariots </t><t><i>Shall</i> <i>be</i> the shame of your master’s house.</t>


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<t>‘Then it shall be in that day, </t><t>That I will call My servant <f>[22†]</f>Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;</t>


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<t>I will clothe him with your robe </t><t>And strengthen him with your belt; </t><t>I will commit your responsibility into his hand. </t><t>He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem </t><t>And to the house of Judah.</t>


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<t>The key of the house of David </t><t>I will lay on his <f>[23†]</f>shoulder; </t><t>So he shall <f>[24†]</f>open, and no one shall shut; </t><t>And he shall shut, and no one shall open.</t>


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<t>I will fasten him <i>as</i> <f>[25†]</f>a peg in a secure place, </t><t>And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house.</t>


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<pb/>‘They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers.


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In that day,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that <i>was</i> on it will be cut off; for the LORD has spoken.’ ”


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<pb/>The <f>[1†]</f>burden against Tyre. <pb/><t>Wail, you ships of Tarshish! </t><t>For it is laid waste, </t><t>So that there is no house, no harbor; </t><t>From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.</t>


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<t>Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland, </t><t>You merchants of Sidon, </t><t>Whom those who cross the sea have filled.</t>


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<t>And on great waters the grain of Shihor, </t><t>The harvest of the River, <i>is</i> her revenue; </t><t>And <f>[2†]</f>she is a marketplace for the nations.</t>


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<t>Be ashamed, O Sidon; </t><t>For the sea has spoken, </t><t>The strength of the sea, saying, </t><t>“I do not labor, nor bring forth children; </t><t>Neither do I rear young men, </t><t><i>Nor</i> bring up virgins.”</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>When the report <i>reaches</i> Egypt, </t><t>They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.</t>


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<t><i>Is</i> this your <f>[4†]</f>joyous <i>city,</i> </t><t>Whose antiquity <i>is</i> from ancient days, </t><t>Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?</t>


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<t>Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, <f>[5†]</f>the crowning <i>city,</i> </t><t>Whose merchants <i>are</i> princes, </t><t>Whose traders <i>are</i> the honorable of the earth?</t>


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<t>The LORD of hosts has <f>[6†]</f>purposed it, </t><t>To bring to dishonor the <f>[7†]</f>pride of all glory, </t><t>To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.</t>


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<t>Overflow through your land like the River, </t><t>O daughter of Tarshish; </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> no more strength.</t>


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<t>He stretched out His hand over the sea, </t><t>He shook the kingdoms; </t><t>The LORD has given a commandment <f>[8†]</f>against Canaan </t><t>To destroy its strongholds.</t>


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<t>And He said, “You will rejoice no more, </t><t>O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. </t><t>Arise, <f>[9†]</f>cross over to Cyprus; </t><t>There also you will have no rest.”</t>


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<t>Behold, the land of the <f>[10†]</f>Chaldeans, </t><t>This people <i>which</i> was not; </t><t>Assyria founded it for <f>[11†]</f>wild beasts of the desert. </t><t>They set up its towers, </t><t>They raised up its palaces, </t><t><i>And</i> brought it to ruin.</t>


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<pb/>Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as <i>in</i> the song of the harlot:


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<pb/><t>“Take a harp, go about the city, </t><t>You forgotten harlot; </t><t>Make sweet melody, sing many songs, </t><t>That you may be remembered.”</t>


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<pb/>And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire, and <f>[13†]</f>commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.


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Her gain and her pay <f>[14†]</f>will be set apart for the LORD; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for her gain will be for those who dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for fine clothing.


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<pb/><t>Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, </t><t>Distorts its surface </t><t>And scatters abroad its inhabitants.</t>


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<t>And it shall be: </t><t>As with the people, so with the <f>[1†]</f>priest; </t><t>As with the servant, so with his master; </t><t>As with the maid, so with her mistress; </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>As with the buyer, so with the seller; </t><t>As with the lender, so with the borrower; </t><t>As with the creditor, so with the debtor.</t>


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<t>The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, </t><t>For the LORD has spoken this word.</t>


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<t>The earth mourns <i>and</i> fades away, </t><t>The world languishes <i>and</i> fades away; </t><t>The <f>[3†]</f>haughty people of the earth languish.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, </t><t>Because they have <f>[5†]</f>transgressed the laws, </t><t>Changed the ordinance, </t><t>Broken the <f>[6†]</f>everlasting covenant.</t>


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<t>Therefore <f>[7†]</f>the curse has devoured the earth, </t><t>And those who dwell in it are desolate. </t><t>Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are <f>[8†]</f>burned, </t><t>And few men <i>are</i> left.</t>


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<t>The mirth <f>[10†]</f>of the tambourine ceases, </t><t>The noise of the jubilant ends, </t><t>The joy of the harp ceases.</t>


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<t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> a cry for wine in the streets, </t><t>All joy is darkened, </t><t>The mirth of the land is gone.</t>


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<t>When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, </t><t> <f>[11†]</f><i>It</i> <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> like the shaking of an olive tree, </t><t>Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.</t>


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<t>They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; </t><t>For the majesty of the LORD </t><t>They shall cry aloud from the sea.</t>


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<t>Therefore <f>[12†]</f>glorify the LORD in the dawning light, </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>The name of the LORD God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.</t>


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<t>From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: </t><t>“Glory to the righteous!” </t><t>But I said, “I am ruined, ruined! </t><t>Woe to me! </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, </t><t>Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.”</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>Fear and the pit and the snare </t><t><i>Are</i> upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.</t>


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<t>And it shall be </t><t><i>That</i> he who flees from the noise of the fear </t><t>Shall fall into the pit, </t><t>And he who comes up from the midst of the pit </t><t>Shall be caught in the snare; </t><t>For <f>[16†]</f>the windows from on high are open, </t><t>And <f>[17†]</f>the foundations of the earth are shaken.</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>The earth is violently broken, </t><t>The earth is split open, </t><t>The earth is shaken exceedingly.</t>


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<t>The earth shall <f>[19†]</f>reel to and fro like a drunkard, </t><t>And shall totter like a hut; </t><t>Its transgression shall be heavy upon it, </t><t>And it will fall, and not rise again.</t>


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<t>It shall come to pass in that day </t><t><i>That</i> the LORD will punish on high the host of exalted ones, </t><t>And on the earth <f>[20†]</f>the kings of the earth.</t>


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<t>They will be gathered together, </t><t><i>As</i> prisoners are gathered in the pit, </t><t>And will be shut up in the prison; </t><t>After many days they will be punished.</t>


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<t>Then the <f>[21†]</f>moon will be disgraced </t><t>And the sun ashamed; </t><t>For the LORD of hosts will <f>[22†]</f>reign </t><t>On <f>[23†]</f>Mount Zion and in Jerusalem </t><t>And before His elders, gloriously.</t>


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<pb/><t>O LORD, You <i>are</i> my God. </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>I will exalt You, </t><t>I will praise Your name, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>For You have done wonderful <i>things;</i> </t><t> <f>[3†]</f><i>Your</i> counsels of old <i>are</i> faithfulness <i>and</i> truth.</t>


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<t>For You have made <f>[4†]</f>a city a ruin, </t><t>A fortified city a ruin, </t><t>A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; </t><t>It will never be rebuilt.</t>


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<t>Therefore the strong people will <f>[5†]</f>glorify You; </t><t>The city of the terrible nations will fear You.</t>


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<t>For You have been a strength to the poor, </t><t>A strength to the needy in his distress, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>A refuge from the storm, </t><t>A shade from the heat; </t><t>For the blast of the terrible ones <i>is</i> as a storm <i>against</i> the wall.</t>


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<t>You will reduce the noise of aliens, </t><t>As heat in a dry place; </t><t><i>As</i> heat in the shadow of a cloud, </t><t>The song of the terrible ones will be diminished.</t>


text:
<t>And in <f>[7†]</f>this mountain </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>The LORD of hosts will make for <f>[9†]</f>all people </t><t>A feast of choice pieces, </t><t>A feast of wines on the lees, </t><t>Of fat things full of marrow, </t><t>Of well-refined wines on the lees.</t>


text:
<t>And He will destroy on this mountain </t><t>The surface of the covering cast over all people, </t><t>And <f>[10†]</f>the veil that is spread over all nations.</t>


text:
<t>He will <f>[11†]</f>swallow up death forever, </t><t>And the Lord GOD will <f>[12†]</f>wipe away tears from all faces; </t><t>The rebuke of His people </t><t>He will take away from all the earth; </t><t>For the LORD has spoken.</t>


text:
<t>And it will be said in that day: </t><t>“Behold, this <i>is</i> our God; </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>We have waited for Him, and He will save us. </t><t>This <i>is</i> the LORD; </t><t>We have waited for Him; </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”</t>


text:
<t>For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest, </t><t>And <f>[15†]</f>Moab shall be trampled down under Him, </t><t>As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.</t>


text:
<t>And He will spread out His hands in their midst </t><t>As a swimmer reaches out to swim, </t><t>And He will bring down their <f>[16†]</f>pride </t><t>Together with the trickery of their hands.</t>


text:
<t>The <f>[17†]</f>fortress of the high fort of your walls </t><t>He will bring down, lay low, </t><t><i>And</i> bring to the ground, down to the dust.</t>


text:
<pb/>In <f>[1†]</f>that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: <pb/><t>“We have a strong city; </t><t> <f>[2†]</f><i>God</i> will appoint salvation <i>for</i> walls and bulwarks.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[3†]</f>Open the gates, </t><t>That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.</t>


text:
<t>You will keep <i>him</i> in perfect <f>[4†]</f>peace, </t><t><i>Whose</i> mind <i>is</i> stayed <i>on</i> <i>You,</i> </t><t>Because he trusts in You.</t>


text:
<t>Trust in the LORD forever, </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>For in YAH, the LORD, <i>is</i> everlasting strength.</t>


text:
<t>For He brings down those who dwell on high, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>The lofty city; </t><t>He lays it low, </t><t>He lays it low to the ground, </t><t>He brings it down to the dust.</t>


text:
<t>The foot shall tread it down— </t><t>The feet of the poor </t><t><i>And</i> the steps of the needy.”</t>


text:
<t>The way of the just <i>is</i> uprightness; </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>O Most Upright, </t><t>You weigh the path of the just.</t>


text:
<t>Yes, <f>[8†]</f>in the way of Your judgments, </t><t>O LORD, we have <f>[9†]</f>waited for You; </t><t>The desire of <i>our</i> soul <i>is</i> for Your name </t><t>And for the remembrance of You.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[10†]</f>With my soul I have desired You in the night, </t><t>Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; </t><t>For when Your judgments <i>are</i> in the earth, </t><t>The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[11†]</f>Let grace be shown to the wicked, </t><t><i>Yet</i> he will not learn righteousness; </t><t>In <f>[12†]</f>the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, </t><t>And will not behold the majesty of the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>LORD, <i>when</i> Your hand is lifted up, <f>[13†]</f>they will not see. </t><t>But they will see and be ashamed </t><t>For <i>their</i> envy of people; </t><t>Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.</t>


text:
<t>O LORD our God, <f>[14†]</f>masters besides You </t><t>Have had dominion over us; </t><t><i>But</i> by You only we make mention of Your name.</t>


text:
<t><i>They</i> <i>are</i> dead, they will not live; </t><t><i>They</i> <i>are</i> deceased, they will not rise. </t><t>Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, </t><t>And made all their memory to <f>[15†]</f>perish.</t>


text:
<t>You have increased the nation, O LORD, </t><t>You have <f>[16†]</f>increased the nation; </t><t>You are glorified; </t><t>You have expanded all the borders of the land.</t>


text:
<t>LORD, <f>[17†]</f>in trouble they have visited You, </t><t>They poured out a prayer <i>when</i> Your chastening <i>was</i> upon them.</t>


text:
<t>As <f>[18†]</f>a woman with child </t><t>Is in pain and cries out in her pangs, </t><t><i>When</i> she draws near the time of her delivery, </t><t>So have we been in Your sight, O LORD.</t>


text:
<t>We have been with child, we have been in pain; </t><t>We have, as it were, brought forth wind; </t><t>We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, </t><t>Nor have <f>[19†]</f>the inhabitants of the world fallen.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[20†]</f>Your dead shall live; </t><t><i>Together</i> <i>with</i> my dead body they shall arise. </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; </t><t>For your dew <i>is</i> <i>like</i> the dew of herbs, </t><t>And the earth shall cast out the dead.</t>


text:
<t>Come, my people, <f>[22†]</f>enter your chambers, </t><t>And shut your doors behind you; </t><t>Hide yourself, as it were, <f>[23†]</f>for a little moment, </t><t>Until the indignation is past.</t>


text:
<t>For behold, the LORD <f>[24†]</f>comes out of His place </t><t>To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; </t><t>The earth will also disclose her blood, </t><t>And will no more cover her slain.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>In that day the LORD with His severe sword, great and strong, </t><t>Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>Leviathan that twisted serpent; </t><t>And He will slay <f>[2†]</f>the reptile that <i>is</i> in the sea.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[5†]</f>I, the LORD, keep it, </t><t>I water it every moment; </t><t>Lest any hurt it, </t><t>I keep it night and day.</t>


text:
<t>Fury <i>is</i> not in Me. </t><t>Who would set <f>[6†]</f>briers <i>and</i> thorns </t><t>Against Me in battle? </t><t>I would go through them, </t><t>I would burn them together.</t>


text:
<t>Or let him take hold <f>[7†]</f>of My strength, </t><t><i>That</i> he may <f>[8†]</f>make peace with Me; </t><t><i>And</i> he shall make peace with Me.”</t>


text:
<t>Those who come He shall cause <f>[9†]</f>to take root in Jacob; </t><t>Israel shall blossom and bud, </t><t>And fill the face of the world with fruit.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[10†]</f>Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him? </t><t>Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?</t>


text:
<t> <f>[11†]</f>In measure, by sending it away, </t><t>You contended with it. </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>He removes <i>it</i> by His rough wind </t><t>In the day of the east wind.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; </t><t>And this <i>is</i> all the fruit of taking away his sin: </t><t>When he makes all the stones of the altar </t><t>Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, </t><t>Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.</t>


text:
<t>Yet the fortified city <i>will</i> <i>be</i> <f>[13†]</f>desolate, </t><t>The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness; </t><t>There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down </t><t>And consume its branches.</t>


text:
<t>When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; </t><t>The women come <i>and</i> set them on fire. </t><t>For <f>[14†]</f>it <i>is</i> a people of no understanding; </t><t>Therefore He who made them will <f>[15†]</f>not have mercy on them, </t><t>And <f>[16†]</f>He who formed them will show them no favor.</t>


text:
<t>And it shall come to pass in that day </t><t><i>That</i> the LORD will thresh, </t><t>From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt; </t><t>And you will be <f>[17†]</f>gathered one by one, </t><t>O you children of Israel.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[18†]</f>So it shall be in that day: </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>The great trumpet will be blown; </t><t>They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, </t><t>And they who are outcasts in the land of <f>[20†]</f>Egypt, </t><t>And shall <f>[21†]</f>worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, </t><t>Whose glorious beauty <i>is</i> a fading flower </t><t>Which <i>is</i> at the head of the verdant valleys, </t><t>To those who are overcome with wine!</t>


text:
<t>Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, </t><t>Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, </t><t>Who will bring <i>them</i> down to the earth with <i>His</i> hand.</t>


text:
<t>And the glorious beauty is a fading flower </t><t>Which <i>is</i> at the head of the verdant valley, </t><t>Like the first fruit before the summer, </t><t>Which an observer sees; </t><t>He eats it up while it is still in his hand.</t>


text:
<t>In that day the LORD of hosts will be </t><t>For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty </t><t>To the remnant of His people,</t>


text:
<t>For a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, </t><t>And for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.</t>


text:
<t>But they also <f>[2†]</f>have erred through wine, </t><t>And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, </t><t>They are swallowed up by wine, </t><t>They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; </t><t>They err in vision, they stumble <i>in</i> judgment.</t>


text:
<t>“Whom <f>[4†]</f> will he teach knowledge? </t><t>And whom will he make to understand the message? </t><t>Those <i>just</i> weaned from milk? </t><t>Those <i>just</i> drawn from the breasts?</t>


text:
<t> <f>[5†]</f>For precept <i>must</i> <i>be</i> upon precept, precept upon precept, </t><t>Line upon line, line upon line, </t><t>Here a little, there a little.”</t>


text:
<t>To whom He said, “This <i>is</i> the <f>[7†]</f>rest <i>with</i> <i>which</i> </t><t>You may cause the weary to rest,” </t><t>And, “This <i>is</i> the refreshing”; </t><t>Yet they would not hear.</t>


text:
<t>But the word of the LORD was to them, </t><t>“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, </t><t>Line upon line, line upon line, </t><t>Here a little, there a little,” </t><t>That they might go and fall backward, and be broken </t><t>And snared and caught.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, </t><t>Who rule this people who <i>are</i> in Jerusalem,</t>


text:
<t>Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, </t><t>And with Sheol we are in agreement. </t><t>When the overflowing scourge passes through, </t><t>It will not come to us, </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>For we have made lies our refuge, </t><t>And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: <pb/><t>“Behold, I lay in Zion <f>[9†]</f>a stone for a foundation, </t><t>A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; </t><t>Whoever believes will not act hastily.</t>


text:
<t>Also I will make justice the measuring line, </t><t>And righteousness the plummet; </t><t>The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, </t><t>And the waters will overflow the hiding place.</t>


text:
<t>Your covenant with death will be annulled, </t><t>And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; </t><t>When the overflowing scourge passes through, </t><t>Then you will be trampled down by it.</t>


text:
<t>As often as it goes out it will take you; </t><t>For morning by morning it will pass over, </t><t>And by day and by night; </t><t>It will be a terror just to understand the report.”</t>


text:
<t>For the bed is too short to stretch out <i>on,</i> </t><t>And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself <i>in</i> <i>it.</i></t>


text:
<t>For the LORD will rise up as <i>at</i> Mount <f>[10†]</f>Perazim, </t><t>He will be angry as in the Valley of <f>[11†]</f>Gibeon— </t><t>That He may do His work, <f>[12†]</f>His awesome work, </t><t>And bring to pass His act, His unusual act.</t>


text:
<t>Now therefore, do not be mockers, </t><t>Lest your bonds be made strong; </t><t>For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts, </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.</t>


text:
<t>Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? </t><t>Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?</t>


text:
<t>When he has leveled its surface, </t><t>Does he not sow the black cummin </t><t>And scatter the cummin, </t><t>Plant the wheat in rows, </t><t>The barley in the appointed place, </t><t>And the spelt in its place?</t>


text:
<t>For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, </t><t>Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin; </t><t>But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, </t><t>And the cummin with a rod.</t>


text:
<t>Bread <i>flour</i> must be ground; </t><t>Therefore he does not thresh it forever, </t><t>Break <i>it</i> <i>with</i> his cartwheel, </t><t>Or crush it <i>with</i> his horsemen.</t>


text:
<t>This also comes from the LORD of hosts, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f><i>Who</i> is wonderful in counsel <i>and</i> excellent in guidance.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Woe <f>[1†]</f>to Ariel, to Ariel, the city <f>[2†]</f><i>where</i> David dwelt! </t><t>Add year to year; </t><t>Let feasts come around.</t>


text:
<t>Yet I will distress Ariel; </t><t>There shall be heaviness and sorrow, </t><t>And it shall be to Me as Ariel.</t>


text:
<t>I will encamp against you all around, </t><t>I will lay siege against you with a mound, </t><t>And I will raise siegeworks against you.</t>


text:
<t>You shall be brought down, </t><t>You shall speak out of the ground; </t><t>Your speech shall be low, out of the dust; </t><t>Your voice shall be like a medium’s, <f>[3†]</f>out of the ground; </t><t>And your speech shall whisper out of the dust.</t>


text:
<t>“Moreover the multitude of your <f>[4†]</f>foes </t><t>Shall be like fine dust, </t><t>And the multitude of the terrible ones </t><t>Like <f>[5†]</f>chaff that passes away; </t><t>Yes, it shall be <f>[6†]</f>in an instant, suddenly.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[7†]</f>You will be punished by the LORD of hosts </t><t>With thunder and <f>[8†]</f>earthquake and great noise, </t><t><i>With</i> storm and tempest </t><t>And the flame of devouring fire.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[9†]</f>The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, </t><t>Even all who fight against her and her fortress, </t><t>And distress her, </t><t>Shall be <f>[10†]</f>as a dream of a night vision.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[11†]</f>It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, </t><t>And look—he eats; </t><t>But he awakes, and his soul is still empty; </t><t>Or as when a thirsty man dreams, </t><t>And look—he drinks; </t><t>But he awakes, and indeed <i>he</i> <i>is</i> faint, </t><t>And his soul still craves: </t><t>So the multitude of all the nations shall be, </t><t>Who fight against Mount Zion.”</t>


text:
<t>Pause and wonder! </t><t>Blind yourselves and be blind! </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>They are drunk, <f>[13†]</f>but not with wine; </t><t>They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.</t>


text:
<t>For <f>[14†]</f>the LORD has poured out on you </t><t>The spirit of deep sleep, </t><t>And has <f>[15†]</f>closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; </t><t>And He has covered your heads, <i>namely,</i> <f>[16†]</f>the seers.</t>


text:
<pb/>The whole vision has become to you like the words of a book <f>[17†]</f>that is sealed, which <i>men</i> deliver to one who is literate, saying, “Read this, please.” <pb/> <f>[18†]</f>And he says, “I cannot, for it <i>is</i> sealed.”


text:
<pb/>Then the book is delivered to one who is illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.” <pb/>And he says, “I am not literate.”


text:
<pb/>Therefore the Lord said: <pb/><t> <f>[19†]</f>“Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths </t><t>And honor Me <f>[20†]</f>with their lips, </t><t>But have removed their hearts far from Me, </t><t>And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,</t>


text:
<t> <f>[21†]</f>Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work </t><t>Among this people, </t><t>A marvelous work and a wonder; </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>For the wisdom of their wise <i>men</i> shall perish, </t><t>And the understanding of their prudent <i>men</i> shall be hidden.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[23†]</f>Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD, </t><t>And their works are in the dark; </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”</t>


text:
<t>Surely you have things turned around! </t><t>Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; </t><t>For shall the <f>[25†]</f>thing made say of him who made it, </t><t>“He did not make me”? </t><t>Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it, </t><t>“He has no understanding”?</t>


text:
<t><i>Is</i> it not yet a very little while </t><t>Till <f>[26†]</f>Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, </t><t>And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?</t>


text:
<t> <f>[27†]</f>In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, </t><t>And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[28†]</f>The humble also shall increase <i>their</i> joy in the LORD, </t><t>And <f>[29†]</f>the poor among men shall rejoice </t><t>In the Holy One of Israel.</t>


text:
<t>For the terrible one is brought to nothing, </t><t> <f>[30†]</f>The scornful one is consumed, </t><t>And all who <f>[31†]</f>watch for iniquity are cut off—</t>


text:
<t>Who make a man an offender by a word, </t><t>And <f>[32†]</f>lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, </t><t>And turn aside the just <f>[33†]</f>by empty words.</t>


text:
<pb/>Therefore thus says the LORD, <f>[34†]</f>who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: <pb/><t>“Jacob shall not now be <f>[35†]</f>ashamed, </t><t>Nor shall his face now grow pale;</t>


text:
<t>But when he sees his children, </t><t> <f>[36†]</f>The work of My hands, in his midst, </t><t>They will hallow My name, </t><t>And hallow the Holy One of Jacob, </t><t>And fear the God of Israel.</t>


text:
<t>These also <f>[37†]</f>who erred in spirit will come to understanding, </t><t>And those who complained will learn doctrine.”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the LORD, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>“Who take counsel, but not of Me, </t><t>And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>That they may add sin to sin;</t>


text:
<t> <f>[3†]</f>Who walk to go down to Egypt, </t><t>And <f>[4†]</f>have not asked My advice, </t><t>To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, </t><t>And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!</t>


text:
<t> <f>[5†]</f>Therefore the strength of Pharaoh </t><t>Shall be your shame, </t><t>And trust in the shadow of Egypt </t><t>Shall be <i>your</i> humiliation.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[7†]</f>They were all ashamed of a people <i>who</i> could not benefit them, </t><t>Or be help or benefit, </t><t>But a shame and also a reproach.”</t>


text:
<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>The burden against the beasts of the South. <pb/><t>Through a land of trouble and anguish, </t><t>From which <i>came</i> the lioness and lion, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>The viper and fiery flying serpent, </t><t>They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, </t><t>And their treasures on the humps of camels, </t><t>To a people <i>who</i> shall not profit;</t>


text:
<t> <f>[10†]</f>For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. </t><t>Therefore I have called her </t><t>Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.</t>


text:
<t>Now go, <f>[11†]</f>write it before them on a tablet, </t><t>And note it on a scroll, </t><t>That it may be for time to come, </t><t>Forever and ever:</t>


text:
<t>That <f>[12†]</f>this <i>is</i> a rebellious people, </t><t>Lying children, </t><t>Children <i>who</i> will not hear the law of the LORD;</t>


text:
<t> <f>[13†]</f>Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” </t><t>And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.</t>


text:
<t>Get out of the way, </t><t>Turn aside from the path, </t><t>Cause the Holy One of Israel </t><t>To cease from before us.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: <pb/><t>“Because you <f>[15†]</f>despise this word, </t><t>And trust in oppression and perversity, </t><t>And rely on them,</t>


text:
<t>Therefore this iniquity shall be to you </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>Like a breach ready to fall, </t><t>A bulge in a high wall, </t><t>Whose breaking <f>[17†]</f>comes suddenly, in an instant.</t>


text:
<t>And <f>[18†]</f>He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel, </t><t>Which is broken in pieces; </t><t>He shall not spare. </t><t>So there shall not be found among its fragments </t><t>A shard to take fire from the hearth, </t><t>Or to take water from the cistern.”</t>


text:
<pb/>For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: <pb/><t> <f>[19†]</f>“In returning and rest you shall be saved; </t><t>In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>But you would not,</t>


text:
<t>And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”— </t><t>Therefore you shall flee! </t><t>And, “We will ride on swift <i>horses</i>”— </t><t>Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift!</t>


text:
<t> <f>[21†]</f>One thousand <i>shall</i> <i>flee</i> at the threat of one, </t><t>At the threat of five you shall flee, </t><t>Till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain </t><t>And as a banner on a hill.</t>


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<t>Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be <f>[22†]</f>gracious to you; </t><t>And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. </t><t>For the LORD <i>is</i> a God of justice; </t><t> <f>[23†]</f>Blessed <i>are</i> all those who <f>[24†]</f>wait for Him.</t>


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<t>For the people <f>[25†]</f>shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; </t><t>You shall <f>[26†]</f>weep no more. </t><t>He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; </t><t>When He hears it, He will <f>[27†]</f>answer you.</t>


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<t>And <i>though</i> the Lord gives you </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>The bread of adversity and the water of affliction, </t><t>Yet <f>[29†]</f>your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, </t><t>But your eyes shall see your teachers.</t>


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<t>Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, </t><t>“This <i>is</i> the way, walk in it,” </t><t>Whenever you <f>[30†]</f>turn to the right hand </t><t>Or whenever you turn to the left.</t>


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<t> <f>[31†]</f>You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, </t><t>And the ornament of your molded images of gold. </t><t>You will throw them away as an unclean thing; </t><t> <f>[32†]</f>You will say to them, “Get away!”</t>


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<t> <f>[33†]</f>Then He will give the rain for your seed </t><t>With which you sow the ground, </t><t>And bread of the increase of the earth; </t><t>It will be fat and plentiful. </t><t>In that day your cattle will feed </t><t>In large pastures.</t>


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<t>Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground </t><t>Will eat cured fodder, </t><t>Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.</t>


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<t>There will be <f>[34†]</f>on every high mountain </t><t>And on every high hill </t><t>Rivers <i>and</i> streams of waters, </t><t>In the day of the <f>[35†]</f>great slaughter, </t><t>When the towers fall.</t>


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<t>Moreover <f>[36†]</f>the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, </t><t>And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, </t><t>As the light of seven days, </t><t>In the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people </t><t>And heals the stroke of their wound.</t>


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<t>Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, </t><t>Burning <i>with</i> His anger, </t><t>And <i>His</i> burden <i>is</i> heavy; </t><t>His lips are full of indignation, </t><t>And His tongue like a devouring fire.</t>


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<t> <f>[37†]</f>His breath is like an overflowing stream, </t><t> <f>[38†]</f>Which reaches up to the neck, </t><t>To sift the nations with the sieve of futility; </t><t>And <i>there</i> <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <f>[39†]</f>a bridle in the jaws of the people, </t><t>Causing <i>them</i> to err.</t>


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<t>You shall have a song </t><t>As in the night <i>when</i> a holy festival is kept, </t><t>And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, </t><t>To come into <f>[40†]</f>the mountain of the LORD, </t><t>To the Mighty One of Israel.</t>


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<t> <f>[41†]</f>The LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, </t><t>And show the descent of His arm, </t><t>With the indignation of <i>His</i> anger </t><t>And the flame of a devouring fire, </t><t><i>With</i> scattering, tempest, <f>[42†]</f>and hailstones.</t>


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<t>For <f>[43†]</f>through the voice of the LORD </t><t>Assyria will be beaten down, </t><t>As He strikes with the <f>[44†]</f>rod.</t>


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<t>And <i>in</i> every place where the staff of punishment passes, </t><t>Which the LORD lays on him, </t><t><i>It</i> will be with tambourines and harps; </t><t>And in battles of <f>[45†]</f>brandishing He will fight with it.</t>


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<t> <f>[46†]</f>For Tophet <i>was</i> established of old, </t><t>Yes, for the king it is prepared. </t><t>He has made <i>it</i> deep and large; </t><t>Its pyre <i>is</i> fire with much wood; </t><t>The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, </t><t>Kindles it.</t>


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<pb/><t>Woe to those <f>[1†]</f>who go down to Egypt for help, </t><t><i>And</i> <f>[2†]</f>rely on horses, </t><t>Who trust in chariots because <i>they</i> <i>are</i> many, </t><t>And in horsemen because they are very strong, </t><t>But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel, </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>Nor seek the LORD!</t>


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<t>Yet He also <i>is</i> wise and will bring disaster, </t><t>And <f>[4†]</f>will not call back His words, </t><t>But will arise against the house of evildoers, </t><t>And against the help of those who work iniquity.</t>


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<t>Now the Egyptians <i>are</i> men, and not God; </t><t>And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. </t><t>When the LORD stretches out His hand, </t><t>Both he who helps will fall, </t><t>And he who is helped will fall down; </t><t>They all will perish <f>[5†]</f>together.</t>


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<pb/>For thus the LORD has spoken to me: <pb/><t> <f>[6†]</f>“As a lion roars, </t><t>And a young lion over his prey </t><t>(When a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him, </t><t><i>He</i> will not be afraid of their voice </t><t>Nor be disturbed by their noise), </t><t>So the LORD of hosts will come down </t><t>To fight for Mount Zion and for its hill.</t>


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<t> <f>[7†]</f>Like birds flying about, </t><t>So will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem. </t><t>Defending, He will also deliver <i>it;</i> </t><t>Passing over, He will preserve <i>it.</i>”</t>


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<pb/>Return <i>to</i> <i>Him</i> against whom the children of Israel have <f>[8†]</f>deeply revolted.


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For in that day every man shall <f>[9†]</f>throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold— <f>[10†]</f>sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.


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<pb/><t>“Then Assyria shall <f>[11†]</f>fall by a sword not of man, </t><t>And a sword not of mankind shall <f>[12†]</f>devour him. </t><t>But he shall flee from the sword, </t><t>And his young men shall become forced labor.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>He shall cross over to his stronghold for fear, </t><t>And his princes shall be afraid of the banner,” </t><t>Says the LORD, </t><t>Whose fire <i>is</i> in Zion </t><t>And whose furnace <i>is</i> in Jerusalem.</t>


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<pb/><t>Behold, <f>[1†]</f>a king will reign in righteousness, </t><t>And princes will rule with justice.</t>


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<t>A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, </t><t>And <f>[2†]</f>a cover from the tempest, </t><t>As rivers of water in a dry place, </t><t>As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>The eyes of those who see will not be dim, </t><t>And the ears of those who hear will listen.</t>


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<t>Also the heart of the rash will <f>[4†]</f>understand knowledge, </t><t>And the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.</t>


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<t>The foolish person will no longer be called generous, </t><t>Nor the miser said <i>to</i> <i>be</i> bountiful;</t>


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<t>For the foolish person will speak foolishness, </t><t>And his heart will work <f>[5†]</f>iniquity: </t><t>To practice ungodliness, </t><t>To utter error against the LORD, </t><t>To keep the hungry unsatisfied, </t><t>And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.</t>


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<t>Also the schemes of the schemer <i>are</i> evil; </t><t>He devises wicked plans </t><t>To destroy the poor with <f>[6†]</f>lying words, </t><t>Even when the needy speaks justice.</t>


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<t>Rise up, you women <f>[7†]</f>who are at ease, </t><t>Hear my voice; </t><t>You complacent daughters, </t><t>Give ear to my speech.</t>


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<t>In a year and <i>some</i> days </t><t>You will be troubled, you complacent women; </t><t>For the vintage will fail, </t><t>The gathering will not come.</t>


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<t>Tremble, you <i>women</i> who are at ease; </t><t>Be troubled, you complacent ones; </t><t>Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, </t><t>And gird <i>sackcloth</i> on <i>your</i> waists.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>On the land of my people will come up thorns <i>and</i> briers, </t><t>Yes, on all the happy homes <i>in</i> <f>[9†]</f>the joyous city;</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Because the palaces will be forsaken, </t><t>The bustling city will be deserted. </t><t>The forts and towers will become lairs forever, </t><t>A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—</t>


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<t>Until <f>[11†]</f>the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, </t><t>And <f>[12†]</f>the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, </t><t>And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.</t>


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<t>Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, </t><t>And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>The work of righteousness will be peace, </t><t>And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.</t>


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<t>My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, </t><t>In secure dwellings, and in quiet <f>[14†]</f>resting places,</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>Though hail comes down <f>[16†]</f>on the forest, </t><t>And the city is brought low in humiliation.</t>


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<t>Blessed <i>are</i> you who sow beside all waters, </t><t>Who send out freely the feet of <f>[17†]</f>the ox and the donkey.</t>


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<pb/><t>Woe to you <f>[1†]</f>who plunder, though you <i>have</i> not <i>been</i> plundered; </t><t>And you who deal treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you! </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>When you cease plundering, </t><t>You will be <f>[3†]</f>plundered; </t><t>When you make an end of dealing treacherously, </t><t>They will deal treacherously with you.</t>


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<t>O LORD, be gracious to us; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>We have waited for You. </t><t>Be their arm every morning, </t><t>Our salvation also in the time of trouble.</t>


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<t>At the noise of the tumult the people <f>[5†]</f>shall flee; </t><t>When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered;</t>


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<t>And Your plunder shall be gathered </t><t><i>Like</i> the gathering of the caterpillar; </t><t>As the running to and fro of locusts, </t><t>He shall run upon them.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; </t><t>He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.</t>


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<t>Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, </t><t><i>And</i> the strength of salvation; </t><t>The fear of the LORD <i>is</i> His treasure.</t>


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<t>Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>The highways lie waste, </t><t>The traveling man ceases. </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>He has broken the covenant, </t><t>He has despised the cities, </t><t>He regards no man.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>The earth mourns <i>and</i> languishes, </t><t>Lebanon is shamed <i>and</i> shriveled; </t><t>Sharon is like a wilderness, </t><t>And Bashan and Carmel shake off <i>their</i> <i>fruits.</i></t>


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<t>“Now <f>[11†]</f> I will rise,” says the LORD; </t><t>“Now I will be exalted, </t><t>Now I will lift Myself up.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>You shall conceive chaff, </t><t>You shall bring forth stubble; </t><t>Your breath, <i>as</i> fire, shall devour you.</t>


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<t>And the people shall be <i>like</i> the burnings of lime; </t><t> <f>[13†]</f><i>Like</i> thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.</t>


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<t>Hear, <f>[14†]</f>you <i>who</i> <i>are</i> afar off, what I have done; </t><t>And you <i>who</i> <i>are</i> near, acknowledge My might.”</t>


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<t>The sinners in Zion are afraid; </t><t>Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: </t><t>“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring <f>[15†]</f>fire? </t><t>Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”</t>


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<t>He who <f>[16†]</f>walks righteously and speaks uprightly, </t><t>He who despises the gain of oppressions, </t><t>Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes, </t><t>Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, </t><t>And <f>[17†]</f>shuts his eyes from seeing evil:</t>


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<t>He will dwell on high; </t><t>His place of defense <i>will</i> <i>be</i> the fortress of rocks; </t><t>Bread will be given him, </t><t>His water <i>will</i> <i>be</i> sure.</t>


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<t>Your eyes will see the King in His <f>[18†]</f>beauty; </t><t>They will see the land that is very far off.</t>


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<t>Your heart will meditate on terror: </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>“Where <i>is</i> the scribe? </t><t>Where <i>is</i> he who weighs? </t><t>Where <i>is</i> he who counts the towers?”</t>


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>You will not see a fierce people, </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>A people of obscure speech, beyond perception, </t><t>Of a stammering tongue <i>that</i> <i>you</i> cannot understand.</t>


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<t> <f>[22†]</f>Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; </t><t>Your eyes will see <f>[23†]</f>Jerusalem, a quiet home, </t><t>A tabernacle <i>that</i> will not be taken down; </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>Not one of <f>[25†]</f>its stakes will ever be removed, </t><t>Nor will any of its cords be broken.</t>


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<t>But there the majestic LORD <i>will</i> <i>be</i> for us </t><t>A place of broad rivers <i>and</i> streams, </t><t>In which no galley with oars will sail, </t><t>Nor majestic ships pass by</t>


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<t>(For the LORD <i>is</i> our <f>[26†]</f>Judge, </t><t>The LORD <i>is</i> our <f>[27†]</f>Lawgiver, </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>The LORD <i>is</i> our King; </t><t>He will save us);</t>


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<t>Your tackle is loosed, </t><t>They could not strengthen their mast, </t><t>They could not spread the sail. </t><t>Then the prey of great plunder is divided; </t><t>The lame take the prey.</t>


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<t>And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”; </t><t> <f>[29†]</f>The people who dwell in it <i>will</i> <i>be</i> forgiven <i>their</i> iniquity.</t>


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<pb/><t>Come <f>[1†]</f>near, you nations, to hear; </t><t>And heed, you people! </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, </t><t>The world and all things that come forth from it.</t>


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<t>For the indignation of the LORD is against all nations, </t><t>And <i>His</i> fury against all their armies; </t><t>He has utterly destroyed them, </t><t>He has given them over to the <f>[3†]</f>slaughter.</t>


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<t>Also their slain shall be thrown out; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>Their stench shall rise from their corpses, </t><t>And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, </t><t>And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>All their host shall fall down </t><t>As the leaf falls from the vine, </t><t>And as <f>[7†]</f><i>fruit</i> falling from a fig tree.</t>


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<t>“For <f>[8†]</f>My sword shall be bathed in heaven; </t><t>Indeed it <f>[9†]</f>shall come down on Edom, </t><t>And on the people of My curse, for judgment.</t>


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<t>The <f>[10†]</f>sword of the LORD is filled with blood, </t><t>It is made overflowing with fatness, </t><t>With the blood of lambs and goats, </t><t>With the fat of the kidneys of rams. </t><t>For <f>[11†]</f>the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, </t><t>And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.</t>


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<t>The wild oxen shall come down with them, </t><t>And the young bulls with the mighty bulls; </t><t>Their land shall be soaked with blood, </t><t>And their dust saturated with fatness.”</t>


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<t>For <i>it</i> <i>is</i> the day of the LORD’s <f>[12†]</f>vengeance, </t><t>The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>Its streams shall be turned into pitch, </t><t>And its dust into brimstone; </t><t>Its land shall become burning pitch.</t>


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<t>It shall not be quenched night or day; </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>Its smoke shall ascend forever. </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>From generation to generation it shall lie waste; </t><t>No one shall pass through it forever and ever.</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it, </t><t>Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. </t><t>And <f>[17†]</f>He shall stretch out over it </t><t>The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.</t>


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<t>They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, </t><t>But none <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> there, and all its princes shall be nothing.</t>


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<t>And <f>[18†]</f>thorns shall come up in its palaces, </t><t>Nettles and brambles in its fortresses; </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>It shall be a habitation of jackals, </t><t>A courtyard for ostriches.</t>


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<t>The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals, </t><t>And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion; </t><t>Also the night creature shall rest there, </t><t>And find for herself a place of rest.</t>


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<t>There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay <i>eggs</i> </t><t>And hatch, and gather <i>them</i> under her shadow; </t><t>There also shall the hawks be gathered, </t><t>Every one with her mate.</t>


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<t>“Search from <f>[20†]</f>the book of the LORD, and read: </t><t>Not one of these shall fail; </t><t>Not one shall lack her mate. </t><t>For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.</t>


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<t>He has cast the lot for them, </t><t>And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line. </t><t>They shall possess it forever; </t><t>From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.”</t>


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<pb/><t>The <f>[1†]</f>wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, </t><t>And the <f>[2†]</f>desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice, </t><t>Even with joy and singing. </t><t>The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, </t><t>The excellence of Carmel and Sharon. </t><t>They shall see the <f>[4†]</f>glory of the LORD, </t><t>The excellency of our God.</t>


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<t>Say to those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> fearful-hearted, </t><t>“Be strong, do not fear! </t><t>Behold, your God will come <i>with</i> <f>[6†]</f>vengeance, </t><t><i>With</i> the recompense of God; </t><t>He will come and <f>[7†]</f>save you.”</t>


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<t>Then the <f>[8†]</f>eyes of the blind shall be opened, </t><t>And <f>[9†]</f>the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.</t>


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<t>Then the <f>[10†]</f>lame shall leap like a deer, </t><t>And the <f>[11†]</f>tongue of the dumb sing. </t><t>For <f>[12†]</f>waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, </t><t>And streams in the desert.</t>


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<t>The parched ground shall become a pool, </t><t>And the thirsty land springs of water; </t><t>In <f>[13†]</f>the habitation of jackals, where each lay, </t><t><i>There</i> <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> grass with reeds and rushes.</t>


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<t>A <f>[14†]</f>highway shall be there, and a road, </t><t>And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>The unclean shall not pass over it, </t><t>But it <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> for others. </t><t>Whoever walks the road, although a fool, </t><t>Shall not go astray.</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>No lion shall be there, </t><t>Nor shall <i>any</i> ravenous beast go up on it; </t><t>It shall not be found there. </t><t>But the redeemed shall walk <i>there,</i></t>


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<t>And the <f>[17†]</f>ransomed of the LORD shall return, </t><t>And come to Zion with singing, </t><t>With everlasting joy on their heads. </t><t>They shall obtain joy and gladness, </t><t>And <f>[18†]</f>sorrow and sighing shall flee away.</t>


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<pb/>Now <f>[1†]</f>it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah <i>that</i> Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.


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Then the king of Assyria sent <i>the</i> Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.


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And <f>[2†]</f>Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, <f>[3†]</f>Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.


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<pb/> <f>[4†]</f>Then <i>the</i> Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: “What confidence is this in which you trust?


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I say you speak of having plans and power for war; but <i>they</i> <i>are</i> mere words. Now in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?


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Look! You are trusting in the <f>[5†]</f>staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So <i>is</i> Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who <f>[6†]</f>trust in him.


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<pb/>“But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ <i>is</i> <i>it</i> not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?” ’


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Have I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”


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<pb/>Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to <i>the</i> Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand <i>it;</i> and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who <i>are</i> on the wall.”


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<pb/>But <i>the</i> Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”


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<pb/>Then <i>the</i> Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!


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nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’


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Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make <i>peace</i> with me <i>by</i> <i>a</i> present and come out to me; <f>[7†]</f>and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;


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until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.


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<i>Beware</i> lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any one of the <f>[8†]</f>gods of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria?


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Where <i>are</i> the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where <i>are</i> the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered <f>[9†]</f>Samaria from my hand?


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Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’ ”


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<pb/>But they held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”


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Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who <i>was</i> over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with <i>their</i> clothes torn, and told him the words of <i>the</i> Rabshakeh.


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<pb/>And <f>[1†]</f>so it was, when King Hezekiah heard <i>it,</i> that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.


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And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day <i>is</i> a day of <f>[2†]</f>trouble and rebuke and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no strength to bring them forth.


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It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of <i>the</i> Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to <f>[3†]</f>reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up <i>your</i> prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”


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And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus 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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Surely I will send a spirit upon 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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<pb/>Then <i>the</i> Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.


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And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to make war with you.” So when he heard <i>it,</i> he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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“Thus you shall speak 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 <f>[4†]</f>gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who <i>were</i> in Telassar?


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Where <i>is</i> the king of <f>[5†]</f>Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?’ ”


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<pb/>And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.


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“O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, <i>the</i> <i>One</i> who dwells <i>between</i> the cherubim, You <i>are</i> God, You <f>[6†]</f>alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.


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<f>[7†]</f>Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and <f>[8†]</f>hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.


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and have cast their gods into the fire; for they <i>were</i> <f>[10†]</f>not gods, but the work of men’s hands—wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.


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Now therefore, O LORD our God, <f>[11†]</f>save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may <f>[12†]</f>know that You <i>are</i> the LORD, You alone.”


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<pb/>Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,


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this <i>is</i> the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: <pb/><t>“The virgin, the daughter of Zion, </t><t>Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; </t><t>The daughter of Jerusalem </t><t>Has shaken <i>her</i> head behind your back!</t>


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<t>“Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? </t><t>Against whom have you raised <i>your</i> voice, </t><t>And lifted up your eyes on high? </t><t>Against the Holy One of Israel.</t>


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<t>By your servants you have reproached the Lord, </t><t>And said, ‘By the multitude of my chariots </t><t>I have come up to the height of the mountains, </t><t>To the limits of Lebanon; </t><t>I will cut down its tall cedars </t><t><i>And</i> its choice cypress trees; </t><t>I will enter its farthest height, </t><t>To its fruitful forest.</t>


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<t>I have dug and drunk water, </t><t>And with the soles of my feet I have dried up </t><t>All the brooks of defense.’</t>


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<t>“Did you not hear <f>[13†]</f>long ago </t><t><i>How</i> I made it, </t><t>From ancient times that I formed it? </t><t>Now I have brought it to pass, </t><t>That you should be </t><t>For crushing fortified cities <i>into</i> heaps of ruins.</t>


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<t>Therefore their inhabitants <i>had</i> little power; </t><t>They were dismayed and confounded; </t><t>They were <i>as</i> the grass of the field </t><t>And the green herb, </t><t><i>As</i> the grass on the housetops </t><t>And <i>grain</i> blighted before it is grown.</t>


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<t>“But I know your dwelling place, </t><t>Your going out and your coming in, </t><t>And your rage against Me.</t>


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<t>Because your rage against Me and your tumult </t><t>Have come up to My ears, </t><t>Therefore <f>[14†]</f>I will put My hook in your nose </t><t>And My bridle in your lips, </t><t>And I will <f>[15†]</f>turn you back </t><t>By the way which you came.” ’</t>


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<pb/>“This <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> a sign to you: <pb/><t>You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, </t><t>And the second year what springs from the same; </t><t>Also in the third year sow and reap, </t><t>Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.</t>


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<t>And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah </t><t>Shall again take root downward, </t><t>And bear fruit upward.</t>


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<t>For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, </t><t>And those who escape from Mount Zion. </t><t>The <f>[16†]</f>zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.</t>


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<pb/>“Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: <pb/><t>‘He shall not come into this city, </t><t>Nor shoot an arrow there, </t><t>Nor come before it with shield, </t><t>Nor build a siege mound against it.</t>


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<t>‘For I will <f>[17†]</f>defend this city, to save it </t><t>For My own sake and for My servant <f>[18†]</f>David’s sake.’ ”</t>


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<pb/>Then the <f>[19†]</f>angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when <i>people</i> arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead.


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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned <i>home,</i> and remained at Nineveh.


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Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then <f>[20†]</f>Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.


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<pb/>In <f>[1†]</f>those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: <f>[2†]</f>‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’ ”


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and said, <f>[3†]</f>“Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done <i>what</i> <i>is</i> good in Your <f>[4†]</f>sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.


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“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.


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I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and <f>[5†]</f>I will defend this city.” ’


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And this <i>is</i> <f>[6†]</f>the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing which He has spoken:


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“Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.


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<pb/>This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:


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<pb/><t>I said, </t><t>“In the prime of my life </t><t>I shall go to the gates of Sheol; </t><t>I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”</t>


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<t>I said, </t><t>“I shall not see YAH, </t><t>The LORD <f>[7†]</f>in the land of the living; </t><t>I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>My life span is gone, </t><t>Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent; </t><t>I have cut off my life like a weaver. </t><t>He cuts me off from the loom; </t><t>From day until night You make an end of me.</t>


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<t>I have considered until morning— </t><t>Like a lion, </t><t>So He breaks all my bones; </t><t>From day until night You make an end of me.</t>


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<t>Like a crane <i>or</i> a swallow, so I chattered; </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>I mourned like a dove; </t><t>My eyes fail <i>from</i> <i>looking</i> upward. </t><t>O LORD, I am oppressed; </t><t>Undertake for me!</t>


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<t>“What shall I say? </t><t>He has both spoken to me, </t><t>And He Himself has done <i>it.</i> </t><t>I shall walk carefully all my years </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>In the bitterness of my soul.</t>


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<t>O Lord, by these <i>things</i> <i>men</i> live; </t><t>And in all these <i>things</i> <i>is</i> the life of my spirit; </t><t>So You will restore me and make me live.</t>


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<t>Indeed <i>it</i> <i>was</i> for <i>my</i> <i>own</i> peace </t><t><i>That</i> I had great bitterness; </t><t>But You have lovingly <i>delivered</i> my soul from the pit of corruption, </t><t>For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.</t>


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<t>For <f>[11†]</f>Sheol cannot thank You, </t><t>Death cannot praise You; </t><t>Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.</t>


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<t>The living, the living man, he shall praise You, </t><t>As I <i>do</i> this day; </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>The father shall make known Your truth to the children.</t>


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<t>“The LORD <i>was</i> <i>ready</i> to save me; </t><t>Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments </t><t>All the days of our life, in the house of the LORD.”</t>


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<pb/>Now <f>[13†]</f>Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs, and apply <i>it</i> as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”


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<pb/>And <f>[14†]</f>Hezekiah had said, “What <i>is</i> the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?”


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<pb/>At <f>[1†]</f>that time Merodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.


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<f>[2†]</f>And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures—the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory—all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.


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<pb/>Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” <pb/>So Hezekiah said, “They came to me from a <f>[3†]</f>far country, from Babylon.”


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<pb/>And he said, “What have they seen in your house?” <pb/>So Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that <i>is</i> in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”


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‘Behold, the days are coming <f>[4†]</f>when all that <i>is</i> in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the LORD.


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‘And they shall take away <i>some</i> of your <f>[5†]</f>sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”


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<pb/>So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, <f>[6†]</f>“The word of the LORD which you have spoken <i>is</i> good!” For he said, “At least there will be peace and truth in my days.”


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<t>“Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, </t><t>That her warfare is ended, </t><t>That her iniquity is pardoned; </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>For she has received from the LORD’s hand </t><t>Double for all her sins.”</t>


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<t> <f>[2†]</f>The voice of one crying in the wilderness: </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>“Prepare the way of the LORD; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>Make straight in the desert </t><t>A highway for our God.</t>


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<t>Every valley shall be exalted </t><t>And every mountain and hill brought low; </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>The crooked places shall be made straight </t><t>And the rough places smooth;</t>


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<t>The <f>[6†]</f>glory of the LORD shall be revealed, </t><t>And all flesh shall see <i>it</i> together; </t><t>For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”</t>


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<t>The voice said, “Cry out!” </t><t>And he said, “What shall I cry?” </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>“All flesh <i>is</i> grass, </t><t>And all its loveliness <i>is</i> like the flower of the field.</t>


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<t>The grass withers, the flower fades, </t><t>Because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; </t><t>Surely the people <i>are</i> grass.</t>


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<t>The grass withers, the flower fades, </t><t>But <f>[8†]</f>the word of our God stands forever.”</t>


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<t>O Zion, </t><t>You who bring good tidings, </t><t>Get up into the high mountain; </t><t>O Jerusalem, </t><t>You who bring good tidings, </t><t>Lift up your voice with strength, </t><t>Lift <i>it</i> up, be not afraid; </t><t>Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”</t>


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<t>Behold, the Lord GOD shall come with a strong <i>hand,</i> </t><t>And <f>[9†]</f>His arm shall rule for Him; </t><t>Behold, <f>[10†]</f>His reward <i>is</i> with Him, </t><t>And His work before Him.</t>


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<t>He will <f>[11†]</f>feed His flock like a shepherd; </t><t>He will gather the lambs with His arm, </t><t>And carry <i>them</i> in His bosom, </t><t><i>And</i> gently lead those who are with young.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, </t><t>Measured heaven with a span </t><t>And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? </t><t>Weighed the mountains in scales </t><t>And the hills in a balance?</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, </t><t>Or <i>as</i> His counselor has taught Him?</t>


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<t>With whom did He take counsel, and <i>who</i> instructed Him, </t><t>And <f>[14†]</f>taught Him in the path of justice? </t><t>Who taught Him knowledge, </t><t>And showed Him the way of understanding?</t>


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<t>Behold, the nations <i>are</i> as a drop in a bucket, </t><t>And are counted as the small dust on the scales; </t><t>Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.</t>


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<t>And Lebanon <i>is</i> not sufficient to burn, </t><t>Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.</t>


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<t>All nations before Him <i>are</i> as <f>[15†]</f>nothing, </t><t>And <f>[16†]</f>they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.</t>


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<t>To whom then will you <f>[17†]</f>liken God? </t><t>Or what likeness will you compare to Him?</t>


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<t> <f>[18†]</f>The workman molds an image, </t><t>The goldsmith overspreads it with gold, </t><t>And the silversmith casts silver chains.</t>


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<t>Whoever <i>is</i> too impoverished for <i>such</i> a contribution </t><t>Chooses a tree <i>that</i> will not rot; </t><t>He seeks for himself a skillful workman </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>To prepare a carved image <i>that</i> will not totter.</t>


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>Have you not known? </t><t>Have you not heard? </t><t>Has it not been told you from the beginning? </t><t>Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?</t>


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<t><i>It</i> <i>is</i> He who sits above the circle of the earth, </t><t>And its inhabitants <i>are</i> like grasshoppers, </t><t>Who <f>[21†]</f>stretches out the heavens like a curtain, </t><t>And spreads them out like a <f>[22†]</f>tent to dwell in.</t>


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<t>He brings the <f>[23†]</f>princes to nothing; </t><t>He makes the judges of the earth useless.</t>


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<t>Scarcely shall they be planted, </t><t>Scarcely shall they be sown, </t><t>Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth, </t><t>When He will also blow on them, </t><t>And they will wither, </t><t>And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.</t>


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<t>“To <f>[24†]</f> whom then will you liken Me, </t><t>Or <i>to</i> <i>whom</i> shall I be equal?” says the Holy One.</t>


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<t>Lift up your eyes on high, </t><t>And see who has created these <i>things,</i> </t><t>Who brings out their host by number; </t><t> <f>[25†]</f>He calls them all by name, </t><t>By the greatness of His might </t><t>And the strength of <i>His</i> power; </t><t>Not one is missing.</t>


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<t> <f>[26†]</f>Why do you say, O Jacob, </t><t>And speak, O Israel: </t><t>“My way is hidden from the LORD, </t><t>And my just claim is passed over by my God”?</t>


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<t>Have you not known? </t><t>Have you not heard? </t><t>The everlasting God, the LORD, </t><t>The Creator of the ends of the earth, </t><t>Neither faints nor is weary. </t><t> <f>[27†]</f>His understanding is unsearchable.</t>


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<t>He gives power to the weak, </t><t>And to <i>those</i> <i>who</i> <i>have</i> no might He increases strength.</t>


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<t>But those who <f>[28†]</f>wait on the LORD </t><t> <f>[29†]</f>Shall renew <i>their</i> strength; </t><t>They shall mount up with wings like eagles, </t><t>They shall run and not be weary, </t><t>They shall walk and not faint.</t>


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<pb/><t>“Keep <f>[1†]</f>silence before Me, O coastlands, </t><t>And let the people renew <i>their</i> strength! </t><t>Let them come near, then let them speak; </t><t>Let us <f>[2†]</f>come near together for judgment.</t>


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<t>“Who raised up one <f>[3†]</f>from the east? </t><t>Who in righteousness called him to His feet? </t><t>Who <f>[4†]</f>gave the nations before him, </t><t>And made <i>him</i> rule over kings? </t><t>Who gave <i>them</i> as the dust <i>to</i> his sword, </t><t>As driven stubble to his bow?</t>


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<t>Who pursued them, <i>and</i> passed safely </t><t>By the way <i>that</i> he had not gone with his feet?</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Who has performed and done <i>it,</i> </t><t>Calling the generations from the beginning? </t><t>‘I, the LORD, am <f>[6†]</f>the first; </t><t>And with the last I <i>am</i> <f>[7†]</f>He.’ ”</t>


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<t>The coastlands saw <i>it</i> and feared, </t><t>The ends of the earth were afraid; </t><t>They drew near and came.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>Everyone helped his neighbor, </t><t>And said to his brother, </t><t>“Be of good courage!”</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>So the craftsman encouraged the <f>[10†]</f>goldsmith; </t><t>He who smooths <i>with</i> the hammer <i>inspired</i> him who strikes the anvil, </t><t>Saying, “It <i>is</i> ready for the soldering”; </t><t>Then he fastened it with pegs, </t><t> <f>[11†]</f><i>That</i> it might not totter.</t>


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<t>“But you, Israel, <i>are</i> My servant, </t><t>Jacob whom I have <f>[12†]</f>chosen, </t><t>The descendants of Abraham My <f>[13†]</f>friend.</t>


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<t><i>You</i> whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, </t><t>And called from its farthest regions, </t><t>And said to you, </t><t>‘You <i>are</i> My servant, </t><t>I have chosen you and have not cast you away:</t>


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<t> <f>[14†]</f>Fear not, <f>[15†]</f>for I <i>am</i> with you; </t><t>Be not dismayed, for I <i>am</i> your God. </t><t>I will strengthen you, </t><t>Yes, I will help you, </t><t>I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’</t>


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<t>“Behold, all those who were incensed against you </t><t>Shall be <f>[16†]</f>ashamed and disgraced; </t><t>They shall be as nothing, </t><t>And those who strive with you shall perish.</t>


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<t>You shall seek them and not find them— </t><t>Those who contended with you. </t><t>Those who war against you </t><t>Shall be as nothing, </t><t>As a nonexistent thing.</t>


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<t>For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, </t><t>Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’</t>


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<t>“Fear not, you <f>[17†]</f>worm Jacob, </t><t>You men of Israel! </t><t>I will help you,” says the LORD </t><t>And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.</t>


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<t>“Behold, <f>[18†]</f>I will make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth; </t><t>You shall thresh the mountains and beat <i>them</i> small, </t><t>And make the hills like chaff.</t>


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<t>You shall <f>[19†]</f>winnow them, the wind shall carry them away, </t><t>And the whirlwind shall scatter them; </t><t>You shall rejoice in the LORD, </t><t><i>And</i> <f>[20†]</f> glory in the Holy One of Israel.</t>


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<t>“The poor and needy seek water, but <i>there</i> <i>is</i> none, </t><t>Their tongues fail for thirst. </t><t>I, the LORD, will hear them; </t><t><i>I,</i> the God of Israel, will not <f>[21†]</f>forsake them.</t>


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<t>I will open <f>[22†]</f>rivers in desolate heights, </t><t>And fountains in the midst of the valleys; </t><t>I will make the <f>[23†]</f>wilderness a pool of water, </t><t>And the dry land springs of water.</t>


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<t>I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree, </t><t>The myrtle and the oil tree; </t><t>I will set in the <f>[24†]</f>desert the cypress tree <i>and</i> the pine </t><t>And the box tree together,</t>


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<t> <f>[25†]</f>That they may see and know, </t><t>And consider and understand together, </t><t>That the hand of the LORD has done this, </t><t>And the Holy One of Israel has created it.</t>


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<t>“Present your case,” says the LORD. </t><t>“Bring forth your strong <i>reasons,</i>” says the <f>[26†]</f>King of Jacob.</t>


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<t>“Let <f>[27†]</f> them bring forth and show us what will happen; </t><t>Let them show the <f>[28†]</f>former things, what they <i>were,</i> </t><t>That we may consider them, </t><t>And know the latter end of them; </t><t>Or declare to us things to come.</t>


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<t> <f>[29†]</f>Show the things that are to come hereafter, </t><t>That we may know that you <i>are</i> gods; </t><t>Yes, <f>[30†]</f>do good or do evil, </t><t>That we may be dismayed and see <i>it</i> together.</t>


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<t>Indeed <f>[31†]</f>you <i>are</i> nothing, </t><t>And your work <i>is</i> nothing; </t><t><i>He</i> <i>who</i> chooses you <i>is</i> an abomination.</t>


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<t>“I have raised up one from the north, </t><t>And he shall come; </t><t>From the rising of the sun <f>[32†]</f>he shall call on My name; </t><t> <f>[33†]</f>And he shall come against princes as <i>though</i> mortar, </t><t>As the potter treads clay.</t>


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<t> <f>[34†]</f>Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? </t><t>And former times, that we may say, ‘<i>He</i> <i>is</i> righteous’? </t><t>Surely <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no one who shows, </t><t>Surely <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no one who declares, </t><t>Surely <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no one who hears your words.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[35†]</f>The first time <f>[36†]</f><i>I</i> <i>said</i> to Zion, </t><t>‘Look, there they are!’ </t><t>And I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good tidings.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[37†]</f>For I looked, and <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no man; </t><t>I looked among them, but <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no counselor, </t><t>Who, when I asked of them, could answer a word.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[38†]</f>Indeed they <i>are</i> all worthless; </t><t>Their works <i>are</i> nothing; </t><t>Their molded images <i>are</i> wind and confusion.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Behold! <f>[1†]</f>My Servant whom I uphold, </t><t>My Elect One <i>in</i> <i>whom</i> My soul <f>[2†]</f>delights! </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>I have put My Spirit upon Him; </t><t>He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.</t>


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<t>He will not cry out, nor raise <i>His</i> <i>voice,</i> </t><t>Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.</t>


text:
<t>A bruised reed He will not break, </t><t>And smoking flax He will not quench; </t><t>He will bring forth justice for truth.</t>


text:
<t>He will not fail nor be discouraged, </t><t>Till He has established justice in the earth; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”</t>


text:
<t>Thus says God the LORD, </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>Who created the heavens and stretched them out, </t><t>Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Who gives breath to the people on it, </t><t>And spirit to those who walk on it:</t>


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<t>“I, <f>[7†]</f> the LORD, have called You in righteousness, </t><t>And will hold Your hand; </t><t>I will keep You <f>[8†]</f>and give You as a covenant to the people, </t><t>As <f>[9†]</f>a light to the Gentiles,</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>To open blind eyes, </t><t>To <f>[11†]</f>bring out prisoners from the prison, </t><t>Those who sit in <f>[12†]</f>darkness from the prison house.</t>


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<t>I <i>am</i> the LORD, that <i>is</i> My name; </t><t>And My <f>[13†]</f>glory I will not give to another, </t><t>Nor My praise to carved images.</t>


text:
<t>Behold, the former things have come to pass, </t><t>And new things I declare; </t><t>Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[14†]</f>Sing to the LORD a new song, </t><t><i>And</i> His praise from the ends of the earth, </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, </t><t>You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!</t>


text:
<t>Let the wilderness and its cities lift up <i>their</i> <i>voice,</i> </t><t>The villages <i>that</i> Kedar inhabits. </t><t>Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, </t><t>Let them shout from the top of the mountains.</t>


text:
<t>The LORD shall go forth like a mighty man; </t><t>He shall stir up <i>His</i> zeal like a man of war. </t><t>He shall cry out, <f>[16†]</f>yes, shout aloud; </t><t>He shall prevail against His enemies.</t>


text:
<t>“I have held My peace a long time, </t><t>I have been still and restrained Myself. </t><t><i>Now</i> I will cry like a woman in labor, </t><t>I will pant and gasp at once.</t>


text:
<t>I will lay waste the mountains and hills, </t><t>And dry up all their vegetation; </t><t>I will make the rivers coastlands, </t><t>And I will dry up the pools.</t>


text:
<t>I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; </t><t>I will lead them in paths they have not known. </t><t>I will make darkness light before them, </t><t>And crooked places straight. </t><t>These things I will do for them, </t><t>And not forsake them.</t>


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<t>They shall be <f>[17†]</f>turned back, </t><t>They shall be greatly ashamed, </t><t>Who trust in carved images, </t><t>Who say to the molded images, </t><t>‘You <i>are</i> our gods.’</t>


text:
<t> <f>[18†]</f>Who <i>is</i> blind but My servant, </t><t>Or deaf as My messenger <i>whom</i> I send? </t><t>Who <i>is</i> blind as <i>he</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> perfect, </t><t>And blind as the LORD’s servant?</t>


text:
<t>Seeing many things, <f>[19†]</f>but you do not observe; </t><t>Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”</t>


text:
<t>The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake; </t><t>He will exalt the law and make <i>it</i> honorable.</t>


text:
<t>But this <i>is</i> a people robbed and plundered; </t><t>All of them are snared in holes, </t><t>And they are hidden in prison houses; </t><t>They are for prey, and no one delivers; </t><t>For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”</t>


text:
<t>Who among you will give ear to this? </t><t><i>Who</i> will listen and hear for the time to come?</t>


text:
<t>Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers? </t><t>Was it not the LORD, </t><t>He against whom we have sinned? </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>For they would not walk in His ways, </t><t>Nor were they obedient to His law.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger </t><t>And the strength of battle; </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>It has set him on fire all around, </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>Yet he did not know; </t><t>And it burned him, </t><t>Yet he did not take <i>it</i> to <f>[23†]</f>heart.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, </t><t>And He who formed you, O Israel: </t><t>“Fear not, <f>[1†]</f>for I have redeemed you; </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>I have called <i>you</i> by your name; </t><t>You <i>are</i> Mine.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[3†]</f>When you pass through the waters, <f>[4†]</f>I <i>will</i> <i>be</i> with you; </t><t>And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. </t><t>When you <f>[5†]</f>walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, </t><t>Nor shall the flame scorch you.</t>


text:
<t>For I <i>am</i> the LORD your God, </t><t>The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>I gave Egypt for your ransom, </t><t>Ethiopia and Seba in your place.</t>


text:
<t>Since you were precious in My sight, </t><t>You have been honored, </t><t>And I have <f>[7†]</f>loved you; </t><t>Therefore I will give men for you, </t><t>And people for your life.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[8†]</f>Fear not, for I <i>am</i> with you; </t><t>I will bring your descendants from the east, </t><t>And <f>[9†]</f>gather you from the west;</t>


text:
<t>I will say to the <f>[10†]</f>north, ‘Give them up!’ </t><t>And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ </t><t>Bring My sons from afar, </t><t>And My daughters from the ends of the earth—</t>


text:
<t>Everyone who is <f>[11†]</f>called by My name, </t><t>Whom <f>[12†]</f>I have created for My glory; </t><t>I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[13†]</f>Bring out the blind people who have eyes, </t><t>And the <f>[14†]</f>deaf who have ears.</t>


text:
<t>Let all the nations be gathered together, </t><t>And let the people be assembled. </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>Who among them can declare this, </t><t>And show us former things? </t><t>Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; </t><t>Or let them hear and say, “<i>It</i> <i>is</i> truth.”</t>


text:
<t>“You <f>[16†]</f> <i>are</i> My witnesses,” says the LORD, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>“And My servant whom I have chosen, </t><t>That you may know and <f>[18†]</f>believe Me, </t><t>And understand that I <i>am</i> He. </t><t>Before Me there was no God formed, </t><t>Nor shall there be after Me.</t>


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<t>I, <i>even</i> I, <f>[19†]</f><i>am</i> the LORD, </t><t>And besides Me <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no savior.</t>


text:
<t>I have declared and saved, </t><t>I have proclaimed, </t><t>And <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no <f>[20†]</f>foreign <i>god</i> among you; </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>Therefore you <i>are</i> My witnesses,” </t><t>Says the LORD, “that I <i>am</i> God.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[22†]</f>Indeed before the day <i>was,</i> I <i>am</i> He; </t><t>And <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no one who can deliver out of My hand; </t><t>I work, and who will <f>[23†]</f>reverse it?”</t>


text:
<t>Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, </t><t>The Holy One of Israel: </t><t>“For your sake I will send to Babylon, </t><t>And bring them all down as fugitives— </t><t>The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships.</t>


text:
<t>Thus says the LORD, who <f>[25†]</f>makes a way in the sea </t><t>And a <f>[26†]</f>path through the mighty waters,</t>


text:
<t>Who <f>[27†]</f>brings forth the chariot and horse, </t><t>The army and the power </t><t>(They shall lie down together, they shall not rise; </t><t>They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):</t>


text:
<t>Behold, I will do a <f>[29†]</f>new thing, </t><t>Now it shall spring forth; </t><t>Shall you not know it? </t><t> <f>[30†]</f>I will even make a road in the wilderness </t><t><i>And</i> rivers in the desert.</t>


text:
<t>The beast of the field will honor Me, </t><t>The jackals and the ostriches, </t><t>Because <f>[31†]</f>I give waters in the wilderness </t><t><i>And</i> rivers in the desert, </t><t>To give drink to My people, My chosen.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[32†]</f>This people I have formed for Myself; </t><t>They shall declare My <f>[33†]</f>praise.</t>


text:
<t>“But you have not called upon Me, O Jacob; </t><t>And you <f>[34†]</f>have been weary of Me, O Israel.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[35†]</f>You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings, </t><t>Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. </t><t>I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, </t><t>Nor wearied you with incense.</t>


text:
<t>You have bought Me no sweet cane with money, </t><t>Nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices; </t><t>But you have burdened Me with your sins, </t><t>You have <f>[36†]</f>wearied Me with your iniquities.</t>


text:
<t>“I, <i>even</i> I, <i>am</i> He who <f>[37†]</f>blots out your transgressions <f>[38†]</f>for My own sake; </t><t> <f>[39†]</f>And I will not remember your sins.</t>


text:
<t>Put Me in remembrance; </t><t>Let us contend together; </t><t>State your <i>case,</i> that you may be acquitted.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; </t><t> <f>[40†]</f>I will give Jacob to the curse, </t><t>And Israel to reproaches.</t>


text:
<t>Thus says the LORD who made you </t><t>And formed you from the womb, <i>who</i> will help you: </t><t>‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant; </t><t>And you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.</t>


text:
<t>For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, </t><t>And floods on the dry ground; </t><t>I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, </t><t>And My blessing on your offspring;</t>


text:
<t>One will say, ‘I <i>am</i> the LORD’s’; </t><t>Another will call <i>himself</i> by the name of Jacob; </t><t>Another will write <i>with</i> his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ </t><t>And name <i>himself</i> by the name of Israel.</t>


text:
<t>“Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, </t><t>And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>‘I <i>am</i> the First and I <i>am</i> the Last; </t><t>Besides Me <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no God.</t>


text:
<t>And <f>[2†]</f>who can proclaim as I do? </t><t>Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me, </t><t>Since I appointed the ancient people. </t><t>And the things that are coming and shall come, </t><t>Let them show these to them.</t>


text:
<t>Do not fear, nor be afraid; </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>Have I not told you from that time, and declared <i>it?</i> </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>You <i>are</i> My witnesses. </t><t>Is there a God besides Me? </t><t>Indeed <f>[5†]</f><i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other Rock; </t><t>I know not <i>one.</i>’ ”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[6†]</f>Those who make an image, all of them <i>are</i> useless, </t><t>And their precious things shall not profit; </t><t>They <i>are</i> their own witnesses; </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.</t>


text:
<t>Surely all his companions would be <f>[9†]</f>ashamed; </t><t>And the workmen, they <i>are</i> mere men. </t><t>Let them all be gathered together, </t><t>Let them stand up; </t><t>Yet they shall fear, </t><t>They shall be ashamed together.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[10†]</f>The blacksmith with the tongs works one in the coals, </t><t>Fashions it with hammers, </t><t>And works it with the strength of his arms. </t><t>Even so, he is hungry, and his strength fails; </t><t>He drinks no water and is faint.</t>


text:
<t>The craftsman stretches out <i>his</i> rule, </t><t>He marks one out with chalk; </t><t>He fashions it with a plane, </t><t>He marks it out with the compass, </t><t>And makes it like the figure of a man, </t><t>According to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house.</t>


text:
<t>He cuts down cedars for himself, </t><t>And takes the cypress and the oak; </t><t>He secures <i>it</i> for himself among the trees of the forest. </t><t>He plants a pine, and the rain nourishes <i>it.</i></t>


text:
<t>Then it shall be for a man to burn, </t><t>For he will take some of it and warm himself; </t><t>Yes, he kindles <i>it</i> and bakes bread; </t><t>Indeed he makes a god and worships <i>it;</i> </t><t>He makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.</t>


text:
<t>He burns half of it in the fire; </t><t>With this half he eats meat; </t><t>He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. </t><t>He even warms <i>himself</i> and says, </t><t>“Ah! I am warm, </t><t>I have seen the fire.”</t>


text:
<t>And the rest of it he makes into a god, </t><t>His carved image. </t><t>He falls down before it and worships <i>it,</i> </t><t>Prays to it and says, </t><t>“Deliver me, for you <i>are</i> my god!”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[11†]</f>They do not know nor understand; </t><t>For <f>[12†]</f>He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, </t><t><i>And</i> their hearts, so that they cannot <f>[13†]</f>understand.</t>


text:
<t>And no one <f>[14†]</f>considers in his heart, </t><t>Nor <i>is</i> <i>there</i> knowledge nor understanding to say, </t><t>“I have burned half of it in the fire, </t><t>Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals; </t><t>I have roasted meat and eaten <i>it;</i> </t><t>And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? </t><t>Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”</t>


text:
<t>He feeds on ashes; </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>A deceived heart has turned him aside; </t><t>And he cannot deliver his soul, </t><t>Nor say, “<i>Is</i> <i>there</i> not a <f>[16†]</f>lie in my right hand?”</t>


text:
<t>“Remember these, O Jacob, </t><t>And Israel, for you <i>are</i> My servant; </t><t>I have formed you, you <i>are</i> My servant; </t><t>O Israel, you will not be <f>[17†]</f>forgotten by Me!</t>


text:
<t> <f>[18†]</f>I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, </t><t>And like a cloud, your sins. </t><t>Return to Me, for <f>[19†]</f>I have redeemed you.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[20†]</f>Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done <i>it!</i> </t><t>Shout, you lower parts of the earth; </t><t>Break forth into singing, you mountains, </t><t>O forest, and every tree in it! </t><t>For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, </t><t>And <f>[21†]</f>glorified Himself in Israel.</t>


text:
<t>Thus says the LORD, <f>[22†]</f>your Redeemer, </t><t>And <f>[23†]</f>He who formed you from the womb: </t><t>“I <i>am</i> the LORD, who makes all <i>things,</i> </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>Who stretches out the heavens all alone, </t><t>Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;</t>


text:
<t>Who <f>[25†]</f>frustrates the signs <f>[26†]</f>of the babblers, </t><t>And drives diviners mad; </t><t>Who turns wise men backward, </t><t> <f>[27†]</f>And makes their knowledge foolishness;</t>


text:
<t> <f>[28†]</f>Who confirms the word of His servant, </t><t>And performs the counsel of His messengers; </t><t>Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’ </t><t>To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’ </t><t>And I will raise up her waste places;</t>


text:
<t>Who says of <f>[30†]</f>Cyrus, ‘<i>He</i> <i>is</i> My shepherd, </t><t>And he shall perform all My pleasure, </t><t>Saying to Jerusalem, <f>[31†]</f>“You shall be built,” </t><t>And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” ’</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Thus says the LORD to His anointed, </t><t>To <f>[1†]</f>Cyrus, whose <f>[2†]</f>right hand I have held— </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>To subdue nations before him </t><t>And <f>[4†]</f>loose the armor of kings, </t><t>To open before him the double doors, </t><t>So that the gates will not be shut:</t>


text:
<t>‘I will go before you </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>And make the crooked places straight; </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>I will break in pieces the gates of bronze </t><t>And cut the bars of iron.</t>


text:
<t>I will give you the treasures of darkness </t><t>And hidden riches of secret places, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>That you may know that I, the LORD, </t><t>Who <f>[8†]</f>call <i>you</i> by your name, </t><t><i>Am</i> the God of Israel.</t>


text:
<t>For <f>[9†]</f>Jacob My servant’s sake, </t><t>And Israel My elect, </t><t>I have even called you by your name; </t><t>I have named you, though you have not known Me.</t>


text:
<t>I <f>[10†]</f><i>am</i> the LORD, and <f>[11†]</f><i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other; </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> no God besides Me. </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>I will gird you, though you have not known Me,</t>


text:
<t> <f>[13†]</f>That they may <f>[14†]</f>know from the rising of the sun to its setting </t><t>That <i>there</i> <i>is</i> none besides Me. </t><t>I <i>am</i> the LORD, and <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other;</t>


text:
<t>I form the light and create darkness, </t><t>I make peace and <f>[15†]</f>create calamity; </t><t>I, the LORD, do all these <i>things.</i>’</t>


text:
<t>“Rain <f>[16†]</f> down, you heavens, from above, </t><t>And let the skies pour down righteousness; </t><t>Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation, </t><t>And let righteousness spring up together. </t><t>I, the LORD, have created it.</t>


text:
<t>“Woe to him who strives with <f>[17†]</f>his Maker! </t><t><i>Let</i> the potsherd <i>strive</i> with the potsherds of the earth! </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ </t><t>Or shall your handiwork <i>say,</i> ‘He has no hands’?</t>


text:
<t>Woe to him who says to <i>his</i> father, ‘What are you begetting?’ </t><t>Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’ ”</t>


text:
<t>Thus says the LORD, </t><t>The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>“Ask Me of things to come concerning <f>[20†]</f>My sons; </t><t>And concerning <f>[21†]</f>the work of My hands, you command Me.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[22†]</f>I have made the earth, </t><t>And <f>[23†]</f>created man on it. </t><t>I—My hands—stretched out the heavens, </t><t>And <f>[24†]</f>all their host I have commanded.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[25†]</f>I have raised him up in righteousness, </t><t>And I will direct all his ways; </t><t>He shall <f>[26†]</f>build My city </t><t>And let My exiles go free, </t><t> <f>[27†]</f>Not for price nor reward,” </t><t>Says the LORD of hosts.</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t> <f>[28†]</f>“The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush </t><t>And of the Sabeans, men of stature, </t><t>Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours; </t><t>They shall walk behind you, </t><t>They shall come over <f>[29†]</f>in chains; </t><t>And they shall bow down to you. </t><t>They will make supplication to you, <i>saying,</i> <f>[30†]</f>‘Surely God <i>is</i> in you, </t><t>And <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other; </t><t> <f>[31†]</f><i>There</i> <i>is</i> no other God.’ ”</t>


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<t>They shall be <f>[33†]</f>ashamed </t><t>And also disgraced, all of them; </t><t>They shall go in confusion together, </t><t><i>Who</i> <i>are</i> makers of idols.</t>


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<t> <f>[34†]</f><i>But</i> Israel shall be saved by the LORD </t><t>With an <f>[35†]</f>everlasting salvation; </t><t>You shall not be ashamed or <f>[36†]</f>disgraced </t><t>Forever and ever.</t>


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<t>For thus says the LORD, </t><t> <f>[37†]</f>Who created the heavens, </t><t>Who is God, </t><t>Who formed the earth and made it, </t><t>Who has established it, </t><t>Who did not create it in vain, </t><t>Who formed it to be <f>[38†]</f>inhabited: </t><t> <f>[39†]</f>“I <i>am</i> the LORD, and <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other.</t>


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<t>I have not spoken in <f>[40†]</f>secret, </t><t>In a dark place of the earth; </t><t>I did not say to the seed of Jacob, </t><t>‘Seek Me in vain’; </t><t> <f>[41†]</f>I, the LORD, speak righteousness, </t><t>I declare things that are right.</t>


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<t>“Assemble yourselves and come; </t><t>Draw near together, </t><t>You <i>who</i> <i>have</i> escaped from the nations. </t><t> <f>[42†]</f>They have no knowledge, </t><t>Who carry the wood of their carved image, </t><t>And pray to a god <i>that</i> cannot save.</t>


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<t>Tell and bring forth <i>your</i> <i>case;</i> </t><t>Yes, let them take counsel together. </t><t> <f>[43†]</f>Who has declared this from ancient time? </t><t><i>Who</i> has told it from that time? </t><t><i>Have</i> not I, the LORD? </t><t> <f>[44†]</f>And <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other God besides Me, </t><t>A just God and a Savior; </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> none besides Me.</t>


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<t>“Look to Me, and be saved, </t><t> <f>[45†]</f>All you ends of the earth! </t><t>For I <i>am</i> God, and <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other.</t>


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<t> <f>[46†]</f>I have sworn by Myself; </t><t>The word has gone out of My mouth <i>in</i> righteousness, </t><t>And shall not return, </t><t>That to Me every <f>[47†]</f>knee shall bow, </t><t> <f>[48†]</f>Every tongue shall take an oath.</t>


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<t>He shall say, </t><t>‘Surely in the LORD I have <f>[49†]</f>righteousness and strength. </t><t>To Him <i>men</i> shall come, </t><t>And <f>[50†]</f>all shall be ashamed </t><t>Who are incensed against Him.</t>


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<t> <f>[51†]</f>In the LORD all the descendants of Israel </t><t>Shall be justified, and <f>[52†]</f>shall glory.’ ”</t>


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<pb/><t>Bel <f>[1†]</f>bows down, Nebo stoops; </t><t>Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle. </t><t>Your carriages <i>were</i> heavily loaded, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>A burden to the weary <i>beast.</i></t>


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<t>They stoop, they bow down together; </t><t>They could not deliver the burden, </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>But have themselves gone into captivity.</t>


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<t>“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, </t><t>And all the remnant of the house of Israel, </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>Who have been upheld <i>by</i> <i>Me</i> from birth, </t><t>Who have been carried from the womb:</t>


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<t>Even to <i>your</i> old age, <f>[5†]</f>I <i>am</i> He, </t><t>And <i>even</i> to gray hairs <f>[6†]</f>I will carry <i>you!</i> </t><t>I have made, and I will bear; </t><t>Even I will carry, and will deliver <i>you.</i></t>


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<t>“To <f>[7†]</f> whom will you liken Me, and make <i>Me</i> equal </t><t>And compare Me, that we should be alike?</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>They lavish gold out of the bag, </t><t>And weigh silver on the scales; </t><t>They hire a <f>[9†]</f>goldsmith, and he makes it a god; </t><t>They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it </t><t>And set it in its place, and it stands; </t><t>From its place it shall not move. </t><t>Though <f>[11†]</f><i>one</i> cries out to it, yet it cannot answer </t><t>Nor save him out of his trouble.</t>


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<t>“Remember this, and show yourselves men; </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>Recall to mind, O you transgressors.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>Remember the former things of old, </t><t>For I <i>am</i> God, and <f>[14†]</f><i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other; </t><t><i>I</i> <i>am</i> God, and <i>there</i> <i>is</i> none like Me,</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>Declaring the end from the beginning, </t><t>And from ancient times <i>things</i> that are not <i>yet</i> done, </t><t>Saying, <f>[16†]</f>‘My counsel shall stand, </t><t>And I will do all My pleasure,’</t>


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<t>Calling a bird of prey <f>[17†]</f>from the east, </t><t>The man <f>[18†]</f>who executes My counsel, from a far country. </t><t>Indeed <f>[19†]</f>I have spoken <i>it;</i> </t><t>I will also bring it to pass. </t><t>I have purposed <i>it;</i> </t><t>I will also do it.</t>


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<t>“Listen to Me, you <f>[20†]</f>stubborn-hearted, </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>Who <i>are</i> far from righteousness:</t>


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<t> <f>[22†]</f>I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off; </t><t>My salvation <f>[23†]</f>shall not linger. </t><t>And I will place <f>[24†]</f>salvation in Zion, </t><t>For Israel My glory.</t>


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<pb/><t>“Come <f>[1†]</f>down and <f>[2†]</f>sit in the dust, </t><t>O virgin daughter of <f>[3†]</f>Babylon; </t><t>Sit on the ground without a throne, </t><t>O daughter of the Chaldeans! </t><t>For you shall no more be called </t><t>Tender and delicate.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>Take the millstones and grind meal. </t><t>Remove your veil, </t><t>Take off the skirt, </t><t>Uncover the thigh, </t><t>Pass through the rivers.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>Your nakedness shall be uncovered, </t><t>Yes, your shame will be seen; </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>I will take vengeance, </t><t>And I will not arbitrate with a man.”</t>


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<t><i>As</i> <i>for</i> <f>[7†]</f>our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts <i>is</i> His name, </t><t>The Holy One of Israel.</t>


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<t>“Sit in <f>[8†]</f>silence, and go into darkness, </t><t>O daughter of the Chaldeans; </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>For you shall no longer be called </t><t>The Lady of Kingdoms.</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>I was angry with My people; </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>I have profaned My inheritance, </t><t>And given them into your hand. </t><t>You showed them no mercy; </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.</t>


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<t>And you said, ‘I shall be <f>[13†]</f>a lady forever,’ </t><t><i>So</i> that you did not <f>[14†]</f>take these <i>things</i> to heart, </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>Nor remember the latter end of them.</t>


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<t>“Therefore hear this now, <i>you</i> <i>who</i> <i>are</i> given to pleasures, </t><t>Who dwell securely, </t><t>Who say in your heart, ‘I <i>am,</i> and <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no one else besides me; </t><t>I shall not sit <i>as</i> a widow, </t><t>Nor shall I know the loss of children’;</t>


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<t>But these two <i>things</i> shall come to you </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>In a moment, in one day: </t><t>The loss of children, and widowhood. </t><t>They shall come upon you in their fullness </t><t>Because of the multitude of your sorceries, </t><t>For the great abundance of your enchantments.</t>


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<t>“For you have trusted in your wickedness; </t><t>You have said, ‘No one <f>[17†]</f>sees me’; </t><t>Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; </t><t>And you have said in your heart, </t><t>‘I <i>am,</i> and <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no one else besides me.’</t>


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<t>Therefore evil shall come upon you; </t><t>You shall not know from where it arises. </t><t>And trouble shall fall upon you; </t><t>You will not be able to put it off. </t><t>And <f>[18†]</f>desolation shall come upon you <f>[19†]</f>suddenly, </t><t><i>Which</i> you shall not know.</t>


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<t>“Stand now with your enchantments </t><t>And the multitude of your sorceries, </t><t>In which you have labored from your youth— </t><t>Perhaps you will be able to profit, </t><t>Perhaps you will prevail.</t>


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; </t><t>Let now <f>[21†]</f>the astrologers, the stargazers, </t><t><i>And</i> the monthly prognosticators </t><t>Stand up and save you </t><t>From what shall come upon you.</t>


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<t>Behold, they shall be <f>[22†]</f>as stubble, </t><t>The fire shall <f>[23†]</f>burn them; </t><t>They shall not deliver themselves </t><t>From the power of the flame; </t><t><i>It</i> <i>shall</i> not <i>be</i> a coal to be warmed by, </t><t><i>Nor</i> a fire to sit before!</t>


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<t>Thus shall they be to you </t><t>With whom you have labored, </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>Your merchants from your youth; </t><t>They shall wander each one to his quarter. </t><t>No one shall save you.</t>


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<pb/><t>“Hear this, O house of Jacob, </t><t>Who are called by the name of Israel, </t><t>And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah; </t><t>Who swear by the name of the LORD, </t><t>And make mention of the God of Israel, </t><t><i>But</i> <f>[1†]</f>not in truth or in righteousness;</t>


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<t>For they call themselves <f>[2†]</f>after the holy city, </t><t>And <f>[3†]</f>lean on the God of Israel; </t><t>The LORD of hosts <i>is</i> His name:</t>


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<t>“I have <f>[4†]</f>declared the former things from the beginning; </t><t>They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. </t><t>Suddenly I did <i>them,</i> <f>[5†]</f>and they came to pass.</t>


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<t>Because I knew that you <i>were</i> obstinate, </t><t>And <f>[6†]</f>your neck <i>was</i> an iron sinew, </t><t>And your brow bronze,</t>


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<t>Even from the beginning I have declared <i>it</i> to you; </t><t>Before it came to pass I proclaimed <i>it</i> to you, </t><t>Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, </t><t>And my carved image and my molded image </t><t>Have commanded them.’</t>


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<t>“You have heard; </t><t>See all this. </t><t>And will you not declare <i>it?</i> </t><t>I have made you hear new things from this time, </t><t>Even hidden things, and you did not know them.</t>


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<t>They are created now and not from the beginning; </t><t>And before this day you have not heard them, </t><t>Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’</t>


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<t>Surely you did not hear, </t><t>Surely you did not know; </t><t>Surely from long ago your ear was not opened. </t><t>For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, </t><t>And were called <f>[7†]</f>a transgressor from the womb.</t>


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<t>“For <f>[8†]</f> My name’s sake <f>[9†]</f>I will defer My anger, </t><t>And <i>for</i> My praise I will restrain it from you, </t><t>So that I do not cut you off.</t>


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<t>Behold, <f>[10†]</f>I have refined you, but not as silver; </t><t>I have tested you in the <f>[11†]</f>furnace of affliction.</t>


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<t>For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do <i>it;</i> </t><t>For <f>[12†]</f>how should <i>My</i> <i>name</i> be profaned? </t><t>And <f>[13†]</f>I will not give My glory to another.</t>


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<t>“Listen to Me, O Jacob, </t><t>And Israel, My called: </t><t>I <i>am</i> He, <f>[14†]</f>I <i>am</i> the <f>[15†]</f>First, </t><t>I <i>am</i> also the Last.</t>


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<t>Indeed <f>[16†]</f>My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, </t><t>And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; </t><t><i>When</i> <f>[17†]</f>I call to them, </t><t>They stand up together.</t>


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<t>“All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear! </t><t>Who among them has declared these <i>things?</i> </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>The LORD loves him; </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>He shall do His pleasure on Babylon, </t><t>And His arm <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <i>against</i> the Chaldeans.</t>


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<t>I, <i>even</i> I, have spoken; </t><t>Yes, <f>[20†]</f>I have called him, </t><t>I have brought him, and his way will prosper.</t>


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<t>“Come near to Me, hear this: </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; </t><t>From the time that it was, I <i>was</i> there. </t><t>And now <f>[22†]</f>the Lord GOD and His Spirit </t><t>Have sent Me.”</t>


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<t>Thus says <f>[23†]</f>the LORD, your Redeemer, </t><t>The Holy One of Israel: </t><t>“I <i>am</i> the LORD your God, </t><t>Who teaches you to profit, </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>Who leads you by the way you should go.</t>


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<t> <f>[25†]</f>Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! </t><t> <f>[26†]</f>Then your peace would have been like a river, </t><t>And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.</t>


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<t> <f>[27†]</f>Your descendants also would have been like the sand, </t><t>And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; </t><t>His name would not have been cut off </t><t>Nor destroyed from before Me.”</t>


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<t> <f>[28†]</f>Go forth from Babylon! </t><t>Flee from the Chaldeans! </t><t>With a voice of singing, </t><t>Declare, proclaim this, </t><t>Utter it to the end of the earth; </t><t>Say, “The LORD has <f>[29†]</f>redeemed </t><t>His servant Jacob!”</t>


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<t>And they <f>[30†]</f>did not thirst </t><t>When He led them through the deserts; </t><t>He <f>[31†]</f>caused the waters to flow from the rock for them; </t><t>He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.</t>


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<pb/><t>“Listen, <f>[1†]</f>O coastlands, to Me, </t><t>And take heed, you peoples from afar! </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>The LORD has called Me from the womb; </t><t>From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.</t>


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<t>And He has made <f>[3†]</f>My mouth like a sharp sword; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, </t><t>And made Me <f>[5†]</f>a polished shaft; </t><t>In His quiver He has hidden Me.”</t>


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<t>“And He said to me, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>‘You <i>are</i> My servant, O Israel, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>In whom I will be glorified.’</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain, </t><t>I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; </t><t>Yet surely my just reward <i>is</i> with the LORD, </t><t>And my work with my God.’ ”</t>


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<t>“And now the LORD says, </t><t>Who formed Me from the womb <i>to</i> <i>be</i> His Servant, </t><t>To bring Jacob back to Him, </t><t>So that Israel <f>[9†]</f>is gathered to Him </t><t>(For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, </t><t>And My God shall be My strength),</t>


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<t>Indeed He says, </t><t>‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant </t><t>To raise up the tribes of Jacob, </t><t>And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; </t><t>I will also give You as a <f>[10†]</f>light to the Gentiles, </t><t>That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”</t>


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<t>Thus says the LORD, </t><t>The Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>To Him whom man despises, </t><t>To Him whom the nation abhors, </t><t>To the Servant of rulers: </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>“Kings shall see and arise, </t><t>Princes also shall worship, </t><t>Because of the LORD who is faithful, </t><t>The Holy One of Israel; </t><t>And He has chosen You.”</t>


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<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“In an <f>[13†]</f>acceptable time I have heard You, </t><t>And in the day of salvation I have helped You; </t><t>I will preserve You <f>[14†]</f>and give You </t><t>As a covenant to the people, </t><t>To restore the earth, </t><t>To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;</t>


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<t>That You may say <f>[15†]</f>to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’ </t><t>To those who <i>are</i> in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ </t><t>“They shall feed along the roads, </t><t>And their pastures <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> on all desolate heights.</t>


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<t>They shall neither <f>[16†]</f>hunger nor thirst, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>Neither heat nor sun shall strike them; </t><t>For He who has mercy on them <f>[18†]</f>will lead them, </t><t>Even by the springs of water He will guide them.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[19†]</f>I will make each of My mountains a road, </t><t>And My highways shall be elevated.</t>


text:
<t>Surely <f>[20†]</f>these shall come from afar; </t><t>Look! Those from the north and the west, </t><t>And these from the land of Sinim.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[21†]</f>Sing, O heavens! </t><t>Be joyful, O earth! </t><t>And break out in singing, O mountains! </t><t>For the LORD has comforted His people, </t><t>And will have mercy on His afflicted.</t>


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<t>“Can <f>[23†]</f> a woman forget her nursing child, </t><t>And not have compassion on the son of her womb? </t><t>Surely they may forget, </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>Yet I will not forget you.</t>


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<t>See, <f>[25†]</f>I have inscribed you on the palms <i>of</i> <i>My</i> <i>hands;</i> </t><t>Your walls <i>are</i> continually before Me.</t>


text:
<t>Your sons shall make haste; </t><t>Your destroyers and those who laid you waste </t><t>Shall go away from you.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[26†]</f>Lift up your eyes, look around and see; </t><t>All these gather together <i>and</i> come to you. </t><t><i>As</i> I live,” says the LORD, </t><t>“You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all <f>[27†]</f>as an ornament, </t><t>And bind them <i>on</i> <i>you</i> as a bride <i>does.</i></t>


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<t>“For your waste and desolate places, </t><t>And the land of your destruction, </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>Will even now be too small for the inhabitants; </t><t>And those who swallowed you up will be far away.</t>


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<t> <f>[29†]</f>The children you will have, </t><t> <f>[30†]</f>After you have lost the others, </t><t>Will say again in your ears, </t><t>‘The place <i>is</i> too small for me; </t><t>Give me a place where I may dwell.’</t>


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<t>Then you will say in your heart, </t><t>‘Who has begotten these for me, </t><t>Since I have lost my children and am desolate, </t><t>A captive, and wandering to and fro? </t><t>And who has brought these up? </t><t>There I was, left alone; </t><t>But these, where <i>were</i> they?’ ”</t>


text:
<pb/> <f>[31†]</f>Thus says the Lord GOD: <pb/><t>“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, </t><t>And set up My standard for the peoples; </t><t>They shall bring your sons in <i>their</i> arms, </t><t>And your daughters shall be carried on <i>their</i> shoulders;</t>


text:
<t> <f>[32†]</f>Kings shall be your foster fathers, </t><t>And their queens your nursing mothers; </t><t>They shall bow down to you with <i>their</i> faces to the earth, </t><t>And <f>[33†]</f>lick up the dust of your feet. </t><t>Then you will know that I <i>am</i> the LORD, </t><t> <f>[34†]</f>For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[35†]</f>Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, </t><t>Or the captives of the righteous be delivered?</t>


text:
<pb/>But thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, </t><t>And the prey of the terrible be delivered; </t><t>For I will contend with him who contends with you, </t><t>And I will save your children.</t>


text:
<t>I will <f>[36†]</f>feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, </t><t>And they shall be drunk with their own <f>[37†]</f>blood as with sweet wine. </t><t>All flesh <f>[38†]</f>shall know </t><t>That I, the LORD, <i>am</i> your Savior, </t><t>And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“Where <i>is</i> <f>[1†]</f>the certificate of your mother’s divorce, </t><t>Whom I have put away? </t><t>Or which of My <f>[2†]</f>creditors <i>is</i> <i>it</i> to whom I have sold you? </t><t>For your iniquities <f>[3†]</f>you have sold yourselves, </t><t>And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.</t>


text:
<t>Why, when I came, <i>was</i> <i>there</i> no man? </t><t><i>Why,</i> when I called, <i>was</i> <i>there</i> none to answer? </t><t>Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? </t><t>Or have I no power to deliver? </t><t>Indeed with My <f>[4†]</f>rebuke I dry up the sea, </t><t>I make the rivers a wilderness; </t><t>Their fish stink because <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no water, </t><t>And die of thirst.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[5†]</f>I clothe the heavens with blackness, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>And I make sackcloth their covering.”</t>


text:
<t>“The <f>[7†]</f> Lord GOD has given Me </t><t>The tongue of the learned, </t><t>That I should know how to speak </t><t>A word in season to <i>him</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> <f>[8†]</f>weary. </t><t>He awakens Me morning by morning, </t><t>He awakens My ear </t><t>To hear as the learned.</t>


text:
<t>The Lord GOD <f>[9†]</f>has opened My ear; </t><t>And I was not <f>[10†]</f>rebellious, </t><t>Nor did I turn away.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[11†]</f>I gave My back to those who struck <i>Me,</i> </t><t>And <f>[12†]</f>My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; </t><t>I did not hide My face from shame and <f>[13†]</f>spitting.</t>


text:
<t>“For the Lord GOD will help Me; </t><t>Therefore I will not be disgraced; </t><t>Therefore <f>[14†]</f>I have set My face like a flint, </t><t>And I know that I will not be ashamed.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[15†]</f><i>He</i> <i>is</i> near who justifies Me; </t><t>Who will contend with Me? </t><t>Let us stand together. </t><t>Who <i>is</i> My adversary? </t><t>Let him come near Me.</t>


text:
<t>Surely the Lord GOD will help Me; </t><t>Who <i>is</i> he <i>who</i> will condemn Me? </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>Indeed they will all grow old like a garment; </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>The moth will eat them up.</t>


text:
<t>“Who among you fears the LORD? </t><t>Who obeys the voice of His Servant? </t><t>Who <f>[18†]</f>walks in darkness </t><t>And has no light? </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>Let him trust in the name of the LORD </t><t>And rely upon his God.</t>


text:
<t>Look, all you who kindle a fire, </t><t>Who encircle <i>yourselves</i> with sparks: </t><t>Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled— </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>This you shall have from My hand: </t><t>You shall lie down <f>[21†]</f>in torment.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Listen to Me, <f>[1†]</f>you who follow after righteousness, </t><t>You who seek the LORD: </t><t>Look to the rock <i>from</i> <i>which</i> you were hewn, </t><t>And to the hole of the pit <i>from</i> <i>which</i> you were dug.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[2†]</f>Look to Abraham your father, </t><t>And to Sarah <i>who</i> bore you; </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>For I called him alone, </t><t>And <f>[4†]</f>blessed him and increased him.”</t>


text:
<t>For the LORD will <f>[5†]</f>comfort Zion, </t><t>He will comfort all her waste places; </t><t>He will make her wilderness like Eden, </t><t>And her desert <f>[6†]</f>like the garden of the LORD; </t><t>Joy and gladness will be found in it, </t><t>Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.</t>


text:
<t>“Listen to Me, My people; </t><t>And give ear to Me, O My nation: </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>For law will proceed from Me, </t><t>And I will make My justice rest </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>As a light of the peoples.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[9†]</f>My righteousness <i>is</i> near, </t><t>My salvation has gone forth, </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>And My arms will judge the peoples; </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>The coastlands will wait upon Me, </t><t>And <f>[12†]</f>on My arm they will trust.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[13†]</f>Lift up your eyes to the heavens, </t><t>And look on the earth beneath. </t><t>For <f>[14†]</f>the heavens will vanish away like smoke, </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>The earth will grow old like a garment, </t><t>And those who dwell in it will die in like manner; </t><t>But My salvation will be <f>[16†]</f>forever, </t><t>And My righteousness will not be abolished.</t>


text:
<t>“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, </t><t>You people <f>[17†]</f>in whose heart <i>is</i> My law: </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>Do not fear the reproach of men, </t><t>Nor be afraid of their insults.</t>


text:
<t>For <f>[19†]</f>the moth will eat them up like a garment, </t><t>And the worm will eat them like wool; </t><t>But My righteousness will be forever, </t><t>And My salvation from generation to generation.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[20†]</f>Awake, awake, <f>[21†]</f>put on strength, </t><t>O arm of the LORD! </t><t>Awake <f>[22†]</f>as in the ancient days, </t><t>In the generations of old. </t><t> <f>[23†]</f><i>Are</i> You not <i>the</i> <i>arm</i> that cut <f>[24†]</f>Rahab apart, </t><t><i>And</i> wounded the <f>[25†]</f>serpent?</t>


text:
<t><i>Are</i> You not <i>the</i> <i>One</i> who <f>[26†]</f>dried up the sea, </t><t>The waters of the great deep; </t><t>That made the depths of the sea a road </t><t>For the redeemed to cross over?</t>


text:
<t>So <f>[27†]</f>the ransomed of the LORD shall return, </t><t>And come to Zion with singing, </t><t>With everlasting joy on their heads. </t><t>They shall obtain joy and gladness; </t><t>Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.</t>


text:
<t>“I, <i>even</i> I, <i>am</i> He <f>[28†]</f>who comforts you. </t><t>Who <i>are</i> you that you should be afraid </t><t> <f>[29†]</f>Of a man <i>who</i> will die, </t><t>And of the son of a man <i>who</i> will be made <f>[30†]</f>like grass?</t>


text:
<t>And <f>[31†]</f>you forget the LORD your Maker, </t><t> <f>[32†]</f>Who stretched out the heavens </t><t>And laid the foundations of the earth; </t><t>You have feared continually every day </t><t>Because of the fury of the oppressor, </t><t>When <i>he</i> <i>has</i> prepared to destroy. </t><t> <f>[33†]</f>And where <i>is</i> the fury of the oppressor?</t>


text:
<t>The captive exile hastens, that he may be loosed, </t><t> <f>[34†]</f>That he should not die in the pit, </t><t>And that his bread should not fail.</t>


text:
<t>But I <i>am</i> the LORD your God, </t><t>Who <f>[35†]</f>divided the sea whose waves roared— </t><t>The LORD of hosts <i>is</i> His name.</t>


text:
<t>And <f>[36†]</f>I have put My words in your mouth; </t><t> <f>[37†]</f>I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, </t><t> <f>[38†]</f>That I may plant the heavens, </t><t>Lay the foundations of the earth, </t><t>And say to Zion, ‘You <i>are</i> My people.’ ”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[39†]</f>Awake, awake! </t><t>Stand up, O Jerusalem, </t><t>You who <f>[40†]</f>have drunk at the hand of the LORD </t><t>The cup of His fury; </t><t>You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, </t><t><i>And</i> drained <i>it</i> out.</t>


text:
<t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> no one to guide her </t><t>Among all the sons she has brought forth; </t><t>Nor <i>is</i> <i>there</i> <i>any</i> who takes her by the hand </t><t>Among all the sons she has brought up.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[41†]</f>These two <i>things</i> have come to you; </t><t>Who will be sorry for you?— </t><t>Desolation and destruction, famine and sword— </t><t> <f>[42†]</f>By whom will I comfort you?</t>


text:
<t> <f>[43†]</f>Your sons have fainted, </t><t>They lie at the head of all the streets, </t><t>Like an antelope in a net; </t><t>They are full of the fury of the LORD, </t><t>The rebuke of your God.</t>


text:
<t>Thus says your Lord, </t><t>The LORD and your God, </t><t><i>Who</i> <f>[45†]</f>pleads the cause of His people: </t><t>“See, I have taken out of your hand </t><t>The cup of trembling, </t><t>The dregs of the cup of My fury; </t><t>You shall no longer drink it.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[46†]</f>But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, </t><t>Who have said to you, </t><t>‘Lie down, that we may walk over you.’ </t><t>And you have laid your body like the ground, </t><t>And as the street, for those who walk over.”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>Awake, awake! </t><t>Put on your strength, O Zion; </t><t>Put on your beautiful garments, </t><t>O Jerusalem, the holy city! </t><t>For the uncircumcised <f>[1†]</f>and the unclean </t><t>Shall no longer come to you.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[2†]</f>Shake yourself from the dust, arise; </t><t>Sit down, O Jerusalem! </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, </t><t>O captive daughter of Zion!</t>


text:
<pb/>For thus says the LORD: <pb/><t> <f>[4†]</f>“You have sold yourselves for nothing, </t><t>And you shall be redeemed <f>[5†]</f>without money.”</t>


text:
<pb/>For thus says the Lord GOD: <pb/><t>“My people went down at first </t><t>Into <f>[6†]</f>Egypt to dwell there; </t><t>Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.</t>


text:
<t>Now therefore, what have I here,” says the LORD, </t><t>“That My people are taken away for nothing? </t><t>Those who rule over them </t><t>Make them wail,” says the LORD, </t><t>“And My name <i>is</i> <f>[7†]</f>blasphemed continually every day.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore My people shall know My name; </t><t>Therefore <i>they</i> <i>shall</i> <i>know</i> in that day </t><t>That I <i>am</i> He who speaks: </t><t>‘Behold, <i>it</i> <i>is</i> I.’ ”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[8†]</f>How beautiful upon the mountains </t><t>Are the feet of him who brings good news, </t><t>Who proclaims peace, </t><t>Who brings glad tidings of good <i>things,</i> </t><t>Who proclaims salvation, </t><t>Who says to Zion, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>“Your God reigns!”</t>


text:
<t>Your watchmen shall lift up <i>their</i> voices, </t><t>With their voices they shall sing together; </t><t>For they shall see eye to eye </t><t>When the LORD brings back Zion.</t>


text:
<t>Break forth into joy, sing together, </t><t>You waste places of Jerusalem! </t><t>For the LORD has comforted His people, </t><t>He has redeemed Jerusalem.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[10†]</f>The LORD has made bare His holy arm </t><t>In the eyes of <f>[11†]</f>all the nations; </t><t>And all the ends of the earth shall see </t><t>The salvation of our God.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[12†]</f>Depart! Depart! Go out from there, </t><t>Touch no unclean <i>thing;</i> </t><t>Go out from the midst of her, </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>Be clean, </t><t>You who bear the vessels of the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>For <f>[14†]</f>you shall not go out with haste, </t><t>Nor go by flight; </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>For the LORD will go before you, </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>And the God of Israel <i>will</i> <i>be</i> your rear guard.</t>


text:
<t>Behold, <f>[17†]</f>My Servant shall deal prudently; </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.</t>


text:
<t>Just as many were astonished at you, </t><t>So His <f>[19†]</f>visage was marred more than any man, </t><t>And His form more than the sons of men;</t>


text:
<t> <f>[20†]</f>So shall He sprinkle many nations. </t><t>Kings shall shut their mouths at Him; </t><t>For <f>[21†]</f>what had not been told them they shall see, </t><t>And what they had not heard they shall consider.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>Who <f>[1†]</f>has believed our report? </t><t>And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?</t>


text:
<t>For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, </t><t>And as a root out of dry ground. </t><t>He has no form or comeliness; </t><t>And when we see Him, </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> no beauty that we should desire Him.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[2†]</f>He is despised and rejected by men, </t><t>A Man of sorrows and <f>[3†]</f>acquainted with grief. </t><t>And we hid, as it were, <i>our</i> faces from Him; </t><t>He was despised, and <f>[4†]</f>we did not esteem Him.</t>


text:
<t>Surely <f>[5†]</f>He has borne our griefs </t><t>And carried our sorrows; </t><t>Yet we esteemed Him stricken, </t><t>Smitten by God, and afflicted.</t>


text:
<t>But He <i>was</i> <f>[6†]</f>wounded for our transgressions, </t><t><i>He</i> <i>was</i> bruised for our iniquities; </t><t>The chastisement for our peace <i>was</i> upon Him, </t><t>And by His <f>[7†]</f>stripes we are healed.</t>


text:
<t>All we like sheep have gone astray; </t><t>We have turned, every one, to his own way; </t><t>And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.</t>


text:
<t>He was oppressed and He was afflicted, </t><t>Yet <f>[8†]</f>He opened not His mouth; </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, </t><t>And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, </t><t>So He opened not His mouth.</t>


text:
<t>He was <f>[10†]</f>taken from prison and from judgment, </t><t>And who will declare His generation? </t><t>For <f>[11†]</f>He was cut off from the land of the living; </t><t>For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[12†]</f>And they made His grave with the wicked— </t><t>But with the rich at His death, </t><t>Because He had done no violence, </t><t>Nor <i>was</i> <i>any</i> <f>[13†]</f>deceit in His mouth.</t>


text:
<t>Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; </t><t>He has put <i>Him</i> to grief. </t><t>When You make His soul <f>[14†]</f>an offering for sin, </t><t>He shall see <i>His</i> seed, He shall prolong <i>His</i> days, </t><t>And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.</t>


text:
<t>He shall see the labor of His soul, <i>and</i> be satisfied. </t><t>By His knowledge <f>[15†]</f>My righteous <f>[16†]</f>Servant shall <f>[17†]</f>justify many, </t><t>For He shall bear their iniquities.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[18†]</f>Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, </t><t>Because He <f>[20†]</f>poured out His soul unto death, </t><t>And He was <f>[21†]</f>numbered with the transgressors, </t><t>And He bore the sin of many, </t><t>And <f>[22†]</f>made intercession for the transgressors.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Sing, O <f>[1†]</f>barren, </t><t>You <i>who</i> have not borne! </t><t>Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, </t><t>You <i>who</i> have not labored with child! </t><t>For more <i>are</i> the children of the desolate </t><t>Than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“Enlarge <f>[2†]</f> the place of your tent, </t><t>And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; </t><t>Do not spare; </t><t>Lengthen your cords, </t><t>And strengthen your stakes.</t>


text:
<t>For you shall expand to the right and to the left, </t><t>And your descendants will <f>[3†]</f>inherit the nations, </t><t>And make the desolate cities inhabited.</t>


text:
<t>“Do <f>[4†]</f> not fear, for you will not be ashamed; </t><t>Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; </t><t>For you will forget the shame of your youth, </t><t>And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[5†]</f>For your Maker <i>is</i> your husband, </t><t>The LORD of hosts <i>is</i> His name; </t><t>And your Redeemer <i>is</i> the Holy One of Israel; </t><t>He is called <f>[6†]</f>the God of the whole earth.</t>


text:
<t>For the LORD <f>[7†]</f>has called you </t><t>Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, </t><t>Like a youthful wife when you were refused,” </t><t>Says your God.</t>


text:
<t>“For <f>[8†]</f> a mere moment I have forsaken you, </t><t>But with great mercies <f>[9†]</f>I will gather you.</t>


text:
<t>With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,” </t><t>Says the LORD, your Redeemer.</t>


text:
<t>“For this <i>is</i> like the waters of <f>[11†]</f>Noah to Me; </t><t>For as I have sworn </t><t>That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, </t><t>So have I sworn </t><t>That I would not be angry with <f>[12†]</f>you, nor rebuke you.</t>


text:
<t>For <f>[13†]</f>the mountains shall depart </t><t>And the hills be removed, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>But My kindness shall not depart from you, </t><t>Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,” </t><t>Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.</t>


text:
<t>“O you afflicted one, </t><t>Tossed with tempest, <i>and</i> not comforted, </t><t>Behold, I will lay your stones with <f>[15†]</f>colorful gems, </t><t>And lay your foundations with sapphires.</t>


text:
<t>I will make your pinnacles of rubies, </t><t>Your gates of crystal, </t><t>And all your walls of precious stones.</t>


text:
<t>All your children <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <f>[16†]</f>taught by the LORD, </t><t>And <f>[17†]</f>great <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the peace of your children.</t>


text:
<t>In righteousness you shall be established; </t><t>You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; </t><t>And from terror, for it shall not come near you.</t>


text:
<t>Indeed they shall surely assemble, <i>but</i> not because of Me. </t><t>Whoever assembles against you shall <f>[18†]</f>fall for your sake.</t>


text:
<t>“Behold, I have created the blacksmith </t><t>Who blows the coals in the fire, </t><t>Who brings forth an instrument for his work; </t><t>And I have created the spoiler to destroy.</t>


text:
<t>No weapon formed against you shall <f>[19†]</f>prosper, </t><t>And every tongue <i>which</i> rises against you in judgment </t><t>You shall condemn. </t><t>This <i>is</i> the heritage of the servants of the LORD, </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>And their righteousness <i>is</i> from Me,” </t><t>Says the LORD.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Ho! <f>[1†]</f>Everyone who thirsts, </t><t>Come to the waters; </t><t>And you who have no money, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>Come, buy and eat. </t><t>Yes, come, buy wine and milk </t><t>Without money and without price.</t>


text:
<t>Why do you spend money for <i>what</i> <i>is</i> not bread, </t><t>And your wages for <i>what</i> does not satisfy? </t><t>Listen carefully to Me, and eat <i>what</i> <i>is</i> good, </t><t>And let your soul delight itself in abundance.</t>


text:
<t>Incline your ear, and <f>[3†]</f>come to Me. </t><t>Hear, and your soul shall live; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>And I will make an everlasting covenant with you— </t><t>The <f>[5†]</f>sure mercies of David.</t>


text:
<t>Indeed I have given him <i>as</i> <f>[6†]</f>a witness to the people, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>A leader and commander for the people.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[8†]</f>Surely you shall call a nation you do not know, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>And nations <i>who</i> do not know you shall run to you, </t><t>Because of the LORD your God, </t><t>And the Holy One of Israel; </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>For He has glorified you.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[11†]</f>Seek the LORD while He may be <f>[12†]</f>found, </t><t>Call upon Him while He is near.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[13†]</f>Let the wicked forsake his way, </t><t>And the unrighteous man <f>[14†]</f>his thoughts; </t><t>Let him return to the LORD, </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>And He will have mercy on him; </t><t>And to our God, </t><t>For He will abundantly pardon.</t>


text:
<t>“For <f>[16†]</f> My thoughts <i>are</i> not your thoughts, </t><t>Nor <i>are</i> your ways My ways,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“For <f>[17†]</f> <i>as</i> the heavens are higher than the earth, </t><t>So are My ways higher than your ways, </t><t>And My thoughts than your thoughts.</t>


text:
<t>“For <f>[18†]</f>as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, </t><t>And do not return there, </t><t>But water the earth, </t><t>And make it bring forth and bud, </t><t>That it may give seed to the sower </t><t>And bread to the eater,</t>


text:
<t> <f>[19†]</f>So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; </t><t>It shall not return to Me void, </t><t>But it shall accomplish what I please, </t><t>And it shall <f>[20†]</f>prosper <i>in</i> <i>the</i> <i>thing</i> for which I sent it.</t>


text:
<t>“For <f>[21†]</f> you shall go out with joy, </t><t>And be led out with peace; </t><t>The mountains and the hills </t><t>Shall <f>[22†]</f>break forth into singing before you, </t><t>And <f>[23†]</f>all the trees of the field shall clap <i>their</i> hands.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[24†]</f>Instead of <f>[25†]</f>the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, </t><t>And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; </t><t>And it shall be to the LORD <f>[26†]</f>for a name, </t><t>For an everlasting sign <i>that</i> shall not be cut off.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“Keep justice, and do righteousness, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>For My salvation <i>is</i> about to come, </t><t>And My righteousness to be revealed.</t>


text:
<t>Blessed <i>is</i> the man <i>who</i> does this, </t><t>And the son of man <i>who</i> lays hold on it; </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, </t><t>And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”</t>


text:
<t>Do not let <f>[3†]</f>the son of the foreigner </t><t>Who has joined himself to the LORD </t><t>Speak, saying, </t><t>“The LORD has utterly separated me from His people”; </t><t>Nor let the <f>[4†]</f>eunuch say, </t><t>“Here I am, a dry tree.”</t>


text:
<t>For thus says the LORD: </t><t>“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, </t><t>And choose what pleases Me, </t><t>And hold fast My covenant,</t>


text:
<t>Even to them I will give in <f>[5†]</f>My house </t><t>And within My walls a place <f>[6†]</f>and a name </t><t>Better than that of sons and daughters; </t><t>I will give them an everlasting name </t><t>That shall not be cut off.</t>


text:
<t>“Also the sons of the foreigner </t><t>Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, </t><t>And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants— </t><t>Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, </t><t>And holds fast My covenant—</t>


text:
<t>Even them I will <f>[7†]</f>bring to My holy mountain, </t><t>And make them joyful in My <f>[8†]</f>house of prayer. </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices </t><t><i>Will</i> <i>be</i> <f>[10†]</f>accepted on My altar; </t><t>For <f>[11†]</f>My house shall be called a house of prayer <f>[12†]</f>for all nations.”</t>


text:
<t>The Lord GOD, <f>[13†]</f>who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>“Yet I will gather to him </t><t><i>Others</i> besides those who are gathered to him.”</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>All you beasts of the field, come to devour, </t><t>All you beasts in the forest.</t>


text:
<t>His watchmen <i>are</i> <f>[16†]</f>blind, </t><t>They are all ignorant; </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>They <i>are</i> all dumb dogs, </t><t>They cannot bark; </t><t>Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.</t>


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<t>Yes, <i>they</i> <i>are</i> <f>[18†]</f>greedy dogs </t><t><i>Which</i> <f>[19†]</f>never have enough. </t><t>And they <i>are</i> shepherds </t><t>Who cannot understand; </t><t>They all look to their own way, </t><t>Every one for his own gain, </t><t>From his <i>own</i> territory.</t>


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<t>“Come,” <i>one</i> <i>says,</i> “I will bring wine, </t><t>And we will fill ourselves with intoxicating <f>[20†]</f>drink; </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>Tomorrow will be <f>[22†]</f>as today, </t><t><i>And</i> much more abundant.”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>The righteous perishes, </t><t>And no man takes <i>it</i> to heart; </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>Merciful men <i>are</i> taken away, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>While no one considers </t><t>That the righteous is taken away from evil.</t>


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<t>He shall enter into peace; </t><t>They shall rest in <f>[3†]</f>their beds, </t><t><i>Each</i> <i>one</i> walking <i>in</i> his uprightness.</t>


text:
<t>“But come here, </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>You sons of the sorceress, </t><t>You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!</t>


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<t>Whom do you ridicule? </t><t>Against whom do you make a wide mouth </t><t><i>And</i> stick out the tongue? </t><t><i>Are</i> you not children of transgression, </t><t>Offspring of falsehood,</t>


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<t>Inflaming yourselves with gods <f>[5†]</f>under every green tree, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Slaying the children in the valleys, </t><t>Under the clefts of the rocks?</t>


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<t>Among the smooth <f>[7†]</f><i>stones</i> of the stream </t><t><i>Is</i> your portion; </t><t>They, they, <i>are</i> your lot! </t><t>Even to them you have poured a drink offering, </t><t>You have offered a grain offering. </t><t>Should I receive comfort in <f>[8†]</f>these?</t>


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<t>“On <f>[9†]</f> a lofty and high mountain </t><t>You have set <f>[10†]</f>your bed; </t><t>Even there you went up </t><t>To offer sacrifice.</t>


text:
<t>Also behind the doors and their posts </t><t>You have set up your remembrance; </t><t>For you have uncovered yourself <i>to</i> <i>those</i> <i>other</i> than Me, </t><t>And have gone up to them; </t><t>You have enlarged your bed </t><t>And made <i>a</i> <i>covenant</i> with them; </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>You have loved their bed, </t><t>Where you saw <i>their</i> nudity.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>You went to the king with ointment, </t><t>And increased your perfumes; </t><t>You sent your <f>[13†]</f>messengers far off, </t><t>And <i>even</i> descended to Sheol.</t>


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<t>You are wearied in the length of your way; </t><t> <f>[14†]</f><i>Yet</i> you did not say, ‘There is no hope.’ </t><t>You have found the life of your hand; </t><t>Therefore you were not grieved.</t>


text:
<t>“And <f>[15†]</f>of whom have you been afraid, or feared, </t><t>That you have lied </t><t>And not remembered Me, </t><t>Nor taken <i>it</i> to your heart? </t><t>Is it not because <f>[16†]</f>I have held My peace from of old </t><t>That you do not fear Me?</t>


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<t>I will declare your righteousness </t><t>And your works, </t><t>For they will not profit you.</t>


text:
<t>When you cry out, </t><t>Let your collection <i>of</i> <i>idols</i> deliver you. </t><t>But the wind will carry them all away, </t><t>A breath will take <i>them.</i> </t><t>But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, </t><t>And shall inherit My holy mountain.”</t>


text:
<t>And one shall say, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>“Heap it up! Heap it up! </t><t>Prepare the way, </t><t>Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people.”</t>


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<t>For thus says the High and Lofty One </t><t>Who inhabits eternity, <f>[18†]</f>whose name <i>is</i> Holy: </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>“I dwell in the high and holy <i>place,</i> </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>With him <i>who</i> has a contrite and humble spirit, </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>To revive the spirit of the humble, </t><t>And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.</t>


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<t> <f>[22†]</f>For I will not contend forever, </t><t>Nor will I always be angry; </t><t>For the spirit would fail before Me, </t><t>And the souls <f>[23†]</f><i>which</i> I have made.</t>


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<t>For the iniquity of <f>[24†]</f>his covetousness </t><t>I was angry and struck him; </t><t> <f>[25†]</f>I hid and was angry, </t><t> <f>[26†]</f>And he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.</t>


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<t>I have seen his ways, and <f>[27†]</f>will heal him; </t><t>I will also lead him, </t><t>And restore comforts to him </t><t>And to <f>[28†]</f>his mourners.</t>


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<t>“I create <f>[29†]</f>the fruit of the lips: </t><t>Peace, peace <f>[30†]</f>to <i>him</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> far off and to <i>him</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> near,” </t><t>Says the LORD, </t><t>“And I will heal him.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[31†]</f>But the wicked <i>are</i> like the troubled sea, </t><t>When it cannot rest, </t><t>Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Cry aloud, spare not; </t><t>Lift up your voice like a trumpet; </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>Tell My people their transgression, </t><t>And the house of Jacob their sins.</t>


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<t>Yet they seek Me daily, </t><t>And delight to know My ways, </t><t>As a nation that did righteousness, </t><t>And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. </t><t>They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; </t><t>They take delight in approaching God.</t>


text:
<t>‘Why <f>[2†]</f> have we fasted,’ <i>they</i> <i>say,</i> ‘and You have not seen? </t><t><i>Why</i> have we <f>[3†]</f>afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’ </t><t>“In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, </t><t>And exploit all your laborers.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>Indeed you fast for strife and debate, </t><t>And to strike with the fist of wickedness. </t><t>You will not fast as <i>you</i> <i>do</i> this day, </t><t>To make your voice heard on high.</t>


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<t>Is <f>[5†]</f>it a fast that I have chosen, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>A day for a man to afflict his soul? </t><t><i>Is</i> <i>it</i> to bow down his head like a bulrush, </t><t>And <f>[7†]</f>to spread out sackcloth and ashes? </t><t>Would you call this a fast, </t><t>And an acceptable day to the LORD?</t>


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<t>“<i>Is</i> this not the fast that I have chosen: </t><t>To <f>[8†]</f>loose the bonds of wickedness, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>To undo the heavy burdens, </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>To let the oppressed go free, </t><t>And that you break every yoke?</t>


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<t><i>Is</i> <i>it</i> not <f>[11†]</f>to share your bread with the hungry, </t><t>And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>When you see the naked, that you cover him, </t><t>And not hide yourself from <f>[13†]</f>your own flesh?</t>


text:
<t> <f>[14†]</f>Then your light shall break forth like the morning, </t><t>Your healing shall spring forth speedily, </t><t>And your righteousness shall go before you; </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.</t>


text:
<t>Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; </t><t>You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I <i>am.</i>’ </t><t>“If you take away the yoke from your midst, </t><t>The pointing of the finger, and <f>[16†]</f>speaking wickedness,</t>


text:
<t><i>If</i> you extend your soul to the hungry </t><t>And satisfy the afflicted soul, </t><t>Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, </t><t>And your darkness shall <i>be</i> as the noonday.</t>


text:
<t>The LORD will guide you continually, </t><t>And satisfy your soul in drought, </t><t>And strengthen your bones; </t><t>You shall be like a watered garden, </t><t>And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.</t>


text:
<t>Those from among you </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>Shall build the old waste places; </t><t>You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; </t><t>And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, </t><t>The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.</t>


text:
<t>“If <f>[18†]</f>you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, </t><t><i>From</i> doing your pleasure on My holy day, </t><t>And call the Sabbath a delight, </t><t>The holy <i>day</i> of the LORD honorable, </t><t>And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, </t><t>Nor finding your own pleasure, </t><t>Nor speaking <i>your</i> <i>own</i> words,</t>


text:
<t> <f>[19†]</f>Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; </t><t>And I will cause you to <f>[20†]</f>ride on the high hills of the earth, </t><t>And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>The mouth of the LORD has spoken.”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>Behold, the LORD’s hand is not <f>[1†]</f>shortened, </t><t>That it cannot save; </t><t>Nor His ear heavy, </t><t>That it cannot hear.</t>


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<t>But your iniquities have separated you from your God; </t><t>And your sins have hidden <i>His</i> face from you, </t><t>So that He will <f>[2†]</f>not hear.</t>


text:
<t>For <f>[3†]</f>your hands are defiled with blood, </t><t>And your fingers with iniquity; </t><t>Your lips have spoken lies, </t><t>Your tongue has muttered perversity.</t>


text:
<t>No one calls for justice, </t><t>Nor does <i>any</i> plead for truth. </t><t>They trust in <f>[4†]</f>empty words and speak lies; </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.</t>


text:
<t>They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; </t><t>He who eats of their eggs dies, </t><t>And <i>from</i> that which is crushed a viper breaks out.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[6†]</f>Their webs will not become garments, </t><t>Nor will they cover themselves with their works; </t><t>Their works <i>are</i> works of iniquity, </t><t>And the act of violence <i>is</i> in their hands.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[7†]</f>Their feet run to evil, </t><t>And they make haste to shed <f>[8†]</f>innocent blood; </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>Their thoughts <i>are</i> thoughts of iniquity; </t><t>Wasting and <f>[10†]</f>destruction <i>are</i> in their paths.</t>


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<t>The way of <f>[11†]</f>peace they have not known, </t><t>And <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no justice in their ways; </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>They have made themselves crooked paths; </t><t>Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore justice is far from us, </t><t>Nor does righteousness overtake us; </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>We look for light, but there is darkness! </t><t>For brightness, <i>but</i> we walk in blackness!</t>


text:
<t> <f>[14†]</f>We grope for the wall like the blind, </t><t>And we grope as if <i>we</i> <i>had</i> no eyes; </t><t>We stumble at noonday as at twilight; </t><t><i>We</i> <i>are</i> as dead <i>men</i> in desolate places.</t>


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<t>We all growl like bears, </t><t>And <f>[15†]</f>moan sadly like doves; </t><t>We look for justice, but <i>there</i> <i>is</i> none; </t><t>For salvation, <i>but</i> it is far from us.</t>


text:
<t>For our <f>[16†]</f>transgressions are multiplied before You, </t><t>And our sins testify against us; </t><t>For our transgressions <i>are</i> with us, </t><t>And <i>as</i> <i>for</i> our iniquities, we know them:</t>


text:
<t>In transgressing and lying against the LORD, </t><t>And departing from our God, </t><t>Speaking oppression and revolt, </t><t>Conceiving and uttering <f>[17†]</f>from the heart words of falsehood.</t>


text:
<t>Justice is turned back, </t><t>And righteousness stands afar off; </t><t>For truth is fallen in the street, </t><t>And equity cannot enter.</t>


text:
<t>So truth fails, </t><t>And he <i>who</i> departs from evil makes himself a <f>[18†]</f>prey. </t><t>Then the LORD saw <i>it,</i> and it displeased Him </t><t>That <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no justice.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[19†]</f>He saw that <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no man, </t><t>And <f>[20†]</f>wondered that <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no intercessor; </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; </t><t>And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[22†]</f>For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, </t><t>And a helmet of salvation on His head; </t><t>He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, </t><t>And was clad with zeal as a cloak.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[23†]</f>According to <i>their</i> deeds, accordingly He will repay, </t><t>Fury to His adversaries, </t><t>Recompense to His enemies; </t><t>The coastlands He will fully repay.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[24†]</f>So shall they fear </t><t>The name of the LORD from the west, </t><t>And His glory from the rising of the sun; </t><t>When the enemy comes in <f>[25†]</f>like a flood, </t><t>The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.</t>


text:
<t>“The <f>[26†]</f> Redeemer will come to Zion, </t><t>And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” </t><t>Says the LORD.</t>


text:
<pb/>“As <f>[27†]</f> for Me,” says the LORD, “this <i>is</i> My covenant with them: My Spirit who <i>is</i> upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the LORD, “from this time and forevermore.”


text:
<pb/><t>Arise, <f>[1†]</f>shine; </t><t>For your light has come! </t><t>And <f>[2†]</f>the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.</t>


text:
<t>For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, </t><t>And deep darkness the people; </t><t>But the LORD will arise over you, </t><t>And His glory will be seen upon you.</t>


text:
<t>The <f>[3†]</f>Gentiles shall come to your light, </t><t>And kings to the brightness of your rising.</t>


text:
<t>“Lift <f>[4†]</f> up your eyes all around, and see: </t><t>They all gather together, <f>[5†]</f>they come to you; </t><t>Your sons shall come from afar, </t><t>And your daughters shall be nursed at <i>your</i> side.</t>


text:
<t>Then you shall see and become radiant, </t><t>And your heart shall swell with joy; </t><t>Because <f>[6†]</f>the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, </t><t>The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.</t>


text:
<t>The multitude of camels shall cover your <i>land,</i> </t><t>The dromedaries of Midian and <f>[7†]</f>Ephah; </t><t>All those from <f>[8†]</f>Sheba shall come; </t><t>They shall bring <f>[9†]</f>gold and incense, </t><t>And they shall proclaim the praises of the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>All the flocks of <f>[10†]</f>Kedar shall be gathered together to you, </t><t>The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; </t><t>They shall ascend with <f>[11†]</f>acceptance on My altar, </t><t>And <f>[12†]</f>I will glorify the house of My glory.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[13†]</f>Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me; </t><t>And the ships of Tarshish <i>will</i> <i>come</i> first, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>To bring your sons from afar, </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>Their silver and their gold with them, </t><t>To the name of the LORD your God, </t><t>And to the Holy One of Israel, </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>Because He has glorified you.</t>


text:
<t>“The <f>[17†]</f> sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>And their kings shall minister to you; </t><t>For <f>[19†]</f>in My wrath I struck you, </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>But in My favor I have had mercy on you.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore your gates <f>[21†]</f>shall be open continually; </t><t>They shall not be shut day or night, </t><t>That <i>men</i> may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, </t><t>And their kings in procession.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[22†]</f>For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish, </t><t>And <i>those</i> nations shall be utterly ruined.</t>


text:
<t>“The <f>[23†]</f> glory of Lebanon shall come to you, </t><t>The cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, </t><t>To beautify the place of My sanctuary; </t><t>And I will make <f>[24†]</f>the place of My feet glorious.</t>


text:
<t>Also the sons of those who afflicted you </t><t>Shall come <f>[25†]</f>bowing to you, </t><t>And all those who despised you shall <f>[26†]</f>fall prostrate at the soles of your feet; </t><t>And they shall call you The City of the LORD, </t><t> <f>[27†]</f>Zion of the Holy One of Israel.</t>


text:
<t>“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, </t><t>So that no one went through <i>you,</i> </t><t>I will make you an eternal excellence, </t><t>A joy of many generations.</t>


text:
<t>You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles, </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>And milk the breast of kings; </t><t>You shall know that <f>[29†]</f>I, the LORD, <i>am</i> your Savior </t><t>And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.</t>


text:
<t>“Instead of bronze I will bring gold, </t><t>Instead of iron I will bring silver, </t><t>Instead of wood, bronze, </t><t>And instead of stones, iron. </t><t>I will also make your officers peace, </t><t>And your magistrates righteousness.</t>


text:
<t>Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, </t><t>Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; </t><t>But you shall call <f>[30†]</f>your walls Salvation, </t><t>And your gates Praise.</t>


text:
<t>“The <f>[31†]</f>sun shall no longer be your light by day, </t><t>Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; </t><t>But the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, </t><t>And <f>[32†]</f>your God your glory.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[33†]</f>Your sun shall no longer go down, </t><t>Nor shall your moon withdraw itself; </t><t>For the LORD will be your everlasting light, </t><t>And the days of your mourning shall be ended.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[34†]</f>Also your people <i>shall</i> all <i>be</i> righteous; </t><t> <f>[35†]</f>They shall inherit the land forever, </t><t> <f>[36†]</f>The branch of My planting, </t><t> <f>[37†]</f>The work of My hands, </t><t>That I may be glorified.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[38†]</f>A little one shall become a thousand, </t><t>And a small one a strong nation. </t><t>I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time.”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“The <f>[1†]</f>Spirit of the Lord GOD <i>is</i> upon Me, </t><t>Because the LORD <f>[2†]</f>has anointed Me </t><t>To preach good tidings to the poor; </t><t>He has sent Me <f>[3†]</f>to heal the brokenhearted, </t><t>To proclaim <f>[4†]</f>liberty to the captives, </t><t>And the opening of the prison to <i>those</i> <i>who</i> <i>are</i> bound;</t>


text:
<t> <f>[5†]</f>To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, </t><t>And <f>[6†]</f>the day of vengeance of our God; </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>To comfort all who mourn,</t>


text:
<t>To console those who mourn in Zion, </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>To give them beauty for ashes, </t><t>The oil of joy for mourning, </t><t>The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; </t><t>That they may be called trees of righteousness, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>The planting of the LORD, <f>[10†]</f>that He may be glorified.”</t>


text:
<t>And they shall <f>[11†]</f>rebuild the old ruins, </t><t>They shall raise up the former desolations, </t><t>And they shall repair the ruined cities, </t><t>The desolations of many generations.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[12†]</f>Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, </t><t>And the sons of the foreigner </t><t><i>Shall</i> <i>be</i> your plowmen and your vinedressers.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[13†]</f>But you shall be named the priests of the LORD, </t><t>They shall call you the servants of our God. </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, </t><t>And in their glory you shall boast.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[15†]</f>Instead of your shame <i>you</i> <i>shall</i> <i>have</i> double <i>honor,</i> </t><t>And <i>instead</i> <i>of</i> confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. </t><t>Therefore in their land they shall possess double; </t><t>Everlasting joy shall be theirs.</t>


text:
<t>“For <f>[16†]</f>I, the LORD, love justice; </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>I hate robbery for burnt offering; </t><t>I will direct their work in truth, </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>And will make with them an everlasting covenant.</t>


text:
<t>Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles, </t><t>And their offspring among the people. </t><t>All who see them shall acknowledge them, </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>That they <i>are</i> the posterity <i>whom</i> the LORD has blessed.”</t>


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, </t><t>My soul shall be joyful in my God; </t><t>For <f>[21†]</f>He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, </t><t>He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>As a bridegroom decks <i>himself</i> with ornaments, </t><t>And as a bride adorns <i>herself</i> with her jewels.</t>


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<t>For as the earth brings forth its bud, </t><t>As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, </t><t>So the Lord GOD will cause <f>[23†]</f>righteousness and <f>[24†]</f>praise to spring forth before all the nations.</t>


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<pb/><t>For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, </t><t>And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, </t><t>Until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, </t><t>And her salvation as a lamp <i>that</i> burns.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[1†]</f>The Gentiles shall see your righteousness, </t><t>And all <f>[2†]</f>kings your glory. </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>You shall be called by a new name, </t><t>Which the mouth of the LORD will name.</t>


text:
<t>You shall also be <f>[4†]</f>a crown of glory </t><t>In the hand of the LORD, </t><t>And a royal diadem </t><t>In the hand of your God.</t>


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<t> <f>[5†]</f>You shall no longer be termed <f>[6†]</f>Forsaken, </t><t>Nor shall your land any more be termed <f>[7†]</f>Desolate; </t><t>But you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; </t><t>For the LORD delights in you, </t><t>And your land shall be married.</t>


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<t>For <i>as</i> a young man marries a virgin, </t><t><i>So</i> shall your sons marry you; </t><t>And <i>as</i> the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, </t><t> <f>[8†]</f><i>So</i> shall your God rejoice over you.</t>


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<t> <f>[9†]</f>I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; </t><t>They shall never hold their peace day or night. </t><t>You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent,</t>


text:
<t>And give Him no rest till He establishes </t><t>And till He makes Jerusalem <f>[10†]</f>a praise in the earth.</t>


text:
<t>The LORD has sworn by His right hand </t><t>And by the arm of His strength: </t><t>“Surely I will no longer <f>[11†]</f>give your grain </t><t><i>As</i> food for your enemies; </t><t>And the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine, </t><t>For which you have labored.</t>


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<t>But those who have gathered it shall eat it, </t><t>And praise the LORD; </t><t>Those who have brought it together shall drink it <f>[12†]</f>in My holy courts.”</t>


text:
<t>Go through, </t><t>Go through the gates! </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>Prepare the way for the people; </t><t>Build up, </t><t>Build up the highway! </t><t>Take out the stones, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>Lift up a banner for the peoples!</t>


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<t>Indeed the LORD has proclaimed </t><t>To the end of the world: </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>“Say to the daughter of Zion, </t><t>‘Surely your salvation is coming; </t><t>Behold, His <f>[16†]</f>reward <i>is</i> with Him, </t><t>And His work before Him.’ ”</t>


text:
<t>And they shall call them The Holy People, </t><t>The Redeemed of the LORD; </t><t>And you shall be called Sought Out, </t><t>A City Not Forsaken.</t>


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<pb/><t>Who <i>is</i> this who comes from Edom, </t><t>With dyed garments from Bozrah, </t><t>This <i>One</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> glorious in His apparel, </t><t>Traveling in the greatness of His strength?— </t><t>“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”</t>


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<t>Why <f>[1†]</f><i>is</i> Your apparel red, </t><t>And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?</t>


text:
<t>“I have <f>[2†]</f>trodden the winepress alone, </t><t>And from the peoples no one <i>was</i> with Me. </t><t>For I have trodden them in My anger, </t><t>And trampled them in My fury; </t><t>Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, </t><t>And I have stained all My robes.</t>


text:
<t>For the <f>[3†]</f>day of vengeance <i>is</i> in My heart, </t><t>And the year of My redeemed has come.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>I looked, but <f>[5†]</f><i>there</i> <i>was</i> no one to help, </t><t>And I wondered </t><t>That <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no one to uphold; </t><t>Therefore My own <f>[6†]</f>arm brought salvation for Me; </t><t>And My own fury, it sustained Me.</t>


text:
<t>I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, </t><t>Made them drunk in My fury, </t><t>And brought down their strength to the earth.”</t>


text:
<t>I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD </t><t><i>And</i> the praises of the LORD, </t><t>According to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, </t><t>And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, </t><t>Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, </t><t>According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.</t>


text:
<t>For He said, “Surely they <i>are</i> My people, </t><t>Children <i>who</i> will not lie.” </t><t>So He became their Savior.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[7†]</f>In all their affliction He was afflicted, </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>And the Angel of His Presence saved them; </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; </t><t>And <f>[10†]</f>He bore them and carried them </t><t>All the days of old.</t>


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<t>But they <f>[11†]</f>rebelled and <f>[12†]</f>grieved His Holy Spirit; </t><t> <f>[13†]</f>So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, </t><t><i>And</i> He fought against them.</t>


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<t>Then he <f>[14†]</f>remembered the days of old, </t><t>Moses <i>and</i> his people, <i>saying:</i> </t><t>“Where <i>is</i> He who <f>[15†]</f>brought them up out of the sea </t><t>With the shepherd of His flock? </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>Where <i>is</i> He who put His Holy Spirit within them,</t>


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<t>Who led <i>them</i> by the right hand of Moses, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>With His glorious arm, </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>Dividing the water before them </t><t>To make for Himself an everlasting name,</t>


text:
<t> <f>[19†]</f>Who led them through the deep, </t><t>As a horse in the wilderness, </t><t><i>That</i> they might not stumble?”</t>


text:
<t>As a beast goes down into the valley, </t><t><i>And</i> the Spirit of the LORD causes him to rest, </t><t>So You lead Your people, </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>To make Yourself a glorious name.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[21†]</f>Look down from heaven, </t><t>And see <f>[22†]</f>from Your habitation, holy and glorious. </t><t>Where <i>are</i> Your zeal and Your strength, </t><t>The yearning <f>[23†]</f>of Your heart and Your mercies toward me? </t><t>Are they restrained?</t>


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<t> <f>[24†]</f>Doubtless You <i>are</i> our Father, </t><t>Though Abraham <f>[25†]</f>was ignorant of us, </t><t>And Israel does not acknowledge us. </t><t>You, O LORD, <i>are</i> our Father; </t><t>Our Redeemer from Everlasting <i>is</i> Your name.</t>


text:
<t>O LORD, why have You <f>[26†]</f>made us stray from Your ways, </t><t><i>And</i> hardened our heart from Your fear? </t><t>Return for Your servants’ sake, </t><t>The tribes of Your inheritance.</t>


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<t> <f>[27†]</f>Your holy people have possessed <i>it</i> but a little while; </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.</t>


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<t>We have become <i>like</i> those of old, over whom You never ruled, </t><t>Those who were never called by Your name.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>Oh, that You would rend the heavens! </t><t>That You would come down! </t><t>That the mountains might shake at Your <f>[1†]</f>presence—</t>


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<t>As fire burns brushwood, </t><t>As fire causes water to boil— </t><t>To make Your name known to Your adversaries, </t><t><i>That</i> the nations may tremble at Your presence!</t>


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<t>When <f>[2†]</f>You did awesome things <i>for</i> <i>which</i> we did not look, </t><t>You came down, </t><t>The mountains shook at Your presence.</t>


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<t>For since the beginning of the world </t><t> <f>[3†]</f><i>Men</i> have not heard nor perceived by the ear, </t><t>Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, </t><t>Who acts for the one who waits for Him.</t>


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<t>You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, </t><t><i>Who</i> remembers You in Your ways. </t><t>You are indeed angry, for we have sinned— </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>In these ways we continue; </t><t>And we need to be saved.</t>


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<t>But we are all like an unclean <i>thing,</i> </t><t>And all <f>[5†]</f>our righteousnesses <i>are</i> like filthy rags; </t><t>We all <f>[6†]</f>fade as a leaf, </t><t>And our iniquities, like the wind, </t><t>Have taken us away.</t>


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<t>And <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no one who calls on Your name, </t><t>Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; </t><t>For You have hidden Your face from us, </t><t>And have consumed us because of our iniquities.</t>


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<t>But now, O LORD, </t><t>You <i>are</i> our Father; </t><t>We <i>are</i> the clay, and You our <f>[7†]</f>potter; </t><t>And all we <i>are</i> the work of Your hand.</t>


text:
<t>Do not be furious, O LORD, </t><t>Nor remember iniquity forever; </t><t>Indeed, please look—we all <i>are</i> Your people!</t>


text:
<t>Your holy cities are a wilderness, </t><t>Zion is a wilderness, </t><t>Jerusalem a desolation.</t>


text:
<t>Our holy and beautiful temple, </t><t>Where our fathers praised You, </t><t>Is burned up with fire; </t><t>And all <f>[8†]</f>our pleasant things are laid waste.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[9†]</f>Will You restrain Yourself because of these <i>things,</i> O LORD? </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“I was <f>[1†]</f>sought by <i>those</i> <i>who</i> did not ask <i>for</i> <i>Me;</i> </t><t>I was found by <i>those</i> <i>who</i> did not seek Me. </t><t>I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’ </t><t>To a nation <i>that</i> <f>[2†]</f>was not called by My name.</t>


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<t> <f>[3†]</f>I have stretched out My hands all day long to a <f>[4†]</f>rebellious people, </t><t>Who <f>[5†]</f>walk in a way <i>that</i> <i>is</i> not good, </t><t>According to their own thoughts;</t>


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<t>A people <f>[6†]</f>who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>Who sacrifice in gardens, </t><t>And burn incense on altars of brick;</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>Who sit among the graves, </t><t>And spend the night in the tombs; </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>Who eat swine’s flesh, </t><t>And the broth of abominable things is <i>in</i> their vessels;</t>


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<t> <f>[10†]</f>Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, </t><t>Do not come near me, </t><t>For I am holier than you!’ </t><t>These <i>are</i> smoke in My nostrils, </t><t>A fire that burns all the day.</t>


text:
<t>“Behold, <f>[11†]</f><i>it</i> <i>is</i> written before Me: </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>I will not keep silence, <f>[13†]</f>but will repay— </t><t>Even repay into their bosom—</t>


text:
<t>Your iniquities and <f>[14†]</f>the iniquities of your fathers together,” </t><t>Says the LORD, </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>“Who have burned incense on the mountains </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>And blasphemed Me on the hills; </t><t>Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“As the new wine is found in the cluster, </t><t>And <i>one</i> says, ‘Do not destroy it, </t><t>For <f>[17†]</f>a blessing <i>is</i> in it,’ </t><t>So will I do for My servants’ sake, </t><t>That I may not destroy them <f>[18†]</f>all.</t>


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<t>I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, </t><t>And from Judah an heir of My mountains; </t><t>My <f>[19†]</f>elect shall inherit it, </t><t>And My servants shall dwell there.</t>


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, </t><t>And <f>[21†]</f>the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, </t><t>For My people who have <f>[22†]</f>sought Me.</t>


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<t>“But you <i>are</i> those who forsake the LORD, </t><t>Who forget <f>[23†]</f>My holy mountain, </t><t>Who prepare <f>[24†]</f>a table for Gad, </t><t>And who furnish a drink offering for Meni.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore I will number you for the sword, </t><t>And you shall all bow down to the slaughter; </t><t> <f>[25†]</f>Because, when I called, you did not answer; </t><t>When I spoke, you did not hear, </t><t>But did evil before My eyes, </t><t>And chose <i>that</i> in which I do not delight.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: <pb/><t>“Behold, My servants shall eat, </t><t>But you shall be hungry; </t><t>Behold, My servants shall drink, </t><t>But you shall be thirsty; </t><t>Behold, My servants shall rejoice, </t><t>But you shall be ashamed;</t>


text:
<t>Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, </t><t>But you shall cry for sorrow of heart, </t><t>And <f>[26†]</f>wail for grief of spirit.</t>


text:
<t>You shall leave your name <f>[27†]</f>as a curse to <f>[28†]</f>My chosen; </t><t>For the Lord GOD will slay you, </t><t>And <f>[29†]</f>call His servants by another name;</t>


text:
<t> <f>[30†]</f>So that he who blesses himself in the earth </t><t>Shall bless himself in the God of truth; </t><t>And <f>[31†]</f>he who swears in the earth </t><t>Shall swear by the God of truth; </t><t>Because the former troubles are forgotten, </t><t>And because they are hidden from My eyes.</t>


text:
<t>“For behold, I create <f>[32†]</f>new heavens and a new earth; </t><t>And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.</t>


text:
<t>But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; </t><t>For behold, I create Jerusalem <i>as</i> a rejoicing, </t><t>And her people a joy.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[33†]</f>I will rejoice in Jerusalem, </t><t>And joy in My people; </t><t>The <f>[34†]</f>voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, </t><t>Nor the voice of crying.</t>


text:
<t>“No more shall an infant from there <i>live</i> <i>but</i> <i>a</i> <i>few</i> days, </t><t>Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; </t><t>For the child shall die one hundred years old, </t><t> <f>[35†]</f>But the sinner <i>being</i> one hundred years old shall be accursed.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[36†]</f>They shall build houses and inhabit <i>them;</i> </t><t>They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</t>


text:
<t>They shall not build and another inhabit; </t><t>They shall not plant and <f>[37†]</f>another eat; </t><t>For <f>[38†]</f>as the days of a tree, <i>so</i> <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the days of My people, </t><t>And <f>[39†]</f>My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.</t>


text:
<t>They shall not labor in vain, </t><t> <f>[40†]</f>Nor bring forth children for trouble; </t><t>For <f>[41†]</f>they <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, </t><t>And their offspring with them.</t>


text:
<t>“It shall come to pass </t><t>That <f>[42†]</f>before they call, I will answer; </t><t>And while they are still speaking, I will <f>[43†]</f>hear.</t>


text:
<t>The <f>[44†]</f>wolf and the lamb shall feed together, </t><t>The lion shall eat straw like the ox, </t><t> <f>[45†]</f>And dust <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the serpent’s food. </t><t>They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,” </t><t>Says the LORD.</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t> <f>[1†]</f>“Heaven <i>is</i> My throne, </t><t>And earth <i>is</i> My footstool. </t><t>Where <i>is</i> the house that you will build Me? </t><t>And where <i>is</i> the place of My rest?</t>


text:
<t>For all those <i>things</i> My hand has made, </t><t>And all those <i>things</i> exist,” </t><t>Says the LORD. </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>“But on this <i>one</i> will I look: </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>On <i>him</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> poor and of a contrite spirit, </t><t>And who trembles at My word.</t>


text:
<t>“He <f>[4†]</f> who kills a bull <i>is</i> <i>as</i> <i>if</i> he slays a man; </t><t>He who sacrifices a lamb, <i>as</i> <i>if</i> he <f>[5†]</f>breaks a dog’s neck; </t><t>He who offers a grain offering, <i>as</i> <i>if</i> <i>he</i> <i>offers</i> swine’s blood; </t><t>He who burns incense, <i>as</i> <i>if</i> he blesses an idol. </t><t>Just as they have chosen their own ways, </t><t>And their soul delights in their abominations,</t>


text:
<t>So will I choose their delusions, </t><t>And bring their fears on them; </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Because, when I called, no one answered, </t><t>When I spoke they did not hear; </t><t>But they did evil before My eyes, </t><t>And chose <i>that</i> in which I do not delight.”</t>


text:
<t>Hear the word of the LORD, </t><t>You who tremble at His word: </t><t>“Your brethren who <f>[7†]</f>hated you, </t><t>Who cast you out for My name’s sake, said, </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>‘Let the LORD be glorified, </t><t>That <f>[9†]</f>we may see your joy.’ </t><t>But they shall be ashamed.”</t>


text:
<t>The sound of noise from the city! </t><t>A voice from the temple! </t><t>The voice of the LORD, </t><t>Who fully repays His enemies!</t>


text:
<t>“Before she was in labor, she gave birth; </t><t>Before her pain came, </t><t>She delivered a male child.</t>


text:
<t>Who has heard such a thing? </t><t>Who has seen such things? </t><t>Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? </t><t><i>Or</i> shall a nation be born at once? </t><t>For as soon as Zion was in labor, </t><t>She gave birth to her children.</t>


text:
<t>Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the LORD. </t><t>“Shall I who cause delivery shut up <i>the</i> <i>womb?</i>” says your God.</t>


text:
<t>“Rejoice with Jerusalem, </t><t>And be glad with her, all you who love her; </t><t>Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her;</t>


text:
<t>That you may feed and be satisfied </t><t>With the consolation of her bosom, </t><t>That you may drink deeply and be delighted </t><t>With the abundance of her glory.”</t>


text:
<pb/>For thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“Behold, <f>[10†]</f>I will extend peace to her like a river, </t><t>And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream. </t><t>Then you shall <f>[11†]</f>feed; </t><t>On <i>her</i> sides shall you be <f>[12†]</f>carried, </t><t>And be dandled on <i>her</i> knees.</t>


text:
<t>As one whom his mother comforts, </t><t>So I will <f>[13†]</f>comfort you; </t><t>And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”</t>


text:
<t>When you see <i>this,</i> your heart shall rejoice, </t><t>And <f>[14†]</f>your bones shall flourish like grass; </t><t>The hand of the LORD shall be known to His servants, </t><t>And <i>His</i> indignation to His enemies.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[15†]</f>For behold, the LORD will come with fire </t><t>And with His chariots, like a whirlwind, </t><t>To render His anger with fury, </t><t>And His rebuke with flames of fire.</t>


text:
<t>For by fire and by <f>[16†]</f>His sword </t><t>The LORD will judge all flesh; </t><t>And the slain of the LORD shall be <f>[17†]</f>many.</t>


text:
<t>“Those <f>[18†]</f> who sanctify themselves and purify themselves, </t><t><i>To</i> <i>go</i> to the gardens </t><t>After an <i>idol</i> in the midst, </t><t>Eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and the mouse, </t><t>Shall be consumed together,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<pb/>“For I <i>know</i> their works and their <f>[19†]</f>thoughts. It shall be that I will <f>[20†]</f>gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.


text:
<f>[21†]</f>I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: <i>to</i> Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, <i>to</i> the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. <f>[22†]</f>And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.


text:
Then they shall <f>[23†]</f>bring all your brethren <f>[24†]</f>for an offering to the LORD out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.


text:
<pb/><t>“For as <f>[26†]</f>the new heavens and the new earth </t><t>Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the LORD, </t><t>“So shall your descendants and your name remain.</t>


text:
<t>And <f>[27†]</f>it shall come to pass </t><t><i>That</i> from one New Moon to another, </t><t>And from one Sabbath to another, </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“And they shall go forth and look </t><t>Upon the corpses of the men </t><t>Who have transgressed against Me. </t><t>For their <f>[29†]</f>worm does not die, </t><t>And their fire is not quenched. </t><t>They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”</t>


text:
<pb/>The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who <i>were</i> <f>[1†]</f>in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,


text:
to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of <f>[2†]</f>Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, <f>[3†]</f>in the thirteenth year of his reign.


text:
It came also in the days of <f>[4†]</f>Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, <f>[5†]</f>until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, <f>[6†]</f>until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive <f>[7†]</f>in the fifth month.


text:
<pb/><t>“Before I <f>[8†]</f>formed you in the womb <f>[9†]</f>I knew you; </t><t>Before you were born I <f>[10†]</f>sanctified you; </t><t>I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”</t>


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<pb/>Then said I: <pb/><t> <f>[11†]</f>“Ah, Lord GOD! </t><t>Behold, I cannot speak, for I <i>am</i> a youth.”</t>


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<pb/>But the LORD said to me: <pb/><t>“Do not say, ‘I <i>am</i> a youth,’ </t><t>For you shall go to all to whom I send you, </t><t>And <f>[12†]</f>whatever I command you, you shall speak.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>Do not be afraid of their faces, </t><t>For <f>[14†]</f>I <i>am</i> with you to deliver you,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<pb/>Then the LORD put forth His hand and <f>[15†]</f>touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: <pb/><t>“Behold, I have <f>[16†]</f>put My words in your mouth.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[17†]</f>See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, </t><t>To <f>[18†]</f>root out and to pull down, </t><t>To destroy and to throw down, </t><t>To build and to plant.”</t>


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<pb/>Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” <pb/>And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”


text:
<pb/>And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?” <pb/>And I said, “I see <f>[19†]</f>a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.”


text:
<pb/>Then the LORD said to me: <pb/><t>“Out of the <f>[20†]</f>north calamity shall break forth </t><t>On all the inhabitants of the land.</t>


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<t>For behold, I am <f>[21†]</f>calling </t><t>All the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says the LORD; </t><t>“They shall come and <f>[22†]</f>each one set his throne </t><t>At the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, </t><t>Against all its walls all around, </t><t>And against all the cities of Judah.</t>


text:
<t>I will utter My judgments </t><t>Against them concerning all their wickedness, </t><t>Because <f>[23†]</f>they have forsaken Me, </t><t>Burned <f>[24†]</f>incense to other gods, </t><t>And worshiped the works of their own <f>[25†]</f>hands.</t>


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<t>“Therefore <f>[26†]</f>prepare yourself and arise, </t><t>And speak to them all that I command you. </t><t> <f>[27†]</f>Do not be dismayed before their faces, </t><t>Lest I dismay you before them.</t>


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<t>For behold, I have made you this day </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>A fortified city and an iron pillar, </t><t>And bronze walls against the whole land— </t><t>Against the kings of Judah, </t><t>Against its princes, </t><t>Against its priests, </t><t>And against the people of the land.</t>


text:
<t>They will fight against you, </t><t>But they shall not prevail against you. </t><t>For I <i>am</i> with you,” says the LORD, “to deliver you.”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: </t><t>“I remember you, </t><t>The kindness of your <f>[1†]</f>youth, </t><t>The love of your betrothal, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>When you went after Me in the wilderness, </t><t>In a land not sown.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[3†]</f>Israel <i>was</i> holiness to the LORD, </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>The firstfruits of His increase. </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>All that devour him will offend; </t><t>Disaster will <f>[6†]</f>come upon them,” says the LORD.’ ”</t>


text:
Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t> <f>[7†]</f>“What injustice have your fathers found in Me, </t><t>That they have gone far from Me, </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>Have followed idols, </t><t>And have become idolaters?</t>


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<t>Neither did they say, ‘Where <i>is</i> the LORD, </t><t>Who <f>[9†]</f>brought us up out of the land of Egypt, </t><t>Who led us through <f>[10†]</f>the wilderness, </t><t>Through a land of deserts and pits, </t><t>Through a land of drought and the shadow of death, </t><t>Through a land that no one crossed </t><t>And where no one dwelt?’</t>


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<t>I brought you into <f>[11†]</f>a bountiful country, </t><t>To eat its fruit and its goodness. </t><t>But when you entered, you <f>[12†]</f>defiled My land </t><t>And made My heritage an abomination.</t>


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<t>The priests did not say, ‘Where <i>is</i> the LORD?’ </t><t>And those who handle the <f>[13†]</f>law did not know Me; </t><t>The rulers also transgressed against Me; </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>The prophets prophesied by Baal, </t><t>And walked after <i>things</i> <i>that</i> do not profit.</t>


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<t>“Therefore <f>[15†]</f>I will yet bring charges against you,” says the LORD, </t><t>“And against your children’s children I will bring charges.</t>


text:
<t>For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus and see, </t><t>Send to Kedar and consider diligently, </t><t>And see if there has been such <i>a</i> <f>[16†]</f>thing.</t>


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<t> <f>[17†]</f>Has a nation changed <i>its</i> gods, </t><t>Which <i>are</i> <f>[18†]</f>not gods? </t><t> <f>[19†]</f>But My people have changed their Glory </t><t>For <i>what</i> does not profit.</t>


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<t>Be astonished, O heavens, at this, </t><t>And be horribly afraid; </t><t>Be very desolate,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“For My people have committed two evils: </t><t>They have forsaken Me, the <f>[20†]</f>fountain of living waters, </t><t><i>And</i> hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.</t>


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<t>“<i>Is</i> Israel <f>[21†]</f>a servant? </t><t><i>Is</i> he a homeborn <i>slave?</i> </t><t>Why is he plundered?</t>


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<t> <f>[22†]</f>The young lions roared at him, <i>and</i> growled; </t><t>They made his land waste; </t><t>His cities are burned, without inhabitant.</t>


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<t> <f>[24†]</f>Have you not brought this on yourself, </t><t>In that you have forsaken the LORD your God </t><t>When <f>[25†]</f>He led you in the way?</t>


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<t>And now why take <f>[26†]</f>the road to Egypt, </t><t>To drink the waters of <f>[27†]</f>Sihor? </t><t>Or why take the road to <f>[28†]</f>Assyria, </t><t>To drink the waters of the River?</t>


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<t>Your own wickedness will <f>[29†]</f>correct you, </t><t>And your backslidings will rebuke you. </t><t>Know therefore and see that <i>it</i> <i>is</i> an evil and bitter <i>thing</i> </t><t>That you have forsaken the LORD your God, </t><t>And the fear of Me <i>is</i> not in you,” </t><t>Says the Lord GOD of hosts.</t>


text:
<t>“For of old I have <f>[30†]</f>broken your yoke <i>and</i> burst your bonds; </t><t>And <f>[31†]</f>you said, ‘I will not transgress,’ </t><t>When <f>[32†]</f>on every high hill and under every green tree </t><t>You lay down, <f>[33†]</f>playing the harlot.</t>


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<t>Yet I had <f>[34†]</f>planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality. </t><t>How then have you turned before Me </t><t>Into <f>[35†]</f>the degenerate plant of an alien vine?</t>


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<t>For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, </t><t><i>Yet</i> your iniquity is <f>[36†]</f>marked before Me,” says the Lord GOD.</t>


text:
<t>“How <f>[37†]</f> can you say, ‘I am not polluted, </t><t>I have not gone after the Baals’? </t><t>See your way in the valley; </t><t>Know what you have done: </t><t><i>You</i> <i>are</i> a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,</t>


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<t>A wild donkey used to the wilderness, </t><t><i>That</i> sniffs at the wind in her desire; </t><t>In her time of mating, who can turn her away? </t><t>All those who seek her will not weary themselves; </t><t>In her month they will find her.</t>


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<t>Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. </t><t>But you said, <f>[38†]</f>‘There is no hope. </t><t>No! For I have loved <f>[39†]</f>aliens, and after them I will go.’</t>


text:
<t>“As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, </t><t>So is the house of Israel ashamed; </t><t>They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their <f>[40†]</f>prophets,</t>


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<t>Saying to a tree, ‘You <i>are</i> my father,’ </t><t>And to a <f>[41†]</f>stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ </t><t>For they have turned <i>their</i> back to Me, and not <i>their</i> face. </t><t>But in the time of their <f>[42†]</f>trouble </t><t>They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’</t>


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<t>But <f>[43†]</f>where <i>are</i> your gods that you have made for yourselves? </t><t>Let them arise, </t><t>If they <f>[44†]</f>can save you in the time of your trouble; </t><t>For <f>[45†]</f><i>according</i> <i>to</i> the number of your cities </t><t>Are your gods, O Judah.</t>


text:
<t>“In vain I have <f>[46†]</f>chastened your children; </t><t>They <f>[47†]</f>received no correction. </t><t>Your sword has <f>[48†]</f>devoured your prophets </t><t>Like a destroying lion.</t>


text:
<t>“O generation, see the word of the LORD! </t><t>Have I been a wilderness to Israel, </t><t>Or a land of darkness? </t><t>Why do My people say, ‘We are lords; </t><t> <f>[49†]</f>We will come no more to You’?</t>


text:
<t>Can a virgin forget her ornaments, </t><t><i>Or</i> a bride her attire? </t><t>Yet My people <f>[50†]</f>have forgotten Me days without number.</t>


text:
<t>“Why do you beautify your way to seek love? </t><t>Therefore you have also taught </t><t>The wicked women your ways.</t>


text:
<t>Also on your skirts is found </t><t> <f>[51†]</f>The blood of the lives of the poor innocents. </t><t>I have not found it by secret search, </t><t>But plainly on all these things.</t>


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<t> <f>[52†]</f>Yet you say, ‘Because I am innocent, </t><t>Surely His anger shall turn from me.’ </t><t>Behold, <f>[53†]</f>I will plead My case against you, </t><t> <f>[54†]</f>Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’</t>


text:
<t> <f>[55†]</f>Why do you gad about so much to change your way? </t><t>Also <f>[56†]</f>you shall be ashamed of Egypt <f>[57†]</f>as you were ashamed of Assyria.</t>


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<t>Indeed you will go forth from him </t><t>With your hands on <f>[58†]</f>your head; </t><t>For the LORD has rejected your trusted allies, </t><t>And you will <f>[59†]</f>not prosper by them.</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife, </t><t>And she goes from him </t><t>And becomes another man’s, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>May he return to her again?’ </t><t>Would not that <f>[2†]</f>land be greatly polluted? </t><t>But you have <f>[3†]</f>played the harlot with many lovers; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>Yet return to Me,” says the LORD.</t>


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<t>“Lift up your eyes to <f>[5†]</f>the desolate heights and see: </t><t>Where have you not lain <i>with</i> <i>men?</i> </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>By the road you have sat for them </t><t>Like an Arabian in the wilderness; </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>And you have polluted the land </t><t>With your harlotries and your wickedness.</t>


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<t>Therefore the <f>[8†]</f>showers have been withheld, </t><t>And there has been no latter rain. </t><t>You have had a <f>[9†]</f>harlot’s forehead; </t><t>You refuse to be ashamed.</t>


text:
<t>Will you not from this time cry to Me, </t><t>‘My Father, You <i>are</i> <f>[10†]</f>the guide of <f>[11†]</f>my youth?</t>


text:
<t> <f>[12†]</f>Will He remain angry forever? </t><t>Will He keep it to the end?’ </t><t>Behold, you have spoken and done evil things, </t><t>As you were able.”</t>


text:
<pb/>The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what <f>[13†]</f>backsliding Israel has done? She has <f>[14†]</f>gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.


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<f>[15†]</f>And I said, after she had done all these <i>things,</i> ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous <f>[16†]</f>sister Judah saw it.


text:
Then I saw that <f>[17†]</f>for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had <f>[18†]</f>put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; <f>[19†]</f>yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.


text:
So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she <f>[20†]</f>defiled the land and committed adultery with <f>[21†]</f>stones and trees.


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And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me <f>[22†]</f>with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the LORD.


text:
<pb/>Then the LORD said to me, <f>[23†]</f>“Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.


text:
Go and proclaim these words toward <f>[24†]</f>the north, and say: <pb/><t>‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the LORD; </t><t>‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you. </t><t>For I <i>am</i> <f>[25†]</f>merciful,’ says the LORD; </t><t>‘I will not remain angry forever.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[26†]</f>Only acknowledge your iniquity, </t><t>That you have transgressed against the LORD your God, </t><t>And have <f>[27†]</f>scattered your charms </t><t>To <f>[28†]</f>alien deities <f>[29†]</f>under every green tree, </t><t>And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the LORD.</t>


text:
<pb/>“Return, O backsliding children,” says the LORD; <f>[30†]</f>“for I am married to you. I will take you, <f>[31†]</f>one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to <f>[32†]</f>Zion.


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And I will give you <f>[33†]</f>shepherds according to My heart, who will <f>[34†]</f>feed you with knowledge and understanding.


text:
<pb/>“Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and <f>[35†]</f>increased in the land in those days,” says the LORD, “that they will say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.’ <f>[36†]</f>It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit <i>it,</i> nor shall it be made anymore.


text:
<pb/>“At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, <f>[37†]</f>to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they <f>[38†]</f>follow the dictates of their evil hearts.


text:
<pb/>“In those days <f>[39†]</f>the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of <f>[40†]</f>the north to <f>[41†]</f>the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.


text:
<pb/>“But I said: <pb/><t>‘How can I put you among the children </t><t>And give you <f>[42†]</f>a pleasant land, </t><t>A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?’ </t> <pb/>“And I said: <pb/><t>‘You shall call Me, <f>[43†]</f>“My Father,” </t><t>And not turn away from Me.’</t>


text:
<t>Surely, <i>as</i> a wife treacherously departs from her husband, </t><t>So <f>[44†]</f>have you dealt treacherously with Me, </t><t>O house of Israel,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>A voice was heard on <f>[45†]</f>the desolate heights, </t><t>Weeping <i>and</i> supplications of the children of Israel. </t><t>For they have perverted their way; </t><t>They have forgotten the LORD their God.</t>


text:
<t>“Return, you backsliding children, </t><t><i>And</i> I will <f>[46†]</f>heal your backslidings.” </t><t>“Indeed we do come to You, </t><t>For You are the LORD our God.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[47†]</f>Truly, in vain <i>is</i> <i>salvation</i> <i>hoped</i> <i>for</i> from the hills, </t><t><i>And</i> <i>from</i> the multitude of mountains; </t><t> <f>[48†]</f>Truly, in the LORD our God </t><t><i>Is</i> the salvation of Israel.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[49†]</f>For shame has devoured </t><t>The labor of our fathers from our youth— </t><t>Their flocks and their herds, </t><t>Their sons and their daughters.</t>


text:
<t>We lie down in our shame, </t><t>And our reproach covers us. </t><t> <f>[50†]</f>For we have sinned against the LORD our God, </t><t>We and our fathers, </t><t>From our youth even to this day, </t><t>And <f>[51†]</f>have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“If you will return, O Israel,” says the LORD, </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>“Return to Me; </t><t>And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, </t><t>Then you shall not be moved.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[2†]</f>And you shall swear, ‘The LORD lives,’ </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; </t><t> <f>[4†]</f>The nations shall bless themselves in Him, </t><t>And in Him they shall <f>[5†]</f>glory.”</t>


text:
<pb/>For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: <pb/><t> <f>[6†]</f>“Break up your fallow ground, </t><t>And <f>[7†]</f>do not sow among thorns.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[8†]</f>Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, </t><t>And take away the foreskins of your hearts, </t><t>You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, </t><t>Lest My fury come forth like fire, </t><t>And burn so that no one can quench <i>it,</i> </t><t>Because of the evil of your doings.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: <pb/><t> <f>[9†]</f>“Blow the trumpet in the land; </t><t>Cry, ‘Gather together,’ </t><t>And say, <f>[10†]</f>‘Assemble yourselves, </t><t>And let us go into the fortified cities.’</t>


text:
<t>Set up the standard toward Zion. </t><t>Take refuge! Do not delay! </t><t>For I will bring disaster from the <f>[11†]</f>north, </t><t>And great destruction.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[12†]</f>The lion has come up from his thicket, </t><t>And <f>[13†]</f>the destroyer of nations is on his way. </t><t>He has gone forth from his place </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>To make your land desolate. </t><t>Your cities will be laid waste, </t><t>Without inhabitant.</t>


text:
<t>For this, <f>[15†]</f>clothe yourself with sackcloth, </t><t>Lament and wail. </t><t>For the fierce anger of the LORD </t><t>Has not turned back from us.</t>


text:
<t>“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the LORD, </t><t>“<i>That</i> the heart of the king shall perish, </t><t>And the heart of the princes; </t><t>The priests shall be astonished, </t><t>And the prophets shall wonder.”</t>


text:
<t>Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>Saying, ‘You shall have peace,’ </t><t>Whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”</t>


text:
<t>At that time it will be said </t><t>To this people and to Jerusalem, </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>“A dry wind of the desolate heights <i>blows</i> in the wilderness </t><t>Toward the daughter of My people— </t><t>Not to fan or to cleanse—</t>


text:
<t>A wind too strong for these will come for Me; </t><t>Now <f>[19†]</f>I will also speak judgment against them.”</t>


text:
<t>“Behold, he shall come up like clouds, </t><t>And <f>[20†]</f>his chariots like a whirlwind. </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>His horses are swifter than eagles. </t><t>Woe to us, for we are plundered!”</t>


text:
<t>O Jerusalem, <f>[22†]</f>wash your heart from wickedness, </t><t>That you may be saved. </t><t>How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?</t>


text:
<t>For a voice declares <f>[23†]</f>from Dan </t><t>And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim:</t>


text:
<t>“Make mention to the nations, </t><t>Yes, proclaim against Jerusalem, </t><t><i>That</i> watchers come from a <f>[24†]</f>far country </t><t>And raise their voice against the cities of Judah.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[25†]</f>Like keepers of a field they are against her all around, </t><t>Because she has been rebellious against Me,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“Your <f>[26†]</f> ways and your doings </t><t>Have procured these <i>things</i> for you. </t><t>This <i>is</i> your wickedness, </t><t>Because it is bitter, </t><t>Because it reaches to your heart.”</t>


text:
<t>O my <f>[27†]</f>soul, my soul! </t><t>I am pained in my very heart! </t><t>My heart makes a noise in me; </t><t>I cannot hold my peace, </t><t>Because you have heard, O my soul, </t><t>The sound of the trumpet, </t><t>The alarm of war.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[28†]</f>Destruction upon destruction is cried, </t><t>For the whole land is plundered. </t><t>Suddenly <f>[29†]</f>my tents are plundered, </t><t><i>And</i> my curtains in a moment.</t>


text:
<t>“For My people <i>are</i> foolish, </t><t>They have not known Me. </t><t>They <i>are</i> silly children, </t><t>And they have no understanding. </t><t> <f>[30†]</f>They <i>are</i> wise to do evil, </t><t>But to do good they have no knowledge.”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[31†]</f>I beheld the earth, and indeed <i>it</i> <i>was</i> <f>[32†]</f>without form, and void; </t><t>And the heavens, they <i>had</i> no light.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[33†]</f>I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, </t><t>And all the hills moved back and forth.</t>


text:
<t>I beheld, and indeed <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no man, </t><t>And <f>[34†]</f>all the birds of the heavens had fled.</t>


text:
<t>I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land <i>was</i> a <f>[35†]</f>wilderness, </t><t>And all its cities were broken down </t><t>At the presence of the LORD, </t><t>By His fierce anger.</t>


text:
<pb/>For thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“The whole land shall be desolate; </t><t> <f>[36†]</f>Yet I will not make a full end.</t>


text:
<t>For this <f>[37†]</f>shall the earth mourn, </t><t>And <f>[38†]</f>the heavens above be black, </t><t>Because I have spoken. </t><t>I have <f>[39†]</f>purposed and <f>[40†]</f>will not relent, </t><t>Nor will I turn back from it.</t>


text:
<t>The whole city shall flee from the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. </t><t>They shall go into thickets and climb up on the rocks. </t><t>Every city <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> forsaken, </t><t>And not a man shall dwell in it.</t>


text:
<t>“And <i>when</i> you <i>are</i> plundered, </t><t>What will you do? </t><t>Though you clothe yourself with crimson, </t><t>Though you adorn <i>yourself</i> with ornaments of gold, </t><t> <f>[41†]</f>Though you enlarge your eyes with paint, </t><t>In vain you will make yourself fair; </t><t> <f>[42†]</f><i>Your</i> lovers will despise you; </t><t>They will seek your life.</t>


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<t>“For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, </t><t>The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, </t><t>The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself; </t><t>She <f>[43†]</f>spreads her hands, <i>saying,</i> </t><t>‘Woe <i>is</i> me now, for my soul is weary </t><t>Because of murderers!’</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; </t><t>See now and know; </t><t>And seek in her open places </t><t> <f>[1†]</f>If you can find a man, </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>If there is <i>anyone</i> who executes judgment, </t><t>Who seeks the truth, </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>And I will pardon her.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[4†]</f>Though they say, ‘<i>As</i> <f>[5†]</f>the LORD lives,’ </t><t>Surely they <f>[6†]</f>swear falsely.”</t>


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<t>O LORD, <i>are</i> not <f>[7†]</f>Your eyes on the truth? </t><t>You have <f>[8†]</f>stricken them, </t><t>But they have not grieved; </t><t>You have consumed them, </t><t>But <f>[9†]</f>they have refused to receive correction. </t><t>They have made their faces harder than rock; </t><t>They have refused to return.</t>


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<t>Therefore I said, “Surely these <i>are</i> poor. </t><t>They are foolish; </t><t>For <f>[10†]</f>they do not know the way of the LORD, </t><t>The judgment of their God.</t>


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<t>I will go to the great men and speak to them, </t><t>For <f>[11†]</f>they have known the way of the LORD, </t><t>The judgment of their God.” </t><t>But these have altogether <f>[12†]</f>broken the yoke </t><t><i>And</i> burst the bonds.</t>


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<t>Therefore <f>[13†]</f>a lion from the forest shall slay them, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them; </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>A leopard will watch over their cities. </t><t>Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, </t><t>Because their transgressions are many; </t><t>Their backslidings have increased.</t>


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<t>“How shall I pardon you for this? </t><t>Your children have forsaken Me </t><t>And <f>[16†]</f>sworn by <i>those</i> <f>[17†]</f>that are not gods. </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>When I had fed them to the full, </t><t>Then they committed adultery </t><t>And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.</t>


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<t> <f>[19†]</f>They were <i>like</i> well-fed lusty stallions; </t><t>Every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.</t>


text:
<t>Shall I not punish <i>them</i> for these <i>things?</i>” says the LORD. </t><t>“And shall I not <f>[20†]</f>avenge Myself on such a nation as this?</t>


text:
<t>“Go up on her walls and destroy, </t><t>But do not make a <f>[21†]</f>complete end. </t><t>Take away her branches, </t><t>For they <i>are</i> not the LORD’s.</t>


text:
<t>For <f>[22†]</f>the house of Israel and the house of Judah </t><t>Have dealt very treacherously with Me,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[23†]</f>They have lied about the LORD, </t><t>And said, <f>[24†]</f>“<i>It</i> <i>is</i> not He. </t><t> <f>[25†]</f>Neither will evil come upon us, </t><t>Nor shall we see sword or famine.</t>


text:
<t>And the prophets become wind, </t><t>For the word <i>is</i> not in them. </t><t>Thus shall it be done to them.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts: <pb/><t>“Because you speak this word, </t><t> <f>[26†]</f>Behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, </t><t>And this people wood, </t><t>And it shall devour them.</t>


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<t>Behold, I will bring a <f>[27†]</f>nation against you <f>[28†]</f>from afar, </t><t>O house of Israel,” says the LORD. </t><t>“It <i>is</i> a mighty nation, </t><t>It <i>is</i> an ancient nation, </t><t>A nation whose language you do not know, </t><t>Nor can you understand what they say.</t>


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<t>And they shall eat up your <f>[29†]</f>harvest and your bread, </t><t><i>Which</i> your sons and daughters should eat. </t><t>They shall eat up your flocks and your herds; </t><t>They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; </t><t>They shall destroy your fortified cities, </t><t>In which you trust, with the sword.</t>


text:
<pb/>“Nevertheless in those days,” says the LORD, “I <f>[30†]</f>will not make a complete end of you.


text:
And it will be when you say, <f>[31†]</f>‘Why does the LORD our God do all these <i>things</i> to us?’ then you shall answer them, ‘Just as you have <f>[32†]</f>forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so <f>[33†]</f>you shall serve aliens in a land <i>that</i> <i>is</i> not yours.’


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<t>‘Hear this now, O <f>[34†]</f>foolish people, </t><t>Without understanding, </t><t>Who have eyes and see not, </t><t>And who have ears and hear not:</t>


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<t> <f>[35†]</f>Do you not fear Me?’ says the LORD. </t><t>‘Will you not tremble at My presence, </t><t>Who have placed the sand as the <f>[36†]</f>bound of the sea, </t><t>By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? </t><t>And though its waves toss to and fro, </t><t>Yet they cannot prevail; </t><t>Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.</t>


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<t>They do not say in their heart, </t><t>“Let us now fear the LORD our God, </t><t> <f>[37†]</f>Who gives rain, both the <f>[38†]</f>former and the latter, in its season. </t><t> <f>[39†]</f>He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”</t>


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<t> <f>[40†]</f>Your iniquities have turned these <i>things</i> away, </t><t>And your sins have withheld good from you.</t>


text:
<t>‘For among My people are found wicked <i>men;</i> </t><t>They <f>[41†]</f>lie in wait as one who sets snares; </t><t>They set a trap; </t><t>They catch men.</t>


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<t>As a cage is full of birds, </t><t>So their houses <i>are</i> full of deceit. </t><t>Therefore they have become great and grown rich.</t>


text:
<t>They have grown <f>[42†]</f>fat, they are sleek; </t><t>Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; </t><t>They do not plead <f>[43†]</f>the cause, </t><t>The cause of the fatherless; </t><t> <f>[44†]</f>Yet they prosper, </t><t>And the right of the needy they do not defend.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[45†]</f>Shall I not punish <i>them</i> for these <i>things?</i>’ says the LORD. </t><t>‘Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?’</t>


text:
<t>The prophets prophesy <f>[47†]</f>falsely, </t><t>And the priests rule by their <i>own</i> power; </t><t>And My people <f>[48†]</f>love <i>to</i> <i>have</i> <i>it</i> so. </t><t>But what will you do in the end?</t>


text:
<pb/><t>“O you children of Benjamin, </t><t>Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem! </t><t>Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, </t><t>And set up a signal-fire in <f>[1†]</f>Beth Haccerem; </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>For disaster appears out of the north, </t><t>And great destruction.</t>


text:
<t>The <f>[3†]</f>shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. </t><t>They shall pitch <i>their</i> tents against her all around. </t><t>Each one shall pasture in his own place.”</t>


text:
<t>“Prepare <f>[4†]</f> war against her; </t><t>Arise, and let us go up <f>[5†]</f>at noon. </t><t>Woe to us, for the day goes away, </t><t>For the shadows of the evening are lengthening.</t>


text:
<pb/>For thus has the LORD of hosts said: <pb/><t>“Cut down trees, </t><t>And build a mound against Jerusalem. </t><t>This <i>is</i> the city to be punished. </t><t>She <i>is</i> full of oppression in her midst.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>As a fountain wells up with water, </t><t>So she wells up with her wickedness. </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>Violence and plundering are heard in her. </t><t>Before Me continually <i>are</i> grief and wounds.</t>


text:
<t>Be instructed, O Jerusalem, </t><t>Lest <f>[8†]</f>My soul depart from you; </t><t>Lest I make you desolate, </t><t>A land not inhabited.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD of hosts: <pb/><t>“They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; </t><t>As a grape-gatherer, put your hand back into the branches.”</t>


text:
<t>To whom shall I speak and give warning, </t><t>That they may hear? </t><t>Indeed their <f>[9†]</f>ear <i>is</i> uncircumcised, </t><t>And they cannot give heed. </t><t>Behold, <f>[10†]</f>the word of the LORD is a reproach to them; </t><t>They have no delight in it.</t>


text:
<t>Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD. </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>I am weary of holding <i>it</i> in. </t><t>“I will pour it out <f>[12†]</f>on the children outside, </t><t>And on the assembly of young men together; </t><t>For even the husband shall be taken with the wife, </t><t>The aged with <i>him</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> full of days.</t>


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<t>And <f>[13†]</f>their houses shall be turned over to others, </t><t>Fields and wives together; </t><t>For I will stretch out My hand </t><t>Against the inhabitants of the land,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, </t><t>Everyone <i>is</i> given to <f>[14†]</f>covetousness; </t><t>And from the prophet even to the <f>[15†]</f>priest, </t><t>Everyone deals falsely.</t>


text:
<t>They have also <f>[16†]</f>healed the hurt of My people slightly, </t><t> <f>[17†]</f>Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ </t><t>When <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no peace.</t>


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<t>Were they <f>[18†]</f>ashamed when they had committed abomination? </t><t>No! They were not at all ashamed; </t><t>Nor did they know how to blush. </t><t>Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; </t><t>At the time I punish them, </t><t>They shall be cast down,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“Stand in the ways and see, </t><t>And ask for the <f>[19†]</f>old paths, where the good way <i>is,</i> </t><t>And walk in it; </t><t>Then you will find <f>[20†]</f>rest for your souls. </t><t>But they said, ‘We will not walk <i>in</i> <i>it.</i>’</t>


text:
<t>Also, I set <f>[21†]</f>watchmen over you, <i>saying,</i> </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ </t><t>But they said, ‘We will not listen.’</t>


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<t> <f>[23†]</f>Hear, O earth! </t><t>Behold, I will certainly bring <f>[24†]</f>calamity on this people— </t><t> <f>[25†]</f>The fruit of their thoughts, </t><t>Because they have not heeded My words </t><t>Nor My law, but rejected it.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[26†]</f>For what purpose to Me </t><t>Comes frankincense <f>[27†]</f>from Sheba, </t><t>And <f>[28†]</f>sweet cane from a far country? </t><t> <f>[29†]</f>Your burnt offerings <i>are</i> not acceptable, </t><t>Nor your sacrifices sweet to Me.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Therefore thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, </t><t>And the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them. </t><t>The neighbor and his friend shall perish.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“Behold, a people comes from the <f>[30†]</f>north country, </t><t>And a great nation will be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.</t>


text:
<t>They will lay hold on bow and spear; </t><t>They <i>are</i> cruel and have no mercy; </t><t>Their voice <f>[31†]</f>roars like the sea; </t><t>And they ride on horses, </t><t>As men of war set in array against you, O daughter of Zion.”</t>


text:
<t>We have heard the report of it; </t><t>Our hands grow feeble. </t><t> <f>[32†]</f>Anguish has taken hold of us, </t><t>Pain as of a woman in labor.</t>


text:
<t>Do not go out into the field, </t><t>Nor walk by the way. </t><t>Because of the sword of the enemy, </t><t>Fear <i>is</i> on every side.</t>


text:
<t>O daughter of my people, </t><t> <f>[33†]</f>Dress in sackcloth </t><t> <f>[34†]</f>And roll about in ashes! </t><t> <f>[35†]</f>Make mourning <i>as</i> <i>for</i> an only son, most bitter lamentation; </t><t>For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.</t>


text:
<t>“I have set you <i>as</i> an assayer <i>and</i> <f>[36†]</f>a fortress among My people, </t><t>That you may know and test their way.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[37†]</f>They <i>are</i> all stubborn rebels, <f>[38†]</f>walking as slanderers. </t><t><i>They</i> <i>are</i> <f>[39†]</f>bronze and iron, </t><t>They <i>are</i> all corrupters;</t>


text:
<t>The bellows blow fiercely, </t><t>The lead is consumed by the fire; </t><t>The smelter refines in vain, </t><t>For the wicked are not drawn off.</t>


text:
<t><i>People</i> will call them <f>[40†]</f>rejected silver, </t><t>Because the LORD has rejected them.”</t>


text:
<f>[1†]</f>“Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, all <i>you</i> <i>of</i> Judah who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD!’ ”


text:
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: <f>[2†]</f>“Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.


text:
<f>[3†]</f>Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD <i>are</i> these.’


text:
<pb/>“For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly <f>[4†]</f>execute judgment between a man and his neighbor,


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<i>if</i> you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, <f>[5†]</f>or walk after other gods to your hurt,


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<f>[6†]</f>then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in <f>[7†]</f>the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.


text:
<f>[9†]</f>Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and <f>[10†]</f>walk after other gods whom you do not know,


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<f>[11†]</f>and <i>then</i> come and stand before Me in this house <f>[12†]</f>which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’?


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Has <f>[13†]</f>this house, which is called by My name, become a <f>[14†]</f>den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen <i>it,</i>” says the LORD.


text:
<pb/>“But go now to <f>[15†]</f>My place which <i>was</i> in Shiloh, <f>[16†]</f>where I set My name at the first, and see <f>[17†]</f>what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.


text:
And now, because you have done all these works,” says the LORD, “and I spoke to you, <f>[18†]</f>rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I <f>[19†]</f>called you, but you did not answer,


text:
therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to <f>[20†]</f>Shiloh.


text:
And I will cast you out of My sight, <f>[21†]</f>as I have cast out all your brethren— <f>[22†]</f>the whole posterity of Ephraim.


text:
<pb/>“Therefore <f>[23†]</f>do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; <f>[24†]</f>for I will not hear you.


text:
<f>[25†]</f>The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and <i>they</i> <f>[26†]</f>pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.


text:
<f>[27†]</f>Do they provoke Me to anger?” says the LORD. “<i>Do</i> <i>they</i> not <i>provoke</i> themselves, to the shame of their own faces?”


text:
<pb/>Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place—on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched.”


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: <f>[28†]</f>“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.


text:
<f>[29†]</f>For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.


text:
But this is what I commanded them, saying, <f>[30†]</f>‘Obey My voice, and <f>[31†]</f>I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’


text:
<f>[32†]</f>Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but <f>[33†]</f>followed the counsels <i>and</i> the dictates of their evil hearts, and <f>[34†]</f>went backward and not forward.


text:
Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even <f>[35†]</f>sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending <i>them.</i>


text:
<f>[36†]</f>Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but <f>[37†]</f>stiffened their neck. <f>[38†]</f>They did worse than their fathers.


text:
<pb/>“Therefore <f>[39†]</f>you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.


text:
<pb/>“So you shall say to them, ‘This <i>is</i> a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God <f>[40†]</f>nor receive correction. <f>[41†]</f>Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.


text:
<f>[42†]</f>Cut off your hair and cast <i>it</i> away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’


text:
For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the LORD. <f>[43†]</f>“They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.


text:
And they have built the <f>[44†]</f>high places of Tophet, which <i>is</i> in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to <f>[45†]</f>burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, <f>[46†]</f>which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.


text:
<pb/>“Therefore behold, <f>[47†]</f>the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; <f>[48†]</f>for they will bury in Tophet until there is no room.


text:
The <f>[49†]</f>corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten <i>them</i> <i>away.</i>


text:
Then I will cause to <f>[50†]</f>cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For <f>[51†]</f>the land shall be desolate.


text:
<pb/>“At that time,” says the LORD, “they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.


text:
They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and <f>[1†]</f>which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered <f>[2†]</f>nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.


text:
Then <f>[3†]</f>death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the LORD of hosts.


text:
<pb/>“Moreover you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“Will they fall and not rise? </t><t>Will one turn away and not return?</t>


text:
<t>Why has this people <f>[4†]</f>slidden back, </t><t>Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding? </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>They hold fast to deceit, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>They refuse to return.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[7†]</f>I listened and heard, </t><t><i>But</i> they do not speak aright. </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>No man repented of his wickedness, </t><t>Saying, ‘What have I done?’ </t><t>Everyone turned to his own course, </t><t>As the horse rushes into the battle.</t>


text:
<t>“Even <f>[9†]</f>the stork in the heavens </t><t>Knows her appointed times; </t><t>And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow </t><t>Observe the time of their coming. </t><t>But <f>[10†]</f>My people do not know the judgment of the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“How can you say, ‘We <i>are</i> wise, </t><t> <f>[11†]</f>And the law of the LORD <i>is</i> with us’? </t><t>Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[12†]</f>The wise men are ashamed, </t><t>They are dismayed and taken. </t><t>Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; </t><t>So <f>[13†]</f>what wisdom do they have?</t>


text:
<t>Therefore <f>[14†]</f>I will give their wives to others, </t><t><i>And</i> their fields to those who will inherit <i>them;</i> </t><t>Because from the least even to the greatest </t><t>Everyone is given to <f>[15†]</f>covetousness; </t><t>From the prophet even to the priest </t><t>Everyone deals falsely.</t>


text:
<t>For they have <f>[16†]</f>healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, </t><t>Saying, <f>[17†]</f>‘Peace, peace!’ </t><t>When <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no peace.</t>


text:
<t>Were they <f>[18†]</f>ashamed when they had committed abomination? </t><t>No! They were not at all ashamed, </t><t>Nor did they know how to blush. </t><t>Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; </t><t>In the time of their punishment </t><t>They shall be cast down,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“I will surely consume them,” says the LORD. </t><t>“No grapes <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <f>[19†]</f>on the vine, </t><t>Nor figs on the <f>[20†]</f>fig tree, </t><t>And the leaf shall fade; </t><t>And <i>the</i> <i>things</i> I have given them shall <f>[21†]</f>pass away from them.” ’ ”</t>


text:
<t>“Why do we sit still? </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>Assemble yourselves, </t><t>And let us enter the fortified cities, </t><t>And let us be silent there. </t><t>For the LORD our God has put us to silence </t><t>And given us <f>[23†]</f>water of gall to drink, </t><t>Because we have sinned against the LORD.</t>


text:
<t>“<i>We</i> <f>[24†]</f>looked for peace, but no good <i>came;</i> </t><t>And for a time of health, and there was trouble!</t>


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<t>The snorting of His horses was heard from <f>[25†]</f>Dan. </t><t>The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of His <f>[26†]</f>strong ones; </t><t>For they have come and devoured the land and all that is in it, </t><t>The city and those who dwell in it.”</t>


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<t>“For behold, I will send serpents among you, </t><t>Vipers which cannot be <f>[27†]</f>charmed, </t><t>And they shall bite you,” says the LORD.</t>


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<t>Listen! The voice, </t><t>The cry of the daughter of my people </t><t>From <f>[28†]</f>a far country: </t><t>“<i>Is</i> not the LORD in Zion? </t><t><i>Is</i> not her King in her?” </t><t>“Why have they provoked Me to anger </t><t>With their carved images— </t><t>With foreign idols?”</t>


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<t> <f>[29†]</f>For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. </t><t>I am <f>[30†]</f>mourning; </t><t>Astonishment has taken hold of me.</t>


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<t><i>Is</i> <i>there</i> no <f>[31†]</f>balm in Gilead, </t><t><i>Is</i> <i>there</i> no physician there? </t><t>Why then is there no recovery </t><t>For the health of the daughter of my people?</t>


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<pb/><t>Oh, <f>[1†]</f>that my head were waters, </t><t>And my eyes a fountain of tears, </t><t>That I might weep day and night </t><t>For the slain of the daughter of my people!</t>


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<t>Oh, that I had in the wilderness </t><t>A lodging place for travelers; </t><t>That I might leave my people, </t><t>And go from them! </t><t>For <f>[2†]</f>they <i>are</i> all adulterers, </t><t>An assembly of treacherous men.</t>


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<t>“And <i>like</i> their bow <f>[3†]</f>they have bent their tongues <i>for</i> lies. </t><t>They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. </t><t>For they proceed from <f>[4†]</f>evil to evil, </t><t>And they <f>[5†]</f>do not know Me,” says the LORD.</t>


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<t>“Everyone <f>[6†]</f> take heed to his neighbor, </t><t>And do not trust any brother; </t><t>For every brother will utterly supplant, </t><t>And every neighbor will <f>[7†]</f>walk with slanderers.</t>


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<t>Everyone will <f>[8†]</f>deceive his neighbor, </t><t>And will not speak the truth; </t><t>They have taught their tongue to speak lies; </t><t>They weary themselves to commit iniquity.</t>


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<t>Your dwelling place <i>is</i> in the midst of deceit; </t><t>Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” says the LORD.</t>


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: <pb/><t>“Behold, <f>[9†]</f>I will refine them and try them; </t><t> <f>[10†]</f>For how shall I deal with the daughter of My people?</t>


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<t>Their tongue <i>is</i> an arrow shot out; </t><t>It speaks <f>[11†]</f>deceit; </t><t><i>One</i> speaks <f>[12†]</f>peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, </t><t>But in his heart he lies in wait.</t>


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<t> <f>[13†]</f>Shall I not punish them for these <i>things?</i>” says the LORD. </t><t>“Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”</t>


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<t>I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, </t><t>And <f>[14†]</f>for the dwelling places of the wilderness a lamentation, </t><t>Because they are burned up, </t><t>So that no one can pass through; </t><t>Nor can <i>men</i> hear the voice of the cattle. </t><t> <f>[15†]</f>Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; </t><t>They are gone.</t>


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<t>“I will make Jerusalem <f>[16†]</f>a heap of ruins, <f>[17†]</f>a den of jackals. </t><t>I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.”</t>


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>Who <i>is</i> the wise man who may understand this? And <i>who</i> <i>is</i> <i>he</i> to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish <i>and</i> burn up like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?


text:
<pb/>And the LORD said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have <f>[19†]</f>not obeyed My voice, nor walked according to it,


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but they have <f>[20†]</f>walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, <f>[21†]</f>which their fathers taught them,”


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therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will <f>[22†]</f>feed them, this people, <f>[23†]</f>with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.


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I will <f>[24†]</f>scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. <f>[25†]</f>And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.”


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<pb/>Thus says the LORD of hosts: <pb/><t>“Consider and call for <f>[26†]</f>the mourning women, </t><t>That they may come; </t><t>And send for skillful <i>wailing</i> women, </t><t>That they may come.</t>


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<t>Let them make haste </t><t>And take up a wailing for us, </t><t>That <f>[27†]</f>our eyes may run with tears, </t><t>And our eyelids gush with water.</t>


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<t>For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: </t><t>‘How we are plundered! </t><t>We are greatly ashamed, </t><t>Because we have forsaken the land, </t><t>Because we have been cast out of <f>[28†]</f>our dwellings.’ ”</t>


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<t>Yet hear the word of the LORD, O women, </t><t>And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; </t><t>Teach your daughters wailing, </t><t>And everyone her neighbor a lamentation.</t>


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<t>For death has come through our windows, </t><t>Has entered our palaces, </t><t>To kill off <f>[29†]</f>the children— <i>no</i> <i>longer</i> <i>to</i> <i>be</i> outside! </t><t><i>And</i> the young men— <i>no</i> <i>longer</i> on the streets!</t>


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<pb/>Speak, “Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>‘Even the carcasses of men shall fall <f>[30†]</f>as refuse on the open field, </t><t>Like cuttings after the harvester, </t><t>And no one shall gather <i>them.</i>’ ”</t>


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<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t> <f>[31†]</f>“Let not the wise <i>man</i> glory in his wisdom, </t><t>Let not the mighty <i>man</i> glory in his <f>[32†]</f>might, </t><t>Nor let the rich <i>man</i> glory in his riches;</t>


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<t>But <f>[33†]</f>let him who glories glory in this, </t><t>That he understands and knows Me, </t><t>That I <i>am</i> the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. </t><t> <f>[34†]</f>For in these I delight,” says the LORD.</t>


text:
<pb/>“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “that <f>[35†]</f>I will punish all <i>who</i> <i>are</i> circumcised with the uncircumcised—


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Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all <i>who</i> <i>are</i> in the <f>[36†]</f>farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all <i>these</i> nations <i>are</i> uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel <i>are</i> <f>[37†]</f>uncircumcised in the heart.”


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD: <pb/><t> <f>[1†]</f>“Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; </t><t>Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, </t><t>For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.</t>


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<t>For the customs of the peoples <i>are</i> futile; </t><t>For <f>[2†]</f><i>one</i> cuts a tree from the forest, </t><t>The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.</t>


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<t>They decorate it with silver and gold; </t><t>They <f>[3†]</f>fasten it with nails and hammers </t><t>So that it will not topple.</t>


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<t>They <i>are</i> upright, like a palm tree, </t><t>And <f>[4†]</f>they cannot speak; </t><t>They must be <f>[5†]</f>carried, </t><t>Because they cannot go <i>by</i> <i>themselves.</i> </t><t>Do not be afraid of them, </t><t>For <f>[6†]</f>they cannot do evil, </t><t>Nor can they do any good.”</t>


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<t>Inasmuch as <i>there</i> <i>is</i> none <f>[7†]</f>like You, O LORD </t><t>(You <i>are</i> great, and Your name <i>is</i> great in might),</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? </t><t>For this is Your rightful due. </t><t>For <f>[9†]</f>among all the wise <i>men</i> of the nations, </t><t>And in all their kingdoms, </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> none like You.</t>


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<t>But they are altogether <f>[10†]</f>dull-hearted and foolish; </t><t>A wooden idol <i>is</i> a worthless doctrine.</t>


text:
<t>Silver is beaten into plates; </t><t>It is brought from Tarshish, </t><t>And <f>[11†]</f>gold from Uphaz, </t><t>The work of the craftsman </t><t>And of the hands of the metalsmith; </t><t>Blue and purple <i>are</i> their clothing; </t><t>They <i>are</i> all <f>[12†]</f>the work of skillful <i>men.</i></t>


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<t>But the LORD <i>is</i> the true God; </t><t>He <i>is</i> <f>[13†]</f>the living God and the <f>[14†]</f>everlasting King. </t><t>At His wrath the earth will tremble, </t><t>And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus you shall say to them: <f>[15†]</f>“The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth <f>[16†]</f>shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”


text:
<pb/><t>He <f>[17†]</f>has made the earth by His power, </t><t>He has <f>[18†]</f>established the world by His wisdom, </t><t>And <f>[19†]</f>has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.</t>


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>When He utters His voice, </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> a multitude of waters in the heavens: </t><t> <f>[21†]</f>“And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. </t><t>He makes lightning for the rain, </t><t>He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”</t>


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<t> <f>[22†]</f>Everyone is <f>[23†]</f>dull-hearted, without knowledge; </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image; </t><t> <f>[25†]</f>For his molded image <i>is</i> falsehood, </t><t>And <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no breath in them.</t>


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<t>They <i>are</i> futile, a work of errors; </t><t>In the time of their punishment they shall perish.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[26†]</f>The Portion of Jacob <i>is</i> not like them, </t><t>For He <i>is</i> the Maker of all <i>things,</i> </t><t>And <f>[27†]</f>Israel <i>is</i> the tribe of His inheritance; </t><t> <f>[28†]</f>The LORD of hosts <i>is</i> His name.</t>


text:
<pb/>For thus says the LORD: <pb/><t>“Behold, I will <f>[30†]</f>throw out at this time </t><t>The inhabitants of the land, </t><t>And will distress them, </t><t> <f>[31†]</f>That they may find <i>it</i> <i>so.</i>”</t>


text:
<t> <f>[32†]</f>Woe is me for my hurt! </t><t>My wound is severe. </t><t>But I say, <f>[33†]</f>“Truly this <i>is</i> an infirmity, </t><t>And <f>[34†]</f>I must bear it.”</t>


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<t> <f>[35†]</f>My tent is plundered, </t><t>And all my cords are broken; </t><t>My children have gone from me, </t><t>And they <i>are</i> <f>[36†]</f>no more. </t><t><i>There</i> <i>is</i> no one to pitch my tent anymore, </t><t>Or set up my curtains.</t>


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<t>For the shepherds have become dull-hearted, </t><t>And have not sought the LORD; </t><t>Therefore they shall not prosper, </t><t>And all their flocks shall be <f>[37†]</f>scattered.</t>


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<t>Behold, the noise of the report has come, </t><t>And a great commotion out of the <f>[38†]</f>north country, </t><t>To make the cities of Judah desolate, a <f>[39†]</f>den of jackals.</t>


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<t>O LORD, I know the <f>[40†]</f>way of man <i>is</i> not in himself; </t><t><i>It</i> <i>is</i> not in man who walks to direct his own steps.</t>


text:
<t>O LORD, <f>[41†]</f>correct me, but with justice; </t><t>Not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[42†]</f>Pour out Your fury on the Gentiles, <f>[43†]</f>who do not know You, </t><t>And on the families who do not call on Your name; </t><t>For they have eaten up Jacob, </t><t> <f>[44†]</f>Devoured him and consumed him, </t><t>And made his dwelling place desolate.</t>


text:
“Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;


text:
and say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: <f>[1†]</f>“Cursed <i>is</i> the man who does not obey the words of this covenant


text:
which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, <f>[2†]</f>from the iron furnace, saying, <f>[3†]</f>‘Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you; so shall you be My people, and I will be your God,’


text:
that I may establish the <f>[4†]</f>oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them <f>[5†]</f>‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as <i>it</i> <i>is</i> this day.” ’ ” <pb/>And I answered and said, “So be it, LORD.”


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: ‘Hear the words of this covenant <f>[6†]</f>and do them.


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For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, <f>[7†]</f>rising early and exhorting, saying, “Obey My voice.”


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<f>[8†]</f>Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but <f>[9†]</f>everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded <i>them</i> to do, but <i>which</i> they have not done.’ ”


text:
<pb/>And the LORD said to me, <f>[10†]</f>“A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


text:
They have turned back to <f>[11†]</f>the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”


text:
<pb/>Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able to escape; and <f>[12†]</f>though they cry out to Me, I will not listen to them.


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Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and <f>[13†]</f>cry out to the gods to whom they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.


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For <i>according</i> <i>to</i> the number of your <f>[14†]</f>cities were your gods, O Judah; and <i>according</i> <i>to</i> the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to <i>that</i> shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.


text:
<pb/>“So <f>[15†]</f>do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear <i>them</i> in the time that they cry out to Me because of their trouble.


text:
<pb/><t>“What <f>[16†]</f> has My beloved to do in My house, </t><t>Having <f>[17†]</f>done lewd deeds with many? </t><t>And <f>[18†]</f>the holy flesh has passed from you. </t><t>When you do evil, then you <f>[19†]</f>rejoice.</t>


text:
<t>The LORD called your name, </t><t> <f>[20†]</f>Green Olive Tree, Lovely <i>and</i> of Good Fruit. </t><t>With the noise of a great tumult </t><t>He has kindled fire on it, </t><t>And its branches are broken.</t>


text:
<pb/>“For the LORD of hosts, <f>[21†]</f>who planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.”


text:
<pb/>Now the LORD gave me knowledge <i>of</i> <i>it,</i> and I know <i>it;</i> for You showed me their doings.


text:
But I <i>was</i> like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, <i>saying,</i> “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, <f>[22†]</f>and let us cut him off from <f>[23†]</f>the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”


text:
<pb/><t>But, O LORD of hosts, </t><t>You who judge righteously, </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>Testing the mind and the heart, </t><t>Let me see Your <f>[25†]</f>vengeance on them, </t><t>For to You I have revealed my cause.</t>


text:
<pb/>“Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of <f>[26†]</f>Anathoth who seek your life, saying, <f>[27†]</f>‘Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest you die by our hand’—


text:
therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall <f>[28†]</f>die by famine;


text:
and there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring catastrophe on the men of Anathoth, <i>even</i> <f>[29†]</f>the year of their punishment.’ ”


text:
<pb/><t>Righteous <f>[1†]</f><i>are</i> You, O LORD, when I plead with You; </t><t>Yet let me talk with You about <i>Your</i> judgments. </t><t> <f>[2†]</f>Why does the way of the wicked prosper? </t><t><i>Why</i> are those happy who deal so treacherously?</t>


text:
<t>You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; </t><t>They grow, yes, they bear fruit. </t><t> <f>[3†]</f>You <i>are</i> near in their mouth </t><t>But far from their mind.</t>


text:
<t>But You, O LORD, <f>[4†]</f>know me; </t><t>You have seen me, </t><t>And You have <f>[5†]</f>tested my heart toward You. </t><t>Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, </t><t>And prepare them for <f>[6†]</f>the day of slaughter.</t>


text:
<t>How long will <f>[7†]</f>the land mourn, </t><t>And the herbs of every field wither? </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>The beasts and birds are consumed, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>For the wickedness of those who dwell there, </t><t>Because they said, “He will not see our final end.”</t>


text:
<t>“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, </t><t>Then how can you contend with horses? </t><t>And <i>if</i> in the land of peace, </t><t><i>In</i> <i>which</i> you trusted, <i>they</i> <i>wearied</i> <i>you,</i> </t><t>Then how will you do in <f>[10†]</f>the floodplain of the Jordan?</t>


text:
<t>For even <f>[11†]</f>your brothers, the house of your father, </t><t>Even they have dealt treacherously with you; </t><t>Yes, they have called a multitude after you. </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>Do not believe them, </t><t>Even though they speak smooth words to you.</t>


text:
<t>“I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; </t><t>I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.</t>


text:
<t>My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; </t><t>It cries out against Me; </t><t>Therefore I have <f>[13†]</f>hated it.</t>


text:
<t>My heritage <i>is</i> to Me <i>like</i> a speckled vulture; </t><t>The vultures all around <i>are</i> against her. </t><t>Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>Bring them to devour!</t>


text:
<t>“Many <f>[15†]</f>rulers have destroyed <f>[16†]</f>My vineyard, </t><t>They have <f>[17†]</f>trodden My portion underfoot; </t><t>They have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.</t>


text:
<t>They have made it <f>[18†]</f>desolate; </t><t>Desolate, it mourns to Me; </t><t>The whole land is made desolate, </t><t>Because <f>[19†]</f>no one takes <i>it</i> to heart.</t>


text:
<t>The plunderers have come </t><t>On all the desolate heights in the wilderness, </t><t>For the sword of the LORD shall devour </t><t>From <i>one</i> end of the land to the <i>other</i> end of the land; </t><t>No flesh shall have peace.</t>


text:
<t> <f>[20†]</f>They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; </t><t>They have put themselves to pain <i>but</i> do not profit. </t><t>But be ashamed of your harvest </t><t>Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”</t>


text:
<pb/>Thus says the LORD: “Against all My evil neighbors who <f>[21†]</f>touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit—behold, I will <f>[22†]</f>pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.


text:
<f>[23†]</f>Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them <f>[24†]</f>and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land.


text:
And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, <f>[25†]</f>to swear by My name, ‘As the LORD lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be <f>[26†]</f>established in the midst of My people.


text:
But if they do not <f>[27†]</f>obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation,” says the LORD.


text:
<pb/>Thus the LORD said to me: “Go and get yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”


text:
“Take the sash that you acquired, which <i>is</i> around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock.”


